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06-19-2008, 07:52 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Another Reason To Hike The Price Of Gas!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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06-19-2008, 07:54 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Sidenote:
I have noticed the price of gas at my local station has remained unchanged at $3.97 for a week and a half now......unusual I thought? Just the calm before the next storm I guess!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-19-2008, 08:45 AM
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Super Moderator
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Don't forget the Oil Refineries in Nigeria that were just shut down because of an an Attack by Militants....that should be good for another $.25 a gallon  |
"If you're arguing with an idiot, make sure he isn't doing the same thing."
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06-19-2008, 08:57 AM
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Registered User
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Originally Posted by BigFish
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I guess if supply and demand is an excuse? 
-spence |
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06-19-2008, 09:06 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Location: Hanover
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C'mon Spence! You buy all these "excuses" everytime there is a hike? Hurricane Katrina.....the rigs close for a couple days and "BANG" gas prices go up a buck a gallon and never came back down it just kept going from there!?!?! Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes.......how come these acts of nature never affected the price of gas before??? And the price never comes back down????? It just keeps going higher??? Introduce ethynol to the fuel to supposedly "keep prices down" and not only did the prices not go down.....they went up.....and the price of anything with corn in it went up.....and the price of wheat went up because farmers shifted to growing corn for ethynol????? What a scam!!! What a great country!!! WHAT A JOKE!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-19-2008, 09:12 AM
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Registered Grandpa
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And it's not just oil either that's rising out of control.
Everybody is rasing their prices on everything, wether they need to or not ,shipping costs just an excuse.
Paid $9.99 for a container of silicone car wax that just a year ago was $5 and change.  |
" Choose Life "
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06-19-2008, 09:34 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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You don't see the government raising the minimum wage? Or businesses or companies giving "cost of living" increases commensurate with the way the cost of living is going up so rapidly right now....as they them selves can't afford it!! In my opinion you have not seen the worst of this......wait until the unemployment rate skyrockets due to layoffs and businesses going under???
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-19-2008, 10:35 AM
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Registered User
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Larry, I don't think you really understand how bad the corn crop is going to be this year. It's not just the floods, but there's been so much rain farmers haven't been able to plant or cultivate, and when they have the crops are growing like crap.
About a third of the corn crop goes to ethanol, which is used as an additive just about everywhere.
-spence
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06-19-2008, 10:51 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Location: Hanover
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Spence....you are pretty quick!? THATS MY POINT!!! Take the ethynol out of the gas......it would solve alot of problems!!!! Not the least of which is the dependence on corn for fuel......never mind the dependence on fuel itself!!!!!!! It would also solve alot of mechanical/repair problems folks are having with their cars, boats, lawn mowers....anything powered by gasoline!!!!!
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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07-01-2008, 10:11 AM
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Retired Surfer
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Quote:
Originally Posted by spence
Larry, I don't think you really understand how bad the corn crop is going to be this year. It's not just the floods, but there's been so much rain farmers haven't been able to plant or cultivate, and when they have the crops are growing like crap.
About a third of the corn crop goes to ethanol, which is used as an additive just about everywhere.
-spence
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I've read one report where farmers planted about 25 % more corn this year than last year so the hit isn't going to be nearly as bad as what makes for good stories on the 6 p.m. news. |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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06-19-2008, 12:14 PM
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Great White Scup Hunter
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you can still fill up in the UAE for about $30...
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06-19-2008, 12:52 PM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Is that for your 727 Tom!!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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06-19-2008, 08:54 PM
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The one that got away
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Big oil abandoned the idea of using corn to fuel cars. It takes more enegery to produce the gas than it gives out. Ethanol from corn is a complete failure, but people dont realize that big oil still uses this as an excuse to jack the prices. Less than 10% of our gas is E85 ethanol, and you need a special car to burn it, therefore bad corn crops should have no effect on the price of gasoline, but it will because big oil is doing everything they can to make money before people finally realize we need new technology to fuel our planet.
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Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. 
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06-20-2008, 02:27 AM
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Registered User
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Location: Cumberland,RI
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The equation is easy
current gas prices =past gas prices + record high oil company profits.
They can play shell games all they want but they can't hide the profits.
We are getting screwed.
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Saltheart
Custom Crafted Rods by Saltheart
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07-01-2008, 07:09 AM
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its all about corn
farmers in the mid west and elsewhere have over compensated for
the demand being placed upon corn for bio fuel production and have planted much more corn crops than EVER before.
what i don't understand is... Since algae produces a huge amount more bio fuel than corn in just a few weeks instead of 2 to 3 months
why it isn't being utilized more. |
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07-01-2008, 09:01 AM
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Registered User
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Wait until they bomb Iran.
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07-01-2008, 09:08 AM
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Isreal might soon
as they took out an Iraq nuclear facility for the same reason.
Iran hasn't threatened to wipe out the US
they threatened to wipe out Israel
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07-01-2008, 09:23 AM
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lobster = striper bait
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raven
they threatened to wipe out Israel
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Hollow threats by a figurehead with no power.
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07-01-2008, 04:23 PM
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Registered User
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I bought gas this morning at 7:00 a.m. and it was 4.07. While I was pumping a girl was going around changing the signs on the pumps to 4.09. I checked my slip and I got in at 4.07. Another minute later and I might have had to pay an extra 24 cents. Never thought I would be excited to save a quarter.....
Where I got gas today there are 3 stations on 3 corners. One was 407, one was 4.09 and one was 4.19. What kills me is the one that is 4.19 had lots of cars in it buying gas. Sunday when I noticed the difference in price and today. Maybe it hasn't hit people. Why would you spend an extra 12 cents a gallon when you don't have to. As long as people are willing to do that I can't see the prices going down. All you have to do to save at least a buck is drive another 500 feet to the station at 4.07.
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Any friggin' excuse they can find to justify the price of gas going through the roof!!!! 
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