There used to be a cigar commercial here in the UK, and the title of this post was the punchline: Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet. The brand of the cigar was (obviously) Hamlet, and the guy in it always won out and closed out the commercial smoking the cigar. The last of the great 1960′s smoking adverts, no doubt.
The modern equivalent however, should be: Fairness is a gas price nearing $4. That’s for any Americans reading this, assuming you do.
I used to live in the US and you get used to cheap petrol (gasoline). Really used to it. Filling up a Ford Expedition for under $50, that was a treat. Talking to family members here in the UK and hearing that petrol was over £3 a gallon (that’s $6) and this was over four years ago, it really made you wonder about the world’s economies.
That’s why I’m now of the firm conviction that petrol prices should be the same everywhere. Here. South Africa. The US. China. Instead of having the local government set the price, make an organisation like OPEC, except for refined petroleum/petrol/gasoline instead of oil. They set the price, and that’s what we have to buy it at.
It may be difficult for Americans to come to terms with petrol that’s over $1.25 (which it was around 2000), because they’ve always paid dirt cheap prices for it. But you have had it easy. Very easy, compared to the rest of us. Now it’s time that you see what we’ve had to put up with – prices are now reaching $3.26 for gasoline and diesel is at $4.06 (average prices in the US). That’s about half of what we currently pay here in the UK, and -YOU- are whining about that!
Maybe if we’re all equal, everywhere in the world, we’d moderate the use of cars, or alternatively spur car manufacturers to produce more hybrids or electric cars?
Tags: gasoline, petrol
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