Gas gougers at it again

[min301]

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Niether does soMI ;D

[Eliteman76]

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I saw it jump today, driving by a station on a busy street here, $3.59 for the 89, $3.69 for 87, $3.81 for 91.
One of the regular places I hit {QT chain} was the same.
Just a few days ago, it had dropped some, now a fkn 20 cent a gallon hike, WTF.

I have an old truck, but I offset it by the fact of can't afford new car and all related costs.
I now seem to stay at home a heck of a lot more.
Still one more time, WTF.
I would like to sound intelligent and point my fingers here there everywhere, but honestly I don't have a damn clue it seems anymore, and just figure out which weight of oil lessens the impact of the gas pump raping my ass.

Right now I am using 10W40, Valvoline. May have to step up to 20w50 at this rate.

[JRoberts]

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$3.54 yesterday -- today same station $3.68!

[Fordplay0621]

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Still think that when you kick a country in the Ass you should keep thier Oil to.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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for 2 weeks in NY premium is over 4 bucks , price of gas shot up this week that better jobs outlook will mean better economy so people will drive more , fueling speculators
but they add taxes on 'wealthy' drivers for the subway riders cheap rides in NYC
government standing in the way - ie ANWAR and offshore drilling , restricting coal burners , no new nuke plants in 35 years , reformulated gasoline , ethanol blends
saudis keeping production low , hugo chavez kicking out us oil companies , chinese buying gas they won't need for ten years
socialist europeans , canada paying for crappy government healthcare system with fuel taxes
I heard this guy say 'chickens coming home to roost !'

[Eric68]

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Yeah, I was driving through Fort Wayne, IN during the evening rush hour today and passed a station at $3.86 -- the place was empty. A little farther down the road, same thing. Another mile and a Swifty station was at $3.68 and the place was jammed.

I waited for 15 minutes to gas up for $3.68.

Anyone still object to drilling in Anwar?

[hamrmech]

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i love hillary's ideas! her new idea was to make the oil companies pay the gas taxes..thatll make about ZERO differance in the price whatsoever! theyll just charge us the price of the tax and hell, why not a markup to boot? i freaking love it. who was behind hillarys new idea? supposedly a SHELL oil rep.. i would be very cautious about taking anything from the oil companies OR a candidate for president. probably be safer to take candy from a stranger that lives in a van. wonder if prices will be manipulated around election time? nah, that'd never happen...

i do believe the price of oil is absurdly high, i think alot of it is futures traders playing games, which isnt right... there have been no new refinerys built in the last few DECADES, and theres no competition anymore (its not allowed in my opinion) and theres zero penalty if you actually gouge your customers. i think oil company lobbyists have too much swing in congress and the senate, and its criminal that theres no drilling allowed off the coasts or in anwar, and the country isnt after the liquified coal deal (synthetic oil), in my mind theres only one reason that more capacity isnt being built. the people running the game dont want it. now its all the hippie's fault that we cant drill.. sure.. the stoners have the ear of congress and the senate and the president, the government is at the beck and call of the enviromentallists because they.. write letters, file lawsuits, and picket.. oh wait, the hippies have been picketing, writing letters and suing for years over the iraq war, and hows that going for them? yeah, i thought so.

[50mercfan]

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they say china's booming economy is the reason, well, i think it's economic terrorism. kicking us while we're down with all the money spent on the war. so going on their excuse, when we can't afford to buy the chinesse junk anymore then their economy will nosedive quickly. bringing oil price back to reality. quit buying chinesse junk. in reality they're just gouging us because they can.

my favorite is when they say it must not be too bad because we're still buying it. what are we supposed to do? start walking 20 miles to work? come on.

[65 L79]

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What if all CDL drivers would go on strike for a month or more.
These gas stations would have no one to deliver the fuel and "everything" would be in shortage just long enough for many to get their head out of their tailpipe and realize we've gone far enough with trying to go green and all this political BS. Big trucks take care of our country more than any political agenda ever could , it would just take all of them to stop at once and park them , which is impossible.
It would be devastating to the stock market and would create panic and would have a lot of people rethinking what is really important.

[SpiderGearsMan]

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the democrats say it is big oil sticking it to the little guy
you know , the little guy who LOSES half of his paycheck to pay for welfare programs that don't work
where does it say in the constitutuion that a mechanic in NJ has to lose his money to pay for a farmer in iowa to grow corn for ethanol to be added to his gasoline ? that just makes that gasoline cost more
it doesn't , that is why the concept of the US is twisted into quasi european feudal - caste - socialist nightmare

[TheSilverBuick]

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$3.95 for Regular here in Ely $4.50 for Diesel :'( I just topped off for the 500 mile drive to So. Cal. I'm towing a small trailer to drop an engine, crank, rods, pistons and heads off at a Machine Shop in Las Vegas. By Monday night I'll probably have racked up 1200 or better miles :-\ hopefully my car keeps above 20mpg with the extra weight. The engine hasn't seemed to notice the weight but the suspension and brakes have Hopefully I'll be bringing back a 8.5" rear end for the car to make all the gas worth it.

[Scott Liggett]

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I hear it's windy up your way. Deploy a sail and save some gas. ;D