karlrschneider
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:46 PM
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I'll get tarred & feathered for this, but I LOVE $50+/bbl oil! |
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:D Here's why. I worked my ass off in the oil fields for 20 years with my dad who was a truly independent oilman & geologist. He didn't manage to hang on to much of the money he made (was making $10,000 a month back in the early 50s) and died in 1959 in a car crash but he did leave the family some overriding royalties in a field he developed in Illinois in the 40s. It's getting pretty much depleted but still produces a few thousand bbls a month (my share is just 1/32 of that) Every little bit helps. ;-)
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:48 PM
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Had a cousin who had a stake in oil somewhere around there.
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:56 PM
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5. A bit west of there, mostly Marion & Wayne counties around Johnsonville |
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I was born in Centralia. 1942.
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Thu Oct-07-04 06:09 PM
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though farther south than Centralia.
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:49 PM
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2. Since I have nostalgia for 13% interest rates.. |
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:49 PM
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3. Holy shit that is a couple thou a month |
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more than a little bit! I am jealous. 200 barrles times 50 bucks is 100,000, divided my 32 is like 32 hundred. oomph.
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:58 PM
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6. I should have said "our" share...I, my brother, sister & mom split it. |
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Thu Oct-07-04 05:51 PM
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4. I like it too, but just so the gas guzzlers pay the price |
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For some reason, $2/gallon was making the news a few months back. Now it's not even mentioned. Though even though the price per barrel has been increasing, the price at the pump doesn't seem to be rising correspondingly. Though I only buy gas once every 2 weeks, so I'm not too sure what it is since the $50+.
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Thu Oct-07-04 06:00 PM
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7. Look at the big picture |
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You may be making a few thousand extra per month, but the oil companies make a few extra hundreds of million per month. An increase in oil prices equates to a giant vacuum sucking money out of the average person and depositing it into the pockets of the wealthy. I would only like high oil prices if it was because of a tax that funneled money into alternative energy research.
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Thu Oct-07-04 06:06 PM
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Might the higher cost of gasoline convince people to drive more fuel efficient vehicles?
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Thu Oct-07-04 06:22 PM
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10. Know how you feel. Own (with siblings) some poor bottom |
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land in the midwest with a half-dozen stripper wells that have been pumping for over 50 years. At $8 - $10 dollars a barrel that oil check didn't amount to much. What a change.
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Thu Oct-07-04 06:31 PM
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11. Well, I ain't got no oil wells and they... |
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don't trust me with scissors to clip my stock coupons, but I do smile when I think of Bush* making oil price promises back in 2000. I haven't seen any jawboning, have you? Can you say blowback?
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