lower gas prices on the way! thank THE MAN

adam-$300 · Post by **adam-$300** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:49 am

What I think the president ought to do is get on the phone with the OPEC cartel and say we expect you to open your spigots. One reason why the price is so high is because the price of crude oil has been driven up. OPEC has gotten its supply act together and it’s driving the price, like it did in the past. And the president must jawbone OPEC members to lower the price. And if in fact there is collusion amongst big oil, he ought to intercede there as well.

Source: GOP Debate in Manchester NH Jan 26, 2000

jtr · Post by **jtr** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 12:54 am

unless you're being charged 3.32 a gallon STFU

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:39 am

has one single US Senator or Representative of congress
suggested that taxes on gas at the pumps be
suspended even as a temporay measure ??

I thought so--

we could also tell them to shit can all these
"special mixture" regulations --

imagine if Clinton had opened up the oil in ANWAR
back in say '96 ??
The oil would be flowing now and he would
have been hailed as a prophet !!

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 1:53 am

Wolfman wrote:has one single US Senator or Representative of congress
suggested that taxes on gas at the pumps be
suspended even as a temporay measure ??

I thought so--

we could also tell them to shit can all these
"special mixture" regulations --

Rack and Rack!!

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:01 am

In related news...

Mars platform updatePosted: April 20, 2006 08:18 PM CDT

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - With oil at record prices and more than a fifth of the normal production in the Gulf of Mexico still blocked by hurricane damage, Shell Exploration & Production Co. said Thursday its Mars production platform will be restarted ahead of its original schedule.

Mars is the largest Gulf production platform damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The platform represents about 5 percent of the Gulf's daily oil and gas production.

Shell Exploration & Production, a unit of Britain's Royal Dutch Shell PLC, said construction at the platform will be completed by the end of April, with partial production restored by mid-May. Production at pre-Hurricane Katrina rates - 140,000 barrels of oil and 150 million cubic feet of gas each day - should be achieved by the end of June, the company said.

Originally, Shell did not expect the platform to be producing until late in 2006.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Minerals Management Service reported 87 production platforms still out of commission following hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

About 334,000 barrels of normal daily oil production in the Gulf - about 22 percent - are still blocked from market, along with 1.33 billion cubic feet of normal daily natural gas production, or about 13 percent, the MMS said.

Since Katrina first threatened the Gulf and forced platform evacuations on Aug. 26, the Gulf has lost the production of 148.9 million barrels of oil, or about 27 percent of the normal yearly total of 574.5 million barrels, the agency said.

Over the same time, 730.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas - or about 20 percent of the normal yearly total of 3.65 trillion cubic feet - has been blocked from market, the MMS said. The Mars platform is located about 130 miles southeast of New Orleans. Shell operates the platform and has a 71.5 percent working interest. BP PLC has the remaining working interest.

We keep trying to do our best here on the gulf coast, but that goes largely unnoticed. I don't want to hear anybody from Florida bitching about gas prices as they don't allow ANY drilling off of their coasts, not even WAY off the coast, out of the eyesight of your precious tourists laying on the beach.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:04 am

Blame the minirority Hippie Greenpeace leftists for that, not the bulk of the land owned by the Red Counties in this state.

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:20 am

Atomic Punk wrote:Blame the minirority Hippie Greenpeace leftists for that, not the bulk of the land owned by the Red Counties in this state.

You're in Florida now? :?

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 2:59 am

Look at the election results in CA and see the red vs. blue counties and see that the bulk of the blue is in San Fagchevron-sissyco, L.A, and San Dogg.

Chevron is based out of the Bay Area yet Feinstein, Boxer, and Pelosi (triple D's) are all in power in that confined area.

Our gas prices here are much higher than most places and the fucking refineries are how far away? A couple hundred miles if that?

Money corrupts all with it and those in power on both sides of the fucking aisle. It's a matter of selling your political spin the best to the dumbest, yet biggest dumbass populous.

^^^ That is a double-edged sword as those who don't have a solution point fingers while acting like they are on your side (while living the good life), versus Cowboy George being manipulated by the good ole' boys soaking up profits in the energy industry.

It's sounds ambivalent, but I don't have any faith in either side of the corrupt political aisle.

They say "Fuck you and you nizzas can't do shit about it." (:lol; from both sides at all of us).

Deal.

jtr · Post by **jtr** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:23 am

Thanks to the price of oil and the cost of gas and the increasing interent usage at home people will likely start staying in one place to live and to work and probably grow obese like the rest of us. If we dont do something about this we'll all end up like RTS or shutyomouth or even eek me in the future.

We need alternative fuel sources, wind powered cars, geothermal energy to fuel our cities, etc.

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:30 am

jtr wrote: grow obese like the rest of us.

wind powered cars

You are one dumb motherfucker. Do your parents even claim you as a child?

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:40 am

TenTallBen wrote:
jtr wrote: grow obese like the rest of us.

wind powered cars

You are one dumb motherfucker. Do your parents even claim you as a child?

They've been doing it since the 1940s. Where the fuck have you been?

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:42 am

Yes, they've claimed him on their 2005 Tax Form Exemptions and will get a great return this year.

jtr · Post by **jtr** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:43 am

TenTallBen wrote:
jtr wrote: grow obese like the rest of us.

wind powered cars

You are one dumb motherfucker. Do your parents even claim you as a child?

wind powered cars was sarcastic, geothermal energy i am serious about though it is cost-effective and we'll never run out of it.

Luther · Post by **Luther** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:46 am

I myself am investing heavily into the research of those Fog/Fear vehicles. You drive for awhile, get fogged in, shat your shorts and then pull over until summer.

Sin,

DiS

Rip City

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:50 am

How about riding a funking bike and quit bitching?

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:57 am

I think DiS offers rides on his unicycle to little boys.

Get off him already. He's conserving gas.

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:03 am

TenTallBen wrote:How about riding a funking bike and quit bitching?

How about putting more money into affordable, accessible public transportation?

It takes me 45 to 50 minutes to bike uphill to get to work. I'm out of shape. It feels good just to stop. And it's nice to zip home afterwards in 30 minutes. I can't do it everyday, though. Not yet, anyway (but I will, eventually). A car can go both ways in 10 to 15. A bus takes 25 minutes from the time you get on, but that doesn't include wait time -- and god help you if it's running early (or late) cuz somebody wants to do a MickeyD/Phillips66 run in the middle of their route.

Finally saw a bike with the attachable tandem for second riders, a couple days ago. That was dope. I'd seen them advertised online, but I'd never actually seen a person attach one to their bikes. That was cool. I don't know how kids would like it, though, to be chauffered on the back of a bike after graduating from a trike trailer. :?

But it'd be nice on weekends, just to chill wherever. You can't take more than one passenger with you on a bike like that, but it still looks cool, and safer (meaning more maneuverable) than a real tandem.

And then there's California, where you can't get anywhere without a very long commute.

But for the rest of the nation, sure.

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:06 am

jtr wrote:Thanks to the price of oil and the cost of gas and the increasing interent usage at home people will likely start staying in one place to live and to work and probably grow obese like the rest of us. If we dont do something about this we'll all end up like RTS or shutyomouth or even eek me in the future.

We need alternative fuel sources, wind powered cars, geothermal energy to fuel our cities, etc.

y'all need to stop trying to crack on jess for this one.
he's only saying what people in a position to know
and follow trends are saying.

if you can't afford to go anyplace, you're not going to
go anyplace. cheap fuel allows people to travel anywhere
they want. it allows them to spend anywhere they want.
it allows them to seek jobs anywhere they want.

no cheap fuel, people stay home, people conserve their
money -- for fuel (not necessarily saving it, though saving
money doesn't do anything for the economy either, right?
SPEND SPEND SPEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!) -- and shit tanks.

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:08 am

TenTallBen wrote:We keep trying to do our best here on the gulf coast, but that goes largely unnoticed.

Maximizing profits is not 'doing one's best'.

It's just maximizing one's profits.

The oil companies can't try to appear the good guys in all this,
not after record setting profits BEFORE Katrina, and that fat
fuck with the melting face and multiple chins 'earning' a
shitload of money for being in the right place at the right time.

TenTallBen · Post by **TenTallBen** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 7:23 am

Risa wrote:
TenTallBen wrote:We keep trying to do our best here on the gulf coast, but that goes largely unnoticed.
Maximizing profits is not 'doing one's best'.

It's just maximizing one's profits.

The oil companies can't try to appear the good guys in all this,
not after record setting profits BEFORE Katrina, and that fat
fuck with the melting face and multiple chins 'earning' a
shitload of money for being in the right place at the right time.

Why haven't you contributed your inane babble to this thread yet?

viewtopic.php?t=15891

jtr · Post by **jtr** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:19 am

risa this may do you some good http://www.labiastretching.com/

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:48 am

jtr wrote:risa this may do you some good http://www.labiastretching.com/

for you, i clicked on the link.

interesting site.

labia stretching it's no different than foot binding or bolt-on tits or collagen injections or botox or tattooing or relaxers or shaving off one's body hair or bulimia/anorexia/gorging. you do what you have to, to be 'more pleasing' to a man (or woman).

some of it's positive. most of it is negative... but the target doesn't care, so it becomes a 'positive'.

so let em stretch.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:22 pm

Luther wrote:I myself am investing heavily into the research of those Fog/Fear vehicles. You drive for awhile, get fogged in, shat your shorts and then pull over until summer.

Sin,

DiS

Rip City

Since you drive while wearing Depends it sounds like you already have one when your Alzheimers kicks in.

Diego in Seattle · Post by **Diego in Seattle** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:24 pm

Atomic Punk wrote:I think DiS offers rides on his unicycle to little boys.

Get off him already. He's conserving gas.

Get help for your obsession before you get arrested.

Just say'in.

Jerkovich · Post by **Jerkovich** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:29 pm

Diego in Seattle wrote:
Atomic Punk wrote:I think DiS offers rides on his unicycle to little boys.

Get off him already. He's conserving gas.
Get help for your obsession before you get arrested.

Just say'in.

That's right Mike. He'll go OV on you and call the cops.

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 3:34 pm

The worst thing is, Tardowen troll and his other trolls sometimes can be funny. VolvoUSA must be proud.

Risa · Post by **Risa** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 6:34 pm

Toddowen wrote:
Risa wrote:
How about putting more money into affordable, accessible public transportation?

How about we make Rosa Parks sit in the back once more?

You can have your affordable and accessible, but it's not going to be amiable unless the monkies are placed in cage in the back...preferably a sound-proof cage.

What are you talking about, Todd?

jtr · Post by **jtr** » Sun Apr 23, 2006 8:50 pm

Are you talking to the real todd or the mtodd2?