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03-06-2011, 09:16 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Location: Hanover
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BS Gas Prices!
I think the rising price of fuel is all due to media caused panic and speculation!!! There are several countries that produce oil (12 I believe I heard) so why is it that because there are issues in Libya that there is widespread price increases, gouging and panic??? There is no shortage to speak of.....any of the other oil producing nations are still selling oil last I heard???? This is all such BULL#^&#^&#^&#^&!!! Just like when there were Hurricanes in the gulf a few years ago and the drilling rigs had to shut down the prices went through the roof???? This happens anytime there is a hurricane in the gulf and yet we have not seen a price increase attributed to this happening in a few years now??? I have always found it curious.....just as curious as I have always found it when the gas prices seem to spike prior to a big holiday/weekend and then drop back down immediately afterwards!!!!! Its all due to price gouging opportunist scumbags.....and our government does nothing about it!!! 
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Almost time to get our fish on!!! 
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03-06-2011, 09:23 AM
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It's all a scam.
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03-06-2011, 09:25 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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I do believe that to be the case!  |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-06-2011, 09:26 AM
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Seldom Seen
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Exxon Mobil profits increase 53% | Business | The Guardian
Check out the profit numbers.....  And this was from their fourth quarter....
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“Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.” – James Madison.
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03-06-2011, 09:35 AM
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Location: RI
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We'd better give them tax breaks to help keep the industry alive.
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03-06-2011, 09:35 AM
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Registered User
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Location: Mansfield, MA
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Originally Posted by nightfighter
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Exxon has speculators to thank. |
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03-06-2011, 09:35 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
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Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-06-2011, 09:37 AM
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BigFish Bait Co.
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: Hanover
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyD
Exxon has speculators to thank.
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Seems we have a quorum?? We all know this to be the truth yet nothing gets done to stop it by this government?? Oh yeah thats right.....all the politicians own oil company stocks I keep forgetting?? |
Almost time to get our fish on!!!
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03-06-2011, 11:01 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Here and There Seasonally
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Originally Posted by BigFish
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I will declare the people of this country awake when they vote for real change and if the change doesn't happen change their leadership in the next election. I'm sick to death of our leaders argueing the color of #^&#^&#^&#^&e, doing nothing but pitting the citizens against one another, serving big business and big finance all the while congratulating themselves.
The prices are controlled by the speculation of the people with the most money. Those who gamble millions or billions every day on whether the price will go up. OF COURSE IT WILL GO UP THAT'S HOW THEY GOT THE MOST MONEY!!!! ANd they keep that money, no loans, no fair pricing. Benefits like health insurance are no longer a benefit but a larger deduction than taxes when you figure in co-pays and deductibles. That's only one example. This country is based on the profit for a few, everyone else can go pound sand. You think Social Security is a scam? How'd your 401K work out. Twice in my working life I've seen them stolen, yes stolen, there's no better word for it. Then it was our savings, our inversments and our homes. They want it all. The more that theyget and hold the less it is worth, ironically. That's basically why a dollar ain;t worth crap, and it's harder to earn one now.
DEEP BREATH
Things will not get better in this country until we the people stop bickering about inconsequential BS like Charlie Effin Sheen! Sorm the Capitol. We like to blame our woes on each other ("they"like it,too) and illegal aliens, and teachers, and pitbulls, and gays, and whateverelse they tell us to bitch about. They know how to push the buttons, and they are virtuosos at it. Learn to question everything learn to recognize propaganda. Learn to identify the real enemy. One clue to propognada is this: if it's directed at emotion and not reason it's either an out and out lie , a misdirection, or misinformation.
I need to lie down now... |
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
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03-06-2011, 11:21 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BigFish
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Larry, what do you mean by wake up?
Are people supposed to stop driving?How is that working for you. It's one thing to have an epiphany, and another to have a solution.Tell us what the "wake up" entails, will you be leading a march on Capitol Hill? |
PRO CHOICE REPUBLICAN
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03-06-2011, 11:32 AM
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time to go
Join Date: Oct 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Backbeach Jake
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I will declare the people of this country awake when they vote for real change and if the change doesn't happen change their leadership in the next election. I'm sick to death of our leaders argueing the color of #^&#^&#^&#^&e, doing nothing but pitting the citizens against one another, serving big business and big finance all the while congratulating themselves.
The prices are controlled by the speculation of the people with the most money. Those who gamble millions or billions every day on whether the price will go up. OF COURSE IT WILL GO UP THAT'S HOW THEY GOT THE MOST MONEY!!!! ANd they keep that money, no loans, no fair pricing. Benefits like health insurance are no longer a benefit but a larger deduction than taxes when you figure in co-pays and deductibles. That's only one example. This country is based on the profit for a few, everyone else can go pound sand. You think Social Security is a scam? How'd your 401K work out. Twice in my working life I've seen them stolen, yes stolen, there's no better word for it. Then it was our savings, our inversments and our homes. They want it all. The more that theyget and hold the less it is worth, ironically. That's basically why a dollar ain;t worth crap, and it's harder to earn one now.
DEEP BREATH
Things will not get better in this country until we the people stop bickering about inconsequential BS like Charlie Effin Sheen! Sorm the Capitol. We like to blame our woes on each other ("they"like it,too) and illegal aliens, and teachers, and pitbulls, and gays, and whateverelse they tell us to bitch about. They know how to push the buttons, and they are virtuosos at it. Learn to question everything learn to recognize propaganda. Learn to identify the real enemy. One clue to propognada is this: if it's directed at emotion and not reason it's either an out and out lie , a misdirection, or misinformation.
I need to lie down now... |
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03-06-2011, 12:37 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
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Just paid $3.55 for reg unleaded.
Pumped $50 in the tank of my V10 ford superdudy, was on empty now reads 1/3.
Won't be driving that truck much now that the snow is done.
Maybe I'll give my 4cyl Ranger a good tune soon.
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LETS GO BRANDON
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03-06-2011, 12:41 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Diesel was 3.80 on thursday
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03-06-2011, 12:53 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
Diesel was 3.80 on thursday
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I haven't seen diesel less than $4.00
Speaking of diesel.
Cheaper to refine than gas but about 50cents more. That makes a lot of sense !
Every truck moving goods around the country runs on diesel ! |
LETS GO BRANDON
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03-06-2011, 01:15 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
I haven't seen diesel less than $4.00
Speaking of diesel.
Cheaper to refine than gas but about 50cents more. That makes a lot of sense !
Every truck moving goods around the country runs on diesel !
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Because there's a additional road tax on it. |
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03-06-2011, 01:16 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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actually it was 3.76 on Thursday at Jr's. convience in Dighton
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03-06-2011, 02:45 PM
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BuzzLuck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Brockton
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Paid $3.42 Reg last night, middle of nowhere (rt58 Carver) on way to TFCTFN!
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 Given the diversity of the human species, there is no “normal” human genome sequence. We are all mutants.
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03-10-2011, 06:48 PM
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Hardcore Equipment Tester
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Abington, MA
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Bent Rods and Screaming Reels!
Spot NAZI
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03-10-2011, 07:10 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Just filled up with biodiesel 3.20 a gal. finally a deal!
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03-11-2011, 10:23 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Originally Posted by TheSpecialist
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I like how they wait until halfway down the article to tell you that it's because Europeans tax the hell out of gas... and just about everything else.
A friend from England was complaining about what they pay out there for fuel and how us Americans have it so much easier. My exact response to him:
"Tough to claim that Heath Care is a right and how excellent "free" health care is when you guys can't even afford the gas to get to the hospital."
He understood my point of "Free" not really being "free" right away. |
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03-11-2011, 10:58 AM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Libtardia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by JohnnyD
I like how they wait until halfway down the article to tell you that it's because Europeans tax the hell out of gas... and just about everything else.
A friend from England was complaining about what they pay out there for fuel and how us Americans have it so much easier. My exact response to him:
"Tough to claim that Heath Care is a right and how excellent "free" health care is when you guys can't even afford the gas to get to the hospital."
He understood my point of "Free" not really being "free" right away.
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public transportation over there is great... |
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03-11-2011, 07:03 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Mansfield
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Quote:
Originally Posted by striperman36
Just filled up with biodiesel 3.20 a gal. finally a deal!
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where????? |
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03-11-2011, 08:20 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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Newport Biodiesel
No difference in my mpg
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03-22-2011, 02:31 PM
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BS Gas Prices
I don't live in Norway and don't care what they pay for gas, but ,I do take issue with my President placing a 7 year moratorium on domestic oil exploration while he offers our help and technology to Brazil in their efforts to extract undersea oil deposits safely; Then, assures them that we will be good "customers" down the road when their oil becomes available.I don't know about you but sending US dollars to Brazil for the same product that he will not allow us to extract doesn't sound like a great idea to me but I must just be ignorant to the need for a global redistribution of wealth.
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03-22-2011, 03:24 PM
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Retired Surfer
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Sunset Grill
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Stop oil subsidies and start drilling
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerkinthedark
I don't live in Norway and don't care what they pay for gas, but ,I do take issue with my President placing a 7 year moratorium on domestic oil exploration while he offers our help and technology to Brazil in their efforts to extract undersea oil deposits safely; Then, assures them that we will be good "customers" down the road when their oil becomes available.I don't know about you but sending US dollars to Brazil for the same product that he will not allow us to extract doesn't sound like a great idea to me but I must just be ignorant to the need for a global redistribution of wealth.
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First of all our president should not have the power to control the oil industry or any other business. The president should not be able to say we will prosecute this law and not that one. That is up to us, the legislatures, and the courts.
The democrats for years have been subsidising the oil industry and the republicans have introduced bills in congress to stop the subsidies completely. The stick it up our breezers and we reward them for doing so. |
Swimmer a.k.a. YO YO MA
Serial Mailbox Killer/Seal Fisherman
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03-22-2011, 08:15 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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there should be more diesel use in this country and we should be using bio recycling to make fuel. I've looked everywhere and there is only one plant, in Newport, that sells bio diesel.
70-80 pct of the world runs on diesel
90pct of our logistics transport in the US runs on it.
And ethanol is silly and raises food prices world wide.
Its all a circular ripoff
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03-23-2011, 05:02 PM
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There is NO SUPPLY PROBLEM!!! Libya is only 3% and others have more than made up for it. The price goes up because it is based on wall street speculation...the net result is oil companies profit MORE. It is not their fault, but they reap the rewards and the common man pays for it.
I think fuel prices should (within reason) be controlled by the government, not wall street hedge funds looking to trade it. Mainly because some drastic move will effect the entire general economy.
Biodiesel takes a lot more energy to make (you don't just pump it out of the earth) so don't expect any bargain...most times it is .50-100 more than regular diesel. What kills me is that bio-diesel price moves with natural diesel which makes no sense since it is not connected to any political agenda.
It's a rigged game and the common man will pay the piper.
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03-23-2011, 07:16 PM
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Old Guy
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Mansfield, MA
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newportbiodiesel has been selling their product at 3.20 a gallon for the last 2 years.
veggie oil to diesel is a dewatering and catalytic conversion. the cost is in the collection , and they run their rings on their own juice.
several million gallons of veg oil go to landfills every year, where's the energy cost?
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03-28-2011, 07:35 AM
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Certifiable Intertidal Anguiologist
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I filled my tank yesterday at 2.45/ gallon with Stop & Shop card.
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