Gas
04-16-2006, 04:57 PM
#21
Join Date: Apr 2006
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RE: Gas
ORIGINAL: thatstang
I'll keep filling up till I can't afford it no more. Such as life qand we can bitch all we want but we have no control. One way to make up the difference is to buy into oil company stock and ride the wave :-) The profit you make from the stock you can use to fill up with supreme.
By the way, in Europe gas cost 1.47euro per litter which is around $6 per gallon and their salaries are 10 times lower as well so there is always a positive side I guess......
I'll keep filling up till I can't afford it no more. Such as life qand we can bitch all we want but we have no control. One way to make up the difference is to buy into oil company stock and ride the wave :-) The profit you make from the stock you can use to fill up with supreme.
By the way, in Europe gas cost 1.47euro per litter which is around $6 per gallon and their salaries are 10 times lower as well so there is always a positive side I guess......
"salaries are 10 times lower"
Maybe what the illegals get!
04-16-2006, 05:10 PM
#22
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Texas
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RE: Gas
Excuse me if I am not just jumping for joy and hopping right up on the Ethonol bandwagon. Especially with the 5 minute news story that aired a couple of nights ago telling us how ( in our area at least ) fuel prices would jump well above the $3 mark because the gas station owners are not prepaired for Ethonol and they have to make changes in their pumps, lines, tanks, etc. AND, there will ( and already has been ) shortages because the Ethonol mix takes a different type of tanker truck for transportation and the distribution companies do not have enough trucks that can transport it. They have already changed to a 10% Ethonol mix at all the pumps here and I dropped about 50 miles per tank in mileage on my first fill up.
04-16-2006, 05:28 PM
#23
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RE: Gas
ORIGINAL: hawgman
Excuse me if I am not just jumping for joy and hopping right up on the Ethonol bandwagon. Especially with the 5 minute news story that aired a couple of nights ago telling us how ( in our area at least ) fuel prices would jump well above the $3 mark because the gas station owners are not prepaired for Ethonol and they have to make changes in their pumps, lines, tanks, etc. AND, there will ( and already has been ) shortages because the Ethonol mix takes a different type of tanker truck for transportation and the distribution companies do not have enough trucks that can transport it. They have already changed to a 10% Ethonol mix at all the pumps here and I dropped about 50 miles per tank in mileage on my first fill up.
Excuse me if I am not just jumping for joy and hopping right up on the Ethonol bandwagon. Especially with the 5 minute news story that aired a couple of nights ago telling us how ( in our area at least ) fuel prices would jump well above the $3 mark because the gas station owners are not prepaired for Ethonol and they have to make changes in their pumps, lines, tanks, etc. AND, there will ( and already has been ) shortages because the Ethonol mix takes a different type of tanker truck for transportation and the distribution companies do not have enough trucks that can transport it. They have already changed to a 10% Ethonol mix at all the pumps here and I dropped about 50 miles per tank in mileage on my first fill up.
04-16-2006, 06:26 PM
#25
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RE: Gas
ORIGINAL: hawgman
Doesn't BP stand for British Petroleum?
Doesn't BP stand for British Petroleum?
To increase U.S. energy supply, in 2005 BP is investing:
$2.2 billion over the next 15 years to double production in its Wamsutter, Wyo. gas fields
$5 billion total in the United States to provide new sources of energy to our customers
$700 million in Alaska for oil and gas production and development
$750 million in U.S. refineries
$72 million in pipelines
$25 million to expand its solar cell manufacturing facility, making BP North America’s largest producer of solar silicon wafers
Also continues its decade-long $15 billion investment program in the Gulf of Mexico to find and produce new energy supplies
And continues its $1 billion construction program of four, state-of-the-art, double-hulled crude oil tankers
In this section
Key facts and figures
Did you know that….? Related links
BP in the United States
Learn more about BP, among the world’s largest and most progressive enterprises.
04-16-2006, 06:27 PM
#26
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RE: Gas
ORIGINAL: Jimp
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?...tentId=7008591
To increase U.S. energy supply, in 2005 BP is investing:
$2.2 billion over the next 15 years to double production in its Wamsutter, Wyo. gas fields
$5 billion total in the United States to provide new sources of energy to our customers
$700 million in Alaska for oil and gas production and development
$750 million in U.S. refineries
$72 million in pipelines
$25 million to expand its solar cell manufacturing facility, making BP North America’s largest producer of solar silicon wafers
Also continues its decade-long $15 billion investment program in the Gulf of Mexico to find and produce new energy supplies
And continues its $1 billion construction program of four, state-of-the-art, double-hulled crude oil tankers
In this section
Key facts and figures
Did you know that….? Related links
BP in the United States
Learn more about BP, among the world’s largest and most progressive enterprises.
ORIGINAL: hawgman
Doesn't BP stand for British Petroleum?
Doesn't BP stand for British Petroleum?
To increase U.S. energy supply, in 2005 BP is investing:
$2.2 billion over the next 15 years to double production in its Wamsutter, Wyo. gas fields
$5 billion total in the United States to provide new sources of energy to our customers
$700 million in Alaska for oil and gas production and development
$750 million in U.S. refineries
$72 million in pipelines
$25 million to expand its solar cell manufacturing facility, making BP North America’s largest producer of solar silicon wafers
Also continues its decade-long $15 billion investment program in the Gulf of Mexico to find and produce new energy supplies
And continues its $1 billion construction program of four, state-of-the-art, double-hulled crude oil tankers
In this section
Key facts and figures
Did you know that….? Related links
BP in the United States
Learn more about BP, among the world’s largest and most progressive enterprises.
04-16-2006, 08:26 PM
#27
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 300
RE: Gas
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"salaries are 10 times lower"
Maybe what the illegals get![/quote]
Off the subject LOL but our illegals get paid about $25 per hour for construction work now how do you like them apples. Contractors are complaining that they are unable to find American men to do the work. I had a long conversation with one of the builders re: hiring illegals and he states that when he hired Americans for construction jobs the problems that he faced were: Expectation of higher pay, high cost of benefits, people not showing up for work frequently, taking disability leave for any minor cut or scratch at his expence, slow construction and nobody wants to work on a weekend without double pay or so. Two options that he was faced with. One, is to close down the company or two, is to hire qualified illegals from Mexico/Russia and able to stay in business at competitive rates.
I am all for supporting American companies like BP and such but lets make sure that Americans are actually doing the work and it is not someone else.
I had a moment there.........
