OT The latest defection ...

"Ken Fortenberry" wrote in message
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Ken Fortenberry wrote:
DaveS wrote:
I am not in love with Reich. ...
Well, he's no Rick Dean but the Dems might have to settle for
some of the minor stars of the economic adviser firmament.

Paul Krugman might be persuaded to join a Democratic administration,

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! You sure you wanna go with him?!

That depends on whether the first choice for Treasury Secretary
will take the job. What do you say famous Rick Dean, will you
accept the appointment ?

OK, you silly childish Nixon-like Clinton-hater...well, let's let him
tell it: quote snippets snipped

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you should read what he wrote about Shrub and
his idiotic economic policies. And quotes from the primaries are
so yesterday once the general election season arrives.

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Ken Fortenberry

And the Congress has had nothing to do with the meltdown? Been a Democrat
controlled Congress for over a year. Spread the blame. It might hurt to
know your team screwed the pooch also. But they did.

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:01:04 -0700, rw
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On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:30:20 -0700, rw
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Oh, BTW, oil and gasoline are down, what, half from where they were just
a few months ago...

Great plan for reducing gasoline prices: Wreck the world economy to
reduce demand.


Hmm...lessee...demand has fallen roughly 1% while prices have fallen
roughly 50%...again, supply and demand weren't the problem.

HTH,
R

Wow! That "drill, baby, drill" policy worked faster than anyone expected!

Oil prices are determined, in large part, by the futures market.

Gee, look at the big brain on Stevie...

The futures market are predicting dramatically decreased demand

"The futures market" aren't sic predicting ****. Producers and
agencies are predicting things, but...

(because of
an expectation of a prolonged global recession) and inventories are
high. Hence, the drop in price.

You don't have the slightest clue as to what you are babbling about.
Demand forecasts are down for 1st quarter '09 to 3rd quarter '09, but
something on the order of a .5 mb/d on a total global demand of more
than this quarter - IOW, the demand is still expected to increase, just
not as much as previously forecast the _increase_ in total demand is now
forecast to grow about 1 mb/d to about 87.5 mb/d from about 86.5 mb/d
today. And the demand when oil was under $10USD BBL -1999 - was only
about 15% less than today (about 70 mb/d) and in 2002, when it was still
under $20USD BBL, it was about 75 mb/d.

BTW, you're an idiot.

Yeah, keep telling yourself that, you silly-assed Hemmingwannabe...

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:53:19 -0700, "JT"
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I have no idea. It would depend on a number of variables, including
city and county taxes, blend requirements, distributor cost, ethanol
percentage, etc., but yeah, it's possible for a legit price difference
as you describe. OTOH, maybe the Spokane stations know they can charge
more, so they do. FWIW, gasoline is one of the few things many in the
US seem really indignant about anyone making a profit selling. I mean,
we expect businesses to have a markup on items they sell, but not with
gasoline it seems.

HTH,
R

I have no issue with a business making money on fuel sales, why sell it if
you are not (unless you are just trying to attract people to your store
front)? If the Mom & Pop station is buying fuel for the same price as
Safeway (which I find hard to believe since Safeway is selling way more fuel
and is probably getting it a bit cheaper) it torques my shorts the Mom & Pop
station is making a few pennies profit and Safeway is potentially gouging
people making 20 - 25 cents a gallon profit.

Man, I just don't enough about all that might be involved in your neck
of the woods to offer more than general ideas, but one thing you might
look to is the ethanol content and taxation of MnP vs. Safeway - are MnP
and Safeway in equal tax districts/counties/cities/whatevers?

It's frustrating, I put 30,000 miles a year on one of our vehicles a $1.00 a
gallon increase is roughly $1000.00 more a yr. in travel expenses. A grand I
would much rather spend on fishing equipment or fishing...

Again, depending on the vehicle, it may well be cheaper per mile to pay
5% more per gallon to get under 10% ethanol vs. 15% ethanol, if there
are choices in your area.

TC,
R

JT