$2.08 a gallon. What do you have?

[utgrad73]

I new a guy from somewhere around Newark who tapped his natural gas well in his backyard and used it to fuel his pickup truck. If you dig deep enough you might just hit a gas pocket or drill the backyard of some poor guy in China. Either way it would be cheaper than Toledo's 3.45 per gallon.

[BuckeyeMike80]

Originally Posted by utgrad73

I new a guy from somewhere around Newark who tapped his natural gas well in his backyard and used it to fuel his pickup truck. If you dig deep enough you might just hit a gas pocket or drill the backyard of some poor guy in China. Either way it would be cheaper than Toledo's 3.45 per gallon.

That reminds me of a joke my boss told me when I had to replace my water heater.


One day this guy is jumping out of a plane for fun.

The parachutist falls to the proper height and pulls the cord for his main chute. Nothing happens.

Quickly he pulls the cord for his reserve chute. Again nothing happens.

He looks down and sees a guy coming up at him from the house to his left. As the guy passes him he asks "hey do you know anything about parachutes?"

The man replies:

"No. Do you know anything about natural gas water heaters?"



ok bad joke, but if your friend isn't pulling your leg, what he did could get exciting really quickly....

[gregorylee]

the bad part is that the 3.95 a gal for diesel is going to just [censored] up the prices of everything in short order.

[NJ-Buckeye]

Many stations are still under $3... but the ironic thing is.. that's for regular... and these Jersey snobs have those primo cars that have to have the primo gas.. so $3.40+ for the hob-knobbers...

BTW this is full service pricing... you are NOT allowed to pump your own gas in Jersey...

Bus Native talks about CA pricing... and it makes me wonder how high it is in this one area of LA about 15 minutes from LAX that was always $1.50 higher than anything I saw here in Jersey

[shetuck]

Originally Posted by Taosman

We are a society of consumers, a little less of that would be all the good.
Saving(all kinds) would help everyone and the country in general.

What? And starve all those Chinese children cranking out product for Wal-Mart?

[shetuck]

Reuters: Mexico captures key Tijuana drug cartel operative

Yikes! High gas prices, and now this... I'm screwed!

Mexico captures key Tijuana drug cartel operative
By Miguel Angel Gutierrez
2 hours, 44 minutes ago



Mexico has captured a high-level drug suspect working for the powerful Tijuana cartel and will deport him to face smuggling charges in the United States, the government said on Wednesday.

Gustavo Rivera Martinez, a U.S. citizen wanted by the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) on drug charges, was arrested late on Tuesday in the northwestern Mexican state of Baja California Sur, Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourino told a news conference.

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Tony Garza, sent a brief statement praising the arrest, the second major drug capture this year under President Felipe Calderon's crackdown on smugglers, after the detention in January of a senior operative of the rival Sinaloa cartel.

Tuesday's capture followed half a dozen recent raids on the Tijuana cartel, also known as the Arellano Felix organization, that have put around 30 mid-level operatives behind bars.

Rivera Martinez is described as a lieutenant-level manager by the DEA, which had offered up to $2 million for information leading to his arrest. He is believed to be close to Enedina Arellano Felix, the latest in a clan of siblings to be heading the cartel, based in and around the seedy border city.


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