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OT - Why are gas prices fluctuating so much?

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    @Spaightlabs I have full coverage with Allstate (soon to be USAA) on my car.  However, I elected to have a high deductible ($1000) to keep cost down.  New Orleans has high insurance rates and it doesn't help that it's an expensive sports car.  My truck and motorcycles just have liability.
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  • Zmokin
    Zmokin Posts: 1,938
    fishlessman said:
    holding at 2.20 here, dont think ill ever see it drop below 2
    Neither will I, some idiot and/or group of idiots raised the gas taxes in my state.  I wouldn't be surprised if 50% of what I pay at the pump goes straight to government waste.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Sorta like military spending, right?
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  • Spaightlabs
    Spaightlabs Posts: 2,349
    edited November 2015
    nolaegghead said:
    @Spaightlabs I have full coverage with Allstate (soon to be USAA) on my car.  However, I elected to have a high deductible ($1000) to keep cost down.  New Orleans has high insurance rates and it doesn't help that it's an expensive sports car.  My truck and motorcycles just have liability.
    Just double check to make sure you don't have a lower comprehensive deductible or even lower sub-deductible for glass?  That isn't uncommon.
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  • slovelad
    slovelad Posts: 1,742
    Spaightlabs said:
    nolaegghead said:
    @Spaightlabs I have full coverage with Allstate (soon to be USAA) on my car.  However, I elected to have a high deductible ($1000) to keep cost down.  New Orleans has high insurance rates and it doesn't help that it's an expensive sports car.  My truck and motorcycles just have liability.
    Just double check to make sure you don't have a lower comprehensive deductible or even lower sub-deductible for glass?  That isn't uncommon.
    In FL, there is 0 dollar deductible on glass, heck, they will even pay you 100 bucks to replace it. Win win
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    My insurance agent is my fiend and neighbor.  We both are car nuts and we talked about all this.  Pits, chips and cracks are fixed free if they're fixable, but otherwise the windshield falls into the deductible category.  Usually they're not that expensive - my truck was $170.  Nothing's cheap on a Porsche.
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  • slovelad
    slovelad Posts: 1,742
    Spaightlabs said:
    nolaegghead said:
    @Spaightlabs I have full coverage with Allstate (soon to be USAA) on my car.  However, I elected to have a high deductible ($1000) to keep cost down.  New Orleans has high insurance rates and it doesn't help that it's an expensive sports car.  My truck and motorcycles just have liability.
    Just double check to make sure you don't have a lower comprehensive deductible or even lower sub-deductible for glass?  That isn't uncommon.
    In FL, there is 0 dollar deductible on glass, heck, they will even pay you 100 bucks to replace it. Win win
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  • Zmokin
    Zmokin Posts: 1,938
    nolaegghead said:
    Sorta like military spending, right?
    Well, actually, spending money on the military is one of the few things our constitution says is something our Federal government is supposed to do.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Oh.  So then it's OK to waste money on that.  Thanks, I understand now.
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 12,093
    In my neck of the woods in GWN, it varies from CAD 0.95 to 1.05 a litre ... that averages about USD 2.85 a gallon  =)
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  • buzd504
    buzd504 Posts: 3,855
    Canugghead said:
    In my neck of the woods in GWN, it varies from CAD 0.95 to 1.05 a litre ... that averages about USD 2.85 a gallon  =)
    Please show your work.
    NOLA
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 12,093
    edited November 2015
    @buzd504 I'm slow, care to elaborate please?
    edit: oh, if you meant how I arrived at 2.85 ...
    1 US gallon = 3.78 litres, 1 CAD is worth 0.75 US, at average of 1 CAD a litre we have 3.78 x .75 = about USD 2.85 a gallon.
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,023
    Zmokin said:
    nolaegghead said:
    Sorta like military spending, right?
    Well, actually, spending money on the military is one of the few things our constitution says is something our Federal government is supposed to do.
    At my age of 71 I do not want to sound morbid and I hope I QUIETLY out live many people, but honestly - I'm glad my wife and I are this far down the conveyor belt of life as I do not feel this country is going to be worth jack sh!t much too further in the future. Color me "hiding, cautious and scared sh!tless!"
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  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700

    "Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
     - Doug Larson

    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,833
    HeavyG said:
    SoCalWJS said:
    So jealous looking at all of these gas prices outside of good old California. As I was filling my wife's car this week (Premium, Costco, $2.99/gal) I was looking at the taxes posted on the side of the fuel pump.

    After they did their first round of Cap n Trade, prices fluctuated so much nobody was really sure how much that raised the price of gas (rumored to be about 10 cents/gallon), but...

    Fed Tax: 18.9/gal
    State tax: 39.5/gal (+ Cap n Trade)
    County sales tax: 8%

    No wonder our prices are so high (yet they still say they're not making enough money and want to start charging us per mile we drive)....

    We're already around a dollar per gallon higher than any of the other Contiguous States. Wonder how bad it will be in the future as our Gov turns us on to "Greener" fuels?

    I love my State.......
    California doesn't even have the highest combined gas taxes of the lower 48 states. That honor belongs to Pennsylvania.


    Yep, I can drive 1 hour east and get gas for $0.30/gallon less than here, and it's full service because NJ doesn't trust anyone except highly trained gas station employees to pump gas.
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    I guess you all live in crappy states if your gas taxes don't take care of your roads. Hooray, land of pleasant living!
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  • DMW
    DMW Posts: 13,833
    Eggcelsior said:
    I guess you all live in crappy states if your gas taxes don't take care of your roads. Hooray, land of pleasant living!
    I can instantly tell when I enter Maryland. The roads are smooth, speed limits are lower, and speeding cameras are everywhere.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    edited November 2015
    Them good old days.  Why I remember drinking lemonade on mah plantation.  I'd get the colored servents to keep the glass full and the air moving with big palm fronds.  I pine for them good 'ol days....
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  • Eggcelsior
    Eggcelsior Posts: 14,414
    DMW said:
    Eggcelsior said:
    I guess you all live in crappy states if your gas taxes don't take care of your roads. Hooray, land of pleasant living!
    I can instantly tell when I enter Maryland. The roads are smooth, speed limits are lower, and speeding cameras are everywhere.
    Only around schools(cameras). DC is a different animal with that. They enjoy collecting the "commuting tax".
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,179
    Love you bro!
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    RRP said:
    Zmokin said:
    nolaegghead said:
    Sorta like military spending, right?
    Well, actually, spending money on the military is one of the few things our constitution says is something our Federal government is supposed to do.
    At my age of 71 I do not want to sound morbid and I hope I QUIETLY out live many people, but honestly - I'm glad my wife and I are this far down the conveyor belt of life as I do not feel this country is going to be worth jack sh!t much too further in the future. Color me "hiding, cautious and scared sh!tless!"
    People have been saying that same thing for about 240 years. 
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkgUDE66L18

    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
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  • Sardonicus
    Sardonicus Posts: 1,700
    edited November 2015

    Nice beat,
    easy to dance to.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqpuuMlTrU0
     :)  B):)

    "Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and barbecuing."      - George Burns

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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    Zmokin said:
    nolaegghead said:
    Sorta like military spending, right?
    Well, actually, spending money on the military is one of the few things our constitution says is something our Federal government is supposed to do.
    @Zmokin The other item involves "welfare"  Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1

    Taken out of context, as was your comment, as this is troll-Friday.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,403
    nolaegghead said:
    I wouldn't mind paying a little more gas tax if they fixed the **** roads.
    tin foil hat on =)

    WE JUST FIXED THE ROADS



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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    I don't get it.  Are you anti-'merican or something, fishlessperson?
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,403
    nola, i pay the gas taxes, pay 6 tolls each weekend, the feds funded road repair, and we have the worst pot hole roads still open since last winter around and  several bridges ready to cave in,  nobody fixes the roads. we did get that nice sign though =)
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,179
    bad roads are meant to drive the economy - more car repairs and more people buying trucks to survive the bad roads which in turn leads to selling more gas.  fixing the roads decreases tax revenue.
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  • nolaegghead
    nolaegghead Posts: 42,109
    fishlessman said:
    nola, i pay the gas taxes, pay 6 tolls each weekend, the feds funded road repair, and we have the worst pot hole roads still open since last winter around and  several bridges ready to cave in,  nobody fixes the roads. we did get that nice sign though =)
    OK, gotchya.  I'm a little slow today especially since I only caught a couple of hours of sleep this morning.
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