03-06-2008, 06:15 PM
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Master EcoModder
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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$105 oil (now $119 oil)
So today was the third record breaking day for crude this week. $105.97 a barrel! It will probably reek havoc on the summer gas prices if it stays this high or higher. So, I guess it is time to kick it up a notch on my driving technique.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i...BB-tAD8V80B0O0
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Last edited by igo; 04-22-2008 at 09:26 PM.
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03-06-2008, 07:46 PM
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EcoModding Apprentice
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Mackinac City, Michigan
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I hope North America gets more FE and EV cars.
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03-06-2008, 09:33 PM
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Wannabe EcoModder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Boston, MA; Nashua, NH; Houston, TX
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I just took my first bicycle ride of the season today. I'm not ready for the record setting as prices but I will be soon.  |
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03-06-2008, 11:40 PM
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Giant Moving Eco-Wall
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: The Dale, IL (or A-Dale)
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Now just to get that MTB....
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03-06-2008, 11:44 PM
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Awesomeness personified
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Columbia, MO
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makes me glad I got my Big Dummy built already 
Heck, the wife's even thinking of getting a bus pass for her trips to work, it doesn't get better than that.
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03-07-2008, 12:55 AM
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Administrator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Peterborough, Ontario
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No more driving for me |
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03-07-2008, 03:31 AM
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Meat Popsicle
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In another country brought to you by Coca-Coley
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Shoot, $63/bbl equivalent (dollar index was at 125 then versus 75 now) in 2005 and it wouldn't look nearly so bad. I guess that's what we get here in the states when the gubberment runs the printing presses at full speed.
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03-07-2008, 06:02 AM
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I'd rather be biking
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: New Orleans, LA, US Minor Outlying Islands
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*shrugs*
I was talking to someone at w*rk whose husband spends $550/mo driving his SUV to BR (70+ mi one way) every day.  She was complaining that they couldn't afford to have a child. Meanwhile it takes me 2-3 weeks to burn 10 gals.
Another cow orker is looking at a Yaris, Fit, or Matrix for non-MC days.
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My bike runs on dihydrogen monoxide. 
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03-07-2008, 06:54 PM
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Master EcoModder
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Crude hit $106.54 during trading today (a new record high). But it closed at the low price of $105.
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03-07-2008, 10:51 PM
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MP$
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Ohio
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looks toppy to me i'm selling my oil futures.
so high oil prices prevent children, maybe we have a chance yet. not that there is anything wrong with children.
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03-08-2008, 12:57 AM
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Giant Moving Eco-Wall
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: The Dale, IL (or A-Dale)
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there's so many people growing the population to larger amounts, I don't think that we need anymore.
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03-08-2008, 10:59 AM
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I'd rather be biking
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: New Orleans, LA, US Minor Outlying Islands
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It prevents children only if you're not smart enough to realize the link between fuel savings and your budget. Darwinism at work!
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03-08-2008, 01:35 PM
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Giant Moving Eco-Wall
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Location: The Dale, IL (or A-Dale)
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AH HA! the missing link!!! |
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03-10-2008, 04:55 PM
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Master EcoModder
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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It went up to $108.21 today and closed at $107.95 a new record once again.
This time last year oil was $60 a barrel and the US average price of gas was $2.56
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03-10-2008, 07:09 PM
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Liberti
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: California
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Higher Oil, Higher, Higher, weeeeeeee, Higher, weeeeeee!!!
I feel a bit like a citizen of Sodom and Gomorrah. Rooting for the end, but realizing I'm sinking with the ship... 
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03-10-2008, 10:38 PM
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Master EcoModder
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Regina SK Canada
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Holy moly. I feel bad for the person that budgeted just enough to buy that new Hemi Durango... and forgot about calculating the extra gasoline expense
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03-10-2008, 10:42 PM
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Giant Moving Eco-Wall
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: The Dale, IL (or A-Dale)
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well... can't say much more than I can complain all I want but I'm gonna have to buy weather I complain or not cause it's essential right now to get to and fro from school. Just driving slower and slower. Although I've had to sacrifice FE to pick-up my cousin in the morning, I get a reward with some gas money. When I drive alone though, it's 50mph the whole way there!
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03-11-2008, 05:45 PM
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ECO-Evolution
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Central Texas
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03-11-2008, 11:23 PM
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Master EcoModder
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Every day is a new record. This is getting a little scary.
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03-11-2008, 11:31 PM
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ECO-Evolution
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Central Texas
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I'm afraid RH77 is right. The trickle down is going to hurt.
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