Gas Rant 3.49? 3.59???

I still stick with its not OPEC or the Arabs ****ing us its our own Petrochem companies 0.81 a gallon in Egypt, I think I saw way less then that in Venezuala the other day, somewhere in there are a bunch of fat, E**on/BP/shell/Halliburton/Bush types ******* them selves laughing at the $$ they are skimming off the stuff. Wonder what it costs to lease a tanker for a trip to Venezuala.... hey peddro filler up

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't gas itself really cheap over there but a ****load of taxes are added to the price? Someone was telling me this the other day....

Mootz

 

Military installation price chcek: in the past 2 days gas is up to 2.70 for he cheap stuff, and they "claim" its tax exempt....my ***, I guess thats the thanks from our government for us bleeding in Iraq, thanks Uncle Sam...or should I say "uncle ****er"

 

I drove by my gas station this morning on the way to work and it was at $2.49 but by lunch time it was at $2.79

 

Chicago, today: All the stations I see/service, save Marathon at Austin/Montrose, raised their prices by about a nickel. Now it's VERY hard to find regular under about $3.10.

All for the Hurricane, which had JUST hit - that price increase didn't take long...

Thank GOD for the French (car I drive - 35+ mpg).

Cosmo

P.S. Is it OK to laugh at Hummer owners?? I mean, really, if they tried to run me over, wouldn't it be more likely they'd run out of fuel/money sooner??

 

Gas has gone up so fast I parked my buddy's car trailer. It used to cost me about $20-$25 to go out there, now it's up to $35 and beyond.

Best gas I got was Monday off an indian reservation at $2.48, most places were 2.63, today it's 2.71 and climbing. Of course the indians in this county don't get along and tore down the cheap gas station (I can remember going there because $1.27 was too high) years ago. And the one on the way to my buddy's place where all the cars are stored, they figured out they can charge within a couple cents of everyone else and just pocket the difference and still sell just as much gas. So it's about the same there as a Hess is here.

Thing is gas averaged as little as just under a dollar a gallon as recently as just 5 years ago, according to what I heard on the radio this morning (seems to me here it was more like $1.25). If the economy that the press tells us is so horrible wasn't going along like gangbusters, we'd all be screwed. As it is sooner or later just the gas prices will create inflation because virtually anything you buy relies on some form of gas to get to market or point of sale.

Gas is high now because the environmentalst clowns won't let us A: drill in new places and B: build more refineries. So all it takes is one natural disaster to spike prices - if we had wells in Alaska and more refineries outside of the gulf coast, gas would probably still be around $2 a gallon between less of a dent in production and less reliance on OPEC.

 

Uncle ****er.

I gotta remember that one.

Drove past a building on Walnut, around the corner from Reath speed equipment that said "Halliburton" on it...
It was tough not stopping, I really wanted to urinate...

Interesting, it being across the street from the "Fantasy Castle" strip joint?

 

I dont mind paying 3 bucks a gallon when people overseaes pay twice that. Makes you wonder why americans complain about it so much, we should all be thankfull it has been kept this "cheap"

 

I am not sure if that is optimistic or not

 

****ing tree huggers!

 

Well, the first few posts of this thread seem almost quaint now. I saw $3.20 for regular this morning in lovely Warren, Michigan. $3.10 for diesel. That almost bothers me more. The price of shipping all the Chinese made merchandise I love to buy is going to go through the roof.

 

Hmmm, when I started driving, back in the 80s...gas was around 75 cents a gallon, now it is FOUR TIMES that much, and climbing fast.

Minumum wage back then was $3.35/hr...is it $13.40/hr now? Nope!

(I believe it's something like $5.65/hr now...not even close to double what it was back then, while gas costs have quadrupled.)

The overpaid yuppies living above their means and driving their hulking SUVs don't get any sympathy from me...but the working cl*** dogs who now have to budget four times as much for fuel costs if they need to drive to work are getting the shaft royally!

I just choose to ride a bike unless I absoultely HAVE to drive somewhere, and even then I drive 80s and early 90s cars...or 40s cars with 80s engines that get better mileage than anything on the road today except a hybrid! Funny that the automakers had performance and mileage maxed out by the early 90s, and then the Yuppies wanted BIGGER trucks, SUVs and 'crossover vehicles' (funny thing to call a station wagon?!), and now we've back-slid to the 70s in every way...gas ****ing vehicles, fuel prices climbing...look at the styles....we're BACK!!!

By putting a proportionially large engine (3.1 V6) into a small two door car (Sunbird), GM built a plenty quick little car in 1992 that still gets around 25mpg. Faster than a new Focus (and damn sure more reliable!) with the same fuel economy! Funny indeed!

Even the ridiuclous cost of real estate in the city hasn't jumped FOUR times since the mid 80s...it's easily doubled, which is insane enough...but it has yet to catch up to gasoline costs.

Look at car prices...sure they **** the yuppies on their SUVs and fancy cars...but back in the 80s a basic, entry level car was a Chevette, Cavalier, ******, Omni or similar vehicle at around $7,000 give or take. Today, you can still buy a KIA for close to that! Good to know that at least ONE automaker is looking out for the Little Guy...even if you have to Buy Korean. The domestic guys just gave in to greed and went for the gullable market segment. No sympathy there!

It's the little guys who get hurt by the current fuel costs...the ones struggling by working two minumum wage jobs and/or trying to go to school...the ones raising a family on low income wages...the ones who have to live outside the city where they work because housing and rent costs are gauged to the Yuppies...the ones who deliver pizzas for a living who are now making roughly the same as their counterparts did twenty years ago while housing costs have doubled and gas prices are up four times...

...tell me how LUCKY we are...

 

Forget pump prices... look at heating oil...

There's more people living below the poverty line, than ever, so all the wage/price stats don't add up to **** for those people.

Some people are gonna have to make a choice to freeze or starve, this winter... that's a fact.



JOE

 

Well a couple of ricers I know gave me a flyer the other day. Someone is trying to put together a National "No Gas Day" on Sept. 11th. 2006. If I can find it I'll put up the website. I'm actually in the middle of converting my house to electric for heat this winter. The price of coal hasn't gone up much lately, so electricity should stay the same.

 

Funny how EVERYTHING, no matter how large or small, in the news "affects" the price of gas...but never oil company profits!

 

In my own paranoid head, I keep thinking that everything is going to go all "Beyond Thunderdome" on us with gas shortages and cannibalism and the whole she-bang. But, I guess it's better than the Ice Pirates alternative.

 

You got that right heating oil is no joke, I just had to pay my fuel oil bill this month for the season 1200 gallons to heat my old house in new york at $2.61 per gallon $3100 for heat this year. I am going to install a coal furnace before next year, but I need another $3500 to do that. Who says this isn't going to hurt the economy.

 

I think the price of coal will be going up. At work we looking into new coal contracts and the prices are much higher.

 

the price of some coal will definitely be going up I think CPRail just signed a contract with the coal mines here for a 20% increase in frieght charges to haul that black dirt from around here

 

Did she leave any dirty *******? You could export them to Japan. Businessmen over there will buy dirty ******* for peresonal pleasure (I kid you not).

Fat Hack, someday I gotta meet you. You intrigue me.

 

I dunno...I haven't popped the trunk open yet (no key, lock busted out) to see what's in there...partially because I'd be afraid to find out!!!

 

I know my posts are kind of vague these days (no home computer, checking in with an eye out for the boss man) but I figure I'd just share what I paid for gas.
In front of me is a bill for $29638.95.
Yeah....that's 9801 of 87 octane and 1601 gallons of diesel.
We gotta come up with that kind of money AT LEAST 3 times a week....and my boss thinks I want to own this place some day?!?!?!

 

Don't agree with this statement at all.
Ever stop to think how far most of the Europeans drive everyday????
When they talk of driving from country to country it is the same distances as our state to state drive. I bet most of them walk or bicycle to work only because their homes are so close to their work. Lets figure the total weekly gas usage as compared to other countries and then we can really compare apples to apples.
My total gas usage for one vehicle in my two car family is
70.00 a week

 

Holy ****...!

I heat my house... my shop... and my domestic hot water on about ten gallons.



(That's not me... If it was there would be hair hanging in my eyes... )



JOE

 

somethings got to give, i mean hopefully. but the worst part about this whole mess is that nobody, whether here, the news, the paper...anywhere has a real clear cut explanation for "why" its so expensive. i mean there are "the storm will drive prices up" and this and that, but thats only on top of a core problem of $2.99 a gallon or so BEFORE the storm.

the worst part is that as soon as we hit $2.50 people were saying that we will hit $3 a gallon in no time, now that we are just about there, they are saying we will hit $4 soon. at $4 will we be told that we will hit $5 a gallon? perhaps by the end of winter? if this trend continues without anyone of power stepping in can we expect $17 a gallon next fall and $38 a gallon the fall after that? where does this madness end?

 

Were Hosed

 

When we decide that we are actually going to do something about big business running our country.

 

Let's all throw in and build a HAMB refinery.

We have the brains and the talent... and TUCK has a pile of free steel...

We could rule the world...!!!! (or, squeeze out enough low grade gas for our rods)



I've held certs. in pipe and pressure welding... Who's in...?
We can build it in the field behind Mo-Kan...



JOE

 

Junkyard
you come across any pioneer p61 ignition coil bag it up and send it my way! my heat is gonna cost a bit more this year having to hit the pawn shop for another good used saw

 

Jonsered 2165 Turbo... best saw on the planet...
I think it's Swedish... They don't start wars.






JOE