88pathoffroad Posted May 22, 2007 Author Share Posted May 22, 2007 Good quote: $10 BILLION in profit. Just keep repeating that. Demand is up. Refining capacity is stretched way too thin. Brokers and traders are having a field day. Civil unrest and war in oil producing countries. China's explosive growth pulling resources out of world markets. Greenies say no new refineries. Oil execs won't push for new refineries due to the inherent ups and downs of the business. Automakers too stupid to have their 50,000 analysts forecast the future cost of oil into their manufacturing plans. More travel by car due to terrorist issues (questionable, but plausible). Even MORE travel by car due to increases in airfares as a result of....higher fuel costs. Summer blends vs. winter blends. Washington is in a huge pissing contest and at a stalemate over....lots of shiat....because the Dems want to shove the Republicans under the bus come November '08 and vice versa. It's the refiners. It's the consumers. It's the government. It's the marketers. It's the environmentalists. It's the capitalists. It's supply /demand. $10 BILLION in PROFIT. I'm a capitalist to the core. But, while we fritter the time away, waiting for "something" to be done about this, EVERYBODY's interest but YOURS and MINE is being served....by $10 BILLION in PROFIT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 (edited) if people didn't driver everywhere at 100mph around here they wouldn't need to fill up half as much. I slow down (55-60) and get 2-4mpg better, thus saving gas.I don't travel anywhere unecessarily, and try to multi-task my things i do need to travel for so i don't drive as much. hell, i live 1/2-3/4 of a mile from the nearest store.. F that..i'm drivin. ..... plus, i can't ride a bicycle because of my knees.. and i pretty much drive past the store when i get on/off the freeway to go to work.... soo....... around here it's anywhere from $3.39- $3.60 a gallon. unfortunately i work 23 miles away from home....... welcome to california. in my bmw i get optimal fuel economy at 70-75, 80 if its really flat(luckily dallas is fairly flat)... yet the speed limit is only 60... the pathfinder, i see the same thing you do, 55-60 gets the best, but only like 20mpg as opposed to 18 at 70... and its 2.99 a gallon for regular here... too bad i gotta put premium in my beamer lol Edited May 22, 2007 by Adam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k9sar Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 ** blowing spider webs out of my 70's siphon hose.... ** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 Great quote 88, where di you find it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vengeful Posted May 22, 2007 Share Posted May 22, 2007 My 74mpg solution to the problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 23, 2007 Author Share Posted May 23, 2007 Great quote 88, where di you find it? Fark.com. Same as this one: I have worked in refieries for 15 years, and I can tell you for sure: there has been NO NEW REFINERY built in this country since roughly 1983, I constructed one of the last ones. That is what has got us in this horrible jam: If poil supplies doubled overnight, we couldn't do anything with them, vecause there is only so much oil you can run through any given refinery. In addition to that, they are required by law to shut down and clean out for periodic maintenence, lest they go up fast and come down slow; I have seen a few refinery explosions; do not want. If you were a beginner 25 years old on the last refinery ever built, you are now 50 years old and have long since moved on to a new career. A whole generation of men grewe old and retired, leaving no new men to take their places. When Katrina and Rita hit one after another, 15 refineries were damaged, and the men to repair them did not exist. In addition, having worked in the oil field most of my life, I get god damn sick and tired of people who hate me because I make a product---gasoline---which people want, and will pay for. If I were growing hydrophonic sinsemilla for the same reason, people would praise me as a hero for bucking the system. I have been flamed shirtless on Fark threads because I once worked at Halliburton. . . or, at least showed up to be honest. Seriously, my job was cementing drill pipe into the ground, so the oil would not contaminate ground water strata above, or the well blow out and burn down the whole forest. How is that environmental rape? You farkers accept the good things technology can bring as readily as a kitten accepts milk; but you don't understand the process which creates them, any more than a kitten understands dairy farming. Freeze in the dark, ungrateful bastards. You deserve it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Yikes, about all I gotta say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aries247 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 got this in a e-mail from the wife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Casey.T Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 Ill need to fill up tonight or tomorrow... Had to read all of this so I could tollerate the pain... Aries Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aries247 Posted May 23, 2007 Share Posted May 23, 2007 don't worry i have to fill up today or tomorrow. so i will be assuming the position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamzan Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 My dads pissed that the wd21 got better milage than the r50 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 $3.49 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkorahil Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 On the way to work I saw 3.07 and then 3.09 and 2.99 (both on the same corner) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavelow Leaks Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 I got owned for $43 in the mustang today...3.57 a gallon in Albucrappy New Mexico. I miss my pathy even tho it woulda cost twice as much to fill up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 holding steady at my local place @ $3.33 a gal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trainman Posted May 24, 2007 Share Posted May 24, 2007 Went up 3 cents yesterday to $1.269 per liter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trainman Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 Went up 3 cents yesterday to $1.269 per liter. 24 hours later, it dropped 3 ce3nts, back to $1.239. This yo yoing of price is what is making people around here mad a Big Oil. I doubt the tanks at the local stations were emptied, re-filled, then emptied, then refilled again in 24 hours. Oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordsho90 Posted May 26, 2007 Share Posted May 26, 2007 $3.79 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
v6engine Posted May 27, 2007 Share Posted May 27, 2007 $3.04 at I7-5 and Delk road. It was $3.09 a week ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkorahil Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 down at $2.96 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted May 29, 2007 Share Posted May 29, 2007 heh heh, Memorial Day's passed, SEND IN THE CALVALRY! Scratch one government conspiracy as to why they're been climbing (Mem. Day), what's next?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 29, 2007 Author Share Posted May 29, 2007 $3.23 as of yesterday. Wow, how cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted May 30, 2007 Share Posted May 30, 2007 paid 3.24 today.... for 93 octane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vengeful Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 I've been trying to convince my sister to let me steal her Jetta, since she's used it twice in the last 3 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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