RedValk
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just went over $2 again today. it's been UNDER $2 for quite some time. but it just kept slowly....quietly...inching up week by week until today.... must be getting ready to "gouge" us for our summer driving.......  |
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2009, 06:14:07 AM » |
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the fed gov is looking at passing a bill to ensure that federal gas taxes aren't cut in the future. So the fed gas tax won't get any lower. Seems to ensure that gas prices stay up in the future.
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Black Dog
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2009, 06:24:36 AM » |
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Two weeks ago, here in SE Wisconsin, the price for a gallon of regular was $2.08.9... Had been like that for about two months. Today, on the way to work, the same station was $2.39.9  Memorial Day is just around the corner...  Black Dog |
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Jack
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2009, 06:47:59 AM » |
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Same here. I was reading something that said prices would go up but should not reach close to the $3/gal we are familiar with.
It is hard to understand why oil prices can go down and level off but most things made from crude oil stay the same high price or fluctuate higher than we think is reasonable.
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« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2009, 06:50:41 AM » |
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Just hit $2.04 in the Houston ares up about .15 a gallon
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RTaz
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« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2009, 06:53:50 AM » |
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...$2.29 here in the Saginaw Mi. area ...been over $2 for about 2 weeks now...
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Black Pearl's Captain
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« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2009, 07:00:12 AM » |
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There is a perfectly good explaination for all these increases. Go and explain Mr's Hotglue, Strider, Warlock, (resident oil field trash guys).
Raymond
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« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2009, 07:15:14 AM » |
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20 cent jump in less than 12 hours here in north Atlanta.  Now we will get told the same old fairy tales as to why and America will once again bend over and take it in the rear. I have no problem with massive profits just don't lie to me about the reason why it is happening. F... it I'm off to a Yamaha demo day. Hope to ride a new V-Max. Update. Yamaha Warrior - enjoyable. More so than any Buell or HD I've ridden. Stratoliner - piece of pooh - keep buying up Valkyries. FJR - any throttle hesitation / lumpiness from earlier models has gone. Smooth powerful ride. V Max - hell YEAH!!!! Will make your ears touch. What a BLAST! I'm still grinning. Less wind buffeting than from the Stratoliner with windshiled. - Strange. |
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R J
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« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2009, 07:24:58 AM » |
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Our gas is hovering at $1.999 right now. It has gone up about $.30 a gal in the last 2 weeks. Loved it when it was lower. Could be over $2.00 a gal now as I haven't been out since noon yesterday... Been a favorin my new bionic eye ball...... Today I'll be out about noon giving it a test run. So far really satisfied with it....
Every time I read in the rags that the gas price analyst's predict a slight increase, the firkin price goes up a dime or more per gallon..
Maybe if we could keep them b*stards trap's shut it might level off somewhat.. Yeah, they yacked about Memorial day a couple of days ago and zing, up she went, $.10 one day and $.08 the next, then it will go down a couple of pennies and zing, we start it all over again. We seem to be losing ground by $.16 a week or 10 days..
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Doc Moose
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« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2009, 09:28:13 AM » |
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Getting ready for Indy 500, Mom's day, college graduations.
Had been $1.94 before that.
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« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2009, 09:33:31 AM » |
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In central Ky. running at most stations , @ 2.25. jumped .26 in one day. |
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ChromeDome
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« Reply #11 on: May 08, 2009, 09:59:00 AM » |
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Went up $0.15 between 8:00am & 5:00pm on Monday. It was about $1.85 at Christmas time and now $2.30 so that's $0.50 in 5 months. Guess they are getting us ready for the summer gas prices.
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R J
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« Reply #12 on: May 08, 2009, 01:27:58 PM » |
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Around here every time the firkin Natural Resources state dept says something to the effect that gas is going up.
Bingo, time for an increase the gas companies say, and presto it is done.....
We went up $.15 cents last night between the 6:00 PM announcement that gas could go higher in price, and 9:00 AM this morning......
Bastards. Oil is still down from what it was last year, and the gas price keeps climbing. Now make me believe their is no break it off in me price gouging. For some reason or another my butt is sore.
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« Reply #13 on: May 08, 2009, 02:13:52 PM » |
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Fresno ca $2.85. per gallon. |
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« Reply #14 on: May 08, 2009, 02:22:30 PM » |
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Arizona is the cheapest in the Nation , $171 a gal
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« Reply #15 on: May 08, 2009, 02:32:37 PM » |
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There is a perfectly good explaination for all these increases. Go and explain Mr's Hotglue, Strider, Warlock, (resident oil field trash guys).
Raymond
What do you mean oilfield trash . Unlike some people they have no ideal what it takes to put gas at the pumps. I don't like paying the high prices either, but it the bottom falls out I'll be looking for a job. I spend more time on the water than land. I satifice(sp) leaving my love ones home and hoping nothing happens while I'm gone. You just can't tell them well I want to go home tomorrow. You are stuck out there. I miss alot while being out there and yes I choose to be there and it does pay well. Of course you miss alot also. I really don't like being called trash and I take that as a insult. But just to let people know all us that work out here has no way of telling the big oil company how to sell it. It's like alot of stuff that's high price. If you don't like the price don't buy it. David |
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« Reply #16 on: May 08, 2009, 02:37:09 PM » |
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Holly Phucking smoke , just looked at the temperature outside, it's 100 and I see motorcycles out riding than ever before .
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Guess I'll go join them
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« Reply #17 on: May 08, 2009, 02:57:11 PM » |
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David I apologize if you took offence to the oil field remark. It's commonly used around here and as far as I know most say it without meaning anything derogatory. My grandfather and great grandfather both retired from the Kansas oil fields and they imprinted that term into my regular language. I guess it's not so common down your way.
Nothing meant by it David.
Raymond
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« Reply #18 on: May 08, 2009, 03:13:16 PM » |
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There is a perfectly good explaination for all these increases. Go and explain Mr's Hotglue, Strider, Warlock, (resident oil field trash guys).
Raymond
I was always scared ta tell my Momma I worked in the oil patch......Always led her to believe I was a piano player in a whore house.... |
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« Reply #19 on: May 08, 2009, 03:38:48 PM » |
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There is a perfectly good explaination for all these increases. Go and explain Mr's Hotglue, Strider, Warlock, (resident oil field trash guys).
Raymond
I was always scared ta tell my Momma I worked in the oil patch......Always led her to believe I was a piano player in a whore house.... Now, Mark. We all KNOW you don't play the piano.....  |
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I ride a motorcycle because nothing transports me as quickly from where I am to who I am.
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« Reply #20 on: May 08, 2009, 07:51:15 PM » |
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Price of crude, guys....price of crude. Up today 1.92.....Lowest around $35 weeks ago...today close to 60. Stock market up (over 8500)...30 year T-bond up from 2.68 to 4.27 today. It's a movin....gonna pay more.....gotta pay off the debt for the "bail out"....inflation will go higher (remember the 70's). Crude supplies have been full for weeks, ships sitting in the gulf full...no place to put the crude.....driving habits down...now, summer, more driving. We have all gotten used to 1.85...started driving more...crude going up as our driving habits go up. We haven't heard a word about excess profits...but gov't says they won't decrease their taxes....gotta pay more for the debt run-up. Price in the bayou country....2.08....and they make the damn stuff all around us....many refineries around here....but, they gotta ship it somewhere. 550 thousand barrel a day unit down yesterday...get ready...less supply in the system....price going up. Some refineries just coming off major unit turnarounds.....less supply, price going up....not gouging....its economics...supply vs demand with price we are willing to pay.  |
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« Reply #22 on: May 08, 2009, 10:46:46 PM » |
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David I apologize if you took offence to the oil field remark. It's commonly used around here and as far as I know most say it without meaning anything derogatory. My grandfather and great grandfather both retired from the Kansas oil fields and they imprinted that term into my regular language. I guess it's not so common down your way.
Nothing meant by it David.
Raymond
No problem. Guess I was tired. PMS  . Haven't had much sleep since getting back on the rig. Maybe tomorrow will get some sleep. After I read it later I relized you meant nothing by it. David |
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