Can't wait for Memorial Day Weekend!:ss: :rocketem:

Gotta love it when we're taking it hard and Mobil/Exxon keeps posting "Record Profits" F'n SCUMBAGS!!! :liquify: :liquify: :liquify: :hang:

Enjoy it now boys. According to the news several weeks ago, economists expect gas to top $4 a gallon this summer.

To quote a certain character, "I didn't think it was possible but this both sucks and blows!"

i heard 3 but not 4

that changes everything..... i'd have to move back to the city. :doh:

Raven, I heard 3 also.. 4.... well, if the greedy bastages want it, they will get it....... and they think they have a lot of "drive offs" now..
at 4 bucks, I would venture a guess, that self serve might become different, prolly a lot of insert dough first, or credit card or ATM first. Pump (first) and pay inside, will likely disappear.
4 would seriously impact the economy, no that 3 wont have an effect.

Gotta love it when we're taking it hard and Mobil/Exxon keeps posting "Record Profits" F'n SCUMBAGS!!! :liquify: :liquify: :liquify: :hang:
:af: methinks that strategy posted a while back 'bout boycotting the biggies would actually work if everybody was on board.

or Americans would be better off moving to a four day work week...

to take back control....

Heard some talk on the news this AM, says that the price is being driven up right now by the "futures" mkt, not supply or demand, or shortage.. Thanks, Wall Street.....:doh:

"Futures" I hate that term it is so BS. I can see the future that after it hits $3 a gallon it will again go down to $2 something......so lets just keep it were it is!

$2.60 this am!!!!:smash:

Don't worry, they'll make it up to us when heating oil and natural gas prices come back down to pre Katrina prices. :)

Ya, like that will ever happen. :doh: :af:

Hey beachwalker..Hows it going??? GO SOX!!!!:)

Our government sucks!:rocketem:

Look at the bright side--I was on Long Island today and the cheapest I saw was $2.75. Average price was about $2.80. Even the fleece joints on I-95 in CT were under $2.70

$2.67 in Harrisville RI. Cheapest I've seen in RI is $2.54 at the Hess station on RT 44 in Greenville. I filled up my Trailblazer thsi morning. Granted I was almost empty but $45.00 friggin' dollars????

I backed off from 75 on the highway to 65 with brief excursions just over 70 and I picked up more than 10% on my mileage......It's worth a try...

it has been diagnosed that you get better milage getting up to your cruising speed as quickly as possible from a dead stop than doing that same thing gradually which is opposite of what you'd think.

2.65 in CT

I backed off from 75 on the highway to 65 with brief excursions just over 70 and I picked up more than 10% on my mileage......It's worth a try...

Yah, I got over 21 mpg on the trip down yesterday--this in a Grand Cherokee with a straight 6 and 150K plus on the clock. I cruised at 65-70 the whole way. I have a tach, so it's interesting to see the rpm difference between say, 68 and 75.

Of course, I would have done even better at 55, but doing that in southern RI runs the risk of getting run off the road. And forget about trying to drive the limit in CT where trucks can't use the left lane. Damn rigs will get right on your ass in the right lane until you either pull onto the shoulder or move to the middle lane.

F the oil companies but we all need to drive more fuel efficient vehicles.

I am thinking of trading in the truck and driving a smaller vehicle. I have been driving truck for a long time now because I need the room and I can honestly say that I do not need a truck. If there was a 4wd truck that my big ass could drive comfortably I would own one.

When I drop the kids off at school I see people driving the suburbans which are not needed, these families could do the same thing with a mini van but these people could not be seen driving a mini van.

Damn prices have been changing 2 times a day this week :wall:
The cheapest I saw today was $2.63 for reg & $2.83 for premimum

:af: methinks that strategy posted a while back 'bout boycotting the biggies would actually work if everybody was on board.

I am on board with this,

Not good.

I think were all going to have to start paying more attention to articles like this:

uffah, sign me up, I can make lotsa methane :D

I was just listening to the radio, unreal... they say the recent increase in cost, is partially due to the refineries swithing out the MTBE to Ethanol... :doh:... something about a mandatory 85% gas 15% ethanol mix having to hit the pumps soon.. and we pay more for it...

METHANE... sounds like the way to "go" for sure.

METHANE... sounds like the way to "go" for sure.

a friend of mine built a glass studio on top of an old land fill.. best view in town and enough methane to fuel his shop for the next 100 years...

uffah, sign me up, I can make lotsa methane :D

I was just listening to the radio, unreal... they say the recent increase in cost, is partially due to the refineries swithing out the MTBE to Ethanol... :doh:... something about a mandatory 85% gas 15% ethanol mix having to hit the pumps soon.. and we pay more for it...

METHANE... sounds like the way to "go" for sure.

Except that MTBE has been illegal in NY and Cal---two of the biggest gas consuming states---for years. 10% ethanol has been the law in those states. Maybe now they can't use the excuse of "well, we have to refine all of these different blends for different regions" any more. Sure they can't :rollem:

Gotta love an industry that tries to recoup added costs before they incur them.

or Mad Max frenzy :devil2: :devil2:

Can't understand how they can charge us to take MTBE's out of the gasoline. They should have never put it in in the first place. Like they charged us extra when the first came out with UNLEADED. Their the ones that put in the LEAD in the first place to stop knocking!!!

I heard a politician in Rhode Island is proposing to eliminate the RI state gas taxes. 30 freakin cents a gallon you pay toward taxes in rhody! Lord knows how much the Feds rape us for per gallon too. I believe the proposal would last for 4 months or until gas dips below $2.50 a gallon. Now i doubt this will pass, but at least someone has the right idea. We get taxed up the ass around here so why not give the tax payer a little break for awhile? You think the oil companies are raping ya? Think again, its the taxes form the state and the feds that rape ya just as much. But nobody ever mentions this.... Cut my freakin gas taxes i say!

You think the oil companies are raping ya? Think again, its the taxes form the state and the feds that rape ya just as much. But nobody ever mentions this.... Cut my freakin gas taxes i say!
Well, the oil companies are making profit while the state taxes (I'd assume) go into the general fund. Granted there's a lot of pork in the State budget, but you're still comparing apples and oranges.

Cutting gas taxes would be great, but you have to offset it somehow. The state budget isn't in the best shape.

-spence

you can offset it by just spending our hard earned tax dollars more wisely. If the politicians in this state are so concerned about high gas prices cut the taxes and learn to spend better. Plus there is no such thing as a bad tax cut :kewl: if this doesnt go through, i better not hear another Rhody polititcian bitch about high gas prices, when they can help the folks right now and save people 30 cents a gallon, this goes for the feds too. They can help the folks out NOW if they so choose by cutting the gas taxes. Sure hybrid cars and alternative energy are great long term fixes, but that doesnt do chit right now. Cutting gas taxes can be done NOW and affect Americans NOW :kewl:

Skippy, the State budget doesn't work that way :hs:

Should we just cut all the taxes and have no funds to provide for the common good? Doesn't work...

Most of the budget does benefit the citizens at large, and believe it or not, some of it is even spent pretty effectively.

-spence

2.48 in the hood. wear kevlar. :rolleyes:

gas prices right now - $.30 is still too high IMO


they claim to have all these reasons why the prices are high........the only REAL reason is greed :rtfm:

These gas prices are low compared to a pint of water for a dollar.

$2.85 a gallon in Indy today:hihi:

Bernzy

Can't understand how they can charge us to take MTBE's out of the gasoline. They should have never put it in in the first place.

They didn't have a choice---they were required to sell "oxygenated" gas during certain months of the year in high pollution areas. Most oil companies chose MTBE as the cheaper alternative to ethanol. Hess was one of the few companies that went with ethanol from the beginning. It let Hess sell at 2-3 cent a gallon cheaper when NY banned MTBE and the other companies were scrambling to find ethanol suppliers.

Of course, in SE Mass, what few Hess staions there are sell whatever JP Noonan has in the tanker truck at delivery--just like 99% of the other brand name stations.

$2.58 looks good today huh?

Prices spiked good for the Easter Holiday....I am betting $3.00 a gallon for Memorial Day!!!!:nailem:

Already $2.99 for premium at some stations, barrel price is $70+ again:shocked: :mad: :wall:

Heard on the news gas hit record high today per barrel and will go higher. Time to sell the pickup and look for a Jeep or something.

The Sand Sled is now for sale... I will get something else - full size - for towing and beech creeping but I am wasting miles on the truck doing 80-90 miles round trip per day just commuting for work...

AD in the Classifieds shortly...

BTW - two things I have done which improve mileage, drive 65-70 on the hwy instead of 70-80 - worth 2 mpg on average, and the other thing was to get a Scan Guage (http://www.scangage.com/ ) which allows me to watch my instantaneous mileage and drive more efficiently... Between the two I can push into the high teens on the highway...

Prices spiked good for the Easter Holiday....I am betting $3.00 a gallon for Memorial Day!!!!:nailem:
Yer low:poke:

Here in Jersey whee we have low fuel taxes the price at the pump is $2.67. That is for no name gas pumped by guys that can't speak english. The only thing they do well is fill out deposit slips for the local bank!!!

I'm gettin pissed too now....:wall:

With oil at over $70 bl now, Im guessing this is just the excuse they need to raise the prices to a new high.
My guess is $3.49 by Mem day, and $3.89+ by July4.We may even see over $4.
Biodiesel is looking better & better every day.

Up:af: to $3.05 today

2.89 self serve here in Cumberland. I expect $3.50 by Mem Day.

I get 18 miles per gallon in my Blazer. Burn about 1000 gallons per year. My truck payment is $200 per month. A new hybrid car would be free based on the gas savings. In fact the car will be free and I'd still pocket some money per year.

The Sand Sled is now for sale... I will get something else - full size - for towing and beech creeping but I am wasting miles on the truck doing 80-90 miles round trip per day just commuting for work...

AD in the Classifieds shortly...

BTW - two things I have done which improve mileage, drive 65-70 on the hwy instead of 70-80 - worth 2 mpg on average, and the other thing was to get a Scan Guage (http://www.scangage.com/ ) which allows me to watch my instantaneous mileage and drive more efficiently... Between the two I can push into the high teens on the highway...

you went and bought a Ford when you already had a Chevy that got good mileage :huh:
take the wifey's car to work:think:

it's 2.79 here in Middleboro so I filled up at 2.69 in Easton today, and of course the pump stops at 75 bucks because I used my card at the pump:fishslap: didn't even fill it up:(

Everything is more reasonable in Easton.

Ya well sunoco was the station that was 2.79 in Middleboro, the sunoco in Easton was only a penny cheaper at 2.78
the Mobil was 2.69

75 bucks to not even fill up hurts.

Last summer I remember putting 100 dollars in once when I was on fumes, ONCE!:fishslap:

Easton is full of yuppies:p

$2.69 today at the Hess next to Mike's shop--cheapest in the area.

$3 by Memorial Day? Try by April 30. It's been going up at least a dime a week since early March, and there are stations that are already in the mid-$2.80s.

In what other industry does a price increase in the raw material it's made from, that hasn't even been delivered yet, result in an instantaneous price hike?

In what other industry does a price increase in the raw material it's made from, that hasn't even been delivered yet, result in an instantaneous price hike?
Not to get too political, but what other industry has the leader of the free world making broad idiological challenges to demand radical change among the primary supply base.

Can anyone say hedge fund?

-spence

time to put rod racks on my super beetle :hihi::sled:

get more miles to the gallon....

don't grab yet another brownie....:hihi:

and leave the spare tire at home.

Morning of errands... N. Eastham, to South Chatham, gas prices were all over the place, cheapest was 2.75, most were 2.81, saw one at 2.89, and :eek: one at 2.97 :eek:
cumby's in Orleans was 2.79 when I went by at 9:30, 2.81 twenty minutes later :doh:
all mixed up :as:

Paid $2.69 this morning....thought I died and went to heaven!:hihi:

Saw 2.99.9 today..WTF

premium $3.09, up .10 in 2 days:conf:

Yep, just paid 3.08 to tank up the buggy...the high compression engine requires Super :poke:

-spence

I'm going to revise my estimate of April 30.

I say $3 a gallon for unleaded regular by this weekend--up another 7 cents today.

WTF is with this? It was 2.87 in Newport.

I am thinking of giving up working in order to save money on gas!:fishslap:

$3.79 by Mem day. After that you will see rationing or possibly the govt step in but I doubt that these bloated idiots have any intention of not letting their buddies stick it to the American public. These guys are testing the limits of the higher end of what people are willing to pay.

i love expensive gas.. Keeps out the riff raff :hihi:

i love expensive gas.. Keeps out the riff raff :hihi:

then how do you explain this ?

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/410113p-346997c.html

I was wrong when I first guessed $4, I am changing my guess to $6/gal by july 4.
this site cant even keep up anymore
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

Thanks by the way, to whoever posted this link originally.

Its not funny anymore. Im dusting off the moped.

The SandSled is for Sale: http://www.striped-bass.com/Stripertalk/showthread.php?t=30873

(But when it sells, I will buy an econocar for work and an older 4x4 for play)

"As New Yorkers lashed out against the skyrocketing fuel prices yesterday, Sen. Chuck Schumer called for an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission to ensure that rising gas prices are not a result of corporate greed."


And just like last year they'll make a big dog and pony show and say the American public isn't being screwed over. Then the rates will go up some more while we watch these fat bloatbags take home $400 million cuz they cut a freakin hangnail off right.

then how do you explain this ?

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/410113p-346997c.html

I was wrong when I first guessed $4, I am changing my guess to $6/gal by july 4.
this site cant even keep up anymore
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

Thanks by the way, to whoever posted this link originally.

Its not funny anymore. Im dusting off the moped.


Whats a moped?:hihi:

Amazing and we thought marina prices were bad last year.
I tremble everytime I go to the station to fill up. 2.85 at the pump in Mansfield today.
I am trying to get my office switched to BOS so I can take the train.

Bill

Whats a moped?:hihi:

it was called a mobat....and it did 35 miles per hour

i remember one summer and get this NEBE...:heybaby:

i was livin way up in the mountains and was workin on my VW bug

so i split the motor case and needed to have it line -bored ok

but i had no transportation to get it there... so being the radical

wild child that i was at the time i decided to transport it via moped all the way to the machine shop and i strapped that sucker down to my seat and headed down the mountain.

it was a strange lookin setup i can assure you what with the head bolts stickin way out on either side.... and i had to be careful or i'd wipe out and wreck everything including myself because of the weight..... But....i made it ...it took me an hour...but i got it there!
it was a one way trip though...no way to drive it on the back of a moped up hills that steep.