Gas

[Dutch Dog]

Ok, we have been having hurricane's forever, all of a sudden this category 2 (relatively weak) hurricane comes along and all "@#$%#" hell breaks loose. The next thing you know they are going to close down the whole damn country for hurricane season. Get the F over it, Katrina was a once in a lifetime event, move on...its in the past!!! There's absolutely no "@#$%#" need whatsoever to continue all this overboard $hit every time someone cries hurricane. I'm not talking about individual people affected by hurricanes, but instead speculators, forecasters, oil companies, refineries etc. Next thing you know, some "turd-cutter" forecaster will start predicting in January the number of hurricanes that are going to occur and based on that (moronic) speculation oil prices will be effected.
What's the difference in trucking gasoline from a refinery right on the coast to various retailers around the country and trucking crude oil to a FAR inland refinery and then on to retailers...it's still been trucked the same distance. I don't know the process, but it could be that you only get a small amount of gasoline out of a given amount of oil...so you would effectively be trucking proportionatly more oil than gasoline. Why are refineries in Memphis affected by something thats happening over 1000 miles away? Are the ONLY ports to which oil is brought in from other countries in the Gulf??? Does every drop of oil that's refined into gasoline come from the Gulf??? If so, WHY put all your eggs in one basket? Are the tree huggers the ones not allowing oil to come into the country from other avenues (ports)??? If so, kick the $hit out of them and do what needs to be done. (note, any time you can kick the $hit out of a tree hugger for any reason do it)

[sondance]

I paid $5.45 in Orlando day before yesterday.

[lilwhitelie]

They are jacking us before they declare a state of emergency.....then it would be gouging. I would not wanna be a CEO of any big oil co.Aint long before someone goes Virginia Tech on one of em. I hope Haley, Hood, someone does something.

[Don Miller]

Not only has gas prices gone up but the Gas Mart in Holcomb, owned by Sale Oil, quadrupled the price of BBQ chicken wings today. 99 cents for one damn measley little chicken wing. I hope the natives riot and burn that mutherfockker to the ground.

[Don Miller]

They are jacking us before they declare a state of emergency.....then it would be gouging. I would not wanna be a CEO of any big oil co.Aint long before someone goes Virginia Tech on one of em. I hope Haley, Hood, someone does something.

You can forget that. Like it or not most of the Republicans are in bed with the big oil companies.

[ducman77]

Ok, we have been having hurricane's forever, all of a sudden this category 2 (relatively weak) hurricane comes along and all "@#$%#" hell breaks loose. The next thing you know they are going to close down the whole damn country for hurricane season. Get the F over it, Katrina was a once in a lifetime event, move on...its in the past!!! There's absolutely no "@#$%#" need whatsoever to continue all this overboard $hit every time someone cries hurricane. I'm not talking about individual people affected by hurricanes, but instead speculators, forecasters, oil companies, refineries etc. Next thing you know, some "turd-cutter" forecaster will start predicting in January the number of hurricanes that are going to occur and based on that (moronic) speculation oil prices will be effected.
What's the difference in trucking gasoline from a refinery right on the coast to various retailers around the country and trucking crude oil to a FAR inland refinery and then on to retailers...it's still been trucked the same distance. I don't know the process, but it could be that you only get a small amount of gasoline out of a given amount of oil...so you would effectively be trucking proportionatly more oil than gasoline. Why are refineries in Memphis affected by something thats happening over 1000 miles away? Are the ONLY ports to which oil is brought in from other countries in the Gulf??? Does every drop of oil that's refined into gasoline come from the Gulf??? If so, WHY put all your eggs in one basket? Are the tree huggers the ones not allowing oil to come into the country from other avenues (ports)??? If so, kick the $hit out of them and do what needs to be done. (note, any time you can kick the $hit out of a tree hugger for any reason do it)

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[DoublePslayer]

Here's an idea. Instead of sending an email about not buying gas on a certain day, or from this one oil company, or whatnot, every one of us should go to the gas stations tomorrow and just park in front of the pumps and refuse to move until they quit gouging. That way, nobody has to pay that high price for a whole day.

By the way, im in Detroit, Mi right now, and I just saw it for 3.98.

[lilwhitelie]

They are jacking us before they declare a state of emergency.....then it would be gouging. I would not wanna be a CEO of any big oil co.Aint long before someone goes Virginia Tech on one of em. I hope Haley, Hood, someone does something.

You can forget that. Like it or not most of the Republicans are in bed with the big oil companies.

Forget what?? Haley helping or somebody finally losing it and going Va Tech on an oil exec??

[Mshunter55]

It was 3.99 at Kroger at crosstown in tupelo and 2 miles down the road all the gas stations are 3.79. What's up with that?

[Scully]

RUG in my part of the world just past the $4 mark this evening- up from $3.46 this AM. Long lines, 10 gal. purchase only- all that sillyness. Funny thing is the price of diesel hasnt moved from last week.

[Money]

Not only has gas prices gone up but the Gas Mart in Holcomb quadrupled the price of BBQ chicken wings today. 99 cents for one damn measley little chicken wing.

What about the nabs and YooHoo ?

[Wingman]

My contact said it was 3.75 at Scott in Greenville when he left town this morning. When he came back after lunch, it was 4.30 something.

[Seymore]

It went up 50 cents at Dodges in Tupelo today. Several places were also rationing. I heard one of the distributors in Hunter's Haven talking about how they can't get to the refineries until late next week. Gas is going to in short supply until they can get back to the coast.

[ACEINTHEHOLE]

Why? Our refineries on the coast are running full boar. I would suspect that many in LA are also up and running. WHy would it be so long before they can get to them?

[RebelYelp]

dutch,

i agree with you,

at the same time, most who follow the storms now (ie. the people reading the c-130's etc.) rate differently from the saffir simpson (normal cat 1-5) based on wind speed at the eye wall.... katrina made landfall as a cat 3 (when it made the 2nd landfall on the MS gulf coast). They generally measure now by a host of variables that include wind speed, size of storm (wind speed out from the eye), surge, wave height, pressure, etc..... by all of the averages, this is a BIG storm. TS winds stretching out 250 miles in each direction, which is what pushes the storm surge. the SS scale is outdated and needs to be replaced.

as to the refineries..... we haven't seen a new one since the 70's, and as far as i'm concerned, it's not because they haven't tried. I think everytime they try, they get blocked by those tree huggers, etc.