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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 3:50 pm Post subject: This is going to a long and expensive summer | |
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Can you say $4.00 a gallon
Folks in Cali always pay more for fuel...but this is not a great sign for the rest of us across the country. Might be time to by a scooter like a few of my friends and enjoy that 100 mpg for the summer. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 7:30 pm Post subject: | |
Makes me glad I drive a sedan that gets good gas mileage. Also, I only fill up every 2 weeks. 
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Location: Central CA
| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 8:53 pm Post subject: | |
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I've had to give up driving for health reasons but I'm still affected by the cost increases in public transportation and also by the fact that my family members scattered around the state can no longer afford to come and visit.
I got an email from one of those grass roots organizations. They're aware that most of us can't or won't stop driving and that few of us are even willing to cut back on unnecessary automobile travel, but what they suggest is that everyone who drives NOT buy their gas from Exxon/Mobil which is the biggest profit taker in the business and the greediest and most arrogant of the lot. (Check out the raise their CEO got.) If you have to buy gas, buy only that produced by smaller companies and don't buy from the big boys at all. Makes sense to me. |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 10:42 pm Post subject: | |
| Exxon/Mobile and American Airlines are always on the news and the paper down here. The payout that that CEO got is disgusting. Exxon is like American to me, I refuse to purchase from either one of them. | |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject: | |||
I can do that. But at the risk of sounding stupid (which I'm quite accustomed to)... how can I be sure? I buy my gas from the local Tom Thumb... and I don't really know which company the gas comes from. Is there any info on the internet? |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 3:04 am Post subject: | |
| No, not really. The no name gas could actually come from anywhere, including Exxon/Mobil. I think what they're talking about is buying from Chevron, or Arco or Union... other actual producers, just not Exxon/Mobil. | |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:02 am Post subject: | |
| ARCO got bought out by British Petroleum sometime in the mid 90's. If there's still an ARCO station around, I'd be surprised. | |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:13 am Post subject: | |||
There are about four Arco stations within a five mile radius of where I am in Cali
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:15 am Post subject: | |
| Really? Hmmmm...guess they didn't drop the name after all. I know they are all over the west coast. | |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:32 am Post subject: | |||
We still have them out here, they're just called AM-PM Minimarts. I knew Atlantic Richfield had been bought out by someone, just couldn't remember who. But anyway, they still use the Arco label on a lot of their stuff. |
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Location: 3rd coast
| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 4:33 pm Post subject: Re: This is going to a long and expensive summer | |||
Here in Texas on the Gulf coast, we're nippin' $3.00/gal. 
Don't laugh, but this morning I pumped some air into the ol' bicycle tires, slipped a canvas bag over my shoulder, and made a trip to the grocery store. |
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Location: Greenville, North Carolina
| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 5:26 pm Post subject: | |
| They are warning us to get ready for $5 gallon gasoline. I just can't imagine my pick up truck will take $130 worth of gas in one tank! | |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:59 pm Post subject: | |||
We're almost there in Canada too 
Though we pay per liter(3.784 gallons), we're up to $1.10/litre in Vancouver. Works out to about $4.16 a gallon. Yikes! Up here Exxon supplies mainly to Esso, so stay away from Esso Canadians! Actually, they're probably all just as evil but Esso is definitely the most infamous of the bunch. Greenpeace launched a campaign against Esso a few years back. I believe it's still going strong. BTW, Happy Earth Day everyone! |
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| Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 8:04 pm Post subject: | |
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We've already gotten our Earth Day wishes from the oil companies. Did anyone else see this coming when they refused to even put the oil company execs under oath at those so called "hearings" a few months back?
Like telling them, "Of course, you don't have to talk to us and if you do, you don't have to tell the truth. This is just a showcase to make it look like we're doing our jobs, that's all.". Sleep tight America, your congress is watching over you. 
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: | |
| I thought that this was going to happen almost 2 years ago when I bought a econo-car to drive instead if my V-8 truck. It now costs me the same to drive the econo-car as the truck used to cost me, 10 cents per mile. | |
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: | |||
same. I used to have a 6-cylinder mustang that cost me $25 to fill....Now I have a little import 4 banger that costs me $35 to fill 
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| Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: | |
| There is an interesting discussion on the RW Lowes forum: http://www.retailworker.com/node/23788 | |