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Originally Posted by Ya_know
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You should try Northwest Psylly Tea. Made from only the finest NW schrooms!https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
Dunno about routes, cuz where I live (a suburb), the busses don't even go...(and its only about 5 miles out of the city) :sad: I believe if you are right in town then yes there's alot of options for routes and times and such...but if you live in a suburb (which you can't really tell where one ends and next begins) theres nothing there for public transportation. There are also no types of trains or anything other than busses here at all. So no matter what, I'd still have to get in my car and drive to find the public transportation, then it still wouldn't go to where I work, unless I worked downtown...so if I'm gonna get in my car and drive, may as well just keep goin! :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by corturbra
Ain't that the truth! Do you have Park and Ride setups?Quote:
Originally Posted by Coaster Creator
Over here you can drive to the outskirts of the town, park up (pay to park) and then get a bus in to town (total cost £2.40 for parking and bus).
But like you say if you're driving.... ;)
First we would have to stop exporting most of the Alaskan oil to Japan (very little stays here domestically & and less even still in Alaska). Then we'll have to get us a pipeline down to the Lower 48. Now the Canadians have got one a started so we can tie into theirs. Since the Canadian oil field is just on the other side of the caribou herd from the North Slope oil fields we could "all" tie in there (both oil and natural gas) and the product would travel through the Yukon & BC to Vancouver. At Vancouver the Canadians will keep their share and the rest would be sent down to the Port of Sea-Tac. Then what I forsee happening is Exxon-Mobile US will accuse Esso-Mobile Canada of bogarting more than their share of the oil. BP Alaska will accuse BP Canada of "watering" down their product before the interface with the trans Alaska-Canadian Pipeline. Conoco-Phillips will be pi$$ed because their natural gas finds will be on the far west side of the Brooks Range and they will have to construct a seperate pipeline over the Brooks and down to Kotzebue or Nome ergo making their product more costly. Conoco will immediately demand tax breaks from the State of Alaska and the Feds which will inturn into a huge entitlement program. Tiring of all the conflict the States of Washington and Alaska declare war on the Yukon and British Columbia. In what is commonly referred to as the War of the Hosers the cities of Skagway, Kimberly and Walla Walla are attacked but barely damaged by strategically placed French Toast and backbacon. Finally the federal gov't's of Canada & the US step in and a treaty is brokered by LaBlatts and Coors. The UN sends a Peacekeeping Force of personnel from Bangladesh, Honduras, Guatamala and Andorra wher upon arrival to the US & Canada they all disband and get jobs in the hotel/restaurant and convenience store industries (well actually the Andorrans hang out in Seattle coffee houses). When all is said and done the status quo still remains. https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by meatwad
Hmmm. Why not just annex British Columbia and the Yukon and be done with it?
When I was a kid they tried something like that in the town I grew up, but I don't think you had to pay for parking.....it didn't last long.....Quote:
Originally Posted by corturbra
My dad pays $100/month to take the bus 30miles into where he works (at a government repair facility). After 90 days, he gets a check for $300 from the government. Total commute cost to him = $0.00. I drive two miles more than him, alone, and have to pay for the gas both directions. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Coaster Creator
Me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by TripleRLtd
In the last two days, I've spent about $250 on gear so I can save money by not using the car. :confused:
Actually domestic suppliers charge whatever the world wide price per barrel is. (though we save a couple of pennies on transportation).Quote:
Why don't we get the Major to send us down more oil from Alaska and buy less from overseas. The way I understand it, they've jacked up their prices per barrel so we've jacked up our prices per gallon. If we got more of our oil from home, one would think we could get it cheaper.
America uses 20 million barrels a day. 8 million is produced in the USA. Oil has gone from about 25 per barrel to about 41 per barrel. The cost of extracting and moving the oil stays the same. So 8 million barrels a day means an increase of 128 million dollars in PURE profit per DAY for the oil companies. So if oil stays at 41 per barrel the American producers will make an additonal 48 Billion (billion with a B) in profits above what they would have made.
Without lifting a finger, 48 billion more in profits.
About 2 weeks ago the oil companies were given a 30 Billion dollar tax break.(on top of their increased profit)
George Bush sr. made his money in oil. His son Bush the Jr.ran some oil companies (into the ground, actually). Bush becomes President. The price of oil skyrockets.
Coincidence?
HAH!
Hmmm...as somebody who has worked in the mineral extraction industry for 23 years now I see some flaws in your analogy of $25 a gallon vs. $41 a gallon and the "profits".
But being it's Tuesday (which is my Friday - I go home for 10 days tomorrow) and I've been hammering out TRI #'s all day, which has transformed me into a grouchy bastage, I ain't going to tell ya what they are! https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gifhttps://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2005/03/1.gif
HA! Have a good "weekend" Major. Keep up that great imagination you have. Loved the war story.https://forums.windrivers.com/images.../2006/04/1.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Major Kong
"You've no doubt received the idiotic, stupid e-mail declaring that today is the day everyone should boycott the oil companies because of high prices. What idiotic nonsense. This is what passes for logical, informed thought in the United States right now. "Yippee! Let's stage a boycott!" Yeah...that will really stick it to the man! Not. What you don't buy today, you'll just buy tomorrow. That's not much of a boycott, is it? Besides, boycotts don't work. The majority of people don't care, or have time to bother. They go about their business, buy their gas, don't whine and prefer to worry about things they can actually control.
First of all ... get over this "record price" nonsense. Once again the media is screaming "record gas prices" to anyone who will read, view or listen. You cannot put forth a legitimate comparison of gasoline prices over the years unless you adjust those prices for inflation. When you do adjust gas prices for inflation you will find that the end of the Carter administration Americans were paying an average of $2.91 per gallon for gasoline. You won't hear this reported on ABC, CBS, NBC or CNN. You did hear this reported last night on Fox News Channel. That's why the left hates Fox News.
Sure...oil is up to over $40 a barrel..but guess what? Your SUV doesn't run on crude oil, does it? Nope. That oil has to be refined, and we haven't built a new refinery in the United States since 1976. What's more, some of the refineries we do have are shutting down because they simply cannot afford to meet some of the new environmental standards we've created. What about building new refineries? Yeah ... try to get that by the anti-capitalist, environmentalist socialists. Oil companies are left to simply trying to increase the capacity of the refineries they do have.
Speaking of the environmentalists ... don't forget the special anti-pollution blends the refineries are having to put out for the summer months. This means that they have to stop production while they shift to the new blends. This adds to the supply difficulties.
Then there's China. China's economy is growing like a field of weeds. The are demanding a greater and greater share of the world's supplies of crude oil. Greater demand + limited supply = higher prices.
You could always move to Europe, where gas runs over $5 a gallon. "
Neal Boortz's Wednesday column.....
Driving to work today, I observed that all the gas stations had people lined up getting gas. :eek2:
I yelled out to them, "Quit gassing up on boycott Wednesday. You're going to ruin it for the rest of us! What are you communist!!!"
I now have to wash the Slurppy off of my hood... :sad:
:p
WHy does that not surprise me? :thumbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ya_know
The flaw in that reasoning is that crude oil has gone from 25 to 41 dollars a gallon. Price increases due to environmental restrictions on production are real but if you look at the price of gas it has gone up almost the same percentage as the price of oil.Quote:
What's more, some of the refineries we do have are shutting down because they simply cannot afford to meet some of the new environmental standards we've created.
The shortages last year due to lack of capacity for the special formulas has not happened this year. The gasoline producers were caught short (they say) last year due to insufficient time to implement the new standards. Some say they intentionally waited so that they could create the shortage so they could create higher prices, therefore more profit.
Funny how at 2 dollars per gallon their is no shortage this year.
As to Major Kongs assertion the profits of oil companies are not as great as I showed I am looking forward to reasons why.