“In the short term, you’re kidding yourself if you think this [$6 garbage fee] is a better option than a real estate tax,” [At-large Councilman Jim] Ardis said. “It’s regressive. It really isn’t a fair way to do it.”
–Quoted in the Peoria Journal Star, November 26, 2003
6 thoughts on “Quote of the Day”
At least you take off a penny on your tax return.
How could you ever get mad at a face like that? 😉
…and we are supposed to make our long term decisions on short term jokes?
What is the long term better option?
Revolution!
We can kick it off following beer and brats at Aaron Schock’s house!
Then, of course, we march on City Hall, followed by the garbage dump……
C.J. had better bring along plenty of crayons and a big notebook to record this one.
Great idea! btw you owe my $5. Two beers and a brat will cover it.
To change the subject for a minute, Seems the local TV stations and paper will not address this issue of rising gas prices and what we are charged here . The gov’t reoport comes out un Monday PM . The LOCAL MONOPOLY {Marathon,Macdonald Shell and Ciircle K BP } set their prices for our non RFG area,we are Conventional area of PADD 2. As the prics in Chicago {RFG area Example=Retail Gasoline Prices by Grade by Formulation . I asked a friend ,petrolium Engineer, Why our prices were higher than other 12 states in PADD 2 ,answer was “BECAUSE YOU ARE DUMB enough to pay it!!”
.
Midwest, Regular
.
Conventional
Date
Areas
RFG Areas
Average
08/03/09 $2.497 $2.610 $2.512
07/27/09 $2.445 $2.536 $2.458
07/20/09 $2.341 $2.462 $2.357
07/13/09 $2.415 $2.540 $2.432
07/06/09 $2.529 $2.667 $2.547
06/29/09 $2.552 $2.702 $2.572
06/22/09 $2.645 $2.789 $2.664
06/15/09 $2.675 $2.767 $2.687
add the local Peoria $.02 tax per gallon = $2.517 for gallon.
So have them explain their price of $2.699 ???
It is called greed !! The gasoline you burn today is not made from todays oil! iit may be as much as 6-9 months old.
Ask your Congress to manage HEDGE FUNDS [over 10,000 of them in USA] and the FUTURES trading of ENERGY products. A new one opened this AM with Billions to play with.
Has nothing to do with Old Economics Lesson of Supply and Demand.
They {refiners} can/do manipulate their reports to EIA!
By the way Gasoline delivered is all the same.
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At least you take off a penny on your tax return.
How could you ever get mad at a face like that? 😉
…and we are supposed to make our long term decisions on short term jokes?
What is the long term better option?
Revolution!
We can kick it off following beer and brats at Aaron Schock’s house!
Then, of course, we march on City Hall, followed by the garbage dump……
C.J. had better bring along plenty of crayons and a big notebook to record this one.
Great idea! btw you owe my $5. Two beers and a brat will cover it.
To change the subject for a minute, Seems the local TV stations and paper will not address this issue of rising gas prices and what we are charged here . The gov’t reoport comes out un Monday PM . The LOCAL MONOPOLY {Marathon,Macdonald Shell and Ciircle K BP } set their prices for our non RFG area,we are Conventional area of PADD 2. As the prics in Chicago {RFG area Example=Retail Gasoline Prices by Grade by Formulation . I asked a friend ,petrolium Engineer, Why our prices were higher than other 12 states in PADD 2 ,answer was “BECAUSE YOU ARE DUMB enough to pay it!!”
.
Midwest, Regular
.
Conventional
Date
Areas
RFG Areas
Average
08/03/09 $2.497 $2.610 $2.512
07/27/09 $2.445 $2.536 $2.458
07/20/09 $2.341 $2.462 $2.357
07/13/09 $2.415 $2.540 $2.432
07/06/09 $2.529 $2.667 $2.547
06/29/09 $2.552 $2.702 $2.572
06/22/09 $2.645 $2.789 $2.664
06/15/09 $2.675 $2.767 $2.687
add the local Peoria $.02 tax per gallon = $2.517 for gallon.
So have them explain their price of $2.699 ???
It is called greed !! The gasoline you burn today is not made from todays oil! iit may be as much as 6-9 months old.
Ask your Congress to manage HEDGE FUNDS [over 10,000 of them in USA] and the FUTURES trading of ENERGY products. A new one opened this AM with Billions to play with.
Has nothing to do with Old Economics Lesson of Supply and Demand.
They {refiners} can/do manipulate their reports to EIA!
By the way Gasoline delivered is all the same.