When will this madness stop!??!?!?!?!?!
Oil breaks $116 a barrel
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Yea, on a stronger dollar also. They're riding along with the stock market.
What the _ _ _ _ is the problem? They raise it on future concerns, then raise again on the same concerns.
Gas is $3.45 here in Mn. - I cut way back & group trips together.
I was gonna drive down to the Twins game tonight, but it's too expensive, just watch 'em in TV.
Oh yea, it's hurting business.
What the _ _ _ _ is the problem? They raise it on future concerns, then raise again on the same concerns.
Gas is $3.45 here in Mn. - I cut way back & group trips together.
I was gonna drive down to the Twins game tonight, but it's too expensive, just watch 'em in TV.
Oh yea, it's hurting business.
If gasoline goes over $1.00 per gallon in the United States, people will revolt. It will never happen.
If cigarettes go over $1.00 a pack, people will quit smoking.
If cigarettes go over $1.00 a pack, people will quit smoking.
Originally Posted By: buster
We also now have a $474 million US Embassy in Iraq.
What the??
We also now have a $474 million US Embassy in Iraq.
What the??
Yeah and we have two real world choices to consider. Stop driving or cursing uncontrolably at the pump. Yes we are indeed screwed!
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Yep, and I still saw dozens of women driving Yukons and other large SUVs on my way to work today. I hope they enjoy getting their 12-16 mpg while they lead foot it from stoplight to stoplight at 3.53 a gallon. Wow, how stupid it is to look at a vehicle as a status symbol anymore.
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Seeing these prices makes me feel like it's 6 months ago. Just passed a station at lunch charging $4.09 for regular (granted, it's kind of an expensive one).
Just got back from Moab and you would NEVER think fuel is over $3.45 for gas and over $4 for diesel..
All of these jacked up trucks towing their Jeep (or jeeps) or 4-6 ATVs on a LONG trailer going 75MPG in a 60mph up hills.
Just amazing watching all of this go on. I was in our Outback following the speed limit up and down hills and was passed by most everything on the road.
At least I got almost 30mpg (I think, I'll have to fill up soon and figure it out.) for both on and off road.
Keep watching the prices go up.
I'd bet LARGE amounts of $$ soon (maybe not this year) that since we are not building any more refineries that we start having shortages.
Bill
All of these jacked up trucks towing their Jeep (or jeeps) or 4-6 ATVs on a LONG trailer going 75MPG in a 60mph up hills.
Just amazing watching all of this go on. I was in our Outback following the speed limit up and down hills and was passed by most everything on the road.
At least I got almost 30mpg (I think, I'll have to fill up soon and figure it out.) for both on and off road.
Keep watching the prices go up.
I'd bet LARGE amounts of $$ soon (maybe not this year) that since we are not building any more refineries that we start having shortages.
Bill
During lunch, I passed a station (Shell, no doubt) and regular was 3.77, drive back by about an hour later, and it's 3.79. I'm sure the recent spike has to do with the Nigeria thing, among others. It IS crazyness indeed. I know in a million years this will never happen, but we (USA) need to slow or stop importing oil all together.
We've been trying to combine our trips, and personally, I could care less if I get passed by anyone or anything. I go the speed limit, and sometimes, under. What else can you do?!
We've been trying to combine our trips, and personally, I could care less if I get passed by anyone or anything. I go the speed limit, and sometimes, under. What else can you do?!
Bill - I was out driving around all day and doing the speed limit everywhere I went, people passed me like I was standing still.
I'm happy knowing that when I go to the gas station and seeing my car beat the EPA estimates every time, I have more money to spend on other things.
I'm happy knowing that when I go to the gas station and seeing my car beat the EPA estimates every time, I have more money to spend on other things.
This is our own fault. You don't send billions of $ over seas every day and expect your currency to stay strong. Sooner or later the birds come home to roost. We send billions every day to China, Iraq and else where.People want Euros now not dollars. As the dollar falls oil rises.
us$4.534/usgal in Toronto right now.
Originally Posted By: rshaw125
This is our own fault. You don't send billions of $ over seas every day and expect your currency to stay strong. Sooner or later the birds come home to roost. We send billions every day to China, Iraq and else where.People want Euros now not dollars. As the dollar falls oil rises.
But then you look at the Oz dollar...hasn't been higher since it was sunk (errr floated). Currently running 93c US, up from 47 c not that long ago.
Driving home yesterday, regular unleaded $1.48c/l $5.25US/Gal, and Diesel $1.679/l $5.95US/Gal...hit $2/l in some rural areas last week.
Going to be an interesting short term future, with grain prices already up due to ethanol, and then the feedback of fuel for farming and transport feeding into the front end of the food supply.
Wonder if the wind down of rail was deliberate?
This is our own fault. You don't send billions of $ over seas every day and expect your currency to stay strong. Sooner or later the birds come home to roost. We send billions every day to China, Iraq and else where.People want Euros now not dollars. As the dollar falls oil rises.
But then you look at the Oz dollar...hasn't been higher since it was sunk (errr floated). Currently running 93c US, up from 47 c not that long ago.
Driving home yesterday, regular unleaded $1.48c/l $5.25US/Gal, and Diesel $1.679/l $5.95US/Gal...hit $2/l in some rural areas last week.
Going to be an interesting short term future, with grain prices already up due to ethanol, and then the feedback of fuel for farming and transport feeding into the front end of the food supply.
Wonder if the wind down of rail was deliberate?
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Originally Posted By: rshaw125
This is our own fault. You don't send billions of $ over seas every day and expect your currency to stay strong. Sooner or later the birds come home to roost. We send billions every day to China, Iraq and else where.People want Euros now not dollars. As the dollar falls oil rises.
Well, that's about to slow down ..and QUICK. As we get cut ..the globe bleeds... they still need to buy our ag products and need U$D to pay for them.
It's tough being leveraged when you're enslaved to a nation that's highly leveraged ..and has no purpose except to give you a purpose.
Time to adapt my good little mice. Momma loves you.
This is our own fault. You don't send billions of $ over seas every day and expect your currency to stay strong. Sooner or later the birds come home to roost. We send billions every day to China, Iraq and else where.People want Euros now not dollars. As the dollar falls oil rises.
Well, that's about to slow down ..and QUICK. As we get cut ..the globe bleeds... they still need to buy our ag products and need U$D to pay for them.
It's tough being leveraged when you're enslaved to a nation that's highly leveraged ..and has no purpose except to give you a purpose.
Time to adapt my good little mice. Momma loves you.
Bring it on..... This country needs to open its eyes. There are 2 billion people in line waiting to live just like us.....
Originally Posted By: ThirdeYe
Bill - I was out driving around all day and doing the speed limit everywhere I went, people passed me like I was standing still.
I'm happy knowing that when I go to the gas station and seeing my car beat the EPA estimates every time, I have more money to spend on other things.
Yep.
Just filled up the Subaru (Outback with 4sp autostick) with a new combined EPA of 22 mpg (Fuel Type Regular, MPG (city) 20 MPG (highway) 26 MPG (combined) 22 (direct from the EPA website for my AWD car) and my trip had 4 people, about 150lbs of luggage, went from 4700 ft to over 7000 ft passes back down to a little under 4000 ft.
Also did some off roading (about 15%), stop and go at the parks, went out to lunch/dinner back to the hotel (many times) and over 700 miles my MPG average was;
30.1MPG...
I'm happy with that.
I really do not care if you want to drive a pickup to tow your boat, But don't drive like an idiot and don't drive it with a single person in it to work.
I know some of these fools driving down to Moab would be lucky to get 10 mpg in their diesel trucks. If they used any part of their brain they prob could double their MPG. (non lifted trucks, stock tires, SLOW DOWN and watch what is ahead, etc)
Instead, it is put a chip in it and go for it...
Thanks for doing the RIGHT thing ThirdeYe!
Take care, bill
Bill - I was out driving around all day and doing the speed limit everywhere I went, people passed me like I was standing still.
I'm happy knowing that when I go to the gas station and seeing my car beat the EPA estimates every time, I have more money to spend on other things.
Yep.
Just filled up the Subaru (Outback with 4sp autostick) with a new combined EPA of 22 mpg (Fuel Type Regular, MPG (city) 20 MPG (highway) 26 MPG (combined) 22 (direct from the EPA website for my AWD car) and my trip had 4 people, about 150lbs of luggage, went from 4700 ft to over 7000 ft passes back down to a little under 4000 ft.
Also did some off roading (about 15%), stop and go at the parks, went out to lunch/dinner back to the hotel (many times) and over 700 miles my MPG average was;
30.1MPG...
I'm happy with that.
I really do not care if you want to drive a pickup to tow your boat, But don't drive like an idiot and don't drive it with a single person in it to work.
I know some of these fools driving down to Moab would be lucky to get 10 mpg in their diesel trucks. If they used any part of their brain they prob could double their MPG. (non lifted trucks, stock tires, SLOW DOWN and watch what is ahead, etc)
Instead, it is put a chip in it and go for it...
Thanks for doing the RIGHT thing ThirdeYe!
Take care, bill
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Originally Posted By: Tempest
Originally Posted By: buster
We also now have a $474 million US Embassy in Iraq.
What the??
That particular target, uhm I mean embassy, looks like a maximum security prison, or maybe like an oversized Walgreen's.
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Originally Posted By: buster
We also now have a $474 million US Embassy in Iraq.
What the??
That particular target, uhm I mean embassy, looks like a maximum security prison, or maybe like an oversized Walgreen's.
maybe the picture will load
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