How many of you ever thought the statement "you will be assimilated" would ever pertain to anyone other than the borg. Well guess what. You are the borg and you will be assimilated into the new way of the world. It'll be done gradually by breaking your back at the pump.
So lets take a look what you can expect to see in the next year or so. Please pick a curtain and realize equalization by big brother is in your face and it's totally out of your control. All you can do is adjust your lifestyle accordingly, if you have that much lead way and flexibility. So lets take a look at "who's doing who".
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If $8.00 a gallon at the pump comes about how will this affect your life knowing you're not going to get a pay raise to make up the difference for the cost of fuel or any increase high fuel cost has had upon the price of necessities and its transportation fees. Compound this with LLNS desire to adjust the salaries of many by red-lining those who in their opinion are overpaid excluding ULM where some get a car allowance and what do we have.
Please think about this and list just what it will do to you and your family.
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has no bearing on current situation other than making Iraq more costly and perhaps impacting the Lab budget as a result. Other than that, I am not sure why this is posted here.
It's a 3.5 mile commute for me. I drive a gas hog - I don't really care.
May 10, 2008 3:26 PM
Must be a livermorn resident like poster May 10, 2008 4:50 PM until you lose your job and have to commute to the bay area then lets see how cocker you are.
Can't wait until crap hits the fan.
At $8/gallon, it will cost me $50/day
to go to work, roughly 15% of my salary. I will have to get a job closer to home, bike to work, get a 30% pay cut and save the environment.
I thought I lived in a free country.
We are not free. OPEC controls us!
Look how many people are in denial. Not many entries here. It can't happen in America. The government will step in and take it better. Yeah, right. They should have done this when it was 29 cents a gallon and all would be well. Nope, there's money to be made here and the rich are going to see they make it. Can you imagine the insider trading going on behind closed doors right now. They're going to bate a lot of people into this fast rising get rich quick scheme with the rising oil prices and then while you're sleeping the market will crash and you would have made a generous donation to the rich once again. How's it feel to be used and abused as if we haven't had enough. My suggestion to the middle class is pull what ever you have out of the stock market and put it into savings or better yet a can in the back yard. When gas gets to $8.00 a gallon that's all you'll have. The rich, well they'll be laughing at you from their estates while surrounded by armed body guards.
May 10, 2008 4:55 PM
I hope your job doesn't require spelling.
If you don't want to live in Livermore, then you commute. It's that simple.
May 11, 2008 8:00 AM
Only the rich and renters can afford Livermore and Tracy. I'm not rich and I surely don't like renting and having to live next to someone that close. Might as well have a bunkbed. Forget that.
May 11, 2008 8:00 AM
If you have what you want, quit complaining.
Very simple here- there are 42 gallons in a barrel of oil. Take 200$ and divide it by 42- you get- 4.76$. Now add in 1.00- 1.50$ in shipping, refinery processing, taxes, etc and you get somewhere around 5.75-6.25$ on average. Probably a bit more at that point- I'd guess closer to 7 $ because associated costs would go up as well.
Right now 125$/barrel= 2.97$. Add a 1$ and you should get to about 4$. I think refineries are losing a bit of money because their prices should be higher according to the price of crude.
Very simple here- there are 42 gallons in a barrel of oil. Take 200$ and divide it by 42- you get- 4.76$. Now add in 1.00- 1.50$ in shipping, refinery processing, taxes, etc and you get somewhere around 5.75-6.25$ on average. Probably a bit more at that point- I'd guess closer to 7 $ because associated costs would go up as well.
A barrel of oil is 55 gallons
May 12, 2008 4:29 PM
A barrel is 42 gal. You're probably thinking about a drum.
A barrel is 42 gal. You're probably thinking about a drum.
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There are 55 gallons in a drum and 42 gallons in a barrel. Originally there were 40 gallons to a barrel however, that was changed in the mid 19th century to give a little extra so consumers wouldn't feel "cheated".
A little over 23 gallons of gasoline can be refined from a barrel of oil. Other products (jet fuel, lubricants, etc.) make up the rest.
Your right sorry my bad.
Put money in savings? A can in the back yard?? With this year probably being close to 5-10% inflation rate (real inflation, not the fake CPI numbers) this is a losing deal. Better off to invest in the companies that produce the commodities themselves.
May 13, 2008 10:59 PM
I would not put a dime in the stock market today and never have. I do not believe in it. It's a game only the rich and well informed , like inside traders , can affrod to play.
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