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    Petrol just hit an alltime (this year)...low here. WTF. Last week I filled my tank with $1.75 a litre of petrol (roughly $6 a gallon)... this week it's $1.42($4.81 a gallon), for apparently NO REASON. So it went down thirty cents a litre (or a dollar twenty a gallon!) overnight... wtf.

    This petrol thing is seriously like the stock market. I have half a mind to buy 6000 gallons now and sell it when it raises 50 cents.


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    What pisses me off is if it could go down so dramatically, why was it up to begin with?

    Oh wait...

    Seriously. I'm going to open up a pretrol station that just leeches off other petrol stations at low prices and sells them when they go back up. Hahaha.


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    It went down 20 cents in Dallas/Ft.Worth

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    I see no reason for it to be so high either if they can just drop it at whim. Pure greed. And keeping our minds busy while other things go on under our noses.

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    Naturally, I filled my gas tank at a price of $4.31/gal and the next day, that same BP was $4.15 and the next day was $4.06. While I'm glad to see it go down, it chapped my ass that it was still pretty much at an all-time high when I filled.






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    Quote Originally Posted by Mare View Post
    I see no reason for it to be so high either if they can just drop it at whim. Pure greed. And keeping our minds busy while other things go on under our noses.
    Its a commodity, its bought and sold around the world.....right now you have people who are buying vast quantities that haven't before: China and India. You also have people thinking that we have hit peak-production and that we are slowly running out of oil now. Pretty much Supply and demand, and when you control the supply, and there is high demand, you can charge "whatever" you want.....

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    Who wants to play petrol stock market with me, then? hahaha.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MeanGirl View Post
    It went down 20 cents in Dallas/Ft.Worth
    Hell yes it did! We are at about $3.85/gallon. Not bad!
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    Quote Originally Posted by txchick008 View Post
    Hell yes it did! We are at about $3.85/gallon. Not bad!
    imagine, 13 years ago when I started driving, $1.06 / gallon was "not bad". not anything under $4.00 is not bad....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lysondra View Post
    Who wants to play petrol stock market with me, then? hahaha.
    only if I get to play crooked.....

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    Filled up at $3.70 yesterday. I love living in the Midwest. We never got above $4.00.

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    I filled up yesterday in the Keys for $3.99! Its usually MORE expensive there..here nowhere I see is under $4

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    Summer 1998, I was going to college in Oklahoma. Gas was at $0.69 on the south side of Oklahoma City. Gawwwd, how great would THAT be right now?
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    Dude. -I- remember the hubbub when petrol rose over a dollar a gallon and I'm a BABY!


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    The SF Bay Area has seen similar decreases. I think the lowest I saw yesterday was just outside of Vallejo at $4.17. That's pretty low, since the entire area was close to or over $5.00 a month ago.

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    I live in Chicago, it's 4.39 I think here in the city? But then if I go further out like into the ghetto or towards the burbs it's 4.03 or 3.98
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    I think its due in part to beijing pre-olympics anti-pollution policies.

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    It went down 5 cents here.
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