Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: chunktile on August 07, 2006, 11:25:39 AM
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In a blow to drivers already struggling with high gas prices, BP shut down the biggest oilfield in the United States, cutting off about 8 percent of the nation's oil supply. BP said it had found "unexpectedly severe corrosion" in the pipeline in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. The U.S. Energy Department will consider loaning emergency supplies to refiners caught short of supply, a spokesman said today.
http://www.cnn.com/
Everybody, panic! :o
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I'm not going to panic, but I do feel like curling up into a fetal position and just giving up.
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It does make me want to get a car that's powered on something other than gasoline. Prices are going to get crazy.
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Well, here's to riding my bike to work for the next year. Hopefully winter isn't too bad...
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It does make me want to get a car that's powered on something other than gasoline. Prices are going to get crazy.
I would be there in a heartbeat if we had any conceivable way of affording a new car.
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And yet I'll bet your petrol prices won't even begin to equal those that are being charged in the UK :P
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True, the US is only looking at a $0.10 per gallon increase in gas. Most of the increase should be in the West.
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/News/ExpectAJoltAtThePump.aspx
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The prices were horrible when I was overseas! I vacationed for a month this summer in Spain and France with my family. The exchange rate would have come out to about $6 per liter.
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time for random paranoid conspiracy!
BP has been under scrutiny recently for a short series of accidents, one resulting in human deaths.
Anyone ever thought that maybe they did this to look like they're safety conscious and look like they're the good guys as they raise gas prices again?
Not a sermon, just a thought.
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No, I don't think it is a conspiracy. It is difficult to say if the increase in gas prices will increase BP's profit enough to cover the cost of the repairs (which are still to be determined). My guess is that some attorneys got to them and told them that if they didn't do some repairs then worse then would happen to them (recall Exxon-Valdez in Prince William Sound, it took Exxon several years to recover from that oil spill).
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Curse the elements for rusting that pipe!!
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Ah, the benefits of being car-challenged.
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There's this house for rent in town that I am eyeing hungrily. Â It is also close enough for me to bike to work should I so desire. Â Very tempting.
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No, I don't think it is a conspiracy. It is difficult to say if the increase in gas prices will increase BP's profit enough to cover the cost of the repairs (which are still to be determined). My guess is that some attorneys got to them and told them that if they didn't do some repairs then worse then would happen to them (recall Exxon-Valdez in Prince William Sound, it took Exxon several years to recover from that oil spill).
except this doesn't take into account that perhaps repairs aren't actually needed
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except this doesn't take into account that perhaps repairs aren't actually needed
It's the jews. The jews told BP to do it. :o
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along with Col. Sanders.
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No, wait!!! I meant the lizard people. It was the lizard people that made them do it.
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I don't think so. The Colonel refuses to associate with the lizard people.
Though maybe this guy had a hand:
(http://www.saintehlers.com/misc/images/bpads.jpg)
(url for the second ad is http://www.dailywealth.com/signups/SDW_oil.asp )
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I don't think so. The Colonel refuses to associate with the lizard people.
Wait, if that's so then where does he get all those parts that look vaguely like chicken to deep fry and sell at his restaurants?
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I saw on the TV news this morning that BP thinks that they can keep part of the oil feild open. So gas prices may not rise much at all. If fact crude dropped by $0.67 a barrel this morning.
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Wait, if that's so then where does he get all those parts that look vaguely like chicken to deep fry and sell at his restaurants?
He doesn't work with them, he COOKS them.
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Ah, of course. And he must be cooking their babies because all of the lizard people I have met are 6 feet tall and beefy.
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the babies are my tender and pliable.
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This has nothing to do with lizard people. However, it does have everything to do with pigs. Apparently, CNN is claiming that if BP their "smart pigs" (as opposed to the regular dump ones) then they would have detected the links earlier.
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And yet I'll bet your petrol prices won't even begin to equal those that are being charged in the UK :P
You pay more because you pay higher taxes on gas exchanges, which in turn directly benefits you through social services many european governments supply that the US government does not.
:-D.
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Social services that I, unemployed and non-driver, benefit from.
:-D
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This has nothing to do with lizard people. However, it does have everything to do with pigs. Apparently, CNN is claiming that if BP their "smart pigs" (as opposed to the regular dump ones) then they would have detected the links earlier.
So close to, yet so far from, being a coherent thought.