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Posted by ron989 on 08-10-2005 06:24 AM:

Gas Prices

So this is currently a record setting summer for gas prices, especially in Canada where its reached over $108.4 per liter. That's the highest it's ever been and its supposed to keep climbing, I think we've seen the last of the days where prices were down around $0.90. It is becoming pretty damn expensive to drive a car.

Is the same shit happening over the border? I was just in europe and I know the prices there are insane too (except greece where everything is cheap).

Posted by kalvaitis007 on 08-10-2005 06:26 AM:

When you adjust it for inflation, gas was actually more expensive in the 80s in the US. I can still remember my dad bitching about it. Damn Jimmy Carter!

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Posted by danimal39 on 08-10-2005 07:41 AM:

late 70s were very expensive,one good comparison is that when jimmy carter was presedent every one had locking gas caps,it was so expensive they were siphoning it from the cars on the street,though i drive a big van for buisness ,i drive a 2002 mr2 spyder the rest of the time,5 speed 4 cyl, great gas milage!,

Posted by weedchemist on 08-10-2005 07:49 AM:

well my license is suspended but i feel you, being from the USA, knowing we got lower prices than most the world for years, i think its about time we got a reality check, and well, reality check applies to everyone, this is un renewable without millions of years, so of course itll cost... wait 10 yrs without hybrid/ hydrogen cars, we are about 40 yrs from consuming all the oil in the world... i will be alive, and i like watching the news, so ill be sure to have about 200 kegs to hold me over while i watch my 24 hrs news channels taping and watching the fights over gas ... thats sounds too fun

Posted by socks on 08-10-2005 10:21 AM:

You guys have it lucky - reported today that some stations around the UK have gone over the £1 mark for 1 litre of fuel.

£1 = $1.79 per litre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4133430.stm

Posted by Mystic Slippers on 08-10-2005 10:41 AM:

I filled up this morning. 94.9p at the local Shell.

FUCKING HOW ANNOYING?

Car was in the dealership the other day for repairs, so i got given an 05 plate Astra CTDi estate to play with (good job they gave me an estate as i fucked off to Global Gathering for the weekend).

Naturally i thrashed the fucking bejeezus outta it. Lovely car!

Err, dunno what it has to do with fuel prices or anything but i thought i'd let you know.

Oh no i remember now, it was like 97.9p for diesel.

SHITE!

Posted by Shameless Bill on 08-10-2005 12:58 PM:

2.40 per gallon of regular this morning. Highest price I've seen in the SE USA

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Posted by VBitter on 08-10-2005 01:47 PM:

$1.23

Record high in Melbourne Australia

Fortunately i dont have to pay that because i have a company van supplied!!

Posted by steakknife03 on 08-10-2005 01:51 PM:

If i'm getting my conversion's right Here in Ireland it's working out about $5 a gallon (1.08euro a litre).

Posted by VBitter on 08-10-2005 02:29 PM:

steaknife03

yes it is bad,thank god for my Bp card

Posted by The CandyMan on 08-10-2005 02:54 PM:

Man, it's getting tough, putting an average of 40 to 50 dollars a day everytime I work. At 2.49 per gallon, it adds up. Plus big vans suck gas, especially with dual air conditioner systems (which kill gas mileage, but with 90 degree temps, I have to keep myself and the teens cool plus the products will melt if kept in high heat for too long) so I'm feeling it. I might even have to raise the price of our products just to cover the extra expense. Which is what is going to happen to everything else, as gas prices always effect, in the long run, the price we pay for other goods and services.

Kal is right, adjusting for inflation, we still are paying less, but again, when your use to paying under a dollar for a gallon (early 80's, when I got my license at 16, it was around 80 cents), 2.50 seems to fucking high. Granted, we pay less than most other countries, but there has to be some changes made. I wish I could use a better mileage vehicle, but my business doesn't allow for it at all. I have no choice but to use gas sucking, low mileage vans.

One good thing, I can write it off my taxes, and with Speedway's reward card, I am now at my 3rd free 25 gallons of gas, which I plan on using by Friday. That's $62 worth of free gas, and I've already got over $100 worth since they started the program. And the good thing is, they don't keep their prices higher than other stations, so I'm not getting screwed by using them all the time.

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Posted by socks on 08-10-2005 03:37 PM:

By the way, for us English twats, we only understand the word "Petrol" Gas is different!

It's defo. bad for US consumers, you guys drive huge SUVs with (as candyman said) Air con and huge engines.

Posted by steakknife03 on 08-10-2005 04:43 PM:

The worst bit about it all is 60% of the price is tax here

Posted by The CandyMan on 08-10-2005 05:43 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by socks
By the way, for us English twats, we only understand the word "Petrol" Gas is different!

It's defo. bad for US consumers, you guys drive huge SUVs with (as candyman said) Air con and huge engines.

Well, in my defense, I don't have much choice. Hard to shove 12 people, and yourself, into a Chevy Evo or Honda Hybrid. But for people who drive huge, ovesized SUVs, they deserve what they get. Rarely do I see someone driving one of those things with more than 1 or 2 people in it, yet they continue to bitch about the cost of gassing one up. The sad thing is that most of the owners buy them for the prestige, as in "Hey I'm rich, I can afford a $80,000 SUV that gets 2 miles to the gallon! Too bad I have to re-mortgage my house so I can fill it up and be able to drive to work everyday!"

The best story I heard sums up what most people buy SUVs for was on the local John Corby drive home show. I tells a story about how one day he's out shoveling snow in his driveway, when he sees his neighbor's, a woman, new SUV coming down the road. He waves her to stop, as he wants to check it out, and notices that her boyfriend is driving it. He approches the suv, and she rolls down the window yelling all excited "Hey John, how do like my new SUV?!?!" He replies that it's nice, looks really good, etc. but asks her why her boyfriend is driving. Her reply? "Because it's snowing and I'm afraid to drive it in the snow!"

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Posted by vegasguy on 08-10-2005 06:11 PM:

hey now,

Yesterday, I paid $2.55 a gallon. Total it was around $44.

I remember about 5 years ago, gas prices were under a buck.

Posted by scottymac on 08-10-2005 06:27 PM:

Just today, here in Northern B.C. Canada, regular gasoline is

97.9¢CDN/liter and people bitch and moan about the price.

But we have it ass backwards in North America. Right under the sign for 97.9¢/l there is a sign for bottled water

"2 1000ml bottles for $2"

So a dollar per liter for water is a good deal, but under a dollar a liter for gasoline isn't?

Unbelievable.

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Posted by pNd on 08-11-2005 01:01 AM:

Re: Gas Prices

quote:
Originally posted by ron989
I think we've seen the last of the days where prices were down around $0.90. It is becoming pretty damn expensive to drive a car.

oh my..

we have to pay twice that, so hush your whining

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Posted by Mystic Slippers on 08-11-2005 10:12 AM:

come to the UK. land of cheap motoring!

you pay for your car. then your insurance (which if you are under 25 will involve you taking out a loan the size of a 3rd world country debt just to get 3rd party insurance), then your road tax (which if you have anything over a 1400 will involve you paying tax that even racketeering groups wouldn't charge you as monthly interest).

then you have your breakdown cover, which involves having to pay for one of the better (and obviously ludicrously expensive) packages because the basic one will cover you for a guy to drive out to you, look at the car, shrug his/her shoulders and say they can't do nothing because your 3cm too far from your driveway or something equally unsexual.

then there's the joy of fuel prices. nuff said there.

then there's the joy of car maintenance where everyone in that game in the UK is basically out to rip you off for every penny you have. oh dear, my oil needs changing. £4 or something for a bottle of oil. plus £600,000 for labour.

motoring is bollocks. drive fast die young. that way you'll save yourself the expense of a life of motoring and can say at least you drove for a while. after you pass the novelty wears off when every cunt treats you like a fucking taxi.

motoring is an endless moneypit. but we all do it because cars are great! YEAH!

Posted by HoldDaSalad on 08-11-2005 10:27 AM:

Well today my job paid me a little over $16 for gas, and I put $15 in my tank and that will last me a couple of days, and when I work again I will get another $16 or so for gas. I myself don't have to pay for the gas I use. My job does.

I quit the tech support job, I make better money doing what I'm doing now.

I thought this type of job was demeaning and something I would never do because I would be lowering myself to do this job, and on average I make at least $12-15 an hour. I make better money now.

Posted by Spank on 08-11-2005 01:42 PM:

fuel priceing is ridiculous and from what i have read in the news and stuff....world demand ( mostly USA and China) has pushed up prices and terrorism has too...fucking 96p for a liter here...tho i know in wales the independant garages are up to 124.9p a liter.....cunts!

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Posted by The CandyMan on 08-11-2005 04:58 PM:

Here you go, what I paid yesterday. And I'll probably pay more today:

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Posted by HoldDaSalad on 08-11-2005 10:51 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Here you go, what I paid yesterday. And I'll probably pay more today:

looks like speedway

Posted by ron989 on 08-12-2005 04:00 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Here you go, what I paid yesterday. And I'll probably pay more today:

ouch.

Posted by LOLobo on 08-12-2005 08:13 AM:

Candyman, I would have paid $56.45 for that much gas.

Wife just brought me a receipt today... for $36.30 for 12.696G. That's $2.85 per gallon.

::Edit:: Yes to the L.A. question

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Posted by hoozdapimp on 08-12-2005 09:05 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by lolobo21
Candyman, I would have paid $56.45 for that much gas.

Wife just brought me a receipt today... for $36.30 for 12.696G. That's $2.85 per gallon.

Ouch, live in LA? I though it was horrible paying US $2.65/gallon

Posted by The CandyMan on 08-13-2005 02:36 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by lolobo21
Candyman, I would have paid $56.45 for that much gas.

Wife just brought me a receipt today... for $36.30 for 12.696G. That's $2.85 per gallon.

::Edit:: Yes to the L.A. question

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Yes, but do you do it every day? If so, I feel for you. I've grabbed my receipts this morning (Saturday) and for the past 5 days, I have spent a total of $246.64 for gas. And I still have to fill it up this morning, though at only a little less than half a tank, I'll probably only drop $40 or so.

Never have I've spent that much in one week. Hell 2 years ago that would have got me through 2 weeks or more!

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Posted by Shn on 08-13-2005 02:46 PM:

i take the subway to go to work and travel around paris.

and surprisingly, subway tickets' prices haven't increased !!!

i hope people will kill each other over gas in the next few months.

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Posted by krazyfoo on 08-13-2005 03:58 PM:

shn's got the right idea. (for what the 1st maybe 2nd time in his life)

in america.. public transit.. unless your in major cities.. is assumed to be the transportation of the poor. aka .. them dangerous black criminal folk!..

kids grow up assuming the only way to live is to have a car.. otherwise your a poor bastard..

the automobile has certainly done its fair share of damage to the american psyche and the american landscape. (and everyone's air)

get a bike!

ps. TERR0R LEVEL YELL0W!!!!!. *imagines kal's large sigh of relief*

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Posted by EViL-EWoK on 08-13-2005 04:28 PM:

price just went over a dollar here
$1.03 CAN

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Posted by Miller on 08-13-2005 04:30 PM:

haha thats nothing Neversoft

where im at, we are paying $1.11 a liter, not a galon!, so to fill the tank in my 2.4L sunfire it costs 68$

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Posted by kalvaitis007 on 08-13-2005 05:23 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by krazyfoo
ps. TERR0R LEVEL YELL0W!!!!!. *imagines kal's large sigh of relief*

Yes, I may be out for a few days while I move my system and my connections out of The Bunker.

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Posted by ron989 on 08-13-2005 08:07 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Shn
i take the subway to go to work and travel around paris.

and surprisingly, subway tickets' prices haven't increased !!!

i hope people will kill each other over gas in the next few months.

the subway in paris is hot and smelly, but it is relatively cheap to use it. i think it was like 4 euro for a day pass when i was there.

Posted by Shn on 08-13-2005 08:37 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by ron989
the subway in paris is hot and smelly, but it is relatively cheap to use it. i think it was like 4 euro for a day pass when i was there.

it's not always hot and smelly !
the smelly part is mainly because of the people who stink (not only bums!).

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Posted by The CandyMan on 08-14-2005 01:20 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Shn
it's not always hot and smelly !
the smelly part is mainly because of the people who stink (not only bums!).

Shn, here's the the French word of today: déodorant

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Posted by socks on 08-14-2005 01:37 PM:

The french are very good with déodorant but they just never wash. A french shower is just using a can of lynx to cover the smell

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_...ssages/176.html

Posted by Shn on 08-14-2005 02:21 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by socks
The french are very good with déodorant but they just never wash. A french shower is just using a can of lynx to cover the smell

http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_...ssages/176.html

the brandname is Axe™ in France. That's what i use, with the ball thing.
unfortunately, some people perhaps wash but don't use deodorants, which can be painful during summer...

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Posted by socks on 08-17-2005 10:04 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Shn
the brandname is Axe™ in France. That's what i use, with the ball thing.
unfortunately, some people perhaps wash but don't use deodorants, which can be painful during summer...

I don't understand why companies have to rename everything in different countries. I still haven't got over having to call opal fruits "Starburst"

Posted by Vampire on 08-17-2005 11:41 PM:

...or calling a Marathon a "Snickers" bar. Mind you, we feel quite obliged to call George Bush a complete arse instead of "Mr. President" so I suppose it's only fair.

edit: I'm more than a little drunk at the moment so, if I offended anyone with that statement, meh!

Posted by phoremat on 08-18-2005 02:15 AM:

yeah I broke $50 the other day filling up my suv...i think I paid around $2.88 a gallon...fuck that I'm ready to ride my bike!!

Posted by Red_Tides99 on 08-18-2005 07:02 AM:

Everyone could just do like me. Bought an 86 Mitsubishi (Dodge) pickup off moms old fogey neighbor (2.0 litre 5speed), rebuilt the engine with new clutch, built a custom Cold Air Intake and straight piped the exhaust. With a 22Gal tank, I fill that bitch up and can ride for almost 3 weeks getting around 35-40 Mpg.

Yeah it looks like a dogs ass and has NO a/c, but takes off like a scalded dog at the redlight and leaves everyone behind. It costs me much less in gas to piss off Durango drivng soccer moms who try to walk all over me.

Thinking about decaling the back window with "Crackerbox POS: 40Mpg" in gangsta script. I got less than a grand total so far in that truck.

Oh yeah, about the adjusted for inflation racket going on, I asked my moms about that. And she said "Fuck that, back in 1980 the gas price thing didn't last going on 2 fucking years."

Think about it.

Posted by ron989 on 08-18-2005 08:05 AM:

Now with the high gas prices here theres a social activist group that's been wandering the streets lately looking for suv's and giving out fake traffic tickets on their windshields that say something like "you are a socially irresponsible driver, killing the environment" etc etc..

If one of those fucking hippies ever layed a hand on my car i would break it off and throw it in my gas tank.

Posted by bdimag on 08-18-2005 08:42 AM:

after paying 2.70 for gas, if somebody put that shit on my car, i'd dust it for prints, find their house and blow that shit up... because its the hippies that are destroying the environment... of course

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Posted by Shn on 08-18-2005 02:34 PM:

Anyways you'll eventually exchange your SUVs for normal cars because of the increasing gas prices...

and as kippa (from Europe) once said :
[14:32] (kippa-): $50 filling an suv
[14:32] (kippa-): lol
[14:32] (kippa-): thats pretty fucking cheap tbh
[14:33] (Shn): might be a jew

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Posted by The CandyMan on 08-18-2005 02:44 PM:

The latest I've heard is that people are gas stealing both from stations and from other people's cars! I have locking gas caps on all my vehicles, but if any motherfucker tried to sippon gas out of my tank, I would know that my temporary insanity plea would hold up in court the day of my murder trial. . .

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Posted by TinyDick on 08-18-2005 08:46 PM:

quote:
Friday July 29 - U.S. House passes Energy Bill that gives $14.5 billion in tax breaks to big oil companies, already immensely profitable1. The bill does nothing to lower the cost of gas, heating oil or electricity to consumers.

The Energy Bill also opens up exceptions in the Clean Water Act & Safe Water Drinking Act. Proposals to increase fuel efficiency were dropped.

1 July 28, 2005 - ExxonMobil reports record 2Q earnings of $7.84 billion
Apr 28, 2005 - ExxonMobil reports record 1Q earnings of $7.86 billion
Jan 31, 2005 - ExxonMobil reports record 4Q earnings of $8.42 billion...
...THE HIGHEST EARNINGS EVER FOR A U.S. CORPORATION.

im telling u
its bushs fault

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Posted by Airhead on 08-20-2005 09:48 AM:

Posted by Mystic Slippers on 08-20-2005 01:38 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by phoremat
yeah I broke $50 the other day filling up my suv...i think I paid around $2.88 a gallon...fuck that I'm ready to ride my bike!!

And your crying about that?

Everyone in the UK finds fuel prices in the US (or for that matter anywhere else in the world) to be a damn site cheaper than here. If my calculations are correct, in the UK the average price for unleaded fuel is around $3.80 a gallon.

If you could fill a good sized SUV or other soccermom piece of crap vehicle for $50 in the UK and cry about it at the station you'd get your head kicked in.

Fuck sake, i have a 1.6 Renault. Costs me about $80 (£45) to fill that. And you can fill a fucking gigantic SUV for $50.

You sir, have no fucking right to cry about that. At all.

Posted by Mystic Slippers on 08-20-2005 01:50 PM:

I also forgot to add that

a) In essence, the average cost of living in the UK is way more than that in the US. Taking in to account costs such as council tax, vat etc etc.

b) the cost of motoring in the UK is way more than that of the US. ie: sky high insurance, road tax etc etc.

So how the fuck these Yanks sit there and complain when it's also the US, India and China that are mainly responsible for this rise in fuel prices, i don't fucking know. Fucking disgusting.

Posted by socks on 08-20-2005 03:29 PM:

Amen

Heres what I reckon i spend on cars in a year

£160 p/y car tax
£30 MOT
£3-400 repairs/services
£20 p/w petrol
£600 insurance

= £2750

= $4 953.025 US$

Just to drive the feccing thing.

I dont even drive that much considering i spend £230 a month on commuter rail ($5000 a year).

And lets not get into the cost of the actual car. A shitty ford focus costs $18 011.

Posted by Mystic Slippers on 08-20-2005 03:44 PM:

...you forgot to mention the stealth taxes.

Posted by ZootedLooter on 08-20-2005 04:04 PM:

its all still bullshit....no matter what anyone thinks about us complaining yanks....and you can all suck my prick....it is our fault....when we had the gas crisis in the 70s companies started experimenting with a mixture of alcohal and gasoline...alcohal comes from wheat which we burn and pay farmers not to grow because of abundance of crop....lobbyists for the oil companies stopped production because of market collapses from the oil companies losing profits...if we perfected it sithin 10 years we would be relying on these mid east cocksuckers less and they wouldnt have the power or the funding for all the shit they are doing anymore.....

sorry guys but we did fuck up....but blame it on the rich not the little guys

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Posted by Dwaggy on 08-20-2005 04:13 PM:

SOCKS!!!! YOUR AVATAR IS AWESOME!!!

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Posted by ron989 on 08-20-2005 09:13 PM:

personally i'd rather US oil companies own all the oil rather then middle eastern companies who would no doubt fuck us over (worse then it is).

Posted by manal on 08-20-2005 09:59 PM:

both me and my dad drive a 2001 crown victoria. and my car is a 93 sho. so we get pretty good gass miolage. it takes about 40 bucks to fill my tank and same for his (( i think we both have 25 gallon tanks))

went to st louis last night to see my grandma. plus gass was 2.59 and 2.63 for reguler.

in the past plus always used to be more pricy. what happened? its a higher octane.

Posted by nosey on 08-21-2005 04:14 AM:

I just paid $1.36(AUD) per litre!

I'll do the math for you...
1 Gallon = 3.7843 Litres
1 Gallon =$5.15c !!!!!

Does anyone payt any more than that?

If so, then I feel damn sorry for you!!!

Posted by nosey on 08-21-2005 04:22 AM:

I just paid $1.36(AUD) per litre!

I'll do the math for you...
1 Gallon = 3.7843 Litres ...so we pay $5.15c per gallon !!!!!

Does anyone payt any more than that?

If so, then I feel damn sorry for you!!!

Posted by irnager on 08-21-2005 08:50 AM:

we can all move to Iraq... it's 5 cents a gallon there...

or better yet the US can invade Venezuela, SA and overthrow their pseudo Communist party and start shipping the good stuff here...

there was a news report on tv regarding how Walmart faced profit loss because their consumers *coughtrailerhickscough* have to use more of their income with rising gas costs. They're also preparing to harden laws on gas & go-ers across the states. The gov don't want to help the economy but they'll be damned if someone refuses to line their pockets!

Posted by socks on 08-21-2005 06:48 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Dwaggy
SOCKS!!!! YOUR AVATAR IS AWESOME!!!

Shn's pointing to "where my sock?" was my inspiration

Posted by irnager on 08-24-2005 01:03 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by irnager
or better yet the US can invade Venezuela, SA and overthrow their pseudo Communist party and start shipping the good stuff here...

Pat Robertson visits vcdq.

Posted by TinyDick on 08-24-2005 07:36 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by irnager
Pat Robertson visits vcdq.

isn't that the guy who got caught doing 30 oxycotton a day
they let him off because he was taking medication hahahaha so its ok as long as its a drug aproved by the fda but its not alright if it comes off a street corner or canada hahahahaha
i think it was him
might of been some other republican bitch riding bushs dick

edit
it was Rush Limbaugh

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Posted by The CandyMan on 08-25-2005 02:02 AM:

Jesus, up to $2.59 today and past few days. And now people are killing for the shit:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=45906

For $52.05. And the still haven't found the person that did it.

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Posted by TheScribe on 08-25-2005 02:31 AM:

I don't drive, but I find it getting more and more annoying about people bitching about gas prices. As previously stated, it's not that bad if you count inflation. However, these dumb ass americans driving this huge ass escalades turning up the A/C all the way isn't fuckin helping. I see people with gigantic cars bitching all the time, and it doesn't make any sense. Americans have sucked up all the gas. And before you say I'm a racist fuck, I'm an American, and when I get my car, it's a gas guzzler. And before you start complainin about it being 90 degrees(farenheit) Think about me, I'm in Arizona, the average during the afternoon is about 115, I could care less about turning the a/c on because I'm not going to waste my money on gas and drive the prices up further.

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Posted by TinyDick on 08-25-2005 05:08 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by TheScribe
However, these dumb ass americans driving this huge ass escalades turning up the A/C all the way isn't fuckin helping. I see people with gigantic cars bitching all the time, and it doesn't make any sense. Americans have sucked up all the gas. And before you say I'm a racist fuck, I'm an American, and when I get my car, it's a gas guzzler. And before you start complainin about it being 90 degrees(farenheit) Think about me, I'm in Arizona, the average during the afternoon is about 115, I could care less about turning the a/c on because I'm not going to waste my money on gas and drive the prices up further.

well said. all that shit true
its high usage that drives prices up

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Posted by ron989 on 08-25-2005 07:32 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by TheScribe
I don't drive, but I find it getting more and more annoying about people bitching about gas prices. As previously stated, it's not that bad if you count inflation. However, these dumb ass americans driving this huge ass escalades turning up the A/C all the way isn't fuckin helping. I see people with gigantic cars bitching all the time, and it doesn't make any sense. Americans have sucked up all the gas. And before you say I'm a racist fuck, I'm an American, and when I get my car, it's a gas guzzler. And before you start complainin about it being 90 degrees(farenheit) Think about me, I'm in Arizona, the average during the afternoon is about 115, I could care less about turning the a/c on because I'm not going to waste my money on gas and drive the prices up further.

So in essence what you're saying is you blame idiots like yourself for high gas prices.

Posted by Nikeus on 08-25-2005 08:07 AM:

So what you guys are saying is you don’t drive and don’t pay for fuel so you're not going to bitch about it and are pissed about everyone who pays for it moaning, great stuff fuck nuts. I’m going to start moaning about people who don’t drive cars moaning about people who do.... it would make as much sense, some of us have jobs to get to where we cant walk and carry equipment.

Why the fuck have you come into this thread? Is it because you can’t drive and have the hand to eye co-ordination of a goat on crack and clicked this thread by mistake?
Or are just eco warriors on a mission to convert us all to not using our cars without understanding the irony that there are plenty of pollutants made from the construction of the PC you are using or the fact that the electricity you are using is more than likely coming from a fossil fuel...

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Posted by TinyDick on 08-25-2005 09:05 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by ron989
So in essence what you're saying is you blame idiots like yourself for high gas prices.

i didnt get that part neither but he said high usage drives price up which is true

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Posted by KanaDien on 08-25-2005 09:07 AM:

jeees talk about gas .... i payed 40 bux yesterday to fill up the tank....(that will last me 3 or 4 days) at 93.5 cents (toronto)... all last week and the week before it was like 103.3/l ....

and for the guy who was complaining about insurance... i'm paying $376 a month for third party

Posted by The CandyMan on 08-25-2005 01:38 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by TheScribe
. . . turning up the A/C all the way isn't fuckin helping. I could care less about turning the a/c on because I'm not going to waste my money on gas and drive the prices up further.

Well, I have no choice. Either I use the a/c in my van (front and back) or end up losing $1000s in products due to them melting. Chocolate has a tendancy to do that.

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Posted by ThugNetwork on 08-25-2005 04:28 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by TinyDick
isn't that the guy who got caught doing 30 oxycotton a day
they let him off because he was taking medication hahahaha so its ok as long as its a drug aproved by the fda but its not alright if it comes off a street corner or canada hahahahaha
i think it was him
might of been some other republican bitch riding bushs dick

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it was Rush Limbaugh

bill maher has a great skit about him in his "I'm Swiss" special on HBO:

"30 oxycontin a day! 30 a DAY! Do you know how high that is?! I don't... And I've been pretty high!"

i love bill.

quote:
Originall posted by The Candy Man
Jesus, up to $2.59 today and past few days. And now people are killing for the shit:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=45906

For $52.05. And the still haven't found the person that did it.

just wait until you visit chicago for some reason.

$3.01 for the cheap stuff.

Posted by TinyDick on 08-25-2005 06:44 PM:

i know i saw the show hahahah
i watch real time with bill maher on hbo friday nights

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Posted by The CandyMan on 09-01-2005 05:43 PM:

Jesus H. Christ on a skateboard, gas prices reached $3.09 here yesterday. I have to raise my prices starting today, no choice. Not when I'm paying $70 to fill my tank a fucking day.

Fucking gas companies can choke on it.

Katrina has totally effected everyone in the US.

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Posted by Dwaggy on 09-01-2005 05:46 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Katrina has totally effected everyone in the World

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Posted by The CandyMan on 09-01-2005 06:59 PM:

^^^^^^^

Good point, though more indirectly. It's really hurting, and the devastion in New Orleans is really hard to watch. I feel for those people.

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Posted by Dwaggy on 09-01-2005 07:33 PM:

I thought this thread was about gas prices!

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Posted by ron989 on 09-01-2005 09:10 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Katrina has totally effected everyone in the World

yup. $1.34 a liter here now.

So since a US gallon is 3.8 liters, multiply $1.34 by 3.8 that gives us $5.09 Canadian per gallon, which is $4.30 American for a gallon of good ol' Canadian gas.

we win ! fuck.

Posted by MarkMathers on 09-01-2005 09:31 PM:

just north of me, in georgia $6.00,

Posted by Rezneck on 09-01-2005 10:25 PM:

The cost of 91-octane petrol just went over the $1.50 mark today here in New Zealand.

Posted by DethStar on 09-01-2005 10:37 PM:

ThugNetwork, I feel what you're goin' through.. I've got family out there. But, I'm in Philly .. 3.11 at the station right across the street.. I have a 28 gallon tank on my truck.. now it get okay mileage at 23mpg.. and I don't drive it to be stylish, but the way I live, I've gotta have something capable of hauling my shit around, but yea.. the next time I've gotta fill up, I'm gonna be look in the range of $90.. this is freakin' terrible.

Posted by DethStar on 09-02-2005 12:18 AM:

Oh, no, I seriously conceed that the UK has it far worse than the US, but it's just not something I anywhere near planned for. I was paying 1.46 at the begining of the summer.

The thing that really pisses me off is that New Orleans is the fourth largest port in the US.. isn't one of the primary functions of the DoHS to prepare for disasters at such an area? I mean, be it a terrorist attack or natural disaster, there still should have been some degree of preparation seeing as we've cut funding for every other department and group in the government to "prepare for the worst". This is an ultimate and utter failure on the U.S. Government's part, thus far. I seriously hope they can prove me wrong.

Posted by scottymac on 09-02-2005 12:30 AM:

$1.19CDN/liter

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Posted by Fionn McCool on 09-02-2005 12:50 AM:

Petrol is €1.079 per litre here in Ireland. I know an area manager for a major oil company here who says that in the next 6 to 12 months or less price will be the least of our worries as there is going to be a shortage worldwide and it will be rationed out to petrol stations.

Posted by scottymac on 09-02-2005 02:13 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Fionn Mcool
Petrol is €1.079 per litre here in Ireland. I know an area manager for a major oil company here who says that in the next 6 to 12 months or less price will be off the fucking scale as there is going to be a major fucking price gouge. Not because of any sort of shortage, just 'cause we fucking feel like it

Fixed.

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Posted by The CandyMan on 09-02-2005 02:47 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Avenue_1
That is very cheap to fill a truck..ffs will u yanks stop whining about the fuel prices. Your expensive fuel now is still cheaper than ours.

Yeah, but what you don't seem to understand, and I don't think many americans are catching on yet, is that the price of EVERYTHING is going or will go up!! Hell, the local McDonald's restuarants just raisied their prices. So not only are we all paying more for gas, now we'll be paying more for food, clothes, housewares, etc. Not to mention that even the cost of maintanence on our cars, to get better gas mileage, will more likely increase! The reason is that not only has gas increased, but diesel as well. And 80 percent of our goods are shipped here in the states OTR. So the truckers pay more for diesel (I saw it yesterday between $2.89 and $3.19 here), which means they increase their shipping costs to the distributors who in turn increase their costs to the manufacturers who in turn increase their costs of their goods. How do I know? Because it's happening to me!!!! My main supplier just called 2 days ago to inform me that my next shippments will include a extra surcharge for shipping thanks to the fuel prices. And the price of the products I buy from them will more than likely increases, as it costing them more to produce, because of fuel prices.

So yes, we are paying less than some parts of the world though not all. But we're feeling it much worse.

Oh, and can you say Recession?

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Posted by socks on 09-02-2005 04:36 PM:

I've held back as long as possible!

I cant stand the whinging anymore. I dont think there is much you can list which we dont pay more for. You are still only paying 80cents a litre for fuel which converted is 44pence here. We're paying $7+ dollars a gallon here.

If McDonalds costs more, go less often and buy some real food instead.

quote:
But we're feeling it much worse.

Hmm, you just may have to become like the rest of us and think about what we buy first. We ALL feel the pinch of taxes, price hikes etc but thats just life.

Posted by Mystic Slippers on 09-02-2005 04:38 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by socks
I've held back as long as possible!

I cant stand the whinging anymore. I dont think there is much you can list which we dont pay more for. You are still only paying 80cents a litre for fuel which converted is 44pence here. We're paying $7+ dollars a gallon here.

If McDonalds costs more, go less often and buy some real food instead.

Hmm, you just may have to become like the rest of us and think about what we buy first. We ALL feel the pinch of taxes, price hikes etc but thats just life.

Well said that man.

Posted by Crazy_Jay on 09-02-2005 04:40 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Oh, and can you say Recession?

Dear God if I hear one more person say Recession im going to fucking scream! fucking fuel people thats all that godamn state is good for nothing else except for a bunch of wild ::EDIT:: running around looting killing each other acting like total fuck heads. Now listen, if you alow the Gas prices to affect you then go ahead alow a RECESSION ::SCREAM:: To happen! Blows my fucking mind that everytime something really bad happens and in my opinion that place needed to be cleaned anyways, everyone gets in a tif over shit. Just go on with your lives do what you do and shit will work out in the end. I am still buying a House on tuesday does the big bad gas prices scare me fuck no part of life fucking grow up people!

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Posted by scottymac on 09-02-2005 06:39 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
...the price of EVERYTHING is going or will go up!!

Exactly, I'm not bitching about the actual Price of Gas, just the fact that it now costs 30% more than it did 2 months ago, no matter what the original cost was. And this 30% increase will drive up every other cost too.

Doesn't matter who pays more, just the fact that we're now all paying exponentially more. Gasoline is just like the diamond market, held by a close few and charged waaaaaaaaaaay more than it's acually worth.

Sucketh.

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Posted by The CandyMan on 09-02-2005 06:50 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by socks
If McDonalds costs more, go less often and buy some real food instead.

It was an example. You can't be that stupid. I said everything was going up. So that would include "real food". Jesus.

quote:
Originally posted by socks
Hmm, you just may have to become like the rest of us and think about what we buy first. We ALL feel the pinch of taxes, price hikes etc but thats just life.

No, what is happening to us is not "just life". It's a serious situation that will have a huge impact on our economy for the forseeable future. Take an economics class sometime when your old enough to go to high school.

Good luck crazy_jay. That new house will cost you more a month as our electric, gas, and other utilities go up in price. And yes recession, as in people spend less becuase everything will cost more.

Recession,Recession,Recession,Recession!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted by scottymac on 09-03-2005 07:24 PM:

Pretty much says it all

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Posted by Lord_Gandalf on 09-03-2005 07:32 PM:

My town was $1.38CAD/litre yesterday. It's extremely steep, but just be fortunate that's your only "disaster" to worry about - Things could be much worse then bitching about gas prices.

Posted by cunningstunt on 09-04-2005 04:53 PM:

Lots of whining, if you can't afford gas you should have studied harder in school so you would have a better job and more money.

Petrol is much more expensive in the U.K so you can't moan shit, unless you actually believe that Americans have a god given right to have a better deal than anyone else in the world then you had better just start getting used to it.

It seriously doesn't help the situation when the cars driven in U.S.A have engines that would put a combine harvester to shame, try something more economical, get a better job or shut the fuck up

Posted by Fionn McCool on 09-04-2005 06:44 PM:

Listen Kid, if the whinging bothers you so much, don't read the thread, its that simple K. Here’s a hint for you, if the title of the thread reads GAS PRICES, there’s a strong chance your gonna get people complaining about......guess what ? ........FUCKING GAS PRICES.

Posted by TinyDick on 09-05-2005 01:08 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by cunningstunt
Lots of whining, if you can't afford gas you should have studied harder in school so you would have a better job and more money.

if it was only that simple
that some ignorant shit to say
u do realize theres people who cant even afford high school especially these days even thou its free
not to mention that high school education doesnt even get people ready for college or higher education caz the education people get in high school is at an elementry school level

the govt doesnt give a fuck caz they know that the poor are the only ones going to get public education and nobody gives a fuck about u if ur poor in the US

the only thing the govt gives a fuck about is teaching kids intelligent design over evolution

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Posted by Red_Tides99 on 09-05-2005 08:43 AM:

What those Brits and other Euro-peein's aren't admitting to is that THEIR goverment Taxes the FUCK out of their fuel to raise the costs to what they pay now. Remove all those taxes and they are pretty much on par with what we are at here.

Not to mention that their Countries are around the size of one of our average states, they get clean public transportation to anywhere important and that companies in Europe who rely on fuel as a part of their business (delivery, hauling, taxis) get tax breaks on their fuel consumption. What I drive in a day for work would allow most Englanders to do several laps around their country.

Oh, and if you are living in the Metro Atlanta area, good luck on find a station that even HAS gas to sell, don't believe the press, nearly 4 out of every 5 gas-stations I passed by over the weekend didn't have shit to sell. And until they can get that mess along the Gulf cleaned up, this will continue here in the south. Fuck.

And if you want cheap gas, goto Russia, I did the math with an online friend and they are around a buck fitty for a gallon of fuel.

Posted by BoBo the Fool on 09-05-2005 10:10 AM:

I'm lovin' this.... i just bought my first car at the beginning of the summer.... good timing eh?

Posted by Fionn McCool on 09-05-2005 11:24 AM:

The whole European and Brit v American thing is tiresome and boring. Grow up kids, fuel prices affect the whole world, not just where you live.

quote:
Originally posted by Avenue_1

a buck fitty? stop listening to rap music u twat.

Posted by cunningstunt on 09-05-2005 07:51 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by cunningstunt
get a better job or shut the fuck up

For a normal hard working citizen of any country fuel is a necessity, the price of it is cheap at twice the price. I live in London, I buy the most expensive fuel on the planet, it still doesn't make anywhere near as much of a dent as the mortgage payments. If you can't afford it, don't fucking buy it. Stop getting BMW's and Merc's on finance, no one actually believes you are rich coz of the car you drive so stop being plastic gangster. People trying to live large on minimum wage are always going to run short on the necessities of life, don't do it if you can't afford it.

Posted by BoBo the Fool on 09-05-2005 08:35 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by cunningstunt
don't do it if you can't afford it.

The point of bitching about rising gas prices is that, at least in my case, i used to be able to afford it, and now that i've invested all this time and money into a car, am i just going to let is sit in the garage and go back to bussing?

Posted by Red_Tides99 on 09-05-2005 10:15 PM:

quote:
I don't think it was mentioned because even a fuckin child knows that..

Sure they do..
I was under the impression it was a national secret just to give bog-trotting limeys a reason to feel superior to us Godless yanks.

quote:
a buck fitty? stop listening to rap music u twat.

Are you done now child, I mean your last statement told me you were such since you, even a child, knows everything?
If all you can do is try to imply I listen to such abhorrent music in order to avoid intelligent discourse, then well done my friend. I posted in such a way as a jest. You posted your reply just to be an asshole.

Posted by dash on 09-05-2005 11:39 PM:

gas prices

Gas here in New Brunswick canada 129.9 some places 139.9 a litre damn

Posted by smurphster on 09-13-2005 01:33 PM:

So..... Gordon Brown is playing pass the buck. He wants the Petrol Prices down but isnt willing to lower the tax, He wants the Oil companies to reduce the price of the crude oil (so they are making less £), put more money into research (so they are making less £), set up a fund for poor contries (so they are making less £) and still keep taxes at about 50p per litre.

Is it just me, or does Gordon Brown bear a striking resemblence to Cancer-man out of X-files?

Is Gordon Brown a Politician or a dodgy-looking money-grabbing actor? You decide!!!

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Posted by Dwaggy on 09-13-2005 01:46 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by smurphster
Is it just me, [...]

Yes.

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Posted by Neversoft on 09-14-2005 12:01 PM:

Don't even mention Gordon Brown!! It pains me to think that at some point in the future, Tony "Blegh" will hand-off to that money grabbing shit and then we'll really be fucked!

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Posted by Linnets on 06-18-2008 11:58 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Neversoft
Don't even mention Gordon Brown!! It pains me to think that at some point in the future, Tony "Blegh" will hand-off to that money grabbing shit and then we'll really be fucked!

Posted by Neversoft on 06-19-2008 10:21 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Neversoft
Don't even mention Gordon Brown!! It pains me to think that at some point in the future, Tony "Blegh" will hand-off to that money grabbing shit and then we'll really be fucked!

Fuck me, I'm like, Nostradamus.

Posted by Linnets on 06-19-2008 11:50 AM:

To be fair you weren't the only with magical future seeing glasses.

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Oh, and can you say Recession?

And by the way if Nostradamus was a blonde haired, blue eyed, big titted Swede then I'll be first in line to fuck you.

Posted by Neversoft on 06-19-2008 06:12 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Linnets
To be fair you weren't the only with magical future seeing glasses.

And by the way if Nostradamus was a blonde haired, blue eyed, big titted Swede then I'll be first in line to fuck you.

I'm not from Sweden but I can talk like the Chef off the Muppet Show if that helps.

"Fuck me bork bork"

*bends over*

Posted by Pickles on 06-24-2008 05:49 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
...So the truckers pay more for diesel (I saw it yesterday between $2.89 and $3.19 here)...

It's now $5 per gallon here for diesel.

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
So yes, we are paying less than some parts of the world though not all. But we're feeling it much worse.

Just like 1980 - 1984. It sucked then and it sucks now.

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
Oh, and can you say Recession?

Just wait guys. It will get a hell of a lot worse. Sure feels like the reagan era all over but with a retarded president.

National average for a GL of gas is $4. ... $4.10 cheap stuff, $4.20 meduim, & $4.30 for supreme here right now.

Wait another week when CM's (07/04/67 Old Bitch.. A year older than me anyway.

) b-day comes around. Watch it jump $0.15 or so a gallon ( I will truly be shocked if it doesn't ). Just in time for the holiday.

Posted by VinnyMac73 on 06-27-2008 10:36 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Pickles
It's now $5 per gallon here for diesel.

could be worse. when you work it out in dollars it's $13.10 per gallon for diesel in the UK

Posted by Rezneck on 06-29-2008 09:44 PM:

$2.11 per litre here in New Zealand.

Posted by Avenue_1 on 06-29-2008 10:01 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by VinnyMac73
could be worse. when you work it out in dollars it's $13.10 per gallon for diesel in the UK

Correct. SO STOP FUCKIN WHINING YOU FUCKIN YANKS.

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Posted by ZootedLooter on 06-29-2008 11:52 PM:

i think the biggest bitch we have is the rate of increase(over 4x in about a year)....we are already on modest incomes thanx to the cost of living hikes in the last decade....this last push sends us over budget no matter how much you tighten your belt....

i barely ever drive....what used to cost me 20 bux a month now shot to almost 90 with no let up in sight...this also drove up the cost of EVERYTHING.... so add it all together and the fact remains that we are getting poorer at a pace never seen before

so i know you pricks have always had high gas prices....and im sure when it rose to those prices your parents cried like little girls too...so shut the fuck up when its our turn to bitch

Posted by Neversoft on 06-30-2008 12:46 AM:

Also, in defence of those whining American pricks... Presumably the size of your illustrious nation and the distances between towns means you drive a hell of a lot further on average than UK peeps*

*Don't quote me on this, I made it up but it seems to make sense

Posted by The CandyMan on 06-30-2008 05:13 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by Neversoft
Also, in defence of those whining American pricks... Presumably the size of your illustrious nation and the distances between towns means you drive a hell of a lot further on average than UK peeps

Gee, how long did it take you to figure this out?

If I drove a 145 miles (233 km) in any one direction from say London, where exactly would that put me and how much of England/Great Britain could I cover? Yet that same distance east from my hometown puts me only two states over in Pennsylvania (where I pick up my products for fund raising twice a month) leaving approximately 45 other states left (not counting Hawaii or Alaska of course) Just to give a better reference, Ohio is about half the size of Great Britain. (approx. 40,000 square miles vs approx. 80,000 square miles)

Think about the distance products have to travel from the East Coast, or even further still, from the West Coast to the Midwest (Ohio) and the fuel cost for those deliveries (diesel here is selling at $4.61 a gallon) And you brits wonder why we're bitching.

You guys are getting screwed because of the outrageous taxing by your illustrious government. We're getting screwed simple because a bunch of tree-hugging, caribou fucking dumbasses with too much time and money have convinced most liberals in congress that drilling will hurt our environment. Check out the pic below of the t-shirt I'll be receiving next week in the mail:

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Posted by Neversoft on 06-30-2008 11:41 AM:

quote:
Originally posted by The CandyMan
[B]Gee, how long did it take you to figure this out?

If I drove a 145 miles (233 km) in any one direction from say London, where exactly would that put me and how much of England/Great Britain could I cover?

I was agreeing with you, you Dingleberry! For people such as yourself it's probably a massive financial burden but the reason why I was talking averages is because I suspect there's just as many people complaining about gas prices in the US but still use the car to make a 1 mile trip to the shops - they're the ones who should cut their yap because your fuel is still way cheaper.

In answer to your other question... head east, I'll crack open a beer as you plunge into the sea. Heading north would probably get you fisted - THARR BE NEVERSOFTS!

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