GAS PRICE over 1.40 tomorrow

[tboy]

And since there isn't any collusion between the gas retailers, boycotting one brand won't do a damn thing....

But as for player's suggestion about keeping our gas here, I say hell ya, just like argentina does! Barring keeping it here, I say sell it for the same price you sell to the states...fuck, we sell gas to the US and we can go across the border and buy it cheaper there than we can here at our own pumps. That tells me that they are selling it so low that even with the transportation costs the US retailers can STILL turn a profit...I bet they're selling it for less than 80 cents a litre.....

 

[Fishbait]

CHEATING at the gas pumps (PRINT OUT YOUR RECEIPTS!!!)
This email was sent by the LA fire captain.

This is true. It happened to them three weeks ago somewhere in Pomona on our way to Pechanga. The pump should have totaled @ $68.00 (and change). When the receipt was printed, and she checked it was $ 77.00 (and change).

She got mad, went inside the store, asked for a calculator and let them do the math. They refunded her. she told them that if they cheat, they had better make it right. Normally, her husband would skip printing the receipt. Not her

We saw on the news the other night that this is
happening everywhere.

Brian pumped exactly one gallon of gas. The price did not match the cost of one gallon. It was higher.. He went inside and complained, got a refund.

There is also a number on each pump that you can call and complain.

This is a true story, so read it carefully.

I stopped at a BP gas station in GA. My truck's gas gauge was on 1/4 of a tank. I use the mid-grade, which was priced at $3.71 per gallon. When my tank is at this point, it takes somewhere around 14 gallons to fill it up.

When the pump showed 14 gallons had been pumped, I began to slow it down. Then, to my surprise, it went to 15, then 16. I even looked under my truck to see if it was being spilled. It was not.

Then it showed 17 gallons on the pump. It stopped at 18 gallons. This was very strange to me, since my truck has only an 18 gallon tank. I went on my way a little confused, then on the evening news I heard a report that 1 out of 4 gas stations had calibrated their pumps to show more gas had been pumped than a person actually got.

Here is how to check a pump to see if you are getting the right amount:

Whichever grade you are using, put EXACTLY 10 GALLONS in your tank, then look at the dollar amount. If the dollar amount is not EXACTLY 10 times the price of the fuel you have chosen, then the pumps are rigged.

In my case, as I said, the mid-grade was $3.71 9/10 per gallon; my dollar amount for 10 gallons should have been $37.19. I wish I had checked the pump. It doesn't matter where you pump gas please check the 10 gallon price. If you do find a station that is cheating, contact the state Agriculture Department, and direct your comments to the Commissioner, the info is on the gas pumps.

 

[Dan]

Mike Bullard from 1010 just ripped apart a Conservative MP on the air over the gas prices and the government sitting back and raking it in. It was awesome! She kept trying to dance around the issue and he was like a pit bull. There was no partisan politics going on with Bullard, he tore her another asshole.

 

[tboy]

good on mike.....always liked him....

As for those "true" stories, whenever i read something that starts with "this is a true story....." i suspect it right away.......

Do you realize just how much trouble gas stations would get into for doing that? One, they'd lose their licence....two, they'd be fined heavily (at the very least) and more than likely three: be charged with theft....plus, we have inspectors that check these things, there's inspection stickers on all pumps....but chains like esso, ctc, petro canada don't have to try and rip anyone off, they are making billions being up front and they don't even hide the fact that they are fucking us without even buying us dinner first......

You want to know ONE way to fight back against a big corporation? BANKS....People don't realize the power they have. No bank has the cash on hand to cover all their accounts. If everyone withdrew their funds at one chain, they'd go apeshit and even though the cdic would cover your money, the bank sure couldn't.....

Same as the government. Can you imagine the turmoil that would occur if everyone didn't pay their taxes?

Or how about hydro one....don't pay your hydro bill for a couple of months, everyone i mean, and their cash flow would grind to a halt.

I've also been thinking about trying to organize a national strike day. This would be where everyone, and i mean EVERYONE calls in sick for one day. No planes flying, no subways, no buses...nothing. Even if only half the people did this country would grind to a halt.......

 

[Madman]

COMPLETE ECONOMIC COLLAPSE AND THE END OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Wow, a screaming first post. Tell us how you feel about the union movement and it's struggle fighting the man?

 

[Madman]

Here is the Mike Podcast with Stella Ambler.

 

[Madman]

I've also been thinking about trying to organize a national strike day. This would be where everyone, and i mean EVERYONE calls in sick for one day. No planes flying, no subways, no buses...nothing. Even if only half the people did this country would grind to a halt.......

I love it, count me in!

 

[Coxwell]

Even if prices doubled people wouldn't change their driving habits.
They might if a group of people stood at the gas pumps and laughed at them? :biggrin:

 

[Madman]

Gas prices going up over 2 cents again tonight. Geez here we go again with the weekend cash grabs by the oil companies. It's sickening and our Federal government is doing absolutely nothing about it. I also blame Obama for sitting back twittling his fingers!

 

[Dan]

1.38 a litre today MM. They now have us trained, we see $1.30 or under and we think we are getting deal.

 

[Madman]

1.38 a litre today MM. They now have us trained, we see $1.30 or under and we think we are getting deal.

I'm protesting and have gathered all my brothers and sisters from work.

No Petro can gas and no buying anything out of the gas bar huts, absolutely nothing!

I know it's affecting the franchise owner but they know who they have to call and scream at!

 

[Robintheboywonder]

:biggrin: Sexy and funny, I think I am falling in love!

 

[tboy]

funny, I heard on the news wednesday that gas prices were supposed to drop 2.7 cents wednesday at midnight.....of course all the gas stations got right on that..............NOT....

fucking bandits.

 

[Jerkthis]

I'm protesting and have gathered all my brothers and sisters from work.

No Petro can gas and no buying anything out of the gas bar huts, absolutely nothing!

I know it's affecting the franchise owner but they know who they have to call and scream at!

Count me in, NO PETRO PRODUCTS for me either!

 

[Coxwell]

:rofl1:

 

[tboy]

for the record, i rarely if ever buy gas at petro canada....last time i did was on 11 south of bracebridge and it was 10 cents a litre higher than anywhere else....hence why i don't buy petro canada.....

 

[Analme]

10 cents per litre WOW I guess up north they don't all price fix like they do in the city.

 

[Madman]

Prices are at a ridiculous level still and the media has let it go. BULLSHIT I say, they keep harping on government unionised workers but are letting the oil companies off the hook once again.

If the powers that be want to slash and burn working people's wage and benefits then do something about the gouging on the essentials society cannot do without.



Rant over..

 

[tboy]

well, as much as i am/was anti-union, i'm all behind the air canada pilot's sick walk out.......and as much as it pains me to admit it, we now need unions more than ever.......12 joe schmoos have no power to change anything....but 12 joes part of the joe schmoo union of 120000, yeah, they've now got power.

i say call a wildcat walkout of every unionized and non-union job......

 

[Madman]

well, as much as i am/was anti-union, i'm all behind the air canada pilot's sick walk out.......and as much as it pains me to admit it, we now need unions more than ever.......12 joe schmoos have no power to change anything....but 12 joes part of the joe schmoo union of 120000, yeah, they've now got power.

i say call a wildcat walkout of every unionized and non-union job......

Absolutely, we need to ban together or the elite along with the tax man will totally finish off the middle class.