OT: Gas goes up 2 bucks and FINALLY comes down 20 cents.

Cheapest here (North Carolina) is 2.84.9 at Wal-Mart, but I paid a penny
more per gallon and got Sunoco fill-up today.  I was down to 1/4 tank, so I
put the remaining 8 gallons or so in.   I love my little rice-burner...

Natalie

Wickeddoll® wrote:

Last time I put Sunoco in my car, I noticed a sign on the pump that said
that it was 10% grain alcohol. That means it has about 3% less energy
than pure gas. So I don't put in Sunoco anymore.

Jeff

"Jeff" ...

So my car got shit-faced?

Natalie

All gas here is 10% ethanol..We don't get any choice in the matter..
We also have to use the reformulated gas..
The gas I buy these days doesn't even smell like real gas, and
hasn't for a few years.. Smells like solvents, chemicals, and sulfer,
etc..
Doesn't have same smell as it did say back in the 60's.
I used to like the smell of gas back in those days. My grandfather
had a Texaco station, so I got to pump it when I was young
during the summers. And it was probably selling in the mid 20's
cents per gallon for even high octane skychief...
MK

Likewise here in the Chicago area.  We have to use that re-f*ck-ulated gas
that gets about 10% less mileage.  So each gallon makes so much less
pollution (I think the figure is actually less than 5%) but we have to use
10% more of it?  Who did the math on that?  Probably some Na-Levo government
Apparatchnik.  Or maybe JoeNoBedroom.

That's also why gas is so much higher here.  In Kankakee, they don't have to
use ref*ckulated gas although most of it still is 10% ethanol.  So it's
about 30 cents cheaper.

And I was right.  The reason gas prices in Chicago are so high is
"something" happened again at the Amoco refinery in Indiana.   Every time
they want to raise prices, something seems to happen at the Amoco refinery.
A fire or an explosion or some dog pissing on the third rail. (No wait,
that's the CTA.)

Charles of Schaumburg

Wickeddoll®, 6/13/2007,8:11:45 PM, wrote:


$2.79 today at the gas stations near my house.  I am in SE VA.

The Democrats speak with a forked tongue on gas prices. They use to want to
add mega taxes to them to create less usage. Now that its convenient, they
yell about gas prices...

What Democrat promised to lower gas prices?  I'm really interested in this.
Please direct me to the source if possible.

If it really happened, it would've been as a prank to see how many
Republicans would be stupid enough to hang their hats on it, and for how
long. It's working quite well so far.

Is that because a politician would never lie or make a false promise if he's
a Democrat?  I'm just asking.

No - they're all the same. At least you're acknowledging that there's some
balance.

My suspicion is that no politician promised to lower gas prices.  n5hsr's
post stinks of partisan propaganda.

Pretty much all the political posts I see in here are from right- or
left-wing automatons who automatically believe and remember anything that
seems to support their side and disbelieve or forget anything that doesn't.
This group is in dire need of a moderator to kill all off-topic posts.  It's
a drastic measure, but the group is so polluted with political BS it's
practically useless.