SLAP! - Take that America!

[Terroreyes]

Did anyone else get hit with a big increase in the price of gas? So much for trying to fight back with a boycott. Got a 13 cent increase overnight here. Filled up Tuesday for $2.06, same price yesterday. $2.19 everywhere today. Talk about squashing the little guy and flexing your corporate muscle. Looks like big oil wants a war vs. the American people and I think it's about time we really gave it to them. Let's get these fools we elected to stand up for the people who put them in office not for the people buying their ads!

One good thing was that I saw 1 single car getting gas yesterday on the way to work out of 5 stations I pass, and there's usually at least 4 or 5 cars at each.

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[bigfish1965]

It just hit 3 bucks here....have fun!

Where is "here" ???

We're at .97 Can per litre. About $4 Can per US gallon. Thats about $3 per US gallon. This is in Thunder Bay ON One 5 Gallon Can is about $25 with the oil. OUCH

[RANGER]

Ya' know, if we boycotted for a [b]WEEK[/b] THAT would have an impact! One day? You're spitting in the wind 'cause: folks' will fill up the day before or the day after ;-) !!

[Trophy]

Makes you want to revisit those simpler times in our lives don't it? Remember those nights of sitting on river bank tightlinning for Catfish? Catching farm pond Bass. Those are the precious times in most of our lives, and we all have a tendancy to forget how much fun we really had back then. Most of us have the equipment we could only dream about back then,but has it made it any more fun than it use to be? I have made the decision to spend less time on my boat this year due to gas prices, and get back to the basics, and enjoy the simpler side of fishing.

[marcbodi]

Hi,
When I was young I fished for Cats and Bullheads on the bank of the Maumee river .To got back to just that kind of fishing I would rather stick needles in my eyes.
May I be fishing somewhere Tomorrow

[The Democrat]

Why don't you write a letter to President Bush asking him to have Ashcroft's anti-trust boys investigate the oil companies. haw! haw! haw!

As for me, I think I'll call my broker and buy some Exxon stock.

Not buying gas for a day only delays purchases. If we really want to get the oil companies'attention, we all need to not drive for a day or two. Walk, bike or take public transportation. That'll hit em in the pocketbook and maybe they'll stop gouging us.
Ron

[bladerunner]

Still not as bad as the late 70's & early 80's when the price of gas, adjusted for 2004 $$, was around $3.26 a gal. Ever since oil was discovered in the middle east, we have been getting screwed around. Despite all else, we have an oil barron family in office (in bed w/ special interests) that isn't willing to touch the reserves (it is an election year & undoubtedly he will do something about this around Nov.). On the local front, our wonderful Gov. Granholm will not lower the state sales tax to help alleviate the burden. Corporations are not the only ones to blame. For gripes sake, she wanted to increase the "sin tax" on cigs to help w/ the budget defecit. If wasteful govt. spending was curtailed we wouldn't need to alienate certain voters to allegedly help others.