Fill Your Gas Tanks Up! Oil Workers go on Strike Affecting 66% of U.S. Oil Refining

Regardless of the complexity of motivation however, I will be filling up my gas tank today!

Good GOD! Big F-ing deal man. Even if you have a 25 gal tank what is the big deal? if it goes up a dollar a Gal that is only 25 Bucks. You people are ignorant

I said I'd be filling up my gas tank, not filling my swimming pool with gasoline.

Calm down, just trying to save some GLPers a few bucks.

More like effecting 10% of refinery capacity, of which the other refiners can make up entirely...

Amen........

This ^^^^^^

Fire the uniontards and replace them. Problem solved.

How convenient.

Just another reason to dislike unions and the filth that does their bidding.

Don't do any type of business with these cylons, don't sell them food, services, or shelter.

And filling up 3-4 times a month costs an extra $100, which can be a big hit to people on a budget. Don't be so ignorant Daddy Warbucks.

I fill up my tank EVERY day, because I need to. Oil prices are the biggest factor in short term expansion/contraction of the economy.

Also, we don't need another damn gas crisis. Hours wasted each day trying to get gas so we can do the rest of the things we need in life.

Yes, there was a gas shortage in 1980

The union agreement they had was already on a 2 year extension. I work at the BP refinery in Whiting Indiana so I'm gonna enjoy the time off. I could gives a fuck about what's going on since I'm a sub contractor. It doesn't really effect my work too much but with everyone gone there's not much I can do except sit around, smoke bongs, and collect pay checks.

The union fags are pissed cause they don't get paid much while the corporation as a whole is netting 50 billion in profits even on a bad year. They're just asking for a little more cashola. I don't blame them.

Unless you drive very very little, filling up your tanks to hedge against any long term shortages is pretty pointless.

For my example, I put about 85-90 miles per day on my car just going back and forth to work which means I fill up the tank about every 3 days. My wife drives a little less and gets a better mileage, but still she would be filling up the tank about once a week.

Don't get me wrong, I like to keep the tanks full, but it just isn't going to buy me any more than a couple of days.

This is a steel workers Union affecting 10% of refineries. Panic over this is dumb if it was 60% of oil workers than maybe. But even then you have enough being laid off in the Drilling side that would soak thoes jobs in a heartbeat.
I'd be surprised if we saw a 2 cent increase.

DON'T BE STUPID.

RECESION

Right, fuck the unions, let the big corporations make billions in profit per year and pay the workers jack shit.

Then why did they take the jobs?

Cheap gas is ANTI-AMERICAN!
Real man sucks up whatever it is !

There was a good thread about this yesterday which I cannot find at the moment.

This may end in a stalemate for the unions while scabs incoming will permanently take their jobs.

Because they are with the union, it pays like it should. The contract between the union and the company is what insures it.

If you remove the union you get bs like Mercedes and Toyota do in the south, hire temp workers and pay them $9/hr vs the $~20/hr that the union workers of Ford, GM, Chrysler.

This has nothing to do with more money. The are Striking over 'Safety Conditions' this time.

Spoken like a true economic idiot!

Hey BRAIN, how much do you have have in the bank to earn $25 interest at today's CD rates.....

And the Most Ignorant Dumbass on GLP Award goes to.....*drum roll*.....

You do realize you are a UNIONtard if you live in the UNITED STATES of America.

They want their cut even at the expense of the welfare of the country.

Send them all to hell.

Unions are good for the workers, it's only the greedy corps. who hate unions. Unions give bargaining power to the workers, instead of the non-union workers, where it's just one person vs the corporation. There is power in numbers, dumbass.

In the world we live in today.
One should not let their tank drop below half.

Plus carry some cash, smaller bills and change, because there are scenarios where plastic may not save you.