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OT - There goes the gas prices... |
GaroldShaffer |
Aug 31 2005, 07:56 AM
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You bought another 914? Group: Benefactors Posts: 7,624 Joined: 27-June 03 From: Portage, IN Member No.: 865 Region Association: None |
In my neck of the woods one of the big gas station chains is Speedway. Now in my big city of Portage Indiana (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/blink.gif) we have three speedways. I took my boy to Nana's so she could watch him for the day and on the way home I thought I would stop and fillup the truck. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/headbang.gif) The station by mom is $2.97 for regular, I thought I would check the other two. The next station is 3 miles in the wrong direction from where I needed to go but hey look they are $2.83, so like a dumass I stop and fill up the truck ($48). I pass the speedway which is about 1 mile from my house, damn...$2.63 WTF.
My little trip this morning was 8 miles, so there is a $.36 a gal difference between 3 stations all from the same company. Why (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) not that it really matters at these prices now days but still. |
cooltimes |
Aug 31 2005, 10:54 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,508 Joined: 18-May 04 Member No.: 2,081 Region Association: None |
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Back to the thread: Right on Skline but nobody reads the rants except the lurker who don't add a hoot. People seem to be just what big business wants them to be. Morons of the 1st degree. I was downsized to retirement 10 years ago because the place I worked didn't like the fact that older Americans THINK for themselves. They became concerned about my letters to the editor and actually gave me retirement from there only because I was spewing my story everywhere. I hadn't worked there long enough to get anything according to the retirement funding rules. My ranting paid me some $ per month for life from that corporation that I never would have gotten by being passive. If I had sat on my hard times butt, we would have been worse off than we are now. You can win but not by kissing anyone's butt. I used the Internet to warn my 914 friends back in 95 but nobody gave a damn. Just some old man ranting. Now. Was I wrong? Hell no. When the majority don't care about anyone beyond yourself, as many described, trouble will hit all of them between the eyes down the road. The next generation can forget what America was unless this generation stands upright and make it work once again. Their children and grandchildren will be like the hurricane victims, Without anything. Conspiracy. No. Just a bunch of sheep. IMHO. Read again. IMHO !!!! Took my Mother in laws car down to get some gas. 1st station, an independant station had signs showing no fuel of any grades. Next passed Exxon with $2.79 for regular. Was Empty. No Gas. Passed that and went to the supermarket pumps, Krogers. Their reg was $2.75. No grades higher were available. Came home and told Mother in law and my wife we all need to walk more. Bicycles are all aired up here and ready to roll. Even have a basket on one for fetching groceries and supplies. |
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