We always take it in the (you know what out here). The "winter mix" is being produced now (which is only one of the reasons that they claim that prices are so high). I live in Southern California............What "Winter" would that be?
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So we go from 90 degrees to 75 degrees. Winter???
I filled up today, $25.42 for a tank of gas..............ON MY BIKE (and it wasn't even empty)!!!!!
When I started riding, it was great. If I had $5.00 in my pocket I could ride all weekend (with a hottie on the back) and have fun for two days, now I can't even get to the store for vittles (which BTW are gonna go up too).
Gas here is going up $.18-$.40 per day! If I didn't live 40 miles or so to work, I'd walk.
This is just plain crazy.
Over here in Chi-town the winter blend is the lower priced blend, and I assume that's the case in California as well. The problem comes twice a year when the refineries have to switch over from one to the other. You wouldn't think it would be all that tough to do, but somehow they manage to use that switchover to justify spiking prices every six months, even when switching to the lower cost blend. As I noted before, the oil companies don't work under the same principles and rules the rest of us have to follow. They screw up, we pay more. They aren't competent enough to manage inventories to assure supplies during the semiannual changeovers, we pay more. The CEO's mistress gives him a hard time, we pay more. The CEO's wife gets proof of the mistress and files for a huge divorce settlement, we pay a lot more. If you're following where this is going, the main theme is regardless of the situation, we pay more. Just get used to it and don't complain. All the complaining gives the CEO a headache, and then of course
we pay more.
Jerry
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