PUMP # 6
Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on March 29, 2012 10:33 AM:
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on March 29, 2012 11:01 AM:
LOL!
It's an epidemic.
Posted by Todd Gill (Member # 2569) on March 29, 2012 01:29 PM:
Excellent! LOL.... how much did they get from you? They stole $4.09 per gallon from me.
Posted by Mike O'Neill (Member # 470) on March 29, 2012 03:25 PM:
lol... $1.54 a liter here for regular. Feel your pain
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on March 29, 2012 06:59 PM:
US 11 pr gallon and raising here
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on March 29, 2012 07:27 PM:
Time to "Drill Baby! Drill!"
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on March 29, 2012 07:53 PM:
I don't think we'll get much sympathy from the Europeans or Canadians......
Posted by Preston McCall (Member # 351) on March 29, 2012 08:04 PM:
Granted, I drive an old truck, but I get much better mileage at 40 mph than 50. I wish there was a way to stick it to the oil companies in terms of supply and demand. Here's an idea: what about some sort of facebook like site or app where when you're about to go on an errand or drive 20 miles in a direction, you post it at the site, then you can deliver an extra parcel or passenger to a destination along the way; thereby eliminating the fuel consumption of an extra vehicle. That alone isn't the idea that would bloody their nose, but with technology being what it is, ideas like this could be gathered and shared...
Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on March 29, 2012 09:27 PM:
James,
Demand in the US has dropped. This is why the US #1 export is *refined* fuel as demand in other developing nations increases.
Posted by stein Saether (Member # 430) on March 30, 2012 08:19 PM:
Energy is way too cheap:)
Posted by Dave Grundy (Member # 103) on March 30, 2012 10:01 PM:
Gas here in Mexico is running around 10 pesos/litre. Thinking about 85 cents a litre?
Compared to Ontario Canada at $1.35/ litre it is a bargain.
You USA guys will have to do the conversions!!! Posted by Erik Winkler (Member # 9040) on March 31, 2012 01:39 AM:
Eeuhm.... guys...?.... Here in Nederland it has the highest price in the world: double then what you pay!! :( Erik
Posted by Kevin Gaffney (Member # 4240) on March 31, 2012 02:50 PM:
Little sympathy here I'm afraid at about 9.20 per gallon
Posted by Dave Sherby (Member # 698) on April 01, 2012 07:36 PM:
Other countries have various taxes built into their gas prices which replace some taxes we pay separately here in the US. Not fair to compare one country to another. $4.07 a gallon in Upper Michigan.
Posted by Roy Frisby (Member # 736) on April 02, 2012 08:22 PM:
But, Europe and Ireland have something the U.S. does not have, a good rail system for mass transit and fewer cars.
Posted by Len Mort (Member # 7030) on April 02, 2012 10:44 PM:
I see on the news that Exxon has taken on a new name,PETROCHINA! How's that for America? You will not only get robbed at the pumps but raped as well. You don't see that on the main stream media.
Exxon was ESSO, Eastern States Standard Oil, how many other Standard oil Companies will be owned by foreign countries or powers?
Just wait till the shut off the spigot!
Posted by Teddy Carlsen (Member # 13012) on April 03, 2012 11:01 AM:
Other countries have various taxes built into their gas prices which replace some taxes we pay separately here in the US. Not fair to compare one country to another.
High gas prices doesn't mean other stuff i cheap.
1 gallon of gas 9$
Prize of new car(VW Golf) 40086 $
vat 25%
Income tax 40%
A sign painter starting out after education, makes 4300 $ per moth, including pension.
But, Europe and Ireland have something the U.S. does not have, a good rail system for mass transit and fewer cars.
550 out of 1000 own a car i Denmark.
Public transportation isn't all that good.
I live a 20 km drive, from where I work and it takes about 25 minutes by car, if I where to go there by bus it would take an hour and a half(at least) and cost 5$.
I live in the second largest city in Denmark.
Teddy
[ April 03, 2012, 11:25 AM: Message edited by: Teddy Carlsen ]
Posted by Tony Vickio (Member # 2265) on April 03, 2012 11:12 AM:
112 Octane, "Leaded" racing fuel for my Corvette = $8.70 per gallon! Gas station has it in a pump right along with the other grades! Just pull in and filler' up! Good thing I don't drive it a lot!!
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on April 04, 2012 07:41 AM:
Last night I saw it back below $4, ($3.97)Must be a gas war!
Posted by Blake Koehn (Member # 5984) on April 04, 2012 09:54 AM:
One thing about them other countries is that everything is pretty close. You don't have to burn much fuel. Granted I know I run several service vehicles, boom trucks pickups etc. But we do a lot of driving to get to the job... I burn 100+ gallons a week between gas and diesel. If I was paying $9 a gallon I would just quit. I might have to at $4 Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on April 04, 2012 06:25 PM:
Rick,
I keep coming out on the losing end of the gas wars here...
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on April 04, 2012 11:34 PM:
quote:Originally posted by Sonny Franks: I don't think we'll get much sympathy from the Europeans or Canadians......
LOL
Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on April 09, 2012 08:53 PM:
Simpsonville SC $3.47 gal These people must be desperate!
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on April 10, 2012 01:33 PM:
5 cents a gallon in Iraq, paid for by American taxpayers
Venezuela 12 cents a gallon
Puerto Rico 1.74 a gallon
and it goes through the roof from there
Posted by Erik Winkler (Member # 9040) on April 10, 2012 01:46 PM:
quote:Originally posted by Joey Madden: 5 cents a gallon in Iraq, paid for by American taxpayers
Venezuela 12 cents a gallon
Puerto Rico 1.74 a gallon
and it goes through the roof from there
Paid for by American taxpayers? Sorry but you have been misinformed. You meant that the oil trade from Iraq is stolen by Americans?
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on April 10, 2012 04:51 PM:
Erik, I'm just a laid back old hippie but read pretty much all I can and while surfing one day I read this. While Americans are shelling out record prices for fuel, Iraqis pay only about 5 cents a gallon for gasoline - a benefit of hundreds of millions of dollars subsidies bankrolled by American taxpayers.
Before the war, forecasters predicted that by invading Iraq and ousting Saddam Hussein, America would benefit from increased exports of oil from Iraq, which has the world's second largest petroleum reserves.
That would mean cheap gas for American motorists and a boost for the oil-dependent American economy.
Of course this really didn't go the way it was planned and the same goes for the former administration, but hey I really just go with the flow..
Posted by Erik Winkler (Member # 9040) on April 10, 2012 05:16 PM:
Joey, I can imagine that when their is oil with every spade that you put in to the ground. The price of that oil will be very cheap. For years Nederland was sitting on a huge gasbubble and sold it for too cheap to other countries. Within a few years this gasbubble is gone and we will be in a very painfull circumstance that we will not have any wothfull things to get out of our ground: oil, gas, metals, coal etc... Eventhough Irag is not my favourite country, I would advise them also to sell their oil(rights) exspensive to other countries as long as they still have it. The same goes for Venezuela. Still this will mean a big difference in whealth, which will lead to conflicts and eventualy war about oil rights. As long as we all know the organics of the market and the struggle to get thesev resources, we know how much pain every driven mile costs in human lifes... Now I sound like a hippie... and I like it. ;)
Erik
Posted by Erik Winkler (Member # 9040) on April 10, 2012 05:17 PM:
Joey, I can imagine that when their is oil with every spade that you put in to the ground. The price of that oil will be very cheap. For years Nederland was sitting on a huge gasbubble and sold it for too cheap to other countries. Within a few years this gasbubble is gone and we will be in a very painfull circumstance that we will not have any wothfull things to get out of our ground: oil, gas, metals, coal etc... Eventhough Irag is not my favourite country, I would advise them also to sell their oil(rights) exspensive to other countries as long as they still have it. The same goes for Venezuela. Still this will mean a big difference in whealth, which will lead to conflicts and eventualy war about oil rights. As long as we all know the organics of the market and the struggle to get thesev resources, we know how much pain every driven mile costs in human lifes... Now I sound like a hippie... and I like it. ;)
Erik
Posted by Don Coplen (Member # 127) on April 10, 2012 05:38 PM:
Bookmark and use this link to find the best and closest prices. Saves burning a dollar of gas to save a nickel sometimes.
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on April 11, 2012 01:19 PM:
And than there are the Speculators..
Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on April 17, 2012 08:31 PM:
unbelievable...Lowes Foods had a special today.Buy 4 boxes of general mills cereal and get ,20 cents of per gallon of gas at any Wilco/Hess gas station.Betsy bought 4 boxes...I bought 4 boxes,we get 40 cents off per gallon.It's 3.81,were are filling 2 vehicles @ 3.40 per gallon. I'm goin' back to pump 6
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on April 17, 2012 08:50 PM:
Albersons too has gas stations which do that here Bill. My dilemma is the ethanol or oxygenated gasoline is upwards of 10% which means we're actually paying top dollar for a maximum of 9/10 of a gallon of gasoline. Yet here in southern Oregon I but non ethanol gasoline in hi-test which brings the price to 4.80 but my hi horse power vehicles use it and before anyone jumps on me, my LT1 330 horse power and six speed manual trans 90 chevy truck get 27 and upwards in miles per gallon and cost me less than 10 grand to build..
Posted by Kelly Thorson (Member # 2958) on April 18, 2012 07:51 PM:
Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on April 18, 2012 08:33 PM:
Thats FUNNIE...funy...2 funee
Posted by Len Mort (Member # 7030) on April 18, 2012 09:15 PM:
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