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our prices are at $1.15 last I filled up. The prices rise cause the commoditiy is not so readily available. If there was a lot of it it would drop but Katrina did much damage. And dont be too shocked America, cause gas isnt the only thing that will be on the rise, so will any commoditiy it takes to rebuild the destroyed areas, lumber, food, hydro, water, just to name a few. The old saying 'take from the rich to feed the poor', in this case it applies. So in reality you are aiding those in need. Remember those of you who want to eradicate poverty, well welcome to your first step.

In re to the article above: it reminds me of the person at work who gets shafted and talks to all fellow employees to stand by him. They all say they will but when the time comes to confront those who are shafting him, very few, if any, are there like they said they would be...lol

On another note: The Vicious Circle.
A man goes to the store and buys his weekly stock of meat. He looks at the prices and says this is way to expensive, but buys it anyway. He goes home and tells his wife. He wife tells him to go to work and ask for a raise. When he goes to work he tells his fellow employess about the cost of the meat and how he cant afford it and needs a raise. They too have noticed it and they concur. So the group go to the boss and ask for a raise. A week goes by and the boss agrees to give them a raise. They are nonetheless overjoyed. The following week the man returns to the store to buy his weekly stock of meat. He looks at the prices and says this is way to expensive. He goes home and tells his wife. He wife again tells him to go to work and ask for a raise. Again he tells his fellow employees and they concur and go to the boss and ask for a raise. Now instead of me rewriting the whole scenario repeatedly, like a vicious circle, there is one main fact which must be noted and may help you to understand why it continually repeats itself....the man in question and his fellow employess work for the meat plant.

Have a terrific day.

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Originally posted by onelife:

our prices are at $1.15 last I filled up.

OMFG it is $3.20 here in lansing, michigan. Im about ready to go and buy a mo-ped lol

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Originally posted by ChadWick:

Originally posted by onelife:

our prices are at $1.15 last I filled up.

OMFG it is $3.20 here in lansing, michigan. Im about ready to go and buy a mo-ped lol

$1.15 CDN / Litre versus $3.20 USD / Gallon.

I'd rather pay the $3.20, although I haven't filled up since it was $0.90/L.

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im nervous to fill up my car, I remember when it cost 15 to fill my 8 cylindar engine. now with my little compact 4 cylindar, it's like, 30

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Not to double post or anyting, but I was thinking about something as I was fretting over the gas prices.

As gas prices rise, so will the prices of everything. Food and items need to be transported and hauled, and that requires gas. Thus, pretty much everything we purchase will eventually see some sort of rise in price.

But there's no inverse to that, there's no reason against this that people will start making more money to compensate. Soon enough, people simply won't be able to afford to get to work, and bigger problems than a few dollars here and there will rise.

But then, there'll be a lower demand for gas if a whole economic group simply can't afford it anymore. Which means that the price may drop. What I'm getting at is that nothing happens without affecting everything else in this society. I have a feeling this will eventually become norm and even out.

Hopefully, or I'm going to need a moped.

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or a gas scooter with a seat...lol

yes, like I already stated in my post, it will get worse on every front, for awhile. They are predicting a minimum of 4 months for the max. increases, but it wont taper off for about a year and it will be so slow in the tapering it could go to the 2 year mark. Bush says it will take about that much time to get the whole affected area totally back on it's feet....good luck Americans.

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it is now up to $3.50 / gallon and i bet tommorow it will hit $4/gl due too the holiday weekend. And word is it can hit $5 by next week!! Damn i remember when it was $1.67 / gallon and it was thought to be bad.

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You know, there wouldn't be a problem if W would just open the damn reserves. That's what they're for, after all.

Just saying.

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Originally posted by ChadWick:

it is now up to $3.50 / gallon and i bet tommorow it will hit $4/gl due too the holiday weekend. And word is it can hit $5 by next week!! Damn i remember when it was $1.67 / gallon and it was thought to be bad.

That's exageration, but yes, it is getting outrageous. Down here in Texas, we have it at like $2.80 something.

Originally posted by actionPlant:

You know, there wouldn't be a problem if W would just open the damn reserves. That's what they're for, after all.

Just saying.

Well, honestly, how much can we really have in the reserves? Would use that up and then what?

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Originally posted by michael:

Well, honestly, how much can we really have in the reserves? Would use that up and then what?

Adding to those reserves all the time. If we lived off of all the oil coming into this country gas would be cheaper than windshield wash. You think we're using the oil we're drilling? Hardly. We're relying primarily on oil from the middle east and south america for our day to day needs and simply banking the rest.

That's not simply speculation, I should know, my family drills the stuff all across Texas and sells it, if you knew what I knew you'd be pissed off...last year our draw was somewhere around $1.6M/year, (we're pretty much bathing in it this year, high gas is bad for you and good for my family, however I'm still opposed to it because I'm just that great kind of guy) however there are places they're PAYING US to cap (cap off the well and not pump it), and other places (Crane County, for instance) where they're not even DRILLING right now because if they had a surplus it would get cheaper and we'd make less money. At current rates if all of the sites we own were pumping we'd be making an additional $1.8M/year which is really quite ridiculous if you think about it, we have more money in oil that's NOT being pumped than in what is. What's wrong with THAT picture?

Currently, barrel for barrel, we're still pumping enough to sustain ourselves for a good long while. It's because of problems in places like the Middle East that we're buying their oil and banking our own, better to have a stockpile and be able to last DECADES than to close ourselves off and run into a crisis within the next ten years, however (speculation) I really do personally believe that we wouldn't run into a problem, there is enough oil coming from Venezuela to sustain us if we decided to pump on all of our fields AND export from the Alberta sands (if only they'd frigging drill up there, the reserve is huge).

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