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Offline Chris_

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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #250 on: April 09, 2011, 11:51:57 AM »
$3.47.  It's gone down a few pennies this week.

I'm beginning to wonder if I should start claiming mileage as an expense at work since I have to work out of two different buildings.  15-mile round trip, but it adds up over a busy week.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #251 on: April 09, 2011, 01:37:36 PM »
And once again it went up for the week by a few cents.

Regular is 5.21/G or 1.379/L
Premium is 5.38/G or 1.425/L
And Diesel is more or less the same at 5.09/G or 134.8/L
 

I see Premium going above 6$ at some point this summer.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #252 on: April 09, 2011, 03:52:16 PM »
I would have paid $4.11 a gallon today, but had a .10 cent off discount with my Smith's card.  So $4.01 a gallon.  I could only afford to put in $20 for now, that didn't get me even half a tank.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #253 on: April 09, 2011, 03:53:39 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on April 09, 2011, 01:37:36 PM
And once again it went up for the week by a few cents.

Regular is 5.21/G or 1.379/L
Premium is 5.38/G or 1.425/L
And Diesel is more or less the same at 5.09/G or 134.8/L
 

I see Premium going above 6$ at some point this summer.

Sorry your government is ****ing you in the ass.  Diesel here is $3.75.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #254 on: April 09, 2011, 03:54:58 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on April 09, 2011, 03:53:39 PM
Sorry your government is ****ing you in the ass.  Diesel here is $3.75.

But they get free health care.  ::)
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #255 on: April 09, 2011, 03:59:27 PM »
I remember visiting England in the 80's... it was the last time I got to go.  Dad pulled up to the filling station without looking and tells the guy "Fill 'er up!"  Petrol was about 85 pence/litre.  With the contemporary exchange rate, that was about $4/gallon and that was 20+ years ago.

Other than that, I remember my sister puking in Uncle Don's car and some cousins showing me porno mags and not much else.  Oh, and Hyde Park in London.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #256 on: April 09, 2011, 07:01:55 PM »
Quote from: Evil_Conservative on April 09, 2011, 03:54:58 PM
But they get free health care.  ::)

I explained this already, health care is funded by income tax. Fuel tax is used for a whole variety of other things.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #257 on: April 09, 2011, 08:08:22 PM »
Up again.

$3.89/9 regular.

$4.29/9 diesel.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #258 on: April 09, 2011, 09:54:31 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on April 09, 2011, 07:01:55 PM
I explained this already, health care is funded by income tax. Fuel tax is used for a whole variety of other things.

I was not talking about your fuel tax vs income tax.  Chris said, "your government is screwing you" or something to that effect.  So I was basically telling Chris that it was okay, because you guys get free health care.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #259 on: April 10, 2011, 09:18:21 AM »
$4.10 at some stations this morning.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #260 on: April 10, 2011, 05:51:52 PM »
$3.54 - $3.89 regular

$3.85 - $4.02 diesel

It all depends on where you go to fill up.  North Louisiana area.

The only thing that saves us is my husband can use his work vehicle when he wants.  He does not have a limit on gas.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #261 on: April 10, 2011, 07:44:20 PM »
Just paid 4.09. Lowest I have seen today 4.03, most at 4.11 to 4.19. So Cal area.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #262 on: April 11, 2011, 06:10:33 AM »
$3.689/gal at Cumby's by the house.  $3.749 at the Sunoco in Seabrook. 

National average of $3.77/gal this morning.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #263 on: April 11, 2011, 10:27:30 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on April 11, 2011, 06:10:33 AM
$3.689/gal at Cumby's by the house.  $3.749 at the Sunoco in Seabrook. 

National average of $3.77/gal this morning.

Odd.  I  thought Seabrook was always a lot cheaper than inland.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #264 on: April 11, 2011, 11:38:27 AM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on April 11, 2011, 10:27:30 AM
Odd.  I  thought Seabrook was always a lot cheaper than inland.

I think they're going through more volume and therefore they're going up faster than out of the way places.

Then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all to drive home tonight and see gas at $3.80.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #265 on: April 11, 2011, 01:31:42 PM »
Regular gas was $3.87 when I filled up on Saturday, but I had to get premium.  That was $4.11, but I had my 10 cent per gallon discount, so $4.01.  I thought Las Vegas would have seen $4 for regular by now. 
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #266 on: April 11, 2011, 08:58:52 PM »
$3.79 regular here in Denton on my way home from dinner today.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #267 on: April 12, 2011, 07:39:50 AM »
3.79 at my local store this morning.  Yesterday it was 3.63.  Wow.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #268 on: April 12, 2011, 08:00:58 AM »
The station that has been at $3.49 for weeks jumped up to $3.65 last night.  Ouch.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #269 on: April 12, 2011, 02:59:03 PM »
$3.98 for ethanol blend, $4.08 for the regular.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #270 on: April 12, 2011, 04:29:21 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on April 12, 2011, 02:59:03 PM
$3.98 for ethanol blend, $4.08 for the regular.

I have to ask even though I've looked this up, because I've gotten various answers. What is this "ethanol blend" stuff? I have yet to hear anything good about it.

We don't have it in Nova Scotia so I'm just wondering if it makes ad difference in how a car runs and such.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #271 on: April 12, 2011, 04:32:42 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on April 12, 2011, 04:29:21 PM
I have to ask even though I've looked this up, because I've gotten various answers. What is this "ethanol blend" stuff? I have yet to hear anything good about it.

We don't have it in Nova Scotia so I'm just wondering if it makes ad difference in how a car runs and such.

In Nebraska, "ethanol blend" can be 85-90% regular gasoline, 10-15% ethanol.

According to my own mechanic it does make a difference, mileage per gallon being lower the older the motor vehicle is.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #272 on: April 12, 2011, 04:37:33 PM »
What the hell's happened with car mileages? We had a 1987 Toyota Camry that got 34 MPG around town and up to 46 MPG on the highway. We once went from Chicago to Buffalo, NY, without having to stop for gas. And I could actually work on that car - not everything, but today I can't do ANYTHING to a car.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #273 on: April 13, 2011, 08:22:05 AM »
Quote from: CG6468 on April 12, 2011, 04:37:33 PM
What the hell's happened with car mileages? We had a 1987 Toyota Camry that got 34 MPG around town and up to 46 MPG on the highway. We once went from Chicago to Buffalo, NY, without having to stop for gas. And I could actually work on that car - not everything, but today I can't do ANYTHING to a car.

Now we charge to take the lead out and put ethanol in.  GO FIGURE.

I still want to hear more about the environmental controls Compaq uses in his bio-diesel operation. 

I keep hearing about all the synthetic diesel made from waste grease. What I really want to hear about is the ability to make it from pig $hit and turkey entrails.  It can be done so I am told. 

Corn ethanol is just another form of farm subsidy to keep em on the democrat reservation.  Again, I credit FDR with creation of that mentality.  Between unions and farmers his legacy is still being felt today.

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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #274 on: April 13, 2011, 04:06:21 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on April 13, 2011, 08:22:05 AM
Now we charge to take the lead out and put ethanol in.  GO FIGURE.

Corn ethanol is just another form of farm subsidy to keep em on the democrat reservation.  Again, I credit FDR with creation of that mentality.  Between unions and farmers his legacy is still being felt today.

There are actually TWO problems with your broad-brush statement above.......

1.  There are damn few farmers here in Missouri, or in Kansas, or Nebraska for that matter that are on the "Democrat reservation"........the vast majority of them (here it's around 70%) vote reliably Republican.  I would be reluctant to lump farmers in with the unions.........

2.  Government subsidies are NOT given to farmers for growing corn for ethanol.  The subsidies for ethanol are given to the manufacturers that produce the stuff from agricultural products, in a hapless attempt to make it competitive with gasoline (which it's not).  Has ethanol use increased the prices that the farmer receives for his corn crop?.....hell yes, and that is all he is really interested in.  The only Federal subsidy given to GRAIN farmers is for not growing anything (what used to be called the "soil bank").  The amount paid for this program is so paltry that the only land that ends up there is usually that which is unsuitable for production.

There are small grants, and low interest loans available to grain farmers for terracing, and similiar land improvements for erosion control, as well as conservation projects like "wetlands" for wildlife preservation.  These are no substitute for producing fields and free market prices.

On our farm (totalling about 880 acres) we have 30 acres that we place in the "soil bank" because it lies in the flood plain of a nearby creek, and anything planted there frequently is lost in the spring.  How much is our "subsidy" for that 30 acres?  Last year we received a bit over $1500........which is about what we'd receive at current prices from one acre of productive land planted in corn.

There ARE subsidies for organic farming, and other such liberal hippy crap, but generally farmers are only interested in maximizing their yield, and therefore their income, they are the penultimate capitalists.

Dairy farming, and some types of meat production are subsidized to an extent.

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