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4X4Dodger
Mar 02, 2016Explorer II
briansue wrote:If you have enough money to live and to travel you do not have a right to moan about anything. When the USA quits its economic war on everyone with the strong dollar and cheap gas then things will settle out no worries. Buy your pesos and enjoy your life and quit complaining, or save your money and stay at home.
Boy Russ! Don't hold back..........
The Dollar is high because the US economy is doing very well. Gas is cheap partly because the Saudis and other members of OPEC are selling oil cheap to drive down the cost benefit of the shale oil fields in NDakota and elsewhere which stand to make the US oil independent soon. Gas is also cheaper in the US because we have so much oil in storage and in the distribution chain.
It is not Economic Warfare...it is the market.
Gas is only more expensive in other countries because their taxes are much higher, their distribution costs are higher, their markets are smaller and their systems less efficient in some cases. In others like Mexico the Gas Distribution has no competition...
Again that is NOT economic warfare it is simple first year economics 101, the market.
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