Florida Drivers Shelling Out Nearly $6 A Gallon At Some Gas Stations
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Oh please in Germany we already are at 8.27$ per gallon. This is cheap compared to us over here.
[QUOTE=ewitwins;34827819]Or public transportation. People always bitch about gas prices, maybe they need to stop driving for awhile or start car pooling[/QUOTE]
You realize that America is fucking huge right? Everything is spread out, public transportation only runs in the cities, and it's poor in most.
Believe it or not, as someone who's both their parents are employed at Disney ( in addition to myself getting a job there as well ) gas prices at the HESS stations in Disney are actually some of the cheapest places you can buy gas. It's not as consistent as it used to be, but it's still been cheaper than everywhere else in the surrounding area.
In my opinion, gas prices are just currently speculated BS due to the fact that the middle east can't settle quite possibly the most stupid disputes of the 21st century. I won't lie though, as a U.S. citizen, I know I have it pretty nice compared to Europe as far as oil goes. Then again, Europe has a better established public transport than the lame excuse for ones in most places other than tourist areas in Florida.
[QUOTE=SystemOfAnUp;34840425]Believe it or not, as someone who's both their parents are employed at Disney ( in addition to myself getting a job there as well ) gas prices at the HESS stations in Disney are actually some of the cheapest places you can buy gas. It's not as consistent as it used to be, but it's still been cheaper than everywhere else in the surrounding area.
In my opinion, gas prices are just currently speculated BS due to the fact that the middle east can't settle quite possibly the most stupid disputes of the 21st century. I won't lie though, as a U.S. citizen, I know I have it pretty nice compared to Europe as far as oil goes. Then again, Europe has a better established public transport than the lame excuse for ones in most places other than tourist areas in Florida.[/QUOTE]
I can confirm this as a now former employee of the rat. Disney has a requirement that hess cannot gouge customers. However as soon as you exit Disney property like on 535 near Downtown Disney you get buttfucked by price gouging gas stations and traffic jams. Same with the ones right across from the airport.
Also as a side note I paid 3.69 a gallon for gas out in Clermont. 30 dollars got me a half a tank. Wooo :/ Sad thing is for me its cheaper to continue driving my Cadillac than to pay payments on a car that gets better gas mileage even if gas hits up to 6 dollars a gallon.
Doesn't anyone in the US use CNG?
It's like, way cheaper than diesel and gas, and it's everywhere in this country. And you don't even have to buy a new car, hell, cars can run on either and have both at the same time.
[QUOTE=diwako;34840014]Oh please in Germany we already are at 8.27$ per gallon. This is cheap compared to us over here.[/QUOTE]
I was gonna say I just talked about gas prices in class today. My teacher was saying it's over $10 over in some European countries like Italy.
[QUOTE=Altin;34841045]Doesn't anyone in the US use CNG?
It's like, way cheaper than diesel and gas, and it's everywhere in this country. And you don't even have to buy a new car, hell, cars can run on either and have both at the same time.[/QUOTE]
Never even seen a station with it.
huh
gas is three fiddy a gallon here
[editline]23rd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Demache;34841142]Never even seen a station with it.[/QUOTE]
According to wikipedia there's 37 states with at least one GNV station in the US.
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According to wikipedia there's 37 states with at least one GNV station in the US.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/progs/med_map.cgi?CNG/2012-02-20%2021:14:16[/img]
Guess which state I live in? :v:
[QUOTE=UseLets;34828505]Why do Americans use a overly complicated imperial system, make the switch you uneducated fucks. I'm tired of hearing "US GALLON, US OUNCE."[/QUOTE]
we use a different system of measurement
therefore we are uneducated fucks
excellent deduction skills
do you have any other mass generalizations you'd like to make while we're at it?
[QUOTE=Demache;34841216][img]http://www.afdc.energy.gov/afdc/progs/med_map.cgi?CNG/2012-02-20%2021:14:16[/img]
Guess which state I live in? :v:[/QUOTE]
Why would anyone live in South Dakota?
[QUOTE=Nikota;34841462]Why would anyone live in South Dakota?[/QUOTE]
Because you're in a militia and live in a pillbox.
I live in Florida. Gas here is less than $4.00 a gallon. I feel bad about the people elsewhere that pay more; it sucks that the circumstances surrounding the manufacturing and selling of gasoline render the nation essentially powerless to do anything about it. Even though the United States manufactures a frick ton of gasoline, it's made by private companies that would rather sell overseas so they can turn a profit. Driving down gasoline prices using "drill baby drill" would only work if the United States were to drill so much that it would drive the world's gasoline prices into the ground. Even then there would be no incentive for the oil companies to do so, since the world is not demanding that much gasoline, much of it would sit unused and cost the companies a fortune.
Of course, the US could always nationalize its gasoline production and keep all of it to itself, but that may not help since we import crude based on trade agreements that include the gasoline exports. Cutting off the exports would cause a rise in the cost to import crude oil, and drive up our costs in the end, anyway.
The only real way to win is to beat oil.
[QUOTE=Nikota;34841462]Why would anyone live in South Dakota?[/QUOTE]
Its a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
[QUOTE=Broseph_;34837747]I know what the decimal system is.
What the fuck is a Meter stick based on?
And a Inch is the length of the tip of my thumb, a foot is about the length between my knuckles and my elbow, and a yard is the length between the tip of my toes to the top of my leg, and roughly equal to a meter.[/QUOTE]
That makes Imperial sound fucking retarded. Not everybody's feet and arms are the same length. Making it really, really fucking arbitrary. Metric is much more scientific, a common, but small length (actually about the width of a finger) is pretty much a base measurement, the centimetre. Every other measurement from there is a multiplier of 100. 1cm = 10mm, 1M = 100cm, 1KM = 1,000M. Everything increases or decreases by a power of ten. Quite logical, very accurate.
Actually, why the fuck does the meter stick have to be based on anything? It could have just been a useful size for the inventor(s) of the system to use as a base size.
1 meter is exactly the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second.
that's a lot more scientific compared to his leg
IMO we should be making a push to nationalize oil companies like we do with other essential utilities like power companies. Stable, affordable gasoline is essential to the nation's economic health and we shouldn't leave it in the hands of greedy speculators and oil executives that artificially inflate prices and further squeeze our budgets when gasoline demand is consistently going DOWN. Exxon's shareholders are lining their pockets with record-setting profits generated by squeezing more and more money out of people who can barely afford to get to work. We should kick them out of the driver's seat and either negate that profit with cheaper prices, or use it to do something useful like repairing our shitty 50-year-old infrastructure. That $40 billion or so they made last year could do a lot of good, instead of just inflating already rich people's bank accounts while we all suffer for it.
Miami reached 5 dollars today, it's fucked up.
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Also as a side note I paid 3.69 a gallon for gas out in Clermont. 30 dollars got me a half a tank. Wooo :/ Sad thing is for me its cheaper to continue driving my Cadillac than to pay payments on a car that gets better gas mileage even if gas hits up to 6 dollars a gallon.[/QUOTE]
Not necessarily, I just got a daily driver that does 40 on the highway for $700. Another $400 in parts and a couple weekends of work and it was good to go. You don't have to sign a loan on a new car to get decent mileage.
fuck this stupid state and our cunt of a governor. That aside, maybe if we weren't playing around with Iran we'd be in better shape. Given that our oil supply is higher than ever, maybe if the speculators would give us a break we'd be fine.
[editline]24th February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;34843155]IMO we should be making a push to nationalize oil companies like we do with other essential utilities like power companies. Stable, affordable gasoline is essential to the nation's economic health and we shouldn't leave it in the hands of greedy speculators and oil executives that artificially inflate prices and further squeeze our budgets when gasoline demand is consistently going DOWN. Exxon's shareholders are lining their pockets with record-setting profits generated by squeezing more and more money out of people who can barely afford to get to work. We should kick them out of the driver's seat and either negate that profit with cheaper prices, or use it to do something useful like repairing our shitty 50-year-old infrastructure. That $40 billion or so they made last year could do a lot of good, instead of just inflating already rich people's bank accounts while we all suffer for it.[/QUOTE]
While I like the idea, the outrage would be incredible. Only time it would of been politically OK is if we nationalized the banks that got significant bailout money. And maybe while we're at it we could prosecute some of those business criminal cocksuckers.
[QUOTE=joe588;34831010]oh poor you.
try £1.459 a litre.[/QUOTE]
Try living in a country where, unless you live in a decently large city, there is no public transportation whatsoever.
I mean it's not like the UK is more than 7 times as densely populated or anything. It takes me more than 10 minutes to get into the actual city proper from my house so you can imagine how quickly I use up gas.
[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;34843155]IMO we should be making a push to nationalize oil companies like we do with other essential utilities like power companies. Stable, affordable gasoline is essential to the nation's economic health and we shouldn't leave it in the hands of greedy speculators and oil executives that artificially inflate prices and further squeeze our budgets when gasoline demand is consistently going DOWN. Exxon's shareholders are lining their pockets with record-setting profits generated by squeezing more and more money out of people who can barely afford to get to work. We should kick them out of the driver's seat and either negate that profit with cheaper prices, or use it to do something useful like repairing our shitty 50-year-old infrastructure. That $40 billion or so they made last year could do a lot of good, instead of just inflating already rich people's bank accounts while we all suffer for it.[/QUOTE]
Impossible. The oil companies have their hands far too up the skirts of the governments around the world.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;34827899]if you can find me a bus from austin to buttfuck central texas that will travel over 100 miles at 5 in the morning, you win a golden ticket[/QUOTE]
Screw 5 AM, it applies all times of day. Austin City Metro is probably the worst public transportation system in the state. C.A.R.T.S. is pretty terrible also.
In Denmark its about 2$ a liter. A gallon is 3,7 liters.
Thats pretty standard here.
[QUOTE=thisispain;34842512]1 meter is exactly the length of the path traveled by light in a vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second.
that's a lot more scientific compared to his leg[/QUOTE]
I didn't know they could measure the speed of light back in the 18th century
Now tell me what the fuck 1 meter was based on when it was conceived
[QUOTE=Broseph_;34837747]I know what the decimal system is.
What the fuck is a Meter stick based on?
And a Inch is the length of the tip of my thumb, a foot is about the length between my knuckles and my elbow, and a yard is the length between the tip of my toes to the top of my leg, and roughly equal to a meter.[/QUOTE]
'Roughly' doesn't work in measurement.
[QUOTE=Broseph_;34845617]I didn't know they could measure the speed of light back in the 18th century
Now tell me what the fuck 1 meter was based on when it was conceived[/QUOTE]
Now you're just grasping at straws, what difference does this make. Metric is superior in every conceivable way, deal with it.
Also, they could: [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer%27s_determination_of_the_speed_of_light[/url]
I'm not very surprised.
[QUOTE=Altin;34841045]Doesn't anyone in the US use CNG?
It's like, way cheaper than diesel and gas, and it's everywhere in this country. And you don't even have to buy a new car, hell, cars can run on either and have both at the same time.[/QUOTE]
That is just another name for LPG right? Has that taken off anywhere?
[QUOTE=Broseph_;34845617]I didn't know they could measure the speed of light back in the 18th century
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that's your lack of historical knowledge, not mine.
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