Gas prices falling

They're gathering their strength for the next big price surge...

UK Situation. Regular unleaded presently at ~£0.96 per liter.

1 liter = 0.26 gallon [US, liquid]

So we pay roughly £4 per us gallon, although that does include duty.

Yes.. that is nearly $8 per gallon.

$2.87 a gallon here. No worries or complaints. Wish it were higher. Maybe get Mom's outta' 11mpg 6,000 trucks used to get shoes at Walmart.

bout time

Well, you know, once upon a time there was a bunch of fat, rich farmers who got tired of the ridiculous taxes and moved out of the UK. You could follow their example.....just a thought. Of course, if you did, you'd have to give up the good stuff and learn how to drink coors.

Nothing is perfect.

Lake RC can come & go at time back there.....

Thing that annoys me is when the gas companies say a $1 rise in oil prices (per barrel) validates, instantly, a 20 cent rise in gas prices (per gallon). No lag, no direct relation, just whateevr they feel like.

And we, as idiots, get mad and look mad as channel XX news comes over and asks us, while we fill our SUV up, first "How much is this setting you back? [/smiley reporter face]" and "What are you going to do different? [/attempt at serious contientious reporter face]".

To which, our answer, as the representory spokesperson of all the American people, is "Nuthin".


NOW, you get a RISE in oil prices, no new refineries being built, and gas usage not declining (as well as it being summer, when they say the additives put in teh gas cost more to produce) and prices are going down.


BS.


They are trying to curb the growing hybrid market and other alternate fuel source development. They finally got to the price where people said enough, and were willing to spend teh extra $$ to get a different car that would be less dependant on the oil industry and they are aware of this.

They want to slow development of this before people can, feasably, just charge their commuter car at home with the solar panel/shingles they have on their roof. We are nowhere near that now, and they want to make DAMN sure we aren't until they find some way to get exclusive rights to the sun.

Isn't that right Smithers?

I know what you're saying, but the price is never linearly associative to the rise in net cost.

Also, they increase gas prices BEFORE it happens, and take their time in lowering it when prices go down.

The thing that bugs me is not even the prices going up and down, but the way the oil industry likes to point fingers and say "It ain't our fault, it's them darned Arabs!".

Proof that the $$ is not directly attached to anything they have given reason for precious hikes is right here in front of us. Gas goes down, in the summer, with the same number of refineries running, oil prices at record highs, and no word of any development that would lower them.

I like the fact that they are lower, as many do, but I hate being lied to.

SO it goes back to the beginning riser.

Why, if everything is the same, are prices going down before Labor Day?

And not just a little?

You are missing a few sticks.....

Not.

I am the guy who likes to know "why". Not just that it is.

When you know "why" you can start to figure out a way to stop it, or avoid it.

Right now, with my car clocking ni at 1700 miles for the past 7 months (hello mass transit) I could give a flying Llama if they increased teh price of automotive gasoline to $10 a gallon. It effects me very little.


I take that back. S+H would be a biatch.


But aside from that, I just do not like it when people are not up front. Companies, politicians, whatever. They all lie through their teeth just enough so that the "average" dumbass believes them.

So whatever. I dunno. I am just pissey about things like this.



I need a beer.

Those are good points. Also, dont forget those evil SUVs...they are single handedly responsible for gas shortages which cause high prices.

LOL, you still really beleive SUVs are causing this, dont you?

Shall we pull names out of a hat, or do you have a few targets in mind?

I'll be the guy standing next to you collecting the money. I won't make change either, we will mail the change to their house in 4 - 6 weeks.


If they make it past you.

Here boss. I brought you a case of beer.

And a case of Coors.


Use the Coors to throw at anyone in line who is acting up.

*sends Satan an e-mail suggesting enlarging and upgrading Hell*

***offers security for construction***
***supplies overcrowded/priced accommodation for Polish workers***

Certainly.
***supplies more security***
***finds work for some Polish girls***

I see the night shift was here...

***pays of Llama with the now sacked Jef's wages***

Sorry Jef, we've been up and running for hours now and even the Llama is managing to bring in a wedge.

[Quote]Anybody now understand why I'm looking at buying a push bike? [quote\]

you mean chimps can ride bycycles

IMO, you should go for it, far quicker in congested traffic, especially in between school holidays. All you have to put up with is bloody drivers. Seriously, always in the bus lanes and cycle lanes and they never do anything when you stop them, bloody wimps.

sorry for bringing derailed thread close to back on track.

Yeah.

The closed circuit of your bedroom has been so boring lately. When are you going to start bringing the farm animals home again?

...*uses toy gun to get all of France to make lifetime protection payments, starting when my contract is reinstated*...



...*takes pride in knowing that the computer systems are going to be dumping into my account for a long, long time*...

Sorry man, they all ran away!!!


*burp*