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| jim_hoyland |
 Feb 8 2016, 10:40 AM
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Get that VIN ?  Group: Members Posts: 9,696 Joined: 1-May 03 From: Sunset Beach, CA Member No.: 643 Region Association: Southern California 
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Was wondering why so many cars were at this station in Sunset Beach this am
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| mepstein |
Feb 8 2016, 10:50 AM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,876 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region
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We're getting used to $1.60's. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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| iamchappy |
Feb 8 2016, 10:58 AM
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It all happens so fast! Group: Members Posts: 4,893 Joined: 5-November 03 From: minnetonka, mn Member No.: 1,315 Region Association: Upper MidWest  |
$1.44 this morning
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| Mueller |
Feb 8 2016, 11:01 AM
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914 Freak! Group: Members Posts: 17,155 Joined: 4-January 03 From: Antioch, CA Member No.: 87 Region Association: None
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I'm in Covington, LA right now, $1.42 across the street.
Going to FL* tonight, will see what the prices are there *Disney World! |
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| r_towle |
Feb 8 2016, 11:04 AM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,705 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States
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QUOTE(Mueller @ Feb 8 2016, 12:01 PM)  I'm in Covington, LA right now, $1.42 across the street. Going to FL* tonight, will see what the prices are there *Disney World! gotta be the lowest on the east coast....there are no shipping charges in LA....its a hose connected directly to the refineries. Rich |
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| MJHanna |
Feb 8 2016, 11:13 AM
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Does this 911 make my butt look big? Group: Members Posts: 806 Joined: 23-January 03 From: Lowry Crossing, Texas Member No.: 185 |
QUOTE(r_towle @ Feb 8 2016, 11:04 AM) QUOTE(Mueller @ Feb 8 2016, 12:01 PM) I'm in Covington, LA right now, $1.42 across the street. Going to FL* tonight, will see what the prices are there *Disney World! gotta be the lowest on the east coast....there are no shipping charges in LA....its a hose connected directly to the refineries. Rich My cars run Premium and its running $1.98-1.95 reg is around 1.45 |
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| PlantMan |
Feb 8 2016, 11:31 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 438 Joined: 14-May 14 From: Mission Viejo Member No.: 17,352 Region Association: Southern California |
You all are living the gasoline dream!
Still over $2 in So Cal other than where Jim took the pic. I should drive 20mins to fill-up on cheap gas! |
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| Elliot Cannon |
Feb 8 2016, 11:49 AM
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914 Guru Group: Retired Members Posts: 8,487 Joined: 29-December 06 From: Paso Robles Ca. (Central coast) Member No.: 7,407 Region Association: None
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Enjoy it while it lasts. Because it won't. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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| SirAndy |
Feb 8 2016, 12:03 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 42,205 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
QUOTE(Elliot Cannon @ Feb 8 2016, 09:49 AM) Enjoy it while it lasts. Because it won't. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) My oil stock hopes you're right ... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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| Vysoc |
Feb 8 2016, 12:10 PM
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Vysoc Group: Members Posts: 588 Joined: 27-August 09 From: Young Harris, Georgia Member No.: 10,737 Region Association: South East States |
$1.79 in Southwest Florida most other parts of Florida are 10 cents less.
Vysoc (IMG:style_emoticons/default/flag.gif) |
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| TheCabinetmaker |
Feb 8 2016, 12:21 PM
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I drive my car everyday Group: Members Posts: 8,336 Joined: 8-May 03 From: Tulsa, Ok. Member No.: 666 |
Took this right now while eating lunch.
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| tweet |
Feb 8 2016, 12:26 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 200 Joined: 25-February 13 From: South Florida Member No.: 15,579 Region Association: South East States |
In my county, from south to north the range is $1.77 - $2.29 most places for regular unleaded.
Miami-Dade County, Florida It is more expensive in South Florida than the rest of the state. |
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| Tom_T |
Feb 8 2016, 12:32 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(r_towle @ Feb 8 2016, 09:04 AM) gotta be the lowest on the east coast....there are no shipping charges in LA....its a hose connected directly to the refineries. Rich No Rich, It's actually connected through the cheating oil companies' HQs first, where it goes in cheap, then mysteriously comes out $1+ higher along with claims that CA gas is harder to manufacture/refine, oh the refiner is down for maintenance, etc., etc.! The current scam BS on CA gas prices is nothing new though, cuz I worked for Texaco at their Wilshire Blvd. Western HQ in 72-74 as one of my college part time jobs drawing map trips (remember those free vacation trip map request postcards at the Texaco gas stations?), which was during the first "Oil Crisis". We were all commiserating over the even-odd every other day gas & max. 10 gals per fill-up & gas going from $0.25-0.28/gal to $0.85-1.00 IN A WEEK - when one of the petro-engineers from "upstairs" came in for some maps & overheard us, so he told us it was all a put-on & took us upstairs & showed us reports of all the refined gas being stored in the tanks usually filled with crude, tankers doing circuits in the ocean until "the crisis" had passed, etc. I have a buddy whose Dad worked the rigs in the Gulf who also corraborated that he saw 100's of tankers sea-anchored in the Gulf on his helicopter flights to/from the rigs back then. It was an utter fabrication & market manipulation then, as is the higher CA gas now. The CA Attorney General got wind of it back then & took Texaco, Shell, Chevron, Exxon, etc. to court on charges - which they won the case against big oil about a decade later - & each oil company was fined $1000! .....NO, I did not forget any zeros! Today, OPEC & the Saudis have decided that too expensive oil makes shale, tar sands, fracking, well steam injection, etc. too viable - making US & Canadian oil competitive .... & worse - self-sufficient .... so they've turned on the spigots to drive the prices down & close up those operations in US/Canada. So yeah, it'll go back up again, when they're satisfied that enough supply from here is shut down, but only so much higher that they can't restart. As my MBA Macro-Econ professor used to say about OPEC & oil: "market manipulation at its finest!" So bend over (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif) & get ready to be (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) ...again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ... to borrow from a song back then... Oh Happy Days .... for now! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// PS - I was wondering when ole buddy Curt would chime in with Okie prices! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .... CA has always been held ransom at higher prices - even before Cal-EPA was around, & despite healthy oil production & refining right here! The ransom now is $1.00-1.50! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) BTW - More recently, going from $1.00 gas in CA in 2000 up to $4.00+ in the mid-2000's was 400% in a few years - rather than a week - so I huess they think they can eak it up & we won't scream & moan as bad while we're being (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) |
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| Tom_T |
Feb 8 2016, 12:40 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(The Cabinetmaker @ Feb 8 2016, 10:21 AM) Took this right now while eating lunch. Dang Curt! .... if I recognize that station & the fence in the foreground - you're having BBQ right now!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif) Best! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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| BobMC914 |
Feb 8 2016, 12:50 PM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 8 Joined: 5-August 15 From: Houston, Tx Member No.: 19,029 Region Association: Southwest Region |
Tom, LA here means Louisiana, not Los Angeles, close to ports, the gulf, Texas, and lots of refineries.
As someone in the oil industry lucky to still be employed, I'm happy to be paying less, but praying the prices go way back up. QUOTE(Tom_T @ Feb 8 2016, 01:32 PM) QUOTE(r_towle @ Feb 8 2016, 09:04 AM) gotta be the lowest on the east coast....there are no shipping charges in LA....its a hose connected directly to the refineries. Rich No Rich, It's actually connected through the cheating oil companies' HQs first, where it goes in cheap, then mysteriously comes out $1+ higher along with claims that CA gas is harder to manufacture/refine, oh the refiner is down for maintenance, etc., etc.! The current scam BS on CA gas prices is nothing new though, cuz I worked for Texaco at their Wilshire Blvd. Western HQ in 72-74 as one of my college part time jobs drawing map trips (remember those free vacation trip map request postcards at the Texaco gas stations?), which was during the first "Oil Crisis". We were all commiserating over the even-odd every other day gas & max. 10 gals per fill-up & gas going from $0.25-0.28/gal to $0.85-1.00 IN A WEEK - when one of the petro-engineers from "upstairs" came in for some maps & overheard us, so he told us it was all a put-on & took us upstairs & showed us reports of all the refined gas being stored in the tanks usually filled with crude, tankers doing circuits in the ocean until "the crisis" had passed, etc. I have a buddy whose Dad worked the rigs in the Gulf who also corraborated that he saw 100's of tankers sea-anchored in the Gulf on his helicopter flights to/from the rigs back then. It was an utter fabrication & market manipulation then, as is the higher CA gas now. The CA Attorney General got wind of it back then & took Texaco, Shell, Chevron, Exxon, etc. to court on charges - which they won the case against big oil about a decade later - & each oil company was fined $1000! .....NO, I did not forget any zeros! Today, OPEC & the Saudis have decided that too expensive oil makes shale, tar sands, fracking, well steam injection, etc. too viable - making US & Canadian oil competitive .... & worse - self-sufficient .... so they've turned on the spigots to drive the prices down & close up those operations in US/Canada. So yeah, it'll go back up again, when they're satisfied that enough supply from here is shut down, but only so much higher that they can't restart. As my MBA Macro-Econ professor used to say about OPEC & oil: "market manipulation at its finest!" So bend over (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif) & get ready to be (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) ...again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ... to borrow from a song back then... Oh Happy Days .... for now! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// PS - I was wondering when ole buddy Curt would chime in with Okie prices! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .... CA has always been held ransom at higher prices - even before Cal-EPA was around, & despite healthy oil production & refining right here! The ransom now is $1.00-1.50! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) BTW - More recently, going from $1.00 gas in CA in 2000 up to $4.00+ in the mid-2000's was 400% in a few years - rather than a week - so I huess they think they can eak it up & we won't scream & moan as bad while we're being (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) |
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| pdlightning |
Feb 8 2016, 01:08 PM
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Pdlightning Group: Members Posts: 209 Joined: 4-February 11 From: Santa Clarita Member No.: 12,660 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(BobMC914 @ Feb 8 2016, 10:50 AM) Tom, LA here means Louisiana, not Los Angeles, close to ports, the gulf, Texas, and lots of refineries. As someone in the oil industry lucky to still be employed, I'm happy to be paying less, but praying the prices go way back up. QUOTE(Tom_T @ Feb 8 2016, 01:32 PM) QUOTE(r_towle @ Feb 8 2016, 09:04 AM) gotta be the lowest on the east coast....there are no shipping charges in LA....its a hose connected directly to the refineries. Rich No Rich, It's actually connected through the cheating oil companies' HQs first, where it goes in cheap, then mysteriously comes out $1+ higher along with claims that CA gas is harder to manufacture/refine, oh the refiner is down for maintenance, etc., etc.! The current scam BS on CA gas prices is nothing new though, cuz I worked for Texaco at their Wilshire Blvd. Western HQ in 72-74 as one of my college part time jobs drawing map trips (remember those free vacation trip map request postcards at the Texaco gas stations?), which was during the first "Oil Crisis". We were all commiserating over the even-odd every other day gas & max. 10 gals per fill-up & gas going from $0.25-0.28/gal to $0.85-1.00 IN A WEEK - when one of the petro-engineers from "upstairs" came in for some maps & overheard us, so he told us it was all a put-on & took us upstairs & showed us reports of all the refined gas being stored in the tanks usually filled with crude, tankers doing circuits in the ocean until "the crisis" had passed, etc. I have a buddy whose Dad worked the rigs in the Gulf who also corraborated that he saw 100's of tankers sea-anchored in the Gulf on his helicopter flights to/from the rigs back then. It was an utter fabrication & market manipulation then, as is the higher CA gas now. The CA Attorney General got wind of it back then & took Texaco, Shell, Chevron, Exxon, etc. to court on charges - which they won the case against big oil about a decade later - & each oil company was fined $1000! .....NO, I did not forget any zeros! Today, OPEC & the Saudis have decided that too expensive oil makes shale, tar sands, fracking, well steam injection, etc. too viable - making US & Canadian oil competitive .... & worse - self-sufficient .... so they've turned on the spigots to drive the prices down & close up those operations in US/Canada. So yeah, it'll go back up again, when they're satisfied that enough supply from here is shut down, but only so much higher that they can't restart. As my MBA Macro-Econ professor used to say about OPEC & oil: "market manipulation at its finest!" So bend over (IMG:style_emoticons/default/bootyshake.gif) & get ready to be (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) ...again! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) ... to borrow from a song back then... Oh Happy Days .... for now! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// PS - I was wondering when ole buddy Curt would chime in with Okie prices! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) .... CA has always been held ransom at higher prices - even before Cal-EPA was around, & despite healthy oil production & refining right here! The ransom now is $1.00-1.50! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) BTW - More recently, going from $1.00 gas in CA in 2000 up to $4.00+ in the mid-2000's was 400% in a few years - rather than a week - so I huess they think they can eak it up & we won't scream & moan as bad while we're being (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif) ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) So. Cal has prices ranging from $2.55 at Arco, no credit cards to $3.19 at the higher priced neighborhoods. They want to raise it further with more taxes to pay for more bridges for the homeless to sleep under! |
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| Tom_T |
Feb 8 2016, 01:22 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(BobMC914 @ Feb 8 2016, 10:50 AM) Tom, LA here means Louisiana, not Los Angeles, close to ports, the gulf, Texas, and lots of refineries. As someone in the oil industry lucky to still be employed, I'm happy to be paying less, but praying the prices go way back up. I hear ya Bob! ... & agree with you on the jobs & healthy business angle. My "PS" bit on the current situation with OPEC/Saudi was getting to your point, since many states with the more expensive means of extraction are suffering high unemployment in the oil industry - after the boom. I see all sorts of distressed real estate for sale ads from those regions every day! However, to most in the rest of the world outside of Louisiana, "LA" means Los Angeles! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) ... sorry, but that's the facts! No slam on your LA, as I have loads of buddies in your neck, as well as transplants out here, & I LOVE Mudbugs, Gator & Cajun food! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif) Not against employment & fair market pricing, just against artificial price manipulation .... but we here in CA get screwed on the gas prices, as evidenced from my history above & the current prices around the US. I'm not in petro at all - other than filling up the car, but my Dad was a petro-chemical chemist with Koppers & Whittaker for years (urethane varnish & paints come off his patents). I just happened to help pay for college with that Texaco job while studying Architecture (I work in real estate development/consulting, design/planning, etc. since), since I'd done road trips with the family San Diego to Pittsburgh every year & other places - so I actually knew where to rout people (most of my coworker students there didn't & had to ask). Best! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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| Tom_T |
Feb 8 2016, 01:33 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,321 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California
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QUOTE(pdlightning @ Feb 8 2016, 11:08 AM) So. Cal has prices ranging from $2.55 at Arco, no credit cards to $3.19 at the higher priced neighborhoods. They want to raise it further with more taxes to pay for more bridges for the homeless to sleep under! Actually that's a Federal proposal too - so it would be a tax nationwide, but then we have crumbling infrastructure with bridges falling down all over the country - not just here in CA. Here in CA - primarily SoCal & Bay Area/beyond, we have the added problem of freeway/road construction not keeping pace with population & employment growth, ergo the humongous log-jammed traffic jams during "Rush Day/Night" - no longer just rush hour(s)! The gas tax thing is a double edged sword - like the gas prices overall, as noted above - where the higher CAFE MPG requirements with all cars getting far better mpg, ends up with less gas sold - ergo less tax revenues, so they're caught in a dilemma. Unfortunately, it's either taxes or tolls to keep up the roads & highways/freeways we all love to drive on! .... & tolls add on higher interest costs for the private financing or public bond financing - on top of the cost of (re-) construction! Like that old movie - it's a Catch 22! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) Okay .... who took my soap box!? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// |
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| r_towle |
Feb 8 2016, 01:35 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,705 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States
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QUOTE(Tom_T @ Feb 8 2016, 02:22 PM) QUOTE(BobMC914 @ Feb 8 2016, 10:50 AM) Tom, LA here means Louisiana, not Los Angeles, close to ports, the gulf, Texas, and lots of refineries. As someone in the oil industry lucky to still be employed, I'm happy to be paying less, but praying the prices go way back up. I hear ya Bob! ... & agree with you on the jobs & healthy business angle. My "PS" bit on the current situation with OPEC/Saudi was getting to your point, since many states with the more expensive means of extraction are suffering high unemployment in the oil industry - after the boom. I see all sorts of distressed real estate for sale ads from those regions every day! However, to most in the rest of the world outside of Louisiana, "LA" means Los Angeles! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) ... sorry, but that's the facts! No slam on your LA, as I have loads of buddies in your neck, as well as transplants out here, & I LOVE Mudbugs, Gator & Cajun food! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/drooley.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/chowtime.gif) Not against employment & fair market pricing, just against artificial price manipulation .... but we here in CA get screwed on the gas prices, as evidenced from my history above & the current prices around the US. I'm not in petro at all - other than filling up the car, but my Dad was a petro-chemical chemist with Koppers & Whittaker for years (urethane varnish & paints come off his patents). I just happened to help pay for college with that Texaco job while studying Architecture (I work in real estate development/consulting, design/planning, etc. since), since I'd done road trips with the family San Diego to Pittsburgh every year & other places - so I actually knew where to rout people (most of my coworker students there didn't & had to ask). Best! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif) Tom /////// I was replying to Mike who as in LA to enjoy mardi gras....(see previous posts) Unless they move mardi gras, and the gulf of mexico recently, I believe that area, and others close to refineries will still experience lower prices than those of us who must ship it in. As far as OPEC goes....they are much less powerful than they were in the past, and that is a great thing for the world economy. Seems to be a standard adjustment in prices that was bound to happen... Rich |
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| jacquot |
Feb 8 2016, 01:40 PM
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Been paying under $2.00 for diesel for a few weeks now here in soCal.
Love my TDI. By the way, Tom, I knew that I remembered you from somewhere. I was with Texaco Inc., Newport Beach district office from '70 until '74, that must be it. Jacquot |
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