Anyone bored?
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you should hang onto that full tank of gas... you may regret burning it all when gas prices switch from dollars to arms/legs/testicles per gallon
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Gas prices should be going down soon, the refineries are coming back on line this week in the gulf.
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Well a V8 doesnt help on gas very much, it takes $20 bucks to get a 1/4 tank tank about shitty gas milage( that last about 2-3 days if I don't drive around)
1975 Trans am 455 8.99 @158mph (What now fallguy)
1987 CRSEX W/Fucking VVVVVVVVV-TEC (But is now sitting in a junk yard cuz I blew it up......Ooops!!)
2001 cr125 (Faster Than LoveMachines Bike)
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so is that 2-3 days if it sits and the gas just evaporates?
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tjamz wrote:
Gas prices should be going down soon, the refineries are coming back on line this week in the gulf.
will it? or is this just going to be one of those things where the prices stay high because the oil companies will make up some excuse about having to make up revenue from when they were eating $.0000x/gallon?personally, i think the idea that any should expect to make money off of something that is necessary for almost the entire population is silly. i think it would be a good idea for the govt to step in and say that 87octane will sell for $x.xxx/gallon, period. let the companies buying oil overseas and the refineries figure out how to work the costs/pricing up and down the chain. it's like walmart saying that they want a separate issue of magazines a-k because they don't like some of the images and language used in the issues sold in other stores. we have the power, BUT we don't use it because we might offend someone...
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eastern oil companies just gave the us something like 100 million barrels correct? I could see the cost staying high to make up for their oh so generous donation...
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out there wrote:
will it? or is this just going to be one of those things where the prices stay high because the oil companies will make up some excuse about having to make up revenue from when they were eating $.0000x/gallon?personally, i think the idea that any should expect to make money off of something that is necessary for almost the entire population is silly. i think it would be a good idea for the govt to step in and say that 87octane will sell for $x.xxx/gallon, period. let the companies buying oil overseas and the refineries figure out how to work the costs/pricing up and down the chain. it's like walmart saying that they want a separate issue of magazines a-k because they don't like some of the images and language used in the issues sold in other stores. we have the power, BUT we don't use it because we might offend someone...
/rantYou really, really, do not want that to happen. Right now, the governement does have some control over gas prices. If you owned a gas station, you could not set your gas price a dollar or two over the prices of the general market. Nor could you set it a dollar or two under the prices of the general market. The government has a light regulation on gas stations. If the government had full control, all it would take is some lobbying by some special interest tree hugging groups, and god knows what we would be paying for gas. With the existing price you pay already, you would be surprised how much of that is tax.
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Stormwalker wrote:
You really, really, do not want that to happen. Right now, the governement does have some control over gas prices. If you owned a gas station, you could not set your gas price a dollar or two over the prices of the general market. Nor could you set it a dollar or two under the prices of the general market. The government has a light regulation on gas stations. If the government had full control, all it would take is some lobbying by some special interest tree hugging groups, and god knows what we would be paying for gas. With the existing price you pay already, you would be surprised how much of that is tax.yea.. a barrel is 4 bucks? turned straight into 74 by the time it hits us shores?
I am not exactly sure where I heard that number but it was on a newscast.
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to be fair, I was talking with a Tesoro station owner here in town last week. He informed me (and showed me the receipt) where he bought gas for $3.15 a gallon but was still selling at $3.00 per gallon because he accidentally bought during a surge in pricing but needed to sell the fuel anyway. So you can't really blame the station owners. He told me he makes on average $.10 per gallon.
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tjamz wrote:
to be fair, I was talking with a Tesoro station owner here in town last week. He informed me (and showed me the receipt) where he bought gas for $3.15 a gallon but was still selling at $3.00 per gallon because he accidentally bought during a surge in pricing but needed to sell the fuel anyway. So you can't really blame the station owners. He told me he makes on average $.10 per gallon.Gas Station owners should not be held responsible for anything. They still have to make their profit somehow.
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92BlackTT wrote:
yea.. a barrel is 4 bucks? turned straight into 74 by the time it hits us shores?I am not exactly sure where I heard that number but it was on a newscast.
Gas in Venezuala is $.15 gallon but we refuse to deal with that country yet we have no problem dealing with Communist China on all of our commodities...They say the leader of Venezuala is a ruthless dictator, but does anyone remember Tiananmen Square in 1989? Seems like typical right wing hypocracy to me. Tell me this, what the hell is Venezuala going to hurt but selling us fuel (yes, I know, we get a small amount from them, but they've offered much much more if we are willing to buy it). Same thing goes for Cuba. Not that we'd get much oil from them, but Castro isn't exactly a huge threat to our country, why don't we sell more goods to them? We sold/traded more commodities to Saddam Hussein during the 90's than we did with Fidel Castro.
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Stormwalker wrote:
You really, really, do not want that to happen... If the government had full control, all it would take is some lobbying by some special interest tree hugging groups, and god knows what we would be paying for gas...
i suppose i should have prefaced it with something like "in an optimal existence"
the idea is, we consume far more oil per capita than any other country, so that gives us some clout. with said clout, we should be bullying our way into lower prices. the us govt knows that they can't let gas go up over $4 or $5/gallon because of the way the nation works. if costs did go up that high, there would be a much larger difference between the upper class and everyone else. why? the public transit isn't exactly great here, so almost everyone needs to drive. with gasoline at $6-10/gallon, there would be a MASSIVE recession, and our consumer driven economy would fall on it's face because no one would be able to buy anything anymore (very nearly anyway). i could spend more time on this, but i think chuck will get my back here; and if not, it will give you all something to keep you tossing and turning into the wee hours -
out there wrote:
i could spend more time on this, but i think chuck will get my back hereYou know me, any political argument will get my left wing mind moving :p. But like you said, all other things would have to be perfect as well for this to work. I really don't like the idea of an even bigger gov't. What we really need is one of the major gas suppliers to become the walmart of the oil industry....know EXACTLY what it costs to get the oil here and then demand that they sell at just barely above that mark...and then the next year demand that they sell for less.
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Ya i heard that the stations dont get to choose prices exactly. It has to do with govt stuff. For instance i heard that it is illegal to sell gas say 30 cents under everyone else. dont ask why cuz the station owner would be the one losing money probably making in the long run. i remember when my sister who is almost 22 first got her license and gas was like 79 cents gallon. WTF happened. My mom said when she was my age and her first car she could fill it for less then what a 1/4 cost me in my 1st gen dsm. She had an old old school civic 2dr nicknamed "The Marshmellow" LOL
Matt
92 Civic HB
JDM d15b w/14b@8psi
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krzydrftr93 wrote:
Ya i heard that the stations dont get to choose prices exactly. It has to do with govt stuff. For instance i heard that it is illegal to sell gas say 30 cents under everyone else. dont ask why cuz the station owner would be the one losing money probably making in the long run. i remember when my sister who is almost 22 first got her license and gas was like 79 cents gallon. WTF happened. My mom said when she was my age and her first car she could fill it for less then what a 1/4 cost me in my 1st gen dsm. She had an old old school civic 2dr nicknamed "The Marshmellow" LOLTime for some corrections here.
It is not illegal for a station to sell for $.30 less than everyone else. There was legislation on the table in ND to prevent Walmart from taking such measures but I don't believe it passed.
If your sister is 22 she got her license at most 8 years ago (1997) if in ND, and 6 years ago (1999) if in MN. I can assure you that gas prices were higher than $.79 at that point in time http://www.eia.doe.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/wrgp/mogas_history.html has a bit more info (I don't have Excel on my PC right now or I'd post exact prices....I may be wrong.)
The lowest I can remember the price of gas being since the first Gulf War is $.89 on August 4, 2001....and that was a promotional deal in Sykeston, ND...Pepsi was sponsoring a temporary extremely cheap gas day on the day of my Bachelor Party. I believe the average price at that time was about $1.29. To be honest I don't really remember gas prices being below $1.00 (for any period of time) since about 91 or so.
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sorry the selling for cheaper is just what i heard but wasnt sure about it and i thought gas was that cheap then. Maybe it just seems that much cheaper cuz it is somewhat high right now. Sorry for the incorrect info dude
Matt
92 Civic HB
JDM d15b w/14b@8psi
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