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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u

Sorry tazz...i'm going with my private car...but than again I am not irrationally trying to blame the President for gas prices,I'm one of those folks who pulls up to the station and pays what the pump says....I treat it like the weather...bitching about it does no damm good.If I want to go somewhere...thats the fucking price.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

And thats part of the problem, mike.

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~FR

Question for everyone.

If you had your choice between your private car and public transportation, which would you choose?

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ORIGINAL: MarkfromHouston

The range on jack up rig is dependent on the depth of the water they would be drilling in, it runs from about $50K to $150K depending on the depth it is design to operate at and the speed and so forth on the rig, this rate is for a fully crewed and operated rig.

.................The current rig count including on shore is 1772 which is up 345 from last year....

I am very well known in the casing and inspection business and have been in the oil and gas business for a good while, I have been a partner in several API threading and inspection facilities in the Houston area and I currently do drive one of my own trucks, I own several. I drive because I like it, and I hate being in an office, but I can walk into the offices of NFR Energy, Nabors Drilling, Tenaris, Chevron, Halliburton, Schlumberger, Technip, Mustang, Patterson, MI SWACO, Exxon Mobil, and meet with VP level execs at every one of them who have been to dinner with me. My offices in the Galleria in Houston have had more oil execs in them than you can name and if you think I am just "some trucker" you might want to ask some oil men before you speak too loudly...........................

BTW, when B.O. takes away the itemized deductions from all the rich people I will be leaving with my money, the people who work for me can go collect unemployment because I will not be going broke to support the ideals of a marxist.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

~FR

Question for everyone.

If you had your choice between your private car and public transportation, which would you choose?

I would like to use public transportation, but there is none to use where I live.

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

~FR

Question for everyone.

If you had your choice between your private car and public transportation, which would you choose?

I would like to use public transportation, but there is none to use where I live.

Bus passes in Pittsburgh are 22.50 a week. That gets me around 15 miles outside of the city. Its not always convenient, and they recently cut back service. But I still could not do all the running around I have to do for 22.50 a week in a private car.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn

FR

........................Others argue that a smarter society would figure out how to use less.

There is a lot of money weighing in on the less smart option right now.

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I love the punch line at the end :)

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Oh give me a fucking break! If they wanted to benefit EVERYONE they would have had tesla towers delivering nearly free energy, internet, phone, remote viewing, and power for our cars and anything conceivable worldwide for over 100 years.

for our benefit lmao

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ORIGINAL: outhere69

I've seen reports where that's getting a lot more expensive, since a lot of fast food joints are able to get good money for their grease instead of giving it away.

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ORIGINAL: GreedyTop

~FR~

6.6 gals reg. unl. for $25. tonight.   *sigh*

I wish I could do public transport, but (a) there isnt anything that runs from home to work that wouldnt cut at least 3 hrs out of my already screwed up sleep schedule, and (b) by the time I get off work, NOTHING is running between A and B. 

$30. one way by taxi, so one week of taxi tranport would cost more than my rent.

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I know this is hard to hear Marini, but the higher gas prices, as long as they are slow moving, are the best thing for this country. And not bad for the rest of the world, either.

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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery

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I know this is hard to hear Marini, but the higher gas prices, as long as they are slow moving, are the best thing for this country. And not bad for the rest of the world, either.

I agree in part.

Since the 70s, petroleum has become a major component of agriculture--not just farm machinery and transport, but fertilizers and so forth (not to mention plastics for the processed foods U.S. consumers love so much). As oil continues to rise, we need to also disengage from that marriage of petrochemicals and food. This is one major strength of the buy/eat local campaigns, but that's only a small start.