This new U.S. currency could be released as early as this fall!
Welcome to Planet Earth, bud - out of 141 countries providing statistics Americans pay less for gasoline than all but 39.
And soon we’ll be paying for it with new currency!
Seriously, WTF?
I guess I’ll have to use $1s to buy cigarettes now.
And all 102 combined would fit within the geographic borders of the US - your point? :rolleyes:
When come back, bring brain. And a map.
The cashier at the grocery store was trying to get me to believe that Bush has designed this economic stimulus plan to coincide with his raising the price of gasoline(yes, she believes the president controls the price of gas). This way the money we receive will go directly into his pocket because he is a “Texas Oilman”. :rolleyes:
Considering that one of them is Australia, the other 101 must be really small 
. But, in fact, they include all the members of the European Union. The countries where petrol is cheaper tend to be third-world countries like Iraq and Saudi Arabia that export lots of oil.
Methinks we’ve just had it too good for too long and we’re spoiled.
Does your username refer to what I think it refers to (the wrestlers)?
The President does control the price of gas, to an extent; he can press for a temporary or permanent reduction in the federal gasoline tax, or release some of the strategic oil reserve, if he wants.
IIRC, Clinton tried the latter to counter a short-term spike in oil prices toward the end of his term.
Obviously the “Texas oilman” conspiracy stuff is out there- but the President could affect (though certainly not set) the price of oil.
Yes, Kevin is my father-in-law and I run his website.
That’s really, really cool.
You might like to get yourself a map with a realistic projection sometime. I believe they are called “globes”. Just FYI.
Is this thread one big whoosh?
It was actually just supposed to be a joke referring to how high gas prices are getting.
Did you look at the currency in the link?
I’m pretty sure he “got” it. I think he was surprised that anyone would think it was funny enough to bother posting.
No offense, OP.
Actually…
um…
no.
I assumed that this was a thread about an actual new currency design and thought that RNATB had inadvertantly posted to the wrong thread.
Someone on Air America also made the point the other day that Bush could stop buying any more for the SOR for a while, so as to allow that supply to be otherwise available in the marketplace.
And since two of the remaining 101 include Canada and Russia (both of which are bigger than the US)… doesn’t leave much room for Australia, let alone the other 99 suckers.
OK, I get it, you’re ridiculing his comment by bringing up an even more ridiculous allusion (… that was deliberate hyperbole, right? Oh, please…)
I think his point was to the effect of “Oh, c’mon, expensive gasoline is not a freak thing, cheap gasoline is”.
Which was kind of intellectual overkill over a light gag about how a fiver could be redeemable for a gallon of gas. That sample was along the lines of the quip from an earlier thread on the new 5-note that proposed it say “U can haz cheezburger”; or the c. 1990 gag about the then-still-planned Euro note, that proposed that besides raised dots for the blind, it also include a “visual aid for Americans” in the form of a picture of hands holding up fingers to count off the value.
Y’know, we’re gonna just have to say, screw smileys, implement a big page-wide IT’S A JOKE!! banner that we can insert into our posts…