Gasoline

Carl Azuz Explains Gas Prices. I recently was thinking a lot about what is going to happen with gas prices. I am worried because, well, of course my vehicle does not get the greatest mileage that a vehicle can get. Plus, I do do a lot of driving and I am just worried that I won’t be able to keep up with the prices and let alone still be able to pay for other things. Such as: phone bill, entertainment, and traveling like going across towns to go meet up with some friends of mine. Okay, so in this video. Carl Azuz, the CNN Student News guy, says that we should not just go into  a gas station and start blaming the guy at the counter working for raising the gas prices, because fortunately for them, they are not the issue at hand. The problem with gas prices mainly comes from CRUDE oil. For every dollar that is spent on gas, Crude oil takes up 72 cents of that dollar. They are the biggest chunk out of our major gas problem. Then, 13 cents of every dollar spent of gas is given to government TAXES. Another 8 cents of every dollar spent on gas if for refining. REFINING, is how you process all that crude just to produce it into gasoline. Then finally, DISTRIBUTION takes up the last 7 cents out of every dollar. Distrtibution is what is basically all the advertising for selling the fuel and the transportation to all the different stations by semi and then same with paying all the people that work for those advertisement companies. Gas is no small subject. Yes it really blows having to pay so much for gas every week but it’s not cheap to make it! I believe we should really work hard in trying to find a better solution to transportation than fossil fuels!