[Magdalen] gas prices?

Joseph Cirou romanos at mindspring.com
Wed Oct 22 21:25:41 UTC 2014


It just went below $3 in Atlanta to $2.99 in recent days

Joe

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Jon Egger <revegger at gmail.com> wrote:

> $2.76 in the KC area and falling.  Election related?  Only your
> corporations know.
>
> +++
> Grace & peace,
> jon
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Lynn Ronkainen <ichthys89 at comcast.net>
> wrote:
>
> > From: "Lesley de Voil" <lesleymdv at gmail.com>
> >
> >> I read today that Saudi Arabia is apparently flooding the market
> >> enough to make prices go down significantly, so that those militants
> >> who have taken over Iraq oilfields will not get as much money as they
> >> had hoped. I thought this was usually classed as cutting off one's
> >> nose to spite one's face.
> >>
> >
> >
> > well, the Saudis have not rushed to 'send troops', so perhaps they're
> > doing what they can....
> >
> > OTOH, oil prices dropping will have global impact, most of it not good.
> > Gas gets cheaper for us, but the lifeblood of forward progress in the oil
> > industry is the value of trying new things.  Fracking, for instance, is
> > expensive enough that many proposed projects may slow or stop is there
> is a
> > downturn... just as LNG (liquid natural gas) work, hot and heavy for a
> > decade, slowed down tremendously when other means of finding cheap
> natural
> > gas  in the USA appeared.  It IS all about spending money to make money,
> > and not the person on the street...
> >
> > on another hand... the Saudis have such an interesting social structure
> > and governance, I don't think spiting their faces  even comes into
> play...
> > AND by doing this they have suddenly become BIG PLAYERS on the world
> scene
> > again after several year's run of other countries and other oil producing
> > projects taking the limelight.
> >
> > .02ingly
> > Lynn
> >
> > website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >
> > When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> not
> > a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> me."
> > attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >
> > Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> > ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder
> is
> > leaning against the wrong wall."
> >
> > "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------
> >
> >  Regards
> >> Lesley de Voil
> >>
> >> On 10/22/14, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Tonight with my Sheetz card, it was $2.76--I did a double take!
> >>>
> >>>  On Oct 21, 2014, at 11:22 PM, "Lynn Ronkainen" <ichthys89 at comcast.net
> >
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> They're falling fast here in Houston.... on the news just now lowest
> in
> >>>> Town so far is 2.49...
> >>>> Lynn
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
> >>>>
> >>>> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have
> >>>> not
> >>>> a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You gave
> >>>> me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
> >>>>
> >>>> Thomas Merton writes, "People may spend their whole lives climbing the
> >>>> ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the
> ladder
> >>>> is leaning against the wrong wall."
> >>>>
> >>>> "What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
>


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