Steamed up my afternoon

[jjirons69]

Originally Posted by awsmith4

How cool would it be to have Natural Gas cars that you could fill up off your house!

Fiber One bars would get me to work and back.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by Coach Deg

Was out of town this weekend paid $3.89. Went to the marina today to start up the boat!!!!!!!!! $5.10 at the marina!!!!!!! I need a trailer!!!!!

THAT is why I can't ever see myself owning a boat that I Ican't trailer!

I got off easy today, I only had to fill up 1/2 tank in the truck, it was only $60. I pais $3.79, the station a block up was raising thier price from 3.79 to 3.93. Argh!

[Kinky_yk]

$4.00 a gallon, I remember the times....
Where I live in a fairly remote city in Northern Canada we paying $5.26 a gallon, looking back (a few years now) $4 a gallon was like a vacation. Oh and by the way if anybody says that when the prices go up they'll drive less, walk more, buy a more efficient car, etc, etc, they are lying to you and themselves. Our prices are most likely going to increase by about 20% (local politics) in the next year and it hasn't - and won't - change anybodies habits, we're kinda stubborn that way.

[E.J.]

At least it is getting warm enough that I get to ride my bike to work.... It isn't so much the savings from not driving(though that is a nice side bonus), I enjoy the process and getting my exercise at the same time is nice....

[357]

Price went down to $4.00, then the next day the same gas station had it at $4.29. OVERNIGHT.

[kydsid]

A tank of gas equals a box of cigars for me now.

[macpappy]

I'm old. I would "help" out around a local gas station when I was in the 8th grade and their was a price war. We were selling gas for 26¢ a gallon.

I'm not trying to start a political fight but if Washington would stop bending over and kissing the environmentalists butts for votes, then we could start drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico again. Don't tell me about the oil spill. I live just outside of New Orleans and I know what it did. I also know that the last major oil rig problem that affected the gulf was in 1979. That's a pretty good track record for drilling safety if you ask me.

I'll stop now before I start ranting.

[awsmith4]

Originally Posted by jjirons69

Fiber One bars would get me to work and back.

[D. Generate]

I spent a week and a half visiting family in Reno and paid $4.00 a gallon. In London it's £1.35 a litre, or almost $8.90 a gallon.

I'm fortunate in that living and working in London, I can ride a bicycle anywhere I need to go. Public transport is an option but it's not always reliable and certainly not pleasant. A one month oyster card is £106.

I love riding, I love bikes. I know it's not feasible for everyone, particularly in the States, but relying on oil for transport isn't either.

[Sled Dog]

Cost me over $10 to fill up my little plastic jug I use for the lawn mower.... not cool.

[kaisersozei]

Originally Posted by macpappy

I'm not trying to start a political fight but if Washington would stop bending over and kissing the environmentalists butts for votes, then we could start drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico again. Don't tell me about the oil spill. I live just outside of New Orleans and I know what it did. I also know that the last major oil rig problem that affected the gulf was in 1979. That's a pretty good track record for drilling safety if you ask me.

Yup, and there's a lot more "non-deep water" space off our coasts where we ought to be drilling. Might not bring the price down immediately, but we'll all still be driving 5-10 years from now and I don't want to deal with these prices for that long.

[357]

Originally Posted by kaisersozei

Yup, and there's a lot more "non-deep water" space off our coasts where we ought to be drilling. Might not bring the price down immediately, but we'll all still be driving 5-10 years from now and I don't want to deal with these prices for that long.

Amen, and had the drilling in the Gulf been closer to shore in shallow water, that spill would have been capped in 1/4 the time.

[OLS]

The day the uprising first broke in Tunisia, some 4 months ago, I traded my truck for a tiny-a$$
Chevy Cruze. I thought, "Hmm, this is going to spread fast, and if it gets to Sau.Ara., look out." Well
as usual, I prove to be eerily good at predicting bad. Granted, it was getting time to either fix the
niggling little broke crap and change the Serp. belt or go new vehicle anyway, but....
So my fillup only recently passed what my truck USED to take at the old price. But Chevy lied, it doesn't
even sniff 39 mpg. Of course, I drive like a maniac. But I digress.
1.) STOP ALLOWING speculation on oil futures.
2.) take back all subsidies
3.) get the F OUT of the middle east.
After these three things are done, there will be precious little else we can do about it and we'd better
strap in for the long haul. As long as a gallon of "biofuel" takes way more energy to to produce than it
replaces, we might as well be Vietnam and all be on bikes.

I wish more people drove tiny cars, walked, pedaled or solared there way around. That would leave more, cheaper fuel for me.


Unfortunately, as long as the middle-ages-east is part of the world, we're stuck in it with them.

[Steve]

Saw one of these last weekend a little north of town



And I thought it was bad filling up my 250!

[kydsid]

^forget the cost of diesel for that thing. Imagine what the cost of AT tires that big is

[357]

Thing is the "fixes" being sold to us aren't what the public wants. Americans like big comfortable cars/SUVs/trucks. We don't want to be shoehorned into a tin can and risk our lives just to cut our gas price down by 30%. Americans want to be comfortable and be able to haul their family (and their crap) around without costing an arm an a leg. Last time gas was over $4 and went back down, the first thing that hit the skids was hybrid sales. Go figure. You'll never get the extra $3-5000 back from a hybrid unless gas is over $4 consistently for 5 years.

Brad I think you're right to an extent. Speculation on oil futures needs to go. Let the market dictate the price, not speculators or some production group strangling us like OPEC.

Speculators are the market. All commodities are future traded.
I agree that OPEC is a cartel and should be illegal.

[jjirons69]

Oil prices plunged more than 8% Thursday as weak economic data and a strengthening dollar drove crude to its biggest one-day drop since April 2009.

The main U.S. oil contract for June delivery settled down $9.44, or 8.6%, to $99.80 a barrel. That's its lowest level since mid-March and marks its biggest one-day percentage drop in two years. Brent crude, the European benchmark, fell $10.73 to $110.46 a barrel.

The drop hasn't translated into lower gasoline prices though. The national average price for a gallon of gasoline rose for the forty-fourth straight day to $3.985 on Thursday, according to motorist group AAA.

Lower crude prices usually translate into lower gasoline prices, but the effect is delayed.

[mhailey]

Originally Posted by BC-Axeman

Speculators are the market. All commodities are future traded.
I agree that OPEC is a cartel and should be illegal.

Speculators are what drive the oil business. There is nothing wrong with speculators. Every investor (no matter what the investment), is a speculator.