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Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc

Sheng-Ji Yang posted:

woops sorry in the time i took to post this it went to 30 cents a barrel

so what youre saying is that i should buy some oil

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Sir Tonk
Apr 18, 2006
Young Orc
loving bas prices had better start being below $1/gal real soon

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

Sir Tonk posted:

loving bas prices had better start being below $1/gal real soon

Costco by me is down to 1.25 a gallon right now.

I'm 39 and when I started driving at 16 gas was around 99 cents a gallon. I could fill up my little Ford Escort and buy a Wild Cherry Pepsi and get a few coins back from a 10 dollar bill.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

Sheng-Ji Yang
Mar 5, 2014


WTI crude is currently 1 penny a barrel

e: nvm

https://twitter.com/JavierBlas/status/1252298213115265024

Roumba
Jun 29, 2005
Buglord
!-2NITE-! AT THE REFINERY
ALL YOU CAN EAT (B.Y.O.Barrels)
MUSICAL GUEST TO BE ANNOUNCED

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Excited to buy weed in a casino on sixth street in one year's time.

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

zoux posted:

Excited to buy weed in a casino on sixth street in one year's time.

p much

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006
So all we had to do to get legal weed was kill Boomers?

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

zoux posted:

Excited to buy weed in a casino on sixth street in one year's time.

Just let me gamble on sports dammit. I'll even do it at the horse track if I have to.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/TheStalwart/status/1252303673029545984

I am not an economist but that doesn't sound great

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

oh my god lol

Dameius
Apr 3, 2006
This seems like some spherical cow equation you do in class to demonstrate knock on effects by greatly exaggerating the values. But instead it is reality.

Mistaken Frisbee
Jul 19, 2007

skipdogg posted:

Costco by me is down to 1.25 a gallon right now.

I'm 39 and when I started driving at 16 gas was around 99 cents a gallon. I could fill up my little Ford Escort and buy a Wild Cherry Pepsi and get a few coins back from a 10 dollar bill.

I remember the lowest I remember seeing it in my lifetime was in the early 2000s in Oklahoma, at 86 cents/gallon. Then it was $3.50/gallon (in Arkansas) when I was in college in 2012. I didn't think it would ever drop below $2 ever again. My Dad worked for Big Oil though, so the price drops sucked for us.

I don't know for sure where I'll be working next session, but I'm hoping mental health funding doesn't get slashed because everyone is going to come out of this traumatized and broke.

LanceHunter
Nov 12, 2016

Beautiful People Club


Mistaken Frisbee posted:

I don't know for sure where I'll be working next session, but I'm hoping mental health funding doesn't get slashed because everyone is going to come out of this traumatized and broke.

All state mental health funding eliminated as Abbott declares that "our state's amazing network of churches will help us heal".

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Texas Politics: I don't think you grasp how hosed this state is yet

Gonna keep lobbying for this.

Badger of Basra
Jul 26, 2007

Now would be a great time to raise the gas tax! Who would even notice

Forseti
May 26, 2001
To the lovenasium!
Guessing that might be bad news in terms of hearing back on the software engineer job I applied for with NOV

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
If you own an oil tanker right now, I know some people who would like to speak with you lol.

duz
Jul 11, 2005

Come on Ilhan, lets go bag us a shitpost



ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
Ah the old fractional signs. Most appropriately paired with one of these, which I have not seen in person since buying gas at a rural station in 1993:

Only registered members can see post attachments!

Slow News Day
Jul 4, 2007

drat, how old are you

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro
I started UT in 1993, heh. Stopped for gas somewhere between Columbus and Jail Valley driving up for the Honors Colloquium (my first trip to Austin ever) and it was like the gas station from No Country For Old Men, minus the serial killer (I assume).

poemdexter
Feb 18, 2005

Hooray Indie Games!

College Slice
Wait does that mean someone will pay me for taking a barrel of oil? Something trading in the negatives sounds insane. My brain can't parse it.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

I worked at a hotel in 2003 that used an ink based credit card imprinter, never seen another one

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

poemdexter posted:

Wait does that mean someone will pay me for taking a barrel of oil? Something trading in the negatives sounds insane. My brain can't parse it.

Storage is full. That's it

Mustache Ride
Sep 11, 2001



Hell yeah let's load up our trucks with Texas gold and store it in our garages!

IT BURNS
Nov 19, 2012

poemdexter posted:

Wait does that mean someone will pay me for taking a barrel of oil? Something trading in the negatives sounds insane. My brain can't parse it.

It's basically futures trading at this point since the contract expires tomorrow, as others have said.

Hawkline
May 30, 2002

¡La Raza!
https://twitter.com/miyashay/status/1252325128811220995

Can't wait for COVID-19 testing to be free with the purchase of 8 or more gallons of supreme unleaded.

IT BURNS
Nov 19, 2012

I got my appraisal today (higher than last year, of course) and the AD added an insert that basically just gave everyone a gigantic gently caress YOU, in red bolded font no less:

"This appraisal notice represents your property value as of January 1, 2020 per the property tax code. Any impact on values from the current health crisis will be reflected in the 2021 property valuations. There are currently no provisions in the tax code to allow for reduced values for 2020 based on an event such as the current health crisis."

In other words, we don't care that some of you lost your jobs and are homeschooling your kids. Fork it over, scumbags.

skipdogg
Nov 29, 2004
Resident SRT-4 Expert

I still haven't got mine. No idea when Comal will actually get around to sending them out.

Marxalot
Dec 24, 2008

Appropriator of
Dan Crenshaw's Eyepatch
https://twitter.com/cd_hooks/status/1252336105288085504?s=20

e:

Marxalot fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Apr 20, 2020

shades of blue
Sep 27, 2012

IT BURNS posted:

I got my appraisal today (higher than last year, of course) and the AD added an insert that basically just gave everyone a gigantic gently caress YOU, in red bolded font no less:

"This appraisal notice represents your property value as of January 1, 2020 per the property tax code. Any impact on values from the current health crisis will be reflected in the 2021 property valuations. There are currently no provisions in the tax code to allow for reduced values for 2020 based on an event such as the current health crisis."

In other words, we don't care that some of you lost your jobs and are homeschooling your kids. Fork it over, scumbags.

didnt expect this kind of complaint on these forums

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/JBellamyTV/status/1252330778807209989

Thank you Georgia for being the example in 10 days about the real consequences of relaxing distancing rules prematurely. I was really worried it was gonna be us.

Toebone
Jul 1, 2002

Start remembering what you hear.

poemdexter posted:

Wait does that mean someone will pay me for taking a barrel of oil? Something trading in the negatives sounds insane. My brain can't parse it.

They'll pay you $40,000 to take their 1000 barrels of oil. You supply the empty barrels.

ReindeerF
Apr 20, 2002

Rubber Dinghy Rapids Bro

Hawkline posted:

https://twitter.com/miyashay/status/1252325128811220995

Can't wait for COVID-19 testing to be free with the purchase of 8 or more gallons of supreme unleaded.
At this rate, you're going to get 8 gallons of gas free when you pay for your COVID-19 test.

Mistaken Frisbee
Jul 19, 2007

LanceHunter posted:

All state mental health funding eliminated as Abbott declares that "our state's amazing network of churches will help us heal".

The Church of Scientology will be thrilled.

i say swears online
Mar 4, 2005

what if oil but too much

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://mobile.twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1252400233662693377

Pro life schmo life

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GamingHyena
Jul 25, 2003

Devil's Advocate

Life begins at conception and ends at Home Depot.

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