Diesel 62 cents highr than RUG !

warp2diesel · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 8:27 pm

Speculators are driven by a lot of hunches including raw emotion. I find it disturbing that these speculators can drive up the price of everyday commodities, housing, and of coarse our fuel. One thing they should never have in their pocket are our elected officials, yet this happens to both sides of the political spectrm more often than we even want to admit. We could all name examples and if these were put away it would only be one at a time and amount to nothing more than fodder for the News Media.
By having total public disclosure of all political campaign contributions posted on a web site accessible able to all would force our elected officials to be more honest and less apt to be bought by speculators. This way the Speculators would have to function by their wits and have no inside advantage.

Steve

Reflex · **Joined:** Mon Jan 29, 2007 8:48 pm **Posts:** 567

I don't think speculators have anyone in their pocket, commodities is an open market, and a global one, there is no real way that I am aware of for congress to oversee it....

warp2diesel · **Posted:** Mon Mar 17, 2008 10:50 pm

Reflex wrote:

I don't think speculators have anyone in their pocket, commodities is an open market, and a global one, there is no real way that I am aware of for congress to oversee it....

Does the name George Soros ring a bell? He is a currency Speculator. One could fill volumes of the people ( Like Micheal Moore) George Soros has in his pockets (Foreign governments have convicted him).
Honest Speculators practice their trade.
Dishonest Speculators drive up prices with the help of who they have in their pockets.
Anyone who thinks all of the rise in fuel prices are due to the Honest Speculators, is naive.

Threeweight · **Joined:** Mon May 14, 2007 5:57 pm **Posts:** 679

Everything I have read points to investment companies spending the $$ they have from pension funds, banks, 401k's etc... on oil commodities because the rate of return is currently much higher than that of other investments, with the belief that there is relatively little risk in doing so (not unlike the internet bubble in the late 90's and the real estate bubble more recently).

Politicians are reluctant to intervene because a) they fear the backlash they would receive from wall street, b) the people managing these funds are major campaign donors, and c) some folks have an almost religious, cult-like fervor that the market can never, ever do any wrong. Add in that oil producers and refiners are enjoying quite a boom off all of this as well (and those guys certainly know how to buddy up to politicians--Condeleeza Rice has an Exxon supertanker named after her), and you have a recipe for the US political establishment quietly looking the other way while an oil shock ripples through the economy.

Not sure what Michael Moore and George Soros have to do with that. More like Goldman Sachs, Fidelity and Oppenheimer.

Sad thing is, none of this was unforeseen. Energy analysts have been warning of oil shocks for years (due to growth in demand in emerging economies, decline of production from traditional sources, and US backsliding on energy efficiency). But those folks unfortunately got labeled as commie pinko alarmists instead of listened to.

kcfoxie · **Joined:** Thu Mar 06, 2008 1:27 am **Posts:** 113

Joe Romas wrote:

kcfoxie wrote:

I know I see a fuel savings running 55MPH over 65MPH... 60 is a sweet spot, but this is based off my TDI.

We haven't had the Libby long enough to compare.

The principals are the same, so it sound see a boost in economy.

I think the CRD's spot is 62 when the it reaches the final shift point. You can then slide back to 60 before it shifts back down though. These are post F37 figures

That's the only thing I like about the F37 flash. My 06 shifted earlier for the first 2 weeks I owned it and droaned at lower speeds. (I secertly got the F37 flash when I took it in for a coolant leak and they flashed the BCM for running down the battery) Later when they gave me the F31 I got a different F37 and now it revs to 4 k when the little peddle is down before it shifts, that Part I don't like :evil:

I drove my 99.5 (A4) jetta between 65 and 70 MPH as a rule and I once got two tanks in a row that were a tad over 70 MPG :wink:

But everything was right and the plannets were aligned :lol:

Around here the fuel is crap and that hurts mpg's a lot :cry:

62? I noticed it was running as close to 2k/rpm as it could, and I figure it hasn't hit final drive. We have the F37 recall performed, they replaced the TC in it... I'll try 62 this afternoon and see if it drops down to the 1k/rpm range .... thanks for the tip!

warp2diesel · **Posted:** Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:00 pm

I was in Ontario north of Toronto $1.079 Liter Gasoline $1.309 Diesel = $4.12178 Gasoline $5.00038 Diesel .

FYI: Exchange rate today was with in $0.0002.

Steve

chrispitude · **Posted:** Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:34 am

kcfoxie wrote:

62? I noticed it was running as close to 2k/rpm as it could, and I figure it hasn't hit final drive. We have the F37 recall performed, they replaced the TC in it... I'll try 62 this afternoon and see if it drops down to the 1k/rpm range .... thanks for the tip!

On mine, it's more of an indicated 64mph. It's probably just variations in speedometers.

- Chris

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