Mass market gas price hysteria- $12 a gallon gas

[wa-loaf]

Only possible with cheap oil.

No, the car companies paid cities in the 50's to tear up light rail tracks so they could sell more buses and cars.

Yes, all parts of the puzzle, but ripping up the tracks made it more difficult for folks to get around without a car. Get a car and you need to park it someplace, so why not move out of town a bit. And then the snowball starts with strip malls . . . Urban planning in the 50s was a nightmare and is the root of a lot of problems we have today.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Thanks for an interesting response . Had no idea that rate of creamation was either that advanced and also that cost-effective for the families .

The cremation rate is growing each year..as cemetery plots become more expensive and now the Catholic church allows it's members to be cremated. The funeral homes still have to provide a service and in many cases embalm the body for a viewing but they simply use a rental casket with a fresh liner..For cremations they don't get a casket sale which has a profit margin of about 500%..or the sale of a vault..instead they might sell an urn. In Europe and Australia the cremation rate is 70% and in China they bury bodies vertically.

 

[Moe Ghoul]

Yes, all parts of the puzzle, but ripping up the tracks made it more difficult for folks to get around without a car. Get a car and you need to park it someplace, so why not move out of town a bit. And then the snowball starts with strip malls . . . Urban planning in the 50s was a nightmare and is the root of a lot of problems we have today.

Urban? Suburban and ex urban is even worse. Kunzler's "The Long Emergency" is a worthwhile read. Maybe a tad too bleak, but a lot of his predictions are slowly coming to fruition.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Just paid $4.05 a gallon....

wow...

That might be the least you'll ever pay..unless you drive down to Dirty Jersey..

 

[Moe Ghoul]

The cremation rate is growing each year..as cemetery plots become more expensive and now the Catholic church allows it's members to be cremated. The funeral homes still have to provide a service and in many cases embalm the body for a viewing but they simply use a rental casket with a fresh liner..For cremations they don't get a casket sale which has a profit margin of about 500%..or the sale of a vault..instead they might sell an urn. In Europe and Australia the cremation rate is 70% and in China they bury bodies vertically.

Vertical? Interesting.

 

[Johnskiismore]

Just paid $4.05 a gallon....

wow...

Talking to my sister on Sunday and I commented on how the prices in my part of NH just got over $4 a gallon. Her response (she lives in Boston, MA), was, 'My car runs on diesel I'm paying around $4.50 welcome to the club.'

Not good

 

[Warp Daddy]

Just got back from a long walk passed several stations that are @$4.13 for 89 octane for my Saab --Anybody for a Tea Party

 

[deadheadskier]

I just filled up at a Hess station in NH for $3.67 ..... felt like I won the lottery :lol:


I wonder how many gas station owners have auxilery tanks that they fill up for personal use, lock in for a 1000 gallons at a cheap price to help stem off some of the cost for their own use down the line.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

I just ran some errands for work...I passed 4 gas stations...Sunoco $3.83..Lukoil #1..$3.87...Lukoil #2 $3.87...Shell...$3.89....and two days ago I paid $3.75..for my first ever $50+ fill-up..it's interesting to me the way it's interesting to gape at the carnage of a car crash on the side of the road..

 

[drjeff]

I just filled up at a Hess station in NH for $3.67 ..... felt like I won the lottery :lol:
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Wouldn't happen to be the one on Rte 9/202 East of Concord would it??? That station for some reason always seems to ahve the lowest prices of just about any station in NH when I'm traveling up there.

 

[wa-loaf]

We're thinking of switching to gas heat for the house, we need to upgrade anyway, and I have a full tank of oil that we only paid $2.59 for. I figure I put it on Craigslist for $3.50 and someone will come pump it out for their own use.

 

[Johnskiismore]

We're thinking of switching to gas heat for the house, we need to upgrade anyway, and I have a full tank of oil that we only paid $2.59 for. I figure I put it on Craigslist for $3.50 and someone will come pump it out for their own use.

Good idea, home heating oil is around $4.79 in these parts!

 

[Warp Daddy]

Gas heat is the way to go.

We've been on it for yrs w/ Lennox Pulse furnace and programmable stats > heat my 2000 sq ft home @68 degrees , operate a gas fireplace and gas hot water heater for a budget of $135 /month over 10 months with arrears in 11th month . this year it'll be under 1500 for it all

Clean burn no smelll , no hassle

 

[andyzee]

I just ran some errands for work...I passed 4 gas stations...Sunoco $3.83..Lukoil #1..$3.87...Lukoil #2 $3.87...Shell...$3.89....and two days ago I paid $3.75..for my first ever $50+ fill-up..it's interesting to me the way it's interesting to gape at the carnage of a car crash on the side of the road..

Cross the river.

 

[deadheadskier]

Wouldn't happen to be the one on Rte 9/202 East of Concord would it??? That station for some reason always seems to ahve the lowest prices of just about any station in NH when I'm traveling up there.

Route 1 Hampton

and if you're ever on 495 going north in Mass, cheapest gas is at the 125 exit for Bradford/Haverhill at the Irving. Trust me, when you spend as much time in the car as I do, you know where the cheap spots are

 

[eatskisleep]

If it ever hit $12 there would be mass panic, there would be a world war.

 

[tcharron]

I like the explanation of how the oil execs need all those profits for oil exploration. If they really were spending that much money on oil exploration, they wouldn't have those huge ass profits. :smash:

Well, yes and no. One of the benifits of R&D is it's pretty much 100% tax deductible.

 

[Warp Daddy]

If it ever hit $12 there would be mass panic, there would be a world war.

News Flash : Oil pundits today NOW saying $15 /barrel

 

[drjeff]

News Flash : Oil pundits today NOW saying $15 /barrel

I'm guessing you mean $15 a GALLON I bet we'd all LOVE the price if oil was $15 a barrel

 

[Warp Daddy]

Sorry Doc, my bad - yep $15/gallon