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I paid $2.75 yesterday here in Mich.
I just went to fill up my tank @ S And the cheapest was $2.65 It seems like It's going up every day
If I didn't live so far from work I would be taking my bike
I feel for my friends who drive trucks, they say It takes about $42.00-$45.00 dollars to fill up their tank...
I paid $2.75 yesterday here in Mich.
I filled up my tank with $32.00 dollars a litte while ago. There goes my pedicure
Yep, it costs us over $40 a fill-up, and we have to do that several times a week. I can't wait until John starts working in San Antonio again!
LOL, that's certainly what it feels like!
I got gas today for $2.54 and I guess that is a good deal.
HEB on Jackson Keller and West Ave.
It is said to be up to $3.00/gal by summertime.
and meanwhile, exxon passes wal mart as the top moneymaking corporation. coincidence?
It was a sad day when it took $30 to fill up the tank in my Civic right after Katrina, and it looks like the days of wallet-robbery are back. The amount of profit petroleum companies are making is absolutely ridiculous.
I just filled up my gas can so I could use my leaf blower. For $6.15. And it's a little can.
Bas s are laughing all the way to the bank.
its 62 dollars to fill up my truck, and thats about a weeks worth of gas
its 62 dollars to fill up my truck, and thats about a weeks worth of gas
That's a pedicure and a new nail set for me
at that price its alot more than 45 for a truck. last july, when i still had a truck and gas was around 2.30ish it cost me over 50, almost 60.
now i drive a small car and it still costs me over 40, but i have to use premium now.
The lesson to be learned in this thread is to go invest in Exxon.
Do you know what the average price for a gallon of gasoline was on the day that George W. Bush was sworn into office the first time?
$1.37 - national average. I'm ardently against Bush, but I was simply using that as a recent benchmark here, not an insinuation of his family's investments in the Saudi-based Carlysle Group.
Last summer, at the height of the energy consumption of vacationers and the Katrina problems, it peaked at $3.12 a gallon. The state's governor threatened an investigation and the raising of taxes for selling oil in Michigan if the companies didn't get it below $3.00. We are sixty cents away from that threshold of last summer. I am for alternative fuels and I believe that in order for the United States to survive it needs to simplify its relationship with Middle Eastern countries while simultaneously keeping the US at the forefront of discovery and innovation. In order for the US to maintain its place as compe ion grows for cheaper labor and more demand on resources including oil, it must be the priority of every American to be at the forefront of innovation, and that leads to needing a better school system, but I digress.
Teaching the world to be independant from oil is the best, most obvious area of development - it's our space race. I believe that higher gas prices help sour the addiction and spur this development. But when the minimum wage is $5.15 per hour, and half of that hourly wage is going into the gas tank, in the short run it is hurting the American economy, and the middle class. Habits are going to start changing soon; they already have in my family.
Retail outlets will be doing worse and worse while online shopping and wireless connnections explode. More and more people will carpool to work or look closer to home for their jobs; people moving closer to their work or not accepting a position downtown when they live in the suburbs. This is making predictable habits unpredictable, and therefore, this will shake consumer confidence in the economy because the old indicators may signal a stagnant economy.
Oil is as bad for this country as cigarettes are to the human body. We need to get off of it and that means not only gas stations and furnaces, but the plastics that make up this computer that I am typing on right now.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ Awesome!
That's why I didn't vote for zipper mouth (Bush )
San Antonio represents an urban design that rapes the consumer.
Ask yourself, how many miles do you (and your spouse) drive, weekly.
There was an interview with a former president of Brazil on NPR the other day that talked a lot about US dependence on oil. Apparently in Brazil all of their vehicles have to be flex-fuel and they use ethanol from the sugarcane they grow - so while they are breaking away from oil dependence they are also supporting their own economy. Sugarcane ethanol is also superior to ethanol from corn - but surprise! the US will not allow them to sell their ethanol here.
Rooks. Try living in California.
Just filled up my car for $50. $3.19/gallon.
My trick is to invest in oil companies to get my money back.
Yea it's high. It's going to be 4 bucks by end of next year.
On the planet as a whole so many new cars are rolling. Every pimple faced teen on earth wants a pimped ride.
Please don't degerate this thread into a Bush bash. There are bout 10,000 threads on Bush and oil in politics. Keep the mud slinging off the bar.
This club should smell like beer and fun not in stinkin politics.
It's more complicated than that. That is hard on engines too. Plus we make Ethanol here in US from corn. Transporting it from Brazil? I don't know...
If we want to do sugarcane Hawaii would be involved too.
Ethanol has to be transported by truck or rail cars. Pipe lines can not be used. Ethanol draws in moisture and to much makes it worthless.
We do not want ethanol fuel in SA!
Ethanol is incpmatible with certain elastomers which typically are used in U.S. engines.
The use of different elastomers is the only difference in a "flex-fuel" engine.
is there any particular "reason" for gas going back up
i mean first they wre trying to say bc were at war, then it was the hurricanes, then the shortage bc of the hurricanes.
doesnt seem like theyre even trying to justify it anymore.
i would seriously kill the execs of the big oil companies if it meant they would stop raping the whole country. this is getting ridiculous
and what really pisses me off is when they try to justify it by comparing it to other countries gas prices. i dont give a what england pays for gas or any othe rcountry, except for the fact that iraq pays for gas what our grandparents did when they were teenagers.
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