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Larry January 25th 07 12:37 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

Don White January 25th 07 12:51 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 

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


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



Garland Gray II January 25th 07 01:00 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
Gosh, I thought it was just the old supply and demand thing.

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




RW Salnick January 25th 07 01:24 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
Larry inscribed in red ink for all to know:
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



Boy, not in Seattle - it has been going UP! $2.79 gal right now...

Maybe it is just SouthernBigOil that got the message.

bob
s/v Eolian
Seattle

Bob January 25th 07 02:01 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 


LarryBoy, not in Seattle - it has been going UP! $2.79 gal right now...


Same in Oregon................

Is it my emagination or is it the west coast "blue states" getting
stuck with high prices. Dont forget Hawaii. Oh, I forgot they put a
PRICE CAP on their fuel cost. Seems that state thinks their people dont
deserve to get screwed by the fuel retailers.
Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
Bob


who cares? January 25th 07 02:14 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
In article . com, "Bob" wrote:


LarryBoy, not in Seattle - it has been going UP! $2.79 gal right now...


Same in Oregon................

Is it my emagination or is it the west coast "blue states" getting
stuck with high prices. Dont forget Hawaii. Oh, I forgot they put a
PRICE CAP on their fuel cost. Seems that state thinks their people dont
deserve to get screwed by the fuel retailers.
Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
Bob


Fuel companies would quit the business. Sources would dry up and/or fuel
would move to the black market.

Don W January 25th 07 02:24 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 


RW Salnick wrote:
Larry inscribed in red ink for all to know:


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




Boy, not in Seattle - it has been going UP! $2.79 gal right now...

Maybe it is just SouthernBigOil that got the message.

bob
s/v Eolian
Seattle


We paid $2.01 on our way to the Texas coast over
the weekend. The lowest we saw anywhere was
$1.85. Average around $2.07 probably.

Course after the Israeli's nuke the Iranian nuke
facilities later this year, the price is going to
spike up again. (you heard it here first.)

Don W.


[email protected] January 25th 07 02:54 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
Is it my emagination or is it the west coast "blue states" getting
stuck with high prices. Dont forget Hawaii. Oh, I forgot they put a
PRICE CAP on their fuel cost. Seems that state thinks their people dont
deserve to get screwed by the fuel retailers.
Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
Bob


Well, COSTCO in Hawaii was selling gas at $2.61 last time I bought gas,
average prices around the state are much higher. The gas cap was
mooted here by the Republican governor very shortly after it took
effect. Not sure about the details as I was at sea when it happened.

-- Tom.


Gordon January 25th 07 03:46 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
wrote:
Is it my emagination or is it the west coast "blue states" getting
stuck with high prices. Dont forget Hawaii. Oh, I forgot they put a
PRICE CAP on their fuel cost. Seems that state thinks their people dont
deserve to get screwed by the fuel retailers.
Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?
Bob


Well, COSTCO in Hawaii was selling gas at $2.61 last time I bought gas,
average prices around the state are much higher. The gas cap was
mooted here by the Republican governor very shortly after it took
effect. Not sure about the details as I was at sea when it happened.

-- Tom.


Gas taxes have a little to do with prices. See
http://www.washingtongasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

Gordon

Larry January 25th 07 06:23 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
"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
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.

Larry January 25th 07 06:25 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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.

Larry January 25th 07 06:27 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
"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.

Larry January 25th 07 06:51 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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.


Bob January 25th 07 07:10 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 


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


Dennis Pogson January 25th 07 09:57 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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?



Wayne.B January 25th 07 03:08 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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.


Larry January 25th 07 03:25 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
"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.

Larry January 25th 07 03:32 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
"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.

Don White January 25th 07 03:57 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 

"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.



Don White January 25th 07 03:59 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 

"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.



xorbit January 25th 07 04:12 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
Wayne.B wrote:

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.



That's only ONE thing that would be worse than expensive fuel.





RW Salnick January 25th 07 04:23 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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

bob
s/v Eolian
Seattle

[email protected] January 25th 07 05:22 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
In the UK it's equivalent to about $7.98 a gallon (£0.90 (GBP) per L) :-(

[email protected] January 25th 07 06:01 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
I paid $1.77/gal. earlier this week in Michigan. A news report on the
radio said we had the lowest gas prices in the country. Go figure.

keith

On Jan 24, 6:37 pm, 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
--
Democracy is when two wolves and a sheep vote on who's for dinner.
Liberty is when the sheep has his own gun.



Larry January 25th 07 09:42 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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.

Gordon January 25th 07 10:09 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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

xorbit January 25th 07 10:18 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 


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 January 25th 07 10:38 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
xorbit inscribed in red ink for all to know:


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.




Could be. There are some big pipelines running out of Cherry Point and
Anacortes.

Mark Borgerson January 25th 07 11:05 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
In article . com,
says...


LarryBoy, not in Seattle - it has been going UP! $2.79 gal right now...


Same in Oregon................

Is it my emagination or is it the west coast "blue states" getting
stuck with high prices. Dont forget Hawaii. Oh, I forgot they put a
PRICE CAP on their fuel cost. Seems that state thinks their people dont
deserve to get screwed by the fuel retailers.
Gee what would happen if all the states put a price cap on fuel prices?


It MIGHT work if they put a wholesale price cap on the price of fuel
coming into the state. Price caps at the retailer just pinch his
margins and the cost of sodas in the mini-mart has to go up.

Mark Borgerson


Steve Thrasher January 25th 07 11:06 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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.

Mark Borgerson January 25th 07 11:12 PM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
In article ,
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 January 26th 07 12:46 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
Dave wrote in
:

On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:42:58 -0500, Larry said:

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.


Why am I not surprised that that's what you thought?


Hmm....Japan pays more for oil than America....so why wouldn't I ship oil
to Japan, where it makes me more money??

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 January 26th 07 01:00 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
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.

Gordon January 26th 07 01:55 AM

Skype
 
Larry, Larry, Larry!
Tell me it isn't true. You're still using Skype even after it was
bought out by big business (EBAY) and raised it's rates? I'm
disappointed in you.
Better look at voipbuster!
Gordon

KLC Lewis January 26th 07 02:29 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 

"Dave" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 14:05:59 -0800, Mark Borgerson

said:

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


If you had lived through the 70s in the US you wouldn't have to guess.


Crude oil prices are currently lower than the peak reached during the 70's
(I was in San Diego and then Charleston, SC during 77-79). After peaking in
the $70's per barrel, crude prices dropped over the next several years back
into the $14-18 per barrel range. After the current "crisis" is over, and
Shell, BP and ExxonMobile have secured their 30-year contracts on Iraqi oil,
crude prices will likely settle back down to around $20-25 level. Gasoline
prices will remain around $2 per US Gallon, because that's what Americans
now consider to be a "bargain price."

So I have prognosticated on this date, 25 Jan 2007.

Karin



Wayne.B January 26th 07 02:36 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 18:46:38 -0500, Larry wrote:

Hmm....Japan pays more for oil than America....so why wouldn't I ship oil
to Japan, where it makes me more money??


Oil is traded daily on world wide auctions, the so called "spot
market". The rest is sold under longer term contracts. The spot
market goes to the high bidder for any given tanker load. If Japan
pays more it is because of shipping costs which are built into the
deal by the tanker brokers.


xorbit January 26th 07 02:40 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
Larry wrote:

Dave wrote in
:


On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:42:58 -0500, Larry said:


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.


Why am I not surprised that that's what you thought?



Hmm....Japan pays more for oil than America....so why wouldn't I ship oil
to Japan, where it makes me more money??

Larry


Does Japan pay more for oil? Do you have some numbers on this or a
reference?



xorbit January 26th 07 02:40 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 


Larry wrote:

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


My understanding is that won't happen. As part of the agreement to
drill the north slope, no refineries would be allowed in Alaska. That
won't change because the environmental movement would never allow it.



KLC Lewis January 26th 07 03:09 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 

"xorbit" wrote in message
...


Larry wrote:

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


My understanding is that won't happen. As part of the agreement to drill
the north slope, no refineries would be allowed in Alaska. That won't
change because the environmental movement would never allow it.



I'll bet Russia would be amenable to building refineries in Siberia, just
across the straights...




Steve Thrasher January 26th 07 04:06 AM

Gas $1.99/gallon!
 
xorbit wrote:
My understanding is that won't happen. As part of the agreement to
drill the north slope, no refineries would be allowed in Alaska. That
won't change because the environmental movement would never allow it.


Here is part of an article published: January 23, 2007 in The Anchorage
Daily News:
NORTH POLE -- A small fire that broke out Sunday at Alaska's largest
crude oil refinery did not interrupt production and refining operations,
officials said.
There were no injuries resulting from the fire at the Flint Hills
Refinery in North Pole.

There's more if you want to go to the web site at www.adn.com
Now, it's MY understanding that none of the North Slope oil can be
exported. It's all for domestic use. Federal law of some sort.


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