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Old 04-30-2007, 04:16 AM   #41
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Looking at over 3 dollars a gallon this week here in the raleigh for reg unleaded. Crude is now above 66 dollars a barrel.

There is no stopping the price run up now for the summer driving season.

Get ready for 4+ a gallon.
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Re: When will gas prices alter driving habits??
Old 04-30-2007, 10:03 AM   #42
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Since we refuse to develop known reasources in the US and refuse to allow construction of new refinery capacity this should not be a shock to anyone. Our consumption of gas is 9.1 million gal/day but our refinery capacity is only 8.7 million gallons per day. OOPS an inconvient truth
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Since we refuse to develop known reasources in the US and refuse to allow construction of new refinery capacity this should not be a shock to anyone. Our consumption of gas is 9.1 million gal/day but our refinery capacity is only 8.7 million gallons per day. OOPS an inconvient truth
Isn't that 9.1 million BARRELS a day?? Or are we thriftier than I thought as a country............
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We are going to need new refineries and alternative fuels pretty d** quick. If Bin Laden and Co. had been successful last week, we would be paying $16.00 a gallon today. Let's ask the presidential hopefuls about their energy plans.
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Old 04-30-2007, 01:28 PM   #45
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Isn't that 9.1 million BARRELS a day?? Or are we thriftier than I thought as a country.

Just trying to help everyone's carbon foot print. It seams to me that you are correct. It was barrels not gallons. Just means we are even further behind the supply/demand curve.
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Isn't that 9.1 million BARRELS a day?? Or are we thriftier than I thought as a country.

Just trying to help everyone's carbon foot print. It seams to me that you are correct. It was barrels not gallons. Just means we are even further behind the supply/demand curve.
I think the world consumes something like 30 billion barrels a year, so we better find something pretty soon..............
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At some point we'll say, "Remember when gas was @2.99/gal ?" Of course, we'll all be dead or walking by then

Guess the answer is to just to keep getting on, by getting on. Doesn't seem like anyone has a clue! The Feds don't, the Presidential wannabees, don't.

We have found the enemy, and it's US! Deplorable, that this great nation, is so incompetent and incapable of making a decision, to rectify this issue.
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At some point we'll say, "Remember when gas was @2.99/gal ?" Of course, we'll all be dead or walking by then

Guess the answer is to just to keep getting on, by getting on. Doesn't seem like anyone has a clue! The Feds don't, the Presidential wannabees, don't.

We have found the enemy, and it's US! Deplorable, that this great nation, is so incompetent and incapable of making a decision, to rectify this issue.
You are so darn right!!

Americans are so dumb and wasteful! Yes just wait gang no railroads no real way to get from point A to B when the oil runs out OR when Bin laden and scum bomb Some oil infrastucture !!

Just like when I see 19 cars idling at the bojangles fast food driveup window waiting for a darn biscuit!


BANG Look at this and its only april 30th

http://marketwatch.nytimes.com/custo...d=NYT&dist=NYT

3.02 a gallon!!!Are you angry yey? Are you getting rid of your wasteful vehicles??

Every useless politician running for president has no vision! Not a one republican or democrat!
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Every useless politician running for president has no vision! Not a one republican or democrat!
New Guy, you are such a fence sitter! Why don't you just come out and say what you mean some time?

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Quite frankly, I am not too worried about the cost of gasoline. The fact is, we have the technology today to get me to work at 100 mpg, if not 150 mpg. That means that I effectively could pay four times more for fuel per gallon and spend the same amount of money per year, as I currently get 25 mpg. Do you really think fuel will reach $12/gallon? At this point alcohol will actually make sense.

Now, I am certain that I will not like my 150cc scooter as much as my car, but the reality is we have been living a fossil fuel fantasy for about 100 years and it will end. Life will not end and we will still drive to work.
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Gas prices don't really concern me as I‘m retired. No commuting miles. I have 3 motorcycles that get 40 to 55MPG. Most of my neighbors will stop driving before I do.

I feel sorry for the working poor that have to get to work to make $7 bucks an hour.


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Gas prices don't really concern me as I‘m retired. No commuting miles. I have 3 motorcycles that get 40 to 55MPG. Most of my neighbors will stop driving before I do.

I feel sorry for the working poor that have to get to work to make $7 bucks an hour.


Well one concern is you will pay more for food in the stores and anything else that needs to be shipped by truck. Any service sector will also pass on the increased prices to the consumer.
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ust like when I see 19 cars idling at the bojangles fast food driveup window waiting for a darn biscuit!
We have already established that most people here including yourself would not change your habits until gas reaches somewhere around $5/gal. So if they waited in the drive thru when gas was $1.50/gal, what surprises you about them waiting in the drive-thru when gas is $3/gal.
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We have already established that most people here including yourself would not change your habits until gas reaches somewhere around $5/gal. So if they waited in the drive thru when gas was $1.50/gal, what surprises you about them waiting in the drive-thru when gas is $3/gal.
I would make some serious changes at $4.00. When it went to around $3.00 early in 2006, I traded an SUV for a Honda Accord, and saved $840 in gas last year.........
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the post-katrina gas run-up had me perusing the want-ads for a few months (I currently have a 60 mile round trip commute ), though I didn't find anything that could match the bennies (financial and otherwise) I get here. We ARE looking for homes closer to my w*rk, as I intend to stay there till FIRE. At least one of our cars is probably going to be replaced with a hybrid, though we both drive fairly efficient cars.
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Well one concern is you will pay more for food in the stores and anything else that needs to be shipped by truck. Any service sector will also pass on the increased prices to the consumer.
And just when I was feeling so good...
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