In some markets and some models a Yaris might have a 3 cylinder engine, but not in Australia. The Yaris, is based off of the Japanese Yitz and was known as Echo for a while too. Mine is a 2007 2nd gen yaris, looks exactly like this one, including the paint color.

Republican whackoos and Obamas own administration said in 2008 we should raise gas prices.
He also said they had no interest in lowering gas prices
He also says theres nothing he can do, he also had the chance to drill here
Now if Iran closes the Strait expect gas prices over 8 dollars. Enjoy!
. thats all ill say on this matter

3-17-2012

Saudi oil sales to U.S. up 25 percent

The kingdom's shipments to the United States have quietly risen 25 percent to the highest level since mid-2008

Vela, Saudi Arabia's state oil tanker company, has booked at least nine very large crude carriers (VLCCs) capable of carrying 2 million barrels of crude each from the Middle East Gulf to the U.S. Gulf since the start of March, the biggest such wave of fixtures in years, analysts say.

The pivot to the U.S. market, which bore the brunt of Saudi output curbs after 2008, is a surprise for two reasons.

For one, many analysts had believed that the kingdom's modest output increase in recent months was bound for fast-growing Asian markets, particularly given the pressure on refiners there to reduce their imports from Iran.

Plus, it comes after a year in which U.S. crude oil imports shrank to their lowest since 1999 thanks to a dramatic boom in shale oil production and tepid demand from consumers who are making every effort to cut back as gasoline prices rise.

Omar Nokta, managing director with investment bank Dahlman Rose & Co, said in a note on Friday that it was the first time in "several years" for Vela to book so many tankers in such a short time.

The build appears related, at least in part, to a massive expansion project at Saudi Arabia's 285,000-bpd Motiva Port Arthur, Texas joint-venture refinery with Shell Oil, the U.S. unit of Royal Dutch Shell.

All expansion units are expected to be in production by the end of the second quarter of this year, with the expanded refinery reaching, by the end of the year, a maximum capacity of 660,000 bpd. Motiva Enterprises began circulating feedstocks through some of the expansion units in January

Motiva declined to comment. The expansion project, budgeted at $5 billion, began in 2007, and when complete will make the refinery the largest in the United States.

3-17-2012

Obama seeks halt to tax subsidies for oil industry

Republicans in Congress have argued that cutting the tax breaks would lead to higher fuel prices

Obama said the vote would put lawmakers on record on whether they "stand up for oil companies" or "stand up for the American people."

Republicans think fuel is cheap?

Of course when you make over $250,000 a year fuel is just a drop in the bucket expense.

3-17-2012 sample gas prices across U.S.

Los Angeles $4.89

Chicago $4.59

Orlando $3.89

Texas $3.99

$4.89?? Whoa, that's almost $5 all over LA!

It's bringing the USA back into balance with the rest of the world, and "encouraging" us to seek fuel alternatives.

It's not a fair balance though.

For the most part the rest of the world does not have the commutes to work Americans do.

They have countries apart that is a city to city run in the same state for us.

You are right though. Getting off foreign oil would be a great f**k you to that part of the world that hates us anyway.

i paid $4.32 yesterday per gallon, Palm Springs, CA

Cheap compared to Chicago

$4.59 out here in the suburbs , $4.89 in the city.