Better Fill up today

frawin · July 25, 2011, 03:15:08 PM

Red, I hope they can come to some agreement that reduces wasteful spending and doesn't raise taxes. There are some really serious problems developing in this country and they don't all pertain to poltics, budgets and taxes. We are going to face some serious food shotages and some major inflation.
In my opinion Obama is holding out in hopes he can get the votes in 2012.
Red I can tell you for sure I think we are better off in Rural America than the people will be in the Cities.
I look forward to your thoughts on this.

frawin · July 25, 2011, 03:17:54 PM

September Crude settled at $99.20, down $0.67 on the day.
Our neighborhood station has Regular Gas at $3.53.

Diane Amberg · July 25, 2011, 06:45:35 PM

The DuPont Company is soon going to build an ethanol plant in Neb.or Iowa, I'm not sure which, that will use only corn cobs, shucks and stalks, not the corn kernels. I don't know if that's good or not.

frawin · July 26, 2011, 06:39:27 AM

Crude is trading at $99.65, up $0.45. The contract volumes are low, my guess is that everyone is waiting on what happens with the Obama/Boehner saga.

Catwoman · July 26, 2011, 07:41:10 AM

Gas stations are up to 3.65/gal here today. Found one that is still 3.49/gal...Topped off the tank and am hoping 3.65 is it for awhile.

frawin · July 26, 2011, 08:12:39 AM

Our neighborhood pump price is $3.53, or at least it was yesterday.

srkruzich · July 26, 2011, 12:06:47 PM

Quote from: Diane Amberg on July 25, 2011, 06:45:35 PM
The DuPont Company is soon going to build an ethanol plant in Neb.or Iowa, I'm not sure which, that will use only corn cobs, shucks and stalks, not the corn kernels. I don't know if that's good or not.

You know what, KUDOS for them! Georgia built 3 ethanol plants a few years back, and they do not use ANY foodsource for production. What they do use is what used to be waste in the pulpwood industry. They go in with this big machine, cuts the pinetree, and strips all the limbs and a lot of the bark right off the tree as it is loaded out the back onto the truck. THen all of the limbs are pushed up into a pile and a wood crane lifts them into dump trucks and trucked off to the yard. They are then ground up into chunks and loaded on rail car and sent to the ethanol plant. ONCE the ethanol plant gets done with the processing of the wood chips and extracts the alchohol out of it it, they then utilize the wood chips as fuel for the plant to heat the stills!

Now thats smart! But building plants to use food supply? Thats nothing but greed, from the ethenol plants down to the farmer, Especially when ethanol is more expensive to produce than oil is.

redcliffsw · July 26, 2011, 12:54:25 PM

Is the ethanol plant at Pratt, Ks still shut down? Seems like it went broke 2 or 3 years ago.

redcliffsw · July 26, 2011, 01:00:03 PM

Looks like Maybury is thinking of $300 oil and $9 gasoline. That would be a huge increase and it might happen.

http://www.chaostan.com/

frawin · July 26, 2011, 05:02:03 PM

September Crude settled at $99.59, up $0.39 on the day.