Gas Prices BURN!!!

Yesterday I put 2.57 costgo unleaded regular 87 for a full tank. That's over 30 dollars. OUTRAGES!!!! I hoping it won't be 3.00 next summer.

 

i just heard 85-100$ barrels of crude oil if the rigs in the gulf stay down for a while, that would mean approximately 3.20-3.80$/gal. for premium!!!!!!!!!! looks like il be buying a honda beater soon

 

same about the katrina story at new orleands, honda is way to go.

 

I would get a TDI before a honda. 40MPG City sounds good to me. But, we'll cross that bridge when we get there

 

No crap, that thing gets obscene amounts of torque with just an ECU reflash, and still retains most of its fuel economy doing it.

I could care less how much gas is going to cost me. Maybe if it hits $5 per gallon without seeing any sort of cost-of-living increases with it (because that's all my yearly raises are anymore) then perhaps I'd complain. My drive distance just doubled with my new position and my new car eats fuel more than the pig-rich turbo RS did (no kidding) but I just love driving too much to worry about how much it costs to fill my tank.

 

If gas is $5/gallon you won't just see your fuel bill increase. The cost of just about *everything* would skyrocket. Welcome to America where the economy is heavily-dependant on cheap oil.

 

if it hits $5/gallons, no more driving for me! heck i saw 2.89 today..its getting there and good thing i filled up my tank this morning, 30bucks to fill it!!!

have you guys seen this yet?

http://www.rs25.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34929

800MPG!!!!

 

Plymouth is up to $2.99/gallon, and midway was over $3.00 this morning..

 

Yes. $2.99 on a Holiday gas station in South Saint Paul by Chipotle.

 

time for me to bust out the good old $50 beater that still gets 30 mpg and can run off of piss water.

 

NO ONE BUY GAS ON SEPT 3RD

 

i heard no one buy gas tomorrow the 1st?

 

Please don't believe those things.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/nogas.asp

 

What is not buying gas on one day going to do? Nothing...

You wanna really lower gas prices? Consumer demand needs to drop signifcantly over a sustained time frame... not one day. OR the production and refinment needs to be significantly increasted to superceed demand enough to cause prices to deflate.

I just filled up today, before the hurricane prices hit. Wont be buying gas on that day anyway. Hopefully I wont get lumped into some pseudo boycott / protest.

 

^ 1+

 

would the 110 octane ect. prices rise aswell? im assuming they would, but since less people use it the price may stay the same, does anyone know for sure?

 

I know the 111oct. at Bobby and Steve's hasnt gone up, nor has the C16 at Elite.

 

which bobby and steve's is this?

 

Off of Central Ave...Fridley area.

 

I filled up today. It was 3.29 per gallon for 92 oct. It cost me a total of $32.XX for only 2/3 tank. This is getting really crazy... I WANT MY CIVIC BACK!!!!!!

The only good thing is... we don't live in Canada where they go by the liter at 3.xx per liter. Thats over $12 for gal. :shock: :shock:

 

I take that back, I guess its gone up to about 4.20 something per gallon :?

 

man i saw 3 dolla today! what a biatch!!!! for 87!!!

 

Mr President W. Bush quote: "Dont's buy Gas if you needed!!"

 

^^^ Good thing the leader of the free world is on top of things.

Filled up yesterday

$2.99 regular
$3.27 premium

 

:roll: what an idiot, *hate grows more* +123450000000000 gw= t3hlose

 

I love buying lots of gas I dont need. J ust put it in containers, set them in my basement, and put them in cronilogical order.

NEWS FLASH BUSH: People buy gas CUASE THEY NEED IT. :roll:

 

+1 :evil:

 

Go to Costco, everything is cheaper there, $3.00 for 92

 

Costco is teh w1n

 

btw, there are tons of fanatics out there that ARE buying gas even though they don't need it. the reason there are the shortages that there are, is because people think that they need to buy gas when it is low to save money. this artificially inflates the gas prices because the demand increases (even though it is not really *true* demand), and gas stations raise the prices. yes, I know there is a disaster that has delayed/slowed production, but gas prices should not have jumped .75-1.00/gallon in just a couple of days.

some people have common sense and will only buy gas when they need it, but a majority of our population could be considered *slow* when it comes to situations like this. even though the president said what needs to be said, people will not listen, and will continue to fill up their spare gas cans and anything else they can think to put gas in. I personally know of people who have taken time off of work to fill all their cars, and every gas can in their house. what would you say about that? :roll:

 

+1 :twisted:

 

obviously the WILL need it, they arent buying it to let it go to waste :roll:

 

dont smoke in their garage...

hey why is it people piss and moan about stuff like gas, and car repairs but will spend $40 to go to a movie and eat popcorn... does th eprice of gas suck.. heck yeah.. cost me $34 troday for 3/4 a tank... usually under $20.. but hey thats life

 

Where are you guys filling up? It only cost me $2.98 for 92 in Maple Grove near my work.

Oh and it's only a matter of a week or two before gas prices will go down to what they were months ago. Even if not I don't really care what I'm spending in fuel. Cost me $40 to fill up today. I didn't care before the hurricane hit and I'm certainly not going to complain after it did. The only thing I'm sorry about is that I can't donate more, only partly due to spending more in gas.

 

I hate this shiit im driving my moped

 

Down here in Orlando FL, we just had another "shortage." It wasn't because there is a lack of gas, but some news station decided to mention that there "might" be a gas shortage because of the shut down refineries, and that prices will be going up. This then sparked everyone to FREAK OUT and go out and buy up all the gas on Wed night. Mix that with a rumor that spread like wildfire that they were going to be shutting pumps off between midnight and 6am to "divert gas to the relief effort". Add FL citizens, bake on 320 for 25 minutes, and you have a gas shortage.

I was on 1/8 of a tank, had been driving all day and not heard a word about this nonsense. But when I got back into town and went to get gas the first 3 stations that I went to were out, and the ones that had gas had lines that were 30min-1.5 hours. People were filling up tons of gas cans, one dude had a 55 gallon oil drum on his pickup. The cops came to aid in getting him to stop. So on Thursday our prices did go up, but magically there was (get this) A GAS SHORTAGE. Hm, imagine that. So now most of the stations have gas again, but some still don't.

This is what it was like when Charlie hit us last year. There was no gas to be seen for about 5 days anywhere, and the few places that had gas didn't have power to pump the gas.

/rant

 

Why? Because those people are morons. They aren't a as effected by this problem becuase they can simply cut back on those expenses.

The people actually being affected by the problem of skyrocketing fuel prices are the ones that can't afford those frivilouse expenditures in the first place. It goes well beyond paying more at the pump; that's just the most visible symptom. Our economy is VERY dependant on fuel; everything is giong up in price.

 

The killer is not what it costs, it is how much is has gone up recently... People budget for their "$40 movie" and $2.25 gas (taken from about a month ago). Add $0.50 - $1.00/gal and their budget is out the window. I constantly hear people bitch at the complainers, stating that it is $x.xx in some other country, but they miss the point. If gas went up 30-40% in those countries, they would be in the same boat. As a matter of fact, in Thailand gas is slightly cheaper than here, but they are just starting to see significant rises in cost and it is affecting just about everyone. It didn't matter if they had cheaper gas to start...

Anyway, I obviously have no clue what the commodity traders have going through their mind when they bank on "feelings" or "rumors" and raise the cost of oil (independent of Katrina) so I will sit back and bitch quietly from here on out.

 

Yep, about a 45% increase over the last year! That dwarfs even health care cost increases of about 12%; which is significant itself. It's no wonder businesses, and citizens alike, are hurting from fuel cost increases and trying to adjust budgets to make due. Businesses are paying tens of thousands dollars more on fuel costs than one year ago AND if they subsidise healthcare benefits for employees they encure those cost increases also! Then we all pay for it at the consumer level.... there's a dose of the 'trickle down effect' for ya

 

might as well do what some ppl are doing...go to a gas station, get a full tank and then just get the hell out of there...hehe

saw on the news that someone filled up their car, and took off, and the owner of the gas station tried to stop that person but instead he got ran over and ended up in the hospital

 

there are cameras and things

 

quit complaining peep....its freeken $3.20 down here.....

 

$3.20? That was regular in Wisconsin last weekend! Now it has dropped to $3, which puts premium at $3.20.

The one good thing about the hurricane was that FOX News finally stopped blathering on about that missing girl in Aruba.

 

right now its 2.99....