High Oil Prices Met With Anger Worldwide

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/02/AR2005100201315.html


Rising fuel prices are stoking popular anger around the world, throwing politicians on the defensive and forcing governments to resort to price freezes, tax cuts and other measures to soothe voter resentment.

The latest example came this weekend in Nigeria, where President Olusegun Obasanjo promised in a nationally televised Independence Day speech that the cost of gasoline would not increase further until the end of 2006, no matter what happened in global oil markets. He acted after furious demonstrations shut down whole sections of major cities around the country over the past several weeks.

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In the European Union, there was a brief attempt by the 25 member governments to maintain a united front against consumer demands for tax cuts, rebates and other subsidies to offset rising fuel prices. Many of those governments depend on taxes that add as much as $5 to a gallon of gas.

But the unity cracked last month as Poland and Hungary approved fuel tax cuts and Belgium promised a rebate on home heating fuel taxes. In France, where a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline fetches up to $6.81 in Paris, thousands of farmers and truck drivers staged brief street demonstrations two weeks ago, and the government offered them a $36 million package of gas tax breaks and rebates.
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Canada, Russia, Nigeria also have unhappy citizen

meanwhile, oil and gas barons are living it up

[YapiYapo]

1. Some people are dying in Africa

Cause of high gas price,food cannot be deliver in some place anymore.

Thanks to all the SUV driver in America/Europe,i hope they all realize people are dying because of our over consumption.

[soothsayer]

2. How come we never riot, dammit. Of course it's more serious

for those folks.

[texpatriot2004]

3. kick n/t

[Mojorabbit]

4. I think you

will be seeing the same thing here in the next five years. The problem is supply is dwindling and use is increasing all over the world as china and india's economys boom.

[Deja Q]

5. Excellent.

We had 25 years to do something.

Instead, politicians pissed about when not dismissing the issue, claiming oil obsolete.

Anything less than anger by the people is not acceptable.

But we need to work together NOW to come up with a VIABLE solution. And I don't mean violence.

Carpool.

Cut on home heating.

Don't use gas grills.

Don't drive needlessly; do trips right after work instead of making special trips.

And if the oil biz wishes to do something, they can work on a new source of energy. Enough Elmer Fudd cartoons taught us that companies' profits get put back into the industry to improve themselves. Well, now is the time for improvement.

Nothing needs to collapse. Just a change of attitude on US ALL is what shall SAVE us all.