GAS...in your area again!!!

[SteveH]

Well, using terms like "Slick Willie" kind of indicates to me that there is a political bias to your claims

Well, if you consider that I cant stand the guy because I feel like he was the biggest disgrace to our county in my life time, yes, you could say there is a political bias. If he had done a little more when he was in office beside worry about where his next BJ was coming from, we might not be in such a situation with the radial islamist terrorists now.

And, you might as well know, when his wifey, Hillary, did essentially nothing when he was caught doing what he was doing, told me all I needed to know about her. If that's a politial bias, so be it.

[Dean_A]

Well, with that, I'll bow out.

Shoot, this was just getting good...
/puts down popcorn

[Claw]

Dang it!!! Just when I was (somewhat) getting use to gas being $2.89, now it's $3.06!!!!

I'm gonna buy another horse!!

Since Caseydog is so generously offering the last word I'll take it

The title of the thread is...
GAS...in your area again!!!
and Dixie Flyer ended the original post thus: I'm gonna buy another horse!

So the last word is this, watch out what you feed that horse or you may have GAS...in your area again!!!

[PaulC]

Well said CD.

Cheers
Paul

No bias here Just found the debate interesting

Like most Americans, I don't follow Australian news much. Out of sight, out of mind, I guess. Are Aussie politics as crazy as ours? Crazier?

On topic, what's the history of gas prices there over the last few decades?

CD, I posted earlier in this thread and gave a price comparison on what we pay, compared to what you pay. As far as fuel prices go, there is only one way and that's up. It's a political football down here but the fuel companies seem to be kicking all the goals
As for our politics, the labour party was voted in 3 months ago. Too early to see what they are going to do. At the moment, they keep blaming the previous govt for all the ills in the country.
Cheers
Paul

[angib]

I am very sure that kids nowadays will look back fondly on the idyllic time in their youth when oil was 'only' $100 a barrel and gas was 'only' $3 a gallon (or $8 a gallon here) and you could drive anywhere you wanted without even needing a good reason......

Maybe we're only a decade away from 'peak oil' - when world output of oil peaks and then starts going down. When we realize we've got there, the price of oil will rise seriously - because when demand exceeds supply, sure as eggs is eggs, the price goes up. Whether that oil is in your country or not doesn't matter much - if the world market price is $300 a barrel, Exxon won't be selling it at $100 for the good of the country, though having some Exxon shares might be a good idea.

In some ways, it doesn't matter if you believe in climate change or not, because many of the same actions will have to be used to handle peak oil. I don't doubt that at least half the US political spectrum says this can never happen, but when even major international oil companies are talking about it, it would be foolish to listen only to the politicians.

Andrew

[Elumia]

According to this article, we just passed the inflation ajusted high today. So we have been getting a break since 1980. If I recall that long ago, our economy was in the dumper then too - and we were mired in a controversey with Iran.....

By JOHN WILEN, AP Business Writer
20 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The surging price of oil reached another milestone Monday, jumping to an inflation adjusted record high of $103.95.


The weaker dollar that has propelled oil and other commodities prices higher sent light, sweet crude for April delivery past $103.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's the level many analysts consider to be the true record high for oil, after its $38 barrel price from 1980 is translated into 2008 dollars.

if you want to read the rest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/ap_ ... oil_prices

Mark

[caseydog]

According to this article, we just passed the inflation ajusted high today. So we have been getting a break since 1980. If I recall that long ago, our economy was in the dumper then too - and we were mired in a controversey with Iran.....

By JOHN WILEN, AP Business Writer
20 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The surging price of oil reached another milestone Monday, jumping to an inflation adjusted record high of $103.95.


The weaker dollar that has propelled oil and other commodities prices higher sent light, sweet crude for April delivery past $103.76 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That's the level many analysts consider to be the true record high for oil, after its $38 barrel price from 1980 is translated into 2008 dollars.

if you want to read the rest
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080303/ap_ ... oil_prices

Mark

I remember the last big oil shock -- end of the 70s, start of the 80s. It happened really quickly, and we didn't have 50 mpg car choices back then. We were really caught with our pants down, with basic passenger cars getting 8 to 10 mpg. That's what the 73 Pontiac I was driving got, with its 400 cubic-inch V8.

The Japanese started selling their cars here, that got 20 mpg. They were little, slow tin cans with wheels back then. Now, you can get a quiet, comfortable car with leather seats and a killer sound system that gets 30 mpg or more.

At least now, if one wants to, they can sell their gas-guzzler and buy a gas sipper. We may not want to, but at least we can.

CD

[J.T.]

$3.09 A gallon,Me, I think I'll just keep driving my little Nissan pickup , and my motorcycles.
The rich get richer and the poor have babies, in the meantime the man in the middle pays for it all.

someone told me one time that complaining without doing something is like passing gas in a crowded elevator...............it might make ME feel good, but noone wants to hear it.lol

[CASHCOW]

Look what my $3.09 gas is going for in Dubai

http://www.slideshare.net/stephiemc/dubai-34404/

[caseydog]

$> Look what my $3.09 gas is going for in Dubai

http://www.slideshare.net/stephiemc/dubai-34404/

That's nothing. Have you heard about the new airplane ordered by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud? Seems his private Boeing 747 was a bit cramped.

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/rich-dudes/s ... 321620.php

[reiltear]

$3.46 on average in sunny Orange county, CA

[The Teardrop Nanny]

Unleaded today = $3.64, Supreme = $3.74, Supreme Plus = $3.84, Diesel = $3.88 per gallon. TDN

[satch]

$3.55 today. Next week ,who knows If this keeps up, it's gonna put a crimp in my build.

[angib]

Unleaded today = $3.64, Supreme = $3.74, Supreme Plus = $3.84, Diesel = $3.88 per gallon.

Unleaded today = $7.92, Supreme = $8.42, Diesel = $8.36 per gallon.
Sorry, couldn't resist it.

Andrew

[The Teardrop Nanny]

Yes, we are fortunate compared to the UK & other parts of Europe. So many of us complain about the 'high' prices, but that is because we were so used to having cheap, plentiful supplies of it in our lifetime. Now that reality is setting in with "global weirding" and no more fossil fuels (being a non-renewable source of energy), the freedom we once had to consume without much thought is coming to a close. Thanks for reminding us that we are only one country in a world of many others, and we should be grateful that fuel is readily available to purchase at the local gas station.

TDN