Gas Prices
 

Everyone has probably already figured this out but I'm reading the USA today and they say to expect another .20 cent rise within the next 2 weeks. That will put it .20 cents under the all time high here.

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Even if the situation in Iran were to be resolved, oil prices would only fall a few dollars. That's because the supply-demand balance alone is tight enough to support higher prices.

Don't you love it. Support higher prices. It's like a campain slogan.

It's already gone up 20 cents here since Monday! I filled up last night with 87 regular at $2.799. Previous fill-up was $2.599. So I can expect it to go up to $2.999+ within two weeks.

Hey, I support higher prices!!
Here in MN our elected officials are working hard to raise our gas tax .10 cents a gallon too. If they succeed they won't be very popular with the voters.

I support higher gas taxes IF they reduce income taxes or registration fees at the same time.

I paid 3.07 last week when I filled with premium. Not sure what amount is taxes for the state. I will have to look into that.

3.19 on Monday for regular. 20 cents more is gonna suck.....

Info on gas taxes
https://www.californiagasprices.com/tax_info.aspx

California sucks :(

I was in Furnace Creek at Death Valley last week and saw that gas at the only gas station was $3.95.9 for regular. Elsewhere on my trip through California the cheapest gas I saw was $3.05.9. Thank goodness for my 50 mpg Swift.

Q

Well, that's exciting. Around here we're already 20 cents above the same time last year. At this rate we could easily get above $3 in April, then who knows what it will look like in May, June, July. We live in "interesting times."

I am glad that I am getting nearly twice the mileage that I did last year. I guess gas prices are going down!!!:p

Plus, there is nothing like the feeling of coasting in freeway traffic :cool: , something that I never would have thought of in the past, thanks GS!!:thumbup:

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I guess that will make us the "I Told You So's" at social events :) .

CarloSW2

Everyone still thinks I'm nuts. It's not a matter of I told you so, it's a matter of quit complaining and be more FE or get a better car and not expect the government to do something about it. Even if fuel gets to $5.00 a gallon most will just say man it cost me $130 to fill my ______. The government needs to do something about it.

zpiloto -

I liken it to the "Matthew Lesko" Cassandra syndrome :

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WHY WONT YOU LET ME HELP YOU?!?!?!?!
CANT YOU UNDERSTAND?!?!?!
JUST DO AS I SAY AND ALL YOUR GAS PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED!!!!
(Say the above out loud in the tone of his infomercials)

CarloSW2

The cheapest gas in town today is $3.61 CAD/US gallon. Still a ways to go to beat my city's record of $4.56 CAD/US gallon. Nearly $50 to fill my tank if we see those prices again (which we most likely will).

At least the high prices are boosting my resale value of my Geo here. I saw a '96 model a little while ago with over 200K on it and they wanted $4,000 for it ;).

thank GOD for gs!!!!

God help us if ....
 

When the gov't steps in, everything goes to H--- ! Don't you agree?:eek:

Prices just jumped over 3 a gallon for higher test and regular is just below 3 at some stations for regular.

The 'normal' gas price in Regina today has hit $1.139 CAD per litre, a 7 cent jump overnight. It's getting close to our all-time-record of $1.195. The cheapest place in town has also risen to $1.049/L.

On the CTV news, it was reported that gasoline is predicted to hit $1.40 per litre this summer ($4.68 US per US gallon). Watch as they'll be practically giving away early 2000s-model SUVs. *evil grin*

I really wonder if the supply/demand/price curves are working.... Sure, WE drive for max efficiency... But does an additional 20 cents make the other guy at the pump drive differently? Less? Any change? I mean, I'm always hearing "oh, a few cents more only means another dollar compared to before."

Well... I guess I'm thinking for longer term preservation of supply... NOT maximization of supply profits...

Well, I'm happy -- four 10 miles trips today - mixed driving.. 40+mpg for the Jetta gasser off the SG :D If I can do that for my road trip... That's less than 75 gallons for nearly 3000 miles :D

I have been paying more than $1.2 for a liter lately. Please see more details here:https://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/gas_prices.

I remember seeing the prices in Vancouver on TV. Yikes :(! There's virtually no reason to drive a car that has more than 4 cylinders these days.

I find this quote funny:
I think a price that suddenly goes from $1.149 to $2.00+ would see some real civil unrest. $2 a litre would mean almost $80 to fill the Geo. Filling up an ordinary car or suv would just be insane.

Puh... my mother's car is a 4cyl... and 2.5 liters and an auto:thumbdown: At least the gearing is okay.

If only the US hadn't pulled out of Kyoto...we would have higher gas prices and more efficient cars to show for it!

I love it. Bring $2 a litre on!

Lol. I drive one of the more fuel efficient cars on this site and even I worry about what will happen if $2 a litre came to be this year.

- People would steal gas like lunatics. Rip off the licence plates, wear hooded a sweatshirt & sunglasses then blatently take it from gas stations in huge hoards.
- Activists would crash/destroy/torch higher-priced name brand gas stations in anger.
- Innocent people would be killed/injured over this materialistic fuel.
- SUVs and trucks would be vandilized and gas syphoned from them.

Someone somehwere should make a blockbuster movie about such a situation. Gas prices $15 a gallon = lunacy everywhere!

The good thing about that situation is that after the huge revolution, everyone would be driving electric scooters, walking, riding their bikes everywhere and it would be a happy ending.

We pay $2 a litre here now (in the UK), and there is no civil unrest.

When the price went about ?1 / litre though, there were blockades by lorry drivers which caused chaos everywhere :) and the prices dropped (then began creeping up again from that point). I wonder if we can do that next time they get so high?

The other day I saw a Pontiac Trans-Am drive by, and wondered how they can afford to run that in the UK??

In San Francisco, it's already $4 plus....check this link:

https://msnbc.msn.com/id/18279439/dis...stry/18425670/

I remember when the price of a pint of ale in London went to £1 for the first time (around the summer of 1984), everyone was freaking out. Ahh the good old days. Back then it was still 60 p in the country.

Even at $2 a litre in Germany, people (including me) drive over 200 km/h....so no there won't be civil unrest, unless Canadians are more hot-headed than other nationalities ;)

It is 3.30 to 3.90 here in the Seattle area. Moving fast.

3.41 last time I checked

$2.98 pisses me of...2 months ago it was down to $2.08

I have noticed a lot of people driving easier (slower) around here. That being said, a lot of people are still driving like they have money to burn. :(

I paid $2.93 today for 87. When I bought the car on Feb. 14 and gassed it up, gas was $2.15.

$2.89 in the Tulsa area. Folks just dont have a clue...

Yesterday near my work, every station was sitting right at 2.99 and 9/10th. I rushed home to fill up because the holiday station near my house is always slow about changing their price. Sure enough, the holiday was still at 2.79 for the regular stuff. But today the price is sitting at 2.98.

I had to make a round trip to just south of San Diego, yesterday. I had to pay $3.55 for gas, both in San Diego and in Agoura. What really trips me out is that drivers don't seem to be slowing down a bit. I pretty much drove 80 the whole trip and I had to stay out of the inside lane, or I kept getting people sniffing my tail pipe.

I did see a enclosed trailer with a sign on the back that said "Please stay very far back. The contents of this trailer are highly toxic and may have lifetime consequences". I think it was a guy hauling his dune buggy to the desert, but I thought it was an interesting approach to trying to get people to not follow so close.

Yes, but a lot of your fuel price is tax which subsidizes public transportation, something we don't have on the other side of the pond. If there were reliable public trans from my house to my workplace I'd have no problems at all with getting up earlier and riding the bus to work, but there just isn't an option. Aren't even any bike trails so I have to drive to work. If gas goes up much more though, I plan to start riding the bike anyway. Biggest problem with a bike where I am is it isn't the safest way to go. I work in an industrial park in the country, and the only access is via 50MPH country roads or a 55MPH 4 lane that everyone drives 70-75 on. Maybe a motorcycle instead...

3.149 this a.m. ...UP .11 by 2 pm ! Drove 55 mph on the way home and actually had a 'fan club' ! All 10 of us at 55 mph for 10 miles . I'm thinking folks *are* waking up slooooooowly .

Thats just it ! It *was* cheap at 4:30 a.m. ...not so cheap now . Good news though my SGII came in the mail today !! So crossing my fingers for 'improving' technique saving .

I was doing 60 today, and noticed 4 people behind me! And I was following a semi. Oh and last time I filled up (8 days ago) gas was $3.149 now its like 3.299 at the high placed, and 3.259 at the cheapo stations...

mid week it was 3.15 today its up to 3.39 Gal. here, High price doesn't bother me a bit. But... I do hate to listen to every one at work whine about it.

*Gasp!* it was up to 3.36-9 by 4 pm !!! Thats .24 in one day fer the love of gawd ! *in a whiney voice* LOL