Midwest Gasoline to Spike $0.50-$1.00 Per gallon

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Yikes! Look at that graph .

 

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With Saudi and Russia pressuring the market, expect oil price increases.

Also expect the big oil companies to start more production ramp up with those turn of events. They have their sweet spot for making more money. It's coming soon.

 

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Unfortunately everything we buy gets trucked and so the high cost of fuel is added on every purchase.
It's not about cars Joe.

 

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I'll refrain from making a political comment but I believe anyone with a functioning brain can deduce who is responsible for the increase in prices at the pump and that person (remains nameless) just cancelled a bunch of Alaskan oil leases. I did read that the Governor of Alaska is suing over it. More job looses and less domestic crude.

Sure glad I don't motor much and my buggy gets 40 mpg. My wife on the other hand has her big V8 Suburban gas guzzler but she can well afford to fill it up. She's lucky it has a flex fuel engine so it will run on regular weasel pee. Don't like it but... I did do the sequential cylinder cutout delete on it. Terrible design on GM's part. It was only done to increase their Corporate Fuel Economy percentage and all it really accomplishes is, it shortens the life of the engine and causes it to consume oil.

 

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Tats don't impress or depress any employer in a trade related field but they do deter job seekers when looking for that white collar job. I see that too. Tats are nice (I guess) when you are young but as you age and your skin changes, the tats also change, they get uglier with age.

Guy down the road a ways has a chain tat around his neck that goes up and ends by his left ear and he's college educated but drives a garbage roll off truck because no one will hire him... He looks like a hoodlum.

No tats here, never will be.

Broad brush stroke.

I know plenty of white collar workers who sport tattoo's. I'd say some people are more open to seeking talent, skill and personality...than looks.

It's all about being an individual to me.

 

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At least ALL my ORD fuel is a taxable deduction for the farm. Even that is getting pretty expensive and I'll be topping off my bulk tank shortly and if course adding the correct amount of biocide as well. Learned that hard (and expensive) lesson a couple years ago with the algae issue and not about to have a repeat performance. Power Service Bio-Kleen isn't cheap but it's light years cheaper than dealing with an algae issue and replacing very expensive fuel system parts.

 

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I never found tattoos attractive. When I go into a store and the service person is covered in ink and piercings I have to admit I'm a bit put off by their appearance. So it's likely I won't be coming back if I don't have to.

 

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Broad brush stroke.

I know plenty of white collar workers who sport tattoo's. I'd say some people are more open to seeking talent, skill and personality...than looks.

It's all about being an individual to me.

In a professional office environment or a degreed position, I bet those tats are covered up mostly. Covered with shirts with long sleeves and / or dresses that cover them.

Employer can and will discriminate where they can but do it quietly. That round file is always available for employer use. I do the same with my rentals actually. You can call it discrimination or whatever you want to term it.

I call it being smart.

 

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I remember back when I was a kid, the guy next door had some tats from when he was in the Navy and the older he got, the uglier they got as his skin changed and the ink faded. In the end, his arms looked like old truckers wallets...lol

 

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In a professional office environment or a degreed position, I bet those tats are covered up mostly. Covered with shirts with long sleeves and / or dresses that cover them.

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Actually I was shocked that they are not covered up.

But then I have a problem with brown shoes and blue suits. LOL.

But where I frequent, it's all about experience, skill and getting the job done.