OPEC cuts oil shipments.

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OPEC

 

[Hammer]

i saw that. we should double Iraq's output just to piss them off

 

[Demon-Xanth]

I guess this will be the excuse to raise the gas prices that the gas companies never brought back down.

 

[optoman]

Just as gas prices started to go down. Looks like $2 a gallon gas is here to stay.

If you look at the bright side of things, maybe this will get alternative fuel programs more incentive to get going.

 

[Mr.IncrediblyBored]

U.S. light crude rose 88 cents to $28.01 a barrel, while London benchmark Brent crude jumped 98 cents to $26.50 after an initial jump of more than a dollar.

A 3% increase in price per barrel, anybody want to guess how prices at the pump will rise?

 

[conjur]

Guess I'll top off today on the way home at $1.36/gallon.

Gas always goes up on Thursdays anyway.

 

[Ladies Man]

Originally posted by: Hammer
i saw that. we should double Iraq's output just to piss them off

Iraq is part of OPEC

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Just Fvcking great.... It's not like my truck only gets 16MPG anyway. It already cost $38.00 to top off from empty. Sons of B1tches

Oil Prices are Goddamn Extortion!!

 

[fluxquantum]

just figures :frown:

 

[AbsolutDealage]

Originally posted by: JoLLyRoGer
Oil Prices are Goddamn Extortion!!

Have you seen gas prices elsewhere in the world? I'll take my $2.00/gallon and keep my mouth shut.

 

[EyeMWing]

I'll take my $0/gallon and raise you 3 gas guzzling sub-20mpg vehicles. Having an dad with an alcohol blood level instead of a blood alcohol level, and a local liquor store with gas pumps has advantages. Even so, I'm looking into loading an International 3800 diesel engine into the truck. 5MPG on gas ain't cool.

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Ok, so it's Goddamn Extortion World-Wide!!

 

[KGB1]

OPEC cuts oil shipments

Good, maybe this will make my trip to school a lot less frustrating. Commuters driving alone in their cars over the Verrazano bridge causing the local streets flooded with backed up cars and ultimately makes the bus come 15-20 minutes later. :| I left my home at 6:45 to make it to a 9:10 class this morning and I was still late. (mind you it takes 1 hour on a weekend or at 3 am in the morning when there is actually LESS bus and train service)

American's have to do their part not to consume oil(gasoline) needlessly, try to at least care about the environment, and be willing to carpool whenever possible. Not just hop into the car where they work in the city. (Then they complain why they get parking violations..Because there aren't any places to park in the city..unless its in Harlem, but I wouldn't leave my car there )

My 1 hour bus/train ride is prolonged into a 3 hour maze of hopping trains, catching buses and wasting my time as cars pass by feverously while in their dust is rows and rows of buses that missed their arrival time because of them. :|

Sorry part rant.. but its my 2nd time this semester I was late for the class... and the teacher is really hot (asian )

 

[Eli]

WTF?

Gas prices are already almost at the level they were a few months ago when it was bad..

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I'll take my $0/gallon and raise you 3 gas guzzling sub-20mpg vehicles. Having an dad with an alcohol blood level instead of a blood alcohol level, and a local liquor store with gas pumps has advantages. Even so, I'm looking into loading an International 3800 diesel engine into the truck. 5MPG on gas ain't cool.

Huh?

 

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I'll take my $0/gallon and raise you 3 gas guzzling sub-20mpg vehicles. Having an dad with an alcohol blood level instead of a blood alcohol level, and a local liquor store with gas pumps has advantages. Even so, I'm looking into loading an International 3800 diesel engine into the truck. 5MPG on gas ain't cool.

LOL!

Personally I don't care much about gas prices. I made my bed and I'll sleep in it; if I cared I'd ditch the maxima for something cheaper like another sentra. Gas prices can double for all I care. It's ridiculous for people to be driving some of the cars they drive anyway, so it would be a good motivation for alternative energy R&D, and people to drop some of the ridiculously low MPG vehicles they drive now.

 

[EyeMWing]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I'll take my $0/gallon and raise you 3 gas guzzling sub-20mpg vehicles. Having an dad with an alcohol blood level instead of a blood alcohol level, and a local liquor store with gas pumps has advantages. Even so, I'm looking into loading an International 3800 diesel engine into the truck. 5MPG on gas ain't cool.

LOL!

Personally I don't care much about gas prices. I made my bed and I'll sleep in it; if I cared I'd ditch the maxima for something cheaper like another sentra. Gas prices can double for all I care. It's ridiculous for people to be driving some of the cars they drive anyway, so it would be a good motivation for alternative energy R&D, and people to drop some of the ridiculously low MPG vehicles they drive now.

I'm sick of people driving around their 20MPG SUVs with 1 person in them and thereby making moving this family around or cutting down firewood require vehicles 20-30 years old because the only alternatives are underpowered or cost $60,000. I'd love to drive somthing fuel efficient, but it ain't gonna happen until someone figures out that I don't want to pay $60,000 for a diesel engined pickup or van.

 

[fs5]

okay wtf, why was my thread locked?

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I'll take my $0/gallon and raise you 3 gas guzzling sub-20mpg vehicles. Having an dad with an alcohol blood level instead of a blood alcohol level, and a local liquor store with gas pumps has advantages. Even so, I'm looking into loading an International 3800 diesel engine into the truck. 5MPG on gas ain't cool.

LOL!

Personally I don't care much about gas prices. I made my bed and I'll sleep in it; if I cared I'd ditch the maxima for something cheaper like another sentra. Gas prices can double for all I care. It's ridiculous for people to be driving some of the cars they drive anyway, so it would be a good motivation for alternative energy R&D, and people to drop some of the ridiculously low MPG vehicles they drive now.

I'm sick of people driving around their 20MPG SUVs with 1 person in them and thereby making moving this family around or cutting down firewood require vehicles 20-30 years old because the only alternatives are underpowered or cost $60,000. I'd love to drive somthing fuel efficient, but it ain't gonna happen until someone figures out that I don't want to pay $60,000 for a diesel engined pickup or van.

just look at all the v8 sedan's, they get the same mpg. heck even some v6 sedans get that.

 

[KGB1]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
okay wtf, why was my thread locked?

Sorry dude.. I think I Roooooooooned it... Apologies :gift:

( I still stand behind my remarks... seems no bush bashing is allowed in these forums.... :light::Q Patriot act aToT style )

 

[JoLLyRoGer]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
I'll take my $0/gallon and raise you 3 gas guzzling sub-20mpg vehicles. Having an dad with an alcohol blood level instead of a blood alcohol level, and a local liquor store with gas pumps has advantages. Even so, I'm looking into loading an International 3800 diesel engine into the truck. 5MPG on gas ain't cool.

LOL!

Personally I don't care much about gas prices. I made my bed and I'll sleep in it; if I cared I'd ditch the maxima for something cheaper like another sentra. Gas prices can double for all I care. It's ridiculous for people to be driving some of the cars they drive anyway, so it would be a good motivation for alternative energy R&D, and people to drop some of the ridiculously low MPG vehicles they drive now.

I'm sick of people driving around their 20MPG SUVs with 1 person in them and thereby making moving this family around or cutting down firewood require vehicles 20-30 years old because the only alternatives are underpowered or cost $60,000. I'd love to drive somthing fuel efficient, but it ain't gonna happen until someone figures out that I don't want to pay $60,000 for a diesel engined pickup or van.

I Want....

A vehicle that

A: Has 350000 HP/400000 Lbs per Ft2 Torque
B: Gets 60000 MPG
C: Is 30 Feet long, 15 Feet Wide, and 10Feet Tall
D: 6 Wheel Drive
E: Makes NO pollution
F: Hauls 28 People and 17000 lbs cargo in it's 20 foot bed
G: All for under $10,000.00
H: 100% American Made
I: With a 1,000,000,000.00 mile/50 year bumper to bumper factory warranty
J: Cheaper than a small Hyundai to insure

Is that possible please!!!!???

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
okay wtf, why was my thread locked?

Just as I was replying in it, too.


I love it how people b!tch about the price of gas when, adjusted for inflation, it probably should be well above $2/gallon for regular unleaded.

Right now, where I live it's about $1.39/gallon. I remember paying about that much almost 20 years ago!

It goes up...it goes down.

If your monthly budget is that tight that a $20/mo. swing in fuel costs could make or break you, you need to find other ways to lower expenses....or get a better paying (or 2nd) job.


And...to those b!tching about Bush...

From the Dept. of Energy

The United States averaged total gross oil (crude and products) imports of an estimated 11.4 MMBD during 2002, representing around 58% of total U.S. oil demand. Around two-fifths of this oil came from OPEC nations, with Persian Gulf sources accounting for about one-fifth of total U.S. oil imports. Overall, the top suppliers of oil to the United States during 2002 were Canada (1.9 MMBD), Saudi Arabia (1.6 MMBD), Mexico (1.5 MMBD), and Venezuela (1.4 MMBD).

So, at most, 40% of our imported oil, which is less than 60% of the total consumed in the U.S., is from OPEC. If Iraq increases production (and we haven't bought oil from Iraq in years), it just may very well lower prices from OPEC.

 

[Hammer]

Originally posted by: Ladies Man

Originally posted by: Hammer
i saw that. we should double Iraq's output just to piss them off

Iraq is part of OPEC

I know, but I could have sworn that the article I read said that this was excluding Iraq's output.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: KGB

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
okay wtf, why was my thread locked?

Sorry dude.. I think I Roooooooooned it... Apologies :gift:

( I still stand behind my remarks... seems no bush bashing is allowed in these forums.... :light::Q Patriot act aToT style )

oh... bush bashing gets it locked? wow.. I thought it was my rant. it's okay.

 

[fs5]

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: fivespeed5
okay wtf, why was my thread locked?

Just as I was replying in it, too.


I love it how people b!tch about the price of gas when, adjusted for inflation, it probably should be well above $2/gallon for regular unleaded.

Right now, where I live it's about $1.39/gallon. I remember paying about that much almost 20 years ago!

It goes up...it goes down.

If your monthly budget is that tight that a $20/mo. swing in fuel costs could make or break you, you need to find other ways to lower expenses....or get a better paying (or 2nd) job.


And...to those b!tching about Bush...

From the Dept. of Energy

The United States averaged total gross oil (crude and products) imports of an estimated 11.4 MMBD during 2002, representing around 58% of total U.S. oil demand. Around two-fifths of this oil came from OPEC nations, with Persian Gulf sources accounting for about one-fifth of total U.S. oil imports. Overall, the top suppliers of oil to the United States during 2002 were Canada (1.9 MMBD), Saudi Arabia (1.6 MMBD), Mexico (1.5 MMBD), and Venezuela (1.4 MMBD).

So, at most, 40% of our imported oil, which is less than 60% of the total consumed in the U.S., is from OPEC. If Iraq increases production (and we haven't bought oil from Iraq in years), it just may very well lower prices from OPEC.

whoa you pay 1.39 a gallon? where do you live!?