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

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...

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.

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?

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:

the trick is to
 

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: