-------------------- Preston McCall 112 Rim Road Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501 text: 5056607370 Posts: 1552 | From: Santa Fe, New Mexico | Registered: Nov 1998
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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...
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Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for lunch, Benjamin Franklin Posts: 2057 | From: 1033 W. Union Valley Rd. | Registered: Feb 2003
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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!!!
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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. $4.07 a gallon in Upper Michigan.
-------------------- Dave Sherby "Sandman" SherWood Sign & Graphic Design Crystal Falls, MI 49920 906-875-6201 sherwoodsign@sbcglobal.net Posts: 5396 | From: Crystal Falls, MI USA | Registered: Apr 1999
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I see on the news that Exxon has taken on a new name,PETROCHINA! How's that for America? You will not only get robbed at the pumps but raped as well. You don't see that on the main stream media.
Exxon was ESSO, Eastern States Standard Oil, how many other Standard oil Companies will be owned by foreign countries or powers?
Just wait till the shut off the spigot!
-------------------- Len Mort Signmaker1.com 11 Juniper Drive Millbury, MA 508-865-2382 "A Good Business Sign, is A Sign of Good Business"(1957) Posts: 811 | From: Millbury, Ma | Registered: Dec 2006
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Other countries have various taxes built into their gas prices which replace some taxes we pay separately here in the US. Not fair to compare one country to another.
High gas prices doesn't mean other stuff i cheap.
1 gallon of gas 9$
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$.
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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!!
-------------------- Tony Vickio The World Famous Vickio Signs 3364 Rt.329 Watkins Glen, NY 14891 t30v@vickiosigns.com 607-535-6241 http://www.vickiosigns.com Posts: 1063 | From: Watkins Glen, New York | Registered: Sep 2001
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""Good judgment comes from experience; and a lot of that comes from bad judgment" - Will Rogers Posts: 3484 | From: Beautiful Newaygo, Michigan | Registered: Mar 2003
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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
quote:Originally posted by Sonny Franks: I don't think we'll get much sympathy from the Europeans or Canadians......
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Kelly Thorson Kel-T-Grafix 801 Main St. Holdfast, SK S0G 2H0 ktg@sasktel.net Posts: 5496 | From: Penzance, Saskatchewan | Registered: May 2002
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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..
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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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. ;)
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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. ;)
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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
-------------------- Bill Wood Bill Wood, Sign Artist 3628 Ogburn Ave., NE Winston-Salem, NC 27105-3752 336-682-5820 Posts: 397 | From: Winston-Salem, NC | Registered: May 2006
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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..
-------------------- HotLines Joey Madden - pinstriping since 1952 'Perfection, its what I look for and what I live for'
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