Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Gulf Shores, Alabama

Ok, I'm guessing that the math is like this. $30,915-$1,000(Toyota and military rebates)-$2,860(dealer discount)+$845(destination fee)=$27,900. $27,900 plus TTL&dealer fee of $249 comes out to $29,900-$500(Edmunds rebate)=$29,400 (OTD) and not $27,400 right? Some guy from Houston area said the fee is $760 but other website is saying that there's a gulf states surcharge of $85, which brings the destination total to $845. Is that the case for you? Thanks!

My thinking is we buy oil from Canada, refine it and sell product we create good paying permanent type jobs. If Canada builds a pipeline and loads it onto ships for China it does NOTHING for our economy First of all its no slam dunk that even if China pays (and I question with that kind of money and political fight that China won't try and wiggle out of some or all of it and I think Canada is leery too) it will be built. As for the refineries in the US, there could be some jobs involved, but be careful of incremental accounting. If the refineries are not exporting diesel distillates they may be refining gas or diesel fo the US market, so its not an all or none proposition. Most of those jobs are going to exist one way or the other, just the physical location in the US may vary depending on the outcome. The number impact is probably being heavily exaggerated by the oil industry. Let me tell you a little story about that biz. You're old enough to remember the Arab oil embargo of the Carter and Ford years and all of the gas stations running out of fuel. Well, I ran into a guy back then in Texas who was flying thermal sights for testing. If you are not familiar, these are night vision devices that work on ambient temperature differentiation rather than starlight and as a consequence can often detect things behind walls. He told me about flying around the gulf part of Texas one night and lo and behold, a lot of those oil storage tanks were pretty full despite the supposed industry lack of supply. Remember what Ronald Reagan said "trust, BUT verify"! Canada wants that pipeline into the US because it is safer and easier dealing with the US and Europe. The US wants it too, but its an election year. The Republicans deliberately backed Obama into a short corner on the issue where he had to either cave into them or say no, while the Dems want to make a political issue on the environment. Both parties suck and are being self serving on this issue. I think it gets built in 2013 regardless of whether Romney or Obama wins and gets a slightly altered routing. Oh, and let's not give Wall Street speculators a pass either - ever notice that when we are in an oil supply shortage here, the price of gas is based on US Cushing prices. But when we are OK on oil like these days it changes to Brent Crude because its a global market??? Couldn't be shifting around to gouge consumers now could it?

Gagrice - go down to the Houston area and watch the tankers loading up. They are also going to export oil from Cushing Oklahoma storage and refineries - that's why they are reversing the pipeline flow from the gulf to the gulf. I'm not saying that's bad since we seem to be OK on oil right now, just that there's a lot of hype and half truths out there coming from the right and the left.