02-25-2011, 08:23 AM
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Jay Leno, lover of cars, loves electric cars. because saving fuel is what makes it possible for 700hp supercars, etc to remain viable.
I suppose it applies to our boats as well. Average non-boater would probably be appalled at our mpg. But it's all these folks driving priuses, (sailing - ), etc that 'save' enough fuel that the rest of us can enjoy our thing. hey, no reason not to at least return their friendly waves and smiles,...
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02-25-2011, 09:47 AM
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When's the last time you heard a petroleum company claim losses in quarter? (Not counting BP last year.)
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02-25-2011, 11:59 AM
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i hope it gets better towards spring but i think that's traditional season for gas prices to go up; the claim being more people driving.
i forget the percentage, but i believe the majority of each barrel of oil is refined to become gasoline. and as much as i hate the e10, can you think of another way to reduce gasoline consumption by 10% when no one wants to give up a thing?
i keep thinking that the sooner i can talk all you guys into sailing lessons, the cheaper it will be for me to run my boat,...
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02-25-2011, 12:07 PM
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i hope it gets better towards spring but i think that's traditional season for gas prices to go up; the claim being more people driving.
i forget the percentage, but i believe the majority of each barrel of oil is refined to become gasoline. and as much as i hate the e10, can you think of another way to reduce gasoline consumption by 10% when no one wants to give up a thing?
i keep thinking that the sooner i can talk all you guys into sailing lessons, the cheaper it will be for me to run my boat,...
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Even that probably won't work. As Skip says, look at diesel fuel. There is less of a need for it, and costs less to produce (less refining), yet it cost more than gas. There is no way we are going to "beat" the oil companies.
Maybe if gas gets to $5 a gallon, we could go "Egypt" on the whole administration .
5th (Marty)
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02-25-2011, 02:05 PM
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A week ago I passed a gas station that was advertising non-ethyanol @ $3.29/gal. Today I passed a regular station and the e-10 is now up to $3.25/gal which will put non-ethyanol at $3.45/gal. I hope we see a drop but with Obama in office they will continue to rise. Bob
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02-25-2011, 05:07 PM
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A week ago I passed a gas station that was advertising non-ethyanol @ $3.29/gal. Today I passed a regular station and the e-10 is now up to $3.25/gal which will put non-ethyanol at $3.45/gal. I hope we see a drop but with Obama in office they will continue to rise. Bob
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Your gonna blame this on O Bama ??
Please, tell the class, how so ????
Oh I know.. Obama wasn;t born here, he's from Egypt OR Libya.. No birth certificate.... He caused the uprisings with a secret communique and has the whole middle east in an uproar...
Silly me... What was I thinking ????
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02-25-2011, 06:37 PM
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I feel like I hit the lottery. I filled up my Excursion on Wednesday night at Giant. The regular price was $3.06 and I had .30 off in Gas rewards so I filled it up at $2.76 a gallon.
Today the price at Giant was $3.23 gallon!
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02-25-2011, 06:42 PM
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Your gonna blame this on O Bama ??
Please, tell the class, how so ????
Oh I know.. Obama wasn;t born here, he's from Egypt OR Libya.. No birth certificate.... He caused the uprisings with a secret communique and has the whole middle east in an uproar...
Silly me... What was I thinking ????
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Well, not bashing the guy at all, but so far he hasn't done anything except let the free market do its thing. I'm all about capitalism, so I have no beef with that.
Anything Big O does will only be a temporary patch to placate the masses anyway. Release some of our strategic reserves? Might knock 10 cents off the price in a little while. The fact is, we're so dependent on foreign oil that there's very little that this, or any administration could do EXCEPT for getting the oil we already have in our own country.
I read today that we have a minimum of 200 year supply located from Canada down through the Dakotas, and some people are estimating it could be as much as a 2,000 year supply.
I'm no geologist, so I don't have a clue about the accuaracy of that...seems an awfully big variance.
But I don't foresee our current administration putting anything in motion to harvest that light sweet crude. The wheels need to be turning in high gear right now in order to make a difference years from now.
So while there's nothing President Obama could really do about the current prices, he can do something about future prices.
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02-25-2011, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Blakesdad
Your gonna blame this on O Bama ??
Please, tell the class, how so ????
Oh I know.. Obama wasn;t born here, he's from Egypt OR Libya.. No birth certificate.... He caused the uprisings with a secret communique and has the whole middle east in an uproar...
Silly me... What was I thinking ????
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I don't have to respond to every thread, I don't have to respond to every thread, I don't have to respond to every thread........
Oh what the heII; the man's a complete joke as President.
5th (Marty)
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It's now bordering on insanity. Frickin' joke.
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