I saw this on the way home from work last night and I had to show it to everyone. The station is on the corner of Alameda and Cesar Chavez Blvd, across from the north entrance to Olvera Street, the oldest street in L.A.
This is what we are up against in Los Angeles. Everyone can make their own decisions as to why we are up to over FIVE DOLLARS A GALLON in California.
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Energy Secretary Chu Admits Administration OK with High Gas Prices
http://news.yahoo.com/energy-secretary-chu-admits-administration-ok-high-gas-193900713.html
@ Lily:
That way we can go green.
So be released for purchase by the general public. The Stephen Chu magnetic degausser molecular altering fuel compositer air disruption
carburetorfuel injection shinny thingy that he showed obama and promised that by 2014 all automobiles in the Us would get 98.5 miles per gallon of fuel..Not only is it not summer, it ain’t even officially spring yet. You guys in CA are fucked. $ 3.69/gallon for regular unleaded here yesterday.
Hey savage, quick question. Per gallon what are the taxes in CA -- and when do the prices for the summertime ’boutique’ blends start kicking in?
@ Mike C.:
$3.80 here in Tampa.
@ eaglesoars:
He’s at work, so Let me call him.
Appropriate pic of the day.
@ eaglesoars:
I texted him.
@ Mike C.:
EVERYTHING here in NoVa that I see is above $4. I filled up on Sunday and I paid $4.17. That’s the highest octane but the owner’s manual for my car is pretty clear about what fuel to use, so I don’t think I have much choice.
Rodan wrote:
Oh, jeez, don’t bother him! He’s probably driving and working thru traffic n stuff!
*smooch*
eaglesoars wrote:
gas taxes
California has oppressively high gasoline taxes -- I think it’s 18%. And because we have such oppressive standards thanks to CARB, we cannot import gasoline manufactured in another state.
It will be $6 a gallon come summer.
@ Calo:
WOW!
@ Calo:
Thanks Calo. I thought it was based on percentage, since I had heard that gasoline taxes were bringing in big money to the coffers when the price per gallon went up. I guess it was the sales tax and the “other tax” (in California there’s always another tax) that they were referring to.
Carolina Girl wrote:
Like 35 cents/gal. Enormous.
Here is another chart of gasoline taxes that shows how much of the tax is federal (excise) and how much is state.
Not to worry! Sparky-cars are coming to save us.
http://news.consumerreports.org/cars/2012/03/video-bad-karma-our-fisker-karma-plug-in-hybrid-breaks-down.html
You used to ride in a new Volt with your diplomat
His wife’s posterior all full of fat
It didn’t take long to discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he bowed only because there was no
Room to kneel
How does it feel?
How does it feel
To be forced to live
Under Damocles’ shiv
With no leeway to give
Because of progressives?
—not quite Bob Dylan
The Obama Energy Policy: Clearing The Roads For Fat Cats!
The Pharaoh in Chief (TM) refused to say how much a gallon of gas should cost when specifically asked in a TV interview.
Anybody still doubt California will be a swing state in Nov????
Local news: Gas is 3.80 per gallon, national average. That is .30 more then the beginning of the month and .50 more since the beginning of the year.
doriangrey wrote:
Yeah.
Governor Moonbeam
eaglesoars wrote:
And waiting in the wings…Any Twosome Newsom!
Macker wrote:
You know who his ex-wife is don’t you?
doriangrey wrote:
Time for a spiritual:
Swing state? He’ll carry it
To stay inside his government home
Swing state? He’ll carry it
To stay inside his government home
No matter how much they pay for gasoline
He’ll stay inside his government home
They’ll vote for Obama ’cause he’s articulate and clean
To keep him in his government home
Swing state? He’ll carry it
To stay inside his government home
Swing state? He’ll carry it
To stay inside his government home
Try to convince folks that it’s his policies
Since he’s been in that government home
They’ll say his is a most historic Presidency
To keep him in his government home
Swing state? He’ll carry it
To stay inside his government home
Swing state? He’ll carry it
To stay inside his government home
@ eaglesoars:
Kimberly Guilfoyle, IIRC.
eaglesoars wrote:
Governor Moonbeam ought to give Gray Davis a call and ask him for some tips on avoiding a recall…
I think 61.0% of Californians should pay that much and more. They are guilty of harming the earth so they should pay through the nose.
@ Urban Infidel:
Why, Обама’s nose looks…like a Dick! and an uncircumsized one at that.
$4.05-$4.15 a gallon for diesel here in PHX.
waldensianspirit wrote:
Nope, California is divided between conservatives and imbeciles closer to 47% Conservatives to 53% Imbeciles. 53% should definitely be paying much much more…
@ doriangrey:
Um…Resign?
@ waldensianspirit:
Does that mean those in San Franfreakshow pay through another orifice?
Urban Infidel wrote:
Nice use of the definite article!
@ doriangrey:
I was going by the percentage who voted for Obama
As the price of gasoline spirals ever higher, here is how the debate will go.
Dimocrats and the MFM will shriek “Greedy oil companies are gouging and there needs to be an investigation.”
Each investigation reveals that it is state and federal taxes that are gouging by getting an average of 48 cents per gallon. Exxon’s profit is 2 cents per gallon.
Obama in his grand beneficence will declare “I have ordered that X number of barrels of crude be sold from the strategic reserve thus sparing you peons the hardship of high gasoline prices force upon you by the greedy oil companies”.
The effect on the markets will last about 4 hours and then we’ll have to replace the cheap crude, which was bought years ago, with the $100+ crude that we have now. Totally bogus.
Dumbass O’Reilly will tell you “It’s the speculators” but he’ll never tell you who the speculators are.
Socialists like lame duck Dennis Kucinich will propose a windfall profits tax on the greedy oil companies.
All so predictable.
Macker wrote:
Well, Gray Davis certainly could inform Governor Moonbeam what happens when you fuck with Californian’s ability to drive their cars, including what it costs to drive them. That’s when things get really, and I mean Helen Thomas grade, Ugly out here.
How Obama Is Choking Off U.S Oil Production
and
America’s Energy Disaster
/haunt
If this an accurate quote then Obama the Dictator truly is a dictatorial fool
Obama’s Indonesian Nanny Says “Little Barry” Used To Say He Wanted To Be Like Lifetime President Sukarno…
@ eaglesoars:
I’m in North Carolina so I drive 5 mins down the road to South Carolina to save 19 cents a gallon from our gas tax. We’re up there with California. It’s crazy.
@ eaglesoars:
I see Carolina Girl answered ya. Savage told me 18% and April 1st the Summer blends come in.
waldensianspirit wrote:
He’s close; he’s President, he Suks, and we Ar No-ing it.
waldensianspirit wrote:
3rd World Liberation!
When O-hole brags that his policies have boosted energy production to an 8 year high, it is in spite of, not because of his policies. Production on federal lands is down 11%. The increase in production is from private lands.
Rodan wrote:
Baby Doc Baraq…
Rodan wrote:
hunh. sooner than I thought.
Cheer up folks -- could be worse. Brent is at $ 126 and change/barrel (almost $ 20 higher than WTI.) And natural gas is still way below $ 2.50/MMBTU.
@ huckfunn:
That’s right. The increases were beyond his malign control, and the result of exploration started during the Bush years.
What Obama actually has control of, has seen a net reduction. Far worse, the knock-on effect will be to stunt production for years after he is out of office.
You have no right to wear cross openly at work: British government
Obama keeps saying that we can’t drill our way out
of this & alynskies Republicans For “Drill baby, drill!”
Following his logic, you can not diet and exercise your
way into fitness.
Bill Maher = Woman-Hating, Child-Hating Idiot
Yea, he’s really popular with the ladies
Moe Katz wrote:
I wonder if thet would prohibit wearing of the hijab
in the work place?
Not even the Koran commands that.
My quetion is rhetorical,of course.
@ RIX:
Not sure, but I have read that Muslim women health workers in the UK can wear long-sleeved garments that prevent them from washing their hands properly.
RIX wrote:
But you can spend your way out of debt…
Moe Katz wrote:
Now that is some serious dhimitude.
I am haveing trouble getting my arms around this.
Their coreliginists slaughter 3,000 people on 9-11
and commit terror in the UK.
Then they scream discrimination & “people look at me
funny” and voila! Special treatment & privileges.
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Back around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Walt Kelly in Pogo had a pig (Khrushchev) and a goat (Castro) trying to invade the Okefenokee Swamp in order to bankrupt the economy of the US.
They were going to do this by passing out counterfeit Puce Trading Stamps (this was back when S&H Green Stamps were a hot item) which the evil capitalists would go broke redeeming.
Anyway, they’re trying to sell some of Pogo’s friends on the trading stamp idea, and the pig yells out, “Is true! Da! You can get rich spending money!”
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Hey now, if President Obamlamadingdong say’s you can, then by god you can, Obamlamadingdong went to Harvard, did any of you wingnuts, why you all want to be hating on Obamlamadingdong, what did he ever do to deserve you hating on him?
@ Da_Beerfreak:
The logic escapes me, but BHO has all of that fancy
Ivy League book learning.
And he so totally earned his way there./
@ doriangrey:
Ok, we’re all pissed becuse BHO has a smokin hot wife.
speakin’ of:
via hotair
buzzsawmonkey wrote:
I was a fan of Pogo’s back than. His coverage of the ’68 election was a classic. :frin:
RIX wrote:
Where?? Who??
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
Come on, how about that bodacious Bootay?
That thing is a force of nature.
If she booty bumps with Oprah, it will be off
of the Richter Scale.
@ waldensianspirit:
Was that Jackie Kennedy? They look so much alike.
RIX wrote:
That alone could spell the end of Kalifornia if they are anywhere west of the Mississippi!!
Da_Beerfreak wrote:
And this is bad why? We are going to hell in a hand-basket, and can’t even afford our own hand-basket, we had to steal a Safeway’s shopping cart to make the trip…
@ Da_Beerfreak:
The irony of Michelle Obama lecturing about nutrition
is profound.
It seems like every other photo is of her feeding her
face, french fries, ice cream etc.
Parents are resopnsible for their kids nutritional
habits, not Michelle Obama
Cool anagram machine.
Barky Obama = Amok by Arab
@ Bunk X:
http://diaryofdaedalus.com/2012/03/13/lgf-banned-list-update-lizard-genocide/
what we call after-birth abortion
Owning the language.
hmmm, at first I reacted in horror…but if they would allow me to define the occurring circumstances…
RIX wrote:
Right. How in the world did parents raise children before Michelle Obama? They were so ignorant before. It is amazing that children even made it out of childhood!!
What does she think that everyone is ‘stupid’ and she needs to guide us on how to feed our kids? If the price of gas continues to go up, which her husband is completely happy with, then there really would be a crunch on the poor and elderly to feed themselves and the last thing they will be concerned with is did they eat enough fruit today.
Not to mention she is hypocrite.
Bunk X wrote:
Is this the big reveal?
@ Lily:
She feels superior & she feels entitled.
She by her own admission wrote a poor SAT, yet
she goes to the Ivy League.
It never occurs to her that her life has been a
free ride.
RIX wrote:
I’ll say! Just a scant year ago.. Moochelle spotted with a $990 tote bag.
@ Urban Infidel:
I know for a fact I have NEVER spent anywhere close to that on ANY fashion item in my life. Heck, that s about what WE spend on a weeks vacation for the both of us and that includes lodging, food and travel.
@ Urban Infidel:
She led the Urban Health Initiative at the University
of Chicago Medical Center. The whole program was nothing
but patient dumping & her salary got bumped to over
$300 K when BHO got elected to the U.S Senate.
A friends wife who worked there at that time said she
was dirt lazy.
She would come in, screw off for an hour, go to lunch
and call it a day.
@ Dolphin:
Me too. Our week in Maine during the summer costs about that much. I wonder how much it will cost this year in gas….?
waldensianspirit wrote:
Can we define accepting, espousing or propagating the teaching or ideologies of Karl Marx or Mohammad to the list of “circumstances that occur after birth such that they would have justified abortion…”
Buh-rock at his most arrogant!
@ Urban Infidel:
We usually do two -- one week vacations each year. Not this year. We will only be taking one, probably in the fall. We just got an estimate to have trees removed prior to hurricane season -- $1000 (there is our 2nd vacation).
BTW Hubby tanked up this morning. Houston = $3.59/gallon.
RIX wrote:
Like…10.5?
@ Macker:
Easy
See ya. Everybody have a great evening.
doriangrey wrote:
I must be transparent
@ Urban Infidel:
You can take the boy out of the ghetto, but you can’t take the ghetto out of the man. Disgusting. The maker of the video left out some other important stuff (like the Dali Lama leaving via the back door past the garbage).
@ waldensianspirit:
I don’t think one should be permitted to kill one’s children right away after birth, but after a couple-three decades, if they turn out to be Leftists, it ought to be encouraged.
Alberta Oil Peon wrote:
Sounds reasonable. I always knew you were a moderate at heart.
@ Dolphin:
O-dawg is an embarrassment and a blight on our country. NOBO-2012.
Why are the Gazans shooting missiles at Israel?
Speaking of fuel, just filled the Suburban with Diesel in Edson, Alberta, and it was $1.21/liter, about $4.69 per U.S. gallon.
Moe Katz wrote:
Hello! I’m Crazy Mohammed from Crazy Mohammed’s Missile Depot! We have to clear out the 2011 models to make room for the new ones! So come on down to Crazy Mohammed’s, pay a little money, and shoot one at Israel! Our actions are insaaaaaaaaaaaaane!
@ Moe Katz:
Heh. My guess at the answer was correct, in as many words.
@ Alberta Oil Peon:
@ buzzsawmonkey:
It really does defy logic.
Who cares who high gas prices are as long as contraceptives are free!
Moe Katz wrote:
because they can.
Check it out. A gallon of high test is $5.69 blocks away from the White House.
New Thread.
I know it is painful but if high gas prices is the straw that breaks O’s re-elections back then in the end it will be money well spent.
@ huckfunn:
Cheap gas, empty liquor bottles, proximity to White House? Wouldn’t want any of the plebes getting unsavory ideas, now.
Soros Oil
Gas $8.00 a galloon. Buy it and contribute to social justice
Minority discount 10 percent.