$3.799 in Kalispell today. . . makin' a shoppin' trip to Costco ringin' up at just under $25. And. . . it's cool that the trip still pencils out.
One loaf of artisan bread up here is $4.19 - but at Costco you get 2 for that price. . . and such is the case with just about everything else.
Plus, it's a beautiful drive.
Today was kinda wild, though. . . I should have checked my international calendar before I fired (or TRIED to fire) down there. . . it's Canadian Thanksgiving weekend.
GOOD GRAVY!
Every frikken Canuk from southeastern BC and southwestern Alberta is down here.
God love the Albertans who know which pedal makes the car GO and damn the BCers who ride the brakes. . . must be all that BC Bud.
Best info I can get on France gas tax is $4.23/gallon. That is from 2010 and does not include eurozone taxes.
USA federal tax for 2010 was $.39
The cost of Gas in the USA without taxes or speculative inflation in the should be under $2.00.
Remember when the markets crashed in 2008 Gas came down to about 1.70 a gallon. Some of that (a very small part) was due to reduced demand the rest due to crashed market speculation.
We are getting ripped by wall street so many ways it's pathetic..
Makes a great train robbery look like a 5 year old pocketing a kids toy.
ohmy, you knowwwwwwwwwww, i do not even KNOW what the gas prices are here... :O
i just go to the nearest one, as they are about the same, so everyone says here...
i put in my 3-4 bucks worths, depending... however, on rare occasions i DO put in 5 bucks, :) and then--it seems i usually have about an 8th of a tank, though sometimes when i can put gas in before i am near empty, i DO
have a neat full 1/4 tank... >:D<
i only need to drive a few blocks, as i really don't have many spots to go to... (the grandkids have to come here on their folks rides) :)
so i do okay--however, the ex son in law, and those in 'the know' did say that in winter that is not good for the car, and i should have at least a
half a tank, so i may be thinking on doing that this year, :)
:)
good thing my old block to walk patty ann marie in, and the grocery (with mail service), dollar store, and home depot, and walgreens, and--gas station, :)) are all veryyyyyyyyyyyyy close indeed, :)
what.. no theories? Have you Noticed! the gas prices went up the night of the debates? Remember the Bush election? gas prices skyrocketed then too just before big media events trashing the dems. we're just the masses being manipulated.
Thanks to the enviroNazis the regulatory climate has been such that there hasn't been a new refinery built in the US in years and many shut down.
This has led to a brittle supply chain subject to shortage from what would be insignificant upsets if there were even a slight amount of excess capacity.
One electrical transformer shuts down one refinery in Torrance Ca and it starts a cascading shortage for the whole west coast.
Refining is not a high margin business. Those guys squeeze a penny till it shits a nickel. It's also incredibly capital intensive and not without plenty of both natural and artificial regulatory risk.
Same kind of event happened after Katrina with a lot longer effect. That one also skewed the petrochemical / plastics markets for months.
If you can avoid filling up till Tuesday it will be worth the wait. Torrance is back on line.
It's an international market folks and half what you are paying in the uSA and Canada goes to Wall street
In Eu a massive proportion goes to state taxes and about 1/4 goes to wall street
The sheep will be fleeced for all they have up to the point of armed conflict as best the masters can guess what that is. Even then they calculate how much armed conflict they can survive
Someone has pointed out how gas prices leapt at about the time of the first debate.
Let's just suppose gas prices are in fact being manipulated. There are laws against anticompetitive action.
Also the Citizens United decision by the supreme court has ruled that corporations are people. That being the case we don't need to establish what physical person(s) within a corporation made a decision.
If we had a RICO-like criminal decision against a corporation how would criminal penalties be applied? When you put a person in jail you take away their power to make decisions. The same can be done to a corporate/person.
The court appoints a person(s) to make all management decisions for the corporation for a period of time. The corporation is in jail.
Financial penalties levied against a monopoly have no effect. Prices are simply raised so profits are unaffected. The natural persons inside the corporation are entirely unaffected.
Financial penalties levied against a monopoly have no effect. Prices are simply raised so profits are unaffected. The natural persons inside the corporation are entirely unaffected.
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