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Jeku
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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 20:35
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A geyser opened up when a road crew was working on a major highway near my house yesterday, and sprayed oil up several metres high for over half an hour.

Here is a video clip:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jIYjIitKnKk

That is going to be a pain to clean!

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ooooww, nasty.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 20:54
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stick a flag in it and claim your riches

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 21:22
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Hahaha, **insert political comment here**

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Ooh I struck me some texas gold! But yet, looks like it'll be one hell of a pain to clear up (I suppose it's better than have the oil ships at sea losing oil or at the coast). Though I could see the brightside of it, you Canadians don't need all that oil, come, give it to us Brits so our fuel prices can go down.

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What are you talking about? Our fuel prices are high... how high is it in england (in CDN dollars)?


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close to £1 a gallon for diesel I believe...

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 21:39
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Well gas here is about $1.10 a litre--- which is *really* high. Just 7 years ago it was half that.

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$3.55/gallon here in Washington, US. It was like $2 and less not even 4 years ago
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Quote: "$3.55/gallon here in Washington, US. It was like $2 and less not even 4 years ago "


Dude, you can afford to drive a little. Baltimore average is the same as here in Atlanta. $2.75 - $2.80 Gal.

Best.

EDIT: Oh, you're not talking about DC, are you.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 22:22
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Quote: "Well gas here is about $1.10 a litre--- which is *really* high. Just 7 years ago it was half that."




It's $1.78 a litre here. (USD)

aka $6.7 per gallon if my calculations are correct.

Stop complaining.

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Posted: 25th Jul 2007 23:20
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Nah not DC.

Quote: "aka $6.7 per gallon if my calculations are correct.

Stop complaining."

That's crazy.
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Here in NJ it's about $3.25/gal

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Quote: "It's $1.78 a litre here. (USD)

aka $6.7 per gallon if my calculations are correct.

Stop complaining."


Yah but you live in a small country--- not as much land to drive on Seems like everywhere I need to go, aside from work, is over 100km.

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Quote: "Yah but you live in a small country--- not as much land to drive on"


Small? It's bigger then the UK and most other european countries.....barely.

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Yah, and the UK and most other European countries are small, too. Well, in comparison.

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never! Denmark is huge

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are's was at a record low of $2.64 per gallon the other day, my station was so busy it was crazy, made me tired.


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Quote: "$3.55/gallon here in Washington, US. It was like $2 and less not even 4 years ago"


Here in Saint Louis its like 2.75$ a gal. for diesel its over 3$

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I remember when 9/11 happend here in texas gas droped to $.98, now its at $2.65.


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Come 'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed
A poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed
And then one day, he was shootin' at some food
And up through the ground come a bubblin' crude
Oil, that is, black gold, Texas tea

Sake yer claim, yee haw!

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Quote: "Yah, and the UK and most other European countries are small, too. Well, in comparison."


...in comparison to bigger countries? yes, kinda obvious huh?

That reminded me of something i read on uncyclopedia. "Italy is alot bigger then smaller countries". You learn something new everyday.

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Quote: "...in comparison to bigger countries?"


Duh. I'm obviously referring to where I live. I wouldn't be griping about gas prices in Haiti now would I

Hey, I'm just stating the obvious. You can't compare gas prices between a small country and a large country, when the small country can essentially fit inside a single province of the larger country. People who are required to drive longer distances by default should have cheaper gas. But I guess it doesn't always work that way when the government rapes us with high gas taxes.

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Quote: "Here in NJ it's about $3.25/gal"

GRR, in NY we're paying around $3.70 per gallon, or at least that's what it was last week, I haven't been to the gas station since then. Outrageous, I should drive down to NJ for gas .


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Jeku, that is one nasty bit of oil there at least you have enough for a car.

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Quote: "GRR, in NY we're paying around $3.70 per gallon"


Here in the UK it's hovering just under £1 a litre mark...

..so if my math is correct that works out at about $7.50 per gallon!

75% of it is tax so you can see why Brits (excluding Fallout) go for fuel efficient smaller cars on the whole.

Fallout reconed he was spending £250/$500 on fuel a month, he needs that crude oil more than anyone! hehehe

My car does 60mpg+ so it don't bother me

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I love the fact I rarely drive and have a small (sort of) fuel efficient car. I buy gas on average of once a month for about $20 - $25.





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Well, I filled up my gas tank on the weekend when the gas light went on, and I spent over $40. It was craaazy.

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That's nothing! It's an average of $75 for me right now, over $80 if I let it get clear empty. But then, my brother who has a double-cab diesel pays about $150 for a fill-up.

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@ Jeku

Quote: "You can't compare gas prices between a small country and a large country"


Agree, you can't even compare gas prices from a small to small country. There's just too many variables at play. Look at veneuzela with it's 12 cents a gallon and the netherlands with it's $6.48. Small countries, big differences.

Quote: "People who are required to drive longer distances by default should have cheaper gas."


Yes ofcourse, but i don't get how you come to the conclusion that people in a large country drive further to get to work. I don't see any reason why a persons road to work in the netherland should be any shorter than in Russia. People most often get a job near their home, or move to their work-area.

I guess i misunderstood you?....

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Damnit, wheres a match when you need one

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I think the problem is the way they build shops/towns in the US. Nothing is in within walking distance.

The UK is starting to go the same way with loads of out of town super stores. It kills the small shops off and all that's left in town is betting shop, charity shops and takeaways so you have to go out in your car if you need a pair of socks or some food or something

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80% of the cost is tax on fuel

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Yeah, I read once that it was actually cheaper (well about 5 years ago or so) on average for petrol to get to the pumps in the UK than in the US. Not too surprising when you consider the sheer size of the US. And don't forget that is an average. Especially with the north sea on our doorstep and the size of the UK meaning anywhere to anywhere won't take more than a day of driving.

We just pay unbelievable tax on it basically. Nicely backed up by environmental concerns (still much higher tax back when we didn't care) and a nice line about how when the cost goes up then we don't feel it as bad (we only see prices go up a little because the prices are so high in the first place, but also because the government covers us a bit). Love those arguments (ie. you can double the price in the US and it will still be half of what we pay!)...

It also says something that when there was a massive uprising about fuel prices a few years ago the whole country came to a standstill (protesters blocked the way out of the refineries) for about 2 weeks. In the end nothing basically happened (think industry got a freeze on tax increases or something for a year or so). I'm sure I heard something similar in the US about a tiny price increase, and the government backed down straight away. What's the difference?... hmmmm.... Bring back guns perhaps? Might back down a little if worried about getting their heads blown off...

And Fallout's car is pretty mad, but I'm sure it guzzles petrol at probably the same sort of rate as the majority of US 4x4 efforts (we have a lot of 4x4s in the UK these days; imagine their costs!). Then again, we normally have better quality petrol apparently (I always used 98 or 99), so maybe even worse.

And I don't agree totally with the distance thing. I get the idea of a bigger country, but surely most people still live within a similar distance to most things as in the UK? I mean c'mon, unless you have raised the speed limit (we are 70mph on motorways) stupidely then you would be driving all day to do the most normal things.

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Having been to the UK on a number of occasions, I can definitely see the argument that Jeku's making.

I could wander out of the house and within 20 minutes of walking in any direction I would have arrived at a Train station, a Shopping center, at least 20 corner shops, and two public pools.

Here in Australia, if I tried that, I wouldn't have arrived at any shopping center, nor would I have gotten to the train station (nearest one is about 40mins driving), and I would have only seen the 5 or so corner stores that are in my local town.

I don't live in a small town, but it's nowhere near to 'large', so you can imagine how much worse it is for other people.

Our petrol here is:
AU$1.20/L ($4.54/G), US$1.06/L ($4.01/G), CAD$1.10/L ($4.16/G)

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Oh, and that's quite a nasty spill you've got there... Maybe you should break out the extra-absorbent paper towel

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Yah, with our small population (roughly 30 million), most of the land is country. Most people have to drive a long distance to get to work, or even to their school. I too have been to the UK, and things felt closer together, if that makes sense.

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Petrol Prices here in england are 95.9p for one litre of Petrol
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I see what you mean. Our countries suffer the same way then. Theres are only a 4.7 mill population in Norway and compared to the size, it's mostly country. There are more people living in London actually.....about 4 million more.

I bet China doesn't have that "problem".

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England is quite dense, though I guess we wouldn't have a problem with expensive fuel if everything else wasn't getting more an more expensive when wages aren't rising enough to go with it, a 500ml bottle of coca cola can range from 80p - £1.20 ($1.64 - $2.46) your average house is £200k ($410k) when the same houses were £50k 10 years ago (When trying to get onto the property market, I suppose it can be really difficult, as I will probably find out when I finish uni). And because English people are purchasing abroad to Spain and France, I suppose their house prices are rising because of it. (Though £80k does sound attractive)

Shopping the other cost my Mum just under £60, that's food for dinner, fairly cheap cat food (We have a lot of cats) Cat litter, food for lunch to last two days. And we don't eat fancy, we shopped at Tescos. And we can swear whenever they put something on offer, they crank up the price so nobody will notice.

Getting around in England doesn't take long, though I do live rurally, the town is a 5 minute drive, walking there is a pain as there is 'death road' along the way (A road where severe accidents have often occurred, with recent deaths there, it's been nicknamed death road with a petition out to get it safe) but getting to town is fairly quick, for shopping, going to pub and doing things.

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Quote: "I bet China doesn't have that "problem"."


They have another problem altogether--- lots of poor people and very few cars per capita. I'll be interested to see their gas prices when I go to China in a few weeks.

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Have you ever seen this 'road-of-death' ever stand up and move about? It's the drivers that cause the problems

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Quote: "Have you ever seen this 'road-of-death' ever stand up and move about? It's the drivers that cause the problems"


Certainly is, drivers around here are freaking awful, that said, as people need to cross that road to get to the town Football club, and recently a kid died trying it (16 year old football player of the town's football team), so really it should be pedestrian friendly. (Council should have thought about that before moving the football pitch there, now somebody died for them to take notice) Personally, bad drivers is one of my pet hates and you've almost got me to properly rant about them (Note: I used the word 'properly' this is what I call 'restraining myself from doing it' ), I felt the drivers in Cambridgeshire were god damn terrible, then I went to Kent...Some people shouldn't really get their license, we have one of the worst round-a-bouts in the country and with the drivers round there (especially the lorry ones) no wonder there's so many bloody accidents up there.

Anyway...Yes, don't talk to me about bad drivers, I might not be able to stop myself as much as I did there...though you might be able to win a bet by setting me off.

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Old stats but still interesting to see.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/index.html

chinas oil

Oil - production:

3.631 million bbl/day (2005)
Oil - consumption:

6.534 million bbl/day (2005)
Oil - exports:

443,300 bbl/day (2005)
Oil - imports:

3.181 million bbl/day (2005)
Oil - proved reserves:

16.1 billion bbl (2006 est.)




USA oil

Oil - production:

7.61 million bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption:

20.73 million bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - exports:

1.048 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - imports:

13.15 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - proved reserves:

22.45 billion bbl (1 January 2002)



australias oil
Oil - production:

530,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)
Oil - consumption:

877,300 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - exports:

523,400 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - imports:

530,800 bbl/day (2001)
Oil - proved reserves:

3.664 billion bbl (1 January 2002)

canadas oil

Oil - production:

3.135 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - consumption:

2.294 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - exports:

1.6 million bbl/day (2004)
Oil - imports:

963,000 bbl/day (2004)
Oil - proved reserves:

178.9 billion bbl
note: includes oil sands (2004 est.)

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The problem is that in most of the US (other than parts of New England like New York and Boston), the cities aren't built to walk through, I think a) because we have the room to build them like that, and b) many were developed fairly recently (past 150 years), and built for cars. Cities are usually built (at least in the states in the south that I've been to) with neighborhoods that are usually suburban, office buildings, and stores. And the stores aren't built together, but rather as completely separate buildings (unless you're talking about like a shopping center), and are usually about a 5 minute drive to the closest ones. So you almost never see people walking along the roads, and will see an occasional bike rider on the roads. Just look at any decent sized city in the Southern US, like Dallas or Oklahoma City on Google Earth and you'll see what I mean . So we don't really have much of a choice to walk or drive .


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$11 per gallon here.

Damn, everything in malta is like a flooded egg.

Take a laptop. I am going to buy one which would be about $700 in other countries at $2600. Helper.

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