Braineack

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yep, the reason our prices are so low is because we have our own refineries, and where the real money is made, but they aren't run at full production.

hustler

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It's a shame we have these refineries and aren't agrarian bicycle jockies and that we're so dependent on Canadian oil.

sixshooter

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Ackchully, it appears that domestic refinery production of gasoline has continued to increase over the years but, I would assume, so has our usage.



And of the 148 operable domestic refineries, 11 are currently out of operation. The notes indicate that 7 of those are undergoing continuing repairs as a direct result of hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the fact that George Bush hates black people.

NA6C-Guy

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Must be local. Gas here is the same as it was about a month ago, which is high!

pdexta

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+1. A few months ago we were well in the mid $4 a gallon range, I paid $4.49 at the highest. Lately it's been hanging around the $3.80-90 range (for premium).

NA6C-Guy

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Same here, $3.84 is what I paid earlier, same as what I was paying about a month ago. If anything it's gone down a few cents, it was up closer to $3.89 a few weeks ago. God I would kill for cheap gas again. Even when I was in high school driving 10 years or so ago, it was under $2.00, seems like maybe $1.79ish. Wow...

Braineack

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ha in HS I was paying .99 a gallon.

NA6C-Guy

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Well, how old are you again? Dirt?

Rocky64

I pick up and deliver gas and diesel from the Colonial Pipeline here in the Chattanooga area. I load at 5 different terminals on this pipeline under normal business conditions. Its very complicated.... the hows and the whys behind who owns a certain gallon of fuel in one of those giant 2.5 or 5 million gallon tanks.... or even when they choose to allocate that particular gallon for distribution. Murphy USA, maybe of the Murphy that is located at the WalMarts is slowly becoming a giant in fuel brokering.... Sometimes our suppliers won't allow us to pick up and we use a different supplier, while we are still hooked to the same loading arm/pipe, weird. We work slow as the prices fall... but when prices start to go back up, all of our stores call and order and want it within the hour.

pusha

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$0.99 a gallon of leaves for your goddamn dinosaur, gray bush.

astroboy

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Because you'll pay for it.

Savington

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The actual reason is that our prices aren't low (in relation to Europe, etc.) at all.





Unless there's a legitimate environmentally-based oil shortage, this will never happen. OPEC isn't stupid enough to drive the price high enough to cause a demand drop-off, because once that happens, people won't return to oil, the price (and volume) will fall to virtually nothing, and they'll be left holding the bag.

sixshooter

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Kill children?

Braineack

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yeah, at wholesale we [the US] pay about the same. I don't pay wholesale, I pay much less at the pump than the average European, like I said.

What if we [the US] didn't refine our own gas and bought from a supplier who's gov't taxes the hell out of it?

Faeflora

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You're a horrible person for suggesting such things. Our children are our future. Our sweet, delicious, future.

hustler

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In for Sierra Club queers to gay up this thread shortly.

sixshooter

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Barbie-Q?