rexracer

I don't pay a cent for my gas. I empty all the tanks of the cars that I bring into my shop and just fill a 55 gallon drum so I always have gas ready. (I'm a registered salvage dealer, I don't rip customers off by emptying their cars)

Chris, I don't know why you don't do this if you are in the salvage business as well.


For everyone else, junkyards save all the gas and some even sell it. You could probably be buying gas at 1.50-2.00 a gallon if you went to your local yard and asked about it.

J-MAN

a few of my friends went out and got bikes last weekend, $230 down and $100 a month . with prices like that i can't afford not to get one


last summer i worked at a gas station, when the prices got to $3.00 a gallon i got so pissed i accadently broke the computer. took them all day to fix it. .

---- your gas *****!

Alex in Houston

Thoughts like this are so unfounded and lack knowledge of the subject.
Gas stations and companies are not the blame for the prices. Exxon is not gouging the public. Neither is Shell or Chevron. Your friendly uncle Sam is ------- you harder the anyone!
First off, oil companies, after all is said and done (cost wise) make on the average SEVEN CENTS per gallon. Exxon is little closer to Eleven Cents per gallon. Your friendly Uncle (SAM) takes $.71 PER GALLON!! No that is not a guess or an assumption, it's a FACT. Exxon, Shell, Chevron do all the work to get the gas to the pump and the Government makes waaayyy more for doing not a damn thing!
Want to know the killer? The oil companies still have to pay taxes on the profits they make! Not to forget, you're paying taxes on the money, you made to pay for the gas. You paid taxes on the car you bought, with the money you paid taxes on to buy the car. Then you pay fees (taxes) to drive the car, that you paid taxes on, with the money you made, that you paid taxes on, on the roads that your tax money paid for!
Now, the next time you say a politician (Dem or Repub, they are all the same really) talking about investigating this and that to help the American put gas in the tank. Wonder why they won't drop the SEVENTY ONE CENTS worth of tax that they levy on us per gallon. I don't know about you, but $.71 off per gallon would help me a bunch...............I mean if they really care about the American worker so much.
Even the inflation on prices is waaaayy behind average.
http://www.factsonfuel.org/gasoline/index.html
Lastly, if you drive a vehicle that uses dead dinosaur energy, you'll either pay whatever it cost or not drive. Simple as that. There will be no revolts, the Government is not going to help (they are ------- youthe hardest!!!). America is not going to shut down and life will go on as normal.

brick1234

nicely said.

J-SMITH69

i was going to bring this up but you beat me to it

well done

Alex in Houston

Yeah if more people would get mad at the damn politicians sticking dick to them, then we'd see some real change in America. As long as we keep falling for the same old song and dance, the band will play on.
Dem or Repub, they all tax YOU! There isn't a government official on your side. They all just want to figure out new ways to seperate you from your money.

Alex in Houston

And while we're on this and since some seem to really need the REAL information on the situation.................

Brazil went to ethanol 30 years ago, when OPEC did that oil embargo. America could have as well but the pockets of politicians are lined with dollars from car and oil companies (we have the best government money can buy).
Ethanol is expensive for us not because of deisel cost to transport it, it's expensive because we just don't have the refineries for it. We have to import our ethanol (mainly from Brazil) just as we do our oil.
America is going to be forced to drill for new oil and build refineries and/or start the process for ethanol. Either way, it's still a 10 year plan before it's cost is recovered.

J-SMITH69

we havent got a new refinery in what almost 40 years?

Alex in Houston

Or longer

J-SMITH69

while demand has gone up 40x