Corvette Tax - Here's Proof!
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Corvette Tax - Here's Proof!
Watch it happen live and in person as the Z06 pulls up.
http://jalopnik.com/5888040/watch-a-...vettes-roll-up
Later, a silver C5 is seen. It's a Double Corvette Tax!
http://jalopnik.com/5888040/watch-a-...vettes-roll-up
Later, a silver C5 is seen. It's a Double Corvette Tax!
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I like how they're flipping out over the gas "RAISING BY TEN CENTS SINCE WE'VE BEEN HERE."
Yeah, that's how it works. It raises in increments. Sometimes, you happen to be around when that occurs.
lol California, Florida, and Alaskan gas prices.
Yeah, that's how it works. It raises in increments. Sometimes, you happen to be around when that occurs.
lol California, Florida, and Alaskan gas prices.
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$3.29 for regular here. Sure glad I don't have to buy gas in some of the places around the country though. 
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Watch it happen live and in person as the Z06 pulls up.
http://jalopnik.com/5888040/watch-a-...vettes-roll-up
Later, a silver C5 is seen. It's a Double Corvette Tax!
http://jalopnik.com/5888040/watch-a-...vettes-roll-up
Later, a silver C5 is seen. It's a Double Corvette Tax!
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It's really getting stupid. Our own oil companies are exporting more oil than we're importing which is driving up the price. Basically the American consumer is subsidizing the growth in China and other countries.
This has nothing to do with any perceived shortages or tensions in the Middle East. It's perception and market speculators. If I was the CEO of a major oil company I would love the Iranian saber rattling because I just sold my product for a 20% premium vs. one month ago!
This has nothing to do with any perceived shortages or tensions in the Middle East. It's perception and market speculators. If I was the CEO of a major oil company I would love the Iranian saber rattling because I just sold my product for a 20% premium vs. one month ago!
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It's really getting stupid. Our own oil companies are exporting more oil than we're importing which is driving up the price. Basically the American consumer is subsidizing the growth in China and other countries.
This has nothing to do with any perceived shortages or tensions in the Middle East. It's perception and market speculators. If I was the CEO of a major oil company I would love the Iranian saber rattling because I just sold my product for a 20% premium vs. one month ago!
This has nothing to do with any perceived shortages or tensions in the Middle East. It's perception and market speculators. If I was the CEO of a major oil company I would love the Iranian saber rattling because I just sold my product for a 20% premium vs. one month ago!
Exactly.
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4.35 per gallon for Chevron premium
4.10 per gallon for Chevron
I just erased 2 paragraphs of what the f are we complaining about these prices are stupid crazy and all we do is pay it vote em out of office and take back our Country.
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P.S. You think it's bad now wait
4.10 per gallon for Chevron
I just erased 2 paragraphs of what the f are we complaining about these prices are stupid crazy and all we do is pay it vote em out of office and take back our Country.
Pops
P.S. You think it's bad now wait
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It's really getting stupid. Our own oil companies are exporting more oil than we're importing which is driving up the price. Basically the American consumer is subsidizing the growth in China and other countries.
This has nothing to do with any perceived shortages or tensions in the Middle East. It's perception and market speculators. If I was the CEO of a major oil company I would love the Iranian saber rattling because I just sold my product for a 20% premium vs. one month ago!
This has nothing to do with any perceived shortages or tensions in the Middle East. It's perception and market speculators. If I was the CEO of a major oil company I would love the Iranian saber rattling because I just sold my product for a 20% premium vs. one month ago!
In fact the April through next year futures show a decline in pricing. If it were the speculators only, those prices should reflect the price increases that all the media is suggesting will happen. The futures which are what the commodity speculators trade don't show these big increases. Someone is making billions, but I am not sure who it is, and the media is tied into it to "sell" it to the public that it will happen.
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too bad gasoline is so flammable...often thought of getting a 100 gallon storage tank placed next to my garage....
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Do you think that voting out the current crop of politicos will solve the problem? I seem to remember in the GOP years of the last administration, we went through the same exhorbitant costs for fuel. What we need is the government to put tighter controls on the speculators that are screwing us royally. I don't see any politician in or out of office who has the guts to deal with the sob's. Oh, you say that's free enterprise?? I call it theft.
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Do you think that voting out the current crop of politicos will solve the problem? I seem to remember in the GOP years of the last administration, we went through the same exhorbitant costs for fuel. What we need is the government to put tighter controls on the speculators that are screwing us royally. I don't see any politician in or out of office who has the guts to deal with the sob's. Oh, you say that's free enterprise?? I call it theft.
I thought about your question and it seems we can do the following as a nation:
1. Find, promote, and use alternative fuel sources--and fight an ever increasing battle against oil companies.
2. Drill America for our own oil source-not really a guarantee that American oil companies will share their profits with consumers in the price of gas...plus a serious political debate, that will cost our government more money to come to some decision.
3. Find a way to manipulate the OPEC nations to lower the price of the barrel, something I really don't see happening.
4. Accept it. Something I really don't want to.
5. Design the first nuclear powered corvette
. --oh wait that's the same as number 1.