RV Fuel Issues & Prices - Post 'Em Here!

[Dick_A]

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[SRT]

Gas has now crept up to $1.94 at the head of the lakes. Geeze, hope it stays under $2.00 since we're planning to head out in late March.

[onrecess]

Good article today in the Times about anyone (read oil companies and oil shieks) could successfully manipulate the oil futures market with a bank account of $9 billion.
Hmm, didn't that onrecess guy post a while back that oil prices would slump because the congress passed a law un-exempting oil companies from monopoly laws if they were found speculating on crude?
That guy is dead on.
Funny, go back and look- prices started dropping right then... Strange, huh?
🙂

[Joezilla]

Diesel is $1.88 per gallon in Thackerville, OK last night. I filled up 53 gallons for less than $100. I am still in shock.

Joezilla

[Ram4Sam]

Got a case of diesel envy, do you? :B What I can't do is justify driving an underpowered gas guzzler that gets crappy mileage when I don't have to.:h

Sam

[RV-1_2n-FUN]

Yup. Seems like it is a way to justify spending the extra $$$$ needed to purchase a manly diesel rig.:W

[Ram4Sam]

I have noticed that also.:B:h

Sam

[rshidler]

Something I've observed in all these fuel price threads ... Diesel owners really don't care about the price of their fuel so long as it's cheaper than gas.

[Ram4Sam]

Stopped by to fuel up since we are heading to Quartzite, and lookee here....

Premium is the same as diesel, and unleaded is only twenty cents less than good ol'#2. A certain van owner is not going to like that!

Sam

[rscraig]

Saw diesel in my neighborhood yesterday for 2.15. At the same time, super premium gas is now 2.09. Are we going back to a time when diesel is cheaper than gas? Or is there a diesel hike around the corner?

[lwmuddy]

So now we can go back to page 1 on this thread and start all over again
OR
Just copy and paste your post's from back then in order to save time.

History repeats once again. Up to $1.89 here.

Looks like they will have to "send out for Chinese" to keep us afloat.

[DaveP]

My turn! Boy weren't gas prices fun last summer. Of course, once nobody had any money to do anything but fill their tank so they could go to work, things started to shut down. I'm sure the fighting in Gaza is being blamed for the raise in prices, but I can't help but wonder what impact that really has on oil. I wonder what Washington will do this time when Exxon/Mobil report record profits. :h

Next?

[SRT]

Bucky Badger wrote:
HERE we go again GAS up 20 cents here over night 1.65 to 1.85 a sign of things to come

Yup, went up from $1.69 to $1.89 here. It will come down after the lastest Israeli and Hamas tit for tat is over. :B

[mrjimboalaska]

Hey, Fuzzy wedge is back! pass the popcorn this should be good.

we get to hear about how we don't own our oil, how we can't control what we do in this country.
how we can save the world by being green, you know, wind and solar, wind and solar....
how great CHANGE is....
I'll take the extra butter please

[topflite51]

We have never gotten rid of nationalized socialized oil companies, they still do dominate the scene. The largest oil companies in the world are still state owned.

A US government owned oil company, drilling for their own crude oil would level the playing field with all the other nationalized socialized state owned oil companies. Why are you so worried about them? Afraid they couldn't compete with the good ole USA? That would be a shame if they couldn't, at least in your eyes it seems.

As I said before: "For all the negatives you mention about drilling for oil, begining to believe you are heavily invested, in one form or another, in energy technology that involves solar and wind or something else. All of your bellowing sounds kind of suspicious." Are you afraid you are going to lose your investment, whatever it is?

Where are these free international markets you are hallucinating about? We haven't had free markets in crude oil since OPEC was formed.

[Fezziwig]

topflie51 asks:

"So just exactly what is this treaty called that says the US government cannot own its very own oil company? Drill for its own oil? I haven't heard of it."

What are you, a socialist?

We, the USA, fought long and hard to get rid of the nationalized socialized oil companies that dominated the world 50-60 years ago. remember when the USA went up against Britain in Suez?

Socialized oil companies, such as you're thinking of, are unfair competition in Free International Markets! They can be subsidized by forced subsidization of the taxpayers in a country. They are unfair competition to capitalist oil companies that must struggle to survive in free competitive markets.