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Travel Forum / Travel Types / RV Travel / September 2008Gas gouging....
Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one station was $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? LZ > Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump > station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one > station was $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. > > Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? > LZ Its the American way Lou I have a several local Speedway stations in the Chicago suburban area that raises their prices every Thursday sometime during the day. Then, late Sunday or early Monday, they go back down. Last weekend it was upped 20 cents. >> Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump >> station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Lou > Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump > station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one > station was $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. > > Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? > LZ Holiday weekend. Lon >> Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump >> station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Lon Probably. Stations close to the Freeway in this area routinely jack up their prices for the weekend and drop them late on Sunday. So I normally boycott them. LZ Well looky here! It appears that Lon has returned, even though he left blubbering how he was never coming back again to participate with all us slanderous liars! HawHawHaw! I guess he was only "joking" about leaving, and never really said he was anyway? HawHawHaw! Don http://www.donlampson.com > Well looky here! It appears that Lon has returned, even though he > left blubbering how he was never coming back again to participate with [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > http://www.donlampson.com I thought you were going to change that bar room drunk picture to something more presentable. BTW did you ever learn how to write song lyrics.  SignatureBILL P. >> Well looky here! It appears that Lon has returned, even though he >> left blubbering how he was never coming back again to participate with [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > something more presentable. > BTW did you ever learn how to write song lyrics. Here is something that will help. http://pcdon.com/EddieArnold-SlimWhitman.html SignatureBILL P. >> Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump >> station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Holiday weekend. ...and Gustave, too. Local TV is reporting that a lot of off-shore rigs are being shut down in the Gulf. When we had the Freightliner, we had to fill each side (tank) separately. If we were at a regular-type station without master and slave pumps, I'd hold the nozzle and Barry would turn the truck around. One day we were fueling in San Diego County, CA and I was on the cell phone so I was off a ways and couldn't hold the nozzle. Barry hung it up and turned the truck around. When he picked it up to start another fueling session, the price had risen 4 cents on the gallon. SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life >>> Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump >>> station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > and turned the truck around. When he picked it up to start another > fueling session, the price had risen 4 cents on the gallon. It's Supply side economics. It's supply side government. They rig the market. There's not a hint of any shortage. There is only a problem of immoral swindlers, liars, and loan sharks of Big Business running everything. >>> Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump >>> station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > ....and Gustave, too. Local TV is reporting that a lot of off-shore rigs > are being shut down in the Gulf. Yet oil prices dropped today..... Oil prices fall despite Gustav threat Crude settles lower as market watches a storm that could threaten critical oil production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. Fall in natural gas prices pulls crude lower. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices ended lower Thursday, reversing an early spike, as traders sized up a potentially devastating blow to production from Tropical Storm Gustav and reacted to a decline in natural gas prices. U.S. crude for October delivery rose as much as $2.35 a barrel to touch $120.50 in early trade before retreating to settle at $115.59 a barrel, or $2.56 lower. ****************** So there was no market reason to jack up prices at the pump today. Just dealers vacuuming our pockets if we plan to do any driving this weekend. LZ Can't hold a fuel nozzel and a phone at the same time? s > One day we were fueling in San Diego County, CA and I was on the cell > phone so I was off a ways and couldn't hold the nozzle. Barry hung it up > and turned the truck around. When he picked it up to start another fueling > session, the price had risen 4 cents on the gallon. > Can't hold a fuel nozzel and a phone at the same time? No. It's not a very good idea to get too close to fuel pumps with a cell phone. Haven't you heard? >> One day we were fueling in San Diego County, CA and I was on the cell >> phone so I was off a ways and couldn't hold the nozzle. Barry hung it up >> and turned the truck around. When he picked it up to start another fueling >> session, the price had risen 4 cents on the gallon. SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life I have heard and it's a major hoax. I can't believe a seasoned person such as yourself has fallen for that bs. s >> Can't hold a fuel nozzel and a phone at the same time? > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >>> and turned the truck around. When he picked it up to start another >>> fueling session, the price had risen 4 cents on the gallon. > I have heard and it's a major hoax. I can't believe a seasoned person such > as yourself has fallen for that bs. > > s http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp And gasoline vapors are far easier to ignite than diesel. LZ >>> Can't hold a fuel nozzel and a phone at the same time? >>> >> No. It's not a very good idea to get too close to fuel pumps with a cell >> phone. Haven't you heard? >>> "Janet Wilder" <kelliepoodle@yahoo.com> wrote in message > I have heard and it's a major hoax. I can't believe a seasoned person such > as yourself has fallen for that bs. This was in 2000 and I had just gotten my first little cell phone. (We had a huge analog bag phone) The paperwork that came with the phone said not to use it next to a gas pump. It was an Audiovox CDMA series phone. Can't remember the number of the series. It was a "candy bar" phone with a retractable antenna. Tri-band, IIRC. I don't know what I "fell for" I just read the directions and followed them. SignatureJanet Wilder Bad spelling. Bad punctuation Good Friends. Good Life Well the way i figger it, is this: EVEN _IF_ a cell phone could produce a spark......... They are up at your ear..... Gasoline fumes are heavier than air..... There's a lot better chance that the sparking in your electric starter motor could go a long ways with lighting vapor as opposed to a cellphone that makes no spark. And that starter is down there 18" off the ground..... HMMMMMM....... Just another reason to leave the motor running. LOL! steve >> I have heard and it's a major hoax. I can't believe a seasoned person >> such as yourself has fallen for that bs. [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I don't know what I "fell for" I just read the directions and followed > them. | > I have heard and it's a major hoax. I can't believe a seasoned person such | > as yourself has fallen for that bs. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] | | I don't know what I "fell for" I just read the directions and followed them. I was deeply involved with the CTIA/EIA standards groups that wrote those instructions. These were drafted around '95. The text was *strictly* a CYA warning and more for the 3 w bag phones even so. If memory serves bag phones and their trunk mounted brothers went out of production in 97 or 98. Interestingly enough there was a black market for the bag phones for use on oil platforms and marine transfer points as FAX phones as the digital phones of the day were not able to handle FAX analog tones. The consensus (this from the insurance companies underwriter test) was that hand held cell phones were inherently* intrinsically safe. Phones were not submitted for certification first due to cost/demand and second due to the time required to receive certification. The product life cycle was ~ 18 months certification at the time took 36+ months if there were no hic ups. *In an oversimplification the determination is the battery being able to deliver sufficient power to induce a fire or explosion in normal use. FWIW even crushing the battery we were never, ever, able to induce an explosion in our testing. At the time we followed all legal action involving cell phones and never found a credible claim of any explosion induced by cell phones. I personally would be more concerned about catalytic converters which I have observed, in testing in a failure mode, cause fires. (and yet no one has made a U-tube video of a cat converter popping popcorn) > I personally would be more concerned about catalytic converters which I have > observed, in testing in a failure mode, cause fires. (and yet no one has > made a U-tube video of a cat converter popping popcorn) When catalytic converters were new, a friend of mine was demonstrating a new tillage technique on his farm. Since he was a farmer, member of the house of representatives and also the governor's personal pilot, quite a few members of the press showed up. One drove his new car out into a field of oat stubble, giving a ride to my friend's father, who was in his mid 80's and barely mobile. Yep, the oat stubble caught on fire and the news reporter bolted, leaving the old man in the back seat. My friend jumped off the tractor, made it to the car, started it and drove it over to some plowed land nearby. The gaggle of reporters all ran for their lives fearing a gas tank explosion. The tongue-lashing he gave them cut short his political career. Otherwise he may have become governor some day. :) LZ > > I personally would be more concerned about catalytic converters which I have > > observed, in testing in a failure mode, cause fires. (and yet no one has [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > Otherwise he may have become governor some day. :) > LZ Reporters are very sensitive people who will get back at anyone who doesn't show the proper amount of respect to them. Unfortuntely they today have the power to make or break ideas, politicos, businesses, entertainers, etc etc.. I think reporters and pundits are almost as low as legislators. TS Tom Reporters may have the power to "make or break" politicians, and maybe even business big shots, but they sure don't worry entertainers none! People like Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears, Paris, Lindsay, Nicole, Mel Gibson, Shugie Knight, etc, etc, etc, act like swine constantly, and never care about the press! They've carloads of "paprazzi" following them around all the time, and they just don't give a crap! HawHawHaw! The only "social critics" they're worried about are the police! Don http://www.donlampson.com > No. It's not a very good idea to get too close to fuel pumps with a cell > phone. Haven't you heard? http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp >> No. It's not a very good idea to get too close to fuel pumps with a cell >> phone. Haven't you heard? > > http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp I see you won the posting race by 1 minute. LZ >> Can't hold a fuel nozzel and a phone at the same time? > > No. It's not a very good idea to get too close to fuel pumps with a > cell phone. Haven't you heard? Cell phones not proven to be a problem: http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/gasvapor.asp Stattic electricity HAS been proven to be a problem: http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp Tom J Even THAT is pretty far fetched..... s > Stattic electricity HAS been proven to be a problem: > http://www.snopes.com/autos/hazards/static.asp > > Tom J that's what they're blaming it on. heard it on the news last nite. Couldn't have anythin to do with it being a holiday weekend... NO..... no way.... s > Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump station. > On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one station was > $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. > > Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? > LZ Lone Haranguer <linuszrv@gmail.com> wrote in news:6ho157Fn5jboU1 @mid.individual.net: > Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump > station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one > station was $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. > > Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? > LZ If so then why is RUL going for $3.339 and Diesel for $3.929 here where Gustav might actually appear? > Lone Haranguer <linuszrv@gmail.com> wrote in news:6ho157Fn5jboU1 > @mid.individual.net: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > If so then why is RUL going for $3.339 and Diesel for $3.929 here where > Gustav might actually appear? Yet oil prices dropped today..... Oil prices fall despite Gustav threat Crude settles lower as market watches a storm that could threaten critical oil production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico. Fall in natural gas prices pulls crude lower. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices ended lower Thursday, reversing an early spike, as traders sized up a potentially devastating blow to production from Tropical Storm Gustav and reacted to a decline in natural gas prices. U.S. crude for October delivery rose as much as $2.35 a barrel to touch $120.50 in early trade before retreating to settle at $115.59 a barrel, or $2.56 lower. ****************** So there was no market reason to jack up prices at the pump today. Just dealers vacuuming our pockets if we plan to do any driving this weekend. LZ > Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump > station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one > station was $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. > > Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? > LZ We stopped at the Ute Indian Casino & Gas Station a few miles south of Cortez, Colorado on Saturday for a fill up of diesel. The posted price by the highway was $4.40/gallon, which was about 10 cents less than most places in Cortez. We pulled up to the pump and I noticed that the price wasn't visible on the pump. My wife went into pay and when she got the receipt she noticed that the price was $4.60/gallon. When she complained the clerk's response was "So you want to give the diesel back?" ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** >> Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump >> station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > the clerk's response was "So you want to give the diesel back?" > ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** On Saturday in Urbanna, VA diesel was $3.98 at the Exxon station. Saw several others on the way home from $4.09 to $4.69. Paul if you cannot afford to drive it, park it. probably too drunk to drive anyway. mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com Took the motor home in for oil change, etc and then to local dump station. On the way in gas was $3.60.... Fifteen minutes later one station was $3.56, the rest had jumped to $3.68. Hurricane Gustav is ringing their phone? LZ |
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