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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #150 on: March 15, 2011, 08:33:09 PM »
Goes down 2 cents, goes up 10.  Same crap they did after Katrina. 
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #151 on: March 15, 2011, 08:41:57 PM »
$3.55 and $3.65 here today.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #152 on: March 15, 2011, 09:12:48 PM »
Quote from: FreeBorn on March 15, 2011, 08:30:04 PM
It's all Bush's fault, dammit !!! 

Who else's fault could it be?
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #153 on: March 16, 2011, 08:19:26 AM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 15, 2011, 09:12:48 PM
Who else's fault could it be?

Are you trying to be retarded? Or does it come naturally?
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #154 on: March 16, 2011, 09:04:26 AM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 16, 2011, 08:19:26 AM
Are you trying to be retarded? Or does it come naturally?

I didn't expect it to be taken seriously. The fact you all still take me seriously amazes me.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #155 on: March 16, 2011, 09:22:36 AM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 16, 2011, 09:04:26 AM
I didn't expect it to be taken seriously. The fact you all still take me seriously amazes me.

You'll have to excuse me, I've been reading the DUmp for the past decade. Nothing surprises me from your kind. Just Google Katrina+Bush.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #156 on: March 16, 2011, 06:23:04 PM »
It has been flirting with $4.00 all week. Cheapest I have seen is $3.89, most $3.96 -99, with one at $4.04. This is in southern California.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #157 on: March 21, 2011, 08:22:54 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 15, 2011, 09:12:48 PM
Who else's fault could it be?
I'll give you a hint.
He currently "occupies" the white mosque, has big ears and is a red diaper doper baby. :wink:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #158 on: March 22, 2011, 08:28:45 AM »
Some stations are coming down just a bit, but not very fast.  Saw "discount" gas as cheap as $3.39 this morning.  Still $3.49 at Seabrook Sunoco though, and $3.50 in most places around my house.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #159 on: March 22, 2011, 10:23:57 AM »
I think back a few years when things were good ...and I calculate...

9 engines running X 12 hour days X 70 gallons per hour consumption X at least 5 days a week X 4 weeks a month X $3.00 per gallon off road diesel fuel = right at $50,000.00 a month fuel bill...oh my....I'm glad I quit when I did...the next heart attack would have been a killer for sure.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #160 on: March 23, 2011, 01:35:29 AM »
Prices have pretty much stabilized here. $3.31 lowest $3.54 highest. The highest price is off I-10 headed to MS. This is the highest split I have ever seen between high and low in Mobile county.Usually it isn't more the 15 cents. Pretty much what has happened is as the off brands go down the major brands go up, the two biggest asses being BP and Shell as usual. 
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #161 on: March 23, 2011, 07:22:24 AM »
Same station monitored, it crept down to 3.32, today it is 3.39. 
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #162 on: March 23, 2011, 09:46:32 AM »
$3.67 in obamaville.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #163 on: March 23, 2011, 10:54:17 AM »
Filled up at BJ's yesterday for $3.399.

AAA has the price since last week dropping 1/2 cent per gallon.  Still up 38 cents over a month ago.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #164 on: March 23, 2011, 11:55:08 AM »
Filled up this morning for $3.29......it's been dropping here steadily for a week.

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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #165 on: March 23, 2011, 02:03:02 PM »
Quote from: TVDOC on March 23, 2011, 11:55:08 AM
Filled up this morning for $3.29......it's been dropping here steadily for a week.

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I filled up for 5.15 yesterday.

Oh, wait, that was 5.15 total.  :stirpot:
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #166 on: March 23, 2011, 02:04:22 PM »
...but the truck, which has a 24.9 gallon tank and gets 14 MPG is on E. ...and rain is in the forecast.  :(
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #167 on: March 23, 2011, 04:32:44 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 23, 2011, 02:04:22 PM
...but the truck, which has a 24.9 gallon tank and gets 14 MPG is on E. ...and rain is in the forecast.  :(

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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #168 on: March 23, 2011, 06:13:40 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on March 23, 2011, 02:03:02 PM
I filled up for 5.15 yesterday.

Oh, wait, that was 5.15 total.  :stirpot:

I filled up for almost nothing today. Homemade biodiesel FTW.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #169 on: March 23, 2011, 06:22:04 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 23, 2011, 06:13:40 PM
I filled up for almost nothing today. Homemade biodiesel FTW.


How do you handle the fuel taxes? What are they in Canada btw? Had to imagine the state will forgo their due for too long, what would happen to the roads and bridges?
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #170 on: March 23, 2011, 06:43:40 PM »
Quote from: zeitgeist on March 23, 2011, 06:22:04 PM
How do you handle the fuel taxes? What are they in Canada btw? Had to imagine the state will forgo their due for too long, what would happen to the roads and bridges?

Biodiesel in my province at least is exempt from fuel taxes.

Fuel tax for regular gas is 15.5¢/L (58.5¢/G) and regular diesel is 15.4¢/L. All provinces are different but thats what we pay here.

However fuel also has HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 15% (highest in Canada) added to the cost. But I don't have to pay that either since I'm not buying it from anyone.

During the summer months I don't buy fuel and with he cost of it spending time on the weekend to make it is time well spent.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #171 on: March 23, 2011, 07:35:57 PM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 23, 2011, 06:43:40 PM
Biodiesel in my province at least is exempt from fuel taxes.

Fuel tax for regular gas is 15.5¢/L (58.5¢/G) and regular diesel is 15.4¢/L. All provinces are different but thats what we pay here.

However fuel also has HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 15% (highest in Canada) added to the cost. But I don't have to pay that either since I'm not buying it from anyone.

During the summer months I don't buy fuel and with he cost of it spending time on the weekend to make it is time well spent.

For now, maybe.  Give it a year or two.

Hmmmm...time well spent?  Let's see...I make $XX.XX per hour, times 1.5 for Saturday, carry the 1, carry the 1 again...

Nope.  Better spent filling up.  8 hours making a tank of gas that smells like french fries, or making enough to fill my tank 10 times?  Hmmmm...
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #172 on: March 24, 2011, 07:59:12 AM »
Quote from: NHSparky on March 23, 2011, 07:35:57 PM
For now, maybe.  Give it a year or two.

Hmmmm...time well spent?  Let's see...I make $XX.XX per hour, times 1.5 for Saturday, carry the 1, carry the 1 again...

Nope.  Better spent filling up.  8 hours making a tank of gas that smells like french fries, or making enough to fill my tank 10 times?  Hmmmm...
Isn't true that the price heating oil goes down in the summer?? so many people I know are struggling, they put only 100 gallons at a whack in a 300 gallon tank, It seems like they run out of gas that much faster.Then they panic when they run out, especially on the weekends.(it cost more to deliver beyond office hours) though wood pellet stoves are quite popular as well. We sell the pellets at work for approx 5.20 a bag. I am not sure if these customers are using their pellet stoves as the primary heat, or supplemental however.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #173 on: March 24, 2011, 08:06:11 AM »
Quote from: compaqxp on March 23, 2011, 06:43:40 PM
Biodiesel in my province at least is exempt from fuel taxes.

Fuel tax for regular gas is 15.5¢/L (58.5¢/G) and regular diesel is 15.4¢/L. All provinces are different but thats what we pay here.

However fuel also has HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 15% (highest in Canada) added to the cost. But I don't have to pay that either since I'm not buying it from anyone.

During the summer months I don't buy fuel and with he cost of it spending time on the weekend to make it is time well spent.

Without going into great detail what does your process entail and what safety standards do you follow to ensure you are not a hazard to your neighbors and the environment in the process.  What type of permitting is required.

Every time I read of someone whipping up a batch by hand I think of meth labs.  Don't know why that is but I do, maybe it is the explosions that you see in the movies.  

I would love to fill the MH with tax free fuel.  Wouldn't it be lovely.    :naughty:  At eight miles to the gallon you know you have been somewhere when you stop to pump 100 gallons.   And the petite pumps for diesel cars just makes it all the worse, a mistake I try to avoid whenever possible.
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Re: Gas Costs Rise, Set Record For This Time Of Year
« Reply #174 on: March 24, 2011, 08:11:33 AM »
Quote from: seahorse513 on March 24, 2011, 07:59:12 AM
Isn't true that the price heating oil goes down in the summer?? so many people I know are struggling, they put only 100 gallons at a whack in a 300 gallon tank, It seems like they run out of gas that much faster.Then they panic when they run out, especially on the weekends.(it cost more to deliver beyond office hours) though wood pellet stoves are quite popular as well. We sell the pellets at work for approx 5.20 a bag. I am not sure if these customers are using their pellet stoves as the primary heat, or supplemental however.

I use mine as supplemental, buy pellets by the ton deliverd in the summer.  Using pellets can cause problems if you let the rest of the house cools down and heating pipes on the outside walls freeze.  I have auto delivery for oil and budget for it as best one can.  Lately it is more like playing the futures market. :argh:
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