Gas Prices

[cliff2302]

I was just wondering what state has the least expensive gas. Here in central NY, i saw a Mobil charge $2.21. Thats the highest i've ever seen it, and diesel is like $2.35 or something astronomical. Anyone know why prices are so high?

[chris200x]

I can sum it up for you in 1 word....BUSH!!!

[TimSr]

I was just wondering what state has the least expensive gas. Here in central NY, i saw a Mobil charge $2.21. Thats the highest i've ever seen it, and diesel is like $2.35 or something astronomical. Anyone know why prices are so high?

Pretty simple, really. Every time the price of a barrel of crude oil goes up, (now $52) the price at the pumps immediately follow (even though that higher priced crude did not make the gas they are selling right now).


Chrisr200x, since you seem to have it all figured, maybe you can educate all of us and explain how any president of the US can make the price of gas go up, and what they would gain by doing it? Maybe you can also tell us what effect procuring our own crude oil from our own land might have on gas prices, and tell us which recent presdents support the idea, and who opposes it? Please educate me. Im dying to know.

[BIGCRIP28]

$1.85 :d

[jjjg-02]

Here on Fort Campbell it is 1.93 a gallon, but that's with a break since we are military......I think the locals get it at their places for over 2.00 a gallon!!!!!!!! I remember when it was .99 a gallon. That would be nice again....

[Banage]

MN $2.04 $2.24 and $2.29 and get this desel is the most expensive at $2.70'something the **** they scrape off the bottom of the barrels

[Banage]

wow guess we cant sware!?! did not know that

[Bender]

2.15 in WI. the most i have seen here is 2.24

[Billy Golightly]

2 bucks and a quarter for diesel here...

[bigredhead]

92.9 cents a Liter over here :D , up from 89 last week.

Anyone ever wonder if all this oil we pump out of the ground could cause problems? we keep pumping and pumping and all that crude must serve a purpose for the earth's crust etc.... always wondered about that.

[LaDano]

$1.92 here. 1 of the factors is the demand of oil. FYI, China has become the 2nd most dependant country for oil. In the last 10 yrs they have become motorized. Nearly tripled the amount of vehicals diving around daily than 5 yrs ago and increasing. It boils down to supply and demand. We have an abundance of wells capped off in the gulf, and in many cases its still cheaper to ship over than to pump it out and refine it ourselves. Does anyone now what kind of oil stock/investments GW owns, I don't think he is going to tap into the reserve soon unlike Clinton.

[newbie 350x]

2.37 a gallon in Los Angeles.

[jenndnn3]

You Know, I am willing to bet money that if you search the archieves this subject comes up, right before spring break for the last few years. Then there is one I bet in April'ish and May really griping because they always skyrocket before Memorial, just slightly edging off after 4th.

[jjjg-02]

I completly forgot about the holiday's (if you want to call it that) and then the summer......Here at Ft Campbell, we were at like 1.67 two weeks ago and literally overnight it skyrocketed.....

[hedge1988]

1.97 here for unleaded, diesel is 2.10 ........................gonna get so a poor man has to walk or ride a bicycle thats a dang shame.

[asc180]

2.11 here in West Michigan. What we need to do is look for alternatives to oil but that would make the the oil tycoons that are in high positions in most of the world's major companies and governments angry!!!!

[BIGCRIP28]

$1.85 :d

uhh scratch that, $1.96 :eek:

[markdb420]

I paid $1.87 for unleaded today. I see diesel $2.05 for onroad, and $1.64 for off road diesel. We put that in our F-250, as it saves us quite a bit without the taxes!

[Billy Golightly]

I paid $1.87 for unleaded today. I see diesel $2.05 for onroad, and $1.64 for off road diesel. We put that in our F-250, as it saves us quite a bit without the taxes!


Be careful running coolaid in an onroad vehicle...Never know when DOT might be around.

[atckowalski]

I just heard that prices are going up as high as they ever have been on Tuesday morning :eek:

[hrc85250r]

well, i never really pay attention to gas prices, i fill up once a week and its usually only a 3-5 dollar fill-up difference when prices fluctuate, so i just cut back on the pepsi for the week and i save the money i spent on the gas....

[PowerTrike]

$2.00-2.08 here in MN. I think that half of the price jumps on oil is a bunch of BS and it really sucks because there really isn't that much we can do about it. Everyone needs gas, and they will continue to pay for it. Not Bush's fault, but I wish that he would tap into the reserves like Clintion did, I think that would help a little. Doesn't help that my Daily driver gets about 10mpg on a good day also... Lets just hope it doesn't reach the "expected" $2.50 a gal this summer.

[ATC crazy]

Its about $1.95 here. Only $1.90 at Kroger with their card. I cant remember what diesel is...I havent looked lately.

I remember when it used to be $0.65 cents for the cheap stuff and the Premium was still under a dollar!

[twgranger]

$2.00-2.08 here in MN. I think that half of the price jumps on oil is a bunch of BS and it really sucks because there really isn't that much we can do about it. Everyone needs gas, and they will continue to pay for it. Not Bush's fault, but I wish that he would tap into the reserves like Clintion did, I think that would help a little. Doesn't help that my Daily driver gets about 10mpg on a good day also... Lets just hope it doesn't reach the "expected" $2.50 a gal this summer.
"expected" $2.50 a gal. My local news is talking about $3.00 this summer for regular unleded. :eek: Right now it is at $2.19

[atckowalski]

Well Bush is at it again, raping the American people to pay for his dads war in the gulf.At this rate we won't be able to afford the gas to go to Trikefest!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: Yes Tim he could do something about it but he will not! Todays current price for gas that they allready bought that is in the tanks under the pumps $2.23 an hour ago it was $2.13 when they bought it, $2.01. Nobody can justify that being right to me.What will it be in the summer? :cry: Not everyone is a republican or a millionaire.Remember one half of all Americans who voted, or close to that voted against Bush.He probably does'nt even know how to pump his own gas more less pay for it.

[seadoo650]

I've got an Idea.... Start a chainletter. Send it to everyone you know. Try to get it to media and the big pigs or uh wigs wait no pigs at these oil companies. I know there was one floating around on the internet a while back to not buy fuel on a certian date. That aint gonna work cause they know we will be there the next day or week. I'm talking starting a chainletter and state that if the oil companies DON'T do something by a certain date (say june 4th) then one company or station will be singled out nationwide. Then if nothing is done by say July 4th (independance day) then nobody and I mean nobody buy fuel from said company. That should at least get some attention. If one of the big guys thinks they are going to be boycotted, and if everything goes right, potentially put out of business then they might listen. They get rich off us so we got to hit them in the pockets . We are the only ones that can do something about the cost of fuel because they rely on us to buy it. What ya think? Anybody else got any ideas?
Oh yeah, the cost of fuel in central Ohio is $2.19 per gallon for economy grade. I hear it will be at $2.50 plus by summer. I'm tired of deciding between eating and getting gas.

[Billy Golightly]

Well Bush is at it again, raping the American people to pay for his dads war in the gulf.At this rate we won't be able to afford the gas to go to Trikefest!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: Yes Tim he could do something about it but he will not! Todays current price for gas that they allready bought that is in the tanks under the pumps $2.23 an hour ago it was $2.13 when they bought it, $2.01. Nobody can justify that being right to me.What will it be in the summer? :cry: Not everyone is a republican or a millionaire.Remember one half of all Americans who voted, or close to that voted against Bush.He probably does'nt even know how to pump his own gas more less pay for it.

I have to diagree. We're getting ready to start drilling in the Alaskan wilderness now which is going to of course remove some dependance on foreign oil. Things are going to get better but it wont happen over night.

[threewheelin-feelin]

it just hit 2 dollars here.....acouple of weeks ago it was down to like 1.45 here......but i do remember is being about 50 cent agallon here about 3 or 4 years ago

[Richyrich]

Then if nothing is done by say July 4th (independance day) then nobody and I mean nobody buy fuel from said company

I personally boycot BP or British Petroleum (they bought out Amoco). Here is a little information if you don't know anything about them:

British Petroleum Company PLC or BP PLC (since April 2000) is an oil exploration, extraction, refining and sales company. Following its merger with Amoco it is the largest company in Britain and the third-largest oil company in the world. BP's London division is valued at around $50 billion.
http://www.moles.org/ProjectUnderground/motherlode/bp.html

[busy44]

Bigredhead , Stop thinking, thats for our Government, Just keep working so we can support these Aristocrats with Law degrees ,from their mothers womb to be leaders of this Free country called the US Of A . Its all GOOOD.

[cliff2302]

i really didn't mean for this to trun into a political thread...i guess im cursed on this board

[markdb420]

Yeah if those stupid ass democrats would let us drill off the coasts and in ANWR then we wouldn't be in this mess. I guess all the stupid ass poor losers in the sierra club that block all new refineries from being built, are mostly to blame. As a non-wealthy Republican all I can say is AT LEAST BUSH IS DOING SOMETHING! If I have to hear another snot nose whiny democrat complaining about gas prices, I will have to just laugh at them. Gas is a bargain at 2.00 a gallon! What do you people expect? That it'd stay at $1.00 forever? Talk about stupidity!

And by the way the rich aristocrat lost the election, but I forgot that most democrats are too busy smoking crack and looking for a handout to face the facts!

[TimSr]

Well Bush is at it again, raping the American people to pay for his dads war in the gulf.At this rate we won't be able to afford the gas to go to Trikefest!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: Yes Tim he could do something about it but he will not! Todays current price for gas that they allready bought that is in the tanks under the pumps $2.23 an hour ago it was $2.13 when they bought it, $2.01. Nobody can justify that being right to me.What will it be in the summer? :cry: Not everyone is a republican or a millionaire.Remember one half of all Americans who voted, or close to that voted against Bush.He probably does'nt even know how to pump his own gas more less pay for it.

This post is so full of ignorance I wont address it all. Ill just ask you the same questions so you can dazzle me with your in-depth knowledge of how oil pricing works.

1. What does Bush, Clinton, Jimmy Carter or any other president of the United States have to do with the price of gasoline?

2. What specifically can Bush do about it that he is not doing?

3. How the hell does the high price of gasoline have any bearing whatsoever in paying for the war or anything else??? How does the US government benefit from high gas prices?

4. Who changes the price at then pumps when the gas in the tanks under them was purchased for a lot less? Who owns individual gas stations? Does Bush call Dairy Mart and Circle K and tell them to make a quick buck on their current inventory?

Here's a tidbit for you, while you're worried that almost half the people didnt vote for Bush. Bill Clinton never got more than 43% of the vote in either election. Were you upset about that?

If people would take the time to learn of all the factors that do affect gasoline pricing, (Id be happy to explain them), they could come up with some intelligent long term solutions, but thinking you can vote for gas prices in a presidential election will continue to get you the instability Ive seen since the 1970's with Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush. We have a lot of supply and refinement problems here that congress has the power to address, but the current situation is simply the price of crude, $58 a barrel, as controlled by OPEC, and the only thing we can do about it is try to buy less from them by getting more of our own. What stinks is that if we drill tomorrow, we dont feel any positive results for years, and nobody wants to do anything until after we experience catastrophic consequences. Alaskan residents have been begging for us to drill fro 20 years.

[markdb420]

Amen, brother TimSR! Its pure supply and demand that the gov't cannot and should not control! That would be socialism, for my ill educated and simple minded democrat friends!

[YAMAHA_Jim]

I bet that everyone still goes to the pumps to fill up thier cars,cans or whatever reguardless of price.Jendnn3 is right,this topic comes up at the same time every year.We all beeeotch and moan for a few weeks and then everything returns to normal,except for the gas prices. I could've flown to Indy and rented a car for less money than it cost me to drive to haspin and back last year.Of coarse then I woulda been ATVless.
My opinion,I dont think gas prices will ever go down to what they were 5 yrs ago.I dont care how many holes they put in Alaska.

[OldSchoolin86]

It's pretty silly to complain about it IMO. About 4 summers ago I was living 40min south of Chicago. I remember filling up my dual tank F-250 for just over $90. It was $2.59 a gallon at the time. Now that was the worst I had ever seen it but I didn't do anything different. You still have to keep moving on. The real funny thing is that we are on the low side of what the world pays for fuel but yet as a country we still whine like we're being raped.

I live close to Milwaukee now and this morning it was $2.29 a gallon.

[Mobular]

The real funny thing is that we are on the low side of what the world pays for fuel but yet as a country we still whine like we're being raped.


You nailed it, Oldschoolin. I am fortunate enough to live close to the border. I can fill-up on cheap US gas at quite a savings. I don't think anyone would like to pay European prices...........

[Ivant]

Basic supply and demand. Especially with the prices going up at holiday time.
With a bit of greed aswell!!


Filled my car up with diesel this morning and it was £0.879 per litre.
I think there are 4.1 litres to a US gallon and the exchange rate this morning was $1.9 : £1.
This was the equivalent of $6.85 for a gallon of diesel!!!
They reckon this summer it will be over £1 per litre.

Last time people got upset they blockaded the fuel depots for about 2 weeks and it stopped the country.


Probably a good reason why there are more ATC110s over here than 250Rs.
Amazingly I saw 3 different Dodge Ram SRT10s on the road last weekend, they are going to take some serious money to run!

[atckowalski]

I do not smoke crack, what if your grass price went up? You would not be happy.Probably get my fist stuck in your big mouth if you were here now. Some of us make our living buy using gas. I can't charge my customers such eratic prices. I can't charge a certain price one day and the next totally charge more. Customers will think I am nuts and tell me that I am fired. By the way, just like millions of Americans, I have not yet seen anything benefitial coming from our president anyway.

[OldSchoolin86]

I do not smoke crack, what if your grass price went up? You would not be happy.Probably get my fist stuck in your big mouth if you were here now. Some of us make our living buy using gas. I can't charge my customers such eratic prices. I can't charge a certain price one day and the next totally charge more. Customers will think I am nuts and tell me that I am fired. By the way, just like millions of Americans, I have not yet seen anything benefitial coming from our president anyway.
I wouldn't bother getting to worked up over this. Facts will work better for you then emotion when debating.

What business are you in? I do well & pump service and it's really pretty easy to up the service call price here if we need to. Most people won't even look twice at a few more bucks for good work.

[markdb420]

ATCPOLOCK
Your fist would be shoved down your whiny throat if you were here, boy. All the little poor ass whiners crying every year about this time and it usually comes from illiterate crackhead democrats. Yeah so what if the price of grass goes up? I wouldn't care. Look at the bikes I have and look at how much fuel I burn, you know what it hasn't changed my riding habits or my travelling habits. Quit crying! I see alot of benefitial things coming from Bush, definetly better than his predecessor! Thank goodness that rich liberal weanie isn't president, imagine how many more jobs would have been lost due to his tax increases. Speaking of taxes, that is about 0.36 cents of the price here in VA, with the federal tax and state tax. Atleast we are looking to explore for more of our own supplies of oil! No Dummycrat has been for that since LBJ.

[atckowalski]

Your right about getting worked up Oldschool but economy around here is very tight and it can be very hard to me to break people hearts and there pockets. I understand them and feel for them unlike most people I have come across.I think most people could get by with next to nothing and be happy with it but they don't realize it.For example, there are people on this site who ride a atc 90 or 100 who could care less that they are not on a z,r,x etc. they are just happy to be riding.See you at trikefest no it all 420.I'll be the big guy with an attitude looking for free gas.Ofcourse that is if you can figure out how to get there. By the way, thanks for the laughs!

[markdb420]

Yeah dude I'll be the 6'4" redneck looking for you also. Trust me you don't want any, but if you persist then we'll need an ambulance for you! HAha you probably should stock up on kielbasa and grow up a little and by the way quit whining. Remember, Kowalski, that it is hard working people like me that help keep you employed. You are so tough on the computer little guy. I love dealing with mental midgets like you. It is a treat. I will be looking for a crackhead democrat, if you can afford the gas! HAHA

[DeePa]

dont forget the 40-50 cents in state and federal taxes...

Granted its needed, buy why not lower it a bit? every pennie counts

[OldSchoolin86]

dont forget the 40-50 cents in state and federal taxes...

Granted its needed, buy why not lower it a bit? every pennie counts
Sounds nice but what do we raise to make up for it?

[cliff2302]

I really tried to bight my tounge, but...
Mark, i think that atckowalski is talking about using fuel for his job.business, not personal recration. That is why alot of people have problems with raising fuel prices. My brother is a mobile welder and he uses fuel his whole work day, not to mention his comute. When you hire someone who charges $60-75/ hour, do you want to have to give him raise his rates for gas prices? And by the way, who do you think you are making racist comments on this board? You wouldn't call "ATCJefferson" a N***** would you? All your doing is showing your lack of intelligence and child like nature. I'm done with his thread

[markdb420]

Who said anything racist? He's the tough guy on the computer talking about his fist in my face. (hillarious) It is just the cost of doing business. There is nothing we can do about it, short of finding different energy sources to power our vehicles, or finding more oil. I don't believe calling someone who is obviously Polish a Polack is racist, but if it is, then I am sorry! I think that you should examine your analogy that anyone named Jefferson is black. I know white people with that last name, too.

[ATC crazy]

Our gas has jumped to about $2.05. I paid $2.04 this morning for it....it sucks

[Dirtcrasher]

My boss gave me a new 2005 GMC van that I get to drive all the time so the gas is on my boss. Hate to see my 4X4 sit but free is for me.