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With the price of gas more people should just stay home and watch videos, rather than wasting gas going to the theater. Not to mention the horrible price for movie tickets and lousy popcorn. My wife still uses the trusty crank popcorn popper. We buy the 8lbs of Orville's best at Costco. And only use real butter on our popcorn. Got to keep the omega6 intake down. Then settle back for a good episode of Poirot, Foyle's war or Morse from our video collection.
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So even though that '73 Delta was never shown outside of the credits, they did at least try to keep a bit of an Olds continuity.
There was also an episode where either Tom Utley, or that guy who was always losing jobs, got a job as a used car salesman, and I think there was a thinly-disguised Cavalier in the showroom. Other than that, the only cars they'd show were in stock-footage exterior location shots. For instance, sometimes you can see an Omni/Rizon or perhaps a Rabbit drive past the Stratford. And there were a few exterior small-town shots that would show cars parked at the curb, driving past, etc.
As for the 70's "Bob Newhart Show", I don't think they ever showed his car, although they've made references to both Bob and Emily having their own cars. I thought I heard someone say there was a Monte Carlo in one episode, but I never saw it. And I seem to remember an episode or two where they'd mention renting a car to go out of town, so the writers weren't always consistent. There were plenty of exterior street shots though, around the Chicago area, where you'd see plenty of local traffic. There was an episode where Jerry the Orthodontist rented a conversion van to take some orphans camping, and they ended up in a parking lot in a bad neighborhood because all the campgrounds were booked up.
Thanks. Now I remember that from someone talking about it elsewhere.
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And he followed that up with "And what about that car you're driving, Walter. It's foreign! That's one of the reasons General Motors is going broke!"
The more things change, the more they stay the same, I guess. Here it is, nearly 40 years later, and we're still discussing energy issues, General Motors' financial issues, etc.
Kinda funny to think that Mr. Drummond from "Diff'rent Strokes" would predict GM's bankruptcy...albeit about 35 years ahead of time!
AAA spokesman John B. Townsend II said the new station’s prices have consistently been 30 cents below the average for regular gas in the District, where prices are generally at least 5 percent higher than in Maryland and Virginia.
A gallon of Costco’s premium gas is cheaper than the average gallon of regular gas sold in the District, Townsend said: “That is amazing.”
The guy with the gas distribution "monopoly" in DC is naturally crying foul.
Costco-linked gas cheap but controversial (washingtonpost.com)
I bought Costco gas on my trip, but I don't here - the stations are zoos, people drive like recipients of botched lobotomies to begin with,and get worse when queuing up.
Gasoline has collapsed way below $4 even in this high tax state, but diesel is still usually within 20 cents of it.
Interesting, about those laws that gas stations can't sell booze. In Maryland they can, although in my county, you can't sell hard liquor on Sundays, only beer and wine. So, most of the liquor stores close up shop, and I think our local gas station halts sales of all booze, for whatever reason.
In DC, there's practically a liquor store on every corner, or at least a corner store that sells booze. So not letting the gas stations sell booze isn't doing a thing to stop drunk driving. Never has, never will. It's all political maneuvering, under the auspices of a greater good.
And, in that vein, to save on time and fuel, I usually combine my bi-weekly beer run with a fill-up. I leave the county to do so, as gas is usually bit cheaper up in Anne Arundel, and there's a station about a quarter mile from the discount liquor store. Of course, I'm not buying it and then drinking it on the way back!!
BTW, "bi-" does mean "every other", right? As in, "every other week", rather than "twice per week?". 'Cuz that's what I meant...every other week. Don't want to portray myself as a lush, now!
At a length of 1,601 feet, the Prelude, which is owned by Shell, is 150 feet longer than the Empire State Building is high.
It is a floating liquefied natural gas facility which will allow Shell to produce natural gas at sea and then liquify it by chilling it to -260 degrees F so it can be transported around the world.
The Prelude is expected to produce 3.6 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year and its storage tanks have a capacity equivalent to approximately 175 Olympic swimming pools.
The facility will be connected to wells on the seabed by a series of pipes to extract gas from under the ocean.
The Prelude is expected to launch in 2017 and will then operate in a remote part of Western Australia for the next 25 years, however Shell hopes that it will help to unlock vital energy resources around the world.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10496977/Worlds-larges- t-ship-bigger-than-Empire-State-Building-launches.html
Can't say the same about air fares.
One of my many questions is, with the increase in buying more fuel-efficient vehicles, driving less / shorter distances, using less fuel and so forth, when are oil/gas companies are going to use the "well, we have to increase prices b/c no one is buying enough" excuse to raise prices more. I mean, they've used every other excuse for high prices and such...
The local gym ran a BF special so we walked down and signed up.
Jae5, maybe the Energy Information Administration needs to double-check with AAA or GasBuddy.
Not sure what Yahoo is trying to spin, but they do not have their facts straight.
Interesting to watch the delta between gas vs diesel - gas has fallen quite a bit, while at one local station, diesel has been 3.99 for what seems like maybe 4 months now.
May of 2006 we hit $3.31. Stayed mostly in the mid $2s. May of 07 we hit $3.29. July of 2008 was the peak here at $4.25. I filled once at Shell in June 08 and paid $4.59. Within 5 months it was below 2 bucks. Then in January 09 it headed back over $2 and has not been below since.
From what I can see in the gasbuddy national historic charts, a peak in 06 was only maybe 25-30 cents less than now. Many things have risen a lot more than that, since. But yeah, since 2010 or so, it's been a steady climb.
George Soros, the most high profile of the currency market investors, made over 1 billion GBP profit by short selling sterling.
There just seems to be major disconnects with these stories and what really happens. It's as if they see one price under a certain point then run with it.
I just think when things were, in a sense, deregulated and you no longer had to take delivery of the commodity the reigns were off and it was off to the races. Add in the constant civil unrest reports, which there was always this unrest and it didn't cause huge price jumps before, and the prices went even higher.
I also remember going into fuel stations where instead of crap-TV being on, they were tuned into MSNBC, CNBC, Faux or Bloomberg, watching the ticker for oil & gas prices. It was not uncommon to have a station increase their prices once or twice in a day during this period.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/xKy2lLNQYrI?rel=0&iv_load_policy=3&showinfo=0
And this was on the beach!
So far I've shoveled about 8 or 9 inches today. Bracing.
The WSJ reports that the US Gulf Coast refineries are awash in crude and "a barrel of Louisiana crude fetched $9.46 less than a barrel of comparable-quality crude in England" mid-week.
"Some industry officials argue that U.S. light crude will simply displace more "heavy" imported oil. But many Gulf Coast refineries are set up to turn the more viscous crude into diesel fuel, and converting their facilities to process additional light oil wouldn't be easy." (WSJ - registration link)
But, only gasoline prices seem to be going down, not diesel.
Here's a list of states that allow them in one form or another: tirebuyer.com
"Enjoyed" a brisk walk down to a fish fry place tonight - around 8°, blowing and snowing. We saved a half buck on gas walking but the thermostat got cranked up to 72 when we got back home.
Fuel is still holding at ~$3.60 a gallon here, which is good since I just had to fill up my plow truck this morning. I put in 16 gallons, and I think I drove it about 10 miles since the last fill. LOL :sick:
Unbelievable weather here, though. I think most of the rest of the continent is probably colder than us. We're sitting at an astounding 0C/32F right now! We even have snowman snow!
I must confess that I'm a little afraid of what our fuel prices in interior Alaska will be in a few months after the local refinery shuts down. I expect a solid $1 spike that will not go away. Time will tell.
Funny how the state loaned all that money to build a big tank farm at Port MacKenzie so that more Outside gas can be barged up and stored close to Anchorage. $14 million bucks. Plus the airlines expanded their jet fuel capacity down there too with lots of new tank capacity.
Sounds like the environmental cleanup is going to be expensive when they close the refinery too.
Yeah, but honestly, that whole area is so plagued by environmental disasters over the last 80 years, I don't know why they'd even bother. Time heals all wounds, right?!
Much of the SC jet fuel came from this refinery, so I'm not sure what the picture in Alaska is going to look like soon.
Cheaper than last year at this time. On 2/21/13 I paid $4.09 at Costco. Yesterday it was $3.59.
There is that! I paid $3.569 this morning at the local Fred Meyer (Kroger). And, by $1 more, I'm talking about the new normal here likely being around $4.50, versus the $5.00+ it would be if I made that same statement a year ago!
Would past policies work to get the price of oil down where it belongs?
Petroleum, which had zoomed to $40 a barrel by 1980, went down to the teens. It barely lifted its head up from this low level until well into the 2000s. Same thing with gasoline—down permanently by a big factor. And somehow all the “supply” crises also disappeared for good. This was so even though the world’s major economy was embarking on one of its most remarkable modern runs of multi-decade growth.
Sound too good to be true? It isn’t, because this is exactly what happened in the face of a policy revolution that changed the terms of an energy crisis of the same character we face today.
The reason the supply-side policy mix that Reagan pursued was so successful in killing off the energy crisis of the 1970s is as follows. Oil—like all widely desirable commodities limited in supply by geology—has an economic function, as we all know, namely to power a good part of the world. But because of its geological limitation, it also has what you might call a para-economic function, which is to serve as a place to hide when the major currency producers (namely the United States) do not take special care to maintain the value of their currency.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/briandomitrovic/2012/04/10/want-gasoline-prices-to-decline-do-as-ronald-reagan-did/
$40 oil in 1980 is equal to $121 oil today. I remember it crashing to $10 and killing Alaska oil field jobs with the it, BIG TIME. I got a big pay cut, and we laid off half the crew.
I see Stalputin's sabre-rattling is being blamed for a bad day on the stock market - I wonder if it could be used as an excuse for oil/gas prices to rise?
Great - now that you've mentioned it expect to see a dime increase in gas prices by the end of the week.
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Filled up yesterday at Chevron. Diesel $3.99, PUG $4.09 and RUG $3.89. Costco selling RUG at $3.79 which is 20 cents less than last year this time.
I think my last fill up was around $3.659, for 89 in my Ram. Bill came out to around $65-70. Once upon a time I would have cringed at that. But, I drive so little, that I'm only seeing that maybe once every two weeks.
$3.69 is what it bumped up to here. Naturally the low fuel light in the van came on the same day I noticed the dime increase. Have to check my log, but it's probably been a couple of months since I last filled it, since we don't drive it much in the winter.
I think the Chinese have figured out the best way to beat the high price of gas. Notice the masks to protect against those nasty gas burning vehicles.
Maybe innovation will make gas vehicles less polluting and better mileage.
http://pixelbark.com/13045/how-the-duke-engines-increases-the-efficiency-of-the-internal-combustion-engine