Gas prices about to jump again

[Big A]

I put a thousand miles a year on my car, and get gas so infrequently, that I often pull up to the wrong side of the pump (car filler neck is on the opposite of my truck).

The increase sucks, especially for the couple roadtrips a year, but I won't fret too much.

I'd be interested to know the actual margins on each step of the refining process. I've read that the gas stations make very little, and I understand the increase due to additives, but the oil industry has us by the balls, and they know it.

I find it interesting that consumer technology as a whole is getting cheaper due to streamlined manufacturing, shipping, etc., yet they try to convince us that the cost to make gas is continually going up.

We as a nation HAVE to buy their product, and there's no alternative, so why not make excuses to gouge us?

[SEB]

I find it interesting that consumer technology as a whole is getting cheaper due to streamlined manufacturing, shipping, etc., yet they try to convince us that the cost to make gas is continually going up.

We as a nation HAVE to buy their product, and there's no alternative, so why not make excuses to gouge us?

Right! You cant tell me we can clone animals & have face to face video chat over a cell phone. But we cant get off oil! Yep if it smells like shit & looks like shit. It must be SHIT!

Im just wondering when these gas prices are going to come to a head in this country

[03trubluGT]

All I know is the shit is getting expensive & I dont see how people can afford to make Car payments & pay a mortgage & all the other bills in this world. I just wonder how long before it gets to $5.00 a gallon & see the consequences of the cost of fuel

The reason I sold my GT with the 1.7L Kenne Bell back in April of 2006 was because premium gas was $4.60/gal.

I'm not near as bad off as some, but when a gallon of gas costs the hourly minimum wage, you better watch out. Thieves will get theirs, at your expense.

Grapevine PD caught a guy drilling gas tanks recently. The cost of the repair is going to be outrageous, kinda like the scumbags that sawzall the converters off of SUVs.


Remember this little tidbit:

When I was in the Middle East for Desert Storm, gas was a NICKEL a gallon over there.

[Big A]

Right! You cant tell me we can clone animals & have face to face video chat over a cell phone. But we cant get off oil! Yep if it smells like shit & looks like shit. It must be SHIT!

Im just wondering when these gas prices are going to come to a head in this country

As an immediate step, I'd like to see more companies move towards a remote workforce, the daily commute to work is the majority of people's biggest gas guzzler.

It would be a huge blow to OPEC to cut rush hour traffic in half or better.

[Baron Von Crowder]

As an immediate step, I'd like to see more companies move towards a remote workforce, the daily commute to work is the majority of people's biggest gas guzzler.

It would be a huge blow to OPEC to cut rush hour traffic in half or better.

That would go three fold

Less people on the streets means less roadway repair
less risk of accident equating lower insurance rates
less people on the roadways causing conjestion so others get better mpg and use less fuel.

[Mr_Fiux]

You think shit is expensive? Just drove on the autobahn today going 210km/h uses a shitload of gas and im paying 8.06 a gallon. 1.72€ a liter for all dat can do maths. Still cheaper for me than to take the train. Also more fun : )

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[YALE]

Right! You cant tell me we can clone animals & have face to face video chat over a cell phone. But we cant get off oil! Yep if it smells like shit & looks like shit. It must be SHIT!

Im just wondering when these gas prices are going to come to a head in this country

We won't get off oil, and we'd be stupid to.

[Captain Crawfish]

He's going to kill you.

lmao!

[dmh165638]

Gas hasn't really been high enough yet to change how/what 90% of people drive. 5 years ago came close but once prices went down most were back to their same old habits. I have always been a truck person and always will be but haven't owned one in 7 years and probably won't for many years unless it's paid for and a 2nd vehicle. Nice to have all that extra money going toward other more important things.

[lowthreeohz]

I'm lucky enough to get a company truck and gas card and can take it home and use it locally for personal things.. i filled up my truck last month to go camping and will fill it up again before the end of this month..but i can't imagine having to foot the bill with prices as they are right now.

[Armedtrigger01]

Not so much anymore. One reason for the jump is the change in seasonal formula's. The additives the government now requires adds quite a bit to cost of refining gasoline and especially the added refinement for diesel.

I call bs on that. They say that every 6 months the gas jumps because we had to change the formula for the summer yet it doesn't go back down in the winter.... If the formula changed the price it would go up then back down not up then up then up.

[Sgt Beavis]

Ed Wallace noted on his site that gas futures jumped another 11 cents yesterday.

[Captain Crawfish]

Ed Wallace noted on his site that gas futures jumped another 11 cents yesterday.

because netanyahu basically said he was about to bomb iran back to the stone age! not with this clown of a hippie prez we have though. Im gonna go rent the movie " The Hunt for Red October"

[bcoop]

As an immediate step, I'd like to see more companies move towards a remote workforce, the daily commute to work is the majority of people's biggest gas guzzler.

It would be a huge blow to OPEC to cut rush hour traffic in half or better.

Most companies aren't going to foot the bill for Internet, home phone, etc.

[Vertnut]

I call bs on that. They say that every 6 months the gas jumps because we had to change the formula for the summer yet it doesn't go back down in the winter.... If the formula changed the price it would go up then back down not up then up then up.

Not saying it's the ONLY reason, but my wife works for a refiner, so I'm not talking out of my ass.