Gas prices today? - Semi-Serious Discussion

Monk · 09-14-2006, 06:25 PM

This is a good litmus of how badly we're being raped by the cabal...

Been comin' down here lately. Just 10 days ago it was >$2.90 for regular unleaded, and today I saw it for $2.42 at a Union76 station.
Had friends claim as low as the 2.20s in the plains states.

Just in time for the elections, eh?

Still... I'll take all the help I can get...

**Dragoness_Cutie** · 09-14-2006, 06:32 PM

Yeah... couple weeks ago, our prices were the same as yours, and now they're down to the $2.40 range. I'm sure it's even cheaper for my Love. When we have $2.84 he had $2.42.

*G_Man* · 09-14-2006, 06:33 PM

Yep... incumbant gas prices!!!

*wisecat* · 09-14-2006, 06:42 PM

$2.15-2.24 is what the cheap stores are selling it for here

*G_Man* · 09-14-2006, 06:47 PM

Quoting: wisecat

$2.15-2.24 is what the cheap stores are selling it for here

You know, I don't even look at the price.

It ain't like I am gonna walk to work if the price hits $4.00 or even $5.00.

Real Bullshit situation us Americans have put ourselves in.

Monk · 09-14-2006, 06:55 PM

Not ourselves, boss... the owners.

Same guys who own everything else...

*G_Man* · 09-14-2006, 06:58 PM

Quoting: Monk

Not ourselves, boss... the owners.

Same guys who own everything else...

Meh... Bullshit... I call it a 50/50 split. Their 'ownership' stems from our own greed.

Everytime we as voters vote down public works for transportation and similiar infrastructure that would lesson the dependancy on natural resources we contribute.

Monk · 09-14-2006, 07:08 PM

Not exactly my personal experience...
About 8 years ago, before evil Jed took office, the citizenry of Florida voted a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the development and construction of a bullet train to run from Tallahassee through Orlando to Miami, with spur lines to Tampa and Naples in the SW... one of those that'd make the whole trip in about 3 hours...

Would have made perfect sense in overcoming the huge traffic issues facing us.

We understood it was gonna be very expensive, and taxes would be needed to cover it. We voted yes anyway.

Then about 5 years ago, once Jeb was in the Gov's mansion... he mounted a huge anti-bullet-train initiative. We were flooded with partisan teevee and radio ads about how most Floridians would be taxed but never use it much... never heard a word of support for what was a constitutional amendment at that point ('cause the media were controlled by non-disinterested parties... say gasoline, insurance, carmakers?)
It's the same Bullshit... our owners wanted no real solution to the amount of cars and gas sales.

Anyway, he got a constitutional amendment reversed in the interest of his Daddy's oil baron buds.

Don't mind me... experience has made me paranoid where the Bush family is concerned.
If Jeb ever gets into the white house... I'm emigrating to Scotland.

But it's a plot, man!

*Godfather* · 09-14-2006, 07:11 PM

Well I left my car at home and havnt driven in a couple weeks now....but prices in Canada were coming down too

Got pretty damned high, $1.20-ish per L, but they'd dropped to $1.05 by the end of the summer

NEWSOME · 09-15-2006, 04:02 AM

I saw them at $2.16 a gallon in Ohio and $2.76 for DIESEL.

Monk · 09-15-2006, 05:50 AM

Quoting: NEWSOME

I saw them at $2.16 a gallon in Ohio and $2.76 for diseal.

Err... was that baby diseals..?

"The oxen are slow...
but the Earth is patient."

**Sp00k** · 09-15-2006, 07:45 AM

I'm presuming you're quoting prices for litres of petrol? Over here its 92pence litre for unleaded 96p for diesel. It was a lot higher a few weeks ago too.

Just had that price converted online to 1.69 US dollars per litre. Is that good or bad for you americans cos its damn expensive here?

Monk · 09-15-2006, 07:51 AM

No... I'm in Coastal Florida, so I'm talkin' about U.S. gallons,
Canadians are probably talkin' imperial gallons (which are a coupla' ounces larger)...

But this all becomes moot if locale for these prices isn't known...