Gas prices

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by tw

You know this is another example of TheMercenary's political agenda. The title is "Real Clear Politics". Then it talks about liberals. Extremists need extremists. If necessary, extremist will invent their enemies.

Extremists will even let bin Laden run free only because it serves their political agenda - reality be damned. The only thing predictable is that TheMercenary has no interest in reality - such as why gas prices are higher. Reality would not promote a poltical agenda.

Bla, bla, bla. Why not address the article? You are more concerned that I am on here than you are about the substance of the discussion. What are you afraid of?

[BigV]

$3.15 yesterday.

[jester]

1 place 2.86 - but most others 2.96

[Kitsune]

$2.99 at the Food n Fuel on Highway 12 in Milbank, South Dakota today.

$3.29 at the Short Stop Shell in Buffalo, Wyoming, at exit 299 on I-25.

[BigV]

$3.09 yesterday. Still > $50 to fillup.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

About like that in Ventura County, too: $3.08.

Definitely time to do your commuting in a light, small vehicle. Definitely time to make telecommuting the general thing. "Make Millions Working From Home "

[Kitsune]

Ah, my favorite evil-revealing prankster group has struck again!

Activist trickster collective the Yes Men used the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta to stage their latest theatre of corporate absurdity, with Exxon/Mobil and the Natural Petroleum Council playing the fools.

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After noting that current energy policies will likely lead to "huge global calamities" and disrupt oil supplies, Wolff told the audience "that in the worst case scenario, the oil industry could "keep fuel flowing" by transforming the billions of people who die into oil," said a Yes Men press release.

Yes Man Mike Bonnano, posing as an Exxon representative named Florian Osenberg, added that "With more fossil fuels comes a greater chance of disaster, but that means more feedstock for Vivoleum. Fuel will continue to flow for those of us left."

The impostors led growingly suspicious attendees in lighting Vivoleum candles made, they said, from a former Exxon janitor who died from cleaning a toxic spill. When shown a mock video of the janitor professing his desire to be turned in death into candles, a conference organizer pulled Bonanno and Bichlbaum from the stage.

[TheMercenary]

Still down at 2.85 here. I heard a great rant by a financial planner the other day on the radio. Basically he said that buying a car or keeping a car that got a huge difference in gas milage really was not worth it unless you drove thounds of miles a month as part of your work. The cost to you personally was not worth making a big deal out of it. If you want a car with a huge gas milage savings of say 50mpg that is one thing, but the difference between owning a car that got 18mpg and 28 mpg really made no financial difference. If you do it because it makes you feel better about saving the world that is one thing, but unless all the trucks, cars, 18 wheelers, factories, and coal fired plants get on board at the same time you are not really having any effect on the world. Further people who drive 10 miles to save 5 cents per gallon are not really saving that much money. Some interesting thoughts....

[glatt]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

I heard a great rant by a financial planner the other day on the radio.

If he said that it makes no sense to sell your current car and buy a new one just because the price of gas went up ten cents, then I agree with him.

However, if he said that when your old car dies, and it's time to buy a new car, you shouldn't consider fuel efficiency as part of the over-all decision, then he's a moron.

[xoxoxoBruce]

But if your car dies and you choose a gas miser to replace it, you won't get to use your share of the oil before it runs out. Someone else will be getting your rightful share with no compensation to you.... maybe even a foreigner.

[HungLikeJesus]

I keep a lake of eternally-burning oil in my back yard.

[xoxoxoBruce]

You lie. In your backyard, it would have to be a lake of tar, or it would end up at the bottom of the mountain.

[HungLikeJesus]

Now I know I've exposed myself too much in the Cellar.

Edit: responding to xoB, below: I suppose that wasn't the best wording, was it?

[xoxoxoBruce]

Is your name nightsong?

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by glatt

If he said that it makes no sense to sell your current car and buy a new one just because the price of gas went up ten cents, then I agree with him.

However, if he said that when your old car dies, and it's time to buy a new car, you shouldn't consider fuel efficiency as part of the over-all decision, then he's a moron.

Not really a moron. Not if the new car you can afford is equal to the efficiency of the car you lost. I think his point was it really has more to do with what you do with your car than some group of idiots preaching to everyone about your need to get a expensive car that gets 10 more miles per gallon. Not really all that important from a personal financial standpoint. I would have to agree.