Once this Hurricane takes out a few oil platforms in the Gulf, prices will go through the roof!!! So hit the pumps today or you will need to hit a 10 team parlay to do it later this week. :cursin:
Peace,
ll
Peace,
ll
Fill up your Gas Tank Today!!!l
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I was thinking the same thing, but the price of oil is already so inflated that it's hard to think this will make a difference.
Nothing personal, but I hope your wrong.
Nothing personal, but I hope your wrong.
There are about 5000 oil platforms in the path of this hurricane, the oil companies just a look for away to stick it to us, well they will have found a big one with this. Hope i'm wrong to, but don't think so.
Peace,
ll
Peace,
ll
loungelizard said:
Yea, thats the wild card here, and your right, every time they have a reason to raise the price a penny we get hit with ten cents, go figure.
I hate to go political here, and I really won't, but with oil companies showing recored profits recently how did Bush's new energy bill give them 4 BILLION in tax breaks and why didn't the price at least stabalize a bit?
Mayor of NO said they are 25% of country's gasoline supply and to look for a dollar minimum $3.50 to $4.50 per.
Ugh, not another the man is ripping us off thread. Not to go political either, but people in this country think we have it so hard with gas prices. We still pay a buck a gallon less than we did throughout the 80s adjusted for inflation. We still pay half, or LESS, what they do in Europe, where gas at $6+ a gallon is not uncommon. We got so spoiled and used to our ridiculously cheap gas at $1.20, $1.30 a gallon, we ran out and bought trucks and SUVs and Hummers and think that cheap gas is our birthright, maybe our arrogance has finally got up to us.
Though just having bought a Z with a thirsty V6 and a 20 gallon tank, its not like I'm a hypocrit in favor of high gas prices. I take mass transit to work most of the time. But I feel the same way about booze or liquor or anything else thats sin taxed, I have no problem with it. If gas was $20 a gallon, different story.
Though just having bought a Z with a thirsty V6 and a 20 gallon tank, its not like I'm a hypocrit in favor of high gas prices. I take mass transit to work most of the time. But I feel the same way about booze or liquor or anything else thats sin taxed, I have no problem with it. If gas was $20 a gallon, different story.
Who gives a flyin' fukc what they pay in Europe? They pay a nickel in the sandbox countries......that has nothing to do with the U.S.
Also, we are at an all time high, adjusted for inflation even, from anything I've read.
Also, we are at an all time high, adjusted for inflation even, from anything I've read.
I'm all for high gas prices. We've been asking for it the last couple decades. Gouge away. I hope none of the people surprised at the $4 billion handout aka Bush's "Energy Bill" (such a funny name for what it is, kinda like 'Clear Skies' initiative) actually voted for him. I'm actually surprised he waited this long to give our money to his buddies.
We have some awfully big wakeup calls coming. One of them appears to be this bitch swimming through the Gulf of Mexico. I'm praying for the Big Easy.
We have some awfully big wakeup calls coming. One of them appears to be this bitch swimming through the Gulf of Mexico. I'm praying for the Big Easy.
OilStorm
OilStorm
did anyone else see this FX movie a couple of months ago? Incredible stuff, all about hurricane hitting LA and a series of events that follow drive gas to over $7 a gallon. A year later people in the movie are happy with $4.50 a gallon!
I am of the conclusion that up to $4 we will pay and just stop or curb spending in other areas[movies, dvd, dinner out, clothes, vacations,etc]. Over $4.00 and you might see the next president elected based on "what are you going to do about inflation" and not "when are we getting out of Iraq"
I know a new home sales agent here in Las Vegas, drives a Hummer to work and last week was dropping $200 a week on gas.....
OilStorm
did anyone else see this FX movie a couple of months ago? Incredible stuff, all about hurricane hitting LA and a series of events that follow drive gas to over $7 a gallon. A year later people in the movie are happy with $4.50 a gallon!
I am of the conclusion that up to $4 we will pay and just stop or curb spending in other areas[movies, dvd, dinner out, clothes, vacations,etc]. Over $4.00 and you might see the next president elected based on "what are you going to do about inflation" and not "when are we getting out of Iraq"
I know a new home sales agent here in Las Vegas, drives a Hummer to work and last week was dropping $200 a week on gas.....
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Loungelizard,
Good to see where your priorities are. Yeah, get that one last tank of gas at the current level. People dying, people whose lives will change forever, a city possibly destroyed and billions of dollars in catastrophe spread over God knows how many states. Fill 'er up!
Good to see where your priorities are. Yeah, get that one last tank of gas at the current level. People dying, people whose lives will change forever, a city possibly destroyed and billions of dollars in catastrophe spread over God knows how many states. Fill 'er up!
Kosar,
Just so you know I'm an active member of the American Red Cross (Greater Ozarks Chapter) and will be leaving for the New Orleans area Tuesday for 10 days, my thoughts are certainly with the people affected by this storm, my post was just a heads up to fill up while you still can afford it. I will look for you Tuesday night or Wednesday in the Big Easy.
Peace,
ll
Just so you know I'm an active member of the American Red Cross (Greater Ozarks Chapter) and will be leaving for the New Orleans area Tuesday for 10 days, my thoughts are certainly with the people affected by this storm, my post was just a heads up to fill up while you still can afford it. I will look for you Tuesday night or Wednesday in the Big Easy.
Peace,
ll
Kosar
Kosar
chill a little. A seperate thread was created to discuss this. I saw "what's going to happen to the stock market" threads on the net an hour after the second trade center fell. I didnt get angry, I understood where the thought was coming from. Having said that, I am sure almost all of us will have the people on the gulf coast on our minds and in our prayers[if you pray] today, tonight and in the future.
Someone already posted "how will effect football games" thread on another site.....human nature is "how does this effect ME".....the world will never change in that way...
Kosar
chill a little. A seperate thread was created to discuss this. I saw "what's going to happen to the stock market" threads on the net an hour after the second trade center fell. I didnt get angry, I understood where the thought was coming from. Having said that, I am sure almost all of us will have the people on the gulf coast on our minds and in our prayers[if you pray] today, tonight and in the future.
Someone already posted "how will effect football games" thread on another site.....human nature is "how does this effect ME".....the world will never change in that way...
loungelizard said:
That's great and I applaud you. The Greater Ozarks Chapter, huh? Ok.
'Fill up while you can still afford it?' Let's say the average tank around the country has, by definition, one half tank left currently in their car. Average tank of 16 gallons.
Let's also say that the price rises 10c tomorrow. That would save the average driver 80 cents if they rush to the station. Thanks.
This is what I dont understand at all. I have friends who will drive across town to save a dime a gallon, I guess, because it makes them feel good. Thats a whopping $1.50 or so in savings. Sorry, but its not worth the 45 minute drive to me to do that. Do I like paying $60 to fill up my tank? Nope. But it is what it is. If everyone in this country was so worried about gas supplies and oil reserves and the environment, you would all drive Priuses or Honda Civics or ride your bike to work. But you all, and I include myself, drive big ass trucks and things that take a lot of petrol. We thought, hey $1.25 is cheap as hell, I can afford this SUV that gets 15mpg. This country has/had a wakeup call coming in terms of its oil consumption for a long time now.kosar said:
If it doesnt come now its going to come soon. Wake up and look at China. A billion people driving thousands more cars every day and an industrial base starving for energy. Sooner than later they are going to succeed in buying some bigtime oil companies, and *that* is really going to affect the supply.
Take this into consideration. Coming from my uncle, who just left New Orleans this afternoon, that anyone having plans for staying at the Superdome (which I would guess is a signifigant #), please leave all pets at the residence because they would not be allowed there. I have all the compassion in the world for the victims of this brutal storm, but that right there broke my heart.
That is horrible about the pets. There were actually a couple of commercials on this, not sure the source, but about leaving your pets lose and unchained or uncaged at home because more pets die because they are caged up and cant get out. Just horrible.
