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Originally Posted by DennyW

Well, if and when I get mine finished, even if I have to ration the amount of fuel, I'm still going to cruise in my truck...

Denny I'm with you, if I ever get my truck done, and believe me, the cost is the limiting factor these days, I'll drive it no matter how crappy the gas milage is, and enjoy every minute of it!

this boat im on burnt 5000 gals of diesel the last 24hrs ... glad i dont have that bill.....

Nitrowarrior wrote: We're bouncing between 3.15 and 3.19......what kills me is people around here drive with the hammer down like it's 1.50 a gallon

I think that is a problem everywhere. The route I take to work everyday has a posted limit of 65, but lately the average has been 85.

The worse ones are the women driving SUV's and mini vans and anybody driving a Prius. Prius drivers act as if it is their God given right to go as fast as they desire.

Originally Posted by mopar34

.......... and anybody driving a Prius. Prius drivers act as if it is their God given right to go as fast as they desire.

Bob - the Prius drivers are going as fast as it can.

I got passed very quickly a while back on I 87 while doing my normal 70-75 by one of those 8 foot long Mercedes City Cars - of course it was driven by a mad man Quebecois - must have been doing 80+

Springfield, Mo $2.95 to $3.09 depending on which end of town you happen to be. That's for 87, I don't even look any higher.

Finger Lakes region of NY $3.29-3.43 for 87.

I believe it was the Democrats who scuttled drilling in ANWAR and now they are the ones complaining about the oil company profits. I say paint the oil rigs white so as not to scare the caribou and build a refinery in Anchorage. The Congress had a chance to allow drilling in ANWAR with a trade to raise the CART mileage limits, but they could not work together for the good of the country! Draw you own conclusion!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

here where i live it is 3.21 a gallon.

Originally Posted by Don Shillady

I believe it was the Democrats who scuttled drilling in ANWAR and now they are the ones complaining about the oil company profits. I say paint the oil rigs white so as not to scare the caribou and build a refinery in Anchorage. The Congress had a chance to allow drilling in ANWAR with a trade to raise the CART mileage limits, but they could not work together for the good of the country! Draw you own conclusion!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Yep, Don, you are so correct about ANWAR, the California Coast, off shore both Florida and North Carolina. and the Democrats succumbing to the tree huggers and bunny lovers. I will happen eventually, but they sure are making it tough for the average man to live within his means. What they have done is create a feeling of entitlement for many of those that have no understanding of economics. While I have no problem with folks that are oriented to nature - there has to be a balance, and their way often is not.

I wish that I still had access to my old files, but there is a refinery already on the North Slope of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay. Then it was owned by ARCO, now it's BP. I had a lot of pictures taken by one of my Field Engineers during the 2 years he spent there uprating the power plant and compressor drive turbines. Unfortunately I can't even get them from him as he tried to fly his plane under some power lines - and couldn't.

http://planet.wwu.edu/winter03/localripples.htm

Drill the damn wells, build refineries, dig for coal, and build the nuke plants. I don't care I just want to be warm, drive my cars, and cut my grass.

My ancestors left these problems to my generation, so I am leaving them to the next . Like it is said: " you can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. " Compromises are in order.

I'm all for leaving a better world, but between the problems in the middle east, Africa and South America, it ain't likely to happen. So let's just get on with living for today.

Originally Posted by mopar34

Drill the damn wells, build refineries, dig for coal, and build the nuke plants. I don't care I just want to be warm, drive my cars, and cut my grass.

My ancestors left these problems to my generation, so I am leaving them to the next . Like it is said: " you can please some of the people all of the time, and you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time. " Compromises are in order.

I'm all for leaving a better world, but between the problems in the middle east, Africa and South America, it ain't likely to happen. So let's just get on with living for today.

Now if we can just get the idiots in Washington thinking the same we just might have something, but I damn sure wouldn't hold my breath.

Originally Posted by IC2

Yep, Don, you are so correct about ANWAR, the California Coast, off shore both Florida and North Carolina. and the Democrats succumbing to the tree huggers and bunny lovers.

Regular has been @ $3.09 for about a week, overnight it went to $3.19 and not one of the mullahs even sneezed. So what gives?

Back in the first oil gouging by the rag-heads in '74 all of a sudden there was a flurry of activity around old well-heads in KY and TN that hadn't been active since the late 40's and 50's. The pumps were running 24/7 if the pool could support it. After the prices went up, demand leveled off and then prices declined, the rigs quit running and then disappeared. I heard that then the oil companies came in and started buying the 'rights' to any wells that were willing to be sold. Now that the price of a barrel of oil has surpassed $100/barrel, guess what? No activity at all. I have heard that at some well heads in this country, the oil companies are not going to start pumping 'til they see $150/bbl.

Where is the "Manhattan Project" for energy?

Way up here in the corner of washington state where we have 3 oil refineries in a 50 mile radius the 87 gas is going for $3.59 a gallon and the rich boys that drive their big boy diesel pickups to work are paying @ $4.50 a gal and the Bio diesel is $4.79 a gallon......makes my litttle chevy sprint look good as I'm driving by as their filling up........

3.15 this morning in Independence Mo
3.08 at Petro in Joplin Mo
2.99 at Big Cabin Oklahoma
All for 87 Octane
Sending this to you all from my laptop flying down US69 in North Oklahoma on my way home.

its 302 for 87 in okc