How cheap is your local Gasoline?

“$2.69 here.”

“min 2.64 to max 2.79 for unleaded reg”

“A French car? I'm amazed it didn't try and spit you out every time you tried to get in. LOL! I like the old Citroens for frenchy cars.

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““Mine has plenty of reserve power at 80. I won't be testing the top speed.”

Stability at speeds is not one of it's selling points.”

“Who needs to drive a car at top speed anyway?”

“This guy...

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“LOL. Hey, it is a Beemer.”

“it should be ilegal to put cheap and gasoline in the same sentence these days.”

“$2.75 is the cheapest lowest gasoline price I can find.
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“Violin which casino did you go to and did you win or lose?”

“I don't like all these cars that have the gauge cluster in the middle. It would drive me nuts (pun intended). But I may not have a choice since it seems to be the new norm as models are released/redesigned.”

“It took me about 5 minutes to get used to it tech. The nice thing is it frees up space to put a glove box above the steering wheel - handy for sunglasses and what not.

I was in AC for work conk - no donations to the casino industry.”

“WOw violin, How many can you carry without wanting to kill someone?

I looked at the MINI cars...my problem is I have gear and other stuff to carry. I did get my MPG up abit with the tacoma.

The control panel would kill me. I sweep the controls as I am watching to road (old habits) move the controls to the middle....YEEE”

“Does it have a lot of airbags surrounding you in case of an accident. (The airbag in the seat excluded.)”

“The center cluster really is better than having it under your stearing wheel. I always drive with my right hand at 10 o'clock and I always had to lift my arm to see the speedo. Now it's right out there in the middle with the radio and AC controls.

I wish there were about 15 airbags in this car but just the driver and passanger. I'm afraid they would both be hosed.

A strange thing I found about the Yaris is you can set stuff on the passanger seat or it makes the seatbelt warning light come on and it turns on the passanger air bag. I had a socket set and a 6 pack on it and made it start beeping and blinking.”

“Why do you need a "socket set and a 6 pack" if you have a new car?”

“Was it a 6 pack of this stuff?

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“How many can you carry without wanting to kill someone?

I looked at the MINI cars...my problem is I have gear and other stuff to carry. I did get my MPG up abit with the tacoma.


didn't you see star wars? c3po and r2d2 both fit in it just fine.”

“$2.93 in the 'burbs. Saw $3.10 while on the train this AM.”

“Check this site out. ALl you do is enter your zip code and it will let you know where the cheapest gas is in your area.
www.gasbuddy.com”

“I wanted the side curtain airbags, but they were impossible to get without ordering it and waiting 18 weeks. They tested the Yaris Liftback in Europe with full airbags and it scored the best ever for Toyota and the second safest car in Europe: http://www.toyota-europe.com/innovation/technology/safety/yar_ncap_2005.asp

http://www.euroncap.com/images/results/superminis/car_246_2005/Toyota Yaris Datasheet 2.pdf
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“That small of a car with that many air bags? I bet you wouldn't know if you were in a wreck or a pillow fight. Haha!

You should see what some of Brits do with these cars. They're a favorite among Euro hot hatch racers. They have great power to weight ratios.”

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“404”

“Yeah - I couldn't get the Euro NCAP test data sheet to post correctly. Just copy and paste the URL if you're interested:
http://www.euroncap.com/images/results/superminis/car_246_2005/Toyota Yaris Datasheet 2.pdf”

“Well, it's a good thing that Bush and his voters let oil companies regulate themselves. What happened to all the republican grandstanding about high gas prices and record profits arlier this year? Nothing, they are too busy worried about flag burning.

"NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- If you get queasy at the rising price of gasoline, tune in Thursday when the world's largest company lets the world know just how much it has pocketed in the second quarter 2006.

Exxon Mobil (Charts) has been smashing corporate profit records on the back of soaring oil prices. In the fourth quarter 2005 the company reported quarterly profits of $10.7 billion, the highest ever for a U.S. company, on $88.3 billion in revenue, or $1.72 a share.

That record was mostly due to the price of crude, which soared 40 percent between the close of the fourth quarter 2004 and the end of the fourth quarter 2005."

--CNN”

“What else did you expect from Bush Oil & his Oil Co backers? Lower prices?”

“We're at about $3.09 here.

Not to belabor a point but I took the new Toyota Yaris for it’s first road trip and was so happy with it. I got as much stuff (two full packs, poles, fishing poles, extra clothes, boots, ect.) in the trunk as I normally got in the Jeep. I filled up just before starting the 420 mile round trip and made it there and back within 20 miles of home before having to refill. When I did refill I still had half a gallon in the tank and I got 395 miles out of the one tank at 38.5 mpg. This was driving between 75-80 mph too.”

“I filled up both cars last night at $2.99. I expect these same gas stations will push prices up to $3.30 this afternoon.

Saw it as high as $3.45 yesterday.

$4.00 gas is right around the corner!”

“2.91 this morning”

“I was surprised to see my area was $0.01 below the national average per gallon of gasoline. Normally we're $0.10 to $0.20 over. Gas has only gone up 8 cents over the past two weeks instead of 8 cents per day like it was a few months ago.”

“So far regular has been $2.88 all week around here.”

“Too bad Indiana can't import that price.”

“FACT: BUSH OIL
1999 - $19 BARREL
2006 - $70 BARREL”

“Bush sets the price of oil?”

“I'm confused, which week is this? Is it the week that Bush is the bumbling baboon who can barely tie his shoes or is it the week thats he's a brilliant mastermind scheming to bring riches to his friends?”

“Now hold on here a minute. How is it that the Bush haters say he's a doofus that can't even ride a Segway or tie his own shoes one minute and then the next say he's some ultra-powerful boogyman that can make oil cost whatever he wants it too?

You can have one or the other but not both. Either pick Doofus or pick boogyman but you're not getting both! You have 2 minutes to deside...GO!”

“I’m going with Option C. He has split personalities. One is a doofus and the other is the boogerman.
;-)”

“Nobody will say he is clever, but he makes an excellant puppet. Yes, his, his family, many financial supporeters & Dick's personal finances were vastly improved during his tenure.”

“and Clinton's in the poorhouse. What politician isn't richer when he leaves office than when he arrived?”

“2.86 has been at that price for about 1 week now the week before it was 2.87.

Davenport Iowa”

“I don't know what teh price of gas is here. If I need it, i just buy it.”

“I actually think Clinton WAS poorer when he left office. All those blowjob legal bills. He's made a few bucks out-of-office though.

The Difference is that the Bush family clan GORGED the American people & still doing so.”

“The Difference is that the Bush family clan GORGED the American people & still doing so.”
catskhiker
8:27:23 PM
7/26/06



Gorged/gouged, either way, it still hurts.”

“Don't blame; Shovewrong, Hollowdirton, Convictcofillups or Smell for your problems , it's those A-rabs again. 55mpg @ 55mph. I forgot Excon Morebile.
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“Some others victims of your accusations would be; Floored motor, Genital motives, Cryingseller, Mary'sthong and Volatileairo.”

“Feds eliminate 157 auditors of rich taxpayers
Move cuts ranks of IRS lawyers who inspect returns that include estate and gift taxes

David Cay Johnston, New York Times
Sunday, July 23, 2006

The federal government is moving to eliminate the jobs of nearly half of the lawyers at the Internal Revenue Service who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, specifically those who are subject to gift and estate taxes when they transfer parts of their fortunes to their children and others.

The administration plans to cut the jobs of 157 of the agency's 345 estate tax lawyers, plus 17 support personnel, in less than 70 days. Kevin Brown, an IRS deputy commissioner, confirmed the cuts after the New York Times was given internal documents by people inside the IRS who oppose them.

The Bush administration has successfully lobbied Congress to enact measures that reduce the number of Americans who are subject to the estate tax -- which opponents refer to as the "death tax" -- but has failed in its efforts to eliminate the tax entirely.

Brown said in a telephone interview Friday that he had ordered the staff cuts because far fewer people were obliged to pay estate taxes under Bush's legislation.

But six IRS estate tax lawyers whose jobs are likely to be eliminated said in interviews that the cuts were just the latest moves behind the scenes at the IRS to shield people with political connections and complex tax-avoidance devices from thorough audits.

Sharyn Phillips, a veteran IRS estate tax lawyer in Manhattan, called the cuts a "back-door way for the Bush administration to achieve what it cannot get from Congress, which is repeal of the estate tax."

Brown dismissed as preposterous any suggestion that the IRS was soft on rich tax cheats. He said the money saved by eliminating the estate tax lawyers would be used to hire revenue agents to audit income tax returns, especially those from people making more than $1 million.

Brown said civil service rules barred the estate tax lawyers from moving over to audit income taxes. An IRS spokesman said the agency had asked for permission to allow such transfers twice but the Office of Personnel Management had not responded.

Estate tax lawyers are the most productive tax law enforcement personnel at the IRS, according to Brown. For each hour they work, they find an average of $2,200 of taxes owed to the government.

Brown said analysis showed that the IRS was auditing enough returns to catch cheats and that 10 percent of the estate audits brought in 80 percent of the additional taxes. He said auditing a greater percentage of gift and estate tax returns would not be worthwhile because "the next case is not a lucrative case" and likely to be of relatively little value.

That is a change from six years ago, when the IRS said 85 percent of large taxable gifts it audited shortchanged the government. The IRS said then that it would hire three more lawyers just to audit taxable gifts of $1 million or more.

Over the past five years, officials at both the IRS and the Treasury have told Congress that cheating among the highest-income Americans is a major and growing problem.

The six IRS tax lawyers, some of whom were willing to be named, all said that clear evidence of fraud was pursued vigorously by the agency, but that when audits showed the use of complicated schemes to understate the value of assets, the IRS had become increasingly reluctant to pursue cases.

The lawyers said the risk analysis system the IRS used to evaluate whether to pursue such cases gave higher-level officials cover to not pursue tax cheats and, in the process, emboldened the most aggressive tax advisers to prepare gift and estate tax returns that shortchanged the government.

"This is not a game the poor will win, but the rich will," said John Hruska, another IRS estate tax lawyer in New York who, like Phillips, is active in the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents IRS workers.

Colleen Kelley, the national union president, said: "If these lawyers are not there to audit the gift and estate tax returns, then a lot of taxes that should be paid will go uncollected, and that impacts every taxpayer who is paying their fair share."”

“still hovering around 2.91 a gallon except for 2 Home Depot stores where it is 2.79”

“$3.19 per gallon in a tourist area of Northern WI.”