[Lemmy]

jj2424 jj2424:

I thought left wingers all rode bicycles and hated the oil industry.

What are you doing buy dirty oil products?

Lefties like burning oil just as much as righties, they just don't mind paying for the damage it causes. It's more about who's the fucking cheapskate.

[jj2424]

Lemmy Lemmy:

jj2424 jj2424:

I thought left wingers all rode bicycles and hated the oil industry.

What are you doing buy dirty oil products?

Lefties like burning oil just as much as righties, they just don't mind paying for the damage it causes. It's more about who's the fucking cheapskate.

Righties don't cry like babies when the price at the pumps go up ..lefties do.

[Lemmy]

The only thing conservatives are conservative about is opening their wallets.

[raydan]

jj2424 jj2424:

Lemmy Lemmy:

jj2424 jj2424:

I thought left wingers all rode bicycles and hated the oil industry.

What are you doing buy dirty oil products?

Lefties like burning oil just as much as righties, they just don't mind paying for the damage it causes. It's more about who's the fucking cheapskate.

Righties don't cry like babies when the price at the pumps go up ..lefties do.

The only person I see crying here is you... and you do that a lot.

[Gunnair]

jj2424 jj2424:

Lemmy Lemmy:

jj2424 jj2424:

I thought left wingers all rode bicycles and hated the oil industry.

What are you doing buy dirty oil products?

Lefties like burning oil just as much as righties, they just don't mind paying for the damage it causes. It's more about who's the fucking cheapskate.

Righties don't cry like babies when the price at the pumps go up ..lefties do.

Apparently they cry about other things though. Not so much righties, but well...

jj2424 jj2424:

People call me partisan.

[Gunnair]

Lemmy Lemmy:

The only thing conservatives are conservative about is opening their wallets.

I absolutely am not. My kilt maker would back me up!

[herbie]

So we love it in Prince George.
Bumping it up 6c a litre before the weekend wasn't good enough. They all hiked it another 7c this morning...
oink oink oink oink!

[DVC185]

117.5 here.

And it actually went down about a penny on Thursday.

[Freakinoldguy]

Until everybody takes one day off from buying gas they're gonna continue screwing us because all the complaining, leftwing, rightwing, and wingnut people do just isn't getting through to them.

I think people have tried to have a national no gas day but failed miserably because people can't think far enough ahead to buy gas the day before. But, what makes it ever weirder is that they did the same thing with dairy products and it worked.

[ShepherdsDog]

Lemmy Lemmy:

The only thing conservatives are conservative about is opening their wallets.

and being a Fraser you're very liberal when it comes to sharing wealth....especially when it belongs to someone else

[saturn_656]

Lemmy Lemmy:

The only thing conservatives are conservative about is opening their wallets.

You say that as if there is something wrong about it.

[westmanguy]

You guys haven't seen high gas prices until you've lived in Vancouver...

Its gone down from almost 1.50/L to 1.45/L Hold me back!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... rices.html

Its everyone on the Island and Interior who gets screwed. If you live in the Lower Mainland its not difficult to plan a trip to Whatcom County (Bellingham) or hell, I even know people in Surrey who have Nexus passes who book it to Blaine 3x or more a week to just fill up on gas and pick up some milk.

All this over-taxation of fuel does here in BC is drive consumers in hordes to Bellingham. That city is a gong show with the number of Canadians. They're tripling the size of their airport too.

YVR could double its annual flights if the gas taxes and airport authority rent were obliterated. Most Canadians living near the border would pay 10-20% more than U.S. flights for the convenience of flying out of their own airport. But when you're talking double the cost a lot of the time, we're just creating BOOM economies for cities like Bellingham, WA, Buffalo, NY, Grand Forks, ND, Burlington, VT, etc.

[Caelon]

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Until everybody takes one day off from buying gas they're gonna continue screwing us because all the complaining, leftwing, rightwing, and wingnut people do just isn't getting through to them.

I think people have tried to have a national no gas day but failed miserably because people can't think far enough ahead to buy gas the day before. But, what makes it ever weirder is that they did the same thing with dairy products and it worked.

Even if you were successful in boycotting all gas for a day or even one supplier like PetroCan for a week it would not change a thing. People still travel just as far to work so either they loaded up the days before or after the boycott so net zero change. Boycotting one vendor does not work as there are only so many refineries making the product and just as many people buying. All it changes is which station got shipped the product. Again net zero change.

You really want a change then people would have to change their usage so the total demand for gas dropped. It has to drop enough that the refiners just cannot ship the small excess to a new market like the US. Bring the refineries down to less than 70% of capacity and the there will be a price change. Chances of that happening are between non existent and no way at all.

[jeff744]

Caelon Caelon:

Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:

Until everybody takes one day off from buying gas they're gonna continue screwing us because all the complaining, leftwing, rightwing, and wingnut people do just isn't getting through to them.

I think people have tried to have a national no gas day but failed miserably because people can't think far enough ahead to buy gas the day before. But, what makes it ever weirder is that they did the same thing with dairy products and it worked.

Even if you were successful in boycotting all gas for a day or even one supplier like PetroCan for a week it would not change a thing. People still travel just as far to work so either they loaded up the days before or after the boycott so net zero change. Boycotting one vendor does not work as there are only so many refineries making the product and just as many people buying. All it changes is which station got shipped the product. Again net zero change.

You really want a change then people would have to change their usage so the total demand for gas dropped. It has to drop enough that the refiners just cannot ship the small excess to a new market like the US. Bring the refineries down to less than 70% of capacity and the there will be a price change. Chances of that happening are between non existent and no way at all.

If demand drops the oil companies will just reduce the supply enough to keep the prices up.

[BRAH]

Fuck it I'm getting a Hybrid!