LOL You're killing me. I'll bet the oil industry is laughing its *** off at us. We're such stupid bass turds.

 

Na yall are just the reason that there are at least ten houses going up right now that are probably about 15,000 square feet with 6 car garages that cost 1 million+ dollars and one of my friends has a wenkel rotary mazda Rx8 for his first car, he is sixteen and has gotten in two wrecks if want cheap gas go to west texas get a job in the oil industry. the problem is if it goes down its hell here I will say if the feds put a cap on the price of crude they also need to put a bottom on it. but hey listen to the canuck its cheaper than there . its not the oil companies it opec and the arabs

 

BS, the oil companies are loving the greedy arab's. The oil companies just jack up the price an additional 20% over the arabs to cheat us further.

 

So you Texans are getting rich but you want us to blame OPEC???

 

The fact is that oil companies are making a KILLIN out here in the west. I work with all the reifineries and they all BRAG about how they are making record profits. What is happeneing is the dumbing down process. Raise gas higher......then lower it some but not all the way......then a little higher then the first time and back down...but not all the way and so on and so on until $3/gallon gas looks like a great deal.

 

Hang on there. A lot of us Texans are paying $2.30 a gallon just to get to work and see if the layoffs have hit our department yet....A lot of industries are cyclical. When it's good it's great, but when it's bad, lots of good poeple get canned. I'm quite certain that me and/or some of my crew will get the axe this week.

 

Bear when I said Premium was 4.26 a gallon there were a few things to take into consideration from your geographical location to mine.

#1 Canadian dollars are only 78% of yours so a gallon in US is $3.33
#2 Canada pays higher fuel taxes... result Alberta has no deficit or sales tax
#3 My town is 300 miles north of the nearest community so we pay a freight charge of .10 per litre(.38 a gallon) to get it here so we may enjoy the isolation
#4 People in Fort Nelson get a Northern living allowance of $5400 a year so the provincial gov't needs to recoup this somehow
So to live in a country with free medical, and only 30 million people in a country 1.5 times the size of the US, more wilderness, no earthquakes, no tornadoes, no emission laws, and low income tax (min wage is $8.50 an hour)... I'll pay extra for gas but to convert it back your gallon prices work out to $3.11 so there isn't really a difference from country to country.

 

My problem with motorcycles......when I retired I bought a new Harley Road King, and it gets 50 mpg. It is so much fun that my wife bought one for herself. Now we buy twice the gas so it averages to 25 mpg. Not to mention twice the insurance, taxes, up keep, and did I mention her favorite color is chrome!

 

Don't you guys get raped on auto insurance though? I've heard some people on other message boards give quotes of $1700 a year for regular cars and motorcycles.

 

XFORDMAN, your lucky, "chrome" for the little lady, she could of wanted gold with diamonds for penstrips.

Carl....=o&o>....

 

My point is everyone is paying to much for gas. And I don't know why it should be acceptable for the oil companies to fleece us for any reason. I don't know why your government should give you a living allowance then take it back in high gas taxes. Not only is it not cost effective but it's stupid. Washington State just raised our gas tax last year, after 8 years of trying by the out going governor. Now the new governor (another non-truthful Democrat) has done it to us again and with it we will again have the highest gas taxes in the US. This action comes on the heels of the annoucement of out economy be worse than at anytime in the last 35 years. Government should be cutting back not expanding and spending more. I can't spend more so why should they?

 

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Carl... your right, I never thought about it like that. I can't complain about her tho, she saw me looking at my new Ford Racing catalog, and she said why don't you quit messing around with that old greasey 390 and buy one of those purty 514's with the shiney head thingy's? ....Now she tells me after I just took the 390 in to the machine shop!!!
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'53 F100

 

Cap't Tea Bag, I only pay $700 a year for my 71 f-250 full coverage and only $1000 for my 95 Bronco. Windshield, 2 million liability, to and from work, pleasure, fire and theft, the whole nine yards you get the picture. I think in BC the insurance is ridiculous but in the prairie provinces it is about 20% cheaper.

Bear.....I hear you. Lately it seems we pay taxes on top of taxes. Inflation goes up way faster than wages. Nowadays if a guy wants to survive and get the odd weekend at the lake you NEED to have a double income household.
I went to the pub for lunch today with my wife for a business meeting and you know I grabbed the tab for the table and nearly s*it my pants. 3 TAXES!!! GST(goods and service tax) PST(provincial tax) and PLT(provincial liquor tax)....What the hell is a liquor tax??? 6 drinks had 2.63 plt on it(10%). Bad enough I paid 4.25 for a beer but to put 3 taxes on it was retarded. Back in the Eastern provinces they have buck a beer nights. That's a dollar for a bottle. You know they still made money that night so what's with our society putting up with price hikes? It's because we are all a bunch of sheep and the Gov't just herds us where they want us.
I need to go now I'm getting too fired up and I'm babbling.....I'd have a beer if the gov't didn't take my last $3 in tax....

 

I had to make an extra trip on post Monday (I'm in the Army) unexpectedly. I had to bring my son the doctor. Because of that trip and taking him back home, I didn't have enough gas to come back on post to work that day and still be able to make it work the rest of the week.