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(Message started by: Jonny on May 21st, 2008, 9:05pm)
Title: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Jonny on May 21st, 2008, 9:05pm
and I know im heading into Boston where you can not find a gas station in the city.

So I pull into a station on RT 9 and Abdula tells me "I only have super"......Well, for $25 I get six gallons of gas.....Six fucking gallons!!!.......I can burn that in my one ton in an hour, Christ!

I know this guy was bull shitting me, but what am I gonna do jump out and start spraying the regular hose?

This is to the point that anything I make will have to be picked up by the customer with a no delivery option.

Heres what big oil said to congress:
"The executives pushed the idea that large parts of the U.S. that are currently closed to drilling - like sections of Alaska, the Rocky Mountains and the continental shelf - should be opened."

DUH!!!! ::)

Abdula got me to pay $4.18 for super....regular is about $3.87

What pay you?

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=689_1211400102
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by karma on May 21st, 2008, 9:14pm
I say your beating a dead horse or is this just another racist rant?
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Jonny on May 21st, 2008, 9:16pm

on 05/21/08 at 21:14:04, karma wrote:
I say your beating a dead horse or is this just another racist rant?


Huh?....no idea what you mean by that....care to explain?
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Cathi_Pierce on May 22nd, 2008, 12:32am
Jonny, One of the corvettes takes supreme. It's running the same as you paid here in Oregon.
I guess, if we put it into perspective, we are still paying a lot less than other countries, but it certainly puts a crimp in the Sunday drive, doesn't it?

Hang on, Jonny, we are all in for a bumpy ride, but, know what? We'll make it!!

Cathi

P.S. I think Karma is simply suggesting a more "PC" approach in public forums like this.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Linda_Howell on May 22nd, 2008, 12:58am

 In California.    I put in 2 gallons in my 67 Mercury.  It cost me 8.00.  I have a V8 engine...what were they thinking back in 1967?  BobG? don't even go there.

   I may have to go postal soon.   or walk.

Thank goodness Jim has a motorcycle.

 
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by kayarr on May 22nd, 2008, 1:14am
My stinkin' Lincoln gets the best mileage in the driveway at 21.7per gallon.  Yikes!   :o
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by BMoneeTheMoneeMan on May 22nd, 2008, 2:27am
Remember a few years ago when gas hit $2 a gallon?  Remember how much that hurt?  
I got one car that gets 33mpg, and I have another car that gets 23.  Havent driven the 33mpg one in over 2 months.

British racing green is meant to be driven!!!

Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by BarbaraD on May 22nd, 2008, 8:01am
Ok, here's my opinion (and you knew I'd have one didn't you?).

We can't drill in Alaska because we'd distrub the wildlife or something and the enviromentilist would get upset. We can't drill offshore (where there's plenty of oil) cause it would interupt something or nuther. We can't drill in Texas because of some other excuse. Etc, etc, etc...

Well.... my question is == what good is that old spotted owl doing any of us? Is it putting food on our table, helping pay the electric bill or buying Jr.'s medicine? Do people in this country need work? Do we need "CHEAP" oil? Do we NEED to be NON dependent on foreign OIL? Do we NEED to take care of OUR OWN for a change?

I've got a farm and I have a farm exemption for diesel (for my tractors). Diesel was $4.47 yesterday. With the exemption I can buy it for $3.99 for the farm. Of course I had to sign a statement that none of it would get in the trucks or on the road... :P and you KNOW I wouldn't do anything like that.. ::). I'm not even sure if that's just tax or if they're trying to give the poor farmer a break or what, but that MUCH difference?

The only way we can stop this abuse on the American people is to start a grass roots movement and hit Congress with it to stop buying foreign oil and start producing our own. It wouldn't bother me at all to have an oil well in my back yard (of course I grew up in the East Texas oil fields and they're not "ugly" to me) - not to mention the royalties that go with them.

Oh well, people are still too lazy to even write Congress much less "pressure" them into doing anything. Guess we'll just pay $5 a gallon and be bitching this time next year.

Hugs BD
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Paul98 on May 22nd, 2008, 8:49am
The Gubbament had better put some consideration into where Americias energy needs will come from in the next 50 years.  Right now I have farmers near me going back to Mule and Horses because fuel is to expensive.  I don't mean the Amish either!

Lets see, in 2006 the "new and improved" congress that was elected was going to get to the bottom of those big nasty oil companys........Prices at the pump are double what they were then.  Yea, they showed them and us how determined they were to make things "right"  LOL.  Congress IS the fucking problem!  They have cowtowed to the tree hugging bunnymen and kissed their ass for 40 years.  No refineries, new exploration, no nuke power plants, no new hydropower....  all we have gotten is a strangle hold on any avenue for increased energy generation.  Wind?  Fat Ted doesn't like that!  

The US had best wake up and start punching holes in the permafrost for a stopgap until a VIABLE new source of energy if found.  They had better put some resources behind finding it like they did for the Manhattan project or things will get pretty bad.

Right now I spend the equivelent of a sizeable mortgage payment each month for fuel.  I am at the breaking point.

-P.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Mosaicwench on May 22nd, 2008, 8:50am
I'm all for drilling here in the US.  But in reality, I don't think we have enough refineries to handle an influx of our oil - we'd have to ship crude to be refined somewhere else.  

Last I read it would be twenty years from permit application to ribbon cutting on any new refineries built in the US because of municipal, stat and federal regulations of all kinds, including the EPA.

Twenty years ain't gonna help my budget today.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by thomas on May 22nd, 2008, 8:51am

on 05/22/08 at 02:27:58, BMoneeTheMoneeMan wrote:
British racing green is meant to be driven!!!

Cooper S?  

We have three 4cylinder Toyota Camrys and it costs about $60.00. to fill them up.  I remember when I thought $30.00 was a lot to fill the tank.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Cathi_Pierce on May 22nd, 2008, 9:24am
OHHH, But B, my friend, you look soo good in that car..........british racing green and your red hair....it's worth ANYTHING to be stylin down the road, lookin THAT good~!

Drive the Jag, man............

Cathi
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Paul98 on May 22nd, 2008, 9:46am

on 05/22/08 at 08:50:04, Mosaicwench wrote:
I'm all for drilling here in the US.  But in reality, I don't think we have enough refineries to handle an influx of our oil - we'd have to ship crude to be refined somewhere else.  

Last I read it would be twenty years from permit application to ribbon cutting on any new refineries built in the US because of municipal, stat and federal regulations of all kinds, including the EPA.

Twenty years ain't gonna help my budget today.


We went from Zip to the Hydrogen bomb in ~ 6 years.  THAT  sort of effort is what it is going to take and congress is to busy fighting the other side of the isle to get anything done or  even realize this will become a national emergency.

-P.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by BarbaraD on May 22nd, 2008, 2:31pm
My solution would be for everyone in the country to call in (including the govt employees) and report off work because they can't afford the gas to get there. Let Congress chew on that one for a day!

But I'll bet those guys at the Tea Party were a little "worried" about their hides too..... but they had the guts to stand up for their "rights!" They just don't make people like they used to do.....

Hugs BD
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by aprilbee on May 22nd, 2008, 2:59pm

on 05/22/08 at 14:31:31, BarbaraD wrote:
They just don't make people like they used to do.....

Hugs BD


I couldn't have put it better myself...   ;)  

I can't even get started on this topic....I'm buying a bicycle. >:(
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by monty on May 22nd, 2008, 3:16pm

on 05/22/08 at 14:31:31, BarbaraD wrote:
My solution would be for everyone in the country to call in (including the govt employees) and report off work because they can't afford the gas to get there. Let Congress chew on that one for a day!


Automobile drivers of the world, Unite!!  Unionize, then go on strike! (???)
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by echo on May 22nd, 2008, 3:42pm
One of my staff is wanting to work from home three days a week to save on gas.

Let's see, you drive a Lincoln Navigator 120 miles a day round trip all by yourself.  Duh!

Not my problem. Get a smaller vehicle that gets more than 8 miles to the gallon.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Brew on May 22nd, 2008, 3:47pm

on 05/22/08 at 15:42:14, echo wrote:
One of my staff is wanting to work from home three days a week to save on gas.

Let's see, you drive a Lincoln Navigator 120 miles a day round trip all by yourself.  Duh!

Not my problem. Get a smaller vehicle that gets more than 8 miles to the gallon.

Is there a downside to this person working from home?
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by echo on May 22nd, 2008, 4:01pm
Other than being against corporate policy, which is broken all the time.

This person only has dial-up.

Without DSL she's dead in the water as far as her job responsibilities go.  No way you can netmeeting working visio and auto cad on dial-up.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Brew on May 22nd, 2008, 4:24pm

on 05/22/08 at 16:01:50, echo wrote:
Other than being against corporate policy, which is broken all the time.

This person only has dial-up.

Without DSL she's dead in the water as far as her job responsibilities go.  No way you can netmeeting working visio and auto cad on dial-up.

Okay, then. Working at home = lower productivity. Position it to her like that. If she wants to pay for her own high-speed cable connection, let her have at it. If not, the answer is no.
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Charlie on May 22nd, 2008, 8:32pm
I read that there wasn't all that much oil in Alaska anyway. With the current administration I would suspect that if big oil thought they could make a big buck on it, it would be done regardless of tree huggers.

The 2006 Congress has been stopped dead at every turn by Dubya vetoes and Republican stonewalling at every attempt to override. Democrats are just short of being able to do so without some progressives from the GOP. Remember when progressives were permitted in the GOP? Thems wuz the days....Things look better for the country soon, I hope.

If either party had any real leaders, cars would be far more efficient and auto makers wouldn't be running the government.

I saw a few minutes of big oil before Congress. It's stunning. They could have rerun the tobacco company hearings from a few years ago. What bullshit from Exxon & friends.

Charlie
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
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Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by TomM on May 23rd, 2008, 12:23pm

on 05/21/08 at 21:05:36, Jonny wrote:
So I pull into a station on RT 9 and Abdula tells me "I only have super"......Well, for $25 I get six gallons of gas.....Six fucking gallons!!!.......I can burn that in my one ton in an hour, Christ!
I know this guy was bull shitting me, but what am I gonna do jump out and start spraying the regular hose?



on 05/22/08 at 00:32:20, Cathi_Pierce wrote:
P.S. I think Karma is simply suggesting a more "PC" approach in public forums like this.


Uhmmm, please. PC has gotten us NOWHERE; just ask any teacher.
I back Jonny on this one. I stopped going to the Mobil station down the road from me once I found out they were connected to one of the guys who trained at Freeway Airport [Bowie, MD] and flew a plane into the twin towers on September 11, 2001. So no, "those" folks do not get my business. Best way for me to pay them back is not to pay them at all.
And yes, nothing like raping us by saying "all I have is super". BS!
Of course, this is my opinion. I could be wrong.
TomM
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Jonny on May 23rd, 2008, 7:11pm

on 05/22/08 at 00:32:20, Cathi_Pierce wrote:
P.S. I think Karma is simply suggesting a more "PC" approach in public forums like this.


Me, PC?....As if....LMMFAO!!!!!  ;;D

PS. I would love to know where this " racist rant" comes from?
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Annette on May 23rd, 2008, 9:25pm

Does anybody know how much oil is there in Alaska and off shore of the USA ?

Is it worth drilling there ? or is it easier to convert drivers into bicyclers?

Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Jonny on May 23rd, 2008, 9:45pm
" Both USA Today and the AP wrote that "federal geologists" estimate the land holds between 5.4 billion and 16 billion barrels of recoverable oil, with the AP adding that the land set aside for drilling is "likely to hold about 11 billion barrels of recoverable oil.

Thats just in ANWR......drilling off the coast is much more than that.

Why are we the dogs of OPEC?
Title: Re: Ok, so im low on gas today..
Post by Annette on May 24th, 2008, 12:39am

Thanks Jonny.  :)

Well, I have to say why then do Americans pay an arm and a leg for oil to be imported while they are sitting on it right at home ?

Sure, there are issues to be considered such as disturbing wildlife and so on and so forth but I wouldnt think they cant be overcome.


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