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Author Topic: Gas prices and Stupid people! Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-24-2006 07:54 AM                     I just saw on CNN that people from Chicago were driving 25 to 30 miles to Hammond Indiana to get gas. The gas is .11 cents cheaper per gallon there. how does this add up? This can only be a savings of a couple dollars at most per fill up, which is less than 1 gallon of gas. It takes more gas to drive one way to the gas station than what they are "saving". Crazy!  |  IP: Logged Steve Scott Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1300 From: Minneapolis, MN Registered: Sep 2000 posted 04-24-2006 10:41 AM                     Try driving to Venezuela, it's about $1.17 there.  |  IP: Logged Chad M Calpito Master Film Handler Posts: 435 From: San Diego, CA Registered: Apr 2006 posted 04-24-2006 11:06 AM                        I tend to agree with you Richard. Gas prices here in San Diego are generally between $3 to $3.40 a gallan, depending on the grade of gas. Of course, I always use the most expensive gas for my car since it is highly recommended. But, I'm not gonna drive all over town to find the best deal since it won't make that much of a difference.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-24-2006 01:13 PM                        At $2.71/gal my corner 7-11 Citgo was the cheapest in town last night. The 'Vegas average low price today is $2.79. Normally we're 10-15% higher than California so I figure we'll be over $3.00/gal for any grade in the next few days. Needs to go higher yet from what I've seen of local driver behavior so far. Still way too many lead-footed giant truck and SUV drivers burning rubber at every green light. Road rage incidents are up all over the valley too, which at least provide free daily spectator events for us pedestrians. Driving around here is like being in a continuous episode of some weird "Cops Meets Bum Fights" hybrid. Haven't seen this many mullets and fists and beer bottles flying since the last NASCAR weekend in town. Saw several TV news stories over the weekend talking about people starting to hock their crap to buy a tank of gas. All of the ones shown are still driving monster-sized vehicles for personal transportation. I love it! Always thought $4.00/gal gas would wake these morons up. But so far the $4.00+ prices seem to be only in well-heeled areas where they may whine, but in the end they just shrung their shoulders and fill up. Maybe the rest of us will be seeing pretty close to $4.00 by mid-summer since $3.00 beat the Memorial Day arrival prediction by five weeks. Guess it'll take $5.00/gal to provoke some real changes around here. Can't happen soon enough for me - even though I may end up having to share the bus with crowds of crack/meth tweakers forced off the road in order to continue their habits. Viva Las Vegas baby!  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-24-2006 01:17 PM                     quote: Paul Mayer Haven't seen this many mullets and fists and beer bottles flying since the last NASCAR weekend in town. Ha, or showest!  |  IP: Logged Jeff Arellano Film Handler Posts: 41 From: Monterey Park, CA Registered: Jul 2005 posted 04-24-2006 01:18 PM                     Its become about 3.20-3.50 in Los Angeles. A few stations in more affluent areas (Beverly Hills) have gone over $4.  |  IP: Logged Paul Mayer Oh get out of it Melvin, before it pulls you under! Posts: 3836 From: Albuquerque, NM Registered: Feb 2000 posted 04-24-2006 01:19 PM                        Ahem, at ShoWest we're much more sophisticated. We throw gin bottles.  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 04-24-2006 02:07 PM                        I had a guy in a hummer at the next pump over try and chat me up about the high price of gas while I was filling my 30mpg car a few days ago. I suggested that he "rethink the Hummer." I'm suprised I didn't get my ass kicked right then and there, but it shut him up. and I drove away with a big grin on my face. The high price of gas doesn't make me as mad as hearing that Exxon scored record profits last year and their CEO was given a 400 million retirement package. They also invested a paltry 10 million in alt fuel research. Anyway, I've decided to keep track of my price-per-mile instead of my miles-per-gallon, since price has more of an impact on my life, and really puts driving habits and vehicle into the equation. It also helps visualize exactly how much going somewhere costs. This week my car runs $0.10 per mile. I'd be interested in knowing what everyone else's PPM is.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 04-24-2006 03:15 PM                     What angers me even worse is the finanical rape against American citizens and small business people by the health care industrial complex. Lee Raymond is getting a $400 million platinum parachute for retirement from Exxon Mobil. But that's only a fourth what Dr. William McGuire of United Health Care Group is getting through all his stock options. He stands to leave that company with a cool $1.6 billion. Share prices in that company have increased by 7000 percent. I'm sure a great deal of that has to do with the giant blank check Uncle Sam stupidly extends to health care corporations in our very retarded form of socialized medicine. If that company, or any other health care company made its fortunes by charging only what the market will bear rather than taking a bunch of government subsidy socialism money I'd be okay with his compensation package. Everyone knows full well just about every hospital in this nation would keel over and die if they could only charge patients what they could actually afford in the open market. Another thing that really angers me about that situation is every now and then the AMBUCS business club I'm involved with will have some hospital executive or other health care company guy speak to our group and ask us to dig in our pockets to donate lots of money. I probably wouldn't mind if I made $20,000 or more per month. If the hospital has to go out and beg average people for money how are they able to pay a bunch of their employees (many who aren't even doctors) six figure salaries? Gas prices are still aggravating as hell. But I'm commuting back and forth to work at least 4 days a week on my trail bike. I only fill up my pickup truck about once every 6 or 7 weeks.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-24-2006 03:54 PM                        quote: Adam Wilbert "rethink the Hummer." That's a great line. You just wrote a great new advertising slogan for somebody.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 04-24-2006 04:30 PM                        quote: Paul Mayer Can't happen soon enough for me - even though I may end up having to share the bus with crowds of crack/meth tweakers forced off the road in order to continue their habits. What's worse? Being in a bus which is sharing the road with a crack/meth tweaker at the wheel of an SUV, or having him in the bus itself? The most likely scenario in Britain would be him driving the bus, so look on the bright side! (Psycho Bristol bus driver story) We're slowly creeping towards the £1 a litre mark. But I seem to remember that we were last here around August last year, i.e. at the end of the summer holiday driving rush, not the start of it. LPG has nudged up a penny or two at most places in the last month, too.  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 04-24-2006 04:40 PM                     A few years ago Venezuela's gas was under 30 cents a gallon....I remember driving cross country ( Florida to California ) in my Dodge Dart for under $30.00 in the early 1970's...now $34.00 a tank for my Honda Element...see the future before it becomes the present The worst ride I had was in a client's Hummer  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 04-24-2006 04:44 PM                     Its still a reasonable 2.59.9 here in Bountiful,Utah at the Maverick Station. According to CNN we still have the lowest gas prices in the country. Rick, This has been going on since the gas taxes in Indiana have been so low.... as long as I can remember. I think some CNN reporter was really in trouble to come up with a story if any kind that day! Simply put Indiana does not have the high gas tax that other states do and its been like that as kinbg as I've been driving....1971. Their taxes are collected from liscense plate sales and the states residents HATE it. why they don't get rid of it is beyond me... those Hoosiers are just too nice and laid back. Esentially they are paying for the low gas prices for truckers and others passing through... oh and they all know that. A new car set of plates is typically well over 1,000.00. Plating a new Vette in Indiana... you'd have to add it on to the loan and make plate payments. The tax you pay for your plates there is based on vehicle selling price. If you are buying ALOT of gas or have a fleet of gas thirsty boats then traveling 15 miles or sometimes just across the street to Indiana is worthwhile for a fill up. Realize too that Illinois and Indiana's largest populated areas basically run into each other by Hammond...... I call that part of the U.S. The armpit Of America! Amazingly, most of the time it also stinks.... from the Steel Mills in Gary . Now lets all go to Alaska for a fill up Mark  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 04-24-2006 05:07 PM                     While I do not drive a hummer, I do have a gas guzzler. I get about 15-18 mpg in my truck. It is paid off and I will continue to drive it until the cost of gas is more than it would cost me in a car payment and full coverage insurance each month. I estimate that would have to be around $12/gallon.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-24-2006 05:35 PM                     Mark, CNN said the people were driving 25 to 30 miles, one way. I could see if it was just across the street,maybe this would make sense, but in this case, they are paying more in the long run. Don't get me started on the license plate issue!!! I still have my temporary tag on my car, and I am dreading the day I have to pay for a plate! Only 1 more week to go! Later, Rick  |  IP: Logged

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