Gas Prices

[Meatwad]

This shouldn't be discussed! Its causing greif, prices are bad enough! By the time i can drive my own car gas is going to be like 5 dollars a gallon!

Just think, gas prices have nowhere to go but UP

[CAP1]

I would like to see more diesel vehicles for sale in the USA also hydrogen as a fuel more researched. I was also researching a used cavalier with CNG (natural gas), unfortunatley there is no place to fill it up where I live.

Diesel Fiesta by Ford
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_37/b4099060491065.htm

diesel in my area is more expensive than gas.

[CAP1]

yeah it's killing me.....

We have enough oil in our own country to last us over TWO THOUSAND years and put gas back UNDER a dollar a gallon.........but that would make too much sense....

we'd have to kick a few tree huggers outta the way to get at that oil though....

[CAP1]

so lets see.

there was the arab oil embargo in 73, 74 i think.

 then in 78 they said there was an oil shortage. i started driving in 79. i remember sitting in lines a couple blocks long to get to the gas pumps. apparently there wasn't much of a shortage, seeing as we still have plenty. or could it be that oil is not a limited resource?


 the technology out there, the oil companies, and producers know their time of massive incomes is limited. it's only a matter of time before a viable alternative source is found, and they;ll be out on their asses. they're gettin while the gettin's good.

[Rash]

I'm lucky, I have a boat that will go 200 miles on a tank load.  The only draw back, it has a 200 gallon tank.

[AAJagerX]

Hydrogen power all the way!  Good Lord I'm glad I don't live in Cali. anymore.

[Banshee7]

diesel in my area is more expensive than gas.

It is here, too.  Which is ridiculous considering, correct me if I'm wrong, that diesel is a byproduct of gasoline? (you have to make gas before you can make diesel?)

[MarineUS]

It is here, too.  Which is ridiculous considering, correct me if I'm wrong, that diesel is a byproduct of gasoline? (you have to make gas before you can make diesel?)

Yes! Which means Diesel should ALWAYS be cheaper than gas. It's how you know you're getting ripped off. It's more  to them that way. 

we'd have to kick a few tree huggers outta the way to get at that oil though....

Yeah....they even protest the desert drills....because there is so much life out there.....They are a virus. I believe in nature preservation but there is a line...

This shouldn't be discussed! Its causing greif, prices are bad enough! By the time i can drive my own car gas is going to be like 5 dollars a gallon!

Gas has already hit $5 a gallon in the last year and a half. I remember driving my 1996 Dodge Ram SLT 4x4....I had to drive over 300 miles routinely...
I still have my truck but it doesn't go very far from the house anymore...

[mbailey]

It is here, too.  Which is ridiculous considering, correct me if I'm wrong, that diesel is a byproduct of gasoline? (you have to make gas before you can make diesel?)

I was wondering the same thing myself since i own a gas and diesel truck, found this

http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/why_does_diesel_fuel_cost_more_than.html

Not sure how accurate the info is, but it makes sence i suppose.

[Dichotomy]

Morning drive

$3.08

a mile later and a station sitting next to I-30

$3.29

RIP OFF 

[CAP1]

It is here, too.  Which is ridiculous considering, correct me if I'm wrong, that diesel is a byproduct of gasoline? (you have to make gas before you can make diesel?)

it is. if you do a little research on diesel engines, you'll find that they weren't even designed to run on diesel fuel. they were originally designed to run on(i think...i'd have to go looking again) peanut oil. they were designed for farmers to be able to run on their own fuel.

 it was one of the larger oil companies(i forget which one) that realized there was a market for their "waste" product which was created from refining gasoline.
 if you've seen these sites showing ya how to run on bio-diesel? it's made from cooking oil.

 BTW....there's not much difference between diesel, kerosene, home heating oil, and i think even jet a fuel.

[Reschke]

I still don't understand how fuel that has already been produced at a lower price or fuel that is in the truck or the tank in the ground at a lower price can be worth more 24 hours later when its "speculated" on the commodities market. AND I don't have the patience to understand it this morning.

BTW gas was at $2.45 a gallon here in Birmingham 3 weeks ago; it was at $3.03 a gallon this past Monday and now its at $3.25 a gallon today. It ain't the "federal fuel tax" that is causing this to happen people!

[CAP1]

I still don't understand how fuel that has already been produced at a lower price or fuel that is in the truck or the tank in the ground at a lower price can be worth more 24 hours later when its "speculated" on the commodities market.

BTW gas was at $2.45 a gallon here in Birmingham 3 weeks ago; it was at $3.03 a gallon this past Monday and now its at $3.25 a gallon today. It ain't the "federal fuel tax" that is causing this to happen people!

they price according to the cost of their next load.

if yesterdays load cost then $10k, and they know next weeks load is gonna cost them $12k, they price accordingly.

[NormH3]

See Rule #14

[CAP1]

See Rule #14