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>I just noticed that I made the very first reply in this >thread, in Nov. 2001, when I paid $1.38 for hi-test in Philly. >Yesterday I paid $3.75 for hi-test (for the same car!) in Palm >Springs. And my income is half what it was in 2001. No wonder >I'm not doing much hiring. Same with me Charlie, that is why I statrted a thread "Anyone else cutting back??" http://mc.daddysreviews.com/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=119675&mesg_id=119675&listing_type=search God bless George W. Bush & Harkin Oil!

$3.50/gallon is the lowest price in BayArea today. It went up 7 cents over night!

GORDA, Calif. -- Gasoline prices continue to rise day by day on the Central Coast and elsewhere in the state. Premium is being offered at $5 a gallon in Gorda. Crude oil prices hit an all-time high Wednesday, topping $98 a barrel. Analysts said with worldwide oil demand rising, it is still not clear just how high prices will go. Over the past two weeks, gas has gone up 15 cents a gallon in California alone. In Oakland, the cost of premium has topped $4 a gallon. God Bless George W. Bush! [b/]

And hear about it you will! A barrel of crude just passed $77 today. You are going to need to take out a bank loan to fill-up your SUV's before long... ($3.20/gallon the cheapest here today)

RE: Gas Prices SF 10MAY07 http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/05/10/mn_gasprices057_lm.jpg

$3.86/gallon for premium unleaded here in Bay Area. Thank you Dear Leader of Harken Energy!

$3.86/gallon for premium unleaded here in Bay Area. Thank you Dear Leader of Harken Energy!

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I just saw where crude went up $5/barrel over Iran worries. Methinks we haven't seen anything yet! http://money.cnn.com/2007/03/27/markets/oil_spikes/index.htm?postversion=2007032717 As of today, self-service regular in SF is going for $3.45/gallon.

>Wow this is a really old thread and brought up at an >interesting time. You hit it purplekow, it is an interesting time for the price of gas to fall. Must be near election time...

Gulp! Try $4.50! Brooklyn gas station floors it BY JONATHAN LEMIRE and RICH SCHAPIRO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Motorist looks in stunned silence at $4.50 pump price at Brooklyn gas station. With pump prices rising fast, a gas station under the Brooklyn Bridge took a quantum leap into outrageousness - charging a jaw-dropping $4.50 a gallon.

>Self-service unleaded has reached a record $2.48/gallon here >in Nothern Cal, any predictions when it will reach >$3.00/gallon?? Looks like it is already here folks!

Remember class, the formula is: first female pets name, then the street you were born or 'reared' on. Hence: Sweetie Main Street

RE: Try Someone Else Now now, this is a Gentlemans Club. We don't want to see another 2 week hiatus here, do we???

zaba gets scarier It's impressive, scary to see what a Zaba search can do David Lazarus, SF Chronicle Friday, April 15, 2005 Everything that's great and everything that's frightening about the Internet can be summed up in a single word. Zaba. That's Zaba as in ZabaSearch.com, a so-called people search site that allows you to quickly track down the whereabouts of just about anyone, free of charge. There are already numerous people search resources online, varying widely in reliability and fees. (There's also an interesting story about the people behind ZabaSearch and the notorious mass suicide in Southern California involving the Heaven's Gate cult. But we'll get back to that.) What makes ZabaSearch great is that, at no cost, it quickly and comprehensively places a remarkable amount of data about people right at your fingertips. What makes ZabaSearch frightening is that, at no cost, it quickly and comprehensively places a remarkable amount of data about people right at your fingertips. "It's extremely troubling," said Gail Hillebrand, a staff attorney with Consumers Union in San Francisco. "It's a fundamental invasion of privacy because they've put all these records together and give them away for nothing instead of keeping them separate and making people pay to get them." Robert Zakari, ZabaSearch's president, told me the service was quietly unveiled on Feb. 28 without any marketing or publicity. All traffic since then has been exclusively through word of mouth. Once people discover the site, Zakari said, they typically begin hunting for old girlfriends or boyfriends, former classmates or military pals. "It's all about making contact," he said. "It's addictive." It's also in the eyes of some a threat to people's privacy and safety. "Think what this could mean for anyone with a stalker problem or a restraining-order issue," said Hillebrand at Consumers Union. But Zakari countered that ZabaSearch represents only "a natural evolution of technology." "I don't discount the concern some people might have about this," he said. "But people should be aware of what's out there about them." ZabaSearch certainly helps with this. You enter a name and, if you know which one, a state. ZabaSearch rapidly combs through a mix of public records - - it won't specify which ones -- and comes up with lists of exact and close matches. If you enter Zakari's name and California, you'll learn that he was born in 1970 and lives at 23453 Park Colombo in Calabasas (Los Angeles County). His current phone number is unavailable. Clicking on Zakari's name takes you to a new page where you can run additional searches using other search engines. Clicking on his address takes you to a page where you can access a map and satellite photo of Zakari's house, as well as a five-day weather forecast for his neighborhood. A free Yahoo People Search, by contrast, turns up only a former residence and phone number for Zakari. But Yahoo links to a separate search service, Intelius, that'll tell you his actual whereabouts for $7.95. "The most basic thing you can do on the Internet is contact other people, " Zakari said. "Why does that have to cost something like $10? We're giving it away. It's an experiment, an amazing experiment." Maybe so. But it's also a business. ZabaSearch buys and gives away basic personal data as a loss leader to induce visitors to purchase more comprehensive background checks for $20 each. The company charges $100 for even more in-depth searches, with a money- back guarantee if the person sought doesn't turn up. It also carries a paid link to Experian, the credit-reporting agency, to obtain a free credit report. (This will automatically sign you up as well for Experian's credit-monitoring program, which will cost $9.95 a month unless you opt out after a 30-day trial period.) At this point, Zakari said ZabaSearch is surviving month to month. The site tells visitors: "If you have enjoyed use of this very valuable database, we ask that you submit a voluntary payment in order to keep ZabaSearch.com online so you and others can continue to benefit from this great free service." It adds that ZabaSearch's resources were donated by another search provider, PeopleData.com, which "has agreed to provide unlimited guaranteed access to the ZabaSearch database through Dec. 31, 2005, to anyone who submits a payment to support ZabaSearch.com." That's misleading. It turns out that Zakari is president of both ZabaSearch and PeopleData. His business partner, Nicholas Matzorkis, a dot-com millionaire, serves as chairman of both companies. Moreover, ZabaSearch and PeopleData share the same address, ostensibly a suite in a Simi Valley (Ventura County) office building. The address, however, is actually a mailbox at a postal company called Advanced Mail and Parcel Services. Zakari insisted that ZabaSearch and PeopleData are separate entities, so there's nothing inappropriate about soliciting payments from visitors to support the "donated" technology. He also said use of a post office box is common for businesses that receive a lot of correspondence, which he said is the case with both ZabaSearch and PeopleData. Meanwhile, there's the Heaven's Gate connection. You remember Heaven's Gate. Thirty-nine members of the Southern California cult committed suicide together in 1997. They apparently believed this would allow them to rendezvous with a UFO hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet. The bodies of the cultists, who had funded their activities with computer work, were discovered in a mansion near San Diego by a former Heaven's Gate member, Richard Ford, who'd been sent a videotape by cult leaders explaining their rationale for mass suicide. At the time, Ford was working as a Web designer for a Beverly Hills computer company owned by ZabaSearch's Matzorkis. About a dozen cult members reportedly had worked for Matzorkis at various times. Matzorkis couldn't be reached for comment by e-mail or through Zakari. But according to news reports, he drove Ford to the mansion to check on the cult's circumstances. He reportedly waited in the car while Ford went inside. "They did it," Newsweek quoted Ford as saying as he returned to the car. "Did it smell?" Matzorkis was quoted as replying. It was Matzorkis who subsequently insisted that the San Diego Sheriff's Department be notified. Zakari, who was working with Matzorkis at the time, served as Ford's lawyer after the bodies were found. Neither Matzorkis nor Zakari was a Heaven's Gate member. Nevertheless, Matzorkis quickly negotiated a deal for ABC to make a TV movie about Heaven's Gate. It never got off the ground. He also gave numerous interviews to reporters about finding the bodies. According to press reports, Matzorkis was briefly jailed a few weeks after the Heaven's Gate story broke when Ohio authorities recognized him on TV. He was on probation for a 1989 auto theft outside Cleveland, to which he had pleaded no contest. Matzorkis allegedly had failed to check in with a probation officer in California and hadn't completed his court-ordered community service. Zakari told me that it was all a misunderstanding and that Matzorkis later had the conviction expunged -- a legal process whereby an individual's records are sealed from public scrutiny. Mark Lime, director of the criminal division of Ohio's Cuyahoga County court clerk's office, was unable to find any record of Matzorkis' conviction, indicating that the files had indeed been expunged. But he said this doesn't mean the conviction was overturned or in any way reversed. "All it means is that this was likely a first-time offender who qualified for sealing his record," Lime said. "You still have the conviction, but nobody can know about it." Zakari called the Heaven's Gate episode "one of the greatest, weirdest and most interesting times of our lives." But he said Matzorkis' role in the matter was exaggerated by the media. "He did a favor for an employee and ended up on CNN," Zakari said. "That's all it was." As for ZabaSearch, he said the service will soon undergo changes. He declined to detail what those changes will include. "We will become a destination site for people interested in data," Zakari offered. "But I'm not going to give away our business model." ZabaSearch says people can have their info removed from the company's database by e-mailing their name, birth date, address and phone number to info@zabasearch.com. However, the company also says in its terms and conditions that it "does not guarantee that the information will not be available again in the future from other sources or ZabaSearch itself," thus making the opt-out process virtually meaningless. Like I say, everything that's great and frightening about the Internet. Right there.

I was thinking about typing in Dubyas' name, but it would probably set off alarm bells.

http://www.zabasearch.com

|| BUMP || $2.59/gallon here in SF, and still climbing! Thank you Harken Oil...

Self-service unleaded has reached a record $2.48/gallon here in Nothern Cal, any predictions when it will reach $3.00/gallon??

>Perhaps its a type of paranoia, but, does anybody else think >that Olympic TV cameramen, on purpose, avoid normal shots of >male athletes walking around, in the gym, around the pool, >after a track event, excluding shots of their crotches in >action. They never show the male 'rear-ends' also. Some of the divers I'd like to further inspect, yet they only show above the belt-line. Probably under orders of the NBC producers, they didn't want to be labeled 'Crotch Watch'

It will be corrected, thank you!

>>A new "Find" for me is Brad at (323) 669-2042. He did some >provocative - and unexpected - stuff to make me happy. Derrick >@ Cabkcrrt@aol.com is also a new delight. He is not trained, >but his touch is very loving, sensitive and erotic. He also >has a body to lick all over! > lovarub: Could you give more specifics on Derrick?? (Age, ethnicity, weight etc??) Also, Brad's phone number is no longer good...

> >Glutes your quote is mis-attributed. It's actually Steve >Martin who said that originally (as far as we know.) However >did it become attributed to Tom Clancy? A list was sent in a e-mail, didn't see any attributed to Steve Martin. If it is incorrect, I will change it.

Looking for any updates in the LA massage scene. Think my other post got wiped out in the computer crash. Thanks in advance!

It powers the world's economies ... but unrest in Saudi is fuelling fears it could also destroy them By James Cusick FOR the second time inside a month, armed Islamic militants have attacked oil workers inside Saudi Arabia. The attack yesterday in the eastern oil city of Khobar, which struck three housing compounds and the offices of oil companies, left at least 16 dead and the militants holding up to 50 hostages. The deaths add to those killed at the Saudi port city of Yanbu on May 2, when four oil engineers and one contractor, all from West ern countries, were killed in a gun attack. At Yanbu, a body was dragged through the streets before Saudi security forces killed three of the gunmen. A McDonald’s restaurant was fired upon, a pipe bomb thrown at one of the city’s international schools, and gunfire exchanges took place outside a Holiday Inn. The media reports that followed said the deaths of the men– two from Britain, two from the US and one Australian – had been carried out by a group in Saudi linked to al-Qaeda. Yesterday an Islamic website carried a statement said to be from al-Qaeda, which claimed it had carried out the latest attack. For one oil analyst at Seymour Pierce in London, the Saudi attack in Yanbu and the fact that Saudi nationals were involved “triggered’’ the rise in oil prices that is threatening a return to the oil crisis of the 1970s, global economic chaos and George W Bush’s chances of entering the White House for a second term. The latest attack in Khobar will hardly help. The hike in the price of the world’s oil took it close to a 21-year high. Only last Thursday did the price of oil in New York drop back to just under $40 a barrel – the first time it had been under that level for more than a fortnight. In the US the impact of the rise took petrol prices well beyond $2 a gallon, a psychological barrier that no president seeking re- election wants to have linger for too long. In the volatile oil market, security in the Middle East – with the Gulf states producing 70% of the world’s oil – is a crucial factor to price stability. Opec, the 11-nation cartel of oil exporting states, meets in Beirut this week and is expected to agree to boost production levels by enough to make a “psychological impact” in an attempt to bring prices down. Chancellor Gordon Brown speaking for the G7 nations in New York last week effectively begged for just such action. The European Union’s energy commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, wanted at least the appearance of normality when she said last week there was ‘‘no deep-seated problem with the world oil market”. But Brown made it crystal clear that the G7 expects Opec’s help. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest oil producer, has already agreed to a unilateral hike in its production level by 10%. For Brown, the Saudi gesture was “important”. He believes when Opec gathers in Beirut there will be “added pressure on other Opec countries to do the right thing”. However, even if Opec does agree, many analysts believe the current supply shortfalls are not the sole cause of the recent price increase. Opec is already operating beyond its own self-imposed quota levels, with some countries already near to producing the limit of their capabilities. And as the price is at a 21-year high, what else would they be doing? Although the G7 has chosen to focus on supply, global demand is at least as big a problem. The overall world economy is strong, growth is positive, especially in the US, where a big “summer recovery” season can be equated with a “driving season”. In China, every season now is a season of economic growth – a rampant 20% last year. Opec members supply about a third of the world’s oil and some believe the cartel is being blamed unjustifiably for a price level that it may be able to influence but not sustain, simply because it has a limited ability to respond to surging demand and political instability in the Middle East. Nigeria, an Opec state, has already said it can’t do more and is producing flat out. Although the US is pressuring Opec for increased supply, the US energy secretary Spencer Abraham suggested the problem may lie elsewhere when he said: “We’re producing a substantial amount, more oil than we did a year ago. And inventories are substantially higher than they were a year ago.” So while the G7 begs, the Saudis promise and others in Opec complain about the pressure, the ability to deliver more oil this summer is receding. Marshall Stevens, an analyst at Refco, doubts the Saudis can deliver. “[Their measures] won’t take effect till July, and any new oil won’t hit the US till August. And that wouldn’t do much to allay gasoline concerns.” A “psychological gesture” by Opec this week, perhaps a temporary hike in supply, won’t be enough. Some analysts think that any small hike will be swallowed up by rising global demand, with some growing Asian nations desperate to do what the US has been doing for generations – stockpile reserves and somehow insulate themselves from future price shocks. After the September 11 attacks President Bush ordered the US’s strategic reserves to be built up. The US reserve is 660 million barrels, but Bush has ordered it to be raised to 700m. However big this reserve is though, Bush knows it isn’t big enough to have a sustained effect on world prices. His plans to boost US production look unlikely to succeed. US environmentalists successfully lobbied Congress and blocked the opening of new oil facilities that would have meant drilling inside US nature reserves. Most analysts agree that a crucial price determinant is now the current high risk of interruptions to supply. If post-war Iraq had seen oil production boosted and political stability installed, the concerns over Saudi would have been far less. But Iraq is not a picture of stability. The knock-on effect? Even the smallest jitters over Saudi – which controls 30% of the world’s proven reserves – are enough to justify what analysts are still reluctant to call a “security premium”. Of the current level of $40 a barrel, as much as $8 can be put down to this premium. Given the US government’s fears that al-Qaeda is planning another major attack on US soil this summer, that premium could soar to more than $15, cancelling out any potential success that comes out of Beirut this week. For the US car industry, which has produced a fleet of 4.2 million unsold gas-guzzling 4x4s worth $100 billion (if they were parked nose-to-tail they would stretch half-way round the world ) that kind of price prognosis is bad news. Unless sales improve, the industry will respond with lower production levels, and jobs, worldwide, will go. The Saudis recognise they may now be in phase one of an economic balancing act: they must ensure prices are not driven so high that it creates an uncheckable momentum to find and implement new energy technologies, and thus economically weaken the Saudi kingdom. But there are more pressing problems for the global economy. If al-Qaeda continues to attack the international oil community in Saudi, or go further and carry out a major strike at the heart of the Saudi oil industry itself and succeed in disrupting supply for even a brief period, a revisitation of the 1970s oil crisis and the worldwide slump that followed could be one outcome. Opec’s meeting in Beirut will address only one short-term solution, because at the moment there is no long-term solution. 30 May 2004