Whoa Gas!

[plan b]

its been a few hours since the last post about gas.. what price is it now?!?!?!


haha.. lets talk about it more and more and more

[Phlip]

I'm not buying anymore gas, I'm riding my bicycle to work from now on...

[Jeff240sx]

Hey.. if we all don't buy gas tomorrow at noon, in that one hour, we'll screw the oil companies out of *puts pinky to mouth* $100 billion dollars! Chain this email to as many people as you know! Mwahahaha! Fear me oil companies! The lone gasbuyer...
-Jeff

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by Jeff240sx

Hey.. if we all don't buy gas tomorrow at noon, in that one hour, we'll screw the oil companies out of *puts pinky to mouth* $100 billion dollars! Chain this email to as many people as you know! Mwahahaha! Fear me oil companies! The lone gasbuyer...
-Jeff

I actually sent that email and realized how stupid the idea was AS I hit the send button... I wanted it back. It wouldn't screw big oil companies, it would do the station owners (usually private individuals) something ugly though...

[ONYX S-13]

I saw it but didn't send it....I hate getting chain letters so I'm not gonna do that to anyone else..It so happens I'm not gonna be buying gas tomorrow anyways cause I'm driving to thousand oaks today to get a bumper and I'm gonna fill up for that lil voyage tonight.

[oojpeeoo]

well its estimated by summer its gona hit past 3...so damn fuck that... im riding my bike liek PHLIP

[Jeff240sx]

Here's the reply that I've typed out/copy-pasted to two different forums with that chain mail as a thread. Here and tamparacing.
"There are an estimated 180 million cars in america. If they all bought gas on different days, then 1/7th of those cars would buy gas on the 19th. That's 25.714 million cars buying gas. If the average fillup is 14 gallons (the few cars with 15 or 20 gallon tanks rarely drive to empty, while most new cars are 8-12 gallon tanks), then we're talking about 360 million gallons of gas in that one day. Take the average gas price of $1.94/gallon, and subtract 42% (the average ammount of state and federal taxes in america) to get $1.12/gallon. Now, 360 million gallons at $1.12 per is a total of 403 million dollars. That's only 1/10th of the ammount listed above. Sounds like someone forgot to carry a digit, and I assure you, it wasn't me.
Other than the potential $400,000,000 loss from the one day of gas strike, which gets divided between the top 3 fuel suppliers, everyone who was supposed to fill up that day but didn't will fill up the next day. As will the people scheduled to fill on the 20th. So the fuel industry's "stick" will be fixed the next day, and create problems at gas pumps from double the normal ammount of purchases, and will probably incite some gas station owners to declare price gouging, which means the gasoline companies make the same ammount of money, and the station owners will make 3 or 4 times what they would have normally made in those 2 days before the day-long gouge fest.
Therefore, that propaganda's logic is retarded, it's math is flawed, and you are officially a moron for distributing this stinking load of bullshit.
-Jeff"
Yea.. it won't work. Ever.
-Jeff

[toreno]

[Jeff240sx]

Originally Posted by ONYX S-13

I saw it but didn't send it....I hate getting chain letters so I'm not gonna do that to anyone else..It so happens I'm not gonna be buying gas tomorrow anyways cause I'm driving to thousand oaks today to get a bumper and I'm gonna fill up for that lil voyage tonight.

I'm really hoping you saw my sarcasm in that first post. If not, see my above post, then realize my thoughts and opinions towards gas-boycotts, and then re-read the first post.

-Jeff

[Jeff240sx]

False! Are you sending me a free gas card, check, cash or paypal?
-Jeff

[ONYX S-13]

What if people all took public transport for a week or two ( Trolly's, trains,buses, bikes, skateboards, rollerblades,And carpooling)? Heh Like that's ever gonna happen..

[Ghettokracker71]

What are deisel prices at? I'm surprised with gas prices the way they are,that the deisel market isn't taking off a little more in the US. Look at europe,deisels are HUGE there...(ranting)

Fuck gas prices. I'm glad I drive a n/a 4 cylinder that gets good gas mileage(well,its out of commision for a while)

[sykikchimp]

Fuck gas.. we need more electric cars.. 100% torque available from 1rpm through whatever..

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Ghettokracker71

What are deisel prices at? I'm surprised with gas prices the way they are,that the deisel market isn't taking off a little more in the US. Look at europe,deisels are HUGE there...(ranting)

Fuck gas prices. I'm glad I drive a n/a 4 cylinder that gets good gas mileage(well,its out of commision for a while)

Diesel prices have gone up too. I think it was 2 (maybe 3?) summers ago where we had some pretty high gas prices due to lack of gasoline refinery capacity due to some fires and some consolidation. Now prices are high due to just high cude oil prices, so gas and diesel are both affected.

Originally Posted by sykikchimp

Fuck gas.. we need more electric cars.. 100% torque available from 1rpm through whatever..

I could be wrong about this, but I think electric motors make 100% torque at 0 rpm but make progressively less as rpms go up. It's one of the if the main problems with electric cars.

[ONYX S-13]

Originally Posted by Jeff240sx

I'm really hoping you saw my sarcasm in that first post. If not, see my above post, then realize my thoughts and opinions towards gas-boycotts, and then re-read the first post.

-Jeff

Yeah i saw the sacrcasm

[Ghettokracker71]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

I could be wrong about this, but I think electric motors make 100% torque at 0 rpm but make progressively less as rpms go up. It's one of the if the main problems with electric cars.

I think your right? I know a guy that was working on electric car projects a year or so ago;He mentioned that if you use a powerful enough electric engine as the sole power source it presented a big problem. (Kinda like holding your engine at its most effiecient RPM and dropping the clutch,not really a smooth transaction.)

I'm not sure about the 0RPM thing or not?

[Phlip]

Originally Posted by Ghettokracker71

What are deisel prices at? I'm surprised with gas prices the way they are,that the deisel market isn't taking off a little more in the US. Look at europe,deisels are HUGE there...(ranting)

Diesel was 1.65/gallon at the exxon a mile from the house on my way home from work tonight... Europe is in a worse situation than we are, they are paying the equivalent of damn near 4.00/gallon if I'm not mistaken

[Ghettokracker71]

Damn....never mind,I didn't know thats why I askin

Gotta suck to be UPS/ataxidriver/pizzadeliveryperson right now.

[Phlip]

NoNoNo, I think you missed it, I was saying that diesel HERE was 1.65/gallon, while it is about 3 times that in Europe given the rate of exchange. I bet diesel veedubs are going for a premium about now

[HaLo]

Roughly, in Montreal, our regular unleaded gas was 2.50$/gallon at the pump (99.9CDN Cents/L)

[WilloW]

I just saw the new gas prices today and it was $2.34 for 87, fucking 87 gas man! I'm jogging to my g/f house tomorrow, she's only a couple miles away heheh.