I Can't Afford My Gasoline

[H2005]

http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/178/index.php

[H2005]

http://toccionline.kizash.com/films/1001/178/index.php

[Hart1]

lol. Someone asked me at the pump last night "How many gallons do I get to the mile?" Good one.....

Last weekend, my wife demanded that I take her "someplace expensive." So I took her to Chevron....

[Mr. Jeep]

ROTFLMAO!!!!! I asked my husband if he ever looks at the pump when he fills up. He said "Are you kidding? I might die of a heart attack at an early age!"

[CBR_Raven]

LOL...that's a funny song however, those little hybrids still seem queer to me. right now, i can still afford my gas. until it gets to $5.00 per gallon then i'll start complaining. i'm sure it will get there sooner or later but remember, hummer drivers won't be the only ones suffering. this will effect even the small car drivers because earlier they only had to put like $20 to $30 in the tank, now they have to put $40 to $50 in the tank.

[HummerNewbie]

Very funny video. I personally think I would sit at home more often before I would give up driving a Hummer because of gas prices. FWIW, I am being told it should start coming down soon based on reserves.

[h2co-pilot]

Just a little...Freaking Liberal!!

Kinda cute though.

[Goalkeeper]

That's a funny little jingle...

Im fortunate in that I drive a work car mostly everyday.

However, after a recent knee surgery, I've been driving my H2 everyday and for the 1st time, I can really feel the gas pains (no pun intended).

3 fill ups in 10 days = $225 - and that's with one pump stopping at $75.

[VTSTOMPER]

LOL! nice vid!

I am pretty stoked I live less than .5 miles from work!

[alldunn]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by VTSTOMPER:
LOL! nice vid!

I am pretty stoked I live less than .5 miles from work! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I will be there very soon. Currently, I drive 30 miles to and from work each day, but am building a house that is about 3 minutes from work. I figured it would almost pay me to live closer to work, plus I'm tired of all the moron drivers I have to put up with each day.

[Mr. Jeep]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by alldunn:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by VTSTOMPER:
LOL! nice vid!

I am pretty stoked I live less than .5 miles from work! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I will be there very soon. Currently, I drive 30 miles to and from work each day, but am building a house that is about 3 minutes from work. I figured it would almost pay me to live closer to work, plus I'm tired of all the moron drivers I have to put up with each day. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

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Scott works at home! However, he tends to go romping alot and that's what eats up the gas. Maybe I should tell him to turn in to one of those city folk, Hummer clean people that tends to ask when buying the Hummer "Does it have to come in all wheel drive?". Naaaaahhhhhh!

[mr.jeepster]

That was a funny vid - but the liberal shiite was a bit much. Actually, the price of gas is NOT reflective of what it "costs." Think about it - milk a cow, treat it, carton it, truck it to the store - $3.00/gallon. Find an oil reserve miles underground, drill for it, extract it, refine it, ship it across an ocean or two, meet California's silly AQMD requirements, put it in a truck, haul it to a station, put it back in the ground, pump it out and into your tank - LESS than $3.00/gallon.

Or maybe we should get our Hummers to run on water! Fabulous! I just bought a 24 ounce bottle on the way home - it cost me $1.19...FOR 24 OUNCES!!!

Sure the oil companies are making a profit. I just don't understand when or why "profit" became obscene.

I wish gas were still 29 cents a gallon. And I wish I were 16 again. But you know what they say - wish in one hand and shiite in the other and see which one fills up faster..........

Scott
'03H2 Adv. Pkg. w/10"DVD

[usetosellhummer]

It has been low for a long time with respect to other things we need every day. i don't like it but I will adjust spending.

[Big Z]

The same thing is REPEATED every year!

1.) price of fuel =$0$.$$
2.) price is increased
3.) people Bitch!
4.) Price goes up some more! (Vacation season ETC.)
5.) People bitch more!
6.) Price is reduced a few cents! People are Happy!
The price is still a few cents HIGHER, than when the INCREASE started, People STILL Happy price went down, but still paying MORE!--EVERY YEAR!

Here's Our Signs!

[mbdougl]

We are being screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security...8oilprofit.htm

[mr.jeepster]

[quote]Originally posted by mbdougl:
We are being screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MB,
If you feel you are being screwed, and that we are all being screwed, there IS a solution. Just launch a few multi-billion dollar satellites into space to scour the surface of the earth for some possible oil reserves. Then set up a multi-billion dollar program to soil test, core-drill, etc. to determine which ones merit an actual drilling. Then move multi-billion dollar equipment to that location and pay the local governments multiple billions of dollars for permission to drill. Then set about drilling until you find a good well or two. Suck the stuff up, barrel it, buy a couple of multi-million dollar tankers, and bring it home. Spend just a few million more for a refinery and make your own gasoline! Now hire tankers and send some over to my place...I'll pay just 89 cents a gallon and we'll all be happy!

Please?

[DRTYFN]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by desertfox:
[quote]Originally posted by mbdougl:
We are being screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MB,
If you feel you are being screwed, and that we are all being screwed, there IS a solution. Just launch a few multi-billion dollar satellites into space to scour the surface of the earth for some possible oil reserves. Then set up a multi-billion dollar program to soil test, core-drill, etc. to determine which ones merit an actual drilling. Then move multi-billion dollar equipment to that location and pay the local governments multiple billions of dollars for permission to drill. Then set about drilling until you find a good well or two. Suck the stuff up, barrel it, buy a couple of multi-million dollar tankers, and bring it home. Spend just a few million more for a refinery and make your own gasoline! Now hire tankers and send some over to my place...I'll pay just 89 cents a gallon and we'll all be happy!

Please? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Don't be a boob. The many times over paid for infra-structure is there. And you know full well that there's absolutely NO reason for this blatant gouging. Does Enron energy price fixing scandal ring any bells? Why is it that no one ever questions the oil companies on this crap?

[DennisAJC]

They know where the oil is. The problem is getting to it with todays technology.

In some cases, the cost of extracting is more than the worth. We just have to wait until technology catches up to demands.

Also it depends on where you live. British Columbia, Northwest Territorries have some of the biggest oil caches in the world. But we can't touch it because the land is protected by enviromental laws that were put in place decades before.

Saudi Arabia use to have some of the most dense lush forests in the middle east. Now it's mostly desert. They didn't have land management or enviromental impact concerns in mind at the time. They got greedy, now they must pay the price.

I'm starting to sound like an enviro wacho?

[Klaus]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by DennisAJC:
They know where the oil is. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

China buys Canadian oil company for $5 billion
CTV.ca News Staff

China's biggest state-owned oil company has plunked down more than $5 billion to buy Calgary-based oil company PetroKazakhstan.

CNPC International made the purchase on Monday. That company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corp., one of the world's 10 biggest oil companies.

"I understand that so far this year, it would be the second-largest transaction of oil and gas in the world," said Bernard F. Isautier, PetroKazakhstan's CEO.

CNPCI out-bid an Indian company, ONGC-Mittal. That firm had offered $4.33 billion for PetroKazakhstan.

While headquartered in Calgary, PetroKazakhstan operates solely in the Central Asian country of Kazakhstan, which is to the south of Russia and north of places like Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan.

Experts predict Kazakhstan will become one of the world's top oil producers over the next two decades. According to the CIA World Factbook, the estimated current proved reserves are 26 billion barrels. Production was estimated in 2004 to be 1.2 million barrels per day.

PetroKazakhstan is the third-largest oil producer in that country.

Purchasing PetroKazakhstan is part of a pattern by China.

As the economy of world's most populous country continues to expand, it is engaged in a relentless search for resources to fuel the boom.

That puts it in competition with other oil-hungry nations like India and the United States.

Some oil producers are starting to seek China's business. For example, Venezuela, which has strained relations with the United States, has just had its state oil company open an office in China.

"China's a big customer, and they're hungry for oil," said University of Calgary business professor Bob Schulz.

He characterized the PetroKazakhstan purchase by saying, "this is just the start."

For example, experts say the oil reserves locked in Alberta's oil sands are the world's second-largest in size, with only Saudi Arabia's proven reserves topping them.

"China's interested in buying natural resources to help their economy grow," Schulz said. "The question is what is Canada going to allow or permit China to buy in Canada."

He added: "It would be a good time to start that question now, before something happens."

The Council of Canadians agrees with that view.

"Every decision in regards to oil and gas is being made piece by, and it's basically selling off what we have righ now under control -- which we cannot get back," said Guy Caron, a spokesman for the group.

There are foreign ownership restrictions in the telecom and airline industries, but virtually none for the oil and gas business. However, industry experts say takeovers can be made subject to a government review.

In the United States, some lawmakers saw a Chinese bid for the oil company Unocal as a national security threat.

CNOOC, the Chinese company making the bid, withdrew it earlier this month after what it called "unprecedented political opposition."

If national control is the issue, one transaction that largely went below the radar was the purchase of Terasen Inc. (formerly B.C. Gas), which has holdings in the oil sands, by a Texas-based company.

Very little concern was expressed about that purchase.

Although China currently holds only minor stakes in the Alberta oil sands, the belief is they want more.

The United States also has its eye on the oil sands as a future source of oil.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to visit Alberta next month. A tour of the oil sands is believed to be on his agenda.

With a report from CTV's Sarah Galashan

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/112...20136063/?hub=Canada

[mr.jeepster]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">

Don't be a boob. The many times over paid for infra-structure is there. And you know full well that there's absolutely NO reason for this blatant gouging. Does Enron energy price fixing scandal ring any bells? Why is it that no one ever questions the oil companies on this crap? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

Okay, I'll try not to be a boob. But just tell me this - if the oil were YOURS, how much would you sell it for? Do you not like high profit? What kind of business are you in???? And why do you feel you deserve cheap fuel? It's not yours! They will charge what the market will bear. It's called capitalism. Interesting how, in the socialist counties, the price of gas is often twice what we pay.

As for AJC sounding like an environmental wacko, um.....well, yeah. Oil exploration did not turn a tropical rain forest into the Sahara Desert. Where in the hell did THAT idea come from???? By the way, I noticed on an ancient post of yours that you were a Fiero fan. I had a Formula Fiero that was one of my all time favorite cars - until it got run over by a semi...with me in it! Totalled the car - but I had not a scratch!

Anyway, enough rambling. I'm gonna go find a cool trail......