Posted on 08/14/2005 4:51:26 AM PDT by cloud8
Don't look now, but the next time the arrow on your gas gauge hovers near the ominous letter E, your wallet may have the privilege of making history at the pump.
Gas prices on Martha’s Vineyard topped $3 per gallon this weekend. (Staff photo by Tim Correira)
For the first time in Bay State history, gas prices have soared above the astronomical $3 mark - at gas stations on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
"I think I'll get a moped," said Nantucket resident Edward Hickey, 77, who will shell out $94.50 the next time he fills the 30-gallon tank on his Chevy Tahoe at On Island Gas, the record-busting service station near his Spark Avenue home where a gallon of regular was going for $3.08 as of yesterday.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
Couldn't happen to a nicer community of environmentalist whackos. :) But they don't really care. They can afford it.
"My 1966 VW bug 4-speed could get 30 mpg"
If your Hitlers Revenge wasn't such a total piece of engineering crap it should have gotton over 40 mpg due to it's weight.
In the UK, the tax is $3.38 a gallon (89 ¢/L) for conventional unleaded petrol. The tax on fuel in Canada can vary greatly between provinces. On average, 40 to 50% of the total price of gas at the pump is tax.
Believe it or not, many of us on Nantucket work for a living...
Worked a midnight shift last night, matter o' fact!
3. Demand (China)
4. Conspiracy of Middle Eastern oil suppliers to wound the Western economies.
All that has to happen is an attack against us with WMD and our economy will free-fall.
Real Estate bubble will explode.
Leave Olive out of it! She's got way too much on her plate with Popeye and Bluto courting her!
Ford had record sales of the F150 the last couple of months because of incentives..
Schadenfreude :-). Maybe they can run their vehicles on Olive Oil.
Leave Olive out of it! She's got way too much on her plate with Popeye and Bluto courting her!
Ah...but they are opposed to drilling offshore US and building wind mills in Buzzards Bay..pay up limo libs.
"Ford had record sales of the F150 the last couple of months because of incentives.."
That doesn't mean anything to me. I can't afford to drive the one I have now let alone make payments on another one I can't afford to drive.
My son just returned from Spain where he saw prices of 1.20 euro per liter....yikes.
" Our friends up in Canada are paying about a dollar a litre:"
Your friends over here in Japan are paying about $ 1.10 per liter now ...Thankfully we've got a new Honda that averages about 45mpg ...
If I had one, I'd park it too. I was just pointing out that people are buying them. Maybe the deep discounts offset the cost of gas. I doubt it though..
LOL! There have been several articles recently about running vehicles on used vegetable oil (post-frying), but I figured these folks are too special for that!
Yikes, indeed!
45MPG is darn good-- I can recall when an "economy" car meant 30MPG if you were care with the accellerator pedal.
And both of them infest that area - MV and Nantucket.
You know what?I don't buy that.
If that was true this run up to high oil prices would have been happening alot longer less than 3yrs ago.This all started about a year before the 2004 elections.It was always said that no president survived reelection with $40 dollar oil.Now we are just a little over a year away from 2006 elections.Just a coincidence?I don't think so.
What's your point? My point is that gasoline engined fuel economy hasn't moved much in 40 years.
Point is that the VW engine was and is as piece of crap that if been of good design in the same tin can would have gotten much higher millage.
> This all started about a year before the 2004 elections. It was always said that no president survived reelection with $40 dollar oil. Now we are just a little over a year away from 2006 elections. Just a coincidence? I don't think so.
(You will excuse me for inserting spaces after your punctuation.)
Well, OPEC sets production levels, disasters wreck oil rigs, increasing demand drives up the price per barrel. Alternative energy sources, high mpg vehicles, and taxes at the pump don't seem to effect the price per bbl that much. What fuels your theory that there is some kind of conspiracy in place to influence U.S. elections with high-priced oil?
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