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From: Canon City Co
St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
I filled up last night at a BP station. As I was watching the numbers change I did the math in my had and thought, that's too cheap. I looked down to see that they had mis-set the pump and I only paid 3.09/gal. The clerk said the guy was on his way back to reset it and I just got lucky.
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From: Norman Oklahoma - The Only State in the Union with no Blue Counties!
If the people of America don't wake up and force our "leaders" to let us develope oil and gas reserves here at home, build new refineries, nuclear power plants,,,,,
It is all gonna end for sure!
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I cant remember how much it is here in oklahoma city. I have not had to worry yet because with my job im always on call so I get paid .34 cent a mile even on days Im not going to check stores. So as long as its not over $6.00 I will be ok. Thats about the only thing I like about always being on call.
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From: Norman Oklahoma - The Only State in the Union with no Blue Counties!
There is no end in sight. My prediction for this summer....
Gas will be between $4.75 and $5.00 per gallon here in California
I am waiting for the US Government to wake up and utilize the 300 years of Shale Oil reserves that are right here in the USA. (We have so much of it, we could actually export). At the current prices, we have more than past the break-even point on the extraction of shale oil.
Gas will be between $4.75 and $5.00 per gallon here in California
I am waiting for the US Government to wake up and utilize the 300 years of Shale Oil reserves that are right here in the USA. (We have so much of it, we could actually export). At the current prices, we have more than past the break-even point on the extraction of shale oil.
Pollitical correctness is why we pay so much for gas! If we drilled and refined our own crude oil gas would be cheap again but we are to upset that we might hurt a Carabu in the Alaska outback or disturb a field mouse somewhere that we are at the mercy of a bunch of AMERICAN HATEING towlheads! As far as "paying what the rest of the world pays for gas", I dont care what the rest of them do! Remember this, our spanish speaking friends to our immediate south live in cardboard boxes and drink polluted water in their nations capitol! Do we want that for ourselves just because they do? "Hell", they ride goats or donkeys while we drive Corvettes! I'll keep on being an American thank you!
Dave
Dave
I'd hate to have to play poker with the oil company execs!! They were able to stand up in front of congress and testify under oath,,,,"it's not OUR FAULT,,WE'RE ONLY MAKING 4cents A GALLON"!!!!!!
I could have been having one heluva wild life if I could stand there and lie to my wife with a straight face looking soooo sincere like they did!!!
I could have been having one heluva wild life if I could stand there and lie to my wife with a straight face looking soooo sincere like they did!!! Two smart guys and an ignorant one, the facts are the facts, sticking your head in the sands of the middle east is not the answer!
Get the government of our backs and people like me with 30 years experionce in the oil & natural gas industry can fix this problem,,,,,,,,,in about ten years,,,,,,we would have started decades ago but the American people are being lied to!
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From: This is not a Song, It's an Outburst: Or, The Establishment Blues; Sixto Diaz Rodriguez
Two years ago they got us used to $2 a gallon....last year they got us used to $3 a gallon...This year we'll get used to $4 and next year FIVE
....Sooner or later we'll be paying what the rest of the world has been paying for years.......
Thing is, we suck it up and pay it....but there are MANY, MANY people out there that simply cant afford it...They have to make a choice.... put gas in their tanks or feed their kids....Many MUST drive to earn an income...
Id like to know how many of you have gotten pay raises that keep pace with the rising cost of gasoline....I know I certainly havent...
Im also waiting for the day the trucking industry tells America to F*CK OFF and leaves their rigs parked at truck stops!!!
....Sooner or later we'll be paying what the rest of the world has been paying for years.......Thing is, we suck it up and pay it....but there are MANY, MANY people out there that simply cant afford it...They have to make a choice.... put gas in their tanks or feed their kids....Many MUST drive to earn an income...
Id like to know how many of you have gotten pay raises that keep pace with the rising cost of gasoline....I know I certainly havent...
Im also waiting for the day the trucking industry tells America to F*CK OFF and leaves their rigs parked at truck stops!!!
It is sad and unfortunate but that is one of the most important statements that could be made at this time in history. With the price of oil/gas/food/utilities sky rocketing, who has gotten pay raises to keep up with this pace, like you, neither have I. What's that saying:
"The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer, always have, always will be."
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From: Reno is so close to Hell you can see Sparks , State Of Confusion
St. Jude Donor '12-'13-'14
I cant remember how much it is here in oklahoma city. I have not had to worry yet because with my job im always on call so I get paid .34 cent a mile even on days Im not going to check stores. So as long as its not over $6.00 I will be ok. Thats about the only thing I like about always being on call.
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From: Somewherebetweenhereandthere
Yep premium went to $4.05 today!!!
I really want to go to Alaska and kill off everything that is keeping us from pumping the oil!!
Seriously though I wish it were like the early 90's again, I used to pump gas for my mom, we had a huge FULL size chevy Van. It took $20 to fill that thing up!!
I really want to go to Alaska and kill off everything that is keeping us from pumping the oil!!
Seriously though I wish it were like the early 90's again, I used to pump gas for my mom, we had a huge FULL size chevy Van. It took $20 to fill that thing up!!
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From: Canon City Co
St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
Yep premium went to $4.05 today!!!
I really want to go to Alaska and kill off everything that is keeping us from pumping the oil!!
Seriously though I wish it were like the early 90's again, I used to pump gas for my mom, we had a huge FULL size chevy Van. It took $20 to fill that thing up!!
I really want to go to Alaska and kill off everything that is keeping us from pumping the oil!!
Seriously though I wish it were like the early 90's again, I used to pump gas for my mom, we had a huge FULL size chevy Van. It took $20 to fill that thing up!!
Thing is, if that were to happen with todays gas prices, she'd have pumped $100 worth in that same time frame
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From: Canon City Co
St. Jude Donor '11,'13
"I voluntarily took 60 days off from OT"
"Id like to know how many of you have gotten pay raises that keep pace with the rising cost of gasoline....I know I certainly havent..."
It is sad and unfortunate but that is one of the most important statements that could be made at this time in history. With the price of oil/gas/food/utilities sky rocketing, who has gotten pay raises to keep up with this pace, like you, neither have I. What's that saying:
"The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer, always have, always will be."
It is sad and unfortunate but that is one of the most important statements that could be made at this time in history. With the price of oil/gas/food/utilities sky rocketing, who has gotten pay raises to keep up with this pace, like you, neither have I. What's that saying:
"The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer, always have, always will be."
Indeed.....but I would venture to say nobody that drives a Corvette is feeling the "pinch" like some of the more unfortunate folks in our country....Single moms, people on fixed incomes, folks earning minimum or near minimum wage, etc, that can barely afford a decent vehicle, let alone a nice Corvette, trying to keep their head above water in a sinking ship....THOSE are the folks I feel for.....and NO, Im not talking about the welfare moochers, Im talking about the everyday Joe (or Mary) that's doing his or her very best to make it, but keeps getting trampled...
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St. Jude Donor '08
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From: Oklahoma city Oklahoma
I did the math a long time ago, As long as gas is $6.00 a gallon or lower I still make money, I drive my vette 2-3 times each week and my monte carlo the rest, I always put 91 in my baby but not always in the monte. I did pay $3.79 yesterday for 87 in the monte. I dont pay too much attention when filling the vette, just pump and pay. My expense checks will run $250 -$300 each week. That keeps me smiling, now when I had my avalanche, I always looked for the cheapest crap i could buy.
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Thanks for all the info from around the country and the world. I see myself driving my 11 year old civic a lot more. Only problem, I keep on thinking I'm driving my vette and continue to wave and try to put the pedal to the metal. 
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From: 2 miles from Jim Beam Kentucky
Oil would be rolling out the Alaska wilderness if Clinton had signed the bill in 1996 instead of vetoing it.