Gas in your area.....

[Podunkfla]

$2.90 in podunk Fla...

[neal b]

here in rosebud, mo. $2.66 today and who knows what it will be tomorrow

neal b

[GaryfromCrocus]

In Saskatchewan we are paying C$1.039 per liter. That works out to US$4.56 per gallon.

That explains why my last 3 vehicles have been Jeep half ton (12 imperial mpg), Ford LTD Wagon ( 24 imperial Mpg), Mercury Tracer (45 mpg) and I will be building an Ultra Lite.

Gary

[Miriam C.]

Beach Camper, You can't expect the government to hold back prices or do anything about them when the more you pay at the pump the more in the gov. coffers. Why they might have to cut some BS funding, but most likely they would just find another tax.

[bledsoe3]

$2.90

$2.94 up .04 from yesterday.

[SmokeyBob]

$3.00 a gal or higher is coming. And you know once it gets there what are the chances of it coming back down. And if it does come back down it will still be higher then what it was before it started going up. Somehow that makes you feel better.

The oil companies and our politicians know that the majority of us will holler and scream about the high cost of gas but will do nothing about it. We're going to let the other person do it.

The attitude of the average American is no one can tell me what to do. I love my car, its a status symbol. I drive as fast as I want, I go where I want. I'll let the other person slow down or stay home to conserve gas.

When you're on the highway, how many people do you see driving below the speed limit, including yourself. And yes I do drive below the speed limit and I still get to where I'm going. How many times have you seen someone go by you like they were going to a fire and when you pull up at the next red light who is it that's sitting there in front of you.

I try to consolidate my trips and no more Sunday sight seeing trips. For me the reason for doing this is the cost of gas is taking a big bite out of my budget. My expense for gas has almost dropped in half compared to this time last year.

[angib]

People don't give up on driving just because gas gets expensive. We have a serious problem with road congestion and yet gas here is $7.00 per US gallon, and we aren't as wealthy as America.

Andrew

[Classic Finn]

People don't give up on driving just because gas gets expensive. We have a serious problem with road congestion and yet gas here is $7.00 per US gallon, and we aren't as wealthy as America.

Andrew

Just filled up ... at 1.32Euros per liter... Expensive?? 7.09396 USD per gallon..

Classic Finn

[caseydog]

Paid $2.85 a gallon today for Premium (with 10 cent discount at Kroger for buying lots of groceries). My Yurupean car has expensive tastes -- gotta use at least 91 Octane.

CD

[caseydog]

Beach Camper, You can't expect the government to hold back prices or do anything about them when the more you pay at the pump the more in the gov. coffers. Why they might have to cut some BS funding, but most likely they would just find another tax.

In fairness, gasoline taxes were created to build and maintain roads and bridges for cars to drive on. For the most part, they still cover mostly road costs. Of course, here in Texas, Toll Roads are the hot new thing, and they want to privatize them. I have threee tollways in my county -- I can't go anywhere without paying a toll -- on top of my gasoline taxes.

CD

[caseydog]

I've read alot of the posts here and I wonder why not mention, lets drill for crude here in the US, granted it would take a few yrs to see the benefit. While we are at it, build a few new refineries. Remove the choke hold the libs have on drilling, also in referrence to Exxon massive profits, lets look at goverment/state taxes on fuel and see who makes the most $ per gallon vs the cost to produce.
This might be a stretch but the same theory could be applied to the RV industry. Why do we build our own RV's, main reason its cheaper, 2nd is satisfaction of the product we built, and have the design we want. Now just imagine if the goverment/state placed the amount of tax on your teardrop you built, equal to the amount they tax fuel that Exxon or whoever produced,refined and brought to market. You have to be a global company to make it worthwhile. Thats why you have seen Mobil merge with Exxon, Texaco with Shell and so on. They are merging to survive and make $$, which in turn creates less competition at the pump........... Why did this happen..... What happened to the fuel stations you saw as a kid? I can remember seeing Sigmore, Gulf, Fina, Texaco, Exxon, Diamond Shamrock, Phillips 66, Shell, Mobil,....who do you remember? Who did they merge with or sell out to? Who cares?
BTW here in south Texas Gas is at 2.59 and Diesel is at 2.79

You could open up all of Alaska to drilling today, and it wouldn't help.

First, the oil companies don't want to spend that kind of money to drill up there, when they can buy cheaper crude from the Arabs. Supply and demand. The notion that "libs" are keeping us from energy independence is just political flamethrowing. The US doesn't have the huge reserves of easily extracted oil that the Middle East has.

Heck, you could drill an oil well on every square mile of US soil, and we'd still have to import about half our oil from other countries.

And, China's demand for oil is gaining momentum, as is India's. The free market is soon going to teach us a valuable lesson about the cost of wasting resources.

CD

[caseydog]

This country is seriously divided and I foresee a 2nd Revolution if some other drastic event on the scale of 9-11 doesn't occur and brings us all together again.

I couldn't agree more. I'm an Isolationist by heart. I say close the borders and let the doggone world figure it out for themselves.

And if they miss us when we're gone, tough. And if they don't miss us when we're gone, that's okay with me too.

"World Government is a vision of elites no patriot will ever embrace."
Pat Buchanan

Wanna be an isolationist? You could always start by not buying foreign-made products -- which would eliminate at least two-thirds of the things you buy on a daily basis.

It's not world government that has you worked up. It is world business. Pat Buchanan forgot to mention that. Man, reality has a way of messing up a perfectly good political quote.

CD

[SmokeyBob]

Andrew
Just curious, how much of that $7.00 per US gallon is tax. And what is the tax supposed to be used for.

[Elumia]

And when we have those 100mpg hybrids and electric cars, how will we pay for our road maintenance? Premium In SF the other day was 3.99 at a station on the news (self-serve)

Mark

[asianflava]

Toll Roads are the hot new thing, and they want to privatize them. I have threee tollways in my county -- I can't go anywhere without paying a toll -- on top of my gasoline taxes.

I got my TX tag bill and it was $70 for the month. We live where 3 of them converge so they too convienient to use. Typically we only use them one way because we're only in a hurry to get there and not in a hurry to get home.

Not only are they privately owned (for 50 years), they are owned by a foreign company.