Gas
We check Gasbuddy.com for lowest prices. Right now it is around $2.70 at our place.
- pgrundyposted 13 years ago
0 They do indeed which means in Uk we are paying £4.68 per gallon or $7.49 per gallon which is rediculous money! Think we need another fuel strike
And that is why it's called Rip Off Britain
sorry did imperial Gallon not strange U.S. gallon
I would kill for gas that cheap.
People should agree to not drive one day a week or just drive to work, and cut the consumption, write on blogs why, etc. Course, i don't even know if that would make a difference. The oil companies got us by the you knows....
I understand Mark. I do think here in the US we complain about gas because we use our vehicles so much for everyday travel. We do not have the infrastructure of mass transit like other parts of the world except in a few major cities.
My tank could get filled for $20.00 and lasts me about three weeks in normal travels. Now it is double that amount. For me, not hard to take, but for my friends who work outside the city proper the cost has tripled on a weekly basis....I can barely fill my car for three times that. I am paying 1.21 Euros per liter - and that is cheap.
He's not the Sensei, he's a very naughty boy.
I think we need a thread for the best photo shopped images of our resident hubbers.
This one goes right up there with Misha in drag. and of course st. Mark and Misha. lol
That is a problem - we tend to catch the bus to Sparta and take a taxi back - there is no shortage. Greeks take taxis for even relatively short distances - mainly due to the heat - so we are pretty well served
LOL I think I found a point of disagreement with you, except for religion
I would bet that we already saw the highest gas prices in our lifetime - last summer
- ysdataposted 13 years ago0
Around $2.60 here.
I loved that film.
spiderpam- Have no idea about gasoline quality. All I know is when there is gas in the car and I turn the key, it's ready to roll...
I usually hit an Arco station if needed fuel. I tried one of those private stations twice and my car ran sluggish.Oh, by the way, gas went up again 4 cents since yesterday. I going for a fill today and wait it out for the next three weeks..
Some of our friends live in the general area around us. I have convinced them when we go to the local watering hole to walk the 2.5 miles to and from for the exercise and safety. The plus is saving on fuel...Governments always blame any price raise to speculators and take a credit on price decrease
Don't forget the evil arabs. I'm sorry "foreign oil dependence,"
LOL Yeah, evil Russians!
And the Freemasons - at least according to our resident muslimIST.
And the judeo-masons blame the god-damned muslim-masons. Not that they exist you understand. Or at least - only in secret.
- sandra rinckposted 13 years ago0
As Russian anti-semits put it:
If you don't have water in your tap,
It's because judes drunk it all up
The same level of discussion, reallyMr.Usman- This is really sick. Why do you make so many assumptions about people? Why do you tend to find evil/bad even in a seemingly noble deed like adoption?
And let's face it - you don't get much more phallic than a minaret.
I am getting tired of explaining to you that it is not appropriate to make negative assumptions and then going ahead considering those assumptions as some sort of facts which align with your existing beliefs. I wish you well and hope you understand what I am trying to say. Have a good day.
So you are betting on inflation. Or even hyper-inflation. My bet is that before it comes (if its hyper part comes at all), we'll have a good period of deflation.
The economy is trying to deflate, but the Fed is dead set against it. Some of the papers I've been reading lately suggest that like the 70's we'll see inflation, but rather than things being stagnant we'll see a prolonged depression like the 1930's. When you consider that things look like a mix of the Great Depression and stagflation, well those authors could have a point.
I'm also betting on price controls at some time in the future. If that happens get ready for shortages, but I don't need to tell you that do I?Oh but it is okay when they break their end of the contract by adding things like a little bit of government interest and such. Sure, I see how ya'll are.
A creditor can change the contract and ask for more but that doesn't void the contract right? But if the debtor says 'f' you because you changed the contract and I am not paying for it, then the debtors is in the wrong, right?
Yeah, I still don't give a shite about creditors!LOL It's definitely your right, but what goes around comes around
LDT, I am checking the charts, will get back to you soonSo does that mean that because the creditors always get their money then one day I will get my money too!
Woo Hooo..."she'll be comin'round the mountain when she comes".
What do you think is stronger - a bursting century old credit bubble or the Fed?
And yeah, you don't need to tell me that, I lived through itI think the UN should just call it even and start over. No one owes no one nothing. No more credit, pay as you go etc. no contractual home loans or car loans. If you lose your job and can't pay, give it back and let someone who can afford it pay for it until the "actual" cost is paid for.
But that is dreaming.
I don't think floors and ceiling was such a good idea, and whatever president dumped it made a right move IMO. But we are likely to see its pompous return under the current president
LOL Sandy, you are too fast for my fingers
I am afraid UN has no power over this, it is like an avalanche - you either get out of the way and wait it out, or you get smashedOh, well since you put it that way, I will totally get smashed. Anyone up for a drink.
LOL
LOL sorry my English, I meant crushed of course
LDT, I think you missed commodities bubble
What other class of assets left? Government debt? Seems to be over already, too
And I think we are talking about a period much longer than 30 years. In fact it may go back as far as mid 1800s...Here is the chart of CRB index. Sorry, took a while to find a publicly accessible chart of enough duration
http://bigcharts.marketwatch.com/quickc … mp;time=13
Not THAT impressive of a bubble as stocks or housing, but still a huge rise with ensuing burst. Actually the mildness of this bubble points at the weakness of available credit, so no, there is no liquidity at all despite of historical Fed efforts, soon dollar is gonna become scarce I have seen this issue crop earlier too. I mean in US even a single person drives SUV's with more than 3000 CC engines(with little MPG) and in India 5 people travel in a Maruti 800 CC engine.
Just in recent years more middle class is buying personal 4 wheel transportation. I don't know why it is ok for Americans to buy larger inefficient vehicles and other places people who have some aspirations should be blamed for the fallout. I feel everybody has a right to fulfill there life's small aspirations(like own a small car). Just my two cents.Don't worry about it CW, I forgive you.
A lot of the SUV thing has to do with the overall cheapness of gas in the US. The government subsidizes quite a bit of the price of gas. And they tax it much less than, say, European countries. So we have cheaper gas and a huge interstate highway system that allows people to live quite a bit away from their workplaces. Since gas is cheap efficiency isn't going to be a concern of car makers. They'll try to convince people to buy big powerful cars. Remember muscle cars? It's the same kind of thing.
We've kind of caught it in the rear lately because gas is no longer cheap. It's still early days though, and what we're suffering through is a readjustment. I really wish they'd have left the car makers alone. The ones who could adjust to the new circumstances would have and the one's that couldn't would fail. Now there's a good chance we'll get incompetents and political appointees running the things and we can kiss all our forcibly invested money goodbye.
Duh! CRB includes oil! Silly me
K, let's give it a time and see how things turn outLOL CW-girl, I don't think LDT meant to blame anybody, he was just trying to analyze what he thinks could be possible reasons for price movement.
Oops!! Sorry. I should have read this thread from the beginning. I just read his post since he seems to be very knowledgeable about economy (from an earlier exchange about housing markets). I guess I over reacted. Sorry everyone. I meant no offense.
Thanks LDT. I guess I misread and shouldn't have made that post. I just sometimes get annoyed when people who enjoy the luxuries here tend to point to other countries not to enjoy even a basic thing like a personal car.
I read at HP earlier somebody complaining about the gas prices in US going up last year due to more people in India/China buying cars without looking inwards. I mean even if Gas is cheap here it doesn't give us a right to waste it buying inefficient vehicles. In the long run we would be "killing the goose" by doing so. Just my two cents. Have a good weekend.Well I prefer to keep silent sometimes. My father used to say one should know where to say, what to say and how to say. If one isn't sure of the "how to" then the other two don't matter that much. My mother would mince no words and tends to be more direct(she is a lawyer dealing in social service cases and she says in the initial days when she was very nice she wasn't taken as seriously in her circles hence she prefers to be a bit more direct) . I guess I have some traits from both sides.
- bernie1936posted 13 years ago0
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