I saw them down in St. Lucia last month. My only question is which do you want to be in when the two collide, my F250 Crew Cab 4x4 diesel or that thing? I know I know, they built a safety cage in it. Physics is physics though, 6800 pounds unloaded vs, what 1800 pounds? Inertia is a beotch....
Here is something else to think about. Money to pay for fuel I can earn back a lot easier than trying to grow new body parts. I was involved in a T-Bone accident. Civic hit me on the driver door. I fared better than she did. 55 mph+ too. Sorry. I value my body parts more.
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Have to give you that one Aklim.
Wife and I were t-boned, passenger door, in her Honda Civic a few months before we married. DUI ran a red light and hit us.
She made the most eerie, "I am going to die in minutes" sound that I have ever heard in my life. Scared the holy hell out of me.
She spent 10 days in the hospital, lost her spleen, and took about 10 years for her fractured hip bone to quit giving her pain.
I walked away.
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1999 F-550 4x4 ZF-6 Tow Rig
1999 VW Jetta TDI
1996 Audi A4 2.8 V6 Quattro
After we landed on the sidewalk, I ran around to try and open the passenger door and it was pushed in far enough to see the upholstery of the back seat.
I ran back around and reached across the driver's seat and picked her up out of the car like a little doll. I was so pumped with adrenaline that she felt to weigh around 2lb.
Terrible night.
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1999 F-550 4x4 ZF-6 Tow Rig
1999 VW Jetta TDI
1996 Audi A4 2.8 V6 Quattro
All I know is that we are producing new drilling motors and bits at a record pace and we cannot keep up with the demand. Our backlog for parts is up to about 18M with no end in sight. Our forecasters are telling us that they see no down turn in the oil business for at least the next five years that we will only get busier. I hired ten guys last month and am looking for another ten right now (been interviewing all morning).
The money (OT and diesel parts! ) has been good but I wish we could get a little break.
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'02 F-250 SC SB 7.3L 4x4 w/ 4" SuperLift, 315/75 R16 Toyo Open Country M/Ts, Bilstein 5100s - 6 position DI tuner, AFE Stage II w/Dry S Pro, HPX, 203* Billet, CCV, Sonnax, Tru-Cool, Fumoto, ZooDad, Brite-Box, 4" MagnaFlow SST turbo back w/ 5" tip, DI BRV, A/C comfort mod!, Autometer Z series gauges
All I know is that we are producing new drilling motors and bits at a record pace and we cannot keep up with the demand. Our backlog for parts is up to about 18M with no end in sight. Our forecasters are telling us that they see no down turn in the oil business for at least the next five years that we will only get busier. I hired ten guys last month and am looking for another ten right now (been interviewing all morning).
The money (OT and diesel parts! ) has been good but I wish we could get a little break.
Looking for a Maint guy from Michigan?? just kidding. Glad to hear it though... Our company here to is starting to pick up, we are an Aerospace company.
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I would say its primarily from demand. The midwest just really started the full swing of harvest this week or next. The amount of diesel being consumed probably went up triple fold.
The only thing that saves us during this time of year is forward contracting our fuel.
Up here in Western Iowa we have so many alternative fuel plants that we don't know what plant to haul our corn or soybeans too. Usually, but not all the time the local coop is giving us a better price than those ethanol plants. Biodiesel is always about 10 cent more here too.
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After we landed on the sidewalk, I ran around to try and open the passenger door and it was pushed in far enough to see the upholstery of the back seat.
I ran back around and reached across the driver's seat and picked her up out of the car like a little doll. I was so pumped with adrenaline that she felt to weigh around 2lb.
Terrible night.
Too bad for you. I was blissfully unawares of anything else. I don't even know how I got out of the car.
One of those things that would be best forgotten.
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Because you have failed in your basic math classes. More product, more profit. They have sold RECORD AMOUNTS too. They have kept it at 10% profit margin or less.
What does that tell you? Pay particular attention to the lower left-hand graph and the last year or two consumption trend on the upper left. Looks to me like they're playing a game with production to drive up prices, and consumption peaked and is starting to drop a little.
What does that tell you? Pay particular attention to the lower left-hand graph and the last year or two consumption trend on the upper left. Looks to me like they're playing a game with production to drive up prices, and consumption peaked and is starting to drop a little.
Joe
OK. Lets talk basic math. $100 revenue and $10 profit. What is the percentage?
That is just US consumption tho. They sell to more than the USA.
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How about Production down for no apparent reason? How about $80/barrel for crude? I know that more consumption = more profit, but what does less production, more demand equal? Could it be artificially inflated prices by market manipulation by chance??
How about Production down for no apparent reason? How about $80/barrel for crude? I know that more consumption = more profit, but what does less production, more demand equal? Could it be artificially inflated prices by market manipulation by chance??
My point is they made $10 bil profit. But seeing as how they spent $100 bil to make it, they didn't do all that well, did they? I make more than a 10% profit when all is said and done so I can stay in bussiness. What would you say is a fair profit?
Well, things break down too. We haven't had a new refinery in over 20 years and you are running at 110% of design capacity. IOW, you have no room whatsoever for any issues.
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How about Production down for no apparent reason? How about $80/barrel for crude? I know that more consumption = more profit, but what does less production, more demand equal? Could it be artificially inflated prices by market manipulation by chance??
Sure, contolling supply to keep prices up, its just like the U.S. Department of Agriculture paying farmers not to plant in order to keep prices up. Nothing new there.
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I'm doing my part to reduce food imports, control rising food costs and help feed the children, my trucks run on 100% petroleum diesel. What are you doing?
I haven't been paying attention to the news so much and was wondering why diesel has gone up so much over the last 2-3 weeks? It cost's more than super unleaded here in maryland. What gives?
It's heating oil season -- seems to happen every year about this time -- diesel gets more expensive than gasoline. Demand goes up for distallates (diesel, kerosene, heating oil) as folks refill their heating oil tanks. Gasoline demand seemse to fall this time of year as summer driving season ends.
I understand. Really I do. But when I see $80/barrel oil for no other reason than that's what they want to charge, and production going down for no other reason than they want to jack up the prices, I think you can see where a lot of us are frustrated. Yeah, I know the refinery thing is another piece, but they should at least be able to keep the same level of production over the last 20-30 years, not dry it up gradually as they apparently have.
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) has been good but I wish we could get a little break.
