wrightme43
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Well today 1 gallon of unleaded in Bowling Green Ky is 3.09$ Seeing as I already spend 120-150 a week on gas, I wondered if anyone else could make me feel better by telling me what the price is in your hometown.
big t said:Well the lowest I saw today was $2.70 a gallon. It made me decide to sell my gas guzzling beast and buy a wimpy 5.0l F150.
wrightme43 said:Big T. LOL thats what I have a 5.0 liter extra cab ford. I drive constantly. One job is 1hr and 20 minutes away and then back another 1hr 20. I know they are going to keep going up. I just wanted to comiserate. LOL I used to be a investment broker and was involved in the energy markets. I was awfull at it. LOL. We have had this coming for a long time, no new refineries, and closing a lot of the older ones. Both of the political parties have completly failed over the last 30 years to come up with any kind of workable energy policy. Lots of not in my backyard, which I understand totally I lived in Ill, right next to Shells huge refinery, it ruins the enviorment and the actually doesnt just smell bad, I can even taste it, driving back in to visit my family. I belive that oil will steady out around 50$ a barrel and stay that way for the next few years. This is just a taste of what it will be like in 10-15 years if major changes dont occur. I think the last 30$ a barrel oil was pumped a few years ago. The companies are going further and drilling deeper for less oil with more risk. Hydrogen sounds neat but I understand it costs more energy to produce than it makes so that unless something changes is a dead end. Coal is dirty and most easy deposits are mined or at least being back out mined which is very dangerous. It seems to me we have waited untill its almost too late to start building more nuclear plants. I know they can be safe, The reactor on a submarine can run a pretty decent sized town. Sorry about my rant here. Its a subject near and dear to my heart.
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