RW Salnick wrote in news:epai0r$euf$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:

Then, as Seattle is the "dump" point for all the Alaskan crude, we
should have the same thing here... Instead, the sign right outside my
window still says $2.79 this morning



I thought all the Alaska crude went to Tokyo and Osaka and Hong Kong where
they'll pay much higher prices for it than America will.



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:
RW Salnick wrote in news:epai0r$euf$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:

Then, as Seattle is the "dump" point for all the Alaskan crude, we
should have the same thing here... Instead, the sign right outside my
window still says $2.79 this morning



I thought all the Alaska crude went to Tokyo and Osaka and Hong Kong where
they'll pay much higher prices for it than America will.



Larry

There is a regular milk run from Alaska to Cherry Point, Washington.
These tankers often que up at Port Angeles waiting their turn to proceed
in to offload. Same old boats time after time.
Gordon

Larry wrote:

RW Salnick wrote in news:epai0r$euf$1
@gnus01.u.washington.edu:


Then, as Seattle is the "dump" point for all the Alaskan crude, we
should have the same thing here... Instead, the sign right outside my
window still says $2.79 this morning




I thought all the Alaska crude went to Tokyo and Osaka and Hong Kong where
they'll pay much higher prices for it than America will.



Larry

I thought most of the crude actually ends up in refineries in
California. My understanding was that Alaska was the largest source of
crude for the Martinez refinery complex and several others along the
left coast.

But I might be wrong.

RW Salnick wrote:

Then, as Seattle is the "dump" point for all the Alaskan crude, we
should have the same thing here... Instead, the sign right outside my
window still says $2.79 this morning

I hate to break this to you. I live in Alaska. The crude is tankered
down to you guys, refined and tankered back up here. I saw it for
$2.1599 at one of the Fred Meyers yesterday. Meaning with my fuel
discount it's costing me $2.0599. Yep, I just filled up.

Steve Thrasher wrote in
:

I hate to break this to you. I live in Alaska. The crude is tankered
down to you guys, refined and tankered back up here. I saw it for
$2.1599 at one of the Fred Meyers yesterday. Meaning with my fuel
discount it's costing me $2.0599. Yep, I just filled up.


I used to be mobile cal lab manager for EIL Instruments, one of
Maryland's beltway bandits, and drove from their office in Va Beach
across to as far as the Mexican border calibrating CG, FAA and Navy
remotely situated test equipments at little bases, FAA VORTACs and Loran
C sites all over. (Try calibrating a scope while your cal lab is sitting
BETWEEN the capacitor hat and ground system of a multimegawatt 100Khz
Loran C pulse transmitter, some time.)

On one trip, some payback for voting the wrong way resulted in fuel being
made in Eastern Texas was allocated away from there to their pet states,
leaving poor Texans working AT the refineries with NO GAS at the 7-
Elevens!

I sat at a La Quinta Motor Inn in Beaumont, staring longingly at FOUR oil
refineries running full blast, trying to explain to my ****ed off boss
that the van's saddle tanks were EMPTY and this oil refining city had NO
GAS FOR SALE until Monday Morning at 9AM! We were gonna be late getting
to the CG Station in Brownsville, still half a world away across TEXAS!
Of course, my boss blamed me. Everything was my fault....(c;

Alaska needs to get in the refining business, then tell America what it
wants for gas and diesel...(c;....instead of just giving crude away until
it's gone.

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

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says...
Larry inscribed in red ink for all to know:
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

Then, as Seattle is the "dump" point for all the Alaskan crude, we
should have the same thing here... Instead, the sign right outside my
window still says $2.79 this morning

I think it's not just crude prices---there's also an apparent shortage
of refineries in the US---particularly on the West Coast.

http://www.slate.com/id/2102031/


Mark Borgerson

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?

"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.

"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.

In the UK it's equivalent to about $7.98 a gallon (£0.90 (GBP) per L) :-(