There is a lot of Exxon and and Texaco in my 401 and IRA mutual fund accounts so, thanks guys!

I still drive a Mini and a motorcycle though

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1989-...em220210964736

Amazing.
It's second generation though.

 

I may get mad at gas prices at times, but your right. My mutual funds love the commodity bubble. Remember, oil is up not because of Exxon, Texaco or any other oil company. A weak dollar drives up oil futures, refiners are at capacity. Oil is bid up, not priced up right now.

I to drive a Mini and ride a motorcycle.

 

lol it only costs me 25 dollers to fill up my old fiero i took out the other day lol only an 8 gallon tank in that guy!

10 dollers and my guage reads half tank, i love that car lol


now with the warmer wheather coming i cant whait to take the mini out again

 

Ah the fiero, my first car was an '85 4 banger auto SE. Wasn't particularly fast but it handled like it was on rails. I've owned 4 others since most V-6's. Yep, loved them all!

 

yea this is my ol beast next mod i was tinkering with was installing the gtp pontiac sc 6 cylinder mmmmmmm




crazy thing is im on my knees and the car is still lower than me lol

 

Something to make you people happier about you gas/petrol/fuel prices:

In Germany I pay around 1.43 Euros per Litre.

1 US gallon = 3.78 liter
1 Euro = 1.54 U.S. dollars

That makes the price per gallon in Germany = 8.32 $.

I usually pay around 46 Euros for a full tank, which is just over 80 $.

Ever tried to fuel up in the middle east? Last I checked it was around 9 cents (US) per Litre or 34 cents per gallon...

 

According to the newspeople (talking heads) this morning, gas in Iran is at .40 a gallon. Nice. I think last time I saw prices like that were in '71.

 

Yeah, I paid $3.41/gal. for middle grade the other day and it cost me $41 for a tank.

 

Nice to know we're spending trillions in Iraq, yet are still getting boned by Big Oil over here.

 

$3.28 for Premium $43 for 13 Gallons, Memphis area

 

$3.43 Shell/91 here in the Denver area yesterday, but diesel is pushing $4 I can deal with the gas prices by changing my habits, which I already have, but the soaring cost of diesel is pushing everything else up--food, for example. That's what really hurts everyone regardless of what kind of car they own

 

The worst part is that there is no reason for the price going up since the dollar is worth almost nothing now!

 

Umm - that's *exactly* what happens when a currency is de-valued - things start to cost more. Remember the Mexican Peso in the 80's? Or how about Germany in the 20's? (back when the exchange rate was 4.2 TRILLION Deutschmarks to the dollar!)

I remember being in Turkey and getting 1 million Turkish lira to the dollar. Now *that's* a devalued currency!

 

Where the hell do you live? L.A. cheap gas...$3.71 for super.

 

As I tried to tell my father's gf......while Iraq may be in our top ten suppliers, we get more from Mexico and Canada.....The Middle East is NOT our problem as far as fuel prices go....get over that idea completely...

 

Had my first $50 fill-up with the MINI yesterday. Prices at several gas stations near my office (Menlo Park, CA) are around $3.95 for 91 premium.

 

1 Canada
2 Saudi
3 Venezuala
4 Mexico

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/p...nt/import.html

We are particularly vulnerable to supply disruptions from Mexico as the 2nd largest oil field in the world (Cantarel) is in the gulf and owned by Mexico. Also it has had production declines of 10-20% per year for that last several. Mexico is expected to be an oil Importer within 10 years. Could get worse, as 60% of their nations GDP is in oil.

 

I'd love to do this if public transportation even existed in most of this country. I'd be on a train/bus/etc every day if it were available, but the geography, the closest city major city to mine is over four hours away, and history of cheap gas, leading to highway superstructures instead of mass transit lines, has made this all but impossible anymore.

However, the fact that my MINI, because of high gas prices, has gone UP in value by almost a thousand dollars in the past month, eases my suffering.

 

Higher demand worldwide and stupid policies here at home both drive up gas prices. China and India’s demand is going up quickly and we are refusing to drill new wells or build new refineries here in the US.


Add to that all the boutique fuel blends required in California, and some other states, and it’s no wonder we are paying higher than warranted prices.

The speculative frenzy in the futures market doesn’t help either and the oil companies don’t have much clout there.

 

46+ bucks to fill the clubman yesterday. Ouch!!

 

Only 29 Days 'til Molly comes home!! Looking forward to those $40 Fill-ups!!

 

Math major.

 

That is where I get my numbers from. But to keep it in context, I was speaking in particular about Iraq.

Either way, we get more oil from producers other than the Middle East. We get roughly 60% of our oil from OPEC nations and the other 40% from other sources (and our own production is not in that number). And of the OPEC nations, Venezuala and Ecuador are on our side of the pond, and combined they nearly 40% of the OPEC imports.

I just get tired of people associating the Middle East with all the oil problems of the world. It is almost like the people that do this are trying to maintain a heightened state of angst against that portion of the world.

 

I filled up last week and I currenty pu ton 324 miles since the fillup and the gas guage has only gone down 3 lights.

Ive been driving non aggressively and its paying off.