Willow
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« Reply #40 on: June 13, 2012, 11:42:49 AM » |
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I wonder if the people who are in gasoline sales and struggling to make it worthwhile at a very few percentage points of profit on each gallon get weary of the customers constantly complaining of how they're being ripped off. Many factors go into the price of gasoline, more than just the price of crude oil. the oil industry in this country (USA) provides a lot of people with meaningful employment, some of whom are my good friends. It's interesting that some of the same people who will proudly spend a little more to buy an American made automobile will whine and moan about how much the American owned oil companies are making at a few percentage points of profit. We're still paying less per gallon (or liter) for gasoline than almost any country outside of the Middle East. I once got a B on a college paper because the instructor said I had a tendency to over-simplify in my logic. Perhaps I've never gotten over that.  |
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« Reply #41 on: June 13, 2012, 12:28:26 PM » |
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$1.83 Cdn. per liter here.......... are ya sensing how much sympathy I have for you guys........
and how much is that tax going to pay for your health care? just wondering...... |
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« Reply #42 on: June 13, 2012, 01:59:51 PM » |
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up like a rocket, down like a feather. seems to be that if a gnat farts in the middle east gas prices scream northward  |
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« Reply #43 on: June 13, 2012, 04:33:36 PM » |
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I'd like to know why it goes up $0.20 over night but only drops a penny at a time.  fudgie, they call is break it off in the consumers butt tax. Our gas price has been steady here for about a month now. Filled up yesterday for $2.87.9. Oh, dat be E85...... Mom spent $3.12.9 in her Highlander. E85 seems to work just fine in my truck, I'm getting almost the same MPG as with the old stuff. Old stuff, I got 18.6 MPG, with E85 I'm getting 18.3 MPG. so, I'll keep getting E85, it was built to run on it and another quirk I've found, it has more gitty up go with the E85. Whats the E-10 running? Thats what I get when I cross the Mississip. |
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« Reply #44 on: June 13, 2012, 04:39:07 PM » |
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I wonder if the people who are in gasoline sales and struggling to make it worthwhile at a very few percentage points of profit on each gallon get weary of the customers constantly complaining of how they're being ripped off.
Well the guy we do work for on occasion owns a petroleum trading company. He is doing well. House in- Hawaii, Trump Tower in Chicago, Miami, 3 in the county he lives in, 2 mc's, a Bentley, 3 Mercades, BMW, GMC truck, month long vacations with personal translator, and has high end 'art'. Yea, he is doing well.  |
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« Reply #45 on: June 13, 2012, 04:56:00 PM » |
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Related to fuel prices:  ..ED |
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« Reply #46 on: June 13, 2012, 05:01:53 PM » |
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... owns a petroleum trading company. There are certainly wealthy people in oil, lots of them. There are also independent operators who own or operate one or two stations. Whatever their means, the profit margin at the local distributor isn't near what some people paint. And we still have very nearly the least expensive gasoline in the world. |
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« Reply #47 on: June 13, 2012, 05:06:21 PM » |
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It would be interesting to see the above map of Europe. I imagine the taxes would be higher by an order of magnitude.
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« Reply #48 on: June 13, 2012, 07:22:31 PM » |
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Barrel = unit of measure
Drum = unit of issue
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« Reply #49 on: June 13, 2012, 07:54:34 PM » |
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It would be interesting to see the above map of Europe. I imagine the taxes would be higher by an order of magnitude.
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Couldn't find a pretty graphic, but here's the raw data... Ouch...  (Source - http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Reducing-Petroleum-Consumption-From-Transportation.html ) |
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« Reply #50 on: June 13, 2012, 07:57:24 PM » |
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I'm just glad gasoline is not as expensive as bottled water...$1.20 for 22 oz.... Way more than gasoline per gallon....
for WATER...City tap water...... maybe filtered... maybe not.... oh and look at all their costs to produce.... exploration, drilling, refining, ......NOT.....
Transportation, well ya have ta get it to the stores.... Talk about a RIP OFF!!!! I'm glad our Valks don't run on water..... I couldn't afford it!!!!!
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« Reply #51 on: June 13, 2012, 09:03:51 PM » |
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I'm just glad gasoline is not as expensive as bottled water...$1.20 for 22 oz.... Way more than gasoline per gallon....
for WATER...City tap water...... maybe filtered... maybe not.... oh and look at all their costs to produce.... exploration, drilling, refining, ......NOT.....
Transportation, well ya have ta get it to the stores.... Talk about a RIP OFF!!!! I'm glad our Valks don't run on water..... I couldn't afford it!!!!!
Before i retired from Heartland Express i was hauling more water(bottled)than general freight.  Hauling bottled water be a HUGE business. That was one of my pet peeves with my 2nd ex wife-leave the house and go to a handi mart to buy water.  I refill the gallon milk jugs and put at least one in the saddle bags summer or winter riding. RIDE SAFE. |
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« Reply #52 on: June 14, 2012, 01:57:03 AM » |
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95% of my work is for Coca Cola who produces Dasani water,I install all there process systems and water treatment systems.There is a lot more to it then just filtering the water,alot more expense than you might think.yes their water comes from the public water system,but they take it through quite a process . did you know that most public water supplies are treated with amonia.Coke takes all the crappy chemicals that the water dept. puts in (not for your health) to keep their systems running, not to mention microbes and the ph levels.The costs are more than you would think to maintain quality of their products.
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