WTF is up with gas.....2 days ago...$3.09...today..3.49

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AznAnarchy99

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4 for regular and 4.20 for premium popping up all around SoCal now.

CostCo gas lines are huuuge now.
 

PhoKingGuy

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Gonna suck for the economy. Theres a lot less people going out now from what I'm noticing. A good among of people around here commute for work too.

Really, spectrum and fashion island is still full of POS teenagers as of today.
 

Engineer

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Oil over $106 per barrel today. Obama considering releasing oil from the national oil reserve to ease prices. Too much Wall Street money chasing oil trying to turn a quick flip profit. 2007/2008 all over again.....

US will not learn it's lesson in that we need to work harder to get off that shit. If Brazil can do it, why can't we?
 

Fritzo

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Seriously, you guys should be up in arms calling out for someone to be killed. There's no reason for schools in the city to suck that bad and someone must be responsible for it.

Around here all of the schools are roughly the same. One might offer a few special classes that others don't, but that's the only difference. Funding is by district and the city is one district, so every school in the city has roughly equal funding.

Inner city usually = urban blight = high crime = low income families = low tax collection = poor schools.

Suburbs = new development = low crime = high income families = high tax collection = top of the line schools

It's a sad equation but it's true. One of the variables has to change for the end result to change.
 

Fritzo

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Oil over $106 per barrel today. Obama considering releasing oil from the national oil reserve to ease prices. Too much Wall Street money chasing oil trying to turn a quick flip profit. 2007/2008 all over again.....

US will not learn it's lesson in that we need to work harder to get off that shit. If Brazil can do it, why can't we?

Yeah, it really pisses me off too. There is no supply problem- in fact, there could be a glut of oil this summer because OPEC has overcompensated for the "2%" loss from Libya. It's not the middle east that's causing the oil prices to skyrocket, it's a guy in a suit on Wall Street that's trying to pay for his Ferrari.
 

Engineer

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Yeah, it really pisses me off too. There is no supply problem- in fact, there could be a glut of oil this summer because OPEC has overcompensated for the "2%" loss from Libya. It's not the middle east that's causing the oil prices to skyrocket, it's a guy in a suit on Wall Street that's trying to pay for his Ferrari.

Oil now at $107....

Profits...profits...profits.....:whiste:
 

AznAnarchy99

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This is crazy. I drive a Mustang and it drinks too much gas. I have to fill up every 3-4 days.

I was doing the same with my Mitsubishi Eclipse. I sold it and just bought a Civic. I have a car payment now but it is still cheaper than filling up twice a week at $60 a tank. I hope that you aren't running a V8.
 

dfuze

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Yeah, it really pisses me off too. There is no supply problem- in fact, there could be a glut of oil this summer because OPEC has overcompensated for the "2%" loss from Libya. It's not the middle east that's causing the oil prices to skyrocket, it's a guy in a suit on Wall Street that's trying to pay for his Ferraris.
I think at this point it's the His and Her Ferraris that need to be paid for :\
 

Imp

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Yeah, it really pisses me off too. There is no supply problem- in fact, there could be a glut of oil this summer because OPEC has overcompensated for the "2%" loss from Libya. It's not the middle east that's causing the oil prices to skyrocket, it's a guy in a suit on Wall Street that's trying to pay for his Ferrari.

The funny and sad thing is that the bankers are probably raking it in, but the "Joes" are chasing it and when prices come back down, only one of them will be effed.


What oil supply issue? The U.S. barely gets anything from Libya. And Libyans need to pay for their war somehow.
 

ElFenix

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US will not learn it's lesson in that we need to work harder to get off that shit. If Brazil can do it, why can't we?

brazil is perfectly suited to growing sugarcane and we're not?

brazil gets an order of magnitude more out of its sugar ethanol than we get out of our corn ethanol. we're just past breaking even on it, while brazil gets up to 10x ratio of out:in.


we should be buying ethanol from friendly brazil instead of oil from bat-shit venezuela, but iowa has this country by the balls.
 
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masterxfob

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87 octane gas is officially over $4 in my neck of the woods (southern california). doesn't help that i drive a low mpg truck for work :(