How high are $$$ now

[viper215]

Being summer is almost here how hard has gas prices hit you???
Trying to see the difference in states.

Today on the gas station down the street (Mobil) 3.15for reg 3.25 for special and 3.35ish for super+. And a week ago it was all in the area of 2.90. Summers going to be hell for us. We own a boat and $$$ might be topping 4.50 perk gallon.

How hard has it hit you?

[DiabloTX]

March 6, 2006 I paid $2.06/gallon for regular.

Now, $2.86 for the same gas.  

Ridiculous.

[nirvana]

Not sure lately, last time was around $25 for ~7 gallons though, with a 3 cent discount at Safeway!

[Nilsen]

May be pretty bad here too this summer, but we are used to high prices at the pumps. Analysts say it may reach 15NOK for a litre.

Hopefully that means fewer dillholes on the water, but they usually have more money than brains so that prolly wont keep em on dry land.

[storch]

$2.92 is the cheapest for regular here at a mobil down the street

[rpm]

Just wait... 4th of July...$3.50 a gallon. You heard it here first.

[Excel1]

You guys have nothing much to whine about... yet

Pump price in NZ is $1.73 a litre, which equates to  $6.53 a US/gallon

The price is bloated because 41% of the pump price goes to our greedy bastage of a govt as tax.

Excel

[beet1e]

ROFL! Why do these gas price whines always originate in the land-o-plenty - cheap gas and all that? When do you ever see me whine about the cost of road fuel? Hardly ever. And why's that then, given that road fuel here is the most expensive in the world? Hint - try driving vehicles that get sensible mileage, ie. 40+ mpg...

Storch - you should have your diesel truck by now - how's that working out for you? Doesn't look like your Monster will be worth much in the coming climate...

[Yeager]

I get the feeling beet1e is definately anti american.........

whats your GPS coordinates beet1e?

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Yeager
I get the feeling beet1e is definately anti american.........

Don't be ridiculous. I'd have said the same thing if this gas price whine thread had originated in Australia.

What I find is lamentable is that folks sometimes refuse to help themselves, but will whine on a BBS instead. I saw it in the game - people whining when "fluffs" duffed their radar or hangars. It would be wah-wah-wah on the GD forum. And we all know who the biggest whiner was. It never occurrs to these people to do something about it themselves. The same thing goes for these gas whines. People drive 12mpg SUVs, and then wonder why they get whacked in the wallet at the gas pump. Sorry, but I have no sympathy. None.

I think I'll go to the Malvern Hills today - 220 mile round trip, maybe 22 litres of fuel. I think I can handle that!

[Yeager]

I hear you beet1e, as soon as my subaru burns out Im buying a horse.

I wonder how long the 19 mile ride (to and from) work will take on a horse.....

****......

[beet1e]

Originally posted by Yeager
I hear you beet1e, as soon as my subaru burns out Im buying a horse.

I wonder how long the 19 mile ride (to and from) work will take on a horse.....

****......

Hey, Mr. Toad said it could be done - in one of the gun threads he suggested that Britain could ban cars and everything would be peachy.


Viper215, what car do you drive, and what annual mileage?

[DiabloTX]

What gets me is the fact that just less than 6 weeks ago I was paying 80 cents less for a gallon of gas and now they say that demand outstrips supply therefore price goes up?  BS.  It went from 2.06 to 2.45 two weeks later.  Granted, yes I know that the price of a barrel of the black stuff is at an all-time high but so are the profit$ of the Big Earl companys.  And it's not like I live that far away from some major refineries either.

[beet1e]

DiabloTX, part of the problem is the instability in Iran, which is likely to cut production. Nigeria too. Both are members of OPEC. Here's a news story about it: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2006/04/22/cnoil22.xml

Here's another story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/04/21/npetrol21.xml This one is about pump prices in Britain, which I read yesterday. In this story, there is a link to another story about the troubles in Nigeria:

A Nigerian militia group behind a wave of kidnappings and attacks on oil facilities has warned British and American oil workers to pull out of their region, saying that they will treat them "as criminals and rapists".

Dressed in camouflage flak jackets and black balaclavas, the militia issued the warning to a group of foreign journalists in the middle of the Escravos River in the Niger delta, where most of Nigeria's crude is produced.
Ijaw militiamen
Ijaw militiamen return Macon Hawkins, a Shell subcontractor, who was kidnapped on Feb 18

The recent attacks by the newly emerged Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (Mend) have threatened global oil supplies and pushed prices up since January. A fifth of Nigeria's oil remains cut off by the attacks.

After Mend issued a statement on Wednesday saying it was planning "one huge crippling blow to the Nigerian oil industry", oil prices climbed 56 cents to $62.35 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Opec member Nigeria is the world's eighth largest oil exporter and the fifth largest supplier of crude to America.

I think you get the picture. And everyone, don't say I didn't warn you about being so heavily dependent on OPEC oil. People on this board just love to crow about driving the biggest, thirstiest trucks they can get their hands on, in threads like this. Indeed, one guy crowed thus: "I like me truck. It's big and gulps lots of gas." Those not so little numbers you see on your gas pumps are the result of this somewhat frivolous demand for oil products in the USA.

[Jackal1]

Heard on the news last night where an investigation had been implemented concerning the 4 major oil companys in the U.S. concerning price gouging.
We should have some sort of/kinda like decision sometime in the next 20 years if this goes like most of these goes.
Oil companies are saying that prices are set by the market, not them. (If you buy into this , I still have one bridge for sale left)
They were saying in the late `70s/early `80s there was an awfull shortage that started the price increase. The trend still seems to be going that way.
I ordered a custom `79 Pete conventional. Upon arrival I watched fuel prices (diesel) double and beyond at a very fast rate in a very short time.
The only problem with this was that I was going to the ports in Houston/Galveston/Corpus, etc. at the time on a regular basis. The tug boat crews had nearly changed from tugs to water taxis. Oil tankers were anchored offshore, just across the line. They were not allowed in to offload. The tugs would shuttle the tanker crews to shore and back on a rotational, skeleton crew, basis. Some had been at anchor for quite some time and not allowed to offload. We`re not talking a few here , but many.
Price gouging and market manipulation?  Tis not rocket science.

At least Jesse James had the common decency to use a gun.