|
GabbaDj
BTH


Registered: 04/08/01
Posts: 19,682
Loc: By The Lake
|
$2.99 Gal
#6018235 - 09/01/06 11:43 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
How is it that gass prices went down around here by 60 cents in just three weeks just in time for the holiday weekend?
If theirs no way of controlling the rising gass prices then who was it who convinced the oil execs to lower prices sooooo much?
OOh well, Ive waited all week to fill up and Im going to go get the cheepest tank Ive had all year. 
Oooh and why $2.99? Seems like a slap in the face gesture too me.
-------------------- GabbaDj FAMM.ORG
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: GabbaDj]
#6018246 - 09/01/06 11:49 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
I think that all aspects of the oil industry should not be privatized. There shouldn't be a profit to be had with a source of energy.
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
Silversoul
Rhizome


Registered: 01/01/05
Posts: 23,576
Loc: The Barricades
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: GabbaDj]
#6018255 - 09/01/06 11:53 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Perhaps the oil from Iraq is finally starting to get here. Also, gas prices always tend to go up during the summer and down during the fall and winter.
--------------------
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
|
Quote:
Silversoul said: Also, gas prices always tend to go up during the summer and down during the fall and winter.
Right before Labor Day weekend?
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
Redstorm
Prince of Bugs



Registered: 10/08/02
Posts: 44,175
Last seen: 6 months, 28 days
|
|
Yeah, I thought that was odd.
|
Silversoul
Rhizome


Registered: 01/01/05
Posts: 23,576
Loc: The Barricades
|
|
Yes, it does seem a bit early. I don't know wtf is going on. Maybe the oil companies are cutting back prices temporarily for the election in order to increase support for Republicans and discourage people from supporting alternative energy.
--------------------
|
badreligion2good
Uncertain


Registered: 02/21/06
Posts: 888
|
|
I've been wondering about this drop is prices too. We're down as low as $2.69 around here. From a high of $3.30. And just in time for labor day. Does anyone know the official reason? Not that Im complaining or anything. Its sweet!
-------------------- All I know is that I dont know. Row, row, row, you boat, gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.
|
trendal
J♠


Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada
|
|
They're trying to capitalize on the labour day weekend 
Wait a few more hours...it will be back up...
--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
|
Vvellum
Stranger

Registered: 05/24/04
Posts: 10,920
|
|
Quote:
Maybe the oil companies are cutting back prices temporarily for the election in order to increase support for Republicans and discourage people from supporting alternative energy.
I think you hit the nail right on the head.
|
Silversoul
Rhizome


Registered: 01/01/05
Posts: 23,576
Loc: The Barricades
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: trendal]
#6018355 - 09/01/06 12:21 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Great to see you posting again.
--------------------
|
trendal
J♠


Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada
|
|
Had to happen sometime
--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: trendal]
#6018375 - 09/01/06 12:29 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Man, I wasn't expecting to see you online anytime soon. I think my eyes literally bulged when I saw you replied.
You need to stop using your brain so much, man, you can't know all the secrets of the universe.
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
Redstorm
Prince of Bugs



Registered: 10/08/02
Posts: 44,175
Last seen: 6 months, 28 days
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: trendal]
#6018381 - 09/01/06 12:30 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
Be careful in here; the idiocy can sometimes be damaging even to the most healthy person.
|
trendal
J♠


Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada
|
|
You need to stop using your brain so much, man, you can't know all the secrets of the universe.
Well now thats just blatantly false
--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: trendal]
#6018406 - 09/01/06 12:35 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
True, but I just think you shouldn't learn them all quite so fast! You have an entire lifetime ahead of you, take a stroll, create a device that harvests free energy, plan a dinner. You know, relax.
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
trendal
J♠


Registered: 04/17/01
Posts: 20,815
Loc: Ontario, Canada
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: Redstorm]
#6018411 - 09/01/06 12:37 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|

Aint it true
--------------------
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: trendal]
#6018417 - 09/01/06 12:39 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
It won't be long and you'll have it so that this thread, regarding the price of gasoline, will be entirely irrelevant.
Will you post in P&S about your whole experience, reflections relating to, etc.?
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
ZippoZ
Knomadic


Registered: 06/17/03
Posts: 13,227
Loc: Pongyang, North Korea
|
|
Hmmm. interesting all around.
what if the gas prices are only going down temporarially for this weekend, when the government has planned a terrorist action to take place, and then has an excuse to shoot them back up, and get every one in america pissed at the terrorists again!
-------------------- PEACE
zippoz "in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption" "People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: ZippoZ]
#6018493 - 09/01/06 01:07 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
|
|
I'm not sure exactly what is going on, but I think it is obvious that the oil industry, whether the companies themselves, or simply just the convience store owners (the oil companies pretty much own them anymore, though, eh?) frequently fuck with the prices just for the hell of it.
I remember, back with 9/11, that day convience stores in Chicago raised gas prices to $4 a gallon, crazy, unjustified shit like that...
Like I already stated, it should all be government and/or public owned.
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


Registered: 03/12/02
Posts: 24,855
Loc: Pandurn
Last seen: 1 year, 3 months
|
|
If I understand correctly, we can blame Jimmy Carter for deregulation of the oil industry, and he is a guy that I always thought was cool. 
 Peace.
--------------------
If I should die this very moment I wouldn't fear For I've never known completeness Like being here Wrapped in the warmth of you Loving every breath of you
|
|