money work. work money

[95SleeperAcheiva]

Ever feel like your going to work to make the money just so you can go to work?

[tijuana_no]

you must have stop and fuel up before you went to work.lol

[ForcedFirebird]

Ever feel like your going to work to make the money just so you can go to work?

It seems like I go to work so I can pay the nanny to stay home with my four kids, lol.

[sharkey]

yea but would you realy want to spend a full day at home with 4 kids, day in day out??? i dont think i could take it.

yea i feel like i am bending over every time i pull into the gas station. regular is $1.219/L (canadian funds), it works out to be right around $4.10/gal US.

[ForcedFirebird]

yea but would you realy want to spend a full day at home with 4 kids, day in day out??? i dont think i could take it.

yea i feel like i am bending over every time i pull into the gas station. regular is $1.219/L (canadian funds), it works out to be right around $4.10/gal US.

That actually comes out to $4.20 USD! Man you guys are getting screwed worse than us!

[geoffinbc]

Yea BC has almost the highest gas prices in North America.

[Azrael]

Just be glad we all don't live in Europe.

[sharkey]

i knoiw we get screwed, everywere else in the country has gas around $1/L. gas went up just before easter weekend and it hasnt come down at all.

what realy pisses me off is an area of the lower mainland has an extra 7 1/2 cents extra transit tax on the fuel. now i live just outside this area, but head into there for work every day, and fuel prices are not even 2 center more there, meaning that in my area gas companies are charging the extra and pocketing the money.

exxon reported $39 billion in profit last year. how the hell do they get away with charging what they do for gas when they make that kind of money???

[DOHCtorMR]

Im gonna start riding my bike everywhere. Hopefully I wont be fat after that.

[Azrael]

A study has just surfaced today on how canadians are being gouged anywhere from 15-25 cents/litre.

Mind the obscenely long link:

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20070509%2fgas_gouging_070509

Even if the claims are bogus it does make sense on why american gas is cheaper. There's that 'psychological barrier' at $4/gal that they don't want to go too far over before the whole population openly retaliates.

[ForcedFirebird]

A study has just surfaced today on how canadians are being gouged anywhere from 15-25 cents/litre.

Mind the obscenely long link:

http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/TopStories/ContentPosting.aspx?feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V2&showbyline=True&newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20070509%2fgas_gouging_070509

Even if the claims are bogus it does make sense on why american gas is cheaper. There's that 'psychological barrier' at $4/gal that they don't want to go too far over before the whole population openly retaliates.

I don't know why the US gov't doesn't open the reserves. We have umpteen billions of gallons of crude oil hidden in the salt veins in Texas, when instead we need to be fighting in foreign countries to maintain our own supply.

Last year when Bush tapped the reserves to relieve the prices, it went down almost $1 per gallon!

OK, slow down and I need to take a deep breath because I HATE politics, but when they affect MY personal life.....

[tijuana_no]

oil companies are in control here not politics ,it just happens that politicians are or want cotrol of the oil production .the reason the u.s doesn't want to release the reserves is just like word says RESERVES and they are afraid to loose them due to uncontroloble demand .and one of the u.s. largest producer "the gulf of mexico" oil production is slowing down in shollow waters forcing oil companies to explore in very deep waters above 5000 ft.and production there is very expensive ,that might also be a reason for a middle east intrest .
but again i could be wrong .

[95SleeperAcheiva]

on this gas thing....
I few years ago the gas companies were in some kind of hearing about their huge rise in prices, now correct me if i'm wrong, i only caught part of the news on this, but they said that they had made a mistake and didn't expect to make a $5 billion dollar profit! So if that was a mistake, why haven't the prices come back down?
Next question is, we have more than enough oil on our own soil, why are we buying raghead oil? or mexican oil?

[Juglenaut]

So when the time comes, tides will turn and they will come to North America for the oil. Let the world spend up the oil everywhere but here, and lets keep paying high prices because soon North America will have the upper hand. In fact North America Quite possibly has more oil than the middle east and Saudi's right now. Yes it is mostly politics at it best and massive profits are made rightnow but just think when the world turns its demand on us, not only will we have enough cash we will have enough reserve to take back all the money that was wasted on importing. I believe the golden age is yet to come however and rarely optimistic outlook an my part.

Interestingly I have still yet to put even one gallon of 3 dollar plus gas in my cavy, even though prices jumped here to 3.15/3.60, I may just bearly have enough to last untill the pipeline here in SD is repaired on Tuesday.

[Rhedalert]

Right now the run up in gasoline prices is linked to refinery bullshit. Oil is in the low $60's/barrel!! Last time we were paying prices like this for fuel, oil was around $76 per barrel and that contributed to higher prices. This current ramp-up was a result of speculators jacking up the price due to refineries working at less capacity, and our gasoline stockpiles dropped for 13 weeks straight (now increasing some). We still have plenty in reserves but wall st likes to use scare tactics to drive up the price "The sky is FALLING!!!!"