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LightningBoy
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PostThu Sep 01, 2005 10:35 pm    

IntrepidIsMe wrote:
Woah, 32 hours a week? I've killed that in under three days. And I don't even have a real job,


Yeah, i worked 12s for a while.. ugh


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 1:39 am    

Okay...what about the national oil reserve? in Utah?? Can't we like use that oil to stave off this insufferable injustice? lol....

I mean..heck I just filled up the tank at....US$2.97...that was for 87 grade....it's just climbin' higher and higher..what a shame...


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 2:39 am    

For the last few weeks, I've noticed that diesel was much more expensive than the other fuels.
But now with Katrina in the mix, it's suddenly become the cheapest choice (2.36 compared to 3.09UL).


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 8:24 am    

Do you guys in the US have LPG? What do you pay for that?

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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 8:36 am    

Cathexis wrote:
Okay...what about the national oil reserve? in Utah?? Can't we like use that oil to stave off this insufferable injustice? lol....

I mean..heck I just filled up the tank at....US$2.97...that was for 87 grade....it's just climbin' higher and higher..what a shame...


They are using the fuel reserves...


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 2:47 pm    

Indeed. The strategic oil reserves were released a few days ago.


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 3:39 pm    

Our company went up .30 today. For no reason. It was still the same gas we'd purchased a few days ago.
Exxon/Mobil was given tons of fuel from the reserves, yet continues to raise prices like there's no tomorrow. Saw several people photographing our signs today. Others, too.



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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 4:51 pm    

here, gas has already jumped $1 in a day from $2.56 to $3.67 and it's suspected that it will go even higher. Thankfully I dont have to drive anytime soon.

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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 7:23 pm    

Yeah, I wanted to go to the airshow next weekend, if the prices keep going up...


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 7:28 pm    

The store down the street Is over 3 dollars, 3.38 i belive. hermon corner was 3.49 9/10 when I saw it, but that was before noon

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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 8:10 pm    

The reason diesel has gotten more expensive is that technological advances have let refineries produce a higher percentage of gasoline from crude oil, resulting in less diesel. Before Mr. Diesel invented the engine that burns it, what we call "diesel" was tossed out as a by-product (as was gasoline, before the Otto cycle came around).


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PostFri Sep 02, 2005 8:18 pm    

Ah. I read in the Harvard Business Review about taxes/tariffs going up on it. Suppose that was an effect instead of a cause,


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PostSat Sep 03, 2005 9:54 am    

PrankishSmart wrote:
Do you guys in the US have LPG? What do you pay for that?


Does the usa have LPG/propane/butane anyone know? How much is that over there?


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PostSat Sep 03, 2005 11:08 am    

Theresa wrote:
Yeah, I wanted to go to the airshow next weekend, if the prices keep going up...


They'd also have trouble for the planes then as well, although it's a different type of fuel it would be going up. Not sure if they would ground some. We had that at the one I was at a few years ago because of 9/11. It's understandable, but we didn't have any American planes that year as it was 3 days after I think.


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