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Post#676 at 08-26-2008 11:49 PM by sean '90 [at joined Jul 2007 #posts 1,625]
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Gas prces are up again! You may thank Hurricane Gustav while you're being screwed by the gas pump!







Post#677 at 08-30-2008 02:36 AM by Dave 89 [at joined Aug 2007 #posts 440]
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Quote Originally Posted by sean '90 View Post
Gas prces are up again! You may thank Hurricane Gustav while you're being screwed by the gas pump!
Yup those fucking pigs who run the oil company's like to screw us over! Gas should be like $2 a gallon enough with the China as booming bullshit. It shouldn't cause gas prices to go from like $1 to $3.69 a gallon.







Post#678 at 08-30-2008 02:42 AM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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Quote Originally Posted by Dave 89 View Post
Yup those fucking pigs who run the oil company's like to screw us over! Gas should be like $2 a gallon enough with the China as booming bullshit. It shouldn't cause gas prices to go from like $1 to $3.69 a gallon.
But what are you really trying to say?
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Post#679 at 08-30-2008 02:52 AM by Dave 89 [at joined Aug 2007 #posts 440]
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Quote Originally Posted by Zarathustra View Post
But what are you really trying to say?
That oil companys are a bunch of fucking pigs who find ANY excuse to fucking raise prices.







Post#680 at 09-24-2008 06:07 PM by jamesdglick [at Clarksville, TN joined Mar 2007 #posts 2,007]
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Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon.

Quote Originally Posted by Dave 89 View Post
Yup those fucking pigs who run the oil company's like to screw us over! Gas should be like $2 a gallon enough with the China as booming bullshit. It shouldn't cause gas prices to go from like $1 to $3.69 a gallon.
-Then stop buying it. Oil companies only make money when you BUY it.







Post#681 at 09-24-2008 06:55 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post
Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon.



-Then stop buying it. Oil companies only make money when you BUY it.
Right. Same with electricity, heat, water, and groceries.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."

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Post#682 at 09-24-2008 08:35 PM by Dave 89 [at joined Aug 2007 #posts 440]
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post
Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon.



-Then stop buying it. Oil companies only make money when you BUY it.
Thing is I need to buy oil sadly, to do things like get to work, school, friends partys, and so on.







Post#683 at 09-25-2008 05:36 PM by jamesdglick [at Clarksville, TN joined Mar 2007 #posts 2,007]
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Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger View Post
Right. Same with electricity, heat, water, and groceries...
-On one of the X'er threads, I thought you said you were working on becoming self-reliant. Tsk, Tsk. Backsliding so soon?

Quote Originally Posted by Dave 89 View Post
Thing is I need to buy oil sadly, to do things like get to work, school, friends partys, and so on.
-Dude. Sounds like you're living for your car.

Since I'll bet that you're the kind of guy who complains that we don't use enough solar or hydrogen powered cars, this is the perfect opportunity for you to transform words into DEEDS, and buy a hydrogen or electric car...

Or, you could buy (and use) a bike, like this guy:

Quote Originally Posted by Pink Splice View Post
http://wallysdoghouse.blogspot.com/2008/07/giant-leap-for-wallys-health-and.html

Just bought a bike, vastly increasing my range and payload (huge saddlebags).
...you can screw over Big Oil, strike a blow for energy independence, and save money in the bargain!







Post#684 at 09-25-2008 06:26 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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[QUOTE=jamesdglick;245721]-On one of the X'er threads, I thought you said you were working on becoming self-reliant. Tsk, Tsk. Backsliding so soon?

Nope. Over 65, poor muscle tone, live in the Southwest, lots of places you can only reach by car out here, ditto if you're hauling heavy loads - I walk and take the bus when I can. Not always feasible.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."

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Post#685 at 09-27-2008 05:35 PM by jamesdglick [at Clarksville, TN joined Mar 2007 #posts 2,007]
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post
Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon...
-Now at $3.799.







Post#686 at 09-29-2008 10:13 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Gas in my neck of the woods has been running at about $3.65 a gallon. However, I drove to Cherry Hill, NJ for the weekend (to see Prem Rawat -- see my sig line below) and had the foresight to need to tank up there. I filled up paying $3.219 a gallon -- full service.

New Jersey is a nice place to buy gas.
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Post#687 at 10-02-2008 08:16 PM by AlexMnWi [at Minneapolis joined Jun 2002 #posts 1,622]
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While the hurricanes never bumped up the prices here, they did stall what had been a downward trend for a few weeks where it pretty much sat at the same price. In the past week or two they have been declining again. At my neighborhood QuikTrip station, gas is currently $3.29 and falling (it was $3.35 a few days ago). However, I've been getting gas at an Arco station a mile away, where it is super cheap if you pay in cash (they add a CC surcharge), and currently at that station, gas is $3.21.

For comparison, the most I ever paid for gas was in the middle of June in Prescott, WI, at a BP for I believe $4.16 or something like that, because my fuel light came on and I had no choice. Most people, apparently, did, because once gas broke $4 demand plummeted and the local gas stations were back under $4 for the remainder of the summer (usually about $3.97) even as oil increased into July. So, at least in that part of the country, $4 is the tipping point.

It's funny, at about the same time when gas broke $4 for a week, suddenly a lot more people were going the speed limit on the freeway as opposed to 5-10 over, and the buses got a lot more full.
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Post#688 at 10-07-2008 02:39 PM by Child of Socrates [at Cybrarian from America's Dairyland, 1961 cohort joined Sep 2001 #posts 14,092]
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Fascinating. This morning when I filled up with gas, I saw that the station was offering a 5-cent discount per gallon if you paid cash (I didn't have enough cash on me at the time or I would have considered it).

When was the last time you saw stations offering discounts for cash versus credit? And has anyone else seen this yet?

Edit: Just re-read Alex's post more carefully and saw that it is happening in other places.







Post#689 at 10-07-2008 03:01 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by Child of Socrates View Post
Fascinating. This morning when I filled up with gas, I saw that the station was offering a 5-cent discount per gallon if you paid cash (I didn't have enough cash on me at the time or I would have considered it).

When was the last time you saw stations offering discounts for cash versus credit? And has anyone else seen this yet?

Edit: Just re-read Alex's post more carefully and saw that it is happening in other places.
I've seen it in my neck of the woods (just south of Our Nation's Capitol).
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Post#690 at 10-07-2008 07:07 PM by jamesdglick [at Clarksville, TN joined Mar 2007 #posts 2,007]
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post
Shell in Clarksville, TN just started [24 SEP] selling regular again: $3.999/gallon...
-Now at $3.699/gallon (higher than it was 2 months ago)...

Quote Originally Posted by AlexMnWi View Post
...However, I've been getting gas at an Arco station a mile away, where it is super cheap if you pay in cash (they add a CC surcharge...
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Quote Originally Posted by Child of Socrates View Post
Fascinating. This morning when I filled up with gas, I saw that the station was offering a 5-cent discount per gallon if you paid cash (I didn't have enough cash on me at the time or I would have considered it).

When was the last time you saw stations offering discounts for cash versus credit? And has anyone else seen this yet?...
-I can't remember where or when, but I've seen cash discounts for gas (and other things) before. I like the idea.

Quote Originally Posted by AlexMnWi View Post
...It's funny, at about the same time when gas broke $4 for a week, suddenly a lot more people were going the speed limit on the freeway as opposed to 5-10 over, and the buses got a lot more full.
-When you pay more for something, you're less likely to waste it (or buy it to begin with). Duh.







Post#691 at 10-09-2008 10:12 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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The price of gas around here is dropping as fast as the Dow, at $3.459/559/659.
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Post#692 at 10-09-2008 10:27 PM by Earl and Mooch [at Delaware - we pave paradise and put up parking lots joined Sep 2002 #posts 2,106]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
The price of gas around here is dropping as fast as the Dow, at $3.459/559/659.
Lowest here (today) for regular was $2.999. Mid-grade and premium are still universally high ($3.50/$3.60 territory.)
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Post#693 at 10-10-2008 12:40 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
The price of gas around here is dropping as fast as the Dow, at $3.459/559/659.
The Peak Oil set's term for what is going on is "demand destruction" -- the credit crunch and ensuring economic turmoil is reducing demand for gas.
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We're down to $2.999 (cash).







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Quote Originally Posted by The Wonkette View Post
The Peak Oil set's term for what is going on is "demand destruction" -- the credit crunch and ensuring economic turmoil is reducing demand for gas.
It also reminds me of the deflation which was one of the features of the last Great Depression.







Post#696 at 10-10-2008 02:37 PM by stab1969 [at Albuquerque, NM joined May 2007 #posts 532]
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I paid $3.59 where I live a couple days ago, which in comparison to a lot of other posts on this thread, still sounds high, but considering how just a few months ago I paid something like $4.65 a gallon at one point, so it's all good in my opinion! I also that know it's even cheaper where Im moving to in a few weeks
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Can't nobody be paying more than me!

Yesterday I filled my Tacoma with 16.16 gallons of gas.
The price was 94.00 and change

That prices out at * 5.87 * per gallon

That is not a typo. Oct. 10,08. 5.87 per gallon

P.S. There is only one station available to us here. ( I live on a island with one town, one gas station, no land bridge)
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People Pay More Than You

Quote Originally Posted by Max View Post
Yesterday I filled my Tacoma with 16.16 gallons of gas.
The price was 94.00 and change

That prices out at * 5.87 * per gallon

That is not a typo. Oct. 10,08. 5.87 per gallon

P.S. There is only one station available to us here. ( I live on a island with one town, one gas station, no land bridge)
I betcha the Aussies who post here pay more than you.
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post
Shell in Clarksville, TN just started [24 SEP] selling regular again: $3.999/gallon...
-Now at $3.289/gallon (lower than it's been since I started looking in June)...

Quote Originally Posted by stab1969 View Post
...considering how just a few months ago I paid something like $4.65 a gallon at one point, so it's all good in my opinion! I also that know it's even cheaper where Im moving to in a few weeks
-Where were you?

Quote Originally Posted by Max View Post
...That prices out at * 5.87 * per gallon

That is not a typo. Oct. 10,08. 5.87 per gallon

P.S. There is only one station available to us here. ( I live on a island with one town, one gas station, no land bridge)
-Good God, where ARE you?







Post#700 at 10-10-2008 04:25 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Quote Originally Posted by jamesdglick View Post

-Good God, where ARE you?
Max now lives in Catalina Island, west of Los Angeles. My ex, who grew up in San Diego, would sometimes go out there -- it's about an hour ferry ride from LA.

Indeed, I would not be at all surprised if my current BF, who lived 13 years in the LA area, has also been there.
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