Oil at 152 per barrel = $4 gasoline, 80 a barrel = $3.50?

Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

$2.89 here in Minneapolis 

 

 

I'm a moron when it comes to this stuff, but the word on the street is supply and demand is the gig, not just the price of a barrel of oil.  I'm sure someone could explain it better then I. 

Hutch - how do you like living in minneapolis?

I love that area.  Did some business there back in the day and always felt like it was one of the handful of places I have been that I would really like to live.

Do you like it?  Cost of living?

Thanks.  I understand this.... but the actual cost of gasoline is about 75% crude oil price, so if the answer is that the price is manipulated then I can accept that - but if it is a true market then I would think that crude oil prices would have a direct impact on gasoline prices.

But I do understand what you are saying - and it seems to be the popular opinion.  Its just hard for me to understand that free markets wouldnt overtake some kind of pricing scheme set out by the few to the many on something this important to the economy...

Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

van-

I'll never leave.  One of the best kept secrets in fly over country if you ask me.  I live in Eden Prairie (SW suburb).  Cost of living a bit spendier in Mpls/St. Paul and some of the nice suburbs (Edina, Minnetonka, Wayzata, Golden Valley)......I'm talking about what your average joe would tell you by the way.  More then affordable 25-30 miles out. 

 

I live about 3 blocks from a lake and there are many houses with significant land that have horses within a mile of me.  I have 2 golf courses within less then a mile (one is Bear Path....Nicklaus design...they don't let shmucks like me play there by the way).  And I'm probably 15-20 miles from downtown Minneapolis.  Where else can you go west one mile and run into horses and then go east 15 miles and hit downtown?

 

Tons of cultural options, great restaurants, lakes and parks up the ass, Mall of America, TONS of golf courses, Canterbury Park (horse racing and card room)....just to name a few things.  My gal's family also has a place up on the gunflint trail (Grand Marais)....my mom lives with her husband on a lake in WI about an hour away......my business partner has a cabin on a lake about an hour away (I've gone out there with my gal on a Thursday night and driven to work on Friday a.m.)......and my dad and I race sail boats with a guy who has a home on Lake Minnetonka......8 miles from my house.  As a person who loves the water, I'm pretty grateful.  

 

Xcel Energy one of the best hockey venues in the NHL, Gophers open a new football stadium on campus next year, and the Twins get a new stadium right outside of downtown that opens in 2010. 

 

I love it here.  Just don't tell everyone....we like to keep the riff-raff out. 

Im drooling.

Exactly what I am looking for - and I can even go further out to be an hour or so from downtown to get a spot right on a lake.

I might be your neighbor one day.

Quote Originally Posted by HutchEmAll:

van-

I'll never leave.  One of the best kept secrets in fly over country if you ask me.  I live in Eden Prairie (SW suburb).  Cost of living a bit spendier in Mpls/St. Paul and some of the nice suburbs (Edina, Minnetonka, Wayzata, Golden Valley)......I'm talking about what your average joe would tell you by the way.  More then affordable 25-30 miles out. 

 

I live about 3 blocks from a lake and there are many houses with significant land that have horses within a mile of me.  I have 2 golf courses within less then a mile (one is Bear Path....Nicklaus design...they don't let shmucks like me play there by the way).  And I'm probably 15-20 miles from downtown Minneapolis.  Where else can you go west one mile and run into horses and then go east 15 miles and hit downtown?

 

Tons of cultural options, great restaurants, lakes and parks up the ass, Mall of America, TONS of golf courses, Canterbury Park (horse racing and card room)....just to name a few things.  My gal's family also has a place up on the gunflint trail (Grand Marais)....my mom lives with her husband on a lake in WI about an hour away......my business partner has a cabin on a lake about an hour away (I've gone out there with my gal on a Thursday night and driven to work on Friday a.m.)......and my dad and I race sail boats with a guy who has a home on Lake Minnetonka......8 miles from my house.  As a person who loves the water, I'm pretty grateful.  

 

Xcel Energy one of the best hockey venues in the NHL, Gophers open a new football stadium on campus next year, and the Twins get a new stadium right outside of downtown that opens in 2010. 

 

I love it here.  Just don't tell everyone....we like to keep the riff-raff out. 

Sounds like a much COLDER version of Denver, only we golf here in the winter and are only an hour away from the best skiing in the world.

Greenville is kinda like that.  Plus, much less snow.

Bad thing is significant sports teams are 45 mins away or more, but at the same time I can go see Clemson, UGA, South Carolina, Georgia Tech, UNC, NCST, Wake, Carolina Panthers, and the ATL teams all within a 3.5 hour drive or less 

Lake Hartwell is right arouond Clemson, and that's where they had the Bassmaster classic last year. 

Pretty good spot I must say.  Never thought I'd like it here this much when I moved on a whim.