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http://cbs2chicago.com/politics/gas.prices.taxes.2.729939.html

how about them taxes in chicago nearly 20%?  *democrat stronghold*

Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin complained to oil company bosses at a hearing on Capitol Hill about Chicago having the highest gasoline prices in the United States. Largely ignored was the role taxes are playing -- an astounding 10 levels of taxation. 

"Does it trouble any of you when you see what you're doing to us?"  Durbin asked..  *priceless*

The watchdog Civic Federation says that on a $4 gallon of gas, the total tax is 79.2 cents. That compares to 77 cents in Los Angeles and 65 cents in New York City.

"Every time the price of gas goes up, the tax goes up with it," said one motorist. *bottomless*

lets see. 14 gallons x 0.65=$9.10 in taxes everytime i fill up. i wonder if that new york city tax of .65 includes federal taxes...

Originally posted by olddaddy

 

Originally posted by unconformed

how are oil executives guilty? can someone explain it to me please. i really thought india and china were now world players and are consuming lotsa oil. with no new rifineries built i see a bottleneck. a fight over the current supply. something is driving up these prices per barrel.

i still think its a hidden entity slowing the worlds growth. a planned puppeteering of our surroundings.  the timing of the global climate change is suspicious to lend credence to my 'pelican brief'.  but hopefully, at the same time it is spurning ingenuity from our species.

I saw an interesting bit on The History Channel, about the 2002 explosion at a British Petroleum refinery in Texas that supplied enough gasoline to temporarily raise our prices nationwide. I think that was around 1%-2% of our daily gasoline usage. It seems for all those profits British Petroleum was operating the refinery by disregarding the safety equipment, and, instead of upgrading to burn off excess fumes, just let them overflow into the yard. Seems someone parked a truck in the yard and left the engine running.....

 

Yea, poor oil companies, they have no responsibility to upgrade or build new refineries. That causes a shortage, complete with long gasoline lines. Just this week I had to wait a whole 10 seconds to pull up to the pump. Too bad I cannot fill up my tank at $4 a gallon, and must settle for buying the rationed amount on even/odd days. Some shortage.

Of course, that is all Clinton's fault. Damn liberals made it impossible to build new refineries during the 1990s when the Republicans controlled the Congress, and since 2000 when Bush entered the White House. Poor Republicans couldn't do anything to reduce the amount of regulation on the oil companies, right? Of course, they reduced the EPA, CDC, OSHA, and Consumer Products Safety Commission, just to name a few regulatory agencies, while increasing homeland security.

So, under supply and demand, who sets the prices? The poor oil companies are being told what to charge by whom? Since 2000, the price of bringing crude out of the ground has gone up astronomically, I'm sure. And those poor oil companies just don't have the money to build new refineries, or upgrade their old ones.

My liberal heart bleeds for them...... 

so why dont they build new refineries?

how are oil executives guilty? can someone explain it to me please. i really thought india and china were now world players and are consuming lotsa oil. with no new rifineries built i see a bottleneck. a fight over the current supply. something is driving up these prices per barrel.

i still think its a hidden entity slowing the worlds growth. a planned puppeteering of our surroundings.  the timing of the global climate change is suspicious to lend credence to my 'pelican brief'.  but hopefully, at the same time it is spurning ingenuity from our species.

 Oh. My. God. omg omg omg omg omg.

heres something else.

if you have XP get the service packs.

just go to update.microsoft.com

http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_winvista32_15.01.html

i dont have any experience with nforce.

the link above assumes you have windows vista 32 bit.

go to    http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf4_winxp32_8.26_11.09.html ) if its XP and use the drop down menus.

unless the motherboard drivers are seperate somehow from the graphics drivers. someone with more xp can verify. if there are 2 seperate drivers get em both.

Originally posted by sweetdeal
Hey guys, I purchased AOC to have to wait 3 hours for it to download, then 15 hours for it to patch. Now I finally have it, and I've never seen such terrible FPS. Were talking 2.5 FPS. I can't walk straight without seeing up to 2 second delays. It is truly sadenning, due to my long anticipation of this game. I still plan on playing it and I need YOUR help finding a solution to this BS! Here are my computer specs: Dell Inspiron 531 AMD Athlon(tm) 64x2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ 2.30 GHz Ram: 3 gigs. System type: 32-bit operating system. Graphics card: NVIDIA GEForce 6150S3 nForce 430 I've already gone in and changed all in game AOC graphics settings to much shittier to help inprove my framerate, but I've gotten very little increase in performance. I need some help getting a better FPS! Please guys! I really want to play this game and i have waited far to long :(. Also, if theres absolutely nothing that can be done, and i must get a new graphics card, am i able to do so on this model of my computer? I'm not sure if my model was able to do things like this, also some reccomendations for graphics cards. Thanks guys, I'm looking forward to your help!

put your shader on 2.0 in the advanced graphics options. what resolution are you playing at?

are all your drivers up to date?

sry confused logi with the OP

Originally posted by Logi

nope.

are all your drivers up to date?

i know you mentioned money as far as a cheap upgrade goes. but personally, i would fork over extra cash to get more life from this game and future games. im not sure a 7000 series nvidia will do. it will get you playing the game on low settings. im not sure how well it will do during a pvp seige event.

oh wait. nforce isnt that like an onboard gpu to the motherboard?

i wonder what your power supply is.

 violence and sex.

im going to play AOC now...

back. and i didnt even cuddle!

i just rolled my first assasin. i also just placed him on a pvp server. i never pvp'd in any mmo before. i want to hide and dual wield and sneak attack(gank)

Originally posted by olddaddy

Huh? Bush signed the fuel CAFE standards as President into law less than 6 months ago, not Obama. The average fuel economy that vehicle manufacturers are required to achieve will drive up that cost of the SUV, and drive down the size of cars. Mulahly (Ford) and some guy from Chrysler showed up at the photo op with Bush, Wagoner of GM blew it off as assinine. Mulahly said Ford would achieve it, the Chrysler guy was less then entusiastic, and Wagoner just said the American consumer isn't going to like what's coming down the production line as a result. Get ready for the equivalent of a weed whacker powered bicycle, compliments of your boy Dubya.

The whole CAFE law is bullshit. SUVs and full size pickups are sitting on the lot, unsellable. Dealerships in some areas of the country will not even take an SUV as a trade in because the secondary market is saturated. People are walking away from their SUV lease, leaving the vehicle at the dealership with the keys in the service area night drop box. Plants that make the SUVs are closing, Ford and GM no longer make a mini van, only Chysler does. The new vehicle of choice for the consumer is the crossover (Ford Edge type).

You live in New England, probably use fuel oil to heat your home. The price will be the determining factor in how much heat you use in your home, not Obama. He won't even be inaugerated at the time you receive your first home heating oil bill for next winter......

It makes as much friggin sense as mandating ethenol production levels, another bullshit law Bush signed. All that one did was give Con Aggra a license to print money.

What the hell are you talking about?

 

with that said, obama gave a speech recently about how americans have to change(that word again, makes me nervous)... im currently waiting for my wife to get out of the shower for some hot sex. so im passing time. but seeing he is the most liberal politician in the entire world, galaxy, universe-i suspect he will personally have a team of agents to our homes and collect our suv keys.

yeppers

oil invented the internet. have some respect!

i say we skip the 70-80 mpg electric cars and get right to anti gravity cars that run on banana peels and beer filtered through a mr. coffee.

what say you there, fuzzy britches?

i thought government waste was mandatory. are you suggesting that government cannot run a government? will they be able to run a healthcare system?

oh im sizzling tonight- i better get off these forums before i make too much sense and pass out!

i heard the truth will set you free. free from what? guilt? that seems awfully selfish to me.

heh, damn im good.

your writing seemed pretty fancy to me. full of innuendos and all that juicy writers stuff.

you go girl!