Gas Prices

[Erics350x]

Anyone else feel this way?
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[ATC-Eric]

Heck, I get 14 miles to the gallon. I dont even pay attention to gas prices anymore, I just know how much I can afford, and fill accordingly.


Right now for a gallon in my neck of the woods will cost you $3.39.

I cant stand it.

[Nick_n_ii]

$3.59 gal here in Port Huron, MI area, and there saying $4.00plus by Friday. Cost me $75 to fill my Grand Cherokee

[Erics350x]

sun of a #%$#@ THATS CRAZY. Its 3.09 up here and thats way to much for my budgit. Heck it cost me over $50 to fill up my Ranger. I wish i could afford a Hybrid.

[Bryan Raffa]

3.16 here I got gas in PA for 3.02 last weekend

[200xcellent]

$3.49 here in columbus. just remember to drive the speed limit, it will surprise you how much you can save that way.

[oldskool83]

$2.99 yet at one station close to work...i stoped driving my car for the summer even thought it got 40 miles to the gallon i am riding my sportbike thats getting 60 miles to the gallon...i still *Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited**Edited*, just cant do anything about it.

[erectordale]

3.69 here and getting 10 miles to the gallon sucks

[Howdy]

Gas was $3.499 yesterday, but they did lower them to $3.399 last night.

My truck is mostly parked for right now until something happens ( gets parked at $3 a gal ).
I'm now driving my car, it gets over 25 mpg and it will be driven until the wheels fall off. It's too bad this could happen any day now ( Had a MAJOR issue with a wheel 3 weeks ago ). It has 249,000+ miles and climbing. It currently has rust mites pretty bad, no heat ( bad heater core ), and mega other issues. How ever I have to drive it to save every where I can.
Howdy

[ScottZJ]

Wooo hooo! Today its 2.85 here! It dropped like 10 cents over night, whats up with that? How can prices fluctuate that much over night, I mean they paid the same price for the gas a month ago, so not like the price of what the already bought is going up. :cry: :wondering

[firehart]

Its $3.27 here in Idaho. I drive my old Toyota pickup most of the time. The 95 F-150 4X4 only gets driven when I take out the bikes.

[longbedGTs]

Good grief! I know California is always high, but the prices you all are posting makes it look like Cali prices everywhere!
My Turbocoupe gets 23 MPG and lasts almost 2 weeks. Im about to have my 2.2 Diesel Ranger up and running, so I will be able to enjoy 30-35 MPG with it. :w00t: I have plans to run it on veggie oil sometime in the near future.

In south GA, its about $3.03 or so.

[SYKO]

you guys would hate to have my job, since I'm an independent agent I have to PAY for my own gas up to 1000 miles put on in a week is my normal (jason lonbedgts) knows how many miles I put on in just a few hrs, at least I make enought money to do this, in retrospect I will not drive past 50 miles for 1 file in a area there has to be at least 3, and I drive a 2000 ford interceptor

[staceyl200]

Ha!!! You boys dont know you are born !!! We are paying about $7-$8 a gallon here in rip off Britain . It costs me $120 to fill my truck up and it only lasts me about 350miles before I got to refuel again..

[Greiver430x]

Yeah this definetly sucks over three a gallon here too, Im trying to buy a dualsport to ride to work.:(

[70ATC90]

Ha!!! You boys dont know you are born !!! We are paying about $7-$8 a gallon here in rip off Britain . It costs me $120 to fill my truck up and it only lasts me about 350miles before I got to refuel again..

Man that sucks. The worst part that I have trouble dealing with is that soldiers and civilians are dieing every day so we can have cheap gas, and its still not working. Definately not worth it. One of my good friends oldier brother was jst killed In Iraq a month ago. I would gladly ride my bicycle to work everday for the rest of my life, but that wont bring him back. Oh and 3.29/ga here in Minnesota.

[IrvSLedman]

Yeah.. its 3.39 today here.. BUT! I just made the Purchase of a Zuki GS550l In cherry shape.. real nice cruiser..and a XR650L:naughty: dual sport.. and I cannot wait to ride that thing on Saturday..lol Ill prolly spend more time off road than on!

[85hondaatc125m]

here it is 1.30 a litre... so per gallon that would be um... 4.5LX1.30 = 5.85 a gallon, thank god i dont have a licence.

[Russell 350X]

Yea its 3.39 here in Ohio...say it will be 4$/gal by tomarrow. My accord gets 34-36 mpg at 269,000 miles...and it is still killing my bank account! Getting a bit ridiculous.

[tecat-z]

Here in northwest Indiana it's $3.64 a gallon. Don't drive my new sierra much these days with a 5.3L V8. So i drive my old 94 f-150 with a 300 straight and auto trans. Seems to get around 16mpg around town driving very easy. Still runs nice and is reliable, but looks like hell. My wife drives a 98 GMC Z71 with a 5.7 liter. Luckily she only works 12 miles each way to and from work so just have to deal with it. It's a beautiful truck and only has 71,000 miles on it, so we want to keep it. Gets around 15 mpg. She also has a 91 mustang GT 5.0 convertible that drinks gas. Wouldn't think it would be that bad, however she only sees 12-13 mpg out of it. My house is full of gas hogs, and it really adds up. Guess we're just gonna have to pay these prices for the forseable future. It sucks, but there isn't a thing we can do.

[Billy Golightly]

For the first time in about 3 years I'm glad I have a diesel. Its about .40 a gallon cheaper here.

[fla 2-stroke]

I feel lucky to have filled today for 2.95 in orlando.I drive about 40,000 miles a year on my rides.lucky my zx9r gets 43 mpg and xt600 gets about 60.all of the exxon mobile stock I bought in 2000 has done great though.

[smokinwrench]

Gas is $3.29 here in Dodge City Kansas.

You could fuel this up it holds 425 gallons and burns most of that in 8 hours.

[TravEX]

Yesterday it dropped .01 here to $3.04.

[firehart]

I think all the food producing countries should band together and put the squezze on them for once.

[Dirtcrasher]

This is just wrong. This is hurting so many people and raising the cost of everything.

My gf works in a restaurant and fewer customers are coming in each day because of the gas.

Retail sales are down because of the gas.

My parents can't find tenants that can pay the rent for their apartment houses.

Nobody has money for parts on or off EBAY and shipping costs are more than the part we need sometimes.

I think for the most part, people are just using there credit cards more to get by and that will catch up with them too. We had something like 85 homes forclosed on last quarter in my town.

I am so so fortunate to have a free worktruck, I probably spend about 100$ a month in fuel in my personal truck.

Life is tough enough as it is, why are we forced to suffer and be at the mercy of the gas companies?? This is not good......

[Maico]

Wooo hooo! Today its 2.85 here! It dropped like 10 cents over night, whats up with that? How can prices fluctuate that much over night, I mean they paid the same price for the gas a month ago, so not like the price of what the already bought is going up. :cry: :wondering


Greedy Oil Execs. If it's all based on the price of a barrel of oil...then why is the price not consistant thruout ??

Greedy Oil Execs.

[TimSr]

Its still amazing how many people can graduate from high school without understanding the simple basic concepts of capitalism and a free market system. Supply and demand. To lower price you simply increase supply or reduce demand.

The base price of gasoline depends on crude prices. OPEC (oil producing exporting countries) cannot fix oil prices so they fix supply. Theyve been doing it since Jimmy Carter only they used to screw each other over and secretly overproduce beyond their agreement. Now they have learned to stick together and squeeze supply to drive up price.

You dont pump oil from the ground and into your car. Oil companies buy crude and refine it. They pay the going rate for crude. We have not increased refining capacity in 30+ years. Our refineries run at 95% capacity to meet current demand. Guess what happens if there is a slight gliche in any refinery? Supply reduction and price goes up. Guess what happens if demand shoots up, as in Summer, and the first holiday weekend of summer?

What do you do when supply cannot meet demand? You can fix prices and have lines, shortages, and rationing aka the Jimmy Carter solution, or you increase price to reduce demand. To suggest that a bunch of salaried oil executives who operate a company for stockholders, (you, me, and anybody else with a 401K) unilaterally decide to screw over its customers the same time every year is ignorant intellectually lazy. Libs and socialists in government rely on public ignorance to get re-elected. You would think after "investigating" oil companies every spring for 30 years and finding no wrongdoing, they might want to look at something else.

Why do we ignore our own crude oil resources at the request of irrational Hollywood idiot tree huggers, and put ourselves at the mercy of OPEC? Why does all of our crude oil lay in the ground while we tank it in from around the world?

Why do we have 21 different EPA mandated gasoline blends which cannot cross over into another blend region? Why cant Ohio sell Michigan gas if Ohio gas is in short supply? Why do we also compound this with summer and winter blends? Why cant we have 3 blends for the entire nation? regular, plus, and super?

Why do we refuse to increase refinery capacity because some idiot Hollywood tree hugger doesnt like the way they look or smell?

Why do we pay upwards of 60 or 70 cents per gallon in fuel taxes? Why is it okay for the government to make a larger profit on a gallon of gas than the companies who do all the work?

Why do we put idiots in congress who after 30 years still cannot figure out why switching to a mandated summer blend at the very same time driving peaks in the US, (Memorial Day weekend and the beginning of summer) causes supply problems and price spikes? Because they are confident of the publics ignorance, intellectual laziness and willingness to blame the evil boogieman they setup to take the heat - "Big Oil".

Drill our own crude, get rid of EPA custom blends, increase refining capicty, cut gas taxes, and use our heads when we vote, and problem is solved.

Or wait for Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid under the advice of Jimmy Carter to fix it.

[team-red-rider]

i say get bush out of office ...thats deffinatly important....then we elect TimSr for president =] lol

[TravEX]

Preach it Tim!!!!!!

[motorola79]

Youre lucky, here it costs 5.07 dollars/gallon.
And we earn much less dollars than in the US or UK. We buy petroleum from Venezuela, Argentina, so its very expensive. Also theres only 1 gas company here, and its statal. So it fixes the prices for all the country, and it has no competition! Shell, Texaco, etc, all sells the same product at the same prices, fixed by the statal company. Monopoly.

By the way:
1 gallon US = 3.78 litres
1 gallon UK = 4.54 litres

Globalization will nevear reach units...

[theonlyjosh]

It was a 1.02/ litre last time i checked. i don't pay for gas till next week =D

[3 weelin geezer]

Man that sucks. The worst part that I have trouble dealing with is that soldiers and civilians are dieing every day so we can have cheap gas, and its still not working. Definately not worth it. One of my good friends oldier brother was jst killed In Iraq a month ago. I would gladly ride my bicycle to work everday for the rest of my life, but that wont bring him back. Oh and 3.29/ga here in Minnesota.

The soldier's lives are not what keeps the gas prices down. Its the greedy oil companies that claim the supply is running low and charge so much. Funny how they all of a sudden refine less barrels of oil in the summer than in winter and then say the refineries can only make so much. So, how many years must gas prices be gouged before they make more refineries? A couple of days worth of these price's profits would easily pay for a new refinery somewhere.

[FrankenWheeler]

So does anybody know what the 9/10 at the end of the gas price is?

if my gas is $3.39 9/10, is it 9/10 of a gallon, or another 9/10 of a cent?
Either way we're getting pwned...

[TravEX]

9/10th of a cent.

[Dirtcrasher]

So does anybody know what the 9/10 at the end of the gas price is?

if my gas is $3.39 9/10, is it 9/10 of a gallon, or another 9/10 of a cent?
Either way we're getting pwned...


It's purely a sales technique - Just like the Plasma TV for 1999.99. For some reason people see that as less that 2K.... Complete joke... 3.39 9/10ths should simply be 3.40$ but it's a way of bring in customers and that extra penny times 10000 gallons of gas per station per day adds up.

Think of it, evry time you gas up there are at least 4 other people around you gassing up. Your all buying at least 10 gallons, you leave after 5 minutes and 4 more people drive up. Do the math, I don't sell gas but I'm sure at least 5,000 and 10,000 gallons a day get sold per station.............

[Yamada]

Here the price is 1.12$ per liter. never saw the price this high for a such long period of time. When i started to drive, the price was 0.7$.

[firehart]

When I started driving gas was 25 cents a gallon.

[Maico]

Supply and demand ***EDITED***!! Oil execs have the power and we DON'T !! Get it!?? Get Bush out of office?? You REALLY think that's the problem?? He's gone next year anyway...do you think that the prices will fall into the basement if we get rid of him tomorrow ?? Nope. It's not a republican,democrat or liberal thing. It's a greed thing. Look at what oil execs make per year and what their bonus's are. Greed. Plain and simple.

[Erics350x]

It was $4.89 in the Bahamas while i was there the past week.

I think it was about $0.86 when i started driving and that was only 11 or so years ago.

[longbedGTs]

Heres one for you guys. At the bottom of the thread is other 'similiar' threads. Read them and youll be quite humbled.
BTW, gas was right around 1.00/gal when I started driving.

[TimSr]

I guess since the public has chosen to remain ignorant, the problem will never end. Ive watched it over an over again for 30 years.
Every spring, gas prices jump, govt blames "greedy oil execs" and levys another tax on it. Every fall gas prices drop the same way they went up, but nobody yells to investigate oil companies for their unforunded generosity.

Oil execs have the power? OPEC has the power at one end, and the governement has all the power in the other end, and both are screwing us royal. After only a little research I found Oil companys make between 8 and 16 cents per gallon depending on current price. Yes, they can double their "profits" with a price hike from 8 cents to a whopping 16 cents. In exchange for that you get a product you need. The government makes 40-70 cents per gallon in taxes for which they do absolutely nothing other than blame the big oil boogie man and get re-elected by the ignorant who would rather believe in the boggie man than hold taxing authorities, and regulatory agencies accountable. Believing government oversight will keep "big oil" ethical equates to believeing in good fairies to battle the big oil boogie man.

When I started driving gas had suddenly shot up from .29 to .56 nearly overnight. Jimmy Carter was president, and Im pretty sure george Bush was not in the White House advising him. OPEC put the squeeze on us then, and our government's policy since that time has been to become more and more dependant on OPEC for our crude so as not to upset the Hollywood Treehuggers by getting it here. We got 40% from OPEC then. We get 80% from them now. And to those who believe the president of the US, whoever it is, has anything to do with oil prices, we (US) probably have some of the cheapest gas in the world. Bush pushed for drilling in ANWAAR and more offshore drilling. Congress libs shot it down. Bush bushed for streamlining refinery permits. Congress libs shot it down. Bush pushed to relax EPA blending standards. Congress libs shot it down. So lets blame Bush.
Clinton vetoed the energy bill that would have opened up ANWAR. Had it passed, we would be pumping oil from it today. Al Gore flies around in a private jet, and pays over $30,000 per year in residental utilites so he can tell us we need to quit driving and ride bicycles more, while his own huge butt swell rivals Michael Moore. I spelled out the solutions. They are not my ideas. If people werent too lazy to get past blaming the boogieman, and think a little bit, and actually know what politicians have actually done, and really stand for, we could get these things implemented before this hole gets deeper and deeper.

[Yamahondaman]

Heres one for you guys. At the bottom of the thread is other 'similiar' threads. Read them and youll be quite humbled.
BTW, gas was right around 1.00/gal when I started driving.

HAAAAAAAAAAA !!! a year before i started driving it was 28 cents a Gallon !!
How OLD am I ?? :naughty: ... OH !!! it was all LEADED TOO !! :w00t:

[Erics350x]

it was all LEADED TOO !! :w00t:

LOL, i remember that stuff

[mark38090]

3.09 here, 0.65 when I started driving. TimSr, do you work for the Government? :)

[rally4x4racer]

Hey Tim -
Have you ever noticed that is an invisible truth? No matter how many times I s-p-e-l-l out some of the economic and political issues around oil - no one ever seems to get it. It is always an argument.
I agree with your post and I hope you have better luck than I do!

I do not think the prices are that high (even if they are at the highest inflation adjusted levels etc etc) Really - if you want to burn the non renewable natural resources out of this planet .......... how cheap should it be?

[Dustin87R]

Gas is $3.29 here in Dodge City Kansas.

You could fuel this up it holds 425 gallons and burns most of that in 8 hours.

I have enough trouble filling this up it has two 150 gallon tanks with a 400 horse cat motor I get about 7-8 miles per gallon empty and about 4-5 loaded.