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Ten Most Expensive Places to Buy Gas Rank City 1 San Francisco 2 San Jose 3 San Diego 4 Sacramento 5 Los Angeles 6 New York City 7 Buffalo 8 Seattle 9 Miami 10 Chicago
What's more, the difference between, say, San Francisco and Houston is more pronounced this time of year since California requires cleaner fuel year round. Texas, like many Southern and Midwestern states, eases up on such requirements during the winter months when consumption slows. California's higher environmental standard increases refining costs, which get passed along to the consumer.
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paid 2.91 leaving Austin yesterday...thinking I wanted to beat prices I would see on the Interstate. Got to the Interstate, and the price was 2.87... sheesh
quote:Originally posted by IMAKEMONEY: SAN DIEGO IS 3.23
gotta tell you...I wouldn't have been driving that far, except the contractor I was subbing from pays the fuel, plus a per diem for food, and a nominal "rental" fee on my truck. The general contractor pays the motel bill...
Sumpin's gonna give, sometime...
Without these charges, I couldn't even go out of town... cheaper for me *not* to take the job.
Yet, if it goes, say, to $4/gal? Somebody will be pressing me to share the cost...
I'll say no...
Mebbe the contractor makes the drive and straps on *his* tool belt... or finds somebody else willing to do what I do, for less... Mebbe the general charges more? or gives concessions to my guy? I dunno...but sumpin's gonna give, somewhere
Here's another thought. If we (the taxpayers) weren't paying the utility bills for the low income tenants, maybe they wouldn't crank up the heat and leave the windows open when it's 12 degrees F outside! With millions of tenants getting government handouts, that might save the planet.
quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: 2.89 here in my little corner of Ohio.
Here's another thought. If we (the taxpayers) weren't paying the utility bills for the low income tenants, maybe they wouldn't crank up the heat and leave the windows open when it's 12 degrees F outside! With millions of tenants getting government handouts, that might save the planet.
Mike
nothing compared to the handouts going to the Bush Pioneers Club
-------------------- Don't envy the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise. Posts: 36378 | From: USA | Registered: Sep 2003
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Oregon Coast glassman...HWY HWY AND MORE...HWY!
Plus with super it gives your car more power..so you don't have to press the gas pedal as hard to get the same power from regular gasoline...
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: 2.89 here in my little corner of Ohio.
Here's another thought. If we (the taxpayers) weren't paying the utility bills for the low income tenants, maybe they wouldn't crank up the heat and leave the windows open when it's 12 degrees F outside! With millions of tenants getting government handouts, that might save the planet.
Mike
That wouldn't work up here PM but I do take your point. Applies to all though the gov. isn't involved elsewhere.
Fuel costs are also inflated by investors on the commodities market as well. Some analysts say by as much as 25%! What should we take away from them to bring that down and cut the costs for the American taxpayer?
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The government should NOT take anything from anyone beyond taxes to pay for essential services (not entitlements). In addition, the government should NOT be giving anything away to able-bodied and able-minded people who are simply too lazy to work.
quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: The government should NOT take anything from anyone beyond taxes to pay for essential services (not entitlements). In addition, the government should NOT be giving anything away to able-bodied and able-minded people who are simply too lazy to work.
Mike
lol do yo know how many lives have been saved because of the NASA program's contribution science in general?
you wanna go back to selling bone beads and seashells strung on reindeer gut again? sheesh...
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quote:Originally posted by Propertymanager: The government should NOT take anything from anyone beyond taxes to pay for essential services (not entitlements). In addition, the government should NOT be giving anything away to able-bodied and able-minded people who are simply too lazy to work.
Mike
Transportation is not a right, it is a privilege. Why does a good chunk of my tax money go to roads?
And who is the judge of able-minded?
Ah...I'm just playing with ya PM. You wanna be a classist that's alright by me.
Here's a riddle for ya...how many CEO's does it take to screw in a light bulb?
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To be fair...I am sure you are correct that there are holes in the section 8 program. It's government spending after all. But as far as I can tell section 8 housing has a current budget of 14.4 Billion out of a total 2.5 trillion annual US budget.
That's approximately .6% of our annual budget. Somehow I think there are bigger fish to fry. Especially if the main argument for cutting the program consists of "poor people are lazy."
BF
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Those are nice cars Wdcisco. I had to give you a little bit of a hard time about the branch.
Maybe i had to give you a little bit of a hard time because my 2003 chrysler blew a trans three days ago. I was told the engine and trans were built at the Mercedes factory i am not sure it true i have never checked.
This car only has 80,000 miles on it. I love the car or as least i did before this.
I just got off the freeway and it shifted through 3 gears and that's is far as it went, it's an automatic 4 speed. I got home and let it cool down then decided to re-check it when we went to dinner to see if it might go back to normal. It was fine till we came back then it downshifted into second this time and would not shift up after that. I took it to a transmission shop the next day and it was fine. But when they went out and tested it the same thing happened, the hydraulics are out.
They say these transmissions have a safety device that locks them out in lower gears to protect the trans from completely blowing when there going bad. I am not sure i like this device being i could have been going 70 mph+ and had this thing drop down into second gear, that would be real exciting. I am sure that would do wonders for the trans and the engine being the engine rpm's would most likely be setting around 7000-8000 rpm's. I don't know if the safety device was working right i sure hope not.
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everybody always leaves out hawaii.. when i was there in september gas was 3.75 +
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"To be fair...I am sure you are correct that there are holes in the section 8 program. It's government spending after all. But as far as I can tell section 8 housing has a current budget of 14.4 Billion out of a total 2.5 trillion annual US budget."
Section 8 is only a small part of the problem. When Bill Clinton cut back the welfare system, it was all just a big scam. What actually happened is that instead of getting money from Welfare, the people who are too lazy to work now get their money from SSDI, community action, job and family services, etc. The government just shifted the money around to make it look better for the public. Please note that I am NOT blaming this on Bill Clinton alone, George Bush and congress are equally to blame.
Able-bodied and able-minded people should work - not live free thanks to the taxpayers.
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Maybe there are those who think that a "property manager" is a scam way to get paid by someone too lazy to do their own busy work and willing to pay someone else to do what really isn't essential, even if they are paying someone too damned lazy to get off their calloused ass and do real and honorable man's work.
"Real men don't eat quiche" and their callouses, unless they are cowboys, are on their hands, after all.
.............lol.................
Posts: 11304 | From: Fort Worth, Texas | Registered: Mar 2005
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when i was a kid? my Dads second job was landlord..
we had 5 or six houses at any give time besides the one we lived in...
and we had some really bad tennants.. doors with doorknobs on the outside to lock the kids in their rooms etc. sad stuff... once we got a good tennant? we did whatever was needed to keep 'em... including low rent and options to buy... much safer way to keep steady income..
the smallest house 1800 ft2
we spent alot of time (like every minute when he wasn't at work for his "real job" which was white collar) on maintenance. i liked working w/him.. learned carpentry, plumbing, basic wiring, brick and block laying.... window glazing the list goes on and on...
to this day i'm happiest working with my hands, and the more difficult the task? the more rewarding it is...
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And working with your hands with dad and being taught by dad (in my case most, but not all, of that was with grandaddy....mama taught me real estate sales and property managing, because she ran the company, while dad had other demanding responsibilities), then later on knowing it would please him that I could do it well, makes that work so much more special and rewarding.
I have always had more than just one job and being able to "take off" from the one kind and submerge myself for a time in a different sort of work has been a great benefit.
You learn a lot about people when you are in a crew cutting stove wood by the cord and the others you are working with keep describing those who do your "other" job as lazy leaches of society taking money for growing blisters on their butts. Then back at the office later, the guy from down the hall stops in to voice his disgust with the worthless lazy bast-ards that were too lazy to stay in school an learn how to hold a job in which they can make an honest living and be a productive part of society ("the damned ceder choppers ought to all be run out of the country", he'd say).
And, ya know, they all believe what they say and that it is the secret that would save the world.
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I do not think you have convinced yourself yet that what you do is right. Your story is samo samo definately not a new one. You use a broader and broader reason to justify your actions in your posts.
It is not what you do that is wrong, cleaning up blighted areas is good. But from what your post's indicate you do it to try and hurt people and make money off of it at the same time, like there is pleasure in hurting.
It is always interesting when people like you try and convince others that what you do is somehow okay with most others. The KKK tries to do the same thing as other groups similiar to them try and do.
All someone has to do is read a few of your posts to see where you have been going with this from the start.
If you carry the attitude you have into these blighted areas, you definately do not have enough fire power with you and also look backwards as you walk forward.
Again it's not what you do i disagre with, not that you really care. It's the real reason you do it that bothers me. (by what you indicate in your posts) It sure looks like you are doing the same thing a bully does just using money and people that are down to do it to.
I tend to feel you have to be putting us on people cannot be that cruel.
How old are you?
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