Paid $ 3.259 for Regular unleaded this morning in the old 84 Ford F250 .
In the last few posts , some interesting things .
1) No new Refineries . Big 10-4 on that . To many States and Area Communities are belly aching " Not in My Back Yard " Syndrome . The Economy here in Southern Oregon is Tough , Thus I am a O/O OTR driver . Over the last 5 to 10 years several companies wanted to build Warehouses or Factories here but both County Government and Citizens raised a stink , which in turn equaled No Jobs . Even had the Federal Government want to build a medium to low security Prison , Again Big Stink , Again No Jobs .
California is really bad with anti idling laws , newer lower polluting trucks , etc... YET they allow open burning through out the State from Redding all the way to Bakersfield in those Agricultural sites , and if you see the clouds I see sometimes , looks like they are burning more than just organic material , ( tires and whatever else they throw on there !!! ) . When you pass threw Redding and You can see a cloud of smoke all the way down near Sacramento , Were Do they thing that smoke is Going ??
Kind of Hypocritical .
2) Price Fixing ! Up to just a couple of years ago , there were only certain brands of Gas stations in the entire valley here . No Arco am/pm 's , only a few generic's . Why , The Distributors / Haulers could charge them more for a truck load and thus they would have to charge more making them less competitive . That all went South when the State A.G. investigated and everybody got on the same page .
What is really ironic though is that all Gas and Diesel here in Southern Oregon comes either from Eugene fuel farm up north or the Chico fuel farm down south . So , Does not matter if its Chevron , Texaco , Costco , Generic , it all comes from the same fuel farm . Maybe they add their own special chemicals , ( Techron ??? ) , Still 89 octane regular .
Plain and simple , its a scam !! Auto makers do not want to make cars to reliable , else they would have no business . They also do not want to make them to economical as then their investments in the oil industry would go south .
The Rich get Richer , The Poor Get Poorer and Us middle Class , WE are going the way of the Dinosaur , Extinct !!
Fred H.
Diesel $3.50...........Gasoline 87 octane $3.00 here in eastern Kansas (BP brand). I just got layed off a couple years ago and the annual pay increase never stayed up with inflation as far back as 10 years. Now the social security administration says there is no cost of living increase for the past two years. Boy can these liars figure. I guess us retirees are not suppose to drive anywhere or buy food. Welp, when they got ya by the gonads, what cha gonna do? :laughing:
