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are you running for congress, rocky ?
gas is going to go down a bit, if we cut all that unnecessary driving.....
TEach your kids how to do ballet/karate by renting a video or DVD, and show her/him...so you will not need to drive them there.....
Rocky
P.S. I've made a mistake and I'm willing to admit to it. It won't happen again and I'll probably only buy GM cars unless GM starts importing em from China. The day that happens, I'll be committed. :sick:
I don't think a $60K salary is going to buy me many votes
OTOH I couldn't do worse.
Rocky
Friend says Gas was also $2.85 on the east side of town
What's the difference ? If you have to drive to the movie rental place, then you might as well drive em' to the karate class. :P
I know I'm being sarcastic.
Rocky
He owns his company, thus he can make whar he wants. These CEO oil tycoons aren't majority owners and that is where some of us have problems.
Rocky
Not to split hairs or anything but, I thought the profit margin was the profit per dollar of REVENUE, not per dollar of investment?
I agree that some of these CEO compensation packages are obscene. Often times it doesn't even matter whether the company was profitable during their tenure. I think that it is an area that could use reform even though it would be mostly symbolic and have no noticeable impact on the price the consumers were paying.
Regardless Gas could go up to $3500 a gallon, and he wouldn't notice it.
Rocky
it's very simple.
1. Go to gas station
2. Use your card
3. Put Gas in
4. Stop at $10.00 ( you will have half of gas )
5. Go to another Gas Station
6. Use your cash ( if you have enough in your wallet )
7. Put Gas in
8. Stop at $5.00 ( then you have a full gas )
9. the total is $15.00!
So, now you know what I'm talking about
OMG!
1. Go to liquor store
2. Use your card
3. Drink it
4. Stop at $10.00 (you will be half drunk)
5 Go to another liquor store
6 Use your cash (if you did not get mugged)
7 Drink more alcohol
8 Stop at $5.00 (then you should be fully wasted)
9 the total is $15.00!
So, now you know what I'm talking about :confuse:
They also reported that the lion's share of the oil money is going to the country of the oil's source. Venezula will make $34B this year; Saudi Arabia will clear $150B (forget the exact number). They didn't mention all the other countries that export oil. The good news is that Saudi Arabia is spending much of that money in Western economies for engineering projects, autos, and other goods.
WOW !!!!!!!!!!!
Rocky
Rocky
me: But don't drive; even if you think gas is a bargain.
Hurry on down, it's going fast!
The bottom line is the price paid when filling-up.
The display price generally vary up to 10% in France where Motorway Tank stations being the most expensive and the supermarket stations being the cheapest (and sold under those supermarket brands)
The reason for Supermarket stations to be cheaper is that they wish to attract more customers, so sell at near cost.
My idea is that the Petrol Distribution group generally add a 10% markup where the area allows.
Filling up my BMW 740 costs 150 USD in France/Paris and maybe 180 USD if I were in the UK (Previous prices I reported were too optimistic).
so US prices are still very decent in comparison
Federal tax rates may be lower, but there are also fewer deductions. I remember as a kid, my Mom would send me into the gas station to pay while she pumped, and she'd tell me to make sure I got a receipt, because she could write it off. I think back then you could also write off just about any interest payment, not just your mortgage.
Plus, I think a lot of companies and even the government were much more generous with overtime. Nowadays many people are straight salary no matter how many hours they actually work. Or at best, if they do go into overtime, they just get their regular hourly rate, and not time and a half.
These days, most people are also responsible for their own retirement. Gone are those generous pension plans of eras gone by. By and large, nowadays it's up to you to sock money away into your 401k. Sure, it reduces your taxable income, but it does also help to reduce your net paycheck.
And while a lot of things haven't kept up with inflation, others have outpaced it by a long shot. I found an old property tax bill for my house, from back in 1961. It was about $200. Last year I paid about $2550. And that's still cheap for the neighborhood, kept low mainly because the house has been in the family for ages and was homesteaded in, as opposed to being sold and resold from time to time, and having the property tax assessments stepped up more quickly.
As for wages in the early 70's, my Granddad retired in 1974, at the age of 60. He was a railroad worker. His wages when he retired were about $6.00 per hour. Or about $240 per week. I can vaguely remember a time as a kid when my Mom said she was making $5.00 per hour, which I think was in the mid/late 70's.
And I know you shouldn't believe everything you hear on tv, but IIRC Archie Bunker made about $6 per hour working on the loading dock. And he was able to support a stay-at-home Dingbat, his little goil, and a Meathead. He didn't have to worry about fuel prices though, because they didn't have a car. Not even a LaSalle.
But in a nutshell, the 70's weren't THAT long ago. I can't imagine too many people were only making $75 per week! Maybe kids with part time jobs or something.
Therefore, a new discussion has been created and I will be moving off topic posts from here to there.
Will our dependence on oil ever end?
Hey, Seattle-area people out there, I want to run this by you. I was at my Pocatello, ID, library the other night reading the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and I saw an article about an underground tunnel being dug to make way for light underground rail. Ya gotta be kiddin' me? I leave my fair city for a couple of years and you guys are all about building a light rail system to circumvent the huge volume of Seattle traffic and try to get to your jobs in under two hours? Wow. I thought Tim Eyman and the like had stopped that project cold.
The tunnel was underneath the Rainier Valley area(just SE of downtown a smidge), I believe. Do add some more, fintail and any other Seattle area residents. For some reason it's not making the newspapers in eastern Idaho.
Oh, 87 unleaded was up to $2.59/gal today in Pocatello, ID. This was at the Phillips 666 station, which is only a Griffey Jr.'s throw from my house in the north end of town.
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He replied "It's small. It's got slanty headlights. And it'll bomb ya without warning."
When Archie had the bar, he did buy an old 50's Studebaker pickup. I think there was an episode where he hit Reggie Jackson's Rolls Royce with it.
As for people living in the city, I've known plenty who live in either downtown DC or Baltimore, and they'd usually say that having a car was more hassle than it was worth. Many of them would get by fine without one, but then decide that suddenly they need the "freedom" that a car gives them. They'd quickly discover, however, that the car would bring them more burden than freedom.
Oh, 87 octane in my area is now up to $3.119 per gallon, regardless of whether I get it at the Citgo or Shell on my way to work.
Nah!
Throw in this nutty oil price hike and, well, you know.
Thanks for the 'All in the Family' update, LOL. He hits one of Reggie's gems, I love it.
Still waiting for Seattle people to chime in on this light rail adventure. Ya mean you'd rather have light rail than the Sonics? You guys are messed up, man. The Sonics must stay in Seattle, or only go as far as Bellevue. Keep 'em in western War-shing-ton.
Midwesterners have to say War-shing-ton, they can't pronounce it Wa-shing-ton, like it's really spelled and meant to be pronounced. :confuse:
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One thing I always have a problem pronouncing is "Rainier". I think the mountain in Warshington State is pronounced "Rah-neer", but the town in Maryland on the outskirts of DC where you go to get drugs and get shot is pronounced "Mount Rainy-er".
My family didn't become a two-car family until I bought my 1968 Buick Special Deluxe in 1981. Of course I paid cash for it, so there was no addition burden of debt on me or my family. My Mom got her own car in 1987 - a new Dodge Omni, paid cash. By that time, I had long since been on my own.
Anyway, we are paying $2.77 a gallon for regular unleaded on Fort Lewis in Washington. BTW, this midwesterner pronounces it Wash-ing-ton so we don't all add in letters that aren't supposed to be there :P !
Good that you pronounce it Wa-shing-ton.
Mt.Rainier, all 14,410 feet of it, is pronounced 'Ray-nee-yer.' But said quickly, without the funky dashes in there!
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I paid $2.98 yesterday for the cheap stuff.
Kerri
Prices at my usual station in Bellevue WA today - 2.99/3.09/3.19. 10 cents higher than on Sunday
Here's a way to conserve gas - mandate that cities employ efficient stoplight timing and traffic controls. Bellevue needs A LOT of work in this area, I am certain things have became even less logical over the past several weeks. I think if a city can't get its act together in terms of managing traffic flow, that severe witholding of funds should come about. They have no other motivation to actually do their jobs any other way.
Gas prices in Central Florida:
Most places $ 3 for regular, $ 3.10 for mid-grade, and $ 3.20 for premium. I wonder why they bother with this 2.999, 3.099, and 3.199 BS?
My usual Sunoco truck stop, Palisades Park NJ
87 - $2.819
89 - $2.919
93 - $2.969
94 - $2.999
diesel - $2.799
Ahhh, I love the smell of cheaper, more efficient diesel in the morning...
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$3.25 for the 92 prem.