RW Salnick wrote in news:ep8tbu$v5j$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:

Maybe it is just SouthernBigOil that got the message.


Sunoco? Sun Oil was from Pennsylvania, last time I checked...(c;

Gas is cheaper in Charleston because we are a gas dump from the ships. I
like to take those buying Exxon or Shell down to the Hess Oil storage place
to show them all the different oil company trucks lined up at 4AM to put
the same Hess gas in all the tanks...at higher prices, of course...

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

"Bob" wrote in news:1169686861.276597.271040@
13g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
Bob



You don't remember "price controls" put on everything by the socialists in
the US Gummit back a few decades? Remember the gas lines? food lines?
Scarcity as products were diverted away from price controls to free market
areas?

Yecch...how soon we forget.

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

Gordon wrote in
:

http://www.washingtongasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

Well, here's MY answer:

http://frybrid.com/

3 of us with Frybrid diesel cars/trucks banded together to make oil
collections/storage/filtering less work and expense. One has a
warehouse, one has the filters and pumps, I have the Frybrid stepvan for
collections and the time to do it.

We've cut back our input because we got over 900 gallons of reserve
stacked up in the warehouse. So, we dropped one Chinese restaurant and
now only are collecting from 3, not 4. I filled up the 6.2L Diesel
Chevy/Union City Body stepvan, today, from our supply drum. It only took
22 gallons in the 32 gallon tank. 32 gallons will run it for weeks.
Mileage on vegoil INCREASES over diesel as it's a heavier fuel...more
power, too.

At our last "company luncheon" of the "French Fried Oil Cartel", at one
of our supporting Chinese restaurants, of course, we bantered about
buying and installing a 100-250KW V-12 diesel genset at the warehouse,
hooked to a bi-directional utility meter the government forces the power
company to install. If we add a few more Chinese restaurants to the
cartel, and they are VERY willing to give me oil, instead of having to
pay some Ecology company to dispose of it, we could be selling SC
Electric and Gouge up to 6 MWH of prime 60 Hz AC per day at a tidy profit
from the right diesel genset running off "Alternative Fuels". We might
even qualify for a Gummit Grant from the money mill to construct it!
That would be a kick to accomplish.

Fuel is running out our ears! I told George, in whos warehouse it's
settling out the particulates in as I type this, if we don't start using
more fuel, we'd be spending weekends driving our Frybrids back and forth
to Houston to burn off the excess...(c;

I'm running my Mercedes cars, a '73 220D sedan and '83 300TD wagon off a
mixture of 80% vegoil and 20% regular gas, at the moment, without the
Frybrid heating equipment. This mixture starts and runs fine from 25F
up. In summer, I'm going for a 90-10 mix. A $2 gallon of gas nets me 10
gallons of biodiesel fuel at 20c/gallon....a much better return in the
short run than even the Frybrid can deliver.

Maybe we should by a big Hatteras with 8V92TAs and convert those...

Larry
--
I must admit it IS still fun to stomp on the accelerator when the light
turns green....(c;

My only gas vehicles is my Honda mower and 2 Honda gensets and my late
father's '96 Chevy Caprice Classic Pig V-8 POS. The Chevy wouldn't be so
bad if it weren't falling apart at the seams at 61,000 miles. How awful.

On Jan 24, 9:27 pm, Larry wrote:
"Bob" wrote in news:1169686861.276597.271040@
13g2000cwe.googlegroups.com:

Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
BobYou don't remember "price controls" put on everything by the socialists in
the US Gummit back a few decades? Remember the gas lines? food lines?
Scarcity as products were diverted away from price controls to free market
areas?

Yecch...how soon we forget.

Larry

When I was a kid i fond something called a ration card for fuel. I
asked my mom about it. She described how fuel, rubber, sugar, and other
things were rationed in the war.
Seemed to work just fine then.
But then there werent any Republicans crying about big government.
Bob

Larry wrote:
Am I the only one to notice how Big Oil seems to have gotten the
message from the last halftime election where the Democrats took over
both houses?

Wouldn't it have been fun to hear the Neocons calling them to make a
deal?

Gas is $1.99/US Gallon in Charleston, SC, tonight. I filled up the
Chevy Pig. Not sure what it's doing at the fuel dock...

Larry

$6.50 per US gallon here in UK. I believe it is 20cents/gallon in Iraq.
Who's winning this war?

On 24 Jan 2007 22:10:15 -0800, "Bob" wrote:

When I was a kid i fond something called a ration card for fuel. I
asked my mom about it. She described how fuel, rubber, sugar, and other
things were rationed in the war.

Seemed to work just fine then.

Not really. How many gallons do you suppose would be allowed for your
boat(s)?

Be careful what you ask for. The one thing worse than expensive fuel
is no fuel at any price.

"Bob" wrote in news:1169705411.283435.123190
@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com:

Seemed to work just fine then.


But, then again, you and I didn't LIVE through rationing in WW2.

I lived through "rationing" in the bogus "fuel shortage" of 1973, where
all the gas stations, full to overflowing with gas, were simply closed to
boost the prices. At the time, I owned a motorhome with saddle tanks and
they opened the stations one day a week with no limits on how much you
could buy. I filled the motorhome and parked it at home with 70 gallons
of gas in it. To go with the motorhome, I had a little Honda 90
motorcycle for local transportation when vacationing in the motorhome. I
drove the Honda, except on really rainy days, for the rest of the "gas
crisis", which was totally bogus.

My uncle is a private pilot. He took a news photographer, from the local
newspaper in PA, for a ride out over the ocean during the crisis to show
him the huge line of tankers waiting offshore to come into port and dump
all the gas aboard. Bogus, just a battle between America and Big Oil to
jack the prices to current levels.

Just like the inflated price of a car, truck or SUV....we've gotten used
to it. The Federal Reserve Bankers win again.....

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in
:

$6.50 per US gallon here in UK. I believe it is 20cents/gallon in Iraq.
Who's winning this war?



Yeah, but they have no place to go....safely.

I lived in Tehran, Iran from 1977 until 28 days before the Shahanshah was
deposed in 1979. The Shah got fed up with the clogged street and jacked
up the price of gas from 3c/gallon to 6c/gallon...(c;

We burned diesel fuel in our building's water boiler for all the
apartments. Being the only American to take the time to learn cursory
Farsi, I was put in charge of dealing with the little guy in the
primitive fuel truck, an underground tank welded to the top of an old
flatbed Deutz with a gravity-feed hose and nozzle. He used to smile when
I only dickered him down to 2c/gallon for #2 fuel oil. Our tank held 650
gallons. He used a wooden stick of questionable calibrations to measure
the before and after depth in his tank. I'm sure it was calibrated in
his favor...

Imagine fueling a Hatteras at 2c/gallon, delivered....(c;

Larry
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Don White" wrote in news:yiSth.4922$1x.84078
@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

I wish our gas dealers would get the same message.
It's still 93 cents a liter up here.



Hey, socialist services like "free" medical care aren't really free.
Politicians just move the money around, siphoning off a good percentage
for
themselves as it flows through their grubby little hands.

There are regular companies in Charleston driving every week to Canada to
buy hoards of discount prescription drugs that cost an arm and a leg in
the
States. A friend of mine, who's 85, pays over $US583 for 90 pills of some
drug his doctor sells him into buying.

The gas is cheaper, but medical service is unobtanium for most Americans
from the intense greed....It's a trade off.

Larry
--


Guess I shouldn't complain too much.
When gas gets too expensive you can always walk or downsize to a Honda
Fit... and although I'm still 'drug free', you never know when you'll need
them.

"Dennis Pogson" wrote in message
...
Larry wrote:
Am I the only one to notice how Big Oil seems to have gotten the
message from the last halftime election where the Democrats took over
both houses?

Wouldn't it have been fun to hear the Neocons calling them to make a
deal?

Gas is $1.99/US Gallon in Charleston, SC, tonight. I filled up the
Chevy Pig. Not sure what it's doing at the fuel dock...

Larry

$6.50 per US gallon here in UK. I believe it is 20cents/gallon in Iraq.
Who's winning this war?



You should have stuck with the good old 'imperial gallon'. At least one of
those would take you somewhere.