My jaw dropped today.........

[CLAYTON]

This is the most I've paid per gallon... I couldn't imagine paying $3 a gallon. I guess I'll find out what that like a little further down the road. #@$%! #@$%!

 

[JCleary]

I sent this link to a friend of mine who is not a TDR member...



I'm posting his reply here. I felt like plagiarizing, in fact he gave me permission, but I can't come up with stuff like this:



This stuff always cracks me up. Fuel here is sooooo cheap compared to just

about every other country, as you point out!



You should remind Hercules130 that Clinton released reserves one time only, at least to the best of my

knowledge, and that was right before the 2000 election. Hmmm... why would

he do that? Could it be that Gore was in a tight race and people were

*****ing that the Clinton-Gore administration wasn't doing enough about gas

prices?



I would then add that when Bush was in a similar position, in a very

tight race against Kerry, he not only refused to release oil from the

reserves - he kept filling them, thus risking his own re-election.



Talk about putting principles above politics - Bush knows we are in a war, he

knows that things could get messy with Iran (the world's third largest oil

producer, I think), and he ain't taking any chances with those reserves.



Of course, [Bush Haters] will then say he did it because he makes money when

oil prices rise. Errr... how? What exactly does he or Cheney own that will

benefit from high oil prices? Last I checked, they divested themselves of these holdings when they were elected, if not long before that.



In fact, is there anyone in the Bush family still in the oil business? I'm not sure, but

I can't think of anyone. And if his motives are to help his cronies, you

know, because everything he does is "pro-Big-Business," then tell me why he

would start a war to benefit a sector that is only 8% of the market cap of

the S&P 500 index of America's 500 biggest public companies?



As far as I can tell, high oil prices are hurting the other 92% of "Big Businesses" that

depend on planes, cars, and trucks to get their products and people from

point A to point B. But you never hear the Bush-haters bring that up.



By the way, "Tim" (who posted right after you), says that "Most of the oil

consumed in this country doesn't even come from the middle east. "



Tell him that is irrelevant. It is a fungible commodity in a global market. It

doesn't matter where it comes from. Would it matter to the price of gold if

most of the gold used for jewelry in this country came from South Africa

instead of Canada? Of course not. There is only one price for gold based on

a global market.

 

[MRFost]

$2. 259 yesterday when filling the Jetta TDI at Krogers, Charleston, WV.

 

[DMosher]

There was an article on this in the LA Times today. Here it is

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-...coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true



Doug

 

[AlexWV]

Today I paid 2. 999. Previously the most I had paid was 2. 669 on July 30.



Now here is what irritates me no end. Gas pumps have a limit on them when you put in your credit or debit card. At this place today it was $35. So I had to go through the procedure 3 times to fill up. This drives me crazy. You'd think somebody somewhere could figure out that if $35 was a good number when gas was 1. 80 that maybe they should jack that number up a bit when the price about doubles. And I'll be darned if I am going to walk inside and hand the person my card. If I ever go to some station and the pay at the pump thing isn't working, I drive on out of there. Okey dokey then, gripe of the day is done.



Oh yeah, and $95 to fill up wasn't so good either. :-laf

 

[DennyDay]

Diesel Prices

I've posted this before, but here it is again - - -



If you go to the following sites you get current (within 2 hours)

Bloomburg Energy Prices (crude oil prices) now $63. 89 bbl

Flying J (Find diesel prices nationwide)

Truck Stops of America (Diesel prices nationwide)

Love's Travel Stops

Petro Truck Stops

Pilot Travel Centers (all fuels by state)



Pilot is the largest diesel fuel retailer in the country



Denny

 

[JGK]

JCleary, you and your friend have it nailed. Its not what we like to hear, but its the reality. Thank you.



-Jay