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Heard on TV that gas is going to $5.00 per gallon everywhere..

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Uncle Willy

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Really going to cut down on the beeping. I can't find enough coins to pay for a $100 fill up. This country is going down the tube fast. I remember when you could get five gallons for a buck. Whatever happened to those days? :)

Bill
 
Bill,
I was going to post something that I thought up when I ran across this post. I will post it later as it is a good idea. You're right about going down the tube and those days are long gone, I remember when I was younger it was 27 cents per gal.I'm only 50 and retired now. It seems now you spend half your paycheck on getting to and from work. This is the reason I retired early as it would have been 140 miles round trip daily for me after my job relocated. But there is a solution and hope for some (like me) that have a diesel, and it's called Bio-diesel, as I have already ordered the kit, I can make my own fuel that is environmentally safe, and not to mention having cleaner emissions and cost pennies per gallon to make instead of your life savings. All you need is a supply of veggie oil. I spent the day looking for oil to make bio-diesel and found a good supply. The only downfall is that your exhaust will smell like french fryes instead of like being behind a city bus.
Now that it's my turn to kick back, no middle Eastern country's are going to stop my ACE from swinging, lord knows I've been through enough trying to find places locally to detect and I don't need any Arabs or oil companies To further complicate things.
 
I got this in a email from one of my friends. It is a online petition from Gov. Granholm to send to Bush to get the gas cost down. At first I thought it was just another online "Pass it Along" type thing. But this is actually on the MI. Gov. website. If all the state govenors do this maybe it might actually make a difference....here's the link www.michigan.gov/lowergasprices or copy and paste in your browser.

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Steve
 
Steve,Enough politics,Granholm may want to lower the Michigan tax on gas to but thats not likely.I do agree the Federal Government has to figure a way to get gas prices down.President Bush needs to wakeup and do something before we lose Ford & General Motors.By the way Granholm(our Canadian Governor)will give Toyota special tax breaks and unfair bids to make even a greater unlevelled playing field for our domestic Auto makers and small business. Over Taxed Ron
 
Its at $1.09 per litre ( 3.785 litre = 1 US ...3.78 x 1.08 = $4.08 ). I bought a Saturn Wagon last year and it is very good on gas....much better then my previous "89" Olds Cutless Wagon. (so much for our oil sands having enough oil to supply North America market with enough oil for the next 25 years.

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on TV this morning about some big wig retiring from a majoy oil company is getting a $400 million package, what is wrong with this picture? John
 
I wrote a similar letter to my senetor & the local papers:

This morning, crude oil hit $75 per barrel, based on speculation of "dwindling supplies" along with the arrival of the summer driving season. According to reports, this will translate into more price increases at the pumps along with higher energy costs, which will lead to higher retail prices. Talk of gasoline rationing is also circulating in the media.
I am sure I am not alone in how disappointed I am in the way the federal, state and local government has handled the current situation. There has been no official word on what is being done in Washington to help combat rising fuel costs, other than long term,
 
It was a bit more than that. I know - I was there. And you can't imagine what sixty five cents would by then. For one thing it would pay you and your date's way into a real movie and buy all the candy, popcorn, and drinks you could get down. How much would that cost you today? In those days your money was worth what it was. Sixty five cents was worth sixty five cents. Today it's worth about a penny. The last time a dollar was worth a dollar in this country was 1947. It's gone down the tube ever since.

Bill
 
Yeah and the oil companies are raking in obscene profits. In the past two to three years Exxon's profits have been over $300 billion. But then that's how they can give their recently retired CEO almost a half billion dollar retirement package and hand out bonuses totaling hundredsof millions. to their execs. But since our president and all his thugs are oil men we ain't going to get any help there. If they keep it up it will break the country.

Bill
 
That would be great if people would do it. The problem is there is no shortage of oil only a contrived one to drive up prices. This world is awash in oil and supplies are loose. A new oil field just opened up in Alberta, Canada awhile back that has over three times the amount of oil in the ground than all of the Middle East - enough to supply the U.S. for 100 years. You ever wonder what happened to all the oil in Iraq that was supposed to pay for our war and ease gas prices? Where did it go?

Here on the west coast we get all our oil from the North Slope and a couple of years ago Chevron sold all that oil to Asia for pennies on the dollar so they could artificially drive up the prices here on the west coast. Congress was going to investigate it and do big things but that evaporated quick.

The oil companies have the poor dumb public bamboozled and are burying it in their butts. There is no shortage and never has been. It's all a financial game to make a select few ludicrously rich. I used to work for Standard Oil ( Exxon ) many years ago and I know what rats they are. That's when I found out that there are only two oil companies in the world - Standard and Shell - and they own everything else regardless of name. The reason they can do what they want now is that they have eliminated all competition and can control prices and set them at whatever they want.

Bill
 
Yeah that was the CEO of Exxon. He got a $418 million retirement package courtesy of you and all other motorists. Their execs also got hundreds of millions in bonuses.. If people don't rise up and start screaming it's going to be all over but the crying very soon. When it gets to expensive to even go beeping it's time for a revolution. :)

Bill
 
Yeah you have the Imperial gallon don't you - five quarts to the gallon? So you are running close to our average price. According to the reports on the oil reserves in Alberta, they have enough to supply the U.S. for the next 100 years. They have over three times the amount of oil that all of Arabia has - many trillions of barrels.

What kind of mileage do you get on your Saturn?

Bill
 
Also do you all realize that a dollar or more of the price of a gallon of gas is Federal/state/local taxes. So who else is gouging the public?

Bill
 
Yeah there's several people and small companies here running their rigs on used fast food cooking oil. Did you know that when the diesel was invented it was originally designed to run on hemp oil - not diesel fuel?

I know a guy here with an older Volkswagen diesel Rabbit that has a big tank installed in the back and gathers up the cooking oil from fast food joints, filters it himself, and runs his car on it. Runs the same as it did on diesel and costs him basicaly nothing.

Bill
 
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