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How High Have Gas Prices Risen Over the Years?
By Russ Finley on February 28, 2012 at 10:37 pm
Nice work.
By Scott on February 29, 2012 at 6:39 am
Can you do you chart for the past 50 years and highlight the years of the national election? I can't remember reading in a paper stating that the Price of Gas is the lowest on elections months. This was back in 2008 so I was just wondering it if is possible?
By nunya on November 13, 2012 at 11:49 pm
Its untrue, politicians don't really have any control over short-term gas prices, unless they somehow think it is worth it to sell political favors to gas companies in exchange for lower prices–unlikely because it would be cheaper and more efficient for them to just give campaign donations. Here is a more short-term graph: http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html It still doesn't say exactly when the elections are. Still it is pretty clear that prices fluctuate randomly.
We owe a debt of gratitude to Sam. Thanks! His charts cut through the BS routinely tossed around by politicians of both partisan camps, and the gaggle of so-called print/broadcast journalists, feathering their nests with shrill appeals to unwitting audiences. The numbers don't lie and right there on the charts is, perhaps for many, the discomforting reality that oil prices have remained affordable for most consumers over the long haul and remaining so despite occasional spikes that set off a chain of tremors throughout the entire.
An examination of the marked decline in the inflation-adjusted (real) price of oil during the 80′s and the 90′s tells a big part of the story as to why we witnessed robust (though not unprecedented) domestic and global economic growth during this two decade period. While there were many contributing factors for the sustained expansion of the American economy during this period, with an marked expansion of international trade being principal among them, the relatively cheap cost of energy enabled the growth of an increasingly up-tempo and highly mobile society–a level of mobility that had many believing by the time of a cresting of the waves ahead of the current recession that such a pace is either unsustainable, unwise or both. Which brings us in a fundamental sense to the ongoing debate about growth; do we view it as good, or insidious or as absolutely essential? The answers more often than not cast a light on the motive-force of the respective advocates. We would do well to plumb the depths of the proported solutions (or is that flavor of the day?) to the problems of scarcity that gird the work of the
"dismal science."
By James on April 4, 2012 at 7:43 am
What about a comparison of how much the gas prices drove everything else up by weakening our purchase power
By Robert Rapier on April 4, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I think you missed the point of the article.
When taking inflation into account, average annual gas prices (in 2012 U.S. Dollars) were $3.35/gallon in 1919… and $3.57/gallon in 2011.
The point he is making is that prices are not unprecedented. In other words, relative to 1919 they haven't really weakened purchasing power.
By Abee on May 15, 2012 at 2:36 pm
Gas prices were artificaially high in the teens and twenties due to the monopolies of JP Morgan et al during this period (things haven't changed much).
By John R Schuh on October 18, 2012 at 12:38 am
The evidence shows that the price of gas has remained relatively stable. In 1919, we had just begun the age of the automobile, when gasoline rather than kerosene was the primary product of petroeleum. It was at that time when the spectre of peak oil began to be raised. The discovery of the East Texas Field in 1931 radically drove the price of oil down, because the Majors had little role in developing the fields and independents made large fortunes. The East TexasField through the Big Inch, supplied much of the oil for our war effort. Then came the discovery of the Gulf fields, and the cheap oil that came with it.
By joe h on August 16, 2012 at 8:56 pm
what about prices after De-Regulation. prices after major oil companies shrinking. prices after Rockafella had a monopoly . after the creation of OPEC, oil companies buying refineries ? future traders have no limit ??????????????????????????????????????/
By Saundra Buskirk on October 9, 2012 at 6:33 pm
That is what I would like to know. Every time gas prices spike so does everything else. I believe they have a lot to do with inflation. Their excuses are all over the map with nothing concrete to say for sure. They were pretty stable until they were de-regulated. When the government allowed the sale of refineries, the oil companies said they didn't need, it really shot up. No folks, we are being lied to all the time for profit and greed.
Scott, I think the price of gasoline usually goes down at the end of the summer driving season because of reduced demand. Also winter blend fuel is cheaper to make than summer blend.
This roughly coincides with the november elections by coincidence, not conspiracy.
By Samuel R. Avro on February 29, 2012 at 10:43 pm
Right on.
Robert Rapier wrote an article on this specific topic many years ago, and it's still relevant today. Take a look at Refining 101: Winter Gasoline for a more detailed explanation.
By charlesie on March 5, 2012 at 10:08 am
I think that they shouldnt let the crude oil prices affect the gas prices its unreasonable.I mean this is making people excuse my language extremely PISSED
By charlesie on March 5, 2012 at 10:09 am
and its causing caos and thats not what this state needs
By MichaelMcC on June 24, 2012 at 2:14 pm
"I think that they shouldnt let the crude oil prices affect the gas prices ,,,"
That's just like saying they shouldn't let the price of wheat affect the price of shredded wheat cereal.
By Jeff on September 4, 2012 at 11:05 am
^like this one MICHAELMCC
Also, we can't forget it's solely the jobless' fault for not having a job, but it's the government's fault when those with jobs can't afford gas.
Don't tell the government to help the unemployed, they should work hard and help themselves. DO tell the government that my job isn't good enough to afford commodities. I cannot get a higher paying job myself.
Not saying either is right, just pointing out the flawed rhetoric.
By Megajeff on February 23, 2013 at 5:56 pm
gasoline was in effect a byproduct of refining in the early 1900s was garbage until they made combustion gasoline engines
Today's transportation fuel prices are as high as they have ever been, as evidenced by the charts above. It looks like lower fuel cost helps our economy, see 1945-1970 and 1985-2003.
It would be interesting to see a chart on miles driven per inflation adjusted dollar spent on fuel. I think we would see that today we are getting significantly more miles out of the equivalent expense. We should also keep in mind there is much less environmental pollution per gallon than in the past.
I wonder if there is enough information to allow a chart of gas prices, INCLUDING the portion spent through the government in subsidies, military support, etc? If subsidies have remained steady over the years, then 1919 adjusted prices would be higher – doubt this has happened!
By Samuel R. Avro on March 19, 2012 at 10:35 pm
I haven't seen any freely available data such as you mention, Douglas. But I'd be glad to work on charting the data if you came across the data sets.
By John R Schuh on October 18, 2012 at 12:44 am
The comment about military costs suggests to me You might reflect on the fact that if we had not fought Hitler, he would have come in possession of the Middle Eastern fields. A plentiful oil supply was one our major advantages over the Germans. He got caught out on a limb at Stalingrad because he was reaching for the oil fields to the South and east. When we invaded Normandy, most of the Luftwaffe was grounded by lack of fuel.
Great work! This says a lot about the value of our dollars too… doesn't it?
How about plotting ethanol cost per gallon. I'be seen that with the subsidies and efficiencies it adds as much as .50 cents per gallon.
Where's Part II? I'm dying to see it!
The one thing that confuses me is why does gas seem to be affected more then other products? Obviously consumer prices have gone up across the board since 1919 including everything from a loaf of bread to a gallon of gas. But gasoline has more then doubled in the last 10 years, so why haven't we seen the same thing happen to a loaf of bread? If inflation is the real reason for the steady increase in gas prices, why does it seem to be going up at a rate unlike everything else? Please advise.
By Megajeff on February 23, 2013 at 5:53 pm
We have seen it happen with for instance a loaf of bread used to be $.99-to $2.00 now 3 and four dollars just look at the store and you will see
If I understand the "Nominal and Adjusted" graph (next to last), the next graph should be normalized to CPI — so the CPI line shows as flat. 20% over $0.20/gal (left side of the graph) looks like about the same as $0.20, whereas 20% over $2.00/gal. (right side of the graph) looks hugely bigger. If the graph is normalized to plot over/under CPI normalized 1.0, it will show the 20% in proportion at both ends.
Articulating the reasons and justifications for the price of gas being what it is, is not reality! Reality is waking up one day and finding out that gas prices have more than doubled, yet your salary has not. Going to the grocery store and having to pay more than 4 dollars for a gallon of milk when yesterday you only paid 2.5. So, you can CPI everything to death, it still does not make reality feel any better! What you and all these financial geniuses are doing are basically saying its ok for these oil and gas companies to gouge the everyday American even if they are making billions in profit. Food for thought, but no food on the table.
By Mark on August 15, 2012 at 8:02 am
@Rene: Actually what it does is remove irrational thought and emotion from the conversation. By doing this, it also helps remove the hyperbole, rhetoric and inflamatory language. Of course, one has to first be open to hearing that message and have enough intelligence to actually understand it.
Gas was $1.90 per gallon when Obama took office.
That price has more than doubled by the end of his first term.
The media blamed Bush whenever gas went up while Bush was president.
Why does Obama get a media pass?
Current policy has driven up prices.
By David Liddle on August 17, 2012 at 8:53 am
You must be looking at a different graph than everyone else, the graph I see says gas was around $1.00 to $1.34 a gallon when Bush came in (2000) and $3.50 when he left (2008) about triple the price from when he came in till when he left. Under Obama it seems to be about the same. (I had my own business untill 2009 and do remember paying as much as $4.10 while Bush was still President.) The price then dropped under Obama to about $2.50. It has since crept up. Funny how we see things differently according to out politics! (I don't see $1.90 anywhere on that chart under Obama!)
By Erik on August 23, 2012 at 5:32 am
Actually gas was down to 2.66 by end of October and 1.87 by end of Nov 2008.
By Chris Light on September 24, 2012 at 2:44 pm
David, you are quick to look at 2000 and mention the low price as Bush came into office. And like so many liberals, you forget to mention what caused the jump in oil prices during Bush's presidency. So many people will not mention the very strong "hit" our economy took after 9/11. Oil prices began their climb at that time as blame shifted and was focused on the middle east. I'm not getting into the righteousness of the War in Iraq, but this caused oil prices to continue to climb. The graph shows an increase in oil prices beginning in 2003 that parallels the massive spending that began with the War in Iraq and continues now into Obama's Presidency. Admit it or not, but overspending by the U.S. government for whatever the reason will cause the value of our dollar to decrease. And the inflation that results will be felt in oil prices as well.
Our government's current policies are destructive and will be if spending is not brought under control.
By John R Schuh on October 18, 2012 at 12:47 am
The drop in price was owing to the recession. The price of a barrel usually falls off when demand drops. But of course China is now entering its motorcar age, and is bidding up the price.
By LaurieB on October 22, 2012 at 4:42 pm
Ahahaha. Frankyb, you were reading and believing that ridiculous bill board weren't you.? You can't believe everything you read. The president really has nothing to do with the price of gas. Read more, think more, develop your own opinions instead of blindly following others.
By richard on October 23, 2012 at 12:24 am
the bush family is in to the oil bussness.
You may also find it interesting to add unemployment and gold prices to this chart. I have found unemployment to rise after each major (and even minor!) price spike. I interpret that to mean layoffs and business closures caused when energy costs force flakier businesses under, and stronger businesses to cut personnel to stay viable. In "Hubberdt's Peak", the author postulates that we may have hit peak production per user, or, if not, we will hit it soon. OPEC apparently used to regulate the cost of oil by closing and opening the spigot to manipulate the price. After reading the book, the incredible volatility of oil prices in current years suggests to me that we may be reaching a point where the spigot cannot be opened any further.
So, can we just blow somebody up? Well, I don't think that's possible – two of the fastest growing markets (China and India) simply have way to many people to fight. Personally, I think a better idea would be to go into alternative energy development as fast and hard as we possibly can.
Interestingly, gold prices are also driven by crude oil prices.
Gas is only 1part that that barrel of crude makes it is broken down bythese big Chemical plants used to make plastics….
I do not believe president of our country can make a decision alone others in our government has as much power if not more. I think this President now was AMBUSHED from get go.
As far as gas prices they are more vehicles on the road and air than ever before so it will cost more at pumps no matter who is presidentGas is only 1part that that barrel of crude makes it is broken down bythese big Chemical plants used to make plastics….
I do not believe president of our country can make a decision alone others in our government has as much power if not more. I think this President now was AMBUSHED from get go.
As far as gas prices they are more vehicles on the road and air than ever before so it will cost more at pumps no matter who is president.
Follow the path backwards from pump like who got it there the 18 wheeler (maintance), driver, (their paid), chemical plant(up keep from blowing us up) their workers (hazard pay), where did barrel come from? Who get paid next so on so on.
I hate too but can not change it.
Follow the path backwards from pump like who got it there the 18 wheeler (maintance), driver, (their paid), chemical plant(up keep from blowing us up) their workers (hazard pay), where did barrel come from? Who get paid next so on so on.
I hate too but can not change it.
By Horace Bowers on September 16, 2012 at 2:01 am
Would gas prices be cheaper if more crude oil was extracted in the United States?
By Chris Light on September 24, 2012 at 2:54 pm
It should be, but if there are limitations as to where that crude could be shipped to and sold to, then oil companies would just take the crude and sell it in Europe or other countries around the world where profits are much higher. Oil companies are out to make the money that they can….JUST LIKE ANY OTHER BUSINESS. But their product effects ALL Americans.
And as far as Energy Independence is concerned. It is obvious that until Lobbyists are ran out of Washington, our elected criminals…I mean officials, will continue to sell out to the highest bidders. At this time, that happens to be Oil Companies. If there were some magnificent technological breakthrough that would reshape our energy industry and reduce oil dependence on oil, then Oil Companies would buy it up. Everything is for sale, when you are talking about Hundreds of Billions of Dollars.
I wonder how much these gas price increases have been due to the taxes on gas that keep going up and up?
Good stuff. I'd also like to see a chart that shows the price of gas compared to a barrel of oil. I would expect we would see gas prices rise as fast or faster than oil, and drop *much* more slowly than oil.
You can make up and chart you wish, and say whatever you wish. Fact is Min. wage went up, and everything else went up. Then gas went up and my 18 per hour job stayed the same for 5 years counting, and every time the gas prices go up, the food in the stores go up. Then the gas prices go down and the food price stays the same. Once again gas goes up and food goes up (but food prices DO NOT GO DOWN).
By Renoptiwyu Ley on October 13, 2015 at 6:31 pm
POSTED AT: http://www.energytrendsinsider.com/2012/02/27/how-high-have-gas-prices-risen-over-the-years/
AS: Renoptiwyu Ley
That's why it's incumbent upon the CONSUMER to buy less of the given commodity when the price goes up OR stays the same…and ONLY to buy the least expensive of the given brands when you need it. Another option is to do without the given product ENTIRELY and instead use a "perfect substitute" instead (ie: use cucumbers instead of green peppers in a salad as the "green vegetable" mixed in with the lettuce). In any case, you want to buy less and as little as possible when this happens.
Effectively, you're playing chicken with these asshole sellers. Don't absolutely need to drive? Take the bus or subway. Don't HAVE to buy Starbucks? Go to Dunkin' Donuts, or make the damn coffee yourself. Buy the cheapest auto insurance you can possibly get away with, 'cuz even with a good policy and a big payment on your potential claim, you WILL wind up paying the insurance company back over the long term with increased policy rates, and then your wallet is back to square one.
Incidentally, with regards to the statement above on the minimum wage, the other side of the coin is that even without a change in minimum wage, the job market still is affected with constant negativity by these corporate fuckers, regardless. If companies sell less crap to consumers and make less money, they cut jobs. They make record profits compared to previous years, they STILL don't hire for SHIT…and sometimes they STILL cut jobs, or at the very least, hours, the damned-to-Hell white-collar SUITFUCKS being the piece-of-shit cocksuckers that they are. (Similar to a pig or a pitbull with lipstick just being a pig or a pitbull, a piece of shit in a suit with a fancy new tie is still just a NOUVEAU fucking piece of shit. Same thing with a piece of shit in a yacht, mansion, Rolls-Royce, upscale apartment, etc.).
So, if you're in a non-unionized profession, unfortunately, raising minimum wage in general will only lead to fewer jobs, whether profits go up or go down. If you ARE in a union, or otherwise protected by law, however, THEN you can really fuck the corporation up the ass by pushing collectively, so long as the union backs you up. And in that case you should hold out for whatever you think you can get.
Could you make a chart showing the average miles per gallon over the years. Seems to me I remember a good MPG was around 16 MPG. Today my 6 year old car gets 25-30 MPG. That would make the cost of gas for the average consumer even because we use less.
This guy has a couple small problems with his premise, first of all he's using government numbers on inflattion and family incomes. I think we all know what they are worth. Second – he says he's using "Family" income to measure against – a family income use to be only one person working, now it's two, and that might even be with one or both parties working more than one job each. So this guy has got a little (I should say - a lot) more homeword to do. . .
By rob on March 22, 2013 at 10:59 am
So why didn't you do your homework and calculate real prices at key points using your own numbers? Economists have an arsenal of many different inflation measures. the main point is robust to your chosen estimator of inflation.family income is the data that is available. its a little hard to conduct analysis with data that doesn't exist. we also don't know how much fuel each income earner uses. average commute is 13 miles each way. average fuel economy is 24 mpg. median household income is $140 per day.let's make your assumption that a family has two income earners. they pay $8 per day to earn $140.gasfor work is 3% of income. That's what we call a bargain.
As I understand it, the consumer price index IS a measure of inflation. What measure of inflation are you using that could be so dramatically different than the comparison of nominal gas prices against CPI?
Does this company also include the crude oil the USA buys or imports from other countries. It appears to me to only be what America produces and sells. Are the rates from across the seas similar to what we have been paying in the united states?
By rob on March 22, 2013 at 10:50 am
Gas prices in Europe are several times what we pay because of onerous taxes.
All this talk of inflation and supply and demand, but how many people had cars in 1919?
By rob on March 22, 2013 at 10:44 am
That's the point. cars and gas were luxuries once. now even our poor have cars.
Could you display a graph of cost-per-mile of gasoline, adjusted for inflation AND fuel-economy improvements? It would be interesting to see the comparative impact on our budgets throughout the generations.
It would also be interesting to see a comparison of cost as percentage of median income.
By rob on March 22, 2013 at 10:48 am
That would make the picture look even better. what can't be quantified is the utility people get per gallon of gas and the total utility in society. there is much more we can do with a gallon of gas than we could do with it 50 years ago. also, many more people are benefitting from it than 50 years ago. that is the main reason why gas prices have been rising.
Look at the facts:
Obama CANNOT say the words 'terrorist attack'
Obama said 'the future does not belong to those who insult Islam'
Do the math.
This man stands in defense of his Muslim brothers and will not offend them by saying 'terrorist attack'. His 'insult' quote was code for Sharia Law.
Do the math.
Vote this traitorous bastard OUT on Nov. 6th because in the next four years he will shut America completely down. He hates it and wanted to CHANGE it and he is and he will unless you ACT to save America.
By bill rabara on March 4, 2013 at 12:16 pm
9/11 happened under bush and bin laden killed under Obama you ignoramus. The insulting Islam quote is called a quote mine– taken out of context– something the Christian Right does because their credulous, paranoic, frail minds are deeply entrenched in the denial of reality. This anti-intellectual heuristic is useful for complexities such as tiddlywinks strategies but insufficient for dealing the difficulties faced by world leaders. The right most oversimplify, vilify, and protect their delusions in order to provide succor to their brainwashed base.
By Dave on March 5, 2013 at 1:41 am
Wow, throwing the "Christian" word in there, who said anything about Christians? Just because the "intellectuals" THINK they know better than God, and think there isn't a God because their feeble minds can't process something other than THEMSELVES, doesn't make it true. True Christians are focused on one thing, and that just so happens to not be taking quotes out of context due to our "credulous, paranoic, frail minds that are deeply entrenched in denial. I think it is you who are in denial, so why don't you stop insulting Christians, and just focus on whatever intellectuals focus on…
By Leave us alone on March 22, 2013 at 11:28 pm
Nah, Christians are only focusing on one thing. Forcing their beliefs on everybody else. Abortion is bad, No gay Marriage, follow my god or you will burn in hell, prayer in school, prayer in the house/senate (even though there should be a separation of church and state..) . Maybe the Christians should just go back to their churches and focus on their priests so I can stop hearing about them on the news molesting little boys.
By PicayuneBill on March 24, 2013 at 10:35 am
Just so you know, there isn't anything in the Constitution that says "separation of church and state" that is a bastardized interpretation of the First Amendment (in part) "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;" that is all is says. But people like you have stopped the morning recital of the pledge for reference to God, stopped the morning silence (that you could pray if you wanted to , which thereby "prohibits the free exercise thereof", also abortion is killing period. this country was founded with GOD but people like you are ripping it apart. People like you allow a CHILD in Colorado to change HIS sex on HIS birth certificate to female because he likes being girly. Maybe we should change the terms for sex from male and female to XX and XY that way you people would have to change your very DNA to be classified as anything else……Oh and on a personal note I couldn't ever obliterate my child from existence so I find it hard that my God whom is more merciful than I ever could be would do so.
By james woodruff on March 8, 2014 at 3:54 pm
Yes, but it also states freedom OF religion and may better be stated as freedom OF religion.
By Karen on October 26, 2014 at 8:26 am
U.S. Constitution – Amendment 1
Amendment 1 – Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I don't see anywhere in there about freedom FROM religion…
By Dave on March 5, 2013 at 1:42 am
Also I like how you threw as many big words in there as you could, i guess hoping most "ordinary" people wouldn't understand what you were saying.. Good try!
By PicayumeBill on March 24, 2013 at 10:20 am
Yes 9/11 happened under Bush but Clinton had 3 chances to kill Osma but didn't. Obama on the other hand (if you really look at his upbringing) seems to favor Socialistic/Communistic views. I personally am very afraid of what his policies will do to this country. We really need to vote an independent into office (all offices) (maybe a type of person with shark like business skills) so they can fix the corruption the Reps and Dems have installed into the government. Remember the only reason the tax code is unfair is because they want it unfair. the only reason that government is the way it is is because they want it that way and we let them.
By james woodruff on March 8, 2014 at 3:51 pm
Reagan gave us Bin laden and Saddam Hussein and supported Iran just after the hostages were released through hook and crook and subversion of Congress and the American people. Most believe this is Socialistic and or Communistic actions and not just views.
By David Hughes on June 13, 2014 at 1:05 pm
9/11 was set in motion under Clinton. And bin Laden's killing was set in to motion under Bush not Obama you ignoramus. And BTW look at Iraq today 6/13/14 that's
your boys doing.
As a small business owner, gas prices prevent me from hiring.
If you look at the overqll tren of gas, the price has been going down over time. Just because of inflation adjustment that we're paying the same as 1911, tells me we have not progressed.
The price has been going down due to technology and supply/demand. speculators have caused the spikes recently. allowing people to buy qnd sell nonexistent oil, all on paper is another problem.
We jeed to be energy independent
By jimmy on November 25, 2012 at 2:35 pm
"While many of you are pointing to presidential administrations as the root cause for volatility of our nation's gas prices, it is more accurate to state that commodity futures traders really started the roller coaster. Their bets and hedges against supply and demand, global events, regional conflicts affecting delivery of the raw material have had the most dramatic impact of the price of oil. Traders today are still allowed to purchase futures contracts for millions of barrels of oil without having to take delivery of the product. A simple rule that the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and NYMEX requiring Oil futures buyers to take delivery would go a long way toward halting the volatility we face today." – Greg Mason
By Mark Lowenstein on November 11, 2014 at 12:04 pm
An excellent reality check point! The criminal and reckless manipulation of the entire nation via market manipulations (i.e. gambling) with no consequences or reqiirements to the gambler must end. It was the same reckless conditions that led to the 1929 crash as well.
By 1American1st on January 12, 2015 at 7:43 am
In the 1970s it was OPEC that sent gas prices skyrocketing, including their oil embargo. They raped, robbed & held America hostage because they knew we were vulnerable. That is the reason the Keystone Pipeline needs to be completed. We should never be put in that position again.
In today's dollars, it would be like gas prices jumping to $8 to $12 per gallon at the pump.
For those of us who remember the "pain at the pump" in the 70s which didn't just include high prices:
- the gas shortages
- the lines to get gas, people waiting 30 minutes – an hour
- running out of gas while waiting to buy gas
- unable to make long trips for fear of not being able to buy gas on the way
- gas stations that permanently closed, leaving fewer stations
- limited number of gallons you could purchase
- alternating license plates (odd & even) so you could only buy gas on an odd or even day which correlated with you tag number
- police presence at some stations where tempers flared over the shortages
- Boat owners unable to get gas or limited at marinas
For those of us who REMEMBER what the Middle East / OPEC (including Venzuela) did to America in the 70s it is imperative to complete Keystone.
By Barry Witt on January 6, 2016 at 12:45 pm
Well you can blame OPEC all you want for the 70s but it was the tree hugging political ruling class in America that cock-blocked drilling in America and drove the prices of all oil through the roof. Only private land drilling/fracking over the last few years spurred by the attractive profits from ridiculous oil prices have have increased supply and brought prices down. Now that the moratorium on exporting American crude has been lifted, we'll be seeing a steady increase in prices here at home once the global economy picks up and needs more energy. Once again, Congress is screwing the American people for their own benefit.
Corrected for inflation, we are paying MORE than even the crisis in 1979.
By Rob on March 22, 2013 at 10:40 am
You are correct. The point though is that we are not paying many multiples of what our grandfather paid. it is more, but not much more. the.chief reason our current gas prices are so high is because China and India have quadrupled their demand for oil.gas taxes are also a lot higher than they used to be. if we removed gas taxes and requirements for blended fuels, the price of gas would be more comparable to what grandfather paid. I'm not arguing here to remove the taxes and environmental restrictions. I'm arguing that this chart compares apples with apple pie.
Sorry, but this also shows are ARTIFICALS Gas Prices have been Kept at to Support the Auto Industry, so they could keep Producing those Big V8 Engines an Pick Up Truck- Gas Guzzlers!
We should have let prices Ride per the Supply and demand like Europe Has and our Price per Gallong would probably Be Twice as High as it is?
That would have forced The American Auto Makers to make Alot more Fuel Effecient Cars /Vehicles and Acceleratated our Energy Reserach 20 yrs sooner..
Instead, for Decades, Our Cars Didn't Get any Better MPG and even Now, My 09′ V6 Lincoln doesn't get any Better MPG than my 01′ Mercury Sable V6 did.. Both Ave. 22 mpg btwn City nd Hwy driving or per what the Computer tells me all the time.
Not to Mention, Why wasn't some of our SS invested Into AMERICA's RESOURCES , such as OIL, GOLD and Real Estate? SS would be Worth at least 50% more now, Retiree's would be Getting at Least +50% more as well.. and all would be fine with out SS..
and more would want to Put Even MORE into SS and maybe even DOUBLE how much is put into it by both the worker and the employer..
God Forbid!
Wall Street has Conned Us ! Just like Vegas Does.!
Supprting the Auto Industry has been a Big Failure..!
They Paid off our Congress and Gov't to Build More Hwy's and Keep The Price of Gas Way Below than it should have been..
All just to Provide Jobs to Support the LOOSERS OF THE WORKING CLASS.. The Factory Worker.. Insted of forcing earlier Generations to Stay In School and Get Better Educations and Job Skills..
It's just More Indirect WELFARE to take care of these Loosers of our Society..
When , by Now? ALL of our Auto's would be Made in Other Countries by Their Loosers or their Working Class, getting Paid the Right Amt. of what they are Worth ( equal to our $6 hr ) while most of Our Own would be enjoying the Fruits of our Educations and Be able to Retire by age 55 and not 65.
Providing More Factory jobs only Encourages Attracting More Of these Loosers and the Poor to our Country.. And the More you Provide to them, the more Comer Here..
We found that out with our own Towns Food Pantry.. The more We Provided, the More Came from other Towns to Get it.. Same goes for WAL MART workers- Just a Bunch of Loosing Class Stock Clerks and Checkers want to be paid Twice as Much as they are worth.. to Justify and Not Motivate them to Improve their Own Job Skills..to get a Better Paying Job..
Instead, they think they ought to be Paid More, for Just Showing up and Standing there..!
Never met so many Loosers in my Life and Very Depressing talking to them and Their Poor Attitudes..Which is why they are Working their In the First Place..
Their Thinkin' is Stinkin'
By Zell on January 29, 2013 at 8:14 pm
We are always going to need a working class of people. We need people to work at wal mart. Why are you concerned how much they make ? It's a private business. They need to make enough to survive right. All this talk about money when really money isn't the biggest problem in this country, it's the attitude of people. You can be poor and be kind and generous or you can be rich and be the same way. Money can't buy someone into good citizenship. We have to work at being good citizens. We need to care about all of the people all of the time.
This report reminds of that time I slapped lipstick on a bull and called it my prom date. It looks good but reeks of bullshit.
By Rob on March 22, 2013 at 10:32 am
And like someone who puts lipstick on a bull and took it to a prom, you're an idiot. This is exactly the correct way to analyze it. But even this story leaves out the fact that there are many things more to do and see within range of a fixed quantity of gas than there used to be, so a gallon of gas makes us a lot happier per dollar spent.Cars are also a lit more efficient than they were in decades past. The average American uses one gallon of gas per day to get to work. the average daily wage is $140. So you have to spend $4 to earn $140. Oh, the horror!
By chris on August 5, 2014 at 12:05 am
yeah that might be the average but i would bet that the majority of people in this country don't make 140 dollars a day.
By Atnhony on October 13, 2014 at 11:08 pm
By TimC on October 14, 2014 at 11:57 am
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2013 the national mean daily wage across all occupations was actually just over $178. The link is below. Maybe someday, after you have learned some basic computer skills, like how to turn the Caps Lock off, and after your attention to detail improves to the point that you can spell your own name correctly, you might be able to earn that wage. Until then, just imagine yourself at the very beginning of a rags-to-riches story.
By Amy Goodman on August 13, 2015 at 8:34 pm
You do realize that chart you shared only lists the average wage of all occupations and does not include data on the average income of the American population lol. The amount of people actually working those jobs is not calculated to represent the actual wages earned by Americans. At present, Average income in America is closer to $26k a year which brings the average daily wage closer to $100 before taxes. But at least you have linguistic intelligence. Another thought.. considering the current oil prices, makes me wonder how invading Iraq and allowing oil companies like BP and Shale to take over Iraq oil production caused gas prices to sky rocket instead of reduce, like most Americans expected. Yet peaceful negotiations with Iran leading to lift sanctions is leading to even lower gas prices, without invasion. Nuts.
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good article
The problem with gas prices today is their volatility. It's not unusual to see a 25% delta in prices in a month's time – or less. That is something which has changed over the years. I can't think of any other consumable product that is priced the way gasoline is priced.
A change in the underlying crude oil FUTURES price causes a pump price increase the next day. You don't see that kind of price reaction from any other product, even those tied to a commodity. Bread prices don't jump day-to-day even though the price of wheat and grains rises and falls. McDonald's doesn't put their prices on LEDs and change them daily due to the commodity price of beef cattle.
We have simply allowed ourselves to be conditioned to accepting without question the way gasoline is priced and sold.
Did you make adjustments for the difference in HOW inflation is calculated now and before it was monkeyed with by the Gov?
So according to these charts and the data listed in here a gallon of gas in the United States should be around $2.25 which is including inflation. So why is the price stay around $3.30 for most of the year? Seems the American people are paying average $1.05 more per gallon. Most people's car on average hold 21 gallons of gas. Seeing that most people fill up on average of 3 times a month add in 12 months a year, that's
1.05X21X3X12=794 you are losing AT LEAST a year.
Now show us a char comparing it with how much the average take home has gone up. I paid $1.26 a gallon at my local station 11 years ago, tonday it is $3.43 a gallon. My fixed retirement income and social security is still the same.
By Robert Rapier on March 23, 2014 at 12:35 pm
That's certainly a good point. If you take the long view, we can certainly say that the starting point and ending point is about what we could expect from inflation. But the last 10 years have seen escalation in oil prices at much higher than the level of inflation.
By thomas crown on July 5, 2014 at 1:34 pm
yes but you've lived longer than you were expected to decades ago and you weren't making enough back then to support the life style of these decades later.
By Phleb on December 24, 2014 at 7:24 pm
The government has embezzled all surplus Social Security revenue,
generated by the 1983 payroll tax hike, and spent the money on wars and other government programs. None of the money was saved or invested in anything.
Social Security is not broken, but at the moment, it is broke. The cost
of paying full benefits in 2010 was $49 billion more than Social
Security tax revenue for the year. So the government had to borrow $49
billion (probably from China) in order to pay full benefits. And the gap between the cost of benefits and Social Security tax revenue will get bigger and bigger in the years ahead.
Show me the chart that shows cost of production compared to average retail price. I'd love to see that
This almost exactly matches the curve for mass transit use. That is, cheap gasoline gets us off the bus/train/subway and into an automobile:
% Public Transit: 1960: 12.1%, 1970: 8.9%, 1990: 5.3%, 2000: 4.7%, 2013: 5.2%
Data: U.S. Census Bureau, Decennial Census 1960, 1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, and American Community Survey 2013.
OK. let's analyze the cost adjusted for inflation. We see it spike with Carter, fall with Reagan, spike after Dems took Congress (with Bush in the WH) and spike under Obama.
I think it is interesting to look at the chart in terms of inflation. The $.25/gal of gas in the 1920-40s wasn't such a good deal when you realize that the wages were so low. Today, more and more transactions are being done on line, which is reducing the usage of fuel.
California continues to rip people off on gasoline at $4.00 a gallon with the price of oil at low price of $30 dollars a barrel


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April 8, 2013 The IRU vs. USFS/FHWA 60-day appeal deadline passed without an appeal being filed! Now all all activists opposing the industrialization of the Lochsa-Clearwater Wild & Scenic River corridor will be carefully monitoring upcoming USFS steps to protect the "scenic & aesthetic" values of the W & S corridor. For now, we are ringing the victory bells.
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Feb. 6, 2013 Final arguments before Judge Lynn B. Winmill in the IRU vs. USFS & FHWA -- Federal Courthouse in Boise. Case overview and briefs are available at the IRU and Advocates for the West websites.
Mar. 9, 2012 Ruling on motions to dismiss, Idaho Federal Judge B. Lynn Winmill upheld most of Idaho Rivers United's suit against the USFS & FHWA. In the ongoing case, IRU seeks to show that the 2 federal agencies do have the authority to block state action permitting access to the Wild & Scenic U.S. Highway 12 corridor for megaloads.
Feb. 17, 2012-- Montana Judge Ray Dayton issued his decision on the summary judgement motions in the Missoula County vs. Montana Department of Transportation case. He ruled in favor of the Plaintiffs, and the matter is being remanded to MDT for further environmental review (with help from this GreenPeace oriented Organization). The preliminary Kearl Transport Project injunction remains in place, and the project may not proceed until after further environmental review has been completed. Read about it in the Missoulian here.
November 2, 2011-- Imperial/Exxon's shipper Mammoet applied for permits for approximately 300 module shipments to travel from Washington's Port of Pasco -- not on U.S.12 -- but on interstate highways through Idaho and Montana. Read about it in the Oregonian and in the Idaho Statesman.
Imperial/Exxon's decision to use interstates constitutes a victory for Idaho and Montana opponents of the transformation of the pristine Wild & Scenic Lochsa-Clearwater U.S.12 corridor and scenic rural 2-lane roads in Montana into an industrial megaload truck route. However, Imperial/Exxon still has its eye on the U.S.12 route for its permanent "high and wide" corridor, as do other corporations. Thus, opponents remain vigilant.
October 7, 2011- In the Missoula Co. vs. MDT case, Judge Dayton issued an order modifying his July 19th injunction to allow MDT to consider 32-J overlegal permit applications from Imperial/Exxon to transport reduced-size loads over Highways 12 and 93 (to and through Missoula) in order to access the interstate system. Dayton retained restrictions beyond Missoula pending another court proceeding in January.
July 19, 2011- Missoula County Commissioners, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club-Montana, and the Montana Environmental Information Center and their attorneys won a preliminary injunction temporarily stopping further Montana Department of Transportation authorizations of Imperial/Exxon's proposed megaload transports along Highways 12, 93, I-90, 200, and I-15 north. Judge Ray Dayton ruled that Imperial/Exxon and MDT violated the Montana Environmental Policy Act because they failed to take a 'hard look' at the impacts of constructing turnouts for the transporting of hundreds of megaloads of tar sands equipment bound for Alberta, Canada
Below: Easter Sunday Imperial/Exxon 32-foot-high tree branch hack job in the Lochsa-Clearwater Wild & Scenic River corridor. Where oh where was the US Forest Service -- with Wild & Scenic Rivers Act in-hand?!?
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and to Big Oil's attempt to turn America's treasured
Lochsa-Clearwater Wild & Scenic River corridor
into an industrial megaload truck route to the tar sands!
The Port of Lewiston, State of Idaho, and Big Oil's tarsand operators in Canada are working to convert Idaho's stretch of U.S. Highway 12 from a Scenic Byway and All-American Road to an industrial truck route for the transport of gargantuan loads of equipment. Combined Imperial Oil, ConocoPhillips and Harvest Energy planned to ship 274 megaloads in 2011, loads that exceed by far the size and frequency of any oversize shipments in the past. According to theITD and Port TIGER grant application, "If one oil company is successful with this alternative transportation route, many other companies will follow their lead." Without seeking input from Idahoans, yet on behalf of Idahoans, in a letter of 1/9/09, Governor Otter wrote, "I pledge our support and cooperation..."
That pledge constitutes a lack of support for the rural people of Highway 12. The re-branding of U.S. 12 from "scenic byway" to "industrial truck route" will almost surely result in a decline in or reversal of:
Gigantic international corporations will reap the profits, and let we the people take the risks, suffer the consequences, pay the road repair taxpayer tab, and watch "wild & scenic" turn ugly ... just as it has in the tarsands.
No, you're not imagining things — that is a log truck dwarfed on the right. Although
this load does not show the actual equipment Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil Canada or
Conoco Phillips plans to ship via U.S. 12 in 2010-2011, its size is comparable.
An Imperial Oil/ExxonMobil module at the Port of Lewiston. For size comparison, note the standard size pickup truck and the man alongside the module. Brett Haverstick photo.
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it's wednesday and this week we're all doing movie posts again and all focusing on 80s films. that's because it was very popular last week. but 1 of the most requested 'genres' was the john hughes films.
i don't care for john hughes. but i will share my thoughts on 1 of his films. the breakfast club.
there's about 1/2 a good movie there.
and family guy did a funny, quick parody of it where tony the tiger was the judd nelson film.
yeah, judd's in it. so right away it qualifies for a turkey.
if you've never seen the alleged comedy, don't rush out to get a copy.
it stars judd (and his nostrils), molly ringwald, emilo estevez, anthony michael hall and ally sheedy.
judd's a joke. we're supposed to see him as this big-bad but he's the worst whiner and that starts long before we find out about his home life. he's a tough guy in the preppy world, i guess.
anthony michael hall was so young and it's hard to know if he's acting or not. but he doesn't embarrass himself once in the film. he plays the nerd/geek. he is always in character. (i'm not insulting him about not knowing whether he's acting or not. he was very young in that film. whether he was playing himself or a character, he was consistent throughout and 1 of the best things about the film.) the candy ass script blows it when the other kids find out who anthony's father is and it has no impact.
the whole class (eco class) issue is just dropped. and that's really fake and phoney.
emilio and ally are good but they are betrayed by the script. ally's this 'bad girl'/weirdo. emilio's the jock. there is real sexual tension between the two onscreen. they have chemistry. and you believe that they are growing interested in 1 another. but, at the end ...
hold on, all are in high school. it is a saturday and they have detention. that's how the 5 kids come together. just to give the plot. they are all different and at odds with 1 another.
i'll come back to emilio and ally. let me talk about molly ringwald. i never cared for miss bland.
deserved or not, she had a very bad image in the p.r. field. i was doing entertainment p.r. at that time and that may play into my low image of her. kim basinger had a bad image back then as well (and an extra 's' in her last name) but she matured. molly was a nightmare if everything said was true. she was said to be rude at photo sessions (including to other actors - there's a horror story about her and claudette colbert - 1 that many pin the death of her film career on). she made a series of films that did okay. (none was a b blockbuster) and then a string of bombs (fresh horses - the only film i ever thought she was good in.) but while she had her 3 or 4 low budget hits, she thought she was everything and she supposedly made a ton of demands and expected that every 1's entire life was her life. pampering? she needed much more than that to hear the stories.
molly wasn't sexy. she wasn't even really pretty. (she looks better today than she did then. ) she came off (onscreen) as so prissy. she was always the princess. sometimes she played the poor princess, sometimes she played the middle class princess. in breakfast club, she played the rich princess.
claire really should have been a bitch but molly didn't have the chops to pull it off so it was molly playing the same role she had before.
now i was an adult when that film came out and actually had lived. i'm sure for the pre-teen audience this little truth or dare confessions game seemed fresh (it was like a bad version of that script sondheim and anthony perkins wrote) and alive. it was really just trite.
molly tries to flirt with judd. it's hard to know who comes off worse. i think judd nelson is the worst actor in any film he appears in. his 'range' consists of flared nostrils.
so molly actually comes off better by comparison. but she's such a priss and you just wish some 1 would really tell her off.
you see ally and emilio falling for each other during all of this.
so here's where the film completely goes off the rails. emilio and ally are the audience favorites, you're pulling for them. at the end of detention, molly hauls ally off to the girl's room, hands her a bad white headband, washes her face and applies 'tasteful' make up.
emilio sees her and it's time to be a couple.
that was so stupid and so insulting. he was already attracted to her. if anything, her losing what made her special should have run his character off because now all she was was molly-lite.
if he found her attractive (looking) at the end, he should have been hitting on claire the whole time.
but what he found attractive about her was who she was, not what she looked like.
for her to have landed the school jock would have been an accomplishment. but it went out the window when she had to have a makeover AFTER he's fallen for her.
now emilio gets no makeover. judd doesn't give him an ear ring or tattoo. so the real message is that there's something wrong with the way ally looks. every 1 else has interior scars but ally's big problem is how she looks?
that's so sexist.
and it so undermines the brilliant performance that ally created.
and what emilio had as well. because it was a real step out on the limb for his character to fall for her. that step was removed when she shows up in the final scenes looking like claire's twin.
i didn't care for the film. i enjoyed anthony (who really does some heart breaking moments in the film as well as some very light and funny 1s). and i was so caught up in ally and emilio that i was willing to ignore judd and molly. but when that transformation/make over took place, the movie lost me.
let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'
Wednesday, August 13, 2008. Chaos and violence continue, Miss Iraq calls out the sex trade, Jeremy Hinzman is told he's leaving, the US military announces another death leading August's death toll so far to surpass July's, and more.
Starting with war resistance. CNN notes US war resister Jeremy Hinzman has been told to leave Canada. Jeremy Hinzman, his wife Nga Nguyen and their son Liam went to Canada in January 2004. He became the first Iraq War resister to publicly go to Canada. He and Brandon Hughey were the first war resisters to attempt to be granted safe harbor in Canada. The Immigration and Refugee 'board' (it's one person deciding) declined to grant status. Both then began appealing to the courts. In May of 2007, the Federal Court of Appeals sided with the board and the Federal court. In November 2007, Canada's Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal. June 3rd Canada's House of Commons voted (non-binding motion) in favor of Canada being a safe harbor for war resisters. Despite that vote, Judge Anne Mactavish saw fit to extradite Robin Long in July and to call it 'deportation.' In Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq, Peter Laufer writes:
Yet the arrival of Iraq War soldiers seeking refuge in Canada didn't sit well with officials. Army Specialist Jeremy Hinzman's case was the first to be adjudicated, after he became the first U.S. war resister ever to apply for refugee status in Canada. The Immigriation and Refugee Board denied his claim; appeals may drag on for years. While his case is pending, Canada allows him to stay in the country and provides him with a temporary work permit. The ruling from the Refugee Protection Division of CIC insists Hinzman failed to mmake a case that the Iraq War was illegal: "He has not shown that the U.S. has either as a matter of deliberate policy or official indiffernce, required or allowed its combatants to engage in widespread actions in violation of humanitarian law."
A veteran of the U.S. action in Afghanistan, Hinzman took his wife and baby to Canada when he received orders at Fort Bragg for a tour of duty in Iraq. "No matter how much I wanted to, I could not convince myself that killing someone was right," he said once he surfaced in Toronto. Hinzman had applied to be discharged as a conscientious objector, requested noncombat duties, and spent much of his time in Afghanistan performing kitchen chores. His CO application was rejected after a hearing in Afghanistan. Back in the States, when his orders for Iraq came, Hinzman felt he had only two choices: disobey tem and risk prison, or flee the country.
Prison was not an option. "I have already missed a large chunk of my young son's life and I was willing to sacrifice any more lost time with him, especially during his formative years," he said. Canada looked like a good bet, given its policies toward deserters during the Vietnam War. Hinzman expressed no regrets about his decision and is convince the Iraq War is illegal.
"I object to the Iraqi war," he announced, "because it is an act of aggression with no defensive basis. It has been supported by pretenses that cannot withstand even elementary scrutiny. First, before the U.S. dropped the first bomb, it was quite evident that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Second, the Bush administration had the gall to exploit the American public's fear of terrorists by making the absurd assertion that a secular Batthist government was working with a fundamentalist terrorist group. There was nevery any intelligence to substantiate this. Third, the notion that the U.S. wants to export democracy to Iraq is laughable. Democracy is by the people, not an appointed puppet theater."
Peter Laufer's book was published in 2006 and you might think the shelves have filled up in the time since but you'd be wrong. A few war resisters have movingly told their stories in book form and you have Aimee Allison and David Solnit's wonderful Army Of None but that's really about all. Jeremy became a news topic in May 2004. May 26, 2004 was when CBS News noted, "A U.S. soldier who deserted his Iraq-bound regiment and sought asylum in Canada said the U.S. war in Iraq was illegal and he accused the United States of committing war crimes. Pfc. Jeremy Hinzman, 25, is believed to be the first U.S. soldier to apply for refugee status in Canada after refusing combat duty in Iraq." In December of 2004, Jeremy told Scott Pelley (60 Minutes II, CBS), "I was told in basic training that, if I'm given an illegal or immoral order, it is my duty to disobey it." As to the myth of 'freedom' being fought for in Iraq, Hinzman declared, "Whether a country lives under freedom or tyranny or whatever else, that's the collective responsibility of the people of that country."
The day started with Michael Futch (Fayetteville Observer) reporting that a decision was expected in Jeremy's status and that Fayetteville Quaker House director Chuck Fager was at work make signs for a planned demonstration supporting Hinzman -- "Shame, Canada, shame!" if the news was bad or "Thanks Canada! Jeremy Hinzman: Soldier of Conscience" if the news was good. Futch quotes Fager this afternoon explaining, "This is a very disappointing decision. It puts Canada more fully in complicity with an illegal and immoral war. Jeremy will probably end up back here at Fort Bragg. That's usually what happens." Futch also notes Hinzman and Nga added a daughter to their family in July, "Megan, who has Canadian citizenship."
The War Resisters Support Campaign issued this statement today:
U.S. Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman was told today that his family's application to stay in Canada has been rejected. Hinzman was told that he does not qualify under Canada's Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA) program following a review by a Citizenship and Immigration department officer.
Jeremy, his wife Nga Nguyen and their son Liam were the first Iraq War resisters to come to Canada to seek sanctuary. On July 21, their second child was born in Toronto. If deported, they would be the first family sent to the U.S. to face punishment.
On July 15, the Canadian government deported U.S. war resister Robin Long who is currently awaiting court martial at Fort Carson, Colorado.
Hinzman served a tour in Afghanistan in a non-combat role after applying for conscientious objector status. When his unit, the 82 Airborne Division, was to be deployed to Iraq Hinzman and his family decided to come to Canada.
"I applied for Conscientious Objector Status in the U.S. Army because I realized that I cannot kill a fellow humna being. But my application was denied. I knew that in Iraq I would be ordered to take part in combat operations, or other actions that are against my principles," said Hinzman. "Nga and I knew Canada had welcomed many Americans like us during the Vietnam War, and we knew Canada had refused to join the invasion of Iraq."
"Sending Jeremy and his family back to the U.S., where he would face harsh punishment, would be cruel," said Lee Zaslofsky, coordinator of the War Resisters Support Campaign. "It would fly in the face of the motion adopted by the House of Commons on June 3, which called on the Harper government to stop all deportation proceedings against these conscientious objectors."
Recent Federal Court of Canada decisions in the case of U.S. war resisters Joshua Key and Corey Glass have indicated that the refugee process which failed to grant protection to the Hinzman family may have been seriously flawed.
The War Resisters Support Campaign is calling on the federal government and the Hon. Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, to intervene to prevent the Hinzman family from being sent to the U.S. to be punished.
Nick Kyonka (Toronto Star) reports, "Jeremy Hinzman, 29, had filed for a pre-removal risk assessment and permanent residency on humanitarian and compassionate grounds with Citizenship and Immigration Canada in January after several prior failed attempts to gain refugee status. Today he was told that both of those applications had been rejected and he must leave the country by Sept. 23." Kyonka quotes Jeremy stating, "Obviously we're disappointed but life goes on and we'll make the most of it wherever we end up." AP quotes him stating, "I'm disappointed but I think that every soldier that has refused to fight in Iraq has done a good thing and I'm not ashamed." Meagan Fitzpatrick (Canwest News Service) adds that War Resisters Support Campaign's Michelle "Robidoux said Hinzman, who lives in Toronto with his wife and two children, plans to take a close look at the decisions before deciding how to proceed." The Canadian Press notes: "Federal NDP Citizenship and Immigration Critic Olivia Chow, who put foward the June [3rd Parliament] motion, called the decision [to expell Jeremy] 'mean spirited.' She called on Citizenship and Immigration Minister Diane Finley to hald the deporation of Hinzman and other resisters immediately."
Jeremy Hinzman and other war resisters in Canada need support and to pressure the Stephen Harper government to honor the House of Commons vote, Gerry Condon, War Resisters Support Campaign and Courage to Resist all encourage contacting the Diane Finley (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration -- 613.996.4974, phone; 613.996.9749, fax; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com -- that's "finley.d" at "parl.gc.ca") and Stephen Harper (Prime Minister, 613.992.4211, phone; 613.941.6900, fax; e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com -- that's "pm" at "pm.gc.ca"). Courage to Resist collected more than 10,000 letters to send before the vote. Now they've started a new letter you can use online here. The War Resisters Support Campaign's petition can be found here. Long expulsion does not change the need for action and the War Resisters Support Campaign explains: "The War Resisters Support Campaign is calling on supporters across Canada to urgently continue to put pressure on the minority conservative government to immediately cease deportation proceedings against other US war resisters and to respect the will of Canadians and their elected representatives by implementing the motion adopted by Parliament on June 3rd. Please see the take action page for what you can do."
There is a growing movement of resistance within the US military which includes Yovany Rivero, William Shearer, Michael Thurman, Andrei Hurancyk, Megan Bean, Chris Bean, Matthis Chiroux, Richard Droste, Michael Barnes, Matt Mishler, Josh Randall, Robby Keller, Justiniano Rodrigues, Chuck Wiley, James Stepp, Rodney Watson, Michael Espinal, Matthew Lowell, Derek Hess, Diedra Cobb, Brad McCall, Justin Cliburn, Timothy Richard, Robert Weiss, Phil McDowell, Steve Yoczik, Ross Spears, Peter Brown, Bethany "Skylar" James, Zamesha Dominique, Chrisopther Scott Magaoay, Jared Hood, James Burmeister, Jose Vasquez, Eli Israel, Joshua Key, Ehren Watada, Terri Johnson, Clara Gomez, Luke Kamunen, Leif Kamunen, Leo Kamunen, Camilo Mejia, Kimberly Rivera, Dean Walcott, Linjamin Mull, Agustin Aguayo, Justin Colby, Marc Train, Abdullah Webster, Robert Zabala, Darrell Anderson, Kyle Snyder, Corey Glass, Jeremy Hinzman, Kevin Lee, Mark Wilkerson, Patrick Hart, Ricky Clousing, Ivan Brobeck, Aidan Delgado, Pablo Paredes, Carl Webb, Stephen Funk, Blake LeMoine, Clifton Hicks, David Sanders, Dan Felushko, Brandon Hughey, Logan Laituri, Jason Marek, Clifford Cornell, Joshua Despain, Joshua Casteel, Katherine Jashinski, Dale Bartell, Chris Teske, Matt Lowell, Jimmy Massey, Chris Capps, Tim Richard, Hart Viges, Michael Blake, Christopher Mogwai, Christian Kjar, Kyle Huwer, Wilfredo Torres, Michael Sudbury, Ghanim Khalil, Vincent La Volpa, DeShawn Reed and Kevin Benderman. In total, at least fifty US war resisters in Canada have applied for asylum.
Information on war resistance within the military can be found at The Objector, The G.I. Rights Hotline [(877) 447-4487], Iraq Veterans Against the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign. Courage to Resist offers information on all public war resisters. In addition, VETWOW is an organization that assists those suffering from MST (Military Sexual Trauma).
Crispin Thorold (BBC News) notes King Abdullah II of Jordan's brief ("symoblic") visit to Iraq on Monday and notes an estimated 750,000 Iraqi refugees in Jordan and that "these refugees have an uncertain status. They are referred to as guests, not refugees and year-long residency permits are hard to obtain. The vast majority were granted short stays in the country, which since 2005 have become virtually impossible to renew. Without official paperwork the refugees are not allowed to work." Meanwhile Suki Falconberg (Women's Space) reports on Iraqi female refugees in Syrica "are being sold for sex. There is a large sex trade in young Iraqi girls in the nighclubs of Damascus. Fourteen-and fifteen-year-olds -- literally girls -- not even women yet, and even children, are being sold" and quotes Myra Adel, Miss Iraq, explaining why her pagaent days are done, "They have been great to me but I will no longer be involved with the Pageant, due to the fact that I really couldn't take it when I saw all those refugees in Syria being mistreated . . . seing these people suffer made me ashamed. . . . I don't deserve to live in a classy apartment while other women are selling themselves. . . . What kind of sick demented human being would want to have sex with a 10-year-old?" Falconberg notes:
She says that the "annual government budget in Iraq exceeds 70 billion US dollars. Where is that money going? Power cuts are long, people get electricity for only an hour or two a day...water is cut off as well." She would like to see some of the money going to fund the Iraqi women and girls in Syria who are so desperate they must sell themselves to survive. Ms. Adel brings up a great question--to repeat it--where is the money in Iraq going? Is US and Iraqi corruption, combined, so overwhelming that a few are getting enormously rich and the majority of Iraqis are suffering terrible hardships, and in the case of the subject of this article, the women in prostitution, those hardships mean bodies and lives that will be nightmares forever from this degradation.
Where does the money go? Why is the puppet allowed to sit on so much money? He can spend it on weapons (and does). Today Ernesto Londono (Washington Post) covers the efforts to build Iraq's air force and notes, "U.S. lawmakers appropriated $8.5 billion to train and equip Iraq's security forces in 2007 and 2008. Of that sum, roughly $457 million went to the Iraqi air force." So the US is tossing out more money to prop up the brutal puppet regime they installed. And who is helping the Iraqi peole?
Myra Adel places blame at the United Nations High Commission for Refugees as well. Meanwhile Bernd Debusmann (Reuters) reports that the tiny US target of accepting 12,000 Iraqi refugees for 2008 will be met by September 30 (end of fiscal year) but "[t]he bad news is that 12,000 people represent a tiny fraction of the vast exodus of Iraqis driven from their homes by the violence and ethnic cleansing unleashed by the 2003 U.S. invasion. Estimates of their number vary. The widely used figure of 5 million is about one in five. To get that into context: relative to the size of the population, it would equal the forced displacement of almost 60 million Americans." This comes as Zvi Bare'el (Haaretz) reports that Europe is no longer welcoming Iraqi refugees, "At the end of July, European countries decided to halt the processing of accepting new refugees and to postpone until September discussions about those who submitted their requests for refugee status. The decision does not stem only from concern over the growth in the number of Iraqis in Europe and an increase in the 'Muslim element' on the continent, but primarily against the backdrop of Iraqi Preime Minister Nuri al-Mliki's request to stop absorbing refugees. Al-Maliki explained to European heads of state and interior ministers he met with that the situation in Iraq has improved and Iraq needs its refugees in order to rebuild the state." What the puppet of the occupation, Nouri, really means is that the refugee crisis makes it so very hard to sell that "turned corner" nonsense and launch another wave of Operation Happy Talk. In November, he preyed on the helpless -- helpless due to his own actions and his own inactions -- and tried (with the help of the US government) to jump-start The Myth of the Great Return. Those refugees were not thrilled and eager to return to Iraq. They had run out of money, they were bussed in and, upon arriving in Baghdad, a number immediately were confronted with physical threats. Using the same techniques as then, this week 250 Iraqis returned. al-Maliki begged and whined to the Egyptian government that these pesky refugees were just making him look so very, very bad. Couldn't they do Nouri a solid? Help a puppet out? The refugees were near broke and that combined with pressure from the Egyptian government created the 'returnees'. Possibly due to the strong work of Damien Cave and Cara Buckley (New York Times) when the Myth of the Great Return was still going on previously, the press was far less eager to hop on boogie board and ride the latest wave of Operation Happy Talk. Equally true is that NGOs continue to state that Iraq is not a safe region for refugees to return to.
Near Kirkuk today there's been an assassination attempt. Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports, "The district commissioner of al Multaqa district abdul Kareem Ali Nasif and three of his guards were wounded by a suicide car bomb that targeted the convoy of Nasif while he was going to his office district in al Multaqa district west of Kirkuk early morning." This continues a long line of attacks on officials. It also continues a long line of attacks on US collaborators. Aws Qusay (Reuters) reports that "Abdul Karim al-Jubouri . . . also leads pro-U.S. security vonteer forces in the area, was wounded along with three bodyguards." Most recently, yesterday, Sahar Issa (McClatchy Newspapers) reported a Baghdad roadside bombing that wounded three, a Diyala Province assassination attempt on the Governor via a bomber who took his/her own life apparently as well the lives of 3 civilians (seven people were left wounded). Tina Susman (Los Angeles Times) reports that Monday's bomber was "a man dressed as a woman" and she quotes Raad Tamimi (the governor) explaining that, "He tried to head towards us but we were careful, because suicidal attackers are common in Diyala."
Turning to some of today's reported violence . . .
Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports a Baghdad roadside bombing claimed 1 life, a Nineveh car bombing claimed 2 lives (seven people wounded), a Mosul bombing left two people wounded, another Mosul bombing ("suicide bomb") claimed the life of the bomber and the lives of 2 Iraqi service members (sixteen people were wounded), a Diyala Province roadside bombing claimed the life of 1 woman and left two more wounded, and another Diyala Province bombing claimed the lives of 2 Iraqi police officers ("national police").
Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports one police officer was wounded in a Baghdad shooting,
Laith Hammoudi (McClatchy Newspapers) reports 2 corpses discovered in Baghdad
Today the US military announced: "A Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed when the vehicle they were riding in was struck by an improvised-explosive device in northwest Baghdad at approximately 10:10 a.m. Aug. 13." With that announced death, the month of August (not even half over) has already passed the month of July for most US fatalities. The monthly toll thus far is 14 with 4141 the number killed since the start of the illegal war.
Non Iraq related but also on the topic of immigration and refugees and the way governments mistreat those most in need of help. Independent journalist David Bacon reports. "Maria Rosala Mejia Mqarroquin and Anacleta Tajtaj, Guatemalan immigrants, were arrested in an immigration raid at the agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville on May 12. The raid was the largest workplace raid in a single worksite in recent history. Both were released to care of their children, but now have to wear ankle bracelets to monitor their movments. They and 46 other women cannot work or travel, and have been waiting for weeks for a hearing which would result in their deporation. Most have husbands or brothers now in Federal prison, forced to plead guilty to misusing a Social Security number, as a result of the raid." David Bacon's latest book comes out next month, Illegal People -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants (Beacon Press).
Turning to the US presidential election, Maureen Hoch (PBS' NewsHour) gets credit for attempting to be inclusive: "Both the DNC and the RNC will have to contend with counter rallies during their conventions. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader is planning events in both Denver and St. Paul. Ron Paul supporters are organizing a mini-convention in St. Paul to coincide with the second day of McCain's GOP event." A nice attempt at being inclusive but, to be clear, Cynthia McKinney is the Green Party's presidential candidate. Ralph Nader is running as an independent (and Bob Barr is the Libertarian Party candidate). As Hoch notes, Nader is holding super rallies. Along with super rallies, there is also the issue of the debates. As he notes in an audio campaign message:
This is Ralph Nader. The only time when tens of millions of Americans tune in for a couple of hours and pay attention to politics is during the prime time presidential debates. For our democracy to survive, prevail and thrive, we must have an open debate about the challenges we face and the solutions that we must apply. We really don't need two-candidate debates that sound like canned interviews. We don't need debaters prepped to look like a couple of game show contestants. We don't need show business, we need serious debate.
A 2000 Zogby poll showed that nearly 52% of the people wanted other candidates in the debates. In 2004, another Zogby poll showed 57% of likely voters wanted the debates opened up. A July 2008 poll by Zogby found that 44% of the public agreed that the American system is broken and cannot be repaired by the traditional two party politics and election. Another poll had 61% of the people saying both parties are failing.
It's time to open up the debates to third party candidates. I'm running for president because our democracy has been the target of an accelerating hostile corporate takeover. Control of our government by large corporations results in huge corporate welfare payouts, mega-fraud by military contractors, a pay or die system of health insurance, continued man-made global climate change and a collapsing financial system being propped up by the day on the backs of the American taxpayer with no restrictions, guarantees or return on investment. This and much more has happened with the craven complicity of both major political parties and politicians in Washington.
Friends, as things stand, the three debates run by the two parties through the private Commission on Presidential Debates, a corporation, will exclude critical discussion of the control of our democracy by large corporations We need honest talk in this campaign. It's time to respect the will of the American people, to expand their access to arguments and facts that address issues central to their daily lives. It's time for the American people to take control of the political system. We can begin by opening up the presidential debates. I'm Ralph Nader.
Ralph Nader was on NPR's Talk of the Nation today (audio available shortly). With more on the super rallies, Team Nader notes:
Are you ready to rumble?
If yes, make a contribution now to help fund our protest rallies in Denver (August 27) and Minneapolis (September 4).
Thousands of Americans will be in Denver and Minneapolis to protest the pro-war corporate controlled Democrats and Republicans.
Nader/Gonzalez has rented arenas in both cities to rally Americans opposed to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and corporate control over all aspects of our lives.
And to lay down one simple demand - open the Presidential debates.
As Ralph put it the other day, if we are allowed into the debates - and reach tens of millions of Americans with our message - it will be a three-way race.
Thanks to your help, we are on track to be on 45 states ballots by September 20 (Currently, we are on 31.)
If we get into the debates, our six percent in the polls will jump to 15 percent or more.
And the American people will sense a three-way race.
Then everything is possible.
But first, we have to pay for our up front costs in Denver and Minneapolis.
And we need to raise $50,000 before August 20.
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We've taken some of our best road-trippers and flown them into Denver to promote the rally. We have also opened an office in downtown Denver. (See today's Denver Post article here.)
Our staff is lining everything up to make them memorable rallies.
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Let's crank it up.
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I just got this in the mail. First Gimbal I have used, so not a lot of experience to make a comparison with. Here are some test shots i've done.
Zhiyun Z1 Crane available on deals, see first post.
I just got a reply from Zhiyun's FB customer service. Looks like the Crane-M doesn't take the weight of the GH4. Too bad, it looked really good.
"Hi, you mean the Crane-M? The max payload of the Crane-M is 650g Think the Crane-M will be not suitable for the gh4"
Is what they said. =<
You posted in wrong topic, use http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/15859/zhiyun-crane-m-lightweight-crane-brother#Item_2
Crane M is different gimbal completely.
It's looks like better than Nebula 4200 am I right ?
I mean Nebula 4200 lite.
It is different.
Nebula is based on SimpleBGC controller (more tuning abilities), Crane on custom one (simpler, but more limited). Plus Nebula handles are plastic (this means warm) and more ergonomic.
Just received my Crane Z1 from the Personal-View deal. Very fast, BTW, they used DHL Express to Germany.
I can say I'm impressed, having worked with:
– the Pilotfly H1 (very difficult to adjust and never without vibration if you exceeded a small vertical range)
– the Ronin (working well, but heavy, not so good with small cameras, needs a vest and a Serene)
– the DJI Osmo (not Pro, easy to use, but awful compression in the camera, no influence on shutter times)
After charging the batteries I just went for a quick adjust with my Sony A7R II and a Zeiss C/Y 25mm on it. With all my prior experience it was a breeze to balance, about 3-5 minutes. The only problem I can see here that with a perfect position on the roll axis I can't open the SD card door any more. Yes, I can move the camera one more slot to the side, but then it get's at the edge of the horizontal adjustment, which might become a problem with other lenses' weight.
Apart from this, it just works! What might be better to be said about a tool?
It auto-adjusts in a short moment and hangs in space without any troubles. No vibration, not even noise. Perfectly positioned if I compare it to the HUD in the camera. Judging from the monitor values in my iPhone it's zeroed below the measuring tolerances in the Sony itself. Control from the phone is smooth and intuitive. Briefcase mode? Just turn it around, no switching or re-adjustment, just do it.
It doesn't get out of balance if I take the lens cap off, or add a Hyperthin HDMI cable. Heck, I even moved it out of balance and it still adjusts, even if you shouldn't do that to save energy and stress on the motors. With the same disbalance the older Pilotfly would have gone berserk…
I'll try a few more camera/lens combinations, do some real world use and report, but for now I think I found my perfect gimbal for a very decent price.
Does anyone know if this can function as a time-lapse head via bluetooth control for slow pan / tilt moves?
It has separate Bluetooth remote (as option).
So if you so badly want it and have someone with DIY skills you can just disassembly remote and modify it (using arduino or such) to make joystick signals supplied by separate controller.
@Vitaliy_Kiselev Oh, I was hoping it might be possible to do it through the phone app.
I am not big fan of phones as something that give turn signals for timelapses. It is too complex device where too much can go wrong. Ideally all phone must do is set internal parameters and firmware must work by itself.
If you insist on using a phone, you may need to get the commands they use from the manufacturer and find someone to program an app. It is not supported by the app coming from Zhiyun.
@Tron I sent a FB message to Zhiyun asking if they could add some motion control functionality to the app. This was the response: "For the app, at the next version we can add the time-lapse/motion control functionality into it"
I have no idea if thats an intention to do it or just a possibility. Personally I think they'd be daft not to add it. I imagine the simplest way to implement it would be to able to record beginning and end positions of the camera (almost like key-framing) and then just specify how long you want the gimbal to take to move between the positions.
Here's hoping.......
Well, in Asia it's not considered polite to say "no" to a client.
OTOH, their app is pretty well done when compared to the one for the Pilotfly of last year (Android only, BTW) and it shouldn't be rocket science to add that functionality.
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