Oil on the (downward slide) upward climb...

[Northwinds]

That's the problem we have here in Connecticut... "supplier charges". Are bill is $200-250 a month no matter what time of years and we heat with wood only

 

[Elite-ist]

Nando a buddy of mine used water injection in his 69 Buick GS with the twin turbos. This was in the days before fuel injection and or electronic ignition mind you. He used Natural gas to make the combustion cleaner with the turbo.

John: That's the perfect combination. I intend to go to methanol injection on my Buick GN. Cheap horsepower with a chip change and a few other mods.

I think we spoke about your buddy's Buick GS, before. Did you post a picture of it the last time?

Nando.

 

[derek92994]

That's the problem we have here in Connecticut... "supplier charges". Are bill is $200-250 a month no matter what time of years and we heat with wood only

So true, they are following a similar trend here in australia and its only going to get worse. I certainly don't mind paying a bit more for comfort in the home, it is my entertainment as I hardly ever go out to pubs and clubs or eat out. One of my friends call me a 'rabbit' because I hardly leave my home apart from visits to friends or work (when I have a job).

 

[derek92994]

Also appliances are getting so efficient and using less power, so the greedy electrical companies have gotta keep squeezing the extra $$ out somehow. Back in the day appliances used to gobble so much more power due to early technology. Everyone started using less kilowatts here so the fixed charges go up. Such is life, fuck em.

 

[derek92994]

Also there is population growth, and the electrical companies scream in pain on those really hot days when everyone turns on their a/c. Well douche bags you could see the population growth from a mile away, and you refuse to put money into the network to add the required headroom during peak times. No sympathy at all for an aging network that should be maintained and expanded as required. I see them bolting generators onto the lines for extra power these days so at least they are doing that to keep the supply reliable. But if we are paying the premium, we will use it when it is needed, simple as that.

 

[Web Police]

John: That's the perfect combination. I intend to go to methanol injection on my Buick GN. Cheap horsepower with a chip change and a few other mods.

I think we spoke about your buddy's Buick GS, before. Did you post a picture of it the last time?

Nando.

I think I posted one in here somewhere. I'll find some and post them over this long weekend ahead. I think I have some old prints from the 80's I'll have to scan and post.

 

[Web Police]

That's the problem we have here in Connecticut... "supplier charges". Are bill is $200-250 a month no matter what time of years and we heat with wood only

Electricity rates here in MN are regulated by the state and the utility has to prove their costs have risen. They have hearings every few years and most of the time they have to refund the extra dollars they collected. They can raise rates to improve infrastructure but that has to be approved also.

Of course there is only me using Electricity in my home so of course I use less then the average family.

 

[Elite-ist]

Thanks, John. That Buick would have a lot of notoriety among the Buick crowd.

Nando.

 

[Scorpion8]

I'm really looking forward to gasoline prices falling below $3 a gallon.

Ha! I wish ours would even get that close! Still paying $3.49 here in SE-AK and we're the capital. Bush communities are still taking gas prices in the BOHICA. If I could get gas for my vehicles and home heating fuel at below $3/gallon it'd be like a 33% raise since my union wages and annual raises have lagged behind inflation for the last several years. Last year we got a 1% raise. I grabbed a Happy Meal on the way home and spent the whole years raise at once.

 

[Ric27]

One world

No, I'm living in a civilised world...

New Flash: There is just the one world and we all live in it. And in this world things have to die for us to live.

Ric

 

[orange]

Ha! I wish ours would even get that close! Still paying $3.49 here in SE-AK and we're the capital. Bush communities are still taking gas prices in the BOHICA. If I could get gas for my vehicles and home heating fuel at below $3/gallon it'd be like a 33% raise since my union wages and annual raises have lagged behind inflation for the last several years. Last year we got a 1% raise. I grabbed a Happy Meal on the way home and spent the whole years raise at once.

Just think how happy you would have been at Crack In The Box...

 

[orange]

When I first got the car I ran it on 91 octane, but the person who owned it before me drove it light so over time I freed it up quite a bit. The amount of crap that would come out of the oil was incredible, that engine was dirty as. Now after a few flushes its clean and I started using 98 octane some time back and did notice a gain in power and mileage, but this could also be due to freeing up the engine from its 'granny' state. I could try 91 octane again for a couple of tanks and see how that goes, but if there is any loss in power or miles I'll go back to the 98. I was referring to gutless as in the cars performance between the two different fuels, not comparing to other cars in general. Its not a race car but I'm a bit of a lead foot anyways

WTF do you get 98 octane?

That would be like weak sister to Royal Purple back in the daze but we're lucky to have 89 for regular uinleaded.

By the way, unleaded is hardly new...the predecessor to Amoco (now BP) was making it in the 1920s, simply by refining differently instead of adding tetraethyl lead.

 

[laatsch55]

Octane is figured differently in Oz....

 

[BubbaH]

You could always buy 94 at Sunoco. Dont see many of those around these days though. I use 91 in the boat and all my small engines.

 

[BlazeES]

$2.49 a gallon locally for all the premium brands.

$2.35 at the price leaders.

"Peak oil" my ass ...

 

[MarkWComer]

Columbia SC- $2.09 (and nine tenths). 87 octane.

Honestly- can't we get rid of that nine tenths crap now?

 

[BlazeES]

Gonna go out on a limb and say, I'm predicting that oil has sort of bottomed out.
Bumping along between $45/barrel and $50/barrel for the foreseeable future.
Just high enough to make a decent part of the sector profitable with some possible restructuring pain.

 

[laatsch55]

Nope, oil won't bottom out till just above 30.00

 

[BlazeES]

Nope, oil won't bottom out till just above 30.00

OK Sensai ! I like a healthy market-call challenge.

 

[laatsch55]

OK bud...it's on.....