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Yesterday gas was $3.43. I went out for pizza tonight and gas jumped up to $3.79. $4.00 is getting a lot closer.
 
nasa1974 said:
Yesterday gas was $3.43. I went out for pizza tonight and gas jumped up to $3.79. $4.00 is getting a lot closer.
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In Poland I pay just over $6 a gallon, but I only fill up about 4-6 times a year, I can take the Tram for almost everything around here.

In Texas, it seems like more than half the people are driving big trucks. Over here it's about 1%, but we do have a lot more utility type vans, and I've not seen a Mini-van in ages. Here's another interesting useless fact. We have almost zero auto parts stores here, like none. We don't even have those drive-in oil change places, you gotta make an appointment. :cautious:
 
JTH said:
In Poland I pay just over $6 a gallon, but I only fill up about 4-6 times a year, I can take the Tram for almost everything around here.

In Texas, it seems like more than half the people are driving big trucks. Over here it's about 1%, but we do have a lot more utility type vans, and I've not seen a Mini-van in ages. Here's another interesting useless fact. We have almost zero auto parts stores here, like none. We don't even have those drive-in oil change places, you gotta make an appointment. :cautious:
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You could start a Polish Oil Change Quick Stop!

Call it “JHTexas Quick Change”

I bet you’d have customers lines up for miles. (Oops- kilometers)

They haven’t yet had the “do everything from your car” experience yet. It’s ready for advanced Capitalism. Hire some Ukrainian or Belarusian mechanics to do quick oil changes.
 
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James48843 said:
You could start a Polish Oil Change Quick Stop!

Call it “JHTexas Quick Change”

I bet you’d have customers lines up for miles.
They haven’t yet had the “do everything from your car” experience yet. It’s ready for advanced Capitalism. Hire some Ukrainian or Belarusian mechanics to do quick oil changes.
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Yea I agree it would make for a good business.

But like you said the car culture here is not so strong. We do have a handful of Die-Hard folks who love to show off their vintage American cars. But aside from this, we have no shade-tree mechanic stuff going on anywhere.
 
nnuut said:
View attachment 10078
10/14/10
BYE!
Watch Out For That Oil Slick!
OIL<50 = Beautiful, <60 = OK,.60-65 = Worry, >65 = BAD, >74= UGLY, Over $80 = PRICE FIXING
STOP EPA CAP AND TRADE
~DRILL BABY DRILL~​

NOTE: 15 to 20 minute delay or more!
Light Sweet Crude: [CLICK] LS Crude Oil
SHORT TERM TREND, View attachment 10012
............................Barrel....Weekly Status
Settle 08/20/10....$73.46........-1.93
Settle 08/27/10....$75.17........+1.71
Settle 09/03/10....$74.60.........-.57
Settle 09/10/10....$76.45........+1.85
Settle 09/17/10....$73.66........-2.79
Settle 09/24/10....$79.97........+2.83
Settle 10/01/10....$81.58........+1.61
Settle 10/08/10....$82.66........+1.08

Time........,.....Barrel......Daily Status.....
10/11/10
Settle...........$82.21........-.45
10/12/10
Settle...........$81.67........-.54
10/13/10
Settle...........$83.01......+1.34
10/14/10
Settle...........$82.69........-.32

NYH RBOB Gasoline: [ CLICK] NYH RBOB Gasoline
SHORT TERM TREND, View attachment 10012
..........................Gallon....Weekly Status
Settle 08/20/10..$1.9085.....-.0175
Settle 08/27/10..$1.9479.....+.0394
Settle 09/03/10..$1.9195.....-.0284
Settle 09/10/10..$1.9731.....+.0536
Settle 09/17/10..$1.9192.....-.0539
Settle 09/24/10..$1.9471.....+.0297
Settle 10/01/10..$2.0448.....+.0977
Settle 10/08/10..$2.1512.....+.1064

Time........../.../Gallon.....Daily Status....
10/11/10
Settle...........$2.1655.....+.0143
10/12/10
Settle...........$2.1239.....-.0416
10/13/10
Settle...........$2.1661.....+.0422
10/14/10
Settle...........$2.1365.....-.0296

HAPPENINGS: Updates ended 10-14-2010

Remarks:

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This is the first post located now on page 775. This is what nnuut first posted on 2/18/2006, twenty years ago. Not a whole lot has changed over the last twenty years.
 
I will say I’m having a difficult time getting accurate , open source intel about what’s going on. Mostly finding only official state info from either side, and very little third country news info.

Has anybody gotten a good line on accurate info ? Israel, Iran and the Gujd states all exercise pretty strict control. But what have seen, means I should be seeing more info. Im looking further at The Guarduan, and UK papers, France LeMonde, Germany DW, Where else are good sources?
 
James48843 said:
I will say I’m having a difficult time getting accurate , open source intel about what’s going on. Mostly finding only official state info from either side, and very little third country news info.

Has anybody gotten a good line on accurate info ? Israel, Iran and the Gujd states all exercise pretty strict control. But what have seen, means I should be seeing more info. Im looking further at The Guarduan, and UK papers, France LeMonde, Germany DW, Where else are good sources?
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You're not alone, the paywall trend has been choking good sources. It's also sort of hard to embed journalist in Iran. Add to this the NAVY aspect, since we don't have boots on the ground and the anti-press Defense Secretary.

Ward Carroll & What's Going on With Shipping? are pretty well plugged into current events.
 
car28mi65 said:
SW Ohio. Yesterday 3.69. Today 3.99. 🤔
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Here on the north coast just around the corner the Speedway is $3.99. The BP 3 miles away is $3.59. If I needed a fill up a 6 mile round trip would be no problem. My truck has a 36 gallon tank and with my BP card I get an extra $0.15 off per gallon. My fuel gauge is just under full so I guess I'm good for now.
 
Over half a billion dollars in oil bets were placed just 15 minutes before President Trump announced Monday he was pausing plans to attack Iranian infrastructure, sending prices plunging.

In a narrow window between 6:49 a.m. and 6:50 a.m. Eastern Time, about 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures trades were placed — a burst of activity valued at about $580 million, according to the Financial Times. Link
 
JTH said:
Over half a billion dollars in oil bets were placed just 15 minutes before President Trump announced Monday he was pausing plans to attack Iranian infrastructure, sending prices plunging.

In a narrow window between 6:49 a.m. and 6:50 a.m. Eastern Time, about 6,200 Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude futures trades were placed — a burst of activity valued at about $580 million, according to the Financial Times. Link
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I heard this story last night on our local news radio station (can't not listen to traffic reports in our area unless you want to be stuck wasting your life in horrendous backups..).

I was thinking this could also be in the Congress Trades thread. I mean, that's one lucky duck if they didn't have insider info.
 
I saw a news article today that gasoline in Australia has now hit $8 a U.S. gallon ($3 aud per liter) and that because of panic buying, 13% of Australian gas stations are completely out of fuel. Austrian gets nearly all of their to oil from Asian countries, and some of that (just a small portion) normally flows from the Mideast.
 
South Korea has now imposed mandatory price ceilings for automobile gasoline. The maximum price today is $5.68 a U.S. gallon (2000 kr won per liter) . They also are working on an alternate day usage of vehicle emergency order. It is heavily impacted by the cutoff of oil and will suffer a high economic impact.

More:
www.upi.com

S. Korea raises fuel price caps; pump prices seen above $1.50 a liter

South Korea will raise its 2nd round of fuel price caps starting at midnight Friday, pushing expected retail gasoline prices above 2,000 won per liter
www.upi.com www.upi.com
 
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