Rather-B-Huntin Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 And the fat @$$ corporate $h!t heads at the oil companys getting rich off of us working folk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 In the "TIT/NUT" category, I'm now paying $3.32/gal!!!! I've had the equivalent of a double mastectomy over just the past four weeks!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 In the "TIT/NUT" category, I'm now paying $3.32/gal!!!! I've had the equivalent of a double mastectomy over just the past four weeks!!!!! That post belongs in the Humor section I paid $2.92 yesterday!!! And that is for REGULAR!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
et45 Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 (edited) Gas prices are the reason I have not shot a USPSA match in nearly 2 years.The closest USPSA club is over 100 miles away.You figure gas cost,match fees and lunch and you are out $50 or more just to shoot a monthly club match.So it's IDPA or an unsanctioned match at the 2 clubs I am a member of here locally. Edited April 12, 2007 by et45 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GentlemanJim Posted April 12, 2007 Share Posted April 12, 2007 Laughing my butt off at Zhunters sign We are up to 2.80 here. I think the day trader stock guys rake us worse than the oil companys Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 You folks are gas pikers, just filled up on regular at the cheapest station I could easily find and it $3.32/gal! $2.92/2.80, sheeesh, that's cheap, enjoy those prices while you can ;-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinMike Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 You can find gas around here for $2.65. I'm glad I've got my motorcycle - 55+mpg! I use my truck as little as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdragon Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Ivan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterLefty Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 I was paying $2.49 in San Antonio last weekend and came home Monday to $2.71. Kenny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wakal Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Eight bucks a gallon here. No idea how the taxi drivers stay in business. Ask not which greedy corporation makes 10-15% on your gas, but ask which government makes 20-25% on your gas and then disallows all new refineries Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMS42 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Premium here is about $3.11, so I filled up with Premium in Idaho while I was there today. Price was $2.879. Main difference between Idaho and Washington prices is the WA tax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LPatterson Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 The 85.5 octane was $2.73 last weekend and yesterday it was $2.97. I'm thinking it would be a good idea to hit oil companies with an excess profits tax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raz-0 Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 The 85.5 octane was $2.73 last weekend and yesterday it was $2.97. I'm thinking it would be a good idea to hit oil companies with an excess profits tax. There is no such thing as excess profits. If you have a margin of 5% and your product sells for double, then you make double the money you did last year. Now whatprobably should be done is pay much closer attention to speculation and manipulation of supplies and futures. I'm sure there is some shady stuff going on with that, and if you can punish the people actually doing it, it might actually help. Taxing the companies for making too much money, until they are making not enough money, means you and I will just be paying more for gas, or they start firing employees. The folks with enough money and decision making power to be repsonsible won't be the ones affected. It would be no different than the government levying a new gas tax, which I'm sure you'd be against for the exact same reason you are pissed at the oil companies. Gas prices wouldn't drop, the government would jsut take more of it. We need more capacity for both ethanol and petrolium so it is not as easy to play games with the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 OHMYGOD...!!!! That $3.32/gal I quoted you yesterday just went up to $3.38/gal today!!!! WTF?!?!?!?! Pretty soon it'll be too expensive to even drive to the gas station to buy the gas!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter K Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 (edited) Lucy Americans! We pay about $6.62 for 1 Gallon of the 85 octane-gas here in Germany!!! Tax, Tax, Tax, .......... Edited April 13, 2007 by Peter K Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhunter Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Lucy Americans! We pay about $6.62 for 1 Gallon of the 85 octane-gas here in Germany!!!Tax, Tax, Tax, .......... That my man, is NOT tax, it is CALLED Socialism Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scooter Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 I stopped looking at gas prices when it first broke $3 a long time ago. Back then I was commuting 150 miles per day, my car takes premium only, and I get crappy gas mileage especially if that right foot is feeling heavy. I was filling up every other day. I drive 80 miles per day now, but I don't even bother to look at the price because regardless of what the price is, I still have to fill up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tpcdvc Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Lucy Americans! We pay about $6.62 for 1 Gallon of the 85 octane-gas here in Germany!!!Tax, Tax, Tax, .......... Have you ever figured out at what point in the year you are actually making money for yourself. Here in the US (when you figure income tax, sales tax ect.) most start to make money for themselves around the end of April or later depending upon the state you live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bountyhunter Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 You folks are gas pikers, just filled up on regular at the cheapest station I could easily find and it $3.32/gal!$2.92/2.80, sheeesh, that's cheap, enjoy those prices while you can ;-/ Heard a report on the noon news that gas consumption in the Bay Area has dipped a couple of percent recently..... If so, Big Oil may have to level off the gouge fest and stop hiking prices for a while. Their worst fear is that people will start to conserve. OHMYGOD...!!!! That $3.32/gal I quoted you yesterday just went up to $3.38/gal today!!!! WTF?!?!?!?! Pretty soon it'll be too expensive to even drive to the gas station to buy the gas!!! Until there is a sustained and significant decline in consumption, Big Oil is going to keep forcing the price up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
George Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Absolutely on target with that point, bountyhunter. If I wasn't stuck doing work things that require I buy gas constantly, I would boycott gas like there was no tomorrow. If a major proportion of us were able to forego buying any gas whatsoever for at least a month, we could put a serious dent in the oil company perceptions of us as sheeple who will pay whatever is charged. A month with almost no revenue would certainly get their attention! Unfortunately, even if everyone who could stop buying, did, it would not be the majority of us and that is what it will take ;-/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markm Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 I stopped at a gas station today......$1.19 for 16ozs.!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE.....$9.52 a Gallon for WATER ----- EXCESS PROFITS ----- TAXEM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AustinMike Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 Too funny, I had made that comment a while back to a friend that was complaining about gas prices. I said, dude, you spend more on water! How 'bout Starbucks gouging us on coffee? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackdragon Posted April 13, 2007 Share Posted April 13, 2007 $3.13 today in LV. Ivan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeorgeInNePa Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 Lucy Americans! We pay about $6.62 for 1 Gallon of the 85 octane-gas here in Germany!!! Tax, Tax, Tax, .......... That my man, is NOT tax, it is CALLED Socialism Which is exactly what we would be practicing if we had an "excess profits tax" or whatever we would choose to call it. When oil was $15 a barrel, the oil companies made around 10%. Now oil is $64 a barrel, and the oil companies make around 10%. Would you go to work if you only made 10% above your costs? Combined state and federal taxes here in Pa. are $.457 per gallon of gas and $.6262 for diesel and our roads still SUCK! Do the math, approx 10% of what you pay a gallon goes to the evil oil companies, the .gov's get almost DOUBLE and they can't even fix the damn bridges and potholes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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