how much is your gas!!!

davelbert said:
I've saw 2.60 here in Vegas and just heard a report that our tanks (big storage facility by Nellis AFB) our running dry! Any one know where I can get a Mad Max outfit and a sawed browning 12 ga. pump?
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I saw a Mad Max car for sale at one of the dealerships a while ago...
 
RichP said:
Actually those threats worked to an extent, twice, you better believe that the accountants are sensitive to that kind of stuff as are the marketing people, public relations, etc. I know this for a fact because a relative was very very high up in mobil and over dinner it came up a few times in the conversation, the executives were nervous, mainly about where to store the oil that was coming in and how much it would cost keeping a tanker berthed waiting to offload. A week of everybody prepping for it and buying all the groceries for a week and then just spending a few days working around the house or from home if you have that option, would have a big effect. As of now it's a tie for whose in first place for most despicable, lawyers or oil companies. :laugh3:
It would also put a big dent in consumption just to stop driving on weekends, again it would require pre-planning for trips to the hardware store to get materials for the weekend projects but it is doable.
I have been doing cold calls for the past couple of weeks to drum up more business and I gotta say it really sucks, that extra $50 a week I'm spending on gas is no joke. One customer already had to back out of a systems upgrade, 10 PC's and a server due to his fuel bills which for his trucks has gone up over $2500 a WEEK this month alone...
I'm really tempted to go buy one of those 250 gallon fuel tanks that normally hold heating oil and start filling it 10-20 gallons at a time with my blitz cans everytime I go out especially if it's going to go up .10-.25 a gallon every couple of days.
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Sorry to hear that it is hurting business. I know that the fuel prices are going to affect prices in all areas of our life because of higher transportation costs. Air travel, groceries, pc's (to name a few), all of these prices will have to be raised to cover costs
 
Not only in those industries/businesses either.....the "trickle down" effect is probably already starting to take place in average consumer spending. I'd imagine that this could end up causing many...."mini recessions" in many different communities/areas of the U.S. Especially those areas with lower wages.

Everybody just has to stop with some of what they call "luxuries" when something like this happens. Some people's "luxuries" are what others consider normal spending...like "shopping" for anything other than the staples needed to survive. In this case, that directly effects consumer spending causing many "mom & pop" places to go "belly up". In many communities those M & P places are some of the only employers around.....so....you see the consequences clearly.

Government knows this....and could care less. That's the reason that I get so p***** about government spending and allocations and certain forms of government "aid" to foreign countries. They could be taking any monies being given in foreign aid to help "spark" other countries economies......and they could use that money here at home to lower the nationwide average of the price of fuel oil, diesel, and gasoline to where it should be for such a widely used commodity (like a buck a gallon!). There's still actually plenty of money to be made even at that low of a price and it dramatically boosts the average working man's left over money each week. Therefore it boosts spending on a broad spectrum.....because everybody would probably shop a little bit more...or spend a little bit more if they HAD it!

Okay....I'll shut up now.....oh yea...it's back "down" to $2.30 now...for a day or so.
Aron
 
We could pull out of helping others but at the same time this economy is a global thing. The better off other countries are doing, the more it can help us down the road. In today's world everything impacts someone else. I agree that we spend too much overseas and need to bring some things back home but that has its own set of problems. IE: bring more manufacturing back home...more jobs here, but stuff would cost more as the workers would be getting paid a lot more...
I hate the gas prices but I don't think these don't buy gas days really help at all...too hard to organize everyone and they know we can't hold out forever.
 
I understand the economy being a global thing and I'm not saying to quit helping other countries. What I am saying is that we can curtail our "foreign aid" by just a very small percentage and apply that to a simple matter here at home.....like lowering the end-result for fuel costs across the board.

There's also no way you can make me believe that much of the "foreign aid" is bloated and has PLENTY of room for small cuts here and there to help out our OWN COUNTRY.

Aron
 
BigDawgz said:
I understand the economy being a global thing and I'm not saying to quit helping other countries. What I am saying is that we can curtail our "foreign aid" by just a very small percentage and apply that to a simple matter here at home.....like lowering the end-result for fuel costs across the board.

There's also no way you can make me believe that much of the "foreign aid" is bloated and has PLENTY of room for small cuts here and there to help out our OWN COUNTRY.

Aron
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I've never been a fan of foreign aid, especially when that aid is geared to helping a country COMPETE with what we already produce, the foreign aid that is used to buy off hostile govts that covertly threaten us is a total waste, thats what the military is for. Examples are too numerous to name, training engineers in hardware and software so that they can compete and off shore almost entire industries. Auto mobile manufacturing, heavy industy manufacturing, steel, clothing, etc. Sure, other countries can do it cheaper but when you are below poverty level anything added can only pull you up. I'd like to see stock holders start outsourcing CEO's and corp executives then see how long that outsourcing and 'global economy' BS lasts... Companies that build HERE, employ HERE, live HERE should have one hell of a bigger advantage in the markets HERE than outside ones. You want to build cheap cars in china, fine, SELL THE DAMN THINGS IN CHINA THEN, want to bring them here, fine, but the price will be ON PAR with a product made here. You are also damn right I'm protective, I don't want my standard of living dragged down to some third world level no matter how politically correct it is... /off soapbox
 
Can't believe no one here...especially here, has thought of this.........compressed methane is the solution.
 
XJEEPER said:
Can't believe no one here...especially here, has thought of this.........compressed methane is the solution.
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Check the NAXJA Members forum.... that is where the Compressed Methane is. :)
 
dude! where in monson it that place! i'm 20mins from there, i'm going!
aduke said:
$1.90's here in hick ville
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davidt said:
Air travel, groceries, pc's (to name a few), all of these prices will have to be raised to cover costs
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The worst part of that is that our produce has been pretty crappy all winter; according to the stores it's because of the rains in CA that have ruined several crops. So now not only do ya get crappy brown lettuce, but it's steadily getting more expensive. Friggin' joy...
 
Went around town, just curious, regular ranged from $2.53 to $2.69 a gallon. The funny part was that Circle K had both the lowest price in town and the highest price. Guess which one is in the middle of town.
Mark
 
that's a start..:yelclap: :party: :party: :cheers: :yelclap:
bjoehandley said:
One local station dropped from $2.40 down to $2.25
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Yeah it is a trickle down effect, but do you think it trickles down to the fat cats in Texas, Cali, and the other refining states. Last time this happened they all got richer then hell as I'm sure they are now. The Government will step in and do something in about oh maybe 4 years is my guess.
2.28 from a cheapy gas station in Boise today.
 
The Government will step in and do something in about oh maybe 4 years is my guess.
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That depends on who ends up in office next though, it could be raised to curtail Truck/SUV purchases by a "Green" canidate, or by another canidate that has finacial ties to the oil companies. I think the only way to get around it is to hope we get somebody who isn't on either side of that fence
 
You got that right. That will be a challenge won't it ? A moderate like myself. Ha like that'll happen. Probably another NEOCON or NEOLIB.
 
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