Where do you draw the line at the gas pump?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by phishi, Aug 10, 2005.


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  1. melbo

    melbo Hunter Gatherer Administrator Founding Member

    ghrit, when I first moved from NORTHERN us, I noticed that the locals here seemed pretty groggy in the morning... I was afraid they'd fall asleep in the cab, with the othr 5 guys who were napping, mouths wide open, coffee cup leaning and drool forming on the window
     
    melbo, Aug 13, 2005
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  2. Quigley_Sharps

    Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member

    200 miles min round trip to work.
     
    Quigley_Sharps, Aug 14, 2005
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  3. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    Har-har-har. Thot that was the rule --. Did you move south to be among like minded individuals --- ?? (If there were a smirking smilie, it would be here.)

    (The spelling nazi strikes again)
     
    ghrit, Aug 14, 2005
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  4. Seacowboys

    Seacowboys Senior Member Founding Member

    Simpily put, we will continue to to grumble, continue to drive and pay increasingly higher prices, costs will increase, wages will increase, strikes will drive prices higher, the government will step in and just a few more little slices of our liberty, will effect a temporary fix in the form of subsidies or tax deferments or costs of living and transportation wage increases. Ultimately, we will be bussed to our work barracks, where we perform our assigned tasks to earn our subsistance coupons. That's the trouble with becomming too dependant on a system that didn't even exist a hundred years ago.
    BTW, those of us that refuse to go to our assigned positions are already labeled as terrorists, so we shouldn' present much of a problem when the whole of the flock are in peril.
     
    Seacowboys, Aug 25, 2005
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  5. melbo

    melbo Hunter Gatherer Administrator Founding Member

    I just heard one of the mealy mouthes on NPR state that studies have shown that Americans will handle prices up to $100 a barrel.
     
    melbo, Aug 25, 2005
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  6. melbo

    melbo Hunter Gatherer Administrator Founding Member

    Regular dropped to $1.92 a gallon today and diesel was $2.45...
    Quart of Oil unchanged.

    I forget what my point was to be... maybe that it costs me almost $30 less to fill my truck than it did 2 months ago? not sure.

    I'll get back to this.
    Not drunk, just up late :D
     
    melbo, Nov 21, 2005
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  7. CRC

    CRC Survivor of Tidal Waves | RIP 7-24-2015 Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    I'm spoiled rotten...

    My little island is only 13 miles long..and 2.3 miles wide at it's widest point...

    My commute,round trip , to work...is less than 4 miles...

    I can put $20 in my Honda Accord and drive for 2 weeks..and that's if I have to leave the island for anything....

    God knows when I move.....I am so used to living in Mayberry By The Sea! ;)
     
    CRC, Nov 21, 2005
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  8. Quigley_Sharps

    Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member

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    Quigley_Sharps, Nov 21, 2005
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  9. monkeyman

    monkeyman Monkey+++ Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    Yeah sincew gas comes from oil it is kind of interesting that the price of gas just has to go up all the time with occasional slight relief due to supply and costs of oil but yet the quart of oil never realy fluxuates more than inflation.
     
    monkeyman, Nov 21, 2005
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  10. E.L.

    E.L. Moderator of Lead Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    $1.89 here for regular. I say [do-it] the caribou and drill in Alaska, and [do-it] the environmentalist Nazi's and build refineries.
     
    E.L., Nov 21, 2005
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  11. RightHand

    RightHand Been There, Done That RIP 4/15/21 Moderator Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    Just went down yesterday to @2.28 for 87 octane but we're paying $.25/gal in state gas tax so that bumps it up a little. Rhode Island is $.31/gal for the gas tax
     
    RightHand, Nov 21, 2005
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  12. Quigley_Sharps

    Quigley_Sharps The Badministrator Administrator Founding Member

    2.39 reg here
     
    Quigley_Sharps, Nov 21, 2005
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  13. monkeyman

    monkeyman Monkey+++ Moderator Emeritus Founding Member

    $1.98/gallon here today, may be better but it still sucks. ;)
     
    monkeyman, Nov 22, 2005
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  14. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    $2.19 and 9/10th today at a BP station advertising that it sells Amoco. Go figure --
     
    ghrit, Nov 22, 2005
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  15. Bogbeast

    Bogbeast Monkey+++ Founding Member

    I filled my 1999 escort up with the same amount of gas as Phishi and over hear in Britain it cost me about £50 pounds sterling. I dunno how much that equates to in dollars but I'm betting its quite a few. I have now for the first time in my life bought and run a 2litre DIESEL, it cost's the same amount to fill but those fills are now spaced to 1 and a half times a month, compaired to at least 4 times a month with the petrol ver. The wife does a lot of miles in her job (district nurse) hence the high mileage.
     
    Bogbeast, Jun 30, 2006
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  16. Tracy

    Tracy Insatiably Curious Moderator Founding Member

    1 British Pound = 1.81080 US Dollars (per the conversion chart I found this morning)

    :eek: $90.5400 US Dollars to fill your car. :eek: Guess I'll quit sniveling about what I'm paying at the pump ($ 3.059/gallon last evening).
     
    Tracy, Jun 30, 2006
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  17. melbo

    melbo Hunter Gatherer Administrator Founding Member

    Just bought my wife a 06 VW Jetta Diesel
    Getting 45 MPG already and she'll see almost 55 Highway once the motor is broken in a bit

    8 Airbags in that car...
     
    melbo, Jun 30, 2006
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  18. ghrit

    ghrit Bad company Administrator Founding Member

    Last diesel Jetta I saw had to make appointments to merge on the highway.:D :D
     
    ghrit, Jun 30, 2006
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  19. CRC

    CRC Survivor of Tidal Waves | RIP 7-24-2015 Moderator Emeritus Founding Member


    I had a Hyundai like that once...


    I swear, everytime I had to leave the island, and go up the bridge??

    I heard "I think I can...I think I can....I think I can....." in the background..


    :p
     
    CRC, Jun 30, 2006
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  20. melbo

    melbo Hunter Gatherer Administrator Founding Member

    This is a TDI with a pretty peppy turbo.
    I remember the Diesel VWs from 20 yrs ago... they were slow

    The new ones have a 6 speed auto, with a strange manual option that allows you to ratchet up or down. Helluva a car for $24K
     
    melbo, Jun 30, 2006
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