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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 4:28:10 PM
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tuffone20
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Here in Phoenix, AZ I'm paying $3.49 for premium and reg. is $3.35 at the same station. I'm driving over 600 miles a week!!! Yeah that's right my 06 now has over 48,000 miles on her!!!
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 4:53:41 PM
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Growlor
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Here in Toledo, OH its about $3.45/gallon for the cheap gas. However, I am waiting until late Saturday or somtime Sunday to fill it up because all the stations here raise the prices about late Tuesday/Wednesday and drop them on late Saturday/Sunday. So if you watch that rythm, you can save yourself a few dollars.
I am hoping it won't go to much above $4 per gallon as I think that is supposed to be the point where it becomes price effective to make gas from alternate sources. There's some hope for making either ethanol or even gasoline (and you guys know I use e85 normally anyway) from junk plant material. If that pans-out then we can use the corn stalks or wheat stalks or soybean plants for fuel and still leave the food parts for ...food.
One tech I heard about that had promise was to use algea to make biodiesel. In theory, you need a lot of water and a lot of sun. So maybe use an algea that grows well in saltwater and then buy some land near a sunny beach or even find a variety that floats and use open ocean with a big floating plastic wall that keeps most of it inside, then suck up the slimy, oily gunk into a tanker to go process into diesel.
Well I can always hope can't I?
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 4:59:53 PM
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ericemery
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nah, all you need is some standing water and sun... Dont turn on your swiming pool filter and pump for a month... I bet you see green.
so they just need a lot of water and sun... sounds like a lot of cement "ponds" to me.
and if you dont harvest all of the algea, it multiplies very fast!
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 7:49:44 PM
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$3.89 here in L.I. for regular
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 8:06:49 PM
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Hey at least we are not in Mono County, CA. I was reading today, once station is the most expensive in the Nation... ready for this???
$4.41 for Regular Unleaded. Are you #$%@ing kidding me?
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 8:51:19 PM
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Growlor
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At $4.41/gallon I think I'd pick-up a motorcyle or moped or something and drive the Dak on rainy days!
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 9:14:28 PM
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Here in Buffalo it's 93 - $3.91
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RE: Gas prices - 4/24/2008 9:27:40 PM
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damn oil companies!
I'm kinda glad we bought a secong car... we got a civic its getting GREAT gas mileage. looks like i'll be driving that to work and the trucks gonna be a home with the wife and kids... :(
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RE: Gas prices - 4/25/2008 5:27:46 AM
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mb18
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Man, I'd kill for $3.35 again. We're up to $3.55-$3.59 per gallon here in Lebanon (home) and Mechanicsburg (work)...it's painful....went up 20 cents this week.
Hey! Are you stalkin me? jk haha Not to change the subject but where are you working at in Mechanicsburg
I work at Messiah College in Grantham...near Mechanicsburg...I almost always say Mechanicsburg or Camp Hill when people ask what town I work in, because no one's ever heard of Grantham.
Gas has headed up another nickel in the last 24 hours or so...nearing $3.65 in some places. Surprisingly, the PA turnpike is the cheap spot right now, at $3.56.
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RE: Gas prices - 4/25/2008 8:08:53 AM
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Man, I'd kill for $3.35 again. We're up to $3.55-$3.59 per gallon here in Lebanon (home) and Mechanicsburg (work)...it's painful....went up 20 cents this week.
Hey! Are you stalkin me? jk haha Not to change the subject but where are you working at in Mechanicsburg
I work at Messiah College in Grantham...near Mechanicsburg...I almost always say Mechanicsburg or Camp Hill when people ask what town I work in, because no one's ever heard of Grantham.
Gas has headed up another nickel in the last 24 hours or so...nearing $3.65 in some places. Surprisingly, the PA turnpike is the cheap spot right now, at $3.56.
I actually can about see the college from my office building. I work in the Industrial Park. I am a transplant to the area though I know exactly where it is. I tend to pickup on the area layouts pretty fast.
The only problem with the cheap gas being on the turnpike is, if you dont need to take it, it kinda defeats the purpose of paying the toll just to get the gas 9 cents cheaper 
You know what peisses me off the most about these gas prices is when the cost of a barrel of oil decreases by we will say 5 bucks, which means its like a 9-10 cents a gallon change in price, these damn gas stations never change it by that much, usually they only drop it by 5 cents. So that means we are also getting gouged on the retail end. As soon as the price of oil goes up though they increase it by 9-10 cents, WTF! Why dont they flucuate as fast on both the increasing and decreasing ends. Its a one way street. Get the vasoline out boys, we are gonna get it up the arse some more!
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RE: Gas prices - 4/25/2008 9:48:49 AM
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mb18
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I work at Messiah College in Grantham...near Mechanicsburg...I almost always say Mechanicsburg or Camp Hill when people ask what town I work in, because no one's ever heard of Grantham.
Gas has headed up another nickel in the last 24 hours or so...nearing $3.65 in some places. Surprisingly, the PA turnpike is the cheap spot right now, at $3.56.
I actually can about see the college from my office building. I work in the Industrial Park. I am a transplant to the area though I know exactly where it is. I tend to pickup on the area layouts pretty fast.
The only problem with the cheap gas being on the turnpike is, if you dont need to take it, it kinda defeats the purpose of paying the toll just to get the gas 9 cents cheaper
You know what peisses me off the most about these gas prices is when the cost of a barrel of oil decreases by we will say 5 bucks, which means its like a 9-10 cents a gallon change in price, these damn gas stations never change it by that much, usually they only drop it by 5 cents. So that means we are also getting gouged on the retail end. As soon as the price of oil goes up though they increase it by 9-10 cents, WTF! Why dont they flucuate as fast on both the increasing and decreasing ends. Its a one way street. Get the vasoline out boys, we are gonna get it up the arse some more!
Nice...I didn't realize you were that close. We may have passed each other on 11/15 and never even knew it!
I live in Lebanon, so it's easiest for me to hop the turnpike to run home. Having turnpike gas prices cheaper than everyone else is rare, though...usually those rest stops are the stations that gouge you the worst...they're regularly 5-10 cents higher than everyone else.
I hear on the news that gas price relief is on it's way...not for the summer, but they're thinking prices will drop significantly by late Fall '08 or Winter '09....to about $55-70 per barrel, compared to the $120/barrel now. I'll believe when I see it...but even $2.75/gallon gas would be awesome right now.
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