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Hey Hoppy are things really that bad in your area?

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Anonymous

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An old friend of mine who's wintering in Arizona now said that on the weekend he filled up with gas for $2.40 a gallon ... $2.80 a gallon for gas- and another $.40 discount from the grocery store for shopping there....

Darn- sadly I didn't hear him moan and groan a bit about Obama or the government like you do :lol: ... But some folks wouldn't know when things were going good or not... :wink: :p :lol:
 

hopalong

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Milk is $2.55 a gal.
Rolled corn is $17+ a 50 wt
sweet feed is $15.00 a 50 wt
lay pellets are $$13.00 a 50 wt
hay is $320 a ton
need i go on oldtimer??????
Yea gas prices are down,,,,but there is more to life than gas :wink: :wink:
When your hero gets unemployment down, currently 7.8% my area
overall economy is down.
overall out look is gloomy
need i go on?

Oh and by the way, that .40 cents means he spent AT LEAST $400 for groceries in that store. :wink: :wink: :wink:
 

TexasBred

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Oldtimer said:
An old friend of mine who's wintering in Arizona now said that on the weekend he filled up with gas for $2.40 a gallon ... $2.80 a gallon for gas- and another $.40 discount from the grocery store for shopping there....

Darn- sadly I didn't hear him moan and groan a bit about Obama or the government like you do :lol: ... But some folks wouldn't know when things were going good or not... :wink: :p :lol:

Buckwheat didn't have a dam thing to do with it. Prices are falling because crude oil prices have stabilized, and demand is down because there's less auto travel in the winter. The hurricane season was calm in the oil-producing Gulf of Mexico region, and refineries have switched to winter grades, which are cheaper to produce.
 

hypocritexposer

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Gee, I wonder what happens to prices when consumption drops and production increases.

The economy sucks OT, consumption is down.

U.S. energy consumption declined 3 percent between January and September compared with that period last year, according to data the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released Wednesday.

During the period evaluated, energy use from transportation and industry dropped 1.2 and 1.5 percent, respectively. Residential and commercial energy use declined 5.2 percent.

Energy production, however, rose 2 percent through the same time frame. Fossil fuel development increased 3.14 percent, while renewable energy production fell 2.8 percent.


New shale oil-and-gas plays buoyed much of the energy sector’s growth through the past year. Led by hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, most of that increase has come from private and state lands.

http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/274569-eia-us-energy-consumption-down-production-up
 

TSR

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Oldtimer said:
An old friend of mine who's wintering in Arizona now said that on the weekend he filled up with gas for $2.40 a gallon ... $2.80 a gallon for gas- and another $.40 discount from the grocery store for shopping there....

Darn- sadly I didn't hear him moan and groan a bit about Obama or the government like you do :lol: ... But some folks wouldn't know when things were going good or not... :wink: :p :lol:[/quote

Cheapest gas here I've heard of is $2.93. Finally road diesel came down to $3.53. I buy Beef Builder 12% protein for $16.00/100lbs. Not too bad considering corn and bean prices.
 

hypocritexposer

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TSR said:
Oldtimer said:
An old friend of mine who's wintering in Arizona now said that on the weekend he filled up with gas for $2.40 a gallon ... $2.80 a gallon for gas- and another $.40 discount from the grocery store for shopping there....

Darn- sadly I didn't hear him moan and groan a bit about Obama or the government like you do :lol: ... But some folks wouldn't know when things were going good or not... :wink: :p :lol:[/quote

Cheapest gas here I've heard of is $2.93. Finally road diesel came down to $3.53. I buy Beef Builder 12% protein for $16.00/100lbs. Not too bad considering corn and bean prices.


corn should drop a bit. Ethanol inventories are up.
 

hopalong

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TSR...where are you located,,,you are one of those people oldtimer rants about, no info,no location!!! so there is no way to verify what you say is true Maybe you do not really exist :D

I checked with 3 local feed stores,,,they never heard of what you are promoting... :wink: :roll:
 

Mike

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So, Buckwheat has demolished the U.S. economy to the point we can't buy energy and that's a GOOD thing? :???:
 

Steve

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special_gas_prices_obama_FEB_2011.jpg


Some on the right have criticized Obama for having no energy policy. This is wrong. Obama’s energy policy is working exactly the way it is designed. This administration knows that unless the price of fossil fuels skyrocket, expensive alternative energy sources, no matter how heavily subsidized, will continue to be unattractive to American consumers.

Obviously, this risky desire to have high gas prices is a punitive policy that foolishly ignores how Americans use petroleum. While oil is largely a transportation fuel, solar and wind can only contribute to our electricity demands. Oil accounts for less than 1% of our electricity demand.

we are still well above $3 at around $3.15 being the lowest I have seen locally,.. but then they did shutter a bunch of refineries so we may be while in catching up.. which is well above the starting point of a buck eighty back in 09'

so OT when Obumers average gets below that I'll stop complaining...
 
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Steve said:
special_gas_prices_obama_FEB_2011.jpg


Some on the right have criticized Obama for having no energy policy. This is wrong. Obama’s energy policy is working exactly the way it is designed. This administration knows that unless the price of fossil fuels skyrocket, expensive alternative energy sources, no matter how heavily subsidized, will continue to be unattractive to American consumers.

Obviously, this risky desire to have high gas prices is a punitive policy that foolishly ignores how Americans use petroleum. While oil is largely a transportation fuel, solar and wind can only contribute to our electricity demands. Oil accounts for less than 1% of our electricity demand.

we are still well above $3 at around $3.15 being the lowest I have seen locally,.. but then they did shutter a bunch of refineries so we may be while in catching up.. which is well above the starting point of a buck eighty back in 09'

so OT when Obumers average gets below that I'll stop complaining...

So are you saying GW inherited a pretty stable economy/oil prices from Bubba Clinton?-- If you want to show something- show GW's last 26 month prices from what happened on his watch...
 

Steve

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So are you saying GW inherited a pretty stable economy/oil prices from Bubba Clinton?--

where is that '"said"? by most accounts the recession/bubble of 2001 was a serious setback that was handled by GW to the point few now remember it..


20120927122624preschart.png

National average 1/1/2005-12/31/2008 under Bush: $2.707
National average 1/1/2009-9/17/2012 under Obama: $3.070

:shock:

If you want to show something- show GW's last 26 month prices from what happened on his watch...

feel free to look it up...
 
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