Higher gas prices = thinner cops.......

They aren't really complaining that they can't let their cars idle forever anymore, are they?!

 

I was never a cop, but my dad was.

Vapor lock was the concern for the old reasoning of never stopping the car. If they "killed" the car and were then called away unexpectedly on a higher priority call a vapor lock could have occurred, preventing a quick response. They were not purposefully/callously wasting gas.

Just contributing to your worldly knowledge.

 

Thanks Mark! Didn't know that. I'm a follower of the "If you stop for more than 15 seconds, stop the engine" crowd (as long as it isn't a carburettor car). Letting the engine idle for even a minute while being outside the car (opposed to for example in front of a traffic light which might turn green every second) is financally and especially environmentally unresponsible, imho.

 

This gas price thing is getting a bit out of hand no?

 

its ****ing rediculous !!!!!!!!!! i put 40 bucks in my car yesterday [ 330 bmw ] small car, pretty much ----- 1/2 a ****ing tank !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! wtf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

pipe down, my Jalpa gets 8 mpg....

 

Seriously. Cost me $57 to fill up the Jeep. Uggh. Should have cost $35

 

Just filled up the daily Toyota Sequoia; $85 for 20 gal. And it gets 12 mpg, so that is a fill up every other day. Not pretty.

 

Dubai is booming right now!!! Every fill up means another man made island out there...Gotta love it!! What are the last quater profits for the oil companies again??

 

18B i think

 

my old man sold off his SUV (he was getting 11mpg) and just drives my car when he needs to (thankfully not much) still it was 50 bucks to fill up my car thankfully that should last a week or two (hell maybe more) I live nearby everything and don't joyride much so I drive very little

Makes buying a scooter pretty appealing

 

I have to admit....its nice living in a neighborhood with a couple of Police cruisers parked in nearby driveways. In my old neighborhood in South Carolina, you could have left $1 Million in small bills on my front porch and no one would have laid a hand on it all day. It certainly wasn't a fancy neighborhood by any means, fairly modest, but clean, quiet and VERY safe.

 

That's really the media shifting the blame to the Middle Eastern countries. Oil prices are not set in the Middle East. Oil is traded in London and New York. That is where the price is set. And the $130 a berral does not go to the Middle East or to Venezuela as Cnn, MSNBC, or Fox want you to believe. There are alot of middle men that get their cut. Alot of speculators. US Dollar goes down more people invest in oil futures. If you buy oil at $100 this month. Guess what next month you are going to want to sell at $110. That is what is keeping prices up. Not Middle Eastern puppet governments. American, Canadian, and European companies are all over the place. Mostly American, that take thier cut from the production of oil in the Middle East and Africa. Even in Egypt who does not export any oil. There is a small American company that I can't remember the name that made $3.5 billion there last year. If they are making that in poor little Egypt. Imagine what they are making from their cut in Saudia Arabia ,Kuwait and Iraq.

ExxonMobil made US$40.6 billion just in profits and revenue of US$405 Billion in 2007. Royal Dutch Shell made a mere US$31 billion in profit. And that is profit. That is after they pay the big executives and reinvest in their companies.

 

just got back from a road trip, between my dad and i, we probably put 250-300 bucks worth of gas in at the very least. and there were still speed traps about 1 ever 20 miles along the major routes.

 

on topic to the OP, I've seen a MAJOR increase in motorcycle cops on the highways and roads in the last 2wks, cranking up the revenue stream. they used to travel with cars but now they sit at every other overpass waiting.

 

If that's still a concern today, send the fleet back.

 

OPEC is a bit of a factor as well, I believe. It also hurts that China and India have an insane increase in need for their oil. I read or heard the other day that China has surpassed Japan as the worlds largest importer of oil.

It really makes you think though, when the Mideast countries are paying change for their gas, not bills.

 

There are three cops that live within four blocks of me (one of them drives an undercover Impala, and another is a K9 unit), and there is ZERO crime in the neighborhood. But they used to always leave their patrol cars in the driveways, but now only the K9 guy has his car with him. Nice guy to.

 

maybe you should move to concord or lexington then

 

In Dubai while I was there last Year price at the pump was about $1.80 a gallon. In Egypt it was about 80 cents a gallon. I think Venizuela has the cheapest gas prices at about 25 cents a gallon.

Here is an interesting fact I just found on Bloomberg: China, India, Russia and the whole Middle East all together consume 20.67 million barrels of crude oil a day. While the United States alone consumes 20.38 million barrels daily.

The United States is by far the largest consumer of oil in the world. Wayyyyyyy more then Japan and China. I think the US uses around 25% of the worlds oil supply.

 

Glad you gave some figures about other countries. I meant to phrase that as a question, instead I wrote it as a comment. Go figure, stupid me. lol

What I heard wasn't stating that they were using the most, they claimed they were importing the most. That doesn't make much sense, but then again the news makes all sorts of mistakes daily.

 

The news is not really news anymore. It's just propaganda. They twist things and shift blame and hide the truth. Alot of it is half truths. If you look at all the dictators of the world. They always had tight control of the media. They used it for propaganda. Propaganda is half truths twisted to their advantage.
In the US it's the opposite the government does not control the media. The media controls the government via rich media tycoons and lobbyist.

 

Really? How does that work?

 

*cough* Rupert Murdoch; Ted Turner *cough*

Last I heard, ole Rupert was looking at taking over another media giant. Don't remember who it was though.

Last night on CNBC, I believe it was Kudlow & Company, he stated all forms of energy need to be explored, light, wind, etc, also off shore drilling and coal. No new energy source is going to come around immediately, it will take decades to figure out what the next big long lasting energy will be. Until then drill in and offshore in the US. And enviro's suck it up and shut the hell up. Help out oil companies by working with them, not against them.