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Is there some reason $4.00 a gallon is significant?

From the state regulations:

http://www.anr.state.vt.us/dec/epappa/PPA2007-2009/Underground_Storage_Tanks9-27-06.pdf

Petroleum is stored in about 147,000 above and below ground storage tanks in Vermont. The vast majority are residential heating oil tanks and are not subject to any significant degree of regulation. Beginning in 1985 the construction, operation and maintenance of the highest risk underground storage tanks (USTs) were regulated and are required to hold permits. These tanks are the commercial gasoline and diesel motor fuel USTs. Registration is required for 1600 USTs holding more than 1,100 gallons of heating fuel. The numbers of tanks that are exempt from any form of regulation are difficult to estimate, but US Census data provides some information on the numbers of households heated with different types of fuel. From this data, it is possible to develop reasonable guesses about the numbers of above-ground and underground tanks heating homes in Vermont. The UST Program estimates that approximately 28,000 unregistered USTs hold less than 1,100 gallons and serve home and commercial heating and motor fuels. There are also an estimated 110,000 aboveground petroleum storage tanks ranging from the typical 275-gallon oil tank commonly located in basements, to unregulated smaller farm tanks to commercial fuel tanks regulated only for fire hazards by the department of Public Safety, Fire Services Division.

Again, thanks for dancing :D I have a permit for mine, and I was adamant about having it inspected. It doesn't leak at all (never has) and was converted for gasoline storage to spec.
 
Maybe you should have read the Vermont regs before you started shooting off your big dick mcgee mouth?

So you're an ass. So what?
 
There's resistance at certain price points which appear significant to irrational actors. $100 a barrel, $3, $4 a gallon, Dow 10,000 -- all these numbers seem like tops or bottoms that prices can't exceed or fall below. The noteworthy thing is that once the top or bottom is passed, there's a potential for a great deal of increase before a new level of resistance is met. So, surpassing $4 a gallon means $4.50 and on up to $5 may happen with little resistance.
 
Whaddya gonna do? Humans like round numbers. What was significant about the year 2000, other than a potential worldwide computer sieze-up that turned out to be as substantive as a fart in a fan factory?
Hero1000 said:
$100 a barrel, $3, $4 a gallon, Dow 10,000 -- all these numbers seem like tops or bottoms that prices can't exceed or fall below. The noteworthy thing is that once the top or bottom is passed, there's a potential for a great deal of increase before a new level of resistance is met. So, surpassing $4 a gallon means $4.50 and on up to $5 may happen with little resistance.
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Good observation. I think $5 a gallon will certainly feel more significant. Say "five bucks a gallon" aloud as you simultaneously remember what gas cost not 5 years ago and feel your spine quiver.

There's resistance at certain price points which appear significant to irrational actors.
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Who, like Sharon Stone?
 
Right?

$4.00 is pretty meaningless. I was talking to a person filling up at a Maplefields at 3.99 this morning and he was GRATEFUL. I guess they pay 12.00 plus a gallon for "petrol" and have for some time. He was blown away by how cheap it was.
 
Anyone thrown out the fact that after WWII, the world saw the dollar established as the currency to be traded for oil from the ME, a status quo that will change down the line? Saddam was about to switch to selling for Euros and Iran is doing the same.

How about the dollar going down the shitter? Oil is the most important foreign import. You have tools like Ben Bernanke telling us that the falling worth of the dollar is unimportant so long as the prices of goods purchased in the US remain relatively proportional (something that sent chills down the spines of economists who know better).
 
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btw, your "pathfinder" is the reason we're in this boat, stupid. Just because you can afford it doesn't give you the excuse (or the right) to exacerbate the situation.
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I have the right to drive any vehicle I wish. Ain't American great, you fascist scum?
 
If this topic isn't the epitome of the conservative "I've got mine" attitude, I don't know what is.
 
Weak admin?

You give me far to much credit. I'm more oft than not MIA. To describe me as "weak" is to ascribe some effort on my part. ;)
 
Actually, it isn't the epitome of the conservative. The "I've got mine" attitude, coupled with the "and I'm going to give yours to those who don't work so they'll vote for me," would be the epitome of the bleeding lib wank Democrats.

Now. Last year at this time, where I am, gas was $3.09 per gallon. Now it is $3.85. That is a price increase of 76 cents or approx $9 more per 12 gallons than last year. While that isn't that significant price taken in a single instance, if you consider the extra cost over a year:
1 fillup of 12 gallons per week = $9 x 52 = 468
2 fillups of 12 gallons per week = $18 x 52 = 936
Which doesn't take into consideration the extra cost for the extra gas used for whatever reason a person might use more gas - vacation, family get together for a wedding or a funeral, etc.

I like the idea of using grass clippings to fuel my car. I've got plenty of grass. I also have a lot of sticks. Can you make gas out of sticks? I'd be generous - turn my grass and sticks into gas and I'll give away all I don't use.

What is pissing me off is the turd that has been stealing gas out of the cars in this neighborhood for awhile now broke my gas cap last time he stole it out of my car. I discovered that tonight when I had to put gas in the car. I'm going to the store tomorrow and buying a paint gun. I'm putting india ink in that gun too. Then, I'm going to sleep out in my car so I can catch that bastard stealing my gas. When I do, I'm going to shoot him with the paint gun. I'll probably go to jail for it while the lib wanks will cry about poor little gas thief getting a permanent dye job ruining his looks cause don't you know he must be poor and therefore it must be a racial thing that I don't like him stealing gas and causing damage to my car.

I've got to find a way to keep my island above sea level year round so I can move there full time. I'm sick of the retards living in my country.
 
If big oil wasn't stealing the money out of our pockets, the thief probably wouldn't be stealing gas out of your car.
 
eloisel said:
Actually, it isn't the epitome of the conservative. The "I've got mine" attitude, coupled with the "and I'm going to give yours to those who don't work so they'll vote for me," would be the epitome of the bleeding lib wank Democrats.

Now. Last year at this time, where I am, gas was $3.09 per gallon. Now it is $3.85. That is a price increase of 76 cents or approx $9 more per 12 gallons than last year. While that isn't that significant price taken in a single instance, if you consider the extra cost over a year:
1 fillup of 12 gallons per week = $9 x 52 = 468
2 fillups of 12 gallons per week = $18 x 52 = 936
Which doesn't take into consideration the extra cost for the extra gas used for whatever reason a person might use more gas - vacation, family get together for a wedding or a funeral, etc.

I like the idea of using grass clippings to fuel my car. I've got plenty of grass. I also have a lot of sticks. Can you make gas out of sticks? I'd be generous - turn my grass and sticks into gas and I'll give away all I don't use.

What is pissing me off is the turd that has been stealing gas out of the cars in this neighborhood for awhile now broke my gas cap last time he stole it out of my car. I discovered that tonight when I had to put gas in the car. I'm going to the store tomorrow and buying a paint gun. I'm putting india ink in that gun too. Then, I'm going to sleep out in my car so I can catch that bastard stealing my gas. When I do, I'm going to shoot him with the paint gun. I'll probably go to jail for it while the lib wanks will cry about poor little gas thief getting a permanent dye job ruining his looks cause don't you know he must be poor and therefore it must be a racial thing that I don't like him stealing gas and causing damage to my car.

I've got to find a way to keep my island above sea level year round so I can move there full time. I'm sick of the retards living in my country.
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Impressive fluff!
 
Sarek said:
If big oil wasn't stealing the money out of our pockets, the thief probably wouldn't be stealing gas out of your car.
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I don't think that is true of this particular thief. People have seen him - he has two little kids in the car with him and it is very early in the morning when he steals the gas. He's been stealing a gallon or so per car once or twice a week for about a year now. It just seems like a lot of work and exposes him as well as his children to a lot of danger just to get some gas. He probably uses as much gas traveling to steal gas. Maybe he is a functioning gas huffer who gets kicks out of putting himself and his children in danger driving around under the influence stealing his high and his transportation to steal his high.
 
So let me get this straight.

He's been doing this for about a year, people have seen him AND his kids, and yet he's still stealing gas and you're all STILL sitting on your ass?

The guys pretty smart. He found an entire VILLAGE full of idiots!
 
Sarek said:
So let me get this straight.

He's been doing this for about a year, people have seen him AND his kids, and yet he's still stealing gas and you're all STILL sitting on your ass?

The guys pretty smart. He found an entire VILLAGE full of idiots!
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That is the thing - we're all good, law abiding people. We've reported him to the police. We have a neighborhood watch group. If we do anything else, then we are a vigilante group and that is a no-no.

I probably won't hide in my car in order to catch him. He is obviously a psycho and if I shoot him with india ink laced paint, he'll probably stab me to death or shoot me dead with real bullets. Or, my actions will traumatize his kids and he'll sue me and some bleeding lib wank Democrats will give him everything I own.
 
Well, at least under the liberals, he could still sue. the conservatives want to make it impossible for the little man to sue anyone. Even for wrongful damages.
 
Yeah, how did this country become an all or nothing, no room for an action making sense kind of place?

I don't want to make it impossible for the little man to sue anyone. But, it is one of those Catch 22 type of things. If there is adequate relief for a person who has to defend themselves in a lawsuit and prevails, then only the wealthiest will be able to risk filing a lawsuit. However, with the system as it is now, it isn't about justice, it is about settling out of court - right or wrong - to keep the cost of litigation down.
 
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