http://www.gasbuddy.com/ From previous unmentionable posts that will not die....I know some of you drive Saturns and others are just tickled pink with your VW's ou: Opps. Next time your looking for serious fuel and the majority here will be timing their trip from station to station. You might as well fill up at the cheapest one. I can't find a sobbing smiley. Check out the difference between Canadian and American fuel. Regular $1.00 @ litre, 3.785 to an American gallon = $3.78Cdn a gallon or $3.28 American. This is for regular. I've already been told to quit whining once today and I feel a whole bunch better. I feel so good I could almost buy a Saturn, almost. :ball: There you go!
You have to understand that America and Americans were raised with this stuff in their blood. Taking something like the price and shooting it way up is infringing on our God-given right to drive our gas-guzzling cars as much as we want. ou: To put it in perspective, imagine if they doubled the price of Canadian beer over the next two years!! :rant: :ball:
And the sad fact is that our politicians sold our "God given right" down the line for the last 20 years by not helping our counry produce alternatives to foreign imports , thus making our country dependant on other countrys for fuel when we could have been producing all we need internally years ago with Ethanol and such, but it was easier to accept money from foreigners to import and purchase their products, now we are all paying the price for that. And it was and is politicians from BOTH sides of the "isle" that did this, equal blame all the way around ! :blast: :rant: I just stay home now, watch the fields grow.... :boring:
Just think if they took the alcohol content of Canadian Molson and cut it back to meet American laws. That would be how it feels! :TU:
:Smarty: We can say what we feel about the price of gas. I just put $50 into my GS and it did not fill it. I look out the window at my wife driving up the street in our Blazer because she likes it better then our Neon (that you could drive to the moon for 40 cents!). But what makes the most sence to me is to see my kids drinking water in a bottle for a buck a pint! Enough said................. Mark
It wouldn't hurt so much if my income had gone up at the same % rate the last couple of years! Everytime I gas up now, I think back to '97 -'98 when gas was down to around .99 or less. Could put $10.00 in my Ford Ranger and darn near fill it. Now that was perfect!
Tell me about it, I'm making exactly $1 an hour more than when I started here Five years ago. Housing where I live? well the people we bought our house from bought it in 2000 for $150,000 Sold it to us in June of 2002 for $214,000 The house across the street went up for sale last week at $250,000 ou: How does that make any sense when AFTER taxes I'm making about $30 a week more than I was five years ago. Yet our director's Bonus last year was more than my salary. :moonu: Because the less he spends from the budget the more he gets to keep, That budget includes our supposed raises. I get a great review every year but the company has had a wage freeze on for almost three years now. Meanwhile my wife who is an x-ray tech gets a 4% cost of living every year PLUS her performance raises. Thank God for that!!!!!!!!!!! With four kids to take care of and one with a disability, then let's add the ex-wife and her decision to send My two with her to a Private school so she can squeeze a little more outta me :spank: Dang what was this thread about again. Oh I need to fix my Saturn.
They tell us that we have been paying too little for gas the last 20 years, and that when adjusted for inflation, we are paying less now than we did then. Well, I think that is a load fo B.S. Paying $1.20 - $1.30 per gallon back in the early 80's to fill my '66 Riviera didn't effect me as much as what I pay for it now. Granted, I didn't have a mortgage or other obligations back then, but I also only made $5.50 an hour working part time. And since there is ethanol in the gas today, I am not getting the bang for my buck (pardon the pun) with each gallon of gas as I did then. I think they should offset the poor mileage you get from ethanol blends by pricing ethanol laced gas cheaper. I know in some states like Iowa ethanol blends are a few cents cheaper, but not here in MN. Sorry, I digressed into a rant. :rant:
gas prices The oil companies are robbing us blind. There are oil wells all over this country that are capped off and not producing because the oil co. wants to keep the price high. The Alaska pipe line was supposed to solve the gas problem[ so we were told at the time] and the oil companies are giving us the fickle finger again. Any body that thinks there is a real genuine shortage of any kind is a fool........ Any 'shortage' is one that is artifically created by the oil companys. just like the first 'shortage' in the early 70s. :af: :af: :af: :af: :af: :af: :af: :af:
Real or imagined, there doesn't seem to be any immediate relief from these prices. There has been talk of $40 a barell crude in 2007. I wouldn't be surprised that demand from China doesn't counter-act this supposition. There are a number of issues that make the present situation different than the '70's. The increase in vehicles on the road and the increase in taxes. As previous posters have indicated its damned hard making ends meet now; these prices will eventually wind there way into everthing that is purchased. All we need is to have another round of inflation and higher interest rates. We pay our polticians big bucks to come up with legitimate plans for these situations. Unfortunately, all they can come up with is higher taxes. I'll get on to the brewery and demand they make the beer strong enough to run in our cars. Cheers! :beer
What gets me is the weekend thing, $0.98/liter Wednesday, today $1.06, by the middle of the week it will be back down again... :af:
Yes, the oil companies have uncle Sam and the American people by the balls. I am waiting for the e-85 to come, I dont care if I wont get as much mileage, that can be offset by ethanol turobchargers. (Saab has a turocharged, ethanol version of their 9-3 that gets about 130 hp on just regular gas, but with ethanol, it goes up to 185-190hp) Hey I admit, I drive a '94 saturn sc1, and I love it to death. It may not be the coolest car, abeit the fastest, but it does have good get up for a four banger and good mileage. What scares me though, is the thought of losing it, and only having my '76 Skylark as a daily driver. You see, my parents aren't too thrilled with the idea of when I move to Wyoming, to attend Wyotech, that I take both the sat and the 'lark( I keep telling them that having two cars makes you look important, but alas, they do not follow my logic.) and I can't do anything about it since the sat is still my Dad's name. With my hours being cut at work, I am already having to spend half my paycheck on gas, and as for the 'lark, it still awaiting an engine. So in short, e-85, hell, even propane is looking good to me right now.
In the middle of the week i was watching the news and they said the CEO of exxon made $190,000 a day last year. Not a year but a day. Wonder why the prices are so high!!!
Corporate America Bottom line management, :af: greed, corporate bastards :blast: dont care who or what they are, nobody on the planet is worth that salary. We are termed as the CONSUMER, that is all we are to corporate America. The CONSUMER ultimately pays for these select few rich a##holes salaries. Thats right we are not PEOPLE to them we are the CONSUMER, and the CONSUMER always pays the price while corporate America sits in their ivory towers and smiles. They dont give a rats ass about the PEOPLE. They dont give a damn about what is good for the COUNTRY, all they care about is their RECORD PROFITS, GROWTH, and the BOTTOM LINE :rant: I dont know when, but there will be a day of reckoning for this type of GREED. Between this type of attitude and these jerks selling off our country to the foreigners, I am afraid of what will happen to our country in the future. OK enough, I could go on the rest of the day, but I have other stuff to attend to. Have a great day!!! :TU: :TU: :laugh:
GAs prices Mike, you are right on. We are told that "the market" is driving prices. :rant: HOGWASH. :rant: Corporate greed on every level is driving prices. :rant:
Anybody realize that we have had gasahol for more than 20 years but now everyone ( congress) is yelling the praises of it . Too bad that EPA decided to mandate MTBE that raised the cost of gas 25 to 35cents per gallon then they find out that its polluting the ground water . Did they immediatly ban it ? NO! They gave the oil companies 3 years of using it so they could ralize a good profit . As soon as it was implemented I lost 3 mpg . Now they want E85 mandate it and see what happens gas goes up almost 75 cents . There aren't enough distilleries they say Umm could this be a new program that will make the oil companies richer . The people need to do something . I say lets do this Every month we pick a company to boycott , This week maybe BP stop buying their gas for 1 month if everyone did this they could feel a pinch . Then move on the Exxon Mobil . If anyone can ride the bus to work , buy a bicycle, drive a motorcycle do it . save as much gas as we can . Car pool . Convert your race car to alcahol. We are letting the oil companies and foreign countries stick it i and break it off . I believe that they are also getting help from our big poil companies and politicians . Just my .02
You know I wish that would work, but unfortunately, it wont. There's too few of us who will boycott, either because public transportation is extremely primitive, which just so happens to be my case (I live in a rich suburb of houston, and we can't get PubTrans, so everyone continues to drive their hummers and such. :af: ) or just dont care enough about it because they are too incompetent to realize that the oil companies control us. I guess the only way we really could make a difference is to contact our governors and keep pushing for advancements in biodiesel and such in our own respective states. Its a longshot, but still possible.
