I've noticed lately that new pavement doesn't hold up as well as it used to. Are they using thinner stuff or is the depth of the mix not as thick?
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WAWA holding around $2.15 for regular. You go west from here and prices BEGIN at 50 cents a gallon more. Amazing.
$1.919 when I filled up a 1/8-remaining tank on 1/28/2019 with 10.854 gals for total cost of $20.83.
Couple days ago dropped to $1.819. Diesel is $2.459.
Had to fill up yesterday at a Shell station, it wasn't the cheapest but also not the most expensive. $7.17
The Beltsville WAWA is up to $2.75 for regular. Our Exxon is at $2.79. There used to be close to a dime of difference between them. Saturday AM, I passed an Exxon at Connecticut and Nebraska NW and the price for regular was a dollar a gallon higher. Yikes! I have seen stories about 4.00 a gallon gas coming. The higher prices are already causing people with little money to barely move away from red lights and the larger the vehicle, the worse the situation. I'm worried that if gas goes much higher, they will hardly move at all.
Had been $2.399 for some weeks, up last night to $2.459.
Oil prices have gone up and will not come down very soon. The OPEC countries are exporting less oil and also the trade wars don't help either.
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Interesting though!
First off, "half nice day". I mostly try to think of my glass as half full.
Today's price per gallon for 87 r.o.n unleaded is $295.9 here.
The USA continues to import, and or export crude or refined oil from Canada via the newest pipeline which routes right through central Oklahoma where the huge storage tank fields are to the Gulf coast ports of Texas, and or Louisiana.
I thought the trade wars were mainly with China, which has no crude of it's own much to speak of, so perhaps some goes there. The US Navy brigade, etc safeguards the oil tanker routes to Asia and China from piracy, etc.
Venezuela may have an impact as well, at least through speculation, as it is in economic and govt. chaos.
I notice that traffic control signals are set longer here for roads heavily traveled having only 2 or 3 lanes in either direction, and shorter for roads having 4 or more, with much less traffic volume.
I have contacted local govt. offices about this, because I am aware that Las Vegas Nevada for example, has a computer and controls system to change this during peak rush hours, and varying volume.
I can only guess in an educated theory that the state and or counties want tax revenue from the wasted fuel sitting at traffic lights. Yes it is costly to repair roads in a state with freeze and thaw cycles. Quality of modern concrete is also not what it used to be. Fiberglass fiber threads in it may be high-tech., but is no substitute for aggregate stone added. I judge by what I see in my own driveway with it, and in the area. The 50 year old walks, and many streets with stone added are still in fine shape. The new cement is just cheaper to make. There is also a process to mechatemise rubbers, etc. in it, or in a layer above the base road bed to be more flexible in a freeze/thaw climnate. Yes, of course road construction crews are an important part of the economy, as they are also income earners, and tax payers. I get the bigger picture, but those crews could also build new transit systems.
We have zero light rail here, and I feel there are more efficient and economical ways to aid in transit than simply continually wasting monies on shoddy road repairs only. This requires the need for higher taxes, as the tax revenue base was eroded significantly when our manufacturing jobs left, having been supplanted by lower wage and tax generating ones. Upper middle aged people do not start over well, nor become educated by then to land a new skill job. Even retail jobs are decreasing. Perhaps more will emerge in the new agricultural canabis growing for industrial, medical, and recreational uses, and more types of new jobs, but still, how many?
Otherwise some say, thanks O-blunder, like anything else wrong, but in my opinion, now we have an O-dumber.
Hind sight is 20/20, but people forget too soon, and do not learn from the past, so often repeat dumb ethics, leaderships, and policies.
Follow the money, and the stupidity, else quit lieying to us all to hike gas taxes, etc. for a money grab. Sure it is promised at first only to be used for roads, but we've heard that before, as in taxing pensions, and the lottery which was only supposed to be to fund schools. Govt. is also a money waster.
First off, "half nice day". I mostly try to think of my glass as half full.
Today's price per gallon for 87 r.o.n unleaded is $295.9 here.
The USA continues to import, and or export crude or refined oil from Canada via the newest pipeline which routes right through central Oklahoma where the huge storage tank fields are to the Gulf coast ports of Texas, and or Louisiana.
I thought the trade wars were mainly with China, which has no crude of it's own much to speak of, so perhaps some goes there. The US Navy brigade, etc safeguards the oil tanker routes to Asia and China from piracy, etc.
Venezuela may have an impact as well, at least through speculation, as it is in economic and govt. chaos.
I notice that traffic control signals are set longer here for roads heavily traveled having only 2 or 3 lanes in either direction, and shorter for roads having 4 or more, with much less traffic volume.
I have contacted local govt. offices about this, because I am aware that Las Vegas Nevada for example, has a computer and controls system to change this during peak rush hours, and varying volume.
I can only guess in an educated theory that the state and or counties want tax revenue from the wasted fuel sitting at traffic lights. Yes it is costly to repair roads in a state with freeze and thaw cycles. Quality of modern concrete is also not what it used to be. Fiberglass fiber threads in it may be high-tech., but is no substitute for aggregate stone added. I judge by what I see in my own driveway with it, and in the area. The 50 year old walks, and many streets with stone added are still in fine shape. The new cement is just cheaper to make. There is also a process to mechatemise rubbers, etc. in it, or in a layer above the base road bed to be more flexible in a freeze/thaw climnate. Yes, of course road construction crews are an important part of the economy, as they are also income earners, and tax payers. I get the bigger picture, but those crews could also build new transit systems.
We have zero light rail here, and I feel there are more efficient and economical ways to aid in transit than simply continually wasting monies on shoddy road repairs only. This requires the need for higher taxes, as the tax revenue base was eroded significantly when our manufacturing jobs left, having been supplanted by lower wage and tax generating ones. Upper middle aged people do not start over well, nor become educated by then to land a new skill job. Even retail jobs are decreasing. Perhaps more will emerge in the new agricultural canabis growing for industrial, medical, and recreational uses, and more types of new jobs, but still, how many?
Otherwise some say, thanks O-blunder, like anything else wrong, but in my opinion, now we have an O-dumber.
Hind sight is 20/20, but people forget too soon, and do not learn from the past, so often repeat dumb ethics, leaderships, and policies.
Follow the money, and the stupidity, else quit lieying to us all to hike gas taxes, etc. for a money grab. Sure it is promised at first only to be used for roads, but we've heard that before, as in taxing pensions, and the lottery which was only supposed to be to fund schools. Govt. is also a money waster.
The trade war affects the whole fuel market, including the extra tax on LNG that the USA sells to China. This has destabalized the market in total, including the price of crude oil. This is only one of the factors, there are also the sanctions that the USA put on the trade with Iran. Etc. etc.
