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The price of gas. Go figure.

Discussion in 'The Watercooler' started by Joel Buchsbaum, Aug 21, 2026.

  1. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    I want to say they blend our lite sweet with the heavy crude to reach a specific gravity, but specific gravity might be the wrong term. We do blend the two types in order to refine.
     
  2. steel machine

    steel machine Well-Known Member

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    Uber guy had to fill up in Italy, They use metric but it worked out to 8 dollars a gallon.
     
  3. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    European gas prices have always been higher than ours. Which is why they frequently laugh at us when we complain about “high” gas prices
     
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  4. jeh1856

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    They do? :smiley1:
     
  5. steel machine

    steel machine Well-Known Member

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    And so many small cars. So different then USA. What I found odd was how dirty a lot of their cars are. Told my wife we should open a car wash over here.
     
  6. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    It’s kind of funny how for several years we were building and touting the benefits of smaller high mpg vehicles and then suddenly everyone needed a giant truck or suv.
     
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  7. Brice

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    Nope, just stating a fact. The War in Iran has absolutely nothing to do with American Gas Prices at the pump going up.

    Oil companies are increasing the prices at the pump just because they can. Shell drills the oil, then ships it to a Shell refinery, and then it goes to a Shell Gas station to be pumped. How did the cost go up??? No Price increase needed, other than to maximize Oil profit.
     
  8. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    Wrong

    Thanks for playing please try again later

    FYI shell isnt a US company. It was founded in the early 1900’s after the merger of a UK company and a Dutch company
     
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