At least for the next 18 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
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At least for the next 18 months.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brisco Bold
I didn't read a single thing in this post... because gas is pissing me off to no end..... I have been paying for my wife to be in school for years and this gas shit is making near impossible thank god she finishes this Dec
*** HYbrid INC
I wasn't going to say anything but fuck it cost $40 bucks to fill up my tank the other day. I drive a fucking corolla. It should not cost $40 fucking bucks to fill up a corolla. That was almost all my two week paycheck from my crappy candy store job! *Shakes fist in the air*
I know in a lot of countries gas is still way more expensive but often they have better public transportation, or it's easier to walk around. Freaking where I live it's not safe to walk or ride a bike any where. And Septa is a joke, for a round trip into the city it cost 14 dollars. Christ if I drive and use a parking meter it's cheaper then that and takes less time too.
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Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
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NEW YORK - Oil prices shot up nearly $7 a barrel Friday, extending big gains from the previous day and racing toward an all-time high after a Morgan Stanley analyst predicted prices could hit $150 by the Fourth of July.
Light, sweet crude for July delivery jumped $6.27 to $134.06 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier, the contract rose as high as $134.68.
Friday's surge builds on a $5.49 gain Thursday, which was the biggest single-day price increase in the history of the Nymex crude contract. That spike came as the dollar fell in response to comments by the European Central Bank suggesting the bank could raise interest rates.
I am so glad my company pays for my EZPass. Metro 4 life.
WHAT? You make $40+ for 2 weeks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand
They mostly pay in candy.
Gas will hit $150 today. Watch.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/...les/index.htmlQuote:
Iran test fires missiles in riposte to U.S., Israel
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran has test-fired nine missiles in response to what it says are threats from Israel and the United States, state-run Iranian media says.
The Islamic Republic News Agency and Press TV reported that the naval forces of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Wednesday test-fired a Shahab-3 missile during war games in the Persian Gulf.
The exercises come a month after Israel conducted a military drill in the eastern Mediterranean involving dozens of warplanes, and the latest Iranian activities prompted concern from Israel and condemnation from the United States.
Iran occasionally tests missiles, but this firing comes amid international tensions over its nuclear aspirations.
"The war game was aimed at improving the combat readiness of Iran's armed forces. The 2,000-kilometer-range Shahab-3 missiles were tested to demonstrate Iran's capability in hitting its enemies accurately at the early stages of their probable attacks against the Islamic Republic.
"Domestic and foreign political and military analysts believe that Shahab-3 is able to reach targets in the occupied lands in case of the Zionist regime's probable attacks against Iran's nuclear sites," the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
http://money.cnn.com/2008/07/09/mark...ex.htm?cnn=yes
Shit, I only have a 1/4 tank right now.
I meant Oil. Oil will hit $150 a barrel roll. Gas will still be around $4.00 for a while.
OH WELL THATS FINE THEN
I've managed to stay at or below $3.95 for awhile. Not sure how much longer that's going to last, though.
$4.18 yesterday. French Revolution incoming
No use in bitching about shit you can't control... I say worry more about the dumb shit you buy (or dream of buying) on a daily basis.
NOBODY HERE GIVES A SHIT
ABOUT YOU STOP POSTING!
I have not driven my car more than 2 miles in the last two months.
Huzzah, suckers!
JOSH, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
I JUST LIKE TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS SOMETIMES.
This thread JUST GOT REAL!
I'll have to try that iron thing next time...
???
Is it worth it, let me work it
I put my thang down, flip it and reverse it
ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gnaht ym tup I
ti esrever dna ti pilf, nwod gnaht ym tup I
WTF. You spoiled people. It's been closer to $5 for 87 octane here.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I THINK I'M
A LITTLE LATE TO THE PARTY!
Jason sucks
fixed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
I have a Corolla, too. I filled up my tank at $4.18 a gallon and it cost me a little over $42 bucks =( However, it should last me more than 10 days...Quote:
Originally Posted by Brand
I have a scooter. If i fill up the 1 gallon tank i can go a hundret miles.
but it's broken right now, and it won't get that kind of gas mileage when it's back up. WITH MORE POWR. 80mpg, i will cry. just not on roads above 55mph.
That's it, your post was my signal, I am now going to short oil.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I was in Toronto for a few days, and I no longer wish to gripe about Ohio gas prices.
Filled up the car on Sunday night at like $4.80 / gallon. Thankfully, it'll probably last me about a month since I rarely drive anymore.
I hope gas prices get to 7 dollars a gallon.
I hope you walk out in front of a car
And I hope the car runs you over.
And you die.
It's been a real pain in the ass keeping my 6000 SUX on the road with these prices.
8.2 mpg. Right?
That's the one. I've bugged out a dinosaur or two with it.
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Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Thanks Doc!Quote:
Originally Posted by Gooch
Did they throw in a Blaupunkt?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peas
You know Peas so rich, son, he's got 12s commin' out his anu$.
I've managed to stay at or below $3.95. Frankfurt and the Tollway has been keeping at $3.89 if you pass through there.
I'm naming my kid Opec.....
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ORLANDO -- An Orlando man has traded the naming rights to his unborn son for a $100 gas card.
David Partin recently heard that a local radio station was giving $100 worth of free gas to the listener who called in with the most interesting item to trade. Central Florida radio hosts Richard Dixon and J. Willoughby were quick to take Partin up on his offer.
When the baby is born this winter, he will be named Dixon and Willoughby Partin - with the "and" included.
Partin's girlfriend, Samantha, says at least her son will have an interesting story about how he got his name.
Dixon and Willoughby plan to be at the hospital when the baby is born and will hand over the gas card when they see the official birth certificate.
They have the right to name the kid any fucked up thing they can come up with and they go with Dixon and Willoughby?
Dixon andQuote:
Originally Posted by bbobb
Dix on and
Dicks on and
Dicks on and around your face
Sounds like no picnic to me.
Here's what T Boone Pickens (you know, that crazy Oklahoma State alum) has to say:
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Reuters
Pickens sees $300 oil unless U.S. cuts crude imports
Tuesday July 22, 2:27 pm ET
By Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Oil prices will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years if the United States fails to reduce its dependence on foreign imports, billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.
The United States imports nearly 70 percent of its oil and Pickens said the world's top petroleum-consuming nation would import 80 percent in a decade if it does not aggressively tap its own natural gas and renewable resources.
"If we continue to drift, oil will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years," Pickens testified at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
He testified as the Senate planned to debate energy legislation amid calls for more oil drilling to help lower oil prices which hit a record this month of over $147 a barrel.
Pickens has been touring the country pushing a plan under which domestic natural gas supplies would be used to power cars instead of electrical power plants. The federal government and private investors would build a massive wind farm system in the middle of the country from Mexico to Canada to provide electricity.
Pickens, who heads the hedge fund BP Capital, stands to benefit from such a program. He's building a 4,000 megawatt, $10 billion wind farm in northern Texas that should start generating power in 2011.
Industry group the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) has said the Pickens plan could work if the government renews the production tax credit for renewable energy, preferably for longer than a year or two.
Growth in U.S. wind power has been dramatic. Preliminary figures show the United States in July may have surpassed Germany as the world's largest generator of wind power, AWEA said.
"We're on track to doing that, if it hasn't happened already," said an AWEA spokeswoman.
Wind could generate 20 percent of U.S. electricity by 2030, only slightly less than natural gas currently fires, the Department of Energy said in a report.
EMINENT DOMAIN
Building transmission lines and securing corridors to bring wind power from the heartland to the coasts would be a major effort.
"I think we're talking eminent domain," Pickens told reporters after the hearing, referring to the practice in which the government sometimes seizes private property with monetary compensation. He said bringing the power to the coasts would take an effort similar to former president Dwight Eisenhower's building of the national highway system during the Cold War.
It could cost hundreds of billions of dollars to develop wind power. Pickens said reduced crude oil imports could pay.
Natural gas analysts were less certain the country can convert quickly from its gasoline- and diesel-based vehicle transport and fueling systems.
Chris Kostas, analyst at Energy Security Analysis Inc in Boston, said growing oil demand from developing countries like China and India could keep crude prices rising even if the United States succeeded in cutting oil imports.
Some 8 million vehicles in the world run on natural gas, with only about 140,000 in the United States, said Pickens, who owns a Honda car that runs on natural gas.
House Democrats were to hold a closed door caucus meeting with Pickens on Tuesday evening to discuss his plan.
(Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by David Gregorio)
So uh, gas is $3.69 here. I've been riding my bike to work more, so gas isn't as much of a priority, but seeing it that low is delightful.
$4.79
fuck thisssssss
I saw a station last night that was charging $4.45 for regular. But $4.79? Holy fuck.
In contrast, BJ's Wholesale Club is charging $4.09 a gallon for its members, but the lines are crazy.
3.95 in MD, 3.99 on the NJ Turnpike, 3.89 in NJ.
$3.80 +/-
$3.83 here.
lol@SUVs
I hope gas gets to $9 a gallon if it will clear up some of the roads and conjestion. If it won't then fuck that. I wouldn't mind paying a little more for gas if it kept some people off the roads and made it a little more enjoyable to drive. I know that's kind of an ignorant/asshole/arrogant way to think though, I suppose. Still it'd be pretty sweet to fly down empty streets in the middle of the day.
Frankly I think the government ought to subsidize gas at about 75% for the elderly, teenagers, women and the Chinese.
The problem with a skyrocketing oil price is that a lot of people have to travel quite far for their low paying jobs; low-income housing has moved farther and farther away from their places of employment. If the price continues to elevate at the current rate, it may look increasingly attractive for a lot of people to live off of welfare, and where does that money come from?
Every DUI should receive a $50 gas card as well.
$4.29 in CT, I saw $3.99 up in mass yesterday.
enjoying my 94' Plymouth Duster with its 25 EPG with the AC on for sure my truck which is parked was averaging about 14.
$40 to go to school a day in just gas says fuck you.Quote:
Originally Posted by Seik
That would probably amount to more then my fucking tuition costs.
Buy 1 less Bluray a day.
Ask Sony for a raise. I mean you were their best Viral marketer this year.
No one has any room to bitch about being poor if they're spending their money on unnecessary crap.
example: video games and dvds.
At least you don't live in Norway. And they pay by Litre, not by the gallon like our spoiled asses do here in the US.
Suck it up. It could be worse.
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Diesel costs 14.23 kroner (1.78 euros, 2.82 dollars) a litre (quarter gallon) and 95 unleaded 13.84 kroner, putting it at the top of the European league, EU figures show.
Well there's a counter to that though right in the article, which is the fact thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
Also I'd like to know what their average commute to work is. I know quite a few people bring up how much the British pay for gas but the average commute their is like 1/10th what it is in the US.Quote:
"Norwegian salaries are among the highest in the world and the government estimates an average industry worker here can buy twice as much petrol as his Spanish counterpart after working an hour."
If I remember right (and it may have been brought up in this thread already) the average commute in the US to work is around 30 miles each way. Where as in the UK its something like 4 or 5.
All I know is that my commute sucks ass. I drive 32 miles each way for work and spend an average of 75 minutes in traffic (each way). I've been paying about $4.29/gal. for gas and average 30 mpg.
That commute is beyond brutal. This is why I will live and work in the city for as long as I remain a W-2 employee.
Indeed it is. And that is why I'm the keeper of the traffic ;)
Not to mention viable alternate transport etc. etc...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
Move to Baltimore and take the train. I can give you five different reasons each day why you should move the fuck out of the suburbs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
4 liters = 1 gallon, no? I pay $1 a liter, so I essentially pay $4 a gallon. It's much more damaging here, where the average salary is less than $20k a year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
It's about 3 and three quarters, but yes.
I know. Plus, all the girls I've been meeting live up north, so this may very well be a possibility in the near future. Stay tuned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Yeah, but since most Americans get into needless debt by buying shit they don't need or can't afford, it cuts into their ability to pay for the bare essentials like gas and food.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Oh and I'd like to see a link or source that says the average American earns less than $20k/year. I'm pretty sure it's higher than that. ;)
Move in with Razor and me. And help us Run Mex n' Tex.Quote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
Are we still talking about gas, or are you talking about Tain?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nomi
He doesn't live in the US. That was his point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
Yeah. I think the average salary in the U.S. is something like $35k. It's less than $20K in PR, which makes $4 a gallon even harder to deal with here.
I thought you guys rode dolphins to work.
A chariot pulled by Asian orphans is my preferred vehicle.
I think Type Ryan's wink smiley suggested that he thinks that PR is a part of the United States.
No baby seal-eye headlights?Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Eh, fair enough, but they're not factored into the US national income since it isn't a state.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tones
$12 a gallon for gas AND $12 a day just for HAVING A VEHICLE in the city with the possibility that the congestion charges are raised to $40. If you drive into London, you're fucked proper. The London subway is extensive as shit though, going all the way out to Chesham, 25 miles outside of London.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
if I lived in london, I'd just drive a tank. If you're going to pay that much for a vehicle, just go all the way with it.
I'm totally down to living with Doc and Ryan. I'm completely serious. I want to move.
do it. Maybe some of doc's awesome will rub off on you
I'm more awesome than he (or you) will ever be.
you're getting better, that is a pretty funny joke
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Originally Posted by Nomi
Ah...forgot you lived in PR. Well, then yeah, that does suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
It's something like this here:
http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/.../gasprices.jpg
Whats with these Asian jokes or getting Chinese people off the road? If I had my way, I'd grab me a bunch of hispanics and have them pull my car with their lawnmowers. Than again, us Asians will just own you all! :tu:Quote:
Originally Posted by Melf
Gas went down here the past day or so. I paid $4.15 for regular today.
Yeah, I can't believe I'm happy about that, either. It's still a disgusting price.
They would have to be Mexicans, unless you offered free beer and didn't have to be anywhere before noon. Otherwise, forget getting Puerto Ricans to pull you around.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit
I filled my gas tank in my old Taurus with $4.29. Drove around yesterday in my new Camry after coming back from miniature golf to go get some food and passed a gas station for $4.19.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
around here its at 3.73
I've read that gas prices are slowly coming down due to the fact that people are buying less and less of it at these stupid-as-fuck prices. It should be below $4 accross the board soon.
Supply and demand. Hopefully the trend will continue and gas'll get even cheaper.
But we collectively are a shortsighted/forgetful people. As soon as the price drops to reasonable level everyone will start to drive more or buy SUVs again.
I want to shank people who buy SUV's and have no use for them other than to be like hey I have an SUV.
Yeah I see some people in their SUVs, and I'm like, really? That's like driving a dump truck to and from Starbucks. In fact, owning a dump truck would probably even be a little more practical. So I don't know what it's like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shin Johnpv
Hrmm, I wanna dump truck.
I want gas to be under $2 again! If its going to be $3.50+, they should give everyone a damn raise.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Even if it did drop, I think people will think twice on buying SUVs. Car makers closed or converted plants that made SUVs to making sedans/hybrids.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
You underestimate the stupidity of the populace. Plus, car makers can convert plants back when the demand rise.Quote:
Originally Posted by bandit
Yes, but I think its easier said than done. Just give me flying cars already like 5th Element or the Jetsons!Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I want the future Deloren. Using garbage as fuel.