GAS PRICES

by **codeblue1018** on Wed May 14, 2008 7:51 pm

We have just hit $4.00 per gallon for regular unleaded and $4.59 pg for diesel in Michigan. Freakin unreal. Post your community gas prices, I'd be interested to the comparison.

by **xxtig12683xx** on Wed May 14, 2008 7:55 pm

3.63 was the last i paid in western NY, and that was 2 weeks ago.

can only imagine what it is now :roll:

-tig

by **RedBullNation** on Wed May 14, 2008 7:56 pm

and we think we have it bad... #-o

by **xxtig12683xx** on Wed May 14, 2008 8:04 pm

when i first got my license in 01', gas was like 1.12.

shit is just stupid now.

-tig

by **spurgistan** on Wed May 14, 2008 8:28 pm

It's not going to get any better soon. We're on a slippery slope, I'd suggest learning to limit driving when possible.

by **PLAYER57832** on Wed May 14, 2008 8:36 pm

spurgistan wrote:It's not going to get any better soon. We're on a slippery slope, I'd suggest learning to limit driving when possible.

its not going to get better .. EVER.

At least until we start using something other than gas or ethanol... and the nearest alternatives are a ways off.

by **codeblue1018** on Wed May 14, 2008 8:42 pm

They say there is more oil in Alaska than any other part of the world. Problem is; all the tree huggers and ecologists are afraid to disrupt the wildlife and desolate areas of Alaska. Citizens in the Middle East pay .30 cents a gallon. This is what we could pay if they start drilling in the USA!

by **UCAbears** on Wed May 14, 2008 8:53 pm

It's $2.34 right now where I'm at.

by **Mjinga** on Wed May 14, 2008 9:00 pm

Where are you at, UCAbears?!

It's $3.89 for the cheapest in this part of SoCal.

by **muy_thaiguy** on Wed May 14, 2008 9:02 pm

UCAbears wrote:It's $2.34 right now where I'm at.

Where the HELL do you live?! It's over 3.50 a gallon here!

by **UCAbears** on Wed May 14, 2008 9:33 pm

lol... Oh the title is gas prices? I could of sworn it said asian porno's. It's like $3.63 where im at actually.

by **Ditocoaf** on Wed May 14, 2008 9:40 pm

The fact is, there are too many people consuming too much for it to last longer than 100 years or so; switching our energy source won't fix that for very long.

by **InkL0sed** on Wed May 14, 2008 9:43 pm

UCAbears wrote:lol... Oh the title is gas prices? I could of sworn it said asian porno's. It's like $3.63 where im at actually.

lmfao!

by **Nataki Yiro** on Wed May 14, 2008 11:47 pm

OPEC is the devil...

by **jonesthecurl** on Wed May 14, 2008 11:52 pm

"gas" prices have about doubled here (NJ) since i arrived in August '06.

They're still far less than half the UK price. I've not seen prices there for a while, but when we arrived I figured (after compensating for the fact that the UK sells in litres, and that the US gallon is not the same size as a UK gallon) prices here were about 1/4 to1/3 the UK price.

More people are using public transport now. Less petrol is being consumed. This is a good thing. The bad effect of course is that the quickest way to jack up the price of , well, everything, especially food, is to increase transportation costs.

by **spurgistan** on Thu May 15, 2008 12:29 am

codeblue1018 wrote:They say there is more oil in Alaska than any other part of the world. Problem is; all the tree huggers and ecologists are afraid to disrupt the wildlife and desolate areas of Alaska. Citizens in the Middle East pay .30 cents a gallon. This is what we could pay if they start drilling in the USA!

Wrong.

There's probably about 2 years (crazy-happy drink-the-Koolaid estimate is 30 years) of American oil consumption in ANWR. And it'll take 15 years after we start drilling to get the level of production that will allow that - at least if the "grassroots" organization supporting Arctic drilling is to be believed http://www.anwr.org/ANWR-Basics/Arctic- ... -issue.php. So, in exchange for destroying a pristine ecosystem we get (at very best) a 30 year respite from having to think about the next step, in all probability less than that, possibly much less. Whether or not this is an acceptable stopgap is up to you; whether it represents any sort of long-term solution is entirely off the table.

by **Minister Masket** on Thu May 15, 2008 1:54 am

It's floating around £1.10 in our area of Blighty, for now.
I would compare it to the dollar, but that's sunk so low it's probably in Hell by now.

by **Balsiefen** on Thu May 15, 2008 2:07 am

Well in the uk, we got it around £1.03 per litre

1 litre=0.22 galons
1pound=1.94 dollars

that makes it $8.82 per gallon

wait, i must have got that wrong somewhare :shock:

by **muy_thaiguy** on Thu May 15, 2008 2:09 am

Balsiefen wrote:Well in the uk, we got it around £1.03 per litre

1 litre=0.22 galons
1pound=1.94 dollars

that makes it $8.82 per gallon

wait, i must have got that wrong somewhare

Ouch.

by **Bertros Bertros** on Thu May 15, 2008 2:52 am

Balsiefen wrote:Well in the uk, we got it around £1.03 per litre

1 litre=0.22 galons
1pound=1.94 dollars

that makes it $8.82 per gallon

wait, i must have got that wrong somewhare

I was out of the UK for 6 months recently, spent a lot of time in Argentina who are self-sufficient for oil so prices were low and stable. I can't believe the prices back here since I got back, most expensive I've seen in the last few weeks was on the A3 just outside Guildford where it was £1.16 litre for unleaded, thats over $10 gallon by Balsiefen's calculations!

by **jonesthecurl** on Thu May 15, 2008 9:43 am

Balsiefen wrote:Well in the uk, we got it around £1.03 per litre

1 litre=0.22 galons
1pound=1.94 dollars

that makes it $8.82 per gallon

wait, i must have got that wrong somewhare

Just one slight error - US gallons are 8 US pints. A US pint is 16 Fluid oz, not 20 like the English one.

To take the problem the other way, there are 3,78 litres in a US gallon, giving $7.54per US gallon at 1.03, and $8.50 at 1.16.

So, between 2 and 3 times the US price. The reason it is no longer between 3 and 4 times the US price is that the government's slice of that is much larger in the UK, which makes the price of oil a little less relevant.

by **btownmeggy** on Thu May 15, 2008 9:55 am

codeblue1018 wrote:They say there is more oil in Alaska than any other part of the world.

LINK?

by **tzor** on Thu May 15, 2008 10:03 am

On Long Island, New York it is now $3.999 (you have to love that gas is one of the few things that is priced in the "mill" or one tenth of a cent).

As I drive along the Long Island Expressway, where people still drive in their SUV and minivans around 75 MPH in the 55 MPH zone I realize that we still need to get this number much higher.

Then again my Prius is currently getting 50 MPG! :lol:

(That's 8 cents per mile.)

I'm looking at getting a smaller plug in a year or two from now that will get me 100 MPG!

You know when I bought my Prius in 2002, people were saying that you would never save enough to make up for the added cost. I guess over the 6 years I can finally prove them all wrong!

by **bryguy** on Thu May 15, 2008 10:05 am

its like $3 where i live. Right now it might be $3.30, but on good days, its only $2.70-$2.95

by **Pedronicus** on Thu May 15, 2008 11:00 am

Has this large increase in gas prices made American car manufacturers change engine cc size downwards?

I never could understand why every old American car you see in England, was bigger in every dimension than a European model. (and why an idiot living here felt it was a good idea to own one, and fill it up with petrol is also beyond me)