The Col. has to take my car to work cuz it gets better mileage than his truck. And I hate driving his truck.

Wednesday I rode my bike to the hardware store - 3 miles one way. I had my little back pack on for my purchases. So let's see, at 25 mpg, 1/4 of a gallon, I saved about $.75. But better yet I got some excercise and kept some money out of the pockets of those blood-sucking, scumbucket, worm-food, fece-licking, heartless, greedy, ****sucking, dog*******, swine-breath, gas-pimpin', oily gas bastards. .....whew! I feel better now.

MC, stop holding back and tell us how you really feel.

The sad thing is, I am doing some marketing consulting for a client of mine. It's .8 of a mile from my house. I could easily walk there, but there are no sidewalks, it's a fairly busy road, as it's near the entrance to the NYS Thruway, and I think I'd be taking my life in my hands. When they built suburbia, the downside of such things was not thought of, and the complete and utter dependence on the automobile was not a priority. I don't think anyone could have envisioned that it would be a problem.

Did anyone envision the havoc that our industrialized society would bring to the environment? Obviously Not. And now, as our esteemed President has pointed our, we're all addicted to oil (what a brilliant man!) I recently read that many of NJs counties don't meet the current air quality standards, but they will get a reprieve to the year 2020 because of the cost. Just another example of head-in-sand, greed. Can you spell az-mah?

About your sidewalk.....you live in the suburbs. They were designed for autos. How thoughtful .

Mark my words -- gas prices wil drop by $1 - $1.50 in a couple of months

Probably so. By the end of April gas will be $4.50 a gallon and then drop to $3.25 and then here comes Memorial weekend and the summer season.......$4.50 and climbing.

$3.68 this morning.

I think that's just about as high as I've ever seen it.

(doing best President Bush voice) "Wow! It's that high? I had no idea!"

I don't know if you're joking or not, but Bush was asked about the possibility of the gas prices rising to $4/gallon later this year and he actually responded that he hadn't heard they were expected to (go that high).

A bar I know was offering draft beers for 50 cents.
It's cheaper to get gassed than get gas.

You're preaching to the choir.

SC, I actually was referring to that press conference question.

(in my Bush voice) Must be all those oil addicts causing the price to go up. You know how that supply and demand works....or is that demand and supply. Would someone get Cheney in here to explain this? Dick, how does that gas, er, oil price thing go again. By the way how's our Exxon stock doin'?

$3.22 today. Better than $3.45 the other day.

Yeah this shit sucks. Everyone is broke these days and it's too expensive to go anywhere.

Yesterday $3.18 today $3.42

The closest station to me is selling it for $3.44 today. Thats the highest I've ever seen it here.

Good thing I filled up yesterday.

Mig, you're a very sweet lady and I'm genuinely fond of you, but I don't wanna hear about you getting gas.

Why fart and waste it when you can burp and taste it?

No my dear SC you don't want to hear or smell me getting RID of the gas. (just as the Col.)

Is that more lady like?

The other day the newspaper announced the salary and bonus of the Exxon CEO (you know Exxon, the $40 BILLION profits)....well this poor guy is only making about $2 mil a year, but about $20 mil in stock. Hard times.

It's been $3.29 for a couple of weeks now.

McCain suggested that the gasoline tax be suspended from Memorial Day to Labor Day to help the economy.

Regular unleaded is $3.79 in my brand new part of the world. But my girlfriend only fills up with Chevron Unleaded Plus (with Teflon...er...Techron.) So we pay roughly $3.89/gallon.

My local Exxon had regular for $3.62, but Costco was only $3.19, so I bought it there. NJ is still a bit cheaper than even Costco, but unless I happen to be going in that direction, it's not worth the drive to save a nickel or so.

The latest scam that I've encountered at a couple of gas stations is

"SORRY, OUT OF REGULAR UNLEADED!"

That means that people that normally use premium gasoline are turning to regular because it's cheaper and therefore the gas stations are running out of it before their next deliviery. But several scumbag stations in the surrounding area, fully knowing that some of these other stations were out of regular, raised the price of THEIR regular to almost as much as the premium! F**king price gouging bastards!

There is absolutey NO REASON for these high gasoline prices accept that the Hedge traders at many of these energy company trading desks, the foreign oil producers as well as these institutional fund traders have taken control over the electronic trading markets. This was allowed to happen because the one time open outcry floor existance of trading is basically gone now. At least when the majority of trading was done through the open outcry markets, there were more factors involved with trading and no one or two conglomorates could corner or monopolize the markets the way that they can now through electronic trading. Now the big boy oil companies and foreign scumbag oil producing countries are in total control of the electronic trading markets and can send the price anywhere they want to.

As good as electronic automation can be for us sometimes, it also can destroy us. In this capacity it's basically crippled our economy big time over the last year or so.

Well, I have to tell you, DC. The local owners are fuming big time because Costco is now selling gas. It turns out that Rockland County law forbids selling gasoline to members only, so Costco is allowed to sell the gasoline to everyone. They don't advertise the fact, but they can't turn you away.

I belong to Costco, so I never knew that it was open to everyone. However, the local paper had a front-page article about it. And guess who tipped off the local paper? One of the local gas station owners! He was so furious when he found out that Costco Gasoline was open to everyone that he called the local paper to complain about it! He's charging 40 to 50 cents a gallon MORE, and he's the one who let everyone know that they could buy gas there!

Smart businessman!