the price of gas is killing me! tell me your latest

[scarface2004]

houston, walmart, 3.14 reg. was 3.08 in the morning. we are getting raped.

[Skittles]

1. 3.15 north of Dallas

yes indeed

[zabet]

2. 3.17

eastern NC,
little podunk town.

[renate]

3. 3.35 in Portland, Oregon

At least that's what it was today. Tomorrow.... :shrug:

:grr:

[brokensymmetry]

4. You ain't seen nothing yet.

Expect $4 per gallon this summer.

You don't want to think about 2009.

And yes, food prices will continue higher.

[dweller]

5. $3.19 to $3.25 NC

was $3.17 this morning and i didn't stop, went back and it was $3.19 later.

the higher price was w/in 5mi across town.

dp

[Scurrilous]

6. I paid $3.44 (regular) this morning in Miami...

...a few miles north in Ft. Lauderdale it was $3.37.

[RockaFowler]

57. West Palm Beach is just as bad - if not worse

This was yesterday morning :



This isn't funny at all . . .

[Traction311]

7. I live in NYC and it's about $3.30

But I work in Linden, NJ so I get gas there for $2.93.

[cbayer]

8. 4.59 a gallon for marine diesel.

I make all my own electricity using diesel. And I can't get it from a regular station.

But then again, we still pay a lot less than people in other countries.

[Art_from_Ark]

13. Here in Japan, I just paid about $20

for less than 3 1/2 gallons.

So yeah, it's a lot more expensive here.

[cbayer]

15. We are so spoiled here.

And until it gets unbearable, people in the US will not have the incentive to really conserve.

Keeping the price low does not solve the problem.

Would love to visit Japan.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Come on over if you get the chance

The yen is high right now, but you can still get a decent hotel in Tokyo for about $60 a night. And you can get a good deal on train fare if you get a "Japan Rail Pass" before you leave your home country :hi:

[cbayer]

18. My daughter has been and she loved it.

Had a family connection and got to see the real thing.

:hi: back atcha.

[SoCalDem]

29. But YOU have excellent train service..we don't

:(

[Art_from_Ark]

50. Japan does have excellent rail service

And I take advantage of it when I can.

But there are also 60 million registered motor vehicles in this country which is the size of California. One motor vehicle for every two people. And for what it's worth, I know of a couple of women who live near train stations and have jobs near other train stations on the same line, but they still prefer to fight traffic and drive to work :wtf:

[El Pinko]

35. Prices in Japan have gone up from about 110/liter in 2001 to 146/liter now.

Transit is widely available, most cars are more fuel-efficient there and trips are shorter than in the US.

The increase in price is much less over the last 5-6 years than it has been in the US.

IE - gouging is the norm now in the US - prices have always been higher in Japan & Europe due to higher taxes at the pump.

The massive price increases in the US have been PURE PROFIT.

Check the financial reports from ExxonMobil, Shell, etc.

[Art_from_Ark]

36. Transit is widely available in much of Japan,

but not so much where I am, unfortunately. There is a lot of reliance on automobiles here, and while they may be more fuel efficient overall, I am surprised that there are quite a few gas guzzlers as well. Also, even the fuel efficient cars are less efficient than they could be, given all the uncoordinated stoplights and overall traffic gridlock around here.

[villager]

9. why, that's a low, low price...

...by el Lay standards.

"Low" end here is around $3.43 a gallon... when you can find it...

[Yavin4]

10. It's Called Inflation

And it's about to get worse because the Feds are cutting rates in order to bail out the banks from the subprime mess.

[Aviation Pro]

11. Guy I met last week....

...$125.00/week to fill his SUCKV. Too bad.

[Thepricebreaker]

27. I love my SUCKV! You can ride your tin can if you want....

[Aviation Pro]

44. Yes, I ride it for all of $35.00/month....

...life in a home office is soooooo sweet. 40 MPG too.

[tridim]

12. It's so sad, but I'm going to have to sell my beloved Fiat Spider

I can't afford to drive it any more. :(

Thanks Bush.

[madokie]

51. that is sad.

what a car you have there. I'm a recovering highly modified VW beetle addict myself and so I can relate to your angst with parting with your Spyder. Put it out back on blocks if you can, you'll be real proud of yourself later, I'm a thinkin'. I know I wished I would have done that very thing but no I had to, give it away, trade in for 500 bucks, to the dealer when I purchased a new '78 VW sirocco.

Add: price of regular unleaded was 3.17 a couple days ago here in north east OK

[tridim]

52. I love the car, but putting it on blocks isn't an option in my condo complex.

I'm wasting money just keeping it licensed and insured, I only drove it about 200 miles last year. The engine purrs, but it only gets about 18mpg. Pretty good for a 30 year old car, but not good at all when gas is $3.50. When I bought my first Fiat gas was about 89 cents.

I plan to use the sale money to buy a small scooter for town. Maybe I can substitute some of the top down fun on a good scooter.. Regardless I have lots of research to do.

[madokie]

53. Cool. a while I was looking at scooters too and I noticed there were several electric ones even

that would have been perfect for me.
I don't have any links handy, sorry

We have a f150 thats just setting there taking up space now but I can't bring myself to part with it as it comes in handy every once in a while. Those handy times are getting fewer and farther apart too I must admit.

[wildbilln864]

14. SC upstate...

$3.05ish for regular then add ten cents per upgrade, give or take two cent. :hi:

[luckyleftyme2]

22. add $200-300 a week for health insurance

when you add your family health insurance to your cost of fuel and energy increases its a wonder the country hasn't gone belly up.
No working families payroll has kept up with these price increases. No country can sustain
this pace without a drastic effect to its national wealth.
where is the money going ! answer off shore!to other nations.:P

[elocs]

17. $3.19 this morning--no, the price of gas is not killing me. Life goes on.

There might be things which cause me to feel I am being raped, but the price of gas is not one of them. The fact of the matter is that even with the little money I make and the little I have I am better off than billions of other people on this planet and probably better off than most of the people that have lived throughout history.

[SeattleGirl]

19. I used medium grade. Today it was $3.52/gal.

And I have to fill the tank tomorrow. There goes a wad of dough!

[wundermaus]

20. 3.57 lowest price in my area and going up!

I am now buying gas every day - 2 to 3 gallons to get back and forth to work. I refuse to buy any more than what is absolutely necessary on a daily basis... the lines are getting long at the "cheaper" locations, though.

http://www.orangecountygasprices.com/index.aspx?&area=Laguna%20Beach&area=Laguna%20Hills

[lifesbeautifulmagic]

21. can't remember what the price per gallon was

but on Sunday, I paid $58 for a fill-up. $58!! Thats at least double from when Clinton was prez - and that's $24 that is not going to get spent at my local coffee shop, or Target or Office Depot or Safeway.

[FlyingSquirrel]

23. Warning: Scary pic. Took this today. I'm sure it was just an innocent mistake.

Or WAS IT????????

;)

[Xenotime]

34. Probably not. Thank you * for ass fucking us at the pumps..

hope you enjoy it.

[lonestarnot]

24. I'm only half way through my tank, but I think I'll fill up tomorrow.

That hybrid runs a long time w/o having to fill her.

[Extend a Hand]

25. 3.27 in Dayton Ohio

and I bet it's even higher tomorrow.

[Thepricebreaker]

26. $2.89 in central NJ.... Not to bad.. it has been higher.

[TommyO]

46. $2.97 in Bridgewater, NJ yesterday, after stopping at Costco

[PoiBoy]

28. $3.95 gal./reg. here on Maui...

$4.60 gal/reg. over on the island of Lanai...


:shrug:

[El Pinko]

30. My 13 year old car gets 42 mpg - I chuckle at idiots spending $80 to fill up their SUVs

Eventually the bubble in oil will play out and prices will drop (until the inevitable supply shortages become chronic).


I'm more concerned with the price of food. I drive as little as possible and have an econobox and always have.

A behemoth SUV was a bad idea in 2000, it's a worse idea now.

If I was loaded, I'd drive a hybrid.


I don't know what to say about this - did people expect that gas prices would be $1.50 forever?

also, do people realize that if EVERYONE switched to a 35mpg car over the next couple of years, the drop in demand would drop prices a lot, IMO.

[Skittles]

33. I think about it every time I see a f***ing Hummer

and every other vehicle a piece of SHIT SUV

[NickB79]

37. Any short-term drops in oil will be gobbled up by Chinese and Indian drivers

"also, do people realize that if EVERYONE switched to a 35mpg car over the next couple of years, the drop in demand would drop prices a lot, IMO."

That would only work if there is no increase in the number of drivers worldwide, especially in rapidly developing areas like Asia. Unfortunately, they are buying cars by the millions, even with the price of oil what it is. And Tata Motors in India just released a car that sells for less than $2000, making it affordable to tens of millions more people.

Even if they buy 50-mpg cars, that's still more oil used than the bikes and public transport they used before.

There will be no bursting of this oil bubble, unless you consider a 2nd Great Depression an acceptable form of bursting.

[El Pinko]

38. I disagree in the short term.

Most of what we're seeing is speculation because of a weak dollar and a dearth of profitable investment vehicles is driving people to speculate on commodities like oil.

Supply is adequate over the next few years, and if prices continue this way there could even be a glut, which is why OPEC declined to increase their production output at their last meeting.

You're talking long-term demographic changes, and commodities speculators and oil futures simply do not work in time frames that long.

[Strelnikov_]

48. Jevons Paradox

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

In economics, the Jevons Paradox is an observation made by William Stanley Jevons, that as technological improvements increase the efficiency with which a resource is used, total consumption of that resource may increase, rather than decrease. It is historically called the Jevons Paradox as it ran counter to Jevons's intuition. However, the situation is well understood in modern economics. In addition to reducing the amount needed for a given output, improved efficiency lowers the cost of using a resource – which increases demand. Overall resource use increases or decreases depending on which effect predominates.

In his 1865 book The Coal Question, Jevons observed that England's consumption of coal soared after James Watt introduced his coal-fired steam engine, which greatly improved the efficiency of Thomas Newcomen's earlier design. Watt's innovations made coal a more cost effective power source, leading to the increased use of the steam engine in a wide range of industries. This in turn increased total coal consumption, even as the amount of coal required for any particular application fell.

[kevinbgoode]

60. I was the same way. . .

My ten-year-old econobox gets 38 mpg, and only has a ten gallon tank. Yes, it hurts when I fill it up, but I've long ago started cutting back driving - very rare for me to take a pleasure trip. Even though my car has well over 100,000 miles, I intend to keep it well past 200,000 if possible. I haven't had a car payment in fifteen years and don't want one.

If I want to go to the big city (like Chicago) I take the train and SAVE money on parking AND gas. Places that I have to drive (like St. Louis) are now just annual trips (even though it is only two hours drive away.) I do most shopping online, rarely visit a shopping mall, and took the train to a recent conference in Pittsburgh - and walked around downtown to every destination.

I have never understood why people with small families bought those gas guzzling SUVs...I started driving during the shortages in the 1970's and knew then I'd always buy an econobox.

[Initech]

31. I paid $3.49 last week in LA

Came out to almost $50 a tank. And I drive a 4-cyl. midsize sedan. Argh this is really pissing me off. I hate the motherfucking piece of shit oil companies with every fiber of my body.

[Medusa]

47. I paid 3.62/gal in LA yesterday

and I have a gaz guzzler unfortunately.

[Initech]

61. Yeah it's maybe 10 cents less in Orange County.

But that's not enough to make a difference, unfortunately. You know what will really stimulate the economy? Lower the god damn gas prices.

[dragonlady]

32. 3.19 in Milwaukee

That station is always a little lower than others nearby.

[Nay]

39. 3.19 for reg here in Richmond, VA. Going up 5 cents a day.

[Jersey Devil]

40. $3.02 Bergen County, NJ

NJ has among the lowest prices in the nation due to very low state taxes on gasoline

[taterguy]

41. It's not rape if it's consensual

Just sayin'

[golddigger]

42. $3.38 in Lebanon, Oregon

[LanternWaste]

43. 3.12 in Ft. Worth

A co-worker and I have been car-pooling since last summer and we're *still* feeling the pinch.

At least in Europe they're getting a return on the high prices as taxes are getting pumped into workable mass-transit systems. Mass-transit in north Texas is a joke. It exists-- but just barely.

[flvegan]

45. $3.37 for premium here, Tampa Bay area of Florida.

[all.of.me]

49. 3.29 northern NM - up from 3.09 in 10 days nt

[all.of.me]

62. I take that back....

It went up to 3.39 today!

[guitar man]

54. 3.10 this morning, Oklahoma City nt

[Dukkha]

55. $3.45 Columbus, OH

exploiting the blizzard for profit

[LostinVA]

56. $3.79 for diesel in NONJ

[0007]

58. $3.27 here in West Texas.

[0007]

59. $3.27 here in West Texas.

[opihimoimoi]

63. $3.60 in Honolulu...top grade....expecting to see $4.50 by years end...maybe higher

[kineneb]

64. filled up at $3.55/gal, Lake co., Cal.

but car only holds 14 gal and gets 30-32 mpg... and some days I don't drive at all.

...it can take country up-hills at 70 mph+ (5 speed)...and no, the CHP was not looking... just ticks me off to follow people who cannot drive at least the speed limit and ride their brakes...

what kind of car, you say?
2000 Hyundai Elantra Wagon ("soccer mom" white), holds almost as much as a pickup

want to revive the '92 Mazda Miyata sitting in the driveway, sometime... gets about the same gas milage... (visualize- blond driving little red sports car- whee!)

[Iwillnevergiveup]

65. In Pasadena, CA

between $3.49 - $3.59 a gallon. Combine trips, I force myself to grocery shop after work, no matter how tired I am, invite friends for a potluck instead of dining out, carpool, check tires!

[Critters2]

66. $3.24--$3.30 North Central Illinois. nt

[rucky]

67. 3.48 in the Dayton area

but it's the fucking heating bills that are doing us in.

[VenusRising]

68. $3.45 in Columbus, Ohio.

I almost had a stroke on the way to pick up my husband from work! :wow: