Thread: Gas Prices for 2011

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3.71 a gal reg at the cheapest place in town........

Normal stations such as shell,mobil etc are right at the 4.00 dollar mark for reg.


The motorized bicycle is looking better all the time at 125 bucks for the complete engine kit...

I'm gonna start walking to work no matter what the weather is like..


Oh wait, I work at home.

Originally Posted by pro70z28

I'm gonna start walking to work no matter what the weather is like..


Oh wait, I work at home.

Me too...kool place to work.. I always tell people''Nah,it doesnt bother me...I walk to work''. So would you guys,at our prices..Just gone to $2.08/litre for 91,probably $2.15/litre for 95,,and I dont wanna know what 98 is..none in our province..Diesel is $1.51/litre..

Went to fill up at a local shell station and it was $3.59 last night. This afternoon $3.65. Stopped and ask how much more it was going up and the manager says the way things are going we will see $4.00 in about 3-4 weeks. Hang on to you hats ladies and gentlemen it hasn't even begun.

Up 12 cents in 3 days here - currently $3.35/gal

another .10 today = $3.49

Originally Posted by REGs

Cheap junk here is $3.15 per ... I'm already rethinking the BBC back to a SBC in the '46 ...shit!

REGS

Not sure about that SBC swap. I'm lucky to get 8 mi to the Gal. in mine (SBC). Maybe a 350 with the system that goes from 8 cyl. to 4 cyl.

Have to quit pleasure driving every week.

The countries in the middle east that are this excuse for this pricing contribute only 2% of the total worlds oil.Only 2% guys.And every time the gas prices go up more taxes are collected too.Where are all those hero's we elected??.Least they could/should do is not tax the stuff.Or not tax it as much.Those elected folks aren't bright enough to consider this to be another threat to our country.

Another thought is how to handle this.Call those countries into a meeting with a huge red button in the middle of the table,no wires attached to it,just the button.Opening question......well boys tell us what the hell your thinking???.

Guess I don't really see a reason for it. Greed?? Heck, who knows. I suppose it'll eventually be enough reason for another war front in the mid east. I just don't understand any of it anymore. Maybe this latest gas deal is just one more brick in the load that the working man has to carry.....Don't know how many more bricks we can handle?

In Washington it's name calling and finger pointing, just business as usual. I see lots more of the blame game coming, but no solutions. Suppose these career politicians that have everything so screwed up in this country will ever be held accountable for their actions?

Another thought is how to handle this.Call those countries into a meeting with a huge red button in the middle of the table,no wires attached to it,just the button.Opening question......well boys tell us what the hell your thinking???.[/QUOTE]

So what your saying is you want to control how much another country can set the price for selling a product ? .........that seems fair...........one country can control another for their benefit..........isn't that like bullying?

Here are where some of the largest proven oil reserves are - and it ain't all in camel jockey land:


"Services under the U.S. Department of the Interior estimate the total volume of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in the United States to be roughly 134 billion barrels.[6][7] Over 1 million exploratory and developmental crude oil wells have already been drilled in the US since 1949.[8]

The Minerals Management Service (MMS) estimates the Federal Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) contains between 66.6 and 115.1 billion barrels (10.59×10^9 and 18.30×10^9 m3) of undiscovered technically recoverable crude oil, with a mean estimate of 85.9 billion barrels (13.66×10^9 m3). The Gulf of Mexico OCS ranks first with a mean estimate of 44.9 billion barrels (7.14×10^9 m3), followed by Alaska OCS with 38.8 billion barrels (6.17×10^9 m3). At $80/bbl crude prices, the MMS estimates that 70 billion barrels (11×10^9 m3) are economically recoverable. As of 2008, a total of about 574 million acres (2,320,000 km2) of the OCS are off-limits to leasing and development. The moratoria and presidential withdrawal cover about 85 percent of OCS area offshore the lower 48 states. The MMS estimates that the resources in OCS areas currently off limits to leasing and development total 17.8 billion barrels (2.83×10^9 m3)(mean estimate).[6]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_res..._United_States

and

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...n_oil_reserves

Well, that took longer than I thought it would..........

The notion of a few self annointed "elites" wanting to control the rest of the folks in their society is as old as mankind itself. If you pay attention they are the ones who foment notions like "those greedy ______________....", in an attempt to distract from their actions. In that way "the people" then have to come to them for solutions to the problems their actions have caused that they successfully blamed on others. Like Dave asks, ".....will they be held accountable?" History has shown the gullible outnumber the informed....sigh.

On the idea that Lybia "only" supplies 2% of the worlds crude, that 2% is still a lot of energy. But to focus on that is to miss what's really going on.

Maybe it's my "spook" training from many moons ago, but to me there's a pattern of disruption in a whacky part of the world. Lybia, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Iran, and all the rest. What's behind that? Why now? Is it really "the people" wanting to oust oppressive rulers? Or is the beginning of the latest wave of the radical jihadists stated plan of world conversion? And in the middle of all of these destabilizing countries is the "gorilla"....Saudi Arabia.............10% of the worlds supply of crude. Futures (that word means something) traders look at the possible future, not the short term stuff "normal" people and the useless media focus on.

All that uncertainty (which extracts a cost) and our Federal Reserve devaluing the dollar through it's QE2 (sweetly called Quantitative Easing.....sounds pretty harmless eh?) policy are raising the price of ALL commodities around the world. Greed? More like survival.....but hey, shouting out "Hey, look at this shiny thing over here...." has worked for the elites since forever, why stop now?

Well, here I go being simplistic again... Maybe we should put US companies to work hiring US employess and go out in the Gulf and get that US Oil and just let the Mid East continue on fighting over religion as they have since time began??? I know, I know, that would never work!!!!!

Its time to pick out a supplier and everybody stop buying from them. when they lower there prices the other companies will too---

I suggest we make it Shell.Exxon/Mobil as they are the only American company left---they get all our $ not only at the pump but the government $ for exploration,etc.

Boycotting a foreign company such as BP or Citco is just looked at as a little objection whereas if we do the American company boycott they will notice in Washington right away---and when they lower there price, so will the others----tea party anyone?( and I don't mean the political party)

Originally Posted by Oldmanb

Another thought is how to handle this.Call those countries into a meeting with a huge red button in the middle of the table,no wires attached to it,just the button.Opening question......well boys tell us what the hell your thinking???.

So what your saying is you want to control how much another country can set the price for selling a product ? .........that seems fair...........one country can control another for their benefit..........isn't that like bullying?[/QUOTE]

Nope.I disagree with you about bullying.I do think it is time for us to think of us first.No more a consideration for what the other countries might think.If they are continuing to stick into our butts,in return we can remind them we CAN make their oil rich lands glow for all time.I think you have to think about all these funds are getting to a very very few rich and the rest are very,very,poor.A act like that is human rights of the first order.