Fill up the the tanks before Friday... (Page 2 of 3)

Must be nice. NY is in the process of adding a tax to gas here Great time to do it with the way the economy is. At least they waited till prices came down though.

As a young kid, even before I was driving; gas was 18.9 cents/gal.  Had a 1970 340 Challenger R/T, 8 miles to a gallon; life was good.  Now, I'm paying right under 6 bucks a gallon for fuel that comes hot outta the ground a few hundred miles from where I call home.  The oil is refined in Fairbanks, hauled in during the summer when our road is open.  Funny thing is they haul the same fuel refined in Fairbanks clear down to Seattle and sell it a couple bucks cheaper a gallon there. Our fuel price might drop a dollar or so come nx summer but not much more. 

Economics aside, it's plain old greed and whatever the market will bare; never going to change either.  About all one can do is cut their fuel consumption and get ready for new fuel taxes down the road. 

I have a 1000 gal diesel tank full buried. We have a oil fired hot water boiler but installed a couple woodstoves which saves us 1800 gal of oil consumption/year.  If the local gas station continues to hose everybody at 6 bucks nx summer, I'm actually considering burying 2 new thousand gallon tanks for gas, I can do this for 2500 bucks.  Probably pay for itself in a year or so in savings of taxes & high fuel prices.  I'll probably find the fuel supplier won't deliver to me unless I buy 10,000 gallon, ha.  Then I'll start filling 55 gallon drums and hauling it in myself.  That will get the local gas station guy to lower his prices,, maybe?  He actually told me that he'd match the price if I start hauling it in myself, ha.  Everybody's making money at the oil game;  we just pay.

After beans and cornbread consumption, I run on natural gas.

Vote Truth, Vote Blue, Vote Red or Rock The Vote. To me it's all the same. In reality it doesn't matter. The people will still have to trudge on and fend for themselves.

He who wins will be the biggest spender....... and the biggest hypocrite.

Stay Safe
Spider

Well it looks like we wont be drilling In Utah for oil....that will be killed in Jan....I'm not going to make a political statement outright....hell, I guess were going to depend on all our oil elsewhere ....go ahead raise the price of oil, we'll pay whatever you want

Sincerely,

Whatever!

QUICK HIT THE GAS!!!...dude, they kill people in that city just for kicks...I know, it's an hour from me....me and my brother got a sayin for certain parts of that place, he lives there...they stole his van right out of his driveway when his wife went inside for a moment and left it running....strapped with my glock, illegal or not

Hey, nice find on the gas...it's 10 cents more where I live

Shred

What many people are unaware of is that the biggest factor in what you pay at the pump is not as much effected by what OPEC charges as it is by what happens on Wall Street.
Oil and gasoline are not just simply bought outright like you might think but rather are dealt like stock shares with major big players investing in and effecting the prices. The big price drop your now experiencing is due to the recent stock market crash with many investors now pulling out of the market which has in turn sent the oil futures diving.

A side note to this is that there is no reason that we have to be dependant on foreign oil other than our own government and oil companies creating the situation. Several years ago it was discovered that there is an oil field in the gulf of Mexico that dwarfs the oil in the mideast. The question then must be raised as to why not extract it ?
Ive been told that contrary to most peoples sound logic is that certain large oil companies are the largest contributers to the environmental groups and lobbies. Ive been told that the oil companies actually are having the environmentalists block drilling because they really dont want more oil, cause more supply would mean lower prices, less profits. The least amount at the highest price maximizes profits.

hey Jane,

In reference to your comment, "Getting a later start in life myself compared to JBSRV but its never too late for learning and hope"
Its never too late and more importantly having the desire to keep learning is a wonderful thing.  Probably, the sweetest thing I ever read about B.B. King was how he yearns to learn something new every day.  He feels maybe a little less worthy sometimes for not having a higher education, but he does have the desire to learn.  If I had all the spare time in the world, that would be my #1 thing, I wish I had more time to read and learn.

Back to oil - heard a scary theory over the weekend about all the factors that trigger the up and down on the pricing. I was curious as to where we get most of our oil from and I found this, however I'm not positive what's current & accurate right now.

http://www.energyrefuge.com/archives/wh … s_from.htm

http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/blog … px?ID=1021
The scary thing I heard referenced Russia, but not based in fact.  Their economy is affected by our lower prices.