Gas Rant 3.49? 3.59???

HOLY SHIT!!!!!!

we're up here in cali for the pamona swap, and while getting fuel at the chevron we noticed these prices ,of course after we paid ,..lol... so we thought it would be fun to share the pic, and us showing chevron how we feel about the prices.


this is me, and (1low54ford) flipping the f-bird, this is long beach

 

wow.....just last night here in Santa Cruz I paid 2.65.....I feel good about that now.

 

Ha Ha...I bought a 'flipper' last night and dropped $10 in the tank to get it home. Didn't look at the price per gallon, but $2.69 is about the norm here. I ride a bike everywhere, it's too expensive to drive. (Not just the gas, but insurance, plates, tires, upkeep, etc...silly when ya live in the city, really! Aside from my hot rods, I don't plan to actually own a commuter car!).

 

54 cents a gallon to pump it for you?


Let's see...
$.54 x 6 gal/min (approx.) = $3.24/minute x 60 min = $194.40/hr to pump gas.

THAT is what should piss you off.
Some motherfucker better be lickin' the bugs off my windshield for $194.40/hr...

I'm in the wrong business...!!!

The end is near, people...

...and FAT HACK...? What's a flipper? Is that like a hummer or a hand-job?
I mean, does it have anything to do with those ugly girls on the corner with the short shorts and the 8 pounds of makeup?


JOE

 

Ha Ha Ha...a "flipper" is a car I buy to re-sell for money...it's how I make my living!

(But you weren't far off base this time around...got this one outta the Low Rent District from a stripper chick who's moving outta state next week...spent two bucks on the vacuum at the car wash getting all the 'stripper glitter' off the seat!)

 

what about the states that do NOT allow you to pump your own gasoline?

Seems like Oregon , New Jersey, 1 or 2 more

 

In New Jersey, there is no self serve, and full service costs the same as self serve everywhere else. Luckily due to the states sheer volume of petrochemical refineries and the lowest gas taxes in the country, I paid about 2.52-2.53 this week, for the full service.

 

Well, from now on, I'm callin' a hand-job a "flipper"...


JOE

 

Oil prices crept up to $67.32 a barrel setting a new high Thursday, Aug. 25, 2005. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)


KUWAIT CITY (AP)
The president of OPEC said Sunday the oil cartel is concerned over the rising price of oil and will be looking at ways to ease prices at a September meeting. Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah, who is also Kuwait's oil minister, said in a statement that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will be exploring various options to keep crude prices at moderate levels at its Sept. 19 meeting in Vienna.

-here's an option-stop being so F@CKIN' GREEDY!!! This really boils down to none of these bastards (and more than a few here at home) not EVER having enough money.

 

i saw it here for $2.41 just yesterday at shell...

 

Ok you think you have a bug up your ass well how about $6.841 for an American gallon and $7.65 for an imperial gallon with only the choice of self service and thats if you can find a station that has any petrol because the fuckers have shut them all down.I live in a small town in the uk and they have shut down 7 fuel stations over the last 5 years.now we only have about 5 in total to serve the town and all the visitors.Think yourselves lucky although i have just got back from Egypt and an imperial Gallon is 81 cents.................Marq

 

Hmmm...if I woulda had another five bucks on me last night, I probably coulda got me one of THEM flippers, too...in your honoir, of course!!!

(ps...want her phone number??? )

 

OK Marq..you win !!
I was just about to say..."hey ours is 1.10 a litre" ...."waaa"
that works out to about 4.50 a gallon...and i'm only 3 minutes from the US border,but what with the exchange and all....
it's just barely worth it not to mention,the "where ya goin boy"?
from a guy 20 years younger than myself.."just let me get this rubber glove"
oy

 

Wow HACK, five bucks?

Flippers are almost cheaper than gas...!

What good is her number if she don't have a car?


JOE

 

I love stripper glitter...

 

You know, it's funny how the price of fuel is set by supply and demand.


I'd love to work less and get paid more

 

Man you know that the hurricane is gonna jack prices up even higher (for a little while) the "market " will freak as they always do, we cant catch a break

 

Its $2.57 at the cheapest down here in sierra vista. 70 miles from no where...

 

Well, maybe we should all spend our money on shares of oil company stock... The 400% profits will make it a little easier to fill the tanks on our rods.

 

30% of U.S. oil comes through the gulf. So, Hurricane Katrina is gonna drive it up even higher.
I just filled up both of our daily drivers hopin to get ahead of it.

 

Damn! And I thought I had something to complain about. Nice shirts btw

 

Im filling earily, hope to get ahead of it, the news is all over the pending gas hike cause of the storm...it sucks, but atleast im not paying 1.25 euro a liter like i did in december when i was with the army in germany....that was expensive!

 

Gas here actually went DOWN today from $2.69 to $2.66. Now I can fill up my tank and save 30 cents.

 

We have a Shell station here that's between the airport rental cars and the freeway that's typically 50c a gallon more than anyone else in town. The owner was arrested the other day for charging over $1600,00 for 4 tires. I hope the guy gets his $1600 back and the station owner gets his tires shoved up his ass.

All the time I've bitched about the vultures in Baker California and we get one here. At least here they busted the jerk.

 

God damn that's the kind of shit that just fucking chaps my nutsack. If the weather is bad the prices go up, if the weather turns too hot the prices go up, if it turns too cold the prices go up, if a dog runs into an intersection and makes an old man slam on the brakes and shit his pants THE PRICE FUCKING GOES UP!!!!



Ok so I can get worked up about this issue when it comes to the bullshit excuses for how petro is priced - good, bad or indifferent, but that is just the politics of the issue that gets under my skin. The actual price of the fuel doesn't really bother me.

I mean, I haven't noticed any change in how we are using it and I haven't really felt any more broke now than I ever have before....I dunno, I just don't watch the prices, why bother? I mean you're gonna buy it when your car runs out again and you can't do anything about it - what's the big deal if you are paying a couple cents more this time, as long as it doen't jump up by dollars....I don't even look, I pump my 20 bucks pull out the nozzle and hit the road, fuck it.

Bear with me here. I did some research on this subject after having these sorts of arguements with the other guys at work and at school. Here is a list of income versus the price of items from the year 1934 compared to the year 2004.


1934-----------------------------------2004
___________________________________________________

ave. income (year)---------------------ave. income(year)
$1,520.00------------------------------$43,300.00

ave. income (week)---------------------ave. income (week)
$29.23---------------------------------$832.00

ave. income (hr)------------------------ave. income (hr)
$.98------------------------------------$20.81

(Now I will use hr wage as a percentage of the cost per item - just to keep a single constant thoughout the list, if you wan to figure it by weekly pay go right ahead)

gas-----------------------------------gas
$.11/gal-------------------------------$2.05/gal
.112% (of hr wage)--------------------.098% (hr)

home----------------------------------home
$6500.00------------------------------$145,000.00
6632.7% (hr)--------------------------6982.2% (hr)

newspaper-----------------------------newspaper
$.02-----------------------------------$.35 - .016% (hr)
---------------------------------------$.50 - .024% (hr)

car (average - mid priced)--------------car
$520.00-------------------------------$18,000.00 - 864.9% (hr)
530.6% (hr)---------------------------$35,000.00 - 1681.9% (hr)



......ok that's enough, I am tired of typing. Anyways, you can see there that based on 2004 we are almost unchanged or very close to cost per income on every item, right?....well all but that one on the end, hmmmm........ Bet you the car makers don't want you to see that little tid-bit.....So if you want to be pissed off about something - get pissed at the price of an automobile because that is what's out of control. And don't get me started on trucks..........



P.S.
If you are looking at the 2004 average income figures and saying "yea right - noone makes that much." These figures are based on family income. Family income in 1934 was almost totally single person income, and in 2004 we all know that single income shit don't fly anymore.....All of these numbers came from government/public record/census type materials, feel free to prove me wrong if you must.

 

Amen to you Hack, If more people did that then the F&^%ing oil executives could chock on their own oil. Those f%^&ing companies are making billions with a $$$B. And our stupid chief executive takes a vacation.

 

Well that might be hard to make out, the format got messed up when it converted to a post, but I think you can see what I am getting at.

 

MY PIGGY BANK AFTER FILLING MY ROD UP TODAY!! ....

 

Did someone say BOOBY glitter??


What were we talking about again?

 

All the stations around here are at or above $2.99 for regular no-lead now.

I actually drove my little "flipper" up and put $20 in it...to up it's resale value by $50 next week!

Just squeaked by, too...as I was pulling out, the guy was changing the price on the sign from $2.79 to $2.99 for regular unleaded...you could hear the collective wail from the SUV owners for MILES!!!

(I'll be on my bike everyday...let 'em hit FIVE DOLLARS a gallon for all I care! )