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OMG, High Gas Prices, What are you paying? |
JawjaPorsche |
Feb 28 2012, 08:28 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,463 Joined: 23-July 11 From: Clayton, Georgia Member No.: 13,351 Region Association: South East States |
When I was in high school in the 60's, I worked at a gas station. Gas was 28 cents back then. People never filled up. They would come in and ask for a couple dollars! Plus they got their oil, water, and air checked not to mention I cleaned their windshield! Now you would be lucky if a couple of dollars would buy a half gallon!
In North Georgia we are paying $3.65 for 10% and $3.85 for 100% gas. What is your area ripping you off for? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) Attached image(s) |
SirAndy |
Feb 28 2012, 03:33 PM
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Resident German Group: Admin Posts: 41,679 Joined: 21-January 03 From: Oakland, Kalifornia Member No.: 179 Region Association: Northern California |
What is your area ripping you off for? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) No ripoff here, at $4 plus change gas is still only about half of what it costs where i grew up. I won't be complaining until it hits around $8 per gallon, which is what 1 (US) gallon of normal grade gas currently cost in Germany. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
Tom_T |
Feb 28 2012, 07:24 PM
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TMI.... Group: Members Posts: 8,318 Joined: 19-March 09 From: Orange, CA Member No.: 10,181 Region Association: Southern California |
What is your area ripping you off for? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) No ripoff here, at $4 plus change gas is still only about half of what it costs where i grew up. I won't be complaining until it hits around $8 per gallon, which is what 1 (US) gallon of normal grade gas currently cost in Germany. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) Yeah, but Andy - half of that $8 is taxes which they actually put to good use over there - at least for the most part. Ditto for the other Euroland prices noted above. The baseline cost of the fuel product itself is surprisingly close just about everywhere, with taxes & smog control blending requirements (e.g. here in CA for the latter) are the biggest price differential both here in the US & elsewhere. The big oil companies aren't earning multi-billion dollar profits every quarter (4x a year) sine the early 2000s - & NOT because it's a thin margin - they make huge retail mark-ups on gas marketing here & everywhere!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) BTW - in the 70's oil crises it was a lot of price manipulation & stock withholding going on by the big oil companies, oil tankers doing circles in the Gulf of Mexico & Pacific, Crude Tanks filled with refined gasoline to hold back supplies, etc. I know cuz I worked at Texaco PT in LA during college & was shown production & storage charts by one of the engineers "upstairs" once, correcting me when I said the supply was a problem; and have heard similar info. from several others who worked at Shell, Chevron, etc. back then & since. |
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