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Oil steady as refining watched

"While crude prices are down from last week's record levels as industrialized countries prepared to release oil from emergency stocks, traders and analysts fretted more about the loss of refinery production and speed of the recovery."

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Finally, gas prices take a break

"AAA survey: Prices at the pump dip for the first time in over a week, but average still above $3.
September 6, 2005: 7:14 AM EDT"

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Gas-gouging GAQ

"It's not easy to tell legitimate price increases from gouging ... but if you're suspicious, complain."

TD

We all know that the price of oil is bull. We know they push the price up, and then it never comes back down, and we know it's nothing to do with problems with the oil - supply or wars or whatever are just excuses, and crap ones at that! It's about holding the world to ransom, and pure greed - can't wait to see the oil dry up in a few hundred years, and their little dynasties will do the same. :lol:

I am going to start riding a bicycle to work. Yes, it's a 45 mile trip and it rains a LOT in Florida but I dont care anymore!!

I'm seriously considering getting a motorcycle, but I have to convince the wife first. Wish me luck, :lol: .

Filled up my tank with 18 gallons, cost me $60+. Went grocery shopping right after, cost $120. Kinda sad when (1) tank of gas is 1/2 of your grocery bill. One tank of gas will last me about 9-10 days, and that's by not driving anywhere except to work.

I remember when $2 a gallon had people up in arms, now $3 a gallon. Why stop there? :roll:

Softball wrote:I'm seriously considering getting a motorcycle, but I have to convince the wife first. Wish me luck, :lol: .

Filled up my tank with 18 gallons, cost me $60+. Went grocery shopping right after, cost $120. Kinda sad when (1) tank of gas is 1/2 of your grocery bill. One tank of gas will last me about 9-10 days, and that's by not driving anywhere except to work.

I remember when $2 a gallon had people up in arms, now $3 a gallon. Why stop there? :roll:

And you live in California! I'm surprised gas hasn't gone up to $5 per gallon yet.

we both live in S.D., and I AM actually surprised that gas is not higher here. It is not pretty much on par with everywhere eles in the country. SoCal has always been known as the test market for gas price increases...and maybe everyone else has now found the price that everyone will bear...

SB,
You know I commute on the motorcycle just about every day... Saves time and gas both. I can not recommend it more, but you do have to consider others...it is still more dangerous due not to the frequency of accidents, but the severity. Just make sure you consider and plan for that. Gruesome, but true... With that said, I have over 80,000 miles on motorcycles since 1996, and three times going down. Once when learning and over accelerating around a corner, once from anti-freeze at a intersection, and once by a pickup that did not like me lane sharing. No injury in the last two - the first one cost me a scar on my kneecap and my favorite (at the time) jeans ruined.

I might also recommend the motorcycle for commuting to Panzer as well. If you do not mind getting wet from showers, no biggie driving in the rain. You just need to be a bit more cautions than normal, and RainX your faceshield!

Maybe it's time to think of an alternative fuel, like, say, oats...

Let me find you a filly for your proud stallion seed
to keep the old line going.
And we'll stand you abreast at the back of the wood
behind the young trees growing
To hide you from eyes that mock at your girth,
and your eighteen hands at the shoulder
And one day when the oil barons have all dripped dry
and the nights are seen to draw colder
They'll beg for your strength, your gentle power
your noble grace and your bearing
And you'll strain once again to the sound of the gulls
in the wake of the deep plough, sharing.

-- Heavy Horses Jethro Tull

Yeah, no kidding. My father owned a variety of bikes - including a Honda Gold Wing. Which, whilst riding to work one day past some road works he was greeted by an impatient forklift truck, which had pulled out from behind the stopped traffic going in the opposite direction. It ploughed into the side with such violence it punctured a hole straight through his engine block and leg, almost severing it completely. The operator dragged my dad to the side of the road with his bike and promptly did a runner. He was eventually rescued by one of the drivers sat in the queue of waiting traffic - the insurance company never did pay out. To this day, my father walks with a limp as one leg is more than an inch shorter than the other. And he has never ridden a m/cycle since. :shock:

WOOT oregon is the 3rd lowest gas price in the nation! ( average 280.00 a gallon) its about time, its been the 3rd highest for the logest time now :shock:

Well we're paying around £1 a litre over here. I think i'm right in saying that a substantial portion of that is the fuel duty, which means that with the current high prices, the government could lower it. But they won't. I think if it continues we could see more of the petrol blockades that we had a few years again.

Yeah, we (my son & I) have just returned from roller hockey a few minutes ago. And the price of diesel, he saw at the station local to us was 99.9p/Ltr - and that's diesel!!

Round where i live, diesel is higher priced than petrol atm. To fill my 1.9 diesel 306 is usually about £40 for the tank - it's closer to £55 atm - fortunately it does 400 miles (ish) to that tank, so it's bearable, but still, as a student (or indeed anyone really) it's a lot to whack out just to get from A to B