# Ever Hear a Chinese Guy Stutter?

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**Created:** [March 6, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-hear-a-chinese-guy-stutter/262915 "2012-03-06T16:08:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 8, 2012, 9:34am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-hear-a-chinese-guy-stutter/262915/17 "2012-03-08T09:34:29Z")

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> [@FS: 16" 4x100 Rims with tires (SOLD)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/fs-16-4x100-rims-with-tires-sold/33441/31):
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> so full of BS Dr.Vlad
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> we have gone from under $2 to over $4
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> Oct. 16, 2008—Oil prices fall below $70 a barrel, which is less than half of its July peak. Signs of $1.99 a gallon gas brings celebration to the masses. Some consumers begin to talk about dragging out their gas guzzling SUV’s and Winnebago’s for the first time in months.
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> Nov. 3, 2008—U.S. Gas prices drop to $1.72 a gallon. Some gas stations even roll out a $.99 cent promotional deal. Treehuggers question whether the sudden drop is as good as most consumers seem to think it is.
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> Dec. 26, 2008—Gas prices tumble to $1.64 a gallon. Some areas seeing prices as low as $1.45 a gallon. Crude oil is just a little over $40 a barrel still.
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> Dec. 31, 2008—Crude oil prices plummet below $37 a barrel while the U.S. average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline falls to an amazing 5-year low of $1.61.
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> I mean, $1.61 to $4  
> That would be more than double, so your syntax, while meant differently, is technically correct
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> (thanks for imbedding, I tried)

I will start off that yes I am ignorant as to how the price at the pump is durived… but everything you hear is $XXX a barrel… Pump prices are $XXX So lets stick to that.

$70 a barrel = $1.72-1.99  
$40 a barrel = $1.64  
$37 a barrel = $1.61

that doesnt add up at all.

$37 a barrel = $1.61, yet a jump of $33 up to $70 a barrel only made the pump price rise $0.38 a gal at the pump? Or $0.0115 a gal at the pump for every $1 rise per barrel.

Oil today is $109 a barrel. So that is $39 more a barrel than the $70 = $1.99 example in 2008. So by that statistic them pump price should be only $0.449 more a gal than it was back in 2008, or $2.43 a gal.

Sooooo where is the other $1.52 per gal increase coming from??? because by my calculations to get to the price per gal we are VS the price per gal / per barrel it was 4 years ago… oil should be $202 a barrel right now!

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