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Putin is getting angrier but the Saudis are opening the taps more because they can do nothing but that, or perish.

This will stop when it starts to really hurt Western oil companies who weren't in.
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There's no chance this'll make any of the Western companies go "Hey! We've got a bunch of cash stored up. Let's invest it in a renewable energy that the Saudis can't control! That'll show 'em!" right?
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Got regular for $2.09 in Michigan last week. Saw it for $2.99 in Chicago today.

Good thing I don't need gas in Chicago.
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Ol' Goiter never needs gas.

There's a slight chance he may knead it. How? Why? Unimportant. Just rest assured it's something he's capable of doing.
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Adam54 wrote:There's no chance this'll make any of the Western companies go "Hey! We've got a bunch of cash stored up. Let's invest it in a renewable energy that the Saudis can't control! That'll show 'em!" right?
A lot of the large Energy Co's invest a hell of a lot in renewables and research. Enough? That's a matter of opinion and they don't do it out of kindness, but they do it.
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I just want my flying car. I was promised a flying car fifteen years ago now. :(
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16 years ago we were supposed to be living on the moon in shiny jumpsuits. And wasn't Blade Runner 2019? It's getting close!!
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$1.79
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Adam54 wrote:I just want my flying car. I was promised a flying car fifteen years ago now. :(
Hell Back to the Future 2 promised me I'd have a hoverboard this year.
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That's nothing, I was promised a fascist dictatorship 31 years ago. I want a job at the Ministry of Love, dammit!!!
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http://money.cnn.com/2015/01/06/news/ec ... index.html

From the article:"Despite not finishing high school, he had been raking in $100,000 a year after working his way up as a deckhand. Now his company is enacting a 12% pay cut to cope with the energy industry pullback. "

I am sorry, but I am having a hard time feeling bad for a HS dropout who is having to take a paycut to 88 THOUSAND DOLLARS a year.
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This energy industry pullback is seriously going to leave some serious hats on the ground. What comes out the end might be brilliant, but getting there is potentially going to be a motherfucker. Seriously. I would be worried. It's large.
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I have two cousins that live in Williston, SD, one since before the gas boom and one who found work there after. I heard some scary stories about people paying over $1000/month to rent a garage--that's without running water or a bathroom. It will be interesting to see what happens to the economy there if gas continues to stay down.
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My gas always goes up.
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neglet wrote:I have two cousins that live in Williston, SD, one since before the gas boom and one who found work there after. I heard some scary stories about people paying over $1000/month to rent a garage--that's without running water or a bathroom. It will be interesting to see what happens to the economy there if gas continues to stay down.
Williston is North Dakota, isn't it?

Regardless of which Dakota, I've honestly never had the guts and/or ambition to travel much beyond the Minnesota border of either state. It's the wild, wild west out there. Especially in North Dakota. I'd never make it.
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North Dakota, South Dakota, they all look alike to me.
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Five years ago I would've suggested they just merge back into one Dakota since neither state had anything going for it anyway, but now I'm sure North Dakota is acting all snooty and superior to South Dakota, what with their oil boom and remarkably expensive housing and such.

Oh, and gas was $1.87 at the cheapest spot on the way into work this morning.
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We've seen $1.72 recently. stlouisgasprices.com is reporting $1.55 in a handful of places.
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Adam54 wrote:Five years ago I would've suggested they just merge back into one Dakota since neither state had anything going for it anyway, but now I'm sure North Dakota is acting all snooty and superior to South Dakota, what with their oil boom and remarkably expensive housing and such.
South Dakota still has Mount Rushmore.
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And North Dakota has...... has.......... the Bakken formation!!

Take that, faces of Presidents in rock!
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North Dakota also has Fargo! Fargo is the gold standard of "mixed feelings" for all Minnesotans.

On the one hand, it's a sneakily cool college town which has really made great strides over the past decade or so. It's easily the least North Dakotan city in North Dakota.

On the other hand, because of the movie Fargo, everyone on the fucking planet thinks that my accent is ridiculous when it's really nowhere near as extreme as they make it out to be.
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They just don't know, dontcha know?
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Stopped to get some gas today. Swiped the card but it never prompted me to enter my PIN. Screen said "lift nozzle and select grade" so I did. Turns out the pump was setup for a prepaid 17 bucks worth of gas. Someone pay and drive off? Station accidentally authorized the wrong pump? Either way I got about 8 gallons of gas for free. Yay me.
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Here in Montpelier VT, and gas is $2.49, which is about the same as Chicago. Taxes here must be lovely.
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omicron wrote:Either way I got about 8 gallons of gas for free. Yay me.
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