Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
http://money.cnn.com/2008/02/01/news...xxon_earnings/
That's not even a single quarter's profit for Exxon.
That's not even a single quarter's profit for Exxon.
That's the sort of thing that a company will do when it has to, not because it wants to. It will defer investments like that as long as possible, because they aren't very lucrative.
They would rather commit the money to exploration and getting new sources of oil, because that's what will make them money in the future.
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
Front page of one of the tabloids today is leading to an article where diesel is £1.45 a gallon in one or two UK petrol stations. Now isn't that something like $14 a gallon?
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
At least we know that this can't happen here. (The pumps stop at $9.99 9/10th's here.)
FWIW, the average is supposedly 118.7p, which works out to be a more modest $8.87/ gallon.
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
I've not seen it for under £1.20 a gallon in the 3 weeks Ive been here and that was cheapo welfare diesel at the Supermarket.
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
Because we can google ourselves and dont need someone to constantly come in with an obviously googled piece of information, not providing the link, and thus trying to palm it of as their own wealth of knowledge.
We can use Wikipedia too.
We can use Wikipedia too.
#86
Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
Then why don't you beat me to it then. Don't fault me on knowing where to go for information. I've been doing this for years and have become quite good at it. Being armed with correct knowledge is one thing. Having it come from your ass is another.
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
and I'm too lazy and don't care enough about half the tripe posted on here to run off and google for teacher for an imaginary gold star.
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
Because if every fucker here googled every topic (as you do) it would become bloody boring and the googler would end up looking like a condescending know-it-all, it would make BE look like a technical manual or a dictionary and their would be little human elements left.
and I'm too lazy and don't care enough about half the tripe posted on here to run off and google for teacher for an imaginary gold star.
and I'm too lazy and don't care enough about half the tripe posted on here to run off and google for teacher for an imaginary gold star.
Besides, I'm known to retain information once I learn it. Not everything that I say here comes from the internet. It comes from upstairs. I'm pretty damned smart and not afraid to let anyone know it when appropriate. I'm certainly not going to let you hold me back from stating something if I know it. That would change me from, oh what was it that you said, condescending, to a fucking wimp. That's not my style.
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Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
Besides, I'm known to retain information once I learn it. Not everything that I say here comes from the internet. It comes from upstairs. I'm pretty damned smart and not afraid to let anyone know it when appropriate. I'm certainly not going to let you hold me back from stating something if I know it. That would change me from, oh what was it that you said, condescending, to a fucking wimp. That's not my style.
#90
Re: Can anyone tell me why gas is so expensive?
How dare you!!!! We're British you know!!!!
I never said you weren't smart, you obviously are and I never said stop posting your opinions, however I do find the posts that are so obviously googled to be a total bore, devoid of humour and a complete snoozefest, but hey!! If you want to bore people into submission be my guest. They also kill off a good fight and thats never good.
I never said you weren't smart, you obviously are and I never said stop posting your opinions, however I do find the posts that are so obviously googled to be a total bore, devoid of humour and a complete snoozefest, but hey!! If you want to bore people into submission be my guest. They also kill off a good fight and thats never good.