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Thread ID: 19910 | Posts: 28 | Started: 2005-08-31
2005-08-31 18:58 | User Profile
[url]http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/31/news/gas_prices/index.htm[/url]
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Consumers can expect retail gas prices to rise to $4 a gallon soon but whether they stay there depends on the long-term damage to oil facilities from Hurricane Katrina, oil and gas analysts said Wednesday.
:dung:
2005-08-31 19:04 | User Profile
For all us "worse is better" folk around here, this is great news!!
Our civilization is crumbling right before our eyes people.
Keep your powder dry and your vegetables canned. Have lighters or matches in plenty and some water tablets too and you'll be as ready as you can be.
2005-08-31 21:43 | User Profile
Around here the news is touting a gas shortage and the lines are lined up down the street to fill up gas tanks at $3 a gallon unleaded; just like the 70's.
:gunsmilie
2005-08-31 22:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=xmetalhead]For all us "worse is better" folk around here, this is great news!!
[/QUOTE]Sounds like a New Yorker who rides the subway.:tongue:
2005-08-31 22:53 | User Profile
It is going to be high here because there is no gas being delivered to Ga and SC. People are panicing here and filling up theit tanks. It is like the 1970's gas crisis. One station I saw had it for 4.79 a gallon. Neeedless to say, I am staying home for the most part until further notice.
2005-08-31 22:56 | User Profile
[QUOTE=skemper]One station I saw had it for 4.79 a gallon. [/QUOTE]
ouch, thats gonna leave a mark!
:eek:
2005-08-31 23:36 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Sounds like a New Yorker who rides the subway.:tongue:[/QUOTE] Given how fast the the congoids in New Orleans returned to their natural state, no sane white person could live in a major urban area, or any area with significant numbers of blacks and browns.
2005-08-31 23:44 | User Profile
I can't help but get major schadenfreude rushes when I see all these dittohead, SUV-loving Bushies driving around in their Suburbans and Tahoes.
2005-09-01 01:58 | User Profile
$4.00-$4.50 here in the metro Atlanta area. At least we won't have to hear the braying jackasses on "talk radio" tell us that gas is cheaper now than it was in 1981.
2005-09-01 05:08 | User Profile
[QUOTE=PaleoBear]I can't help but get major schadenfreude rushes when I see all these dittohead, SUV-loving Bushies driving around in their Suburbans and Tahoes.[/QUOTE]
Can't say that I've seen those FReaker ribbons and "W-04" stickers on anything tinier than a Cherokee...
2005-09-01 05:45 | User Profile
[QUOTE=PaleoBear]Given how fast the the congoids in New Orleans returned to their natural state, no sane white person could live in a major urban area, or any area with significant numbers of blacks and browns.[/QUOTE] They've always been in their natural state. Only a constant supply of bananas and a big stick kept them in check. Not that they didn't try to challenge the authorities.
The time to make DVDs for WN is now! Just combine the footage and circulate. Every time you hear "we be equalz" let them watch it and continue claiming that afterwards.
Propaganda writes and films itself. Because it's the truth.
2005-09-01 06:19 | User Profile
Check out today's Drudge report. In some places the scumbags are charging - and getting - almost [color=red]six freakin' dollars a gallon![/color]
2005-09-01 14:00 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Sounds like a New Yorker who rides the subway.:tongue:[/QUOTE]
LOL Okie. How's the mileage on your Hummer these days? :lol:
I gave up riding the subway years ago. Everytime a pack of non-white youth got onboard, the clenching in my nether regions would cause a huge rise in my blood pressure. I realized the utter danger in commuting interborough on NYC's subways. It's sad. The subways are an excellent form of transportation, and in a Whiter world, I wouldn't even own a friggin' car, I'd just use buses and subways.
Now I drive a car to work in the suburbs. Much less stressful, but the gas prices are crazy. I paid $3.10 yesterday for....regular! The day before it was $2.90. I expect tomorrow to be at least $3.50 for regular. Super is already $3.50 now and will probably be $4.00 by dawn.
BUSH MUST GO!!!!!!BUSH MUST GO!!!!!!!!BUSH MUST GO!!!!!!!
2005-09-01 15:20 | User Profile
California gas prices are lagging. Nice for a change :cheers:
2005-09-01 22:04 | User Profile
Gas pumps around here are shutting down left and right as they run out of gas. $3.19 - $3.50 for regular gas and .20 or so more for premium. As it stands now most are down to premium only.
Worries now are of my tank getting siphoned during the night. Should I sleep by my vehicles tonight?
2005-09-02 20:59 | User Profile
If you are worried about your gas being siphoned; Go to the parts house and get a locking gas cap. I got one not too long ago. It works very well and it is not to hard to use. I think they run about $10.00. It now costs me $40.00 or more to fill a tank, so I think it is worth it.
I get about 23 mpg with my car not great but bettter than the US average of 17 mpg. But I only paid $1200 cash for the car and do not have car payments to make.
2005-09-02 21:58 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]If you are worried about your gas being siphoned; Go to the parts house and get a locking gas cap. I got one not too long ago. It works very well and it is not to hard to use. I think they run about $10.00. It now costs me $40.00 or more to fill a tank, so I think it is worth it.
I get about 23 mpg with my car not great but bettter than the US average of 17 mpg. But I only paid $1200 cash for the car and do not have car payments to make.[/QUOTE] I've got a full size van that I use for work. As of right now with the going rate of $3.50 a gallon it takes $120 to fill the tank. That might last 3 days if I'm lucky. The locking gas cap is a must have but God do I loathe those mexican filled auto parts stores filled with black employees around here. That's the only thing keeping me from making a beeline for the part.
2005-09-02 22:52 | User Profile
Cracker of the Whip,
Yes you very right, I know what mean about the auto parts stores they bad places to walk into these days. The employees canââ¬â¢t tell their elbow from their ass. I hate going into them. I order them off the internet when I can.
froogle: locking gas cap [url]http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=auto+parts+locking+gas+cap&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=ff&oi=froogler[/url]
Google: auto parts [url]http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=auto+parts&btnG=Google+Search[/url]
2005-09-03 02:48 | User Profile
Thanks Faust.
If the prices get like California [IMG]http://www.halturnershow.com/6DollarGasoline.jpg[/IMG] I'm going to have to put an alarm system on all my vehicles. Maybe buy some guard dogs while I'm at it. It's closing in on this :gunsmilie
2005-09-03 03:14 | User Profile
This is not California. We have gas below $3.
2005-09-03 10:30 | User Profile
[QUOTE=madrussian]This is not California. We have gas below $3.[/QUOTE] I got the picture from the Hal Turner site. It must be Atlanta then, I've read that their prices have shot up beyond $4.
2005-09-03 10:53 | User Profile
CW,
That probably was Atlanta. There were a few places charging that much. Things seem to have stabilized, somewhat. The BP near me is charging $2.99 for regular.
2005-09-03 11:08 | User Profile
America existed in its best, sanest epochs without the 'advantages' of what Russell Kirk called "mechanical Jacobins" and their ravages. Rational persons disengage themselves from the whole hypertrophied industrial-financial system. Pusillanimous, servile, ineffectual whining is a trait of leftist psychology. Every people and every person ultimately has the fate it deserves. Lemminglike society conforms to the insane pressures of modern industry and finance (our 'elite' being merely jumped-up, visionless, superficially clever peasants qualitatively identical to the cattle they fleece), as if no other possibilities existed than passive submission to mass technicism and slavish mimicry of the self-debasing herd, leading to the rotting away of all sense of order and decency in life. Gradually our life-skills and survival-skills disappear, the original adaptive pioneering spirit a memory; Americans are now abysmally non-functional outside the self-created insularized universe of modernity as is evident in the latest natural crisis; parasitical, unnatural, and neurotic dependencies on abstractions like technology, government, and the so-called 'economy' multiply, undermining all manliness and real autonomy of the personality...
Aldous Huxley satirized modern society for its blind worship of entropic technology. Thus, in his dystopia the populace worships Henry Ford as a god. Modern American society is fully dystopian and Huxleyian, its only shared, cementing religion being the worship of Henry Ford's creation. The mindless noise of mass technology like the continent-spanning train haunted the dreams of the sensitive American seer Henry David Thoreau. Schopenhauer the German philosopher rightly theorized that the level of cacophonous noise a person can neurologically handle is correlated with their cognitive and spiritual level. Modern dysgenic society measures as braindead in an extreme way. Russell Kirk argued that our habituated conformity to the modern car and highway system has done more to tear up local, rooted, organic communities than practically any other process of decadence. Principled, intelligent, and farseeing conservatives should make no compromises with modern society. Conservatives should be more than average bourgeois individuals ignorant of the long-term, spiritual effects of reckless social and technological experiments indiscriminately applied contradicting the natural order. Mass production and industry and the neurotic speed of American life the Bolsheviks regarded as highly progressive features and sought to re-create this situation in Russia: "The revolutionary storm of Soviet Russia must join the pace of American life... The task of the new proletarian Russia is to intensify the mechanization already at work in America and extend it to every domain," ran the official directive. Thus conservatives must understand the monstrously unconservative and destructive nature of these things. Higher-order conservatives should study the positive, non-entropic life-ways of the Amish and listen to Nietzsche in this case...
[center]How often I see that blindly raging industriousness does[/center] [center]create wealth and reap honors while at the same time depriving[/center] [center]the organs of their subtlety, which alone would make possible[/center] [center]the enjoyment of wealth and honors; also that this chief[/center] [center]antidote to boredom and the passions at the same time blunts[/center] [center]the senses and leads the spirit to resist new attractions.[/center] [center]The most industriousness of all ages--ours--does not know how[/center] [center]to make anything of all its industriousness and money, except[/center] [center]always still more money and still more industriousness; for it[/center] [center]requires more genius to spend than to acquire. --Well, we[/center] [center]shall have our "grandchildren!" The Gay Science, sec. 21[/center]
[center]Americans' breathless haste in working--the true vice of the new world--is already starting to spread to old Europe, making it savage and covering it with a most odd mindlessness. Already one is ashamed of keeping still; long reflection almost gives people a bad conscience. One thinks with a watch in hand, as one eats lunch with an eye on the financial pages--one lives like someone who might always 'miss out on something.' 'Rather do anything than nothing'--even this principle is a cord to strangle all culture and all higher taste....[/center] [center]For life in a hunt for profit constantly forces people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion in continual pretence or out-smarting or forestalling others: the true virtue today is doing something in less time than someone else....[/center]
[center]More and more, work gets all good conscience on its side; the desire for joy already calls itself a 'need to recuperate' and is starting to be ashamed of itself. 'One owes it to one's health'--that is what one says when caught on an excursion in the countryside." The Gay Science, sec. 329.[/center]
2005-09-04 07:50 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]CW,
That probably was Atlanta. There were a few places charging that much. Things seem to have stabilized, somewhat. The BP near me is charging $2.99 for regular.[/QUOTE] The vast majority of the stations around here are shut down. Where stations abound on nearly every corner they're sporadically being resupplied and so obtaining gas requires driving around several square miles to find the oasis. As of now it has leveled off to around $3.20-$3.50 for regular. The consensus of thought that I've been getting from those I talked to is optimistic that within a week or two everything will return back to the way it was. Fat chance, I say.
2005-09-19 20:29 | User Profile
Well I was wrong. Prices around here have dropped to a lower level than before Katrina hit; I saw $2.49 for regular today. Any thoughts as to how the oil industry could get it all back under control again in such a short amount of time? Or, did they just take advantage of the situation and scam us all for a short period?
2005-09-23 11:47 | User Profile
The prices are heading through the roof again. [IMG]http://tinypic.com/dxl8ua.jpg[/IMG]
2005-09-23 16:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Cracker of the Whip]The prices are heading through the roof again. [img]http://tinypic.com/dxl8ua.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Good one, I saw a fellow on TV today talking about Houston refineries shutting down for a few days to prevent a mess when the storm surge hits.
20+% of the US refining capacity. Will take them 4-5 days to re start.
Oooh, baby, gas lines, just like in 1973. Pardon me while I vomit.
AE
2005-09-29 00:52 | User Profile
Anybody else heard this? [QUOTE]... [B]Initial reports from companies are ominous. [/B] Global Santa Fe reported it could not find two of its rigs. Rowan Companies reported four rigs damaged, with two having moved, one losing its ââ¬Ålegsââ¬Â and the fourth presumed sunk. Noble has four rigs adrift, with two run aground one into a ChevronTexaco platform.
[url=http://news.ft.com/cms/s/034a384e-2f8a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html]Rita causes record damage to oil rigs [/url] [SIZE=1]By Carola Hoyos in London, Sheila McNulty in Houston and Thomas Catan in Johannesburg [/SIZE] Published: September 27 2005 20:14 | Last updated: September 28 2005 08:38 [/url] [/QUOTE]
Or this?
[QUOTE]... [B]California's percentage sales tax provides economic incentives for government officials to promote high prices at the pump.[/B] The sales tax has created an implied partnership between the oil industry and California government as [B]both dramatically benefit from the rise at the pump[/B]. The risk that elected officials constantly searching for additional tax revenue will become "hooked" on high pump prices is real. ... [url=http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=5084&pageTitle=New+Study+F%20inds+Oil+Company+Profiteering+Behind+Gasoline+Price+Spikes%3B+Bush+Called+Up%20on+To+Prevent+Profiteering]New Study Finds Oil Company Profiteering Behind Gasoline Price Spikes[/url] September 1, 2005 [/QUOTE]