Railfanning With High Gas Prices -- SMART START--What it is and what it does.

[solzrules]

Oh, and yes it sucks to rail fan with high gas prices. You have to get a vehicle with a nice big engine to chase trains around here and that isn't too good for the wallet. [:D]

[Anonymous]

There was an article today in the local paper about Exxon's current profits. They were not a record but close to it.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by solzrules

This may be met with a few sarcastic responses, but I think the price will drop considerably now. ($.20-$.30) There has been a lot of speculation the last couple of weeks, and none of the nay-saying is coming true (Iran, Iraq, and so on). It isn't just the price of oil that has risen, but the price of all commodities. These prices can't be maintained, they are irrational and will eventually have to be brought in check. And, once the price drops below $2.60 a gallon, all of these fake politicians from both parties clammoring for 'investigaitons' and so on will disappear. Until the next time the price goes up. Every time gas goes up certain people claim price fixing and excess profits are to blame. Then the price goes down and silence reigns supreme. They may be right, they may not be, but I wi***hey would actually follow through and investigate it once so they can get it out of their system.

I was going to say it in an earlier post, but I thought I had better not. Unfortunately it's true how it's workin out. Almost as if we're being 'tested' to see how much we'll really tolerate.

[vsmith]

Seen this AM, regular $3.43
Cheapest payed, yesterday $3.21

[Anonymous]

Railfanning and the High price of gas is pointless.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith

Seen this AM, regular $3.43
Cheapest payed, yesterday $3.21

Heck I remember when we could pay just 43 cents a gallon. [;)] [8D]

When it hit $1 a gallon we all thought it was nonsense then. I would gladly pay a buck a gallon now.

Did I hear someone say, "Those were the days?" [:)]

[Modelcar]

....Let me relate a comparison: My family built and opened an Esso Station back in 1938 and it was located over in western Pennsylvania. I remember a promotional sign indicating 6 GAL FOR 1.00....!! That's about 16.6 cents a gal. Of couse taxes were minimal then which is a big difference.
Item: We now have a 2nd super Wal-Mart store here in Muncie.....and the new one has a gas staion....Now, we're seeing a new pricing attitude in the city. Being familiar with a Wal-mart located station in the Mt. Dora area of Florida I know they are VERY competitive in pricing and it's happening here now...! We have been noted for having the highest prices around the area most of the time and now with the "incentive" of the new W M station I'm seeing a different pricing structure over much of Muncie. Yesterday I noted several locaions with $2.67 per gal....{That's cheap...??}, so we've seen the new "kid" in town effect pricing here.....

[kolechovski]

Well, at 2.99 a gallon here, my railfanning is over. It sucks, because NS is reconstructing a route around here, and there's a lot of work action I could be seeing.

[chad thomas]

$3.94 9/10 at the Silverwood store. Yea boy. Did 500 miles worth of railfanning this weekend and it cost $70. Lowest price I saw was $3.20 in Hesperia.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Modelcar

....Let me relate a comparison: My family built and opened an Esso Station back in 1938 and it was located over in western Pennsylvania. I remember a promotional sign indicating 6 GAL FOR 1.00....!! That's about 16.6 cents a gal. Of couse taxes were minimal then which is a big difference.

In 1938, $10 a week was considered good money! So 10% of your paycheck going to a tank of gas was still a big slice of the pie, of course in L.A. in 1938 you could still take the PE everywhere so who needed a car.[;)]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

$3.94 9/10 at the Silverwood store. Yea boy. Did 500 miles worth of railfanning this weekend and it cost $70. Lowest price I saw was $3.20 in Hesperia.

***, you are one dedicated dude. lol

Price went down here to $2.85. Yay

[chad thomas]

QUOTE: Originally posted by farmer03

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

$3.94 9/10 at the Silverwood store. Yea boy. Did 500 miles worth of railfanning this weekend and it cost $70. Lowest price I saw was $3.20 in Hesperia.

***, you are one dedicated dude. lol

Price went down here to $2.85. Yay

It's a tough job but somebody has to do it.[:D]

[Modelcar]

vsmith....Yes, I know 1938 was totally different conditions compared to now. We were still in the clutches of the great depression and work was still scarce. But I remember that was a good price for a customer at the time.
That new business did manage to make a go of it and then in a few years the Pennsylvania Turnpike {first 160 miles}, became a reality and removed a lot of through traffic from Rt. 30 where the station was situated. Of course then WWII reared it's ugly head and it was mothballed for the duration and opened again in 1946. Business operated for 45 years before it was sold out of the family.
A painting exists of it in the Westmoreland Arts Museum in Greensburg,Pa. that was done while it was closed for the war duration....

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

QUOTE: Originally posted by farmer03

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

$3.94 9/10 at the Silverwood store. Yea boy. Did 500 miles worth of railfanning this weekend and it cost $70. Lowest price I saw was $3.20 in Hesperia.

***, you are one dedicated dude. lol

Price went down here to $2.85. Yay

It's a tough job but somebody has to do it.[:D]

It's a good thing you quit smoking a while back. Now you can use that money you saved by not buying a pack of smokes and buy A gallon of gas. lol [B)]

[Anonymous]

The noon news carried an article today about a man in California who was converting vintage Benzs into vegetable oil burning cars. [:0] The conversion cost about $700 but he stated that you could buy vegetable oil in bulk for about $2.00 to $2.50 a gallon. He also was selling some of the vintage Benzs and aother guy said he paid about $6,000 for one of them.

This is exactly what we need going on. People trying out new things and bring them to market. Of course only if they actually work.

Diesel itself gets about 30% greater milage than gas and diesel sales are rising. The benefit of vegetable oil over diesel is no pollution, or so they say.

[vsmith]

....also the exhaust smells like French Fries!

[Anonymous]

Makes me laugh seeing our friends over the pond rant about high Petrol/ Diesel prices - design your cities better around the transport of the proles chaps. Petrol hs broken through the £1/litre here which equates to about $6 a UK gallon.

And rising......

[chad thomas]

QUOTE: Originally posted by farmer03

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

QUOTE: Originally posted by farmer03

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

$3.94 9/10 at the Silverwood store. Yea boy. Did 500 miles worth of railfanning this weekend and it cost $70. Lowest price I saw was $3.20 in Hesperia.

***, you are one dedicated dude. lol

Price went down here to $2.85. Yay

It's a tough job but somebody has to do it.[:D]

It's a good thing you quit smoking a while back. Now you can use that money you saved by not buying a pack of smokes and buy A gallon of gas. lol [B)]

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[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by cogload

Makes me laugh seeing our friends over the pond rant about high Petrol/ Diesel prices - design your cities better around the transport of the proles chaps. Petrol hs broken through the £1/litre here which equates to about $6 a UK gallon.

And rising......

It's higher priced over there because you call it "Petrol". [:p]

[Anonymous]

Today it was $2.879 at one of the Stations but that's okay because I ride my Bike Railfanning.

[Modelcar]

That UK price includes many sevices we don't get here when we purchase "Petrol"....We pay plenty of taxes but not near what you folks across the pond do. No wonder you're Go-Jo is so high.....

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by vsmith



....also the exhaust smells like French Fries!

FUNNY [:D] [:D] [:D]

They actually pointed that out too. [:o)] [;)] [:p]

[Anonymous]

Prices are again nearing $75 a barrel. [:(!] [:(] [:(!]

U.S. pump prices are rising, with U.S. drivers now paying about 14 percent more to fill their tanks than a year ago. We all remember last year's $3 a gallon, so with that in mind and knowing we are now 14% above last year any one want to predict when we hit $4 a gallon? [?]

[Anonymous]

Its expensive whatever. To fill up my knackered motor (1.6) costs about 40 quid now. At the weekend I am having to driver from Cog country to Mid Wales and back to pick up a few bits of furniture and knock up a few inheritance points as one set of parents are doing the sensible thing and emigrating.

That will cost around £100-£120 in juice. Makes the 60odd quid train ticket look reasonable in comparison doesn't it?

[Anonymous]

Yesterday while I was out I noticed our Kroger (here some of our Kroger Grocery Stores also have gas stations our in front of the grocery stores) gas station had finally raised it premium unleaded price to over $3 a gallon. They are usually one of the lowest priced stations in the area. But with that raise it puts them ahead of many of the area gas stations. Also if you have a Kroger card and buy over $100 a month of groceries then you get a discount (10 cents a gallon) on your gas.

[Anonymous]

I find for once I am one lucky dog in terms of railfanning, at least at this phase of my life. I live along the Cumberland Mountain area where the CSX runs from Nashville towards Alabama, and has to cross through the Cumberland tunnel pusher district. It's all single track through my part of Tennessee, and passing tracks galore......active pushers on literally every train going over the mountain through the tunnel....and constant traffic. All I have to do is sit in any of a couple chosen locations within 10 miles of my house, and the action goes right past me.

Regards! Michaelson[:D]

[chad thomas]

In the last two days gas here in Chula Vista went from $3.25 to $3.40 a gallon.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by chad thomas

In the last two days gas here in Chula Vista went from $3.25 to $3.40 a gallon.

We have not had a big rise in the last few days or so, therefore one must be coming. [:(]

It would not surprise me if gas hit $4 a gallon by Labor day. [;)]

[Anonymous]

Funny thing is going on lately. The price of oil continues to go up and down. However, our prices have stayed about the same for a period of time now. This is not making sense. When the price of oil goes up the gas stations almost immediately raise their prices. But when the price of oil drops our gas prices stay about the same. Has anyone else noticed this lately? [?]

[blhanel]

It's been dropping here- we're down to $2.659 a gallon.

I think sometimes the retailers will slow-roll a price drop so that they can get some of the profit, at least for a little while.