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Gas cost is getting fricken rediculous! I mean come on! I spent $35.56 today to fill my gas tank up. It was only 3/4 of a tank (that's 15 gal in my little truck). I'm going to go broke before I even have enough money TO go broke.

Here in Northwest Florida gas cost: $2.30 per gal

-Ryan
Yeah, it's insane. I have to pay $2.45 per gallon for gas in my truck here in Illinois.
Yeah, where's all that cheap Mideast oil Bush was supposedly going to war for. *grin*

Oh well, the oil companies sure aren't crying! Now that they are going to get to drill ANWR (Alaska National WIldlife Refuge- public park property), I'm sure it will lower prices. *wink*wink*
In response to Jmurph
Why would they want to lower it? I mean every needs gas. If they can charge this much, why wouldn't they?

-Ryan
In response to Ryne Rekab
Supply and demand.
I heard in england, because of the tax, its like $5 per gallon.
In response to Strawgate
Strawgate wrote:
I heard in england, because of the tax, its like $5 per gallon.


Quite right, it's VERY expensive over here. You Americans don't know what you're complaining about, honestly. :p

Stop ya complainin'!
In response to SSJ2GohanDBGT
SSJ2GohanDBGT wrote:
Yeah, it's insane. I have to pay $2.45 per gallon for gas in my truck here in Illinois.

The sad part is, the gas stations are selling within 6 cents of cost either way, typically. More -6 to +1, though.


~Polatrite~
It's about a dollar a litre here. Not sure how that would compare with whatever nutso imperial units used in Americaland , though. Nor do I know how the American dollar stacks up with the Australian dollar.

But whichever way it goes, we're probably paying significantly more then you. So don't gripe, can get a vehicle with better fuel efficiency. And solar panels.
Ryne Rekab wrote:
Gas cost is getting fricken rediculous! I mean come on! I spent $35.56 today to fill my gas tank up. It was only 3/4 of a tank (that's 15 gal in my little truck). I'm going to go broke before I even have enough money TO go broke.

Here in Northwest Florida gas cost: $2.30 per gal

Ha, you are lucky. In Sweden, we have to put up with incredible $6/gallon. And the price is rising... I'm hoping for some serious boycott soon, but my hopes aren't exactly high. When it comes to protesting, Swedes are wimps (or maybe brainwashed).


/Gazoot
In response to Gazoot
Holy crap! I do feel lucky and I'm sure my parents would too, I could get 6 liters of Mountain Dew with six dollars, but for a single gallon would be disgusting.
In response to Jp
Jp wrote:
It's about a dollar a litre here. Not sure how that would compare with whatever nutso imperial units used in Americaland , though. Nor do I know how the American dollar stacks up with the Australian dollar.

But whichever way it goes, we're probably paying significantly more then you. So don't gripe, can get a vehicle with better fuel efficiency. And solar panels.

And cars powered on farts!!! so we can eat buritos on the way home!

or

Cars powered by cheap chinese toys :)
Personally, they should boycott the foreign oil companies & rely on our own reserves for a week or so & see how the foreign oiling companies like it. That, and those of you who said "stop griping.", it's easy for you to say. You wouldn't be too happy if your gas prices jumped from $1.30/gallon to almost $3.00/gallon in less than 3 years. I'd LOVE to see how much "griping" you all would be doing if your prices all of a sudden went up $0.30-0.40 every week fluctuating, going down some - then jumping up another 40 cents. And, those of you who said - "get a more fuel efficient car." sure, I'd buy one if A) They weren't soo expensive & B) Soo ugly & C) Were domestic.
In response to Teh Governator
I'm paying 2.21 as of today for gas where I am. As the Gov said though, it does go up and down. I was down in Elko, Nevada yesterday and I saw unleaded running for 2.60-80. It was weird though, becuase the lowest they had there was 2.27 but the highest was 2.60-80. Even gas stations in my town arn't that far apart. They usually are close in range, no matter the gas station.

-S2k
In response to Jp
Jp wrote:
...So don't gripe...


Why do people keep saying that?

"Joe got killed last week, so I should complain about that man with the knife right in front of me."

A bad thing is a bad thing, weather or not it has happend to someone else or not.
In response to Stealth 2k
Gas prices for indivual gas stations vary, from when they buy the gasoline. Lets say... I buy gasoline today for $2 from a distributor, by the time I get the gasoline, the prices may have raised to $2.10. So if everyone else bought it later at $2.10, and I bought it at $2, my gas station could sell it cheaper. Its all a matter of when they buy the gasoline from the distributor.
In response to Elation
Well, we Americans have become used to cheap fossil fuels. SInce we know prices can stay low and still support huge profits, we get angered by price spike which we know are little more than price gouging to ensure generous oil profits (check out stocks in oil companies and profit reports- all very high. Heck, some companies are even looking to do some buyouts with their cash now.). An entire lifestyles from Wal-Mart to suburbs has been built around the concept of cheap fossil fuels.

Rising oil prices threatens all of that. And the plummetting dollar makes it even more precarious, though many Americans seem unaware of the looming danger this poses. With China our #2 holder of debt and currency and the quickest rising source of consumption (including oil demand), we are in dangerous times. Worse, our politicians seem content to fund expensive wars and harbor corrupt politicians while ranting about "morality" and "activist courts" while ignoring these glaring problems such as our growing economic instability, fallling global position, and dangerous terrorist leaders still at large (anybody remember Osama?).

A bit like Imperial Rome, actually. While the wealthy patricians and senators lived it up and waged messy expensive foreign campaigns, roads went unrepaired, diseases and terrorism flourished and all the corrupt Senate could pontificate about was Rome's "moral decay". I suppose they were right, but they just didn't realize where the decay actually was....
In response to Jmurph
Then cycle to work like us Europeans. :p

(yes, I know this isn't always feasible. But it'd help.)
In response to Strawgate
Yes, but they have to compete at a city-wide or area-wide level. Why would anyone buy from gas station A if its .30 more a gallon when gas station B is right across the street with .30 less a gallon. Where I live, it's very much like this. Usually the price fluctuates more town to town than area to area(or even station to station) though.
In response to Gazoot
I couldn't even afford to drive if it were that much here. It would be a forced boycott on my part.
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