gas prices r getting a little ri-f*ckin-diculous if u ask me. gas prices need to stop going up thats for sure...

jake

 

$2.22 for premium 91 over here

 

kizz - you are ON THE MONEY! Couldn't agree more.
I take it you read my UNBELEIVABLE link from the previous post. $900 MM to "rebuild" the country?!?! Gimme a Break! How about $900 MM to put out the fires and get the oil flowing to the port city of Basra. No, I'm not kidding... LOOK at what ABC world news says.

Look, I am frequently having exotic machines quoted, and even entire plants that go upward of $75-million. I do ALOT of quoting. I don't see how these companies can "quote" or "bid" on a job such as "rebuilding Iraq", when they don't even know what the scope of work will be?!?! How much "damage" will be done? What water systems exists? What electrical plants work/will be damaged? How does their phone system work and what damage will it sustain? I mean, how can these things be priced at this point?
Somebody MUST know something...

And BTW, did any of you listen to the speech last night? I thought it was funny how the VERY FIRST ITEM on Dubya's list of no-no's that will surely have you convicted of a war crime was setting fire to the oil wells!!! Over and above the normal war crimes of using weapons of mass destruction, chemical/biological weapons, etc. Did anybody else catch that but me?!?!

Look, I'm not protesting against this war or anything - it's not like that - not at all w/ me. I'm all for taking the bastard out - but let's call it what it is.

Here's a bad example - let's say several of us have been getting pushed around, beat up, and had our lunch money taken by the neighborhood bully for a good while. We all know he's a bully, but teachers and parents won't help us out. So a couple of us get together and decide enough is enough - we think we can take him. So we plot our plan and we kick his ever-lovin' @$$ one day behind the school yard - good enough, he had it coming. Now that we've got him down, do we take all his money? Just because he took ours? Do we take his watch too? How about his sneakers? Heck we could take all his clothes and drawers too, let him walk home naked - that'll teach him!
Well, to do that would make us NO BETTER than him. We beat his @$$ because he is a bully - not because we want to pilliage the guy or his clubhouse.

In this case Saddam has a VERY nicely loaded "clubhouse". And IMO, that will prove to be his downfall. In my mind, we are doing the right thing by taking him out - no doubt about it. But after we get him down, a few kids in our group are ready to clean this guys perverbial pockets. I am just too aware of what else is going on "behind the clubhouse" to think that it is purely a "moral issue". A Super-wealthy elite group is setting up to make some MAJOR friggin' money in the backwash of what our tax-dollars are gonna make happen. Isn't government-assisted capitalism wonderful!

above all else...
May our troops and their loved ones come out of this ordeal with their lives, love, and happiness in tact and stronger than ever. As a member of a VERY militarily-laden family, I appreciate what they do, what they are going through, and I have their well-being at the top of my list of hopes.

Now Go Kick dat@ss Y'all!!!

 

AMEN

 

the gas prices are way lower then i would have expected....because of the war and all

 

Prices should be going down soon, the pice of a barrel was $40 in late Feb. and today closed at $28. It usually take a few weeks for that price to reflect at the pump.

 

Oh.. and the price of gasoline per gallon is 87¢ the rest is tax

 

Isn't it funny how...
If the price of crude goes up today, we see pump prices go up in a day or two max, but...
If the price of crude drops today, it can take weeks for us to see pump prices drop?

 

I know this is so off-topic for this forum, but I think you guys NEED to read this.

Just for those of you who took the time to actually READ my entire post chopped above, I offer my gratitude, and a NEW tidbit for you to chew on in reference to my "UNBELEIVABLE" link above...

Here's a new, even MORE UNBELEIVABLE article.

In short, it now seems that our US ARMY has decided that IT must PAY for putting out the oil well fires in Iraq. Funny, I didn't know the US ARMY owned them? At any rate, after they decided the US ARMY must pay for this, the ARMY awarded the contract to put them out to... (who else but... )
Halliburton Oil Co!!! And the best part is... they didn't even have to BID FOR IT!

Let me point out a few little details for you folks "at this juncture"(pun-intended)...
1)The US ARMY is funded with OUR TAX DOLLARS. That means that our tax money is going to be spent putting out those fires, saving the precious oil that we will later be gouged at the pump to purchase from some private company.
2)The ARMY awarded the contract UNBIDDED - which means that Halliburton can charge WHATEVER THEY WANT TO!!! I wish I could sell my stuff for whatever I wanted to charge for it and get guaranteed payment.
3)Halliburton is VERY intimate with the Bush family (see my previous post for details), and VPOTUS D1ck Cheney WAS the CEO of Halliburton Oil until being forced to step down when appointed our VP (At which time he got a $36-miilion severance package and was allowed to put his millions in stock into "blind trust" WHILE IN OFFICE - he get's it all back when his term is over.).

So at this point, I reiterate my prior comment about "what is REALLY going on in Iraq". We are doing the right thing over there, but it is for the WRONG reason, IMO. We, the US citizens, are getting HOSED people! Our tax money is being used to facilitate huge oil conglomerates' taking control of foreign oil fields, setting up their transportation systems/pipelines, providing protection for those systems, and we still get gouged at the pumps for it!

I can't beleive I am writing stuff like this. I am the most patriotic guy you could meet, but I also have a brain, a memory more than 24-hours long, and I can read (unfortunately).

Sorry for this rant.
But I'M BEGGING YOU GUYS - PLEASE READ THESE NEWS REPORTS WITH YOUR MINDS ENGAGED FULLY. UNDERSTAND WHAT IS GOING ON AROUND US.

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS - and hope for Saddam's removal, he is a tyrannical bastard. But be aware of the politicians behind the troops' action and just exactly WHAT ALL is motivating them to send our troops into battle.

Thanks guys.
With heartfelt convictions,
Proud

 

Gas was $1.54 for PREMIUM today. WooHoo. I filled that sucker up!!

 

Okay, your profile says you are from the Mitten state...Is that Michigan? Because that isn't more than a few hours away...