Got us a new shell gas station

[SammyChevelleTypeS3]

I worked for Exxon over 50 years ago. Even back then, the industry was closing down smaller refineries while making the remaining refineries larger. What is important is not the number of refineries. Rather, it is the total refining capacity.

Yes indeed. We need that total capacity to stay up there as long as we can. People gotta be tired of so much $$$$ going for fuel.

I bet it is amazing to think about that. Exxon Fifty years ago. Wow. We getting old, well some of us are! Wife and I were talking this week about some of the 21 jobs I had before I hooked up with a good paying , permanent job + benefits with a chemical company. I sure stayed there. Finally retired from that job after 29 years.

 

[Patman]

I totally get that, but I thought the premise of this was sticker shock because the size of the numbers.

I do remember visiting Canada and getting a bit confused when produce was priced by the pound.

We are an odd bunch up here because we are mostly metric but we still hang on to a few things here and there like feet and inches and pounds. Nobody I know would talk about their weight in kg and when people say their height it’s always in feet & inches. When I’m giving my walking tours at Niagara Falls I often have people from the US and from Europe in the same group so I always give my stats in feet and meters (and miles an kilometers)

 

[k1xv]

Yes indeed. We need that total capacity to stay up there as long as we can. People gotta be tired of so much $$$$ going for fuel.

I bet it is amazing to think about that. Exxon Fifty years ago. Wow. We getting old, well some of us are! Wife and I were talking this week about some of the 21 jobs I had before I hooked up with a good paying , permanent job + benefits with a chemical company. I sure stayed there. Finally retired from that job after 29 years.

i graduated engineering college in 1968, went to work for Exxon at age 21. Left in 1973 and went to law school full time. Graduated in 1976. at age 29 I will be 78 in April, and feel as if, in my lifetime, I have seen almost everything at least once.

With age, we get wisdom. But we have to evade dementia and physical disabilities.

 

[Chris142]

A quick search shows that regular should be around the $4 mark and diesel a bit under $5 in OPs area.

Cash price in town seems to be $3.99-$4.39 for regular depending on the station. Farther out I can get you well over $5 for regular and way out in the desert $6 .

 

[y_p_w]

We are an odd bunch up here because we are mostly metric but we still hang on to a few things here and there like feet and inches and pounds. Nobody I know would talk about their weight in kg and when people say their height it’s always in feet & inches. When I’m giving my walking tours at Niagara Falls I often have people from the US and from Europe in the same group so I always give my stats in feet and meters (and miles an kilometers)

Oh - it takes all kinds. Years ago I remember hosting some Australian visitors at our camp, and I wasn't sure to talk about distance in miles or km (they said miles were fine, although who knows decades later). The Brits still have road signs in miles and speedometers default to mph.

And then there's a pint. I heard somewhere to be wary in Canada because a pint is supposed to be an imperial pint (20 oz) but that some unscrupulous businesses might slip in an American pint (16 oz).

 

[GSCJR]

We are an odd bunch up here because we are mostly metric but we still hang on to a few things here and there like feet and inches and pounds. Nobody I know would talk about their weight in kg and when people say their height it’s always in feet & inches. When I’m giving my walking tours at Niagara Falls I often have people from the US and from Europe in the same group so I always give my stats in feet and meters (and miles an kilometers)

I hope you're better calibrated than your Civic

 

[Patman]

I hope you're better calibrated than your Civic

Well played there!

 

[Nick1994]

They do this at new stations to test the sign

 

[k1xv]

We are an odd bunch up here because we are mostly metric but we still hang on to a few things here and there like feet and inches and pounds. Nobody I know would talk about their weight in kg and when people say their height it’s always in feet & inches. When I’m giving my walking tours at Niagara Falls I often have people from the US and from Europe in the same group so I always give my stats in feet and meters (and miles an kilometers)

As an electrical engineer who specialized in electric power, and then became a lawyer consultant in utility regulation, the early power generation facilities at Niagara are fascinating. Westinghouse and Tesla were my heroes.

 

[Dave Hess]

Built a brand new station on what was a vacant lot for as long as I can remember. Must have a high mortgage. It's on a corner I pass every morning.

I took this pic this morning. I don't think I will ever step foot in this station.

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Like others have mentioned they are testing the sign and not open yet.

 

[Patman]

As an electrical engineer who specialized in electric power, and then became a lawyer consultant in utility regulation, the early power generation facilities at Niagara are fascinating. Westinghouse and Tesla were my heroes.

I always tell people on my tours about Nikola Tesla, most people only know the name Tesla because of the car company but don’t even know the story of the man himself. The original founders of the car company chose to use his name because he was a brilliant inventor who had many inventions in the world of electricity. I tell them that when he was just 12 years old back in Croatia he saw a lithograph of Niagara Falls and he told his uncle that one day he would go there and put a giant wheel on the Falls and make electricity from it! Amazing that he was thinking about this at such a young age! And so he came to America and it was his idea of using alternating current to allow the electricity generated from the hydroelectric power plants to travel long distances.

Right now we have two operating hydroelectric power stations at the Falls on the Canadian side and one on the American side. The two on the Canadian side generate enough electricity to power 4 million homes! (25% of Ontario’s electricity needs!)

 

[SC Maintenance]

I always tell people on my tours about Nikola Tesla, most people only know the name Tesla because of the car company but don’t even know the story of the man himself. The original founders of the car company chose to use his name because he was a brilliant inventor who had many inventions in the world of electricity. I tell them that when he was just 12 years old back in Croatia he saw a lithograph of Niagara Falls and he told his uncle that one day he would go there and put a giant wheel on the Falls and make electricity from it! Amazing that he was thinking about this at such a young age! And so he came to America and it was his idea of using alternating current to allow the electricity generated from the hydroelectric power plants to travel long distances.

Right now we have two operating hydroelectric power stations at the Falls on the Canadian side and one on the American side. The two on the Canadian side generate enough electricity to power 4 million homes! (25% of Ontario’s electricity needs!)

Yes, and Tesla advocated AC power, and Thomas Edison advocated DC power. Edison resorted to a smear campaign against Tesla, especially when it started becoming more apparent that AC was the better choice, and after Tesla patented his AC ideas and licensed his patents to Westinghouse.

 

[GSCJR]

I always tell people on my tours about Nikola Tesla, most people only know the name Tesla because of the car company but don’t even know the story of the man himself. The original founders of the car company chose to use his name because he was a brilliant inventor who had many inventions in the world of electricity. I tell them that when he was just 12 years old back in Croatia he saw a lithograph of Niagara Falls and he told his uncle that one day he would go there and put a giant wheel on the Falls and make electricity from it! Amazing that he was thinking about this at such a young age! And so he came to America and it was his idea of using alternating current to allow the electricity generated from the hydroelectric power plants to travel long distances.

Right now we have two operating hydroelectric power stations at the Falls on the Canadian side and one on the American side. The two on the Canadian side generate enough electricity to power 4 million homes! (25% of Ontario’s electricity needs!)

First time I heard the name Tesla , it was the name of a band. We've also had Nikola Tesla Boulvard for some time now.

 

[Patman]

Yes, and Tesla advocated AC power, and Thomas Edison advocated DC power. Edison resorted to a smear campaign against Tesla, especially when it started becoming more apparent that AC was the better choice, and after Tesla patented his AC ideas and licensed his patents to Westinghouse.

It’s crazy what Edison used to do to try and discredit AC power, even going as far as electrocuting an elephant! But DC power simply won’t travel a far enough distance to get the electric power to far away homes. AC was the only way to do it.

 

[Patman]

First time I heard the name Tesla , it was the name of a band. We've also had Nikola Tesla Boulvard for some time now.

I was a huge fan of Tesla back in the 80s! Great band!!

 

[THORROMIG]

I am glad to see the Shell offering for use up North. I use Shell 87 octane in my Rav4 Hybrid XSE. Every Friday I stop on the way home from work to top it off. They are tied with Sunoco for the cheapest gas around in Lancaster County Pennsylvania. Luckily for me, its on my way.

 

[y_p_w]

I was a huge fan of Tesla back in the 80s! Great band!!

I didn't see them, but my family was at the Alameda County Fair in 2014 when they were the musical act for that day. There were quite a few of their fans who were there wearing their previous concert merch.

 

[D60]

I still don't understand why new stations are opening? There's been several in my area, as well.

ICE is dead and we all love and want electric, right?? Yes, YES we do. I was told so.