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Offline thundley4

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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #525 on: November 28, 2011, 09:04:23 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 28, 2011, 06:28:43 AM
For the last week or ten days the price here has been boucing from $2.99/9 to $3.12/9....y'all know which days I've been getting gas don't you? :-)

Probably just like me. You buy gas and the next day the price drops.  :banghead:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #526 on: November 28, 2011, 10:06:05 AM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2011, 09:04:23 AM
Probably just like me. You buy gas and the next day the price drops.  :banghead:

Global warming is fix'n to drop a ton of snow and ice on me...gas was $2.98/9 when I bought it a few minutes ago.

Back in 1958 while daddy owned a country store we once sold regular gas for 11.9 cent a gallon for a couple of days. The usual gas wars back then dropped the price of gas from 24.9 to around 18.9 give or take a penny. I know because I had to change the pumps, the road sign and pump the gas.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #527 on: November 28, 2011, 01:30:19 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on November 28, 2011, 10:06:05 AM
Global warming is fix'n to drop a ton of snow and ice on me...gas was $2.98/9 when I bought it a few minutes ago.

Back in 1958 while daddy owned a country store we once sold regular gas for 11.9 cent a gallon for a couple of days. The usual gas wars back then dropped the price of gas from 24.9 to around 18.9 give or take a penny. I know because I had to change the pumps, the road sign and pump the gas.

I remember those days when gas was two bits a gallon. Also bagged groceries at the A & P for 35 cents an hour as a teenager.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #528 on: November 28, 2011, 01:33:43 PM »
Quote from: Lacarnut on November 28, 2011, 01:30:19 PM
I remember those days when gas was two bits a gallon. Also bagged groceries at the A & P for 35 cents an hour as a teenager.

Some of the younger folks here on CC might not know what "two bits" is....  :whistling:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #529 on: November 28, 2011, 01:35:28 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 28, 2011, 01:33:43 PM
Some of the younger folks here on CC might not know what "two bits" is....  :whistling:

I have heard of lady bits but not two bits  :whistling:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #530 on: November 28, 2011, 01:38:43 PM »
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #531 on: November 28, 2011, 01:55:21 PM »
Two bits, four bits, 6 bits, a dollar...

Not all that complicated - IF a person has heard that little saying.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #532 on: November 28, 2011, 02:19:17 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on November 28, 2011, 01:55:21 PM
Two bits, four bits, 6 bits, a dollar...

Not all that complicated - IF a person has heard that little saying.

Just one little problem with that scenario, CG. You're old. They ain't.  :rotf:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #533 on: November 28, 2011, 02:20:52 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 28, 2011, 02:19:17 PM
Just one little problem with that scenario, CG. You're old. They ain't.  :rotf:

I always wondered why we didn't have a coin worth a bit. 
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #534 on: November 28, 2011, 04:03:10 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on November 28, 2011, 01:55:21 PM
Two bits, four bits, 6 bits, a dollar...

Not all that complicated - IF a person has heard that little saying.

Every graduate of the University of Florida has heard it...
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #535 on: November 28, 2011, 04:36:35 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 28, 2011, 02:19:17 PM
Just one little problem with that scenario, CG. You're old. They ain't.  :rotf:

Hmmmm. Seems like that's the pot calling the kettle black.  :lmao:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #536 on: November 28, 2011, 04:38:15 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on November 28, 2011, 04:36:35 PM
Hmmmm. Seems like that's the pot calling the kettle black.  :lmao:

Well, I'm beyond 50, but not by a lot.   :whistling:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #537 on: November 28, 2011, 04:39:24 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 28, 2011, 04:38:15 PM
Well, I'm beyond 50, but not by a lot.   :whistling:

Uh-huh.  :mental:

I be yond 50 too.  :panic:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #538 on: November 28, 2011, 04:42:30 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on November 28, 2011, 04:39:24 PM
Uh-huh.  :mental:

I be yond 50 too.  :panic:

Uh-huh. You're beyond 60, and pushing on the door marked "70".  :-) 

Like I said -- you're old.  :rotf:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #539 on: November 28, 2011, 04:52:48 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 28, 2011, 04:42:30 PM
Uh-huh. You're beyond 60, and pushing on the door marked "70".  :-) 

Like I said -- you're old.  :rotf:

Yep. I am older than the stuff UNDER the dirt!  :-)
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #540 on: November 28, 2011, 07:11:18 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on November 28, 2011, 01:33:43 PM
Some of the younger folks here on CC might not know what "two bits" is....  :whistling:
Sounds like an older Austrailian type of monetary. Perhaps the equivalent of the British guinea
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #541 on: November 28, 2011, 07:13:08 PM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on November 28, 2011, 07:11:18 PM
Sounds like an older Austrailian type of monetary. Perhaps the equivalent of the British guinea

I know it mostly from watching old westerns. two bits was 25 cents.  I have heard loose women called two bit whores.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #542 on: November 29, 2011, 11:40:48 AM »
Gas steady or slowly declining, but diesel (and as a result, heating oil) is friggin ridiculous.

Unleaded is going for $3.299 this morning, but diesel is in the $3.90 range, with heating oil (basically diesel sans tax) is $3.50-3.60/gallon.  If it's that high this early in the season, we're ****ed come March/April.

And I'm going to need at least two fillups.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #543 on: November 29, 2011, 11:52:55 AM »
We use kerosene sometimes and it's up to $3.99/gal.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #544 on: November 29, 2011, 02:28:23 PM »
Quote from: NHSparky on November 29, 2011, 11:40:48 AM
Gas steady or slowly declining, but diesel (and as a result, heating oil) is friggin ridiculous.

Unleaded is going for $3.299 this morning, but diesel is in the $3.90 range, with heating oil (basically diesel sans tax) is $3.50-3.60/gallon.  If it's that high this early in the season, we're ****ed come March/April.

And I'm going to need at least two fillups.

Remembering some of the pics you have posted in the past, you have a good sized house. Do you have central heating or forced hot air?
I imagine when you lived by yourself, you just closed the door to the rooms you weren't using..

Now that you have a family with you, more rooms will be used and therefore heated...
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #545 on: November 29, 2011, 03:13:18 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2011, 07:13:08 PM
I know it mostly from watching old westerns. two bits was 25 cents.  I have heard loose women called two bit whores.

And politicians.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #546 on: November 30, 2011, 07:56:41 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on November 29, 2011, 02:28:23 PM
Remembering some of the pics you have posted in the past, you have a good sized house. Do you have central heating or forced hot air?
I imagine when you lived by yourself, you just closed the door to the rooms you weren't using..

Now that you have a family with you, more rooms will be used and therefore heated...

Oil burner/hot water.  Two zones, upstairs and down.  So even "closing off the other rooms" does pretty much nothing since the whole floor is maintained at the same temperature.

Owing to the VERY warm weather we've had over the past six weeks, we haven't used that much oil, only about 1/4 tank since October.  However, I'm not going to BS myself into thinking this is holding out forever.  God will smack me down with a great big, "**** you" and some -20 mornings in the not-so-distant future.  That's when we'll REALLY find out how much we'll be going through.

As it is right now, however, I won't need a fill until after New Year's, if the weather doesn't turn to total crap.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #547 on: January 09, 2012, 03:09:11 PM »
$3.59 for non-ethanol blend and $3.49 for ethanol blend today.  It jumped about 20 cents in the last week.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #548 on: January 09, 2012, 03:13:25 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on January 09, 2012, 03:09:11 PM
$3.59 for non-ethanol blend and $3.49 for ethanol blend today.  It jumped about 20 cents in the last week.
Yep.  I was just getting used to sub-$3 gas.  Now it's $3.15 out at the airport.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #549 on: January 09, 2012, 04:48:10 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on January 09, 2012, 03:13:25 PM
Yep.  I was just getting used to sub-$3 gas.  Now it's $3.15 out at the airport.

Two weeks ago it was 3.09.  Yesterday it was 3.27.  I had .50 off a gallon, so I got some mid-grade for 2.94.
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