with gas prices goin up ,what has it done to your paintballn..

[Lohman446]

Gas prices will effect my paintball last first it will effect
1) Eating out
2) Groceries
3) Electric bill

Its not going to get to paintball... its of higher priority.

[peewee]

Playing with my phantom SC!!!! I am playing 1 or 2 games with my mag rest of the time its SC with a 3.5. Gas hit $2.49 for regular unleaded $2.69 for premium. What I think is shifty is that it will drop 5 cents or more on Monday.... WTF

[shadowspar]

When I was in Japan (almost ten years ago now) we paid around 240 yen per litre. That was almost exactly equal to $2.40 USD at the time, so that's $9.07 USD per gallon. I admittedly find it hard to get worked up about North American gas prices now, because even though the current prices are ridiculously high for us, in the big picture we get off relatively easy. In the UK, for instance, they were paying around 81p per litre in Feb, which works out to $5.44 per gallon. I just wish that we had the transit that those countries do, so that driving wasn't such a freakin' necessity.

[undescriptive]

$8 gallon here in the 51st state....

it's a killer, I drive a 1.4l car with a 40l tank..
costs about $70 to fill up...

you just have to suck it down

sucks to be British 99.999% of the time!

[Recon by Fire]

Here in the land of Big Oil and refiniries gas is a bit cheaper than most I guess. It is $2.12 a gallon just down at the corner shop. Even still it cost me nearly $50 to fill up my Explorer and I ahve to fill up almost every day

[Lohman446]

$8 gallon here in the 51st state....

it's a killer, I drive a 1.4l car with a 40l tank..
costs about $70 to fill up...

you just have to suck it down

sucks to be British 99.999% of the time!

A reminder about the states - drinks come in litres, fuel comes in gallons

[Teamslayer76]

Well, looks like were all getting Hybrid Cars or mopeds or something. Gas here is 2.34 a gallon. Its horrible. I fill the car (92' camery) for $50 bucks like once ever week its killing me.... I might have to get a second job to fill it.

[TheTramp]

It makes me happy that Paintball doesn't require gas. Boating on the otherhand is going to cost an arm and a leg this season.

[yakitori]

its what the american public wanted. They expressed their concerns in the 2004 election. Banning gay marriage and abortions were at the top of their list of priorities. Stop whining. If you dont like gas prices then walk or ride a bike or mass transportation. As for paintball, I will cut back on other things just to keep playing.....just like lohman said.

Stop eating out, I can stop drinking beer. If you smoke, stop or cut back. Take shorter showers, turn down the fridge and freezer a little. etc..

[Lohman446]

its what the american public wanted. They expressed their concerns in the 2004 election. Banning gay marriage and abortions were at the top of their list of priorities. Stop whining. If you dont like gas prices then walk or ride a bike or mass transportation.

Yeh, because gas prices were a major part of which platform?

[yakitori]

Yeh, because gas prices were a major part of which platform?

war is part of which platform? wheres the oil/petroleum. Its being sold.

[Lohman446]

I'm sorry, I misunderstand - so it is the war in Iraq that is raising gas prices and not the general industrialization of the Asian subcontinent?

[BobDoleIsMyHero]

a continued presence in Iraq was part of both platforms in 2004. ok i am a PoliSci major and would love nothing more than to have a political debate however this forum is not the place for it. if the thread goes down the path it is starting it will end in massive flame wars. lets avoid that and talk about some paintball.

[yakitori]

I'm sorry, I misunderstand - so it is the war in Iraq that is raising gas prices and not the general industrialization of the Asian subcontinent?

who are they buying the gas from? and the war in iraq was not both platforms. The continued presence there is because we had already taken the country. would you disagree. And our president and his family are and have been oil tycoons for ages, their focus is in money and oil, and money from selling oil.

but yes as for paintball, gas prices does not effect it because I play somewhat near my home.

[Lohman446]

who are they buying the gas from?

Gas (crude oil actually) is a world market, it really does not matter where it is coming from. Hence why we send a good share of our Alaskan to Japan. For the record - Citgo, BP, Sunoco, and few others import 0 gallons of oil from the middle east. Mind you its likely offset by Shell and Exxon (among others). Oil prices are about supply and demand on a world level, and until either we convince or force OPEC to increase supply or use less oil (either ourselves or other countries) the price for crude is going to remain high.

That being said I am informed that the price of crude is actually only a margin of oil prices and that refinement into fuel grade gasoline acconts for much of the cost.