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Brian.........i am on 10 acre farmette........east of City and beaches..so

we ride it out.............

 

i'm really bracing for no electricity or internet.........i'm gonna go NUTS.

Those who developed on the Islands west of town with condos (former Ringling property) will be hardest hit by Charlie. Hope the Ringling Homestead (state park)

will be spared. Art is on high ground.

Yes, the Ringling museum is really something. And the gift shop has clown head PEZ dispensers too. :lol:

PEZ?

Define pls.

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Brian.........i am on 10 acre farmette........east of City and beaches..so

we ride it out.............

 

i'm really bracing for no electricity or internet.........i'm gonna go NUTS.

Those who developed on the Islands west of town with condos (former Ringling property) will be hardest hit by Charlie. Hope the Ringling Homestead (state park)

will be spared. Art is on high ground.

Yes, the Ringling museum is really something. And the gift shop has clown head PEZ dispensers too. :lol:

PEZ?

Define pls.

You know hunter, Pez as in candy dispensers.....

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Florida, Louisiana car owners want Shell, Texaco to pay for faulty gas damage 

 

 

Aug 12, 2004 (The Miami Herald - Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News via

COMTEX) -- Some 25,000 Floridians have sought reimbursement for damage to their

automobiles that they claim was caused by faulty fuel sold by Shell and Texaco

gas stations, Shell Oil Products disclosed.

 

The fuel-quality fiasco that shut down Shell and Texaco stations over the

Memorial Day weekend impacted other companies as well. BP, ConocoPhillips,

Colonial Oil and Valero Energy Corp. were all supplied with the substandard fuel

from a Port Everglades terminal operated by Motiva Enterprises, a refiner

partially owned by Shell, a Shell spokesman said. Those companies, however,

reported few -- if any -- complaints from customers.

 

Overall, Shell said it has received about 70,000 claims from drivers in Florida

and Louisiana -- up from about 9,000 on June 1. The fallout resulted from

elemental sulfur found in gasoline originating from the Houston-based Motiva's

refinery in Norco, La. The sulfur can corrode the silver electrical contact on

the gas-gauge sensor in some vehicles, causing the fuel gauge to indicate the

tank is full when it's actually less than full or empty.

 

Shell and Texaco stations initially halted sales of regular and midgrade fuels

after the problem surfaced May 27. But by the next day, all of the pumps were

turned off at 450 Florida stations. Gas sales resumed at all affected stations

by June 2.

 

Shell Oil Products spokesman Shawn Frederick wouldn't say how much the mishap

has cost. Considering the cost to replace a gas-gauge sensor ranges from about

$150 to more than $1,000 in some high-performance cars, the figure will easily

run into the tens of millions of dollars.

http://quotes.freerealtime.com/dl/frt/N?ar...A=Latest%20News

 

 

Dumping inferior product on domestic markets because International markets didn't want or could not take delivery? There is more to this!

Hunter, our lab will institute the Silver corrosion test shortly. I'm told by the end of this year. The test is different. It's in a bomb, not a vented glass tube.

 

God knows who long the copper strip test has been around. There's been alot of suspicion over the years, that the additives that doctor the corrosive material, may in fact, only disguise the failure. I have a strong opposition when we doctor our propane to do high Sulfur content. Almost always, it's due to the small amounts of Hydrogen Sulfide present in the product. While it passes for corrosion, it certainly doesn't get rid of the Sulfur.

 

And btw,.. you're not happy that the gooberment can just dictate the price of the fuel they purchase? There is a sweetspot in that racket, but it's only when the goobermint needs more then they agreed to. That's when they get hammered.

 

 

Bottom line,...when times are tough, the goobermint deal is better than nothing. That's at least how it goes for refining.... Screw drivers & toilet seats.. now we are talking real profits.

 

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i don't think Wall Street cares if Google IPO works out right.

 

Google by-passed being Underwritten by BIG houses and went auction

route.

 

i believe maybe an example will be made, of this behaviour.

GOOD contrarian thinking, HiHat !!!

 

Let the PAYBACK begin !

 

As Dick Grasso would say, "You cut out my boys, I breaka you face."

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PEZ are little rectangular candies. They're sold in plastic dispensers with a "head" of various types --- Mickey Mouse, Bart Simpson, etc. Highly popular with collectors -- check it out on ebay and you'll be astonished.

 

Where you been, boy? :lol:

Frugality doesn't permit time at the PEZ dispensers nor in schlock-shops....

as in over priced junk shops.

 

Consumption for consumptions sake as touted by AG ain't in my deck of cards.

Cash flow and coumpounding is the way wealth grows.

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I just heard a CNBS talking head say

 

"Cheaper drugs from Canada might be a way for terrorists to get to you."

 

What country is this that we are living in?

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i don't think Wall Street cares if Google IPO works out right.

Google by-passed being Underwritten by BIG houses and went auction

route.

i believe maybe an example will be made, of this behaviour.

I totally agree. Google wants to instantiate all the funnymoney ISOs they handed out and, in general, let J6P pick up the tab for their pimpin' "don't be evil" lifestyle.

 

OK, fine. But on top of that, they want to stiff "evil wallstreet". the same evil wallstreet that created the bubblicious market that makes it possible for them to have an IPO in the first place.

 

"OK Mr. carnival man, I want a piece of the action in your rigged game, but I am not going to pay your going rate. You don't have a problem with that, right?"

 

"Riiiiight."

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