I AM SO TIRED OF THE SERIOUS PRICE GOUGEING AT THE PUMP. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THIS.[:(!] ALLAN.
I been sitting home listening to my scanner and going to work. If can go and railfan i will but limited to some good places. DAM middle east war OOPS!!!
- I don’t own a car
- I bike ride to railfan, keeps you fit and you can get to less accesible places.
and petrol here just $1.42 a LITRE
I’ve got serious doubts that we will ever see gas prices below $2.25 ever again. I think I would suggest investing in a fuel efficient vehicle, biking to your railfanning locations, learning to deal with the new standard price, or giving up on the hobby. Complaining here isn’t going to do a bit of good.
SO TRUE.
I assume you are talking about the prices per gallon…
You think you guys got it bad?
This is what I have to put up for a gallon in Germany (I live in the Netherlands near the German border, and fuel is CHEAPER in Germany then in Holland.):
1 US gallon: 6 dollars and 70 cents… consider yourselfs lucky guys.
If I lived further from the border and was unable to fill up in Germany, I would be of even worse:
1 US gallon: 7 dollars and 30 cents… And this is the country-wide average, which includes the lower prices near the borders. So expect to pay 2 dollars PER LITRE (!!!) in places far from any borders.[V]
So, be happy that you are not totally dependent on external oil supplies, like we are. You are lucky enough to have oil of your own. The last time I filled up my car it took a 125 dollar chunk out of my wallet. Until that’s what you have to pay for 70 litres of liquid motion, please think of us when you want to complain about fuel prices at your end [;)].
Such old, old news can you not come up with anyhing better? You know if you do not wish to expend gasoline due to the hi prices just go nowgere & become a hermit
ARE YOU STUPID. I JUST TOLD YOU. IT MAKES IT HARDER FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO GO RAILFANNING. MAN…SOME PEOPLE! YOU HAVE THE GULL TO SAY THAT.[:(!]
I do not find it any harder. Just buy gas & go what is so hard about that? You do not have to understand brain surgery to know that. Better be prepared cause if you think they are hi now just wait a bit & then watch out. You do know that conuntries like Britian. France, Italy & Germany to name just a few pay over $6.00 per gallon when converted to our measurement
The reason for higher prices in those countries metioned is high taxes on their gas.
Everyone talks about how much the “Big Oil” companies are price gouging. The oil companies make on average 8 to 10 cents on the gallon. Now compare that to what our government (state and local) makes on taxes per gallon. Now who is gouging whom? The reason we are paying $70 plus a barrel for gas is that the market decides the price not the oil companies. I bet you all a dollar to a donut that when the termoil in the middle east settles you will see a steep fall in the price of gas. It’s that pendulum factor. Now lets go railfaning and not bicker about it.
Latest Readers Digest has article about where your $3 goes for each gallon.
TELL ME ABOUT IT. NEBRASKA HAS THE HIGHEST SALES TAX IN THE NATION.
Yes, right here:
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Doing a Steven Hyde impersonation…(From That 70’s Show)
The only reason why they gouge 'cause they know we need it, man, Oil companies are a scam, man. They mark up prices as high as they can, then they mark it up more! Theres no gas shortage man, its all a scam! They gouge cause they can get away with it! (The next line is not to be offensive) The war in Iraq is a scam put on by the oil companies, man, so they can have a reason to gouge us! When Bush leaves office in early '09 we should se a sharp decline in prices because there won’t be a reason to fight the war, since Bush is connected with the oil industry, all the CEO’s consider hm a really good friend 'cause hes makin them rich, man! Its all a scam, man! Oil Companies, the government and the war are all a bunch of scams! The three real branchs of government are Corperate, the Military, and Executive!
If the three REAL branchs, Executive, Federal, and Judicial, actually worked, we wuld not be in this situation!
MAN YOU ARE SO CORRECT! YOU HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD THERE. BUSH IS NOTHING BUT SCUM. IT WAS NEVER THIS BAD EVEN WHEN CLINTON WAS INTO OFFICE.
WOW, I really hope you are not that dillusional. If you are, then I would certainly expect a public apology from you if the price of gas does not fall to $1.50 a gallon January 01, 2009.
My wife and I recently made a trip to Rochelle to watch a few trains and get out of the house. We enjoyed the trip, but after parking at the railroad park for a while we thought about how great it would be to bike around Rochelle and catch the trains at different places. It might even burn a few calories, all while enjoying the trains. At home here, there are two mainlines within biking distance of the house (1 mile or so). Maybe the hobby will have to take a new direction??? Just a thought.
As for the price of oil, get ready for a wild ride. If the Israelis keep bringing some justice to the pigs in Hezbollah (yes I am biased) then the price will only continue to fluctuate up, down, and all around.&
I am not that dillusional. However, Price of gas won’t see an extreamly drastic drop overnight, it will take a few months to get down there, but I hope it does, that is, if we don’t get another former Oil industrialist as a president, lets hope we see a former railroader become president, David Gunn '08, maybe? He would get my vote! He might even give more and more funding to AMTRAK instead of IRAQ.
BNSFrailfan, thanks muchly for rekindling this moronic, go-nowhere topic and then dragging the President into it. Here’s some advice: Next time you start a topic, make sure it has a point.
If you don’t have enough money for gas, instead of complaining, get a second job like many of us have done. What good does your complaining do?
And what would that accomplish? I can’t think of a worse candidate for office. David Gunn ran a railroad, not a government. There are different skills involved in each operation. Let me put if this way - do our lives and the lives of our soldiers depend more on proper funding for Amtrak or proper funding of a war effort? I wonder if David Gunn would even consider that a logical question. It is my hope that any candidate would cut all funding to Amtrak immediately if the war effort required it. We can live without Amtrak, we can’t live with terrorism.