Author Topic: Phoenix gas crisis (Read 1146 times)

NUKE · « **Reply #30 on:** August 21, 2003, 01:05:12 AM »

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Originally posted by Frogm4n
yea it gets 40mpg and i fill it up every 2 weeks.
my disability checks are huge anyways.

I have a 40 gallon tank of gas plus 14 of propane and fuel up every 2 weeks, what does that tell you?

when your two weeks are up you would be in the same line as myself or anyone else.

Some people are so ignorant it seems

Steve · « **Reply #31 on:** August 21, 2003, 01:10:54 AM »

with any luck, Frogman and I will end up in the same line.

Staga · « **Reply #32 on:** August 21, 2003, 02:12:07 AM »

dam my car runs only 36miles with a gallon (6,5 liters/100km at 90kmh/55mph, much much more at 200kmh/125mph...).

Oh well, need to fill it up only once per month and I also know I'm giving as little money as I can to the Saudis

Fishu · « **Reply #33 on:** August 21, 2003, 02:37:48 AM »

Nuke, Steve,

But the cars which consumes 40mpg, doesn't have to visit at the gas station even nearly as often as the giant SUV's

Frogm4n · « **Reply #34 on:** August 21, 2003, 02:45:12 AM »

i should tell you now that i dont swing that way steve. i know it is hard for you to resist , but please try not to fantasize about my hot body to much.

Ack-Ack · « **Reply #35 on:** August 21, 2003, 04:23:29 AM »

It figures you Zonies always know how to muck things up. You clog up San Diego every summer in your mass exodus to escape your Hades' like heat inferno and now you cause gas to go up $0.30 in just two days because we have to pick up the slack for you friggin' desert dwellers.

Gas near my house was $1.75 yesterday, now it's $2.05.

ack-ack

JBA · « **Reply #36 on:** August 21, 2003, 09:06:52 AM »

Charon,

You have a clear understanding of the industry, it is refreshing to read someone who doesn’t have a knee jerk reaction blaming everyone and everything for the messily price we pay for gas.

First you have to find the oil,
Then build a multi billion dollar pumping station, move it across some of the most in hospitable land imaginable.
Build a billion dollar holding port, build billion dollar tankers, ship it across the ocean, to another billion dollar port,
Put it in trucks, move it to a billion dollar refinery (which takes 800+ permits to build which makes it not worth it)
Produce over 100 blends of gas at 4 different octane’s, then truck it to every station in the country, after they have been built.

And you all complain about the price of gas.

Lets see I bought a bottle of water the other day it was $2.00 for 500ml, that’s $15.20 a gallon.
And my coffee is $1.60 for 500mls that’s $12.16 a gallon.

If there is any price gouging its at Starbucks.

lazs2 · « **Reply #37 on:** August 21, 2003, 09:27:20 AM »

fishu... I think they are saying that the cars that get 20 MPG have tanks that are twice as large as the little pissant tanks on the 40mpg cars so... they would both need to fill up at the same time given the same amount of miles traveled.

My car only has a 21 gallon tank and gets about 10-13 mpg.
lazs

Fishu · « **Reply #38 on:** August 21, 2003, 09:32:39 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
fishu... I think they are saying that the cars that get 20 MPG have tanks that are twice as large as the little pissant tanks on the 40mpg cars so... they would both need to fill up at the same time given the same amount of miles traveled.

My car only has a 21 gallon tank and gets about 10-13 mpg.
lazs

I didn't think of those would have been that much bigger.

Although one thing is for sure: if people wouldn't drive the darned gas drunks, it'd be less likely for the gas stations to run out of gas.
But then again gas stations likes it when they can sell alot of gas, if they can manage to keep their pumps filled that is.

Charon · « **Reply #39 on:** August 21, 2003, 10:31:03 AM »

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Charon,

You have a clear understanding of the industry, it is refreshing to read someone who doesn’t have a knee jerk reaction blaming everyone and everything for the messily price we pay for gas.

Thanks JBA. It's a very complicated industry and if I didn't earn a living covering it for the past 5 years I would be entirely clueless

The big things on the horizon now from a volitility standpoint are the MTBE phase out and our ability to meet those volume demands, the ethanol mandate and the diesel sulfur regs and how many refineries/terminals are are going to convert to ultra low sulfur diesel by the 2005 deadline. Things are sure going to get interesting in another two years or so.

Charon