$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.


cont'd...

[sandgk]

Originally Posted by shetuck

Reuters: Mexico captures key Tijuana drug cartel operative

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

Oh, don't worry Bush wants a Free Trade pact with Colombia - got to draw the line somewhere.

[jlb1705]

$2.08/gallon. How quaint!

[OCBucksFan]

3.60 a gallon for 89. [censored]ing turbo.

[DaytonBuck]

Originally Posted by 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

Why is it that they don't have self serve?

[NJ-Buckeye]

Originally Posted by DaytonBuck

Why is it that they don't have self serve?

word is that the mob convinced our legislature that this would preserve jobs... and then they used safety as a backup strategy... they brought stats about fuel station accidents and films of explosions when folks just took off with the hose still in their car

[Piney]

Originally Posted by 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.

Not as bad as you think. My wife works in the trucking industry, they are taking a hit because now it is actually cheaper to send your shipments by rail and many companies are switching over for their shipment needs.

[buckeyegrad]

Originally Posted by martinss01

thats actually a really good idea for companies to adopt as perks for employees. a straight deduction out of your check like insurance.

unfortuantely people like me would never be able to take advantage of it because my hours are so chaotic. i might work till 5pm today. or i might work until 5am tomorrow morning. i won't know until i pull out of the parking lot.

I wasn't actually thinking of an individual company starting a line for their specific employees, but that is an interesting idea.

Rather, when I said private companies starting lines, I meant a private bus company, rather than relying only on the public transit authorities.

[Jimmy Carter]

Gasoline Sticker Shock Shocks Tourists Along Highway One - News Story - KNTV | San Francisco

[utgrad73]

From the story above.

[NBC11's Bob Redell traveled to the city of Gorda where a gas station is charging $5.40 for a gallon of full service premium. It just might be the most expensive gas in the country, Redell reported.

Redell said the reason the gas costs so much is because the town gets all its power from a generator and they use the extra profits from the pumps help pay that bill.

Wind would be the answer in the Bay Area. Take that generator off line and figure out a way to let mother nature help them out. I can say that I will never pay $5.00 a gallon for gas but when your the only show within 40 miles, the seller is going to win every time. They could fuel all those cars with fermented grape leaves out there, then if your car gets thirsty, go to the vineyards.

Seriously, being in the engineering business, we have been designing ethanol plants for many oil companies and others. The buzz right now is these facilities may be put on hold and those that are built may not be able to produce ethanol cheap enough because corn prices have risen too much. This may even force some of the plants to go out of business. So just like a barrel of oil over $100 and gas approaches $4 to 5 per gallon, a bushel of corn goes to the moon and ethanol production is no longer economically feasible. Is corn the only renewable resource? I don't think so. Saw grass is better, and quite possibly a country with so much can figure out a way to make this work. End the dependancy on fossil fuels and watch the price of gasoline come back down. Catch 22?