price of oil in ATL's

Price of oil in ATL’s

With oil at record or near record high prices in our world, this thought came to me. What are oil (and gas) prices like in ALT’s? I realize some TL’s probably don’t use oil. But I can’t stop but wonder if there are worlds out there where oil is only 20 bucks a barrel and gas is cheap.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
 
I think Bard will be able to answer your question. It does appear from his posts that he may come from an alternate timeline.

I've got to admit this is a quirky question. You wouldn't want to know the price of a liter of milk instead would you?
 
I think Bard will be able to answer your question. It does appear from his posts that he may come from an alternate timeline.
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Too true... one in which half-remembered, less-understood snippets of TV shows seen once, years ago, can form a valid basis for historical debate.

As to the OP question: no ideas yet.
 
I think Bard will be able to answer your question. It does appear from his posts that he may come from an alternate timeline.

I've got to admit this is a quirky question. You wouldn't want to know the price of a liter of milk instead would you?
Who measures milk in liters?

All I've ever seen of it is gallon- and half-gallon-jugs, and pint or quart bottles or cartons.

Anyway, the price of oil is tied greatly to the state of affairs within the Middle East and its relations with the rest of the world. There's also how much oil has been used so far...

How likely would it be that the Mideastern oil fields wouldn't be exploited?
 
Who measures milk in liters?

All I've ever seen of it is gallon- and half-gallon-jugs, and pint or quart bottles or cartons.

I do, in Australia we have the nice rationale metric system that does not confuse measurements or cause suicidal thoughts in struggling 12 year old math students, (so much).

Asd for the price of oil, that would also depend on how much oiul there was top begin with and what its uses are. There could be worlds where oil is very scarce to begin with, and other worlds where oil is literally found everywhere. ALT history can form from geology as well as the more mundane human events.

Remember also, on some worlds that oil would not be uised because the world is either not advance enough or the world is past the popoint of using the internal combustion engine and thus doesnt burn as much oil as it once did (still uses i9t for things like plastics and the like which arte important non-fuel products that petroleum and crude oil are precursors to.
 
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Historically going back about 30~40 years OTL a gallon of gas is about 25% less than a gallon of Pepsi/Coke, and 25% more than a gallon of Milk.

This is USA prices. [?Canada?] And is not indicative of European prices. [11$$/Gallon for gas in Turkey :eek: & :eek::eek:]
 
Codae, sorry mate but I had to laugh at your 'who measures milk in litres' line, that was gold. I'm half sure that about 5 billion people measure milk in litres.

As for the pirce of oil, since I like Byzantium, WW1, British doing well in WW2 and Suez TLs I'd have to say that oil would be cheap.
 
My current TL is essentially a very long 1970s as far as oil prices are concerned. Sure, there's no OPEC, but who needs one when you've got successful Biafran secession, American intervention in Iraq (and Syria) in the '60s, multiple wars over control of the Suez, and Egypt, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria with nuclear ambitions (Syria, that is, until it pushes Israel one step too far). And for good measures, there are two Irans.

On the bright side for alternate Americans, the Republicans are rather liberally minded on public transportation.
 
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