Gas up 33 cents in two weeks - new record

[grizzaholic]

No. That is usually the number, unless you are at a truck stop or something similar, that the gas station has for a limit. Just swipe it again and finish filling up. I think they use it as a safe-guard like if no one was around and paying attention and the nozzle just was dumping gas all over the ground it would only pump so much before turning off automatically.

No, it is tied the the bank behind the debit or credit card. The gas station has nothing to do with it...

I have a friend who owns a station and he says he gets to set the limit. His limit was $50.00 not all that long ago but people complained so he upped it to $75.00. He is now thinking that if gas prices continue to go up he might have to put it up to $100.00.

[Pwns]

Abolish the federal gas tax. It's past time we nuked this illogical, regressive, anti-business tax.

Let's get rid of roads too!

[HI54UNI]

No, it is tied the the bank behind the debit or credit card. The gas station has nothing to do with it...

I have a friend who owns a station and he says he gets to set the limit. His limit was $50.00 not all that long ago but people complained so he upped it to $75.00. He is now thinking that if gas prices continue to go up he might have to put it up to $100.00.

Yep. My card stops at $75 at one station but doesn't stop at another. With a 36 gallon tank on my truck I don't go to the station with the $75 limit.

[93henfan]

Let's get rid of roads too!

So if you don't want a gas tax I suppose you'll want nationwide tolls to maintain our highways then?

The highway fairy does not exist. We have to pay actual people to maintain them.

[Grizalltheway]

So if you don't want a gas tax I suppose you'll want nationwide tolls to maintain our highways then?

The highway fairy does not exist. We have to pay actual people to maintain them.

Most roads in this country are in shitty enough condition as it is. If anything, the gas tax should be RAISED.

[travelinman67]

Federal judge throws out Obama drilling rules

MEAD GRUVER, Associated Press
06:02 p.m., Friday, August 12, 2011

http://www.seattlepi.com/business/artic ... 927203.php

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge on Friday threw out Obama administration rules that sought to slow down expedited environmental review of oil and gas drilling on federal land.

U.S. District Judge Nancy Freudenthal ruled in favor of a petroleum industry group, the Western Energy Alliance, in its lawsuit against the federal government, including Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

The ruling reinstates Bush-era expedited oil and gas drilling under provisions called categorical exclusions on federal lands nationwide, Freudenthal said.

The government argued that oil and gas companies had no case because they didn't show how the new rules, implemented by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service last year, had created delays and added to the cost of drilling.

Freudenthal rejected that argument.

"Western Energy has demonstrated through its members recognizable injury," she said. "Those injuries are supported by the administrative record."

An attorney for the government declined to comment but Kathleen Sgamma, director of government and public affairs for the Denver-based Western Energy Alliance, praised the ruling.

"She completely discounted the government's argument that the harm was speculative," Sgamma said of the judge.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 allows the BLM and Forest Service to invoke categorical exclusions and skip new environmental review for drilling permits under certain circumstances.

The circumstances include instances where companies plan to disturb relatively little ground and environmental review already has been done for that area. A categorical exclusion also can be invoked when additional drilling is planned at a well pad where drilling has occurred within the previous five years.