Gas prices pissing you off???

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  • nadams
    nadams Posts: 5,877
    edited September 2005
    landry_p2000 wrote:
    $3.29 at some gas stations! Holy ****! I am getting a bicycle or an electric scooter, since I only work 3 miles from my house. :D

    If I worked 3 miles from my house, I would've been riding my bike LONG before this!
    Ludicrous gibs!
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  • caseymou
    caseymou Posts: 327
    edited September 2005
    I drove by 2 stations at $3.49 this morning.
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited September 2005
    :eek: I just heard a rumor, that some of the gas stations here in Memphis are closed down due to lack of gas, and there was an altercation at a gas station in the "common" part of town. Not sure how true this, but I will let you guys know. :confused:
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited September 2005
    landry_p2000 wrote:
    :eek: I just heard a rumor, that some of the gas stations here in Memphis are closed down due to lack of gas, and there was an altercation at a gas station in the "common" part of town. Not sure how true this, but I will let you guys know. :confused:

    Yeah, some stations are going to run out of gas, but as a whole we won't run out of gas. It's just some stations (usually privately owned) and their distributors. I know that's what's going on here. There will not be a gas shortage, however.

    On a completely unrelated note have you ever been to the 'Blues City Cafe' in Memphis? I vacationed down there a couple years ago and saw a band called 'The Dempseys' play there. They're amazing. Apparently it's kind of like a vegas thing per se where they play a lot of gigs at that venue as well as Elvis Presley's.

    Check them out if you're even the least bit into rockabilly.
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  • landry_p2000
    landry_p2000 Posts: 1,313
    edited September 2005
    Demiurge wrote:
    Yeah, some stations are going to run out of gas, but as a whole we won't run out of gas. It's just some stations (usually privately owned) and their distributors. I know that's what's going on here. There will not be a gas shortage, however.

    On a completely unrelated note have you ever been to the 'Blues City Cafe' in Memphis? I vacationed down there a couple years ago and saw a band called 'The Dempseys' play there. They're amazing. Apparently it's kind of like a vegas thing per se where they play a lot of gigs at that venue as well as Elvis Presley's.

    Check them out if you're even the least bit into rockabilly.

    I have heard of the Blues City Cafe, but have never been. I have only been to B.B. Kings.
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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited September 2005
    Beale Street rocks. The Blue's City Cafe rocks. BB King's rocks. There's a trend here, I just know it........wait.....Memphis just freakin' rocks, I say!!!!
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited September 2005
    trubluluc wrote:
    .....we were talking about the future of oil prices.

    http://www.polkaudio.com/forums/showpost.php?p=71963&postcount=22

    -Luc

    Yep. The evil George Bush and Halliburton created that hurricane and sent it to New Orleans so they could make all their oil buddies rich.

    Then Bush went back in time and made the environmental wackos stand in the way of us building new refineries and drilling for more of our own oil for the last 30 years.

    Then he teleported over to China and, using top secret Halliburton technology, made their economy grow and subsequently their demand on the oil market increase more in the last 2 years than in the last 20.

    If Bush really wanted to make his oil buddies rich, he would run over the hippies and start drilling all over the place like he should be. This way the evil oil companies would have their own oil they could refine and sell rather than buying it from overseas. This would also reduce the price of gas so more people would be buying it. And lastly, all those evil oil companies could sell the surplus to other countries and really clean up.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited September 2005
    MacLeod wrote:
    Yep. The evil George Bush and Halliburton created that hurricane and sent it to New Orleans so they could make all their oil buddies rich.

    Then Bush went back in time and made the environmental wackos stand in the way of us building new refineries and drilling for more of our own oil for the last 30 years.

    Then he teleported over to China and, using top secret Halliburton technology, made their economy grow and subsequently their demand on the oil market increase more in the last 2 years than in the last 20.

    If Bush really wanted to make his oil buddies rich, he would run over the hippies and start drilling all over the place like he should be. This way the evil oil companies would have their own oil they could refine and sell rather than buying it from overseas. This would also reduce the price of gas so more people would be buying it. And lastly, all those evil oil companies could sell the surplus to other countries and really clean up.

    I'm in your camp on this one. :)

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  • trubluluc
    trubluluc Posts: 2,067
    edited September 2005
    boys......the gas prices have been steadily climbing long before the huricane struck.
    Ever looked up the public information on the profits of oil companies?
    If there is no oil, how is it they continue to make more profit, on a continuous basis, than just about any other business you can name.

    Geologists will tell you, if you listen that is, that you can drill all you want, everywhere you want, across the continental US, the problem is: there is no longer much oil down there to be had.
    Want to go out to sea and drill, yeah we've seen how great a solution that is. Poisoned shorelines, miles of black crud killing everything in it's path.

    Anyone who couldn't see 20 years ago, that China, with a population of 6.5 billion people is going to be using alot of oil,
    probably doesn't see Christmas coming either.

    Ever been to an oil field? Or worked there? I have.
    Is that the kind of environment you want to live in?
    Really?

    You want oil drilling everywhere? Can we start in your back yard?

    The fact is: I'ts time to wean ourselves off oil. To start putting money in ethanol based fuels in the short term, and hydrogen and other fuel sources in the long term.

    But try and explain that to Standard Oil etc. Then try and get funding for it, when the oil company lobbyists have their hands in key elected officials pockets.

    None so blind as those who won't see.

    -Luc
    MacLeod wrote:
    Yep. The evil George Bush and Halliburton created that hurricane and sent it to New Orleans so they could make all their oil buddies rich.

    Then Bush went back in time and made the environmental wackos stand in the way of us building new refineries and drilling for more of our own oil for the last 30 years.

    Then he teleported over to China and, using top secret Halliburton technology, made their economy grow and subsequently their demand on the oil market increase more in the last 2 years than in the last 20.

    If Bush really wanted to make his oil buddies rich, he would run over the hippies and start drilling all over the place like he should be. This way the evil oil companies would have their own oil they could refine and sell rather than buying it from overseas. This would also reduce the price of gas so more people would be buying it. And lastly, all those evil oil companies could sell the surplus to other countries and really clean up.
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  • mantis
    mantis Posts: 17,200
    edited September 2005
    I'm Totally Sick Of The Damn Gas Prices!!!!!!!!
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited September 2005
    nobody is saying there is no oil. Only that demand is growing faster than supply which always means higher prices.

    The price has been climbing because the demand has been climbing but hippies and cowardly politicians block every attemp to increase supply.

    Running out of oil? Other than environmental wackos, Ive not heard that. We are continually finding more and more deposits of oil all over the place. There is a theory floating around the the earth actually makes oil!

    Miles of black crud killing everything? Where do you find this? Ive spent a lot of time in Florida and Houston with drilling platforms in sight and have never once seen black pools of death. Sometimes spills happen but its no catastrophe. There are fissures in the ocean spewing out thousands of gallons of oil constantly! Why is it there arent pools of black death around? Because the ocean eats it, literally.

    Wether or not we knew China was going to be a huge oil consumer is irrelevant because whenever we try to dig for more oil or build more refineries a bunch of stupid **** hippies and chicken **** politicians shut it down!

    And where have you EVER heard anyone state we should drill everywhere? How many people have proposed drilling for oil in the middle of Central Park? The spot in Alaska is a total wilderness with NOTHING for hundreds of miles! Besides that we're only wanting to use .1% of the area.

    We agree on weening off oil. I think it will happen naturally with technology. It already is. Before gas was even a concern hybrid cars were being designed and built and eventually theyll figure out how to either make an engine that has 300 horsepower and gets 200 mpg or an electric engine that can charge up at any gas station in 5 minutes and last 500 miles or whatever they come up with. I disagree however that somebody or some entity is holding back this technology. GM, Toyota and Honda are big enough not to be held back by Exxon. Plus, whoever comes up with an engine that gets 250 mpg will be a gazillionaire overnight. Thats a huge insentive and I guaran-damn-tee ya there are thousands of engineers smarter than any oil exectutive working on this thing round the clock.

    On an unrelated note, I just noticed your sig Luc, that is hilarious. Mark Twain has the best one liners in history! :D
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited September 2005
    Here's the Oil BS as far as I'm concerned. All done up in a little humour.

    The GAS Truth (And GAS a number of ways)
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited September 2005
    That is hillarious!!

    Too bad they have to ruin it with the same old tired ****.

    I wonder if there is anyting out there that hippies dont blame Bush for.
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited September 2005
    No, I guess the hippies have always wanted to blame the politicians for everything, including Vietnam. If it quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited September 2005
    I just get sick and tired of claiming Bush or Clinton or whoever has an evil agenda. Like Bush would really start a freaking WAR just to increase the prices of oil so his buddies in Texas can get rich. That is insane.

    Same goes with Clinton, the right made him out to be a cold, calculating machine and the most corrupt president in history. I just dont buy it. Maybe its naive of me but I believed Clinton to be a good man and although I disagreed with 98% of his policies, I never questioned he was just trying to do the best for the country the way he saw fit. I believe its the same with Bush.

    I never get tired of debating somebody that simply states he doesnt agree with the war cause Hussein wasnt a threat and its not worth the trouble, thats a logical statement and I can respect that and we can discuss that. But when its the same old "Bush lied and Halliburton is really running the country because Bush wants to kill black people just so his stock prices can go up" is stupid, assinine and idiotic and it drives me up the wall!
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,643
    edited September 2005
    The latest gas prices......
    Political Correctness'.........defined

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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited September 2005
    F1nut wrote:
    The latest gas prices......

    HEHEHE!!!! :D
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  • MacLeod
    MacLeod Posts: 14,358
    edited September 2005
    Its down to $2.69 in north Georgia and $2.89 in Tennessee.

    Isnt it funny how $2.69 sounds LOW now?
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  • jgido759
    jgido759 Posts: 572
    edited September 2005
    Still averaging $3.19 for regular here in NJ! :mad:

    And we have a **** load of refinaries here. :confused:
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  • la2vegas
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    Well it only took 19 years but it looks like the gas prices have finally stabilized... :D

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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    Quite interesting thread that I had never seen.
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  • CottageChz
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    What a blast from the past. Funny now reading the prices people got pissed off about, since we have seen much higher in the past few years. Also makes our current prices seem not THAT bad even though I’d love for them to be lower.

    I started driving right around when this thread was started, and I was definitely not happy that I grew up seeing $0.89/gallon, and all of a sudden it was $3.00/gallon when I had to start buying it.
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  • stangman67
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    2.9X in Virginia. Traveled to the Seattle area last week and paid 5.60 a gallon in spots. Crazy to say the least
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  • la2vegas
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    F1nut wrote: »
    Adjust for inflation my arse. When I was 16, $5.00 would get you around all week in a rod that got 8 mpg. If they sold a hybrid van, I'd buy one, they don't.

    I wonder if F1 ever did get the hybrid of his dreams or perhaps now he's doing fully electric. :D
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  • daddyjt
    daddyjt Posts: 2,546
    edited September 7
    It’s not the price that pi$$es me off so much as the media telling me that it’s back down to where it was 3.5 years ago. We all know the truth of the fuel prices (AND the why) - even if half of us refuse to acknowledge said truth.
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  • Gardenstater
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    https://www.titlemax.com/discovery-center/average-gas-prices-through-history/

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  • Kex
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    Insightful graph @Gardenstater. Nice to see you back after an extended silence. 👋

    The prices are annual rather than monthly, otherwise the 2008 peak would look much worse than it does here.

    The graph ends in 2022, when prices were heavily impacted by the invasion of Ukraine. Current national monthly average is $3.29. A long way from $4.90.

    It would also be interesting to add home values to that graph. Does anyone really want their home return to its value of 2000?

    Also wages. Hopefully nobody is earning the same wage in 2024 as they were in 2000.

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  • muncybob
    muncybob Posts: 3,051
    With other stations in our area at about $3.50+, local Sams Club has been at $3.11 for the last week or so. They typically run .07 to .10 less but this is unusual.
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  • Gardenstater
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    Hey Kex. Yep. That chart was weird to find in a title lending company website in the first place :)

    I wouldn't mind having my house value return to 2000 values if everyone else's in my town retained their current assessed value, since property tax is basically an unconstitutional tax on unrealized gains. 🤣

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  • Kex
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    Yeah… we’re sort of lucky in California in that property tax increases are limited until a sale is recorded, but that excludes sales to family members, which creates unexpected situations where families keep a property that’s worth millions over generations, but they’re still paying property taxes as if their house was still worth less than $100K.

    The advantage is that homeowners can’t be priced out of their own property because they can no longer afford the property taxes. We have retired neighbors with modest incomes who have owned their homes since 1954.
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