$3.37 Gas & $3.58 Diesel - Thrilled.

[RayCo]

It was just two weeks ago that I bought a truck that gets about 10.5 MPG (gas). I've since started driving my wife's Envoy as my daily driver. Granted, this was the plan, but I still was hoping to drive my truck a bit more than I am.

 

[Baby Grand]

I told a guy at the the gas station a while back that I was going to convert my Dodge Cummins to whale oil , America's first renewable resource !

He looked at me kinda stupid and said " you hunt whale?" go figure !

It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.

Have you seen he price of whale oil lately? Scandalous.

 

[ccsial]

We went through a cycle of bigger vehicles in the 1970's and then on a crash diet of small cars in the late 70's and early 80's. It seems like our vehicles have gotten progressively bigger.

And faster too.

 

[LBrown59]

Here is an item that fits rite in on the topic.

Diesel fuel costs - MariettaTimes.com

 

[ken4831]

Arkansas Now with Fed. and State Tax for diesel 52.5 cents and the State today agreed to increase another 5 cents. for road repair. But to satisfy the trucking industry There exempt. Guess these little diesel pick-ups are the vehicles rough on the roads.
We have on our county road trucks with 26 to 30 tires on the road can feel the vibration with them driving past . All with state permitted wide road escort. This road has become a major bypass to another state hiway because the other state hiway has become so bad from heavy traffic it is almost impassable. and this road is failing fast.
County judge says they will be reimbursed for the damage when finished using.
Seen any flying pigs lately.
ken

 

[RayCo]

Just got 30 gallons at this price. In the absolute sense, this should not please me, but in a relative sense it does.

 

[Wyobuckaroo]

NW Wisconsin........ 3/11/11

Regular= $3.59-9........
On road diesel = $3.99-9
Have not checked off road diesel in about 2 weeks. Was $3.39-9 then
I think K1 is $4.65-9

(is there a "cry baby" smilie here?)

 

[dcyrilc]

I just heard on the news that with the earthquake and sunami in Japan reducing global demand that oil has dropped below $100/barrel. Anyone want to guess how long it will take prices to go back down?

 

[schoolsout]

If you want to blame anyone, blame your Gov't and the Fed Reserve complex with pushing "liquidity" to the max causing hard assets to be driven up in price.

All this so the banker boyz could get paid huge bonuses and the banks wouldn't go under.

Nothing has been fixed in the financial sector and "Enron" type games with balance sheets and accounting is now applauded by the government.

Bush and Obama let this continue.

I'm a Conservative, so do not label me as a liberal because I talk about "huge bonuses"
The facts are the facts
The banks are broke
The states are broke
the US is broke

and the only thing the Fed Reserve can do is pump more money into the system trying to keep asset prices levitated, but the money isn't going where they want it to go.

Seriously, the world over is printing money like mad...more money chasing goods causes what?

It isn't "Big Oil's" fault...

 

[schoolsout]

and, of course, the situation in the Middle East isn't helping

They are hungry and realize that the US gov't/Fed is causing huge spikes in food/energy prices. That was the catalyst...

QE is here to stay.