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| Is the current rising fuel prices by Wall Street and Big Oil affecting anybodys plans? A couple of years ago this happened and alot of Resorts businesses was hurt and some closed in the northwoods and canada( on a couple of my mid summer trips to V and LOTW it seemed like a ghost town)! I'm not starving but it's an absolute joke i've got to spend 500-600.00 dollars just to get to LOTW from the chicago area towing my boat.
Thoughts!!!
Duluth-3.85
Eagle River-4.11
Chicago- 4.29
Kenora-5.90 Imp gal
Winnipeg- 6.24 Imp gal |
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Location: North Central IL USA | No won't affect my plans - no vac for me this year. 
I think it sucks though! I'm so sick of this greed!!!! I live in Northern IL and Chicago's ( the nation's highest)prices affect me 2 counties away. |
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Location: The Yahara Chain | The Midwest currently has the highest prices in the country due to work being done at the Exxon refinery in Joliet and the BP refinery in Indiana. Once both of these plants get back to full production the prices will drop.
The Exxon plant will be capable of refining the cheaper Canadian crude when completed. The capacity will be increased as well. The Midwest should enjoy the cheapest prices in the country for years to come when the Exxon plant is 100% online. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
So you're expecting them to pass on the savings to the consumer ? Hahaha, RIGHT !!!
Bytor - 6/9/2013 1:12 PM
The Exxon plant will be capable of refining the cheaper Canadian crude when completed. The capacity will be increased as well. The Midwest should enjoy the cheapest prices in the country for years to come when the Exxon plant is 100% online. |
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Location: Eau Claire,WI | I got sick of the high prices years ago. I learned to fish a few local bodies of water and stopped driving 100+ miles to find fish. I can leave my house and be casting within 30 minutes,including loading the boat with all my stuff. I realize some might not have musky waters so close... |
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| Bytor - 6/9/2013 1:12 PM
The Midwest currently has the highest prices in the country due to work being done at the Exxon refinery in Joliet and the BP refinery in Indiana. Once both of these plants get back to full production the prices will drop.
The Exxon plant will be capable of refining the cheaper Canadian crude when completed. The capacity will be increased as well. The Midwest should enjoy the cheapest prices in the country for years to come when the Exxon plant is 100% online.
http://posttrib.suntimes.com/20562945-537/hoosier-gas-prices-soar-a... |
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Location: Land of the Musky | I have been invested in oil/gas now for the last few years. Great returns and better than the average. That is how I am dealing with gas for my pickup... Extra money to just give right back to the greedy SOBs.
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| Ya, it seems like just when the price of oil decreases and the price of gas is set to go down a little there is all of a sudden a problem at a refinery or a pipeline goes down or a an off shore rig has some kind of problem. Doesn't take much to figure out what's going on. |
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Location: N.FIB | I used to go to vilas county a lot back when gas was 1.50 or so,now not much at all with the price of gas being so much.I should of went this weekend,it would of been about even with the 350 I dropped at the poker game tonight. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | How many minutes do you have to work to buy a gallon of gas. I remember buying gas for less than 50 cents a gallon but men were supporting families without their wife working on a hundred bucks a week. When I first got married you couldn't carry 20 dollars worth of groceries today you don't even need a bag.A new truck was less than $3000 coffee was a dime and cigarettes were 33 cents. Today we make and carry more devalued dollars before I retired my last pair of work boots cost more than 4 times what I paid for my first car.Today I put $154 in my gas tank
Edited by horsehunter 6/9/2013 8:29 PM
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| If I drive 500 miles round trip to go fishing at 16 MPG in my Envoy, I'll only save $16 if gas drops 50 cents a gallon. If $16 dollars is going to make or break a trip than I shouldn't be going in the first place...... I don't bother considering gas for the boat, I'd be using that no matter where I fish. I hear guys at work Bi_ch all day about the cost of things from gas, to milk, to groceries but they spend hundreds on beer or the casino all the time! Sorry for the rant, just sayin' don't let $20 stop you from doing what you love and "NEED" after working your butt off all year long like the rest of us.
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Location: oswego, il | the entertainer formerly known as prince had to change the name of his song to little red chevette. |
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Location: Gilberts IL/Rhinelander WI | BMuskyX - 6/9/2013 8:29 PM
If I drive 500 miles round trip to go fishing at 16 MPG in my Envoy, I'll only save $16 if gas drops 50 cents a gallon. If $16 dollars is going to make or break a trip than I shouldn't be going in the first place...... I don't bother considering gas for the boat, I'd be using that no matter where I fish. I hear guys at work Bi_ch all day about the cost of things from gas, to milk, to groceries but they spend hundreds on beer or the casino all the time! Sorry for the rant, just sayin' don't let $20 stop you from doing what you love and "NEED" after working your butt off all year long like the rest of us.
^^^ I agree, well said. |
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| Our EPA requires "Summer blended gas" in our area. The refineries shut down for maintenance and switch over. Perhaps it wouldn't have been as long if we didn't have 100 or so different blends of gas. Its not always the oil companies like many politians try to tell you. Oil is traded as a commodity. When you have a de valued dollar like we have now, low rates, commodities jump. But you may ask, why is oil only $94 a barrel and the price of gas is over $4.19? If you recall under the last president oil hit $147 a barrel and the price of gas hit $4.25 a gal. So don't blame this on oil companies. Its a common myth everytime gas goes up. They don't control the price of the market. |
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| funny. a vast majority of oil is from canada.
but canadians pay much more.
ever feel your being violated. |
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Location: Sawyer County, WI |
Aside from OPEC, ho has more control over supply than the oil companies ?
They may not "control" the closing NYMEX price of a barrel of oil or a gallon of gasoline but to believe that there isn't a strong causal relationship between their supply management and the price trends of petroleum products is pretty naive.
hunter991 - 6/10/2013 7:00 AM
So don't blame this on oil companies. Its a common myth everytime gas goes up. They don't control the price of the market. |
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| I used to have a Harley and a boat, now I just have a boat. If I have to give up something else to enjoy my trips "Up North," I'll give that up too. But, I am going "Up North!" |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Left for Door county on Friday morning, paid $4.15 a gallon in Rockford. Filled up in Sturgeon Bay 4 hours later and paid $4.20 a gallon. The pump shut off at $100 and I still had to fill up the boat. By far the biggest expense is the gas. Leaving again on Friday this week for trip to Tomahawk, it's either pay the gas man or stay home. Not interested in staying home, I can do that this winter. I need a deisel!! |
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| My buddy is in Texas today $3.29 a gallon. |
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Location: Bloomington, MN | I no longer have a full size truck and I miss it every day. I do the Chicago run from Minneapolis with a great milege vehicle almost every weekend, and that is on the verge of excessive pain. Does anyone want a 1959 26' Chris Craft Sea Skiff? |
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Location: Ames, Iowa | If gas is 3.70 a gal, let's say it went up 70cents. 405 mile trip one way to the lake. I've figured 25 gallons up to the lake and 22 back from the lake without the boat since I leave it up there awhile. At those price differences that means the cost difference is $33 round trip. I can save that a ton of ways up at the lake. Don't take the family out to eat just one time and I save that. Stay at the big lake a couple extra days without the 45 mile trips to another lake. No stops with the family along the way up or down to spend big money at a restaurant. But the thing that sucks is that gas really ought to be about $2.60 a gallon, not $3.89. Anytime people get all happy cause the price of gas drops 20 cents- that just makes my blood boil. They're just massaging/schmoozing us to make us feel better when that happens. |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | I don't want to get to heaven's pearly gates celebrating with the knowledge that I saved $20 on gas instead of fishing with my son and friends!
What happens if next year gas is a dollar more than this year? Do you miss opportunities this year and eliminate fishing next year? You don't get time back!
Life is too short, live it to the fullest! |
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| Heading to LOTW for 6 weeks.....gonna do my best at running OPEC out of oil....wish me luck. |
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Location: MN | ^ Love it. Don't let the ba$tards win  |
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Location: one foot over the line | burn baby burn, they make more everyday. actually, when you boil it all down, gas is one of the less expensive parts of our sport. Truck=30,000. boat=30,000. poles,line,reels=????? lures=???? net=150, release tools=100, toilet paper=???, food=???, beer=i don't want to think of how much that has cost me. i think you get the point, go fish. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | Used to see 25-30 rigs heading north on 10 and 51 on an average summer Friday night 10 years ago. We counted last Friday, 7. And out of the 7, 1 Ranger sized boat. People are feeling the pinch.
Fuel was 4.12 in Land O Lakes, super was 4.66.
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Location: minocqua, wi. | imagine how expensive trolling will be ... ayahhhhh |
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| jonnysled - 6/11/2013 10:03 AM
imagine how expensive trolling will be ... ayahhhhh
Row troll! its free and the heart attack you have might cost more than the gas, but atleast your outside!
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Location: oswego, il | I fish alot. it ads up but the reality is gas prices have been high for awhile. trolling ads up too but I like having all my options.;-) |
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