| Rant: Oil Prices [message #162768] |
Fri, 08 July 2005 17:43  |
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Jecht
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Well well, the oil companies said at the end of Winter they "thought" oil would go up to $2.50 cents a gallon. Today I had the misfortune of Needing gasoline. They had risen the price of it to $2.50 a gallon, geee...surprise. There excuse: A refinery blew up. Now, it rose 13 cents. With 13 cents more per gallon, per person, I bet they could buy 10 brand fucking new refineries. So they found a way yet again to shit on the working class. I make $68 a day without taxes taken out. I put $20 dollars in the pump today and didn't even break a half a tank.
Before some lamer exclaims: "but gbull, dood, do you have any idea wut j00 pey 4 teh KatsUp???". My reply: I don't fucking need Ketchup, I want it. I need gas to get to work(10 miles and I start at 7am in the morning), get to my girlfriend(another 10 miles, she lives by the Factory I work in), and get to college(7 miles away). So I would like to give a big shout out, and say eat a dick, greedy oil companies.
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162787 is a reply to message #162768] |
Fri, 08 July 2005 20:01  |
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I want my next vehicle to be a Diesel Dodge Pickup. Then I can buy Bio-Diesel. With the high oil prices and federal tax incentives, the price is pretty much the same as regular diesel.
Gas prices aren't really a problem for me as my car (96 Corolla) gets 40mpg. Also, my commute to about 1-2/10 of a mile. 
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162789 is a reply to message #162768] |
Fri, 08 July 2005 20:16 |
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| gbull wrote on Fri, 08 July 2005 20:43 |
With 13 cents more per gallon, per person, I bet they could buy 10 brand fucking new refineries.
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You think they haven't tried it before?
The reason they haven't built an oil refinery in the contiguous United States since the 1970s is environmentalist hippie lobbyists in Washington. They won't let any oil company build a single new refinery because of the "malicious repercussions the refineries would bring to the surrounding environment."
Not to mention the virtual monopoly terrorist-sponsoring Middle Eastern nations have on most of today's oil.
But, at the mere mention of drilling in ANWR, you're branded as a seal-clubbing murderer of the Earth.
Your anger is misdirected, my friend.
Walter Keith Koester: September 22, 1962 - March 15, 2005
God be with you, Uncle Wally.
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162850 is a reply to message #162768] |
Sat, 09 July 2005 11:02 |
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SuperFlyingEngi
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gbull - buy a bike.
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162872 is a reply to message #162768] |
Sat, 09 July 2005 15:39 |
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I live in a huge, spread-out city with very little "downtown" to speak of. Mass transit here is useless and generally occupied by the scum of society. This is a city of 2-3 car garages and not many high-rise apartment complexes to speak of. Essentially, you MUST have a car here. Another factor is that it's so unbelievably hot in the summer that walking regularly would turn you into a walking melanoma.
I hate the gas prices, too... 50 bucks a week to fill my 20-gallon minivan tank, but at this point it's still affordable to me.
I'm the bawss.
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162876 is a reply to message #162850] |
Sat, 09 July 2005 17:14 |
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Jecht
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| SuperFlyingEngi wrote on Sat, 09 July 2005 13:32 |
gbull - buy a bike.
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yea, biking is feasable when I work in a factory 10 miles away and start at 7:00am[/sarcasm]
| Crimson wrote on Sat, 09 July 2005 18:09 |
I live in a huge, spread-out city with very little "downtown" to speak of. Mass transit here is useless and generally occupied by the scum of society. This is a city of 2-3 car garages and not many high-rise apartment complexes to speak of. Essentially, you MUST have a car here. Another factor is that it's so unbelievably hot in the summer that walking regularly would turn you into a walking melanoma.
I hate the gas prices, too... 50 bucks a week to fill my 20-gallon minivan tank, but at this point it's still affordable to me.
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Its the same for me. Aside from the minivan part.
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162907 is a reply to message #162768] |
Sun, 10 July 2005 10:32 |
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It isn't an option for me to take public transport anywhere. The train station is 15 mins away by car, and the train just goes to Chicago. There's no busses, no taxis even lol... It's cars or nothing here.
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162942 is a reply to message #162883] |
Sun, 10 July 2005 16:48 |
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| j_ball430 wrote on Sun, 10 July 2005 00:41 |
I hope you're being sarcastic.
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Actually, no.. I'm not, but I don't make $6.25 an hour either, so it's probably relative. Like I said in the previous post, I probably spend more than that on coffee in a year..
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| Re: Rant: Oil Prices [message #162954 is a reply to message #162876] |
Sun, 10 July 2005 18:28 |
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| gbull wrote on Sat, 09 July 2005 20:14 |
yea, biking is feasable when I work in a factory 10 miles away and start at 7:00am[/sarcasm]
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It'd build character.
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"The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect "domestic security." Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. --U.S. Supreme Court decision (407 U.S. 297 (1972)
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