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How in the heck did it jump 12 cents overnight? WTF is wrong here? Somebody needs to step up and start regulating the prices. I also think a higher demand needs to be placed on alternate means of transportation. Its enough to make you want to scream!
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Posted on: 2008/5/23 14:16
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| CSS996 | Re: Gas | ||
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My carpool buddy filed up the van yesterday with the company gas card. 25 gallons, almost $90... I am SO glad I do not pay for my own gas! There are some days when I don't like my job, but MAN do I have it good!
I just wish we didn't put 500 miles a week on that darn van. It is no fun to drive. Sloppy handling, the fuel pump makes quite a racket (since it was brand new) and there's so much road noise, I end up with a headache almost every day. But I'd about have to quit my job if I drove my own car to work. I sure do sympathize with folks spending a large portion of their take home pay, just to get to work. I'm sure carpooling and public transportation are looking better and better for folks every day. |
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Posted on: 2008/5/23 15:27
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| DaleD | Re: Gas | ||
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Don't want to drill, don't want to build refineries, don't want to use coal, don't want to build nuclear plants.
This is what we get. Punishing the oil companies will just motivate them to move their HQ offshore. |
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Posted on: 2008/5/23 15:46
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| red_johnny | Re: Gas | ||
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Posted on: 2008/5/23 17:14
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| Mekanic | Re: Gas | ||
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Including to work, and including the truckers. Think about the poor men and women who deliver EVERYTHING in this country. Everything you own/see/touch/use/eat was on a truck at one point. I have no idea how they are still going now with diesel being at 4.80 a gallon, and who knows what they're getting at truck stops near the interstate! If the price of fuel doesn't go down, in short, we're all fucked. |
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Posted on: 2008/5/23 17:25
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| CentralCoaster | Re: Gas | ||
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The problem solves itself. As gas prices increase, more and more people find ways to reduce usage or try other means of transportation. Why should the oil companies cut you a break? If you don't like their price, don't buy it. Most people spend more time complaining to the news/congressman/gas station clerk than they spend thinking about ways to reduce usage. I ride a motorcycle most days and bought a house very close to work. I also avoid driving to get lunch everyday by riding with others or stocking the fridge at work. My commute costs me $12/month in gas if I stick to that plan. I could also bike for $0/month. Driving my trucks that average 11mpg in heavy city traffic/stoplights, and driving to lunch daily, would cost 8x as much. How much does that carb'd 383 cost to drive? Artificially creating demand on alternative transportation, such as by subsidizing hybrid cars or spending gas tax on public transportation, wastes tax dollars that would be better spent on expanding roads and freeways. That hybrid car doesn't get very good mileage when it's stuck in bumper to bumper traffic every morning on the 405 freeway. If something requires government "bribes" to get people to use it, it obviously wasn't the cheapest option to begin with. I would like to see more nuclear power though. There's no excuse to avoid it. Let all the hippies that protest it buy coal. Gas by my house was $4.17 today for regular. |
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| red_johnny | Re: Gas | ||
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The carbed 383 gets about 15MPG city and I dunno about HWY anymore. |
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Posted on: 2008/5/23 17:58
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| JrRifleCoach | Re: Gas | ||
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Last Thursday regular was 3.95. Friday morning it jumped to 4.09, then by Saturday another bump to 4.19. A barrel is 55 gals and if the price is $120 thats 2.18 a gal. So to reflect a $10/barrel price jump thats an .18/gal increase. I'm sure theres more to it than this. But, no matter how you cut it, we get screwed. We just have to adjust to a new driving plan considering efficient use of time and transportation. |
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Posted on: 2008/5/27 6:19
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| kentucky_vetter | Re: Gas | ||
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1 barrel of crude Oil is 31 Gallons and 117.347 liters.
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| runner140 | Re: Gas | ||
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There are 42 gallons in 1 barrel of oil...
BUT In the refining process, you get 19.5 gallons of gasoline(RBOB=reformulated gasoline) from one barrel of crude (light sweet crude) oil. |
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Posted on: 2008/5/27 13:53
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| bogus | Re: Gas | ||
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This has really been a ticking time bomb. 30 years of the Sierra Club stopping progress has caused this to explode. Way too many people crying NIMBY and we end up with the same people crying about 4.00 gas. Why don't I feel any sympathy? |
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Posted on: 2008/5/27 14:39
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| CentralCoaster | Re: Gas | ||
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Posted on: 2008/5/27 15:23
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| JrRifleCoach | Re: Gas | ||
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bogus wrote: Why don't I feel any sympathy? Because you think it's all GW's fault!! lol |
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