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will brady's ruminations
will brady's ruminations
2008-05-24
travel / montreal
some pictures
City of Light!
At the optometrist
Window Un-dressing?
Muralist at work
On the route north
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At the optometrist
Window Un-dressing?
Muralist at work
On the route north
gas prices
No matter how fast you pump the gas, the price rises faster. At the pump the other day, I waited my turn behind a landscaper, glad not to have to pay his charges. You can see the pump tally when I snapped the picture, but this was still incomplete. For the pump clicks off at $300.00 [us] and he still hadn't filled the tank. In addition, he was filling the tanks for all his mowers, leaf-blowers and such. When it was done and over his petrol bill [diesel for the truck / gas for the mowers] came to $497.00[usd]. So he can say he got away for less than $500!
I imagine I ought to feel relieved that cost for topping off my tank was a mere $91.00[usd].
He asked what I was going to do with the pictures, and I told him I'd post them on my blog. So he turned around and said, "Take a shot! I appreciate the advertising." That's Barton's Landscaping based in Haddam, Connecticut, 860-345-4052.
Comparisons: The price for regular unleaded in Connecticut this morning is ranging between $3.94[usd]/gal and $4.69[usd]./gal. But today I am in Montreal, where the cost per gallon is $5.60[ca-d], or closer to $6.00 [usd].
Just in case you wonder where all that gas money goes, I submit the following:
"Fill 'er up!
No matter how fast you pump the gas, the price rises faster. At the pump the other day, I waited my turn behind a landscaper, glad not to have to pay his charges. You can see the pump tally when I snapped the picture, but this was still incomplete. For the pump clicks off at $300.00 [us] and he still hadn't filled the tank. In addition, he was filling the tanks for all his mowers, leaf-blowers and such. When it was done and over his petrol bill [diesel for the truck / gas for the mowers] came to $497.00[usd]. So he can say he got away for less than $500! I imagine I ought to feel relieved that cost for topping off my tank was a mere $91.00[usd].
He asked what I was going to do with the pictures, and I told him I'd post them on my blog. So he turned around and said, "Take a shot! I appreciate the advertising." That's Barton's Landscaping based in Haddam, Connecticut, 860-345-4052. Comparisons: The price for regular unleaded in Connecticut this morning is ranging between $3.94[usd]/gal and $4.69[usd]./gal. But today I am in Montreal, where the cost per gallon is $5.60[ca-d], or closer to $6.00 [usd].
Just in case you wonder where all that gas money goes, I submit the following:
4/18/08 HOUSTON – Exxon Mobil Corp., whose $40 billion profit last year again broke the record for a U.S. company, gave chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson an 18 percent raise to $21.7 million, according to an analysis of a proxy statement filed Thursday." and let's not forget Lee Raymond's golden parachute: Raymond's retirement package was worth about $400 million, the largest in history for a U.S. public company.
FYI: $400 million a year comes out to approximately $27,500[usd] per hour
However, the majority of that sum consisted of retirement-independent salary, bonuses, stock options, and restricted stock awards from his final year and prior years that, while high, are by no means unprecedented among major American CEOs. Retirement-specific payments in accordance with the standard pension plan provided to all ExxonMobil employees totaled around $100 million, calculated based on his over forty years of service and his salary upon retirement.
Lee Raymond is the vice chair of American Enterprise Institute's board of trustees.
SOURCE MATERIAL: 1- AP Wire story in the Dallas Press. Wikipedia on Lee Raymond and the American Enterprise Institute
Labels: Big Oil, costs, gasoline, prices, rural living. economic treason
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