Gas Prices will rise 21 cents more ....

hell yeah! i can't wait.

Got some today for $2.49; another station had it for $2.69.

Fortunately, I drive a Saturn and live not far from work!

My Hummer runs on ozone. Just doin' my part!

Rob

great . . . i shall whore myself out to another university (with the two i am already with) just to pay for a tank. whooo hooo. and i drive an escort . . .

I'm not worried, I just bought a new car and invested all my money in my own fuel company.

jalpha,

don't know if that was wrong or funny. glad you're back though.

a.

sgtsdaughter said:

jalpha,

don't know if that was wrong or funny. glad you're back though.

a.

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It's very very wrong, I only get 5,280 feet per mile.

I live in NC and the cheapest I've seen is $2.35 and that's for regular (87 grade) I'm tempted to go in one of the gas stations and tell them to raise it to $4.00 a gallon...at least that way the price will eventually catch up in a week or two...

JAplha...where did you get your car?? I want one!! Maybe you ought to send that to our illustrious government officials up in Washington who don't drive!!!

aspiringwriter said:

JAplha...where did you get your car?? I want one!! Maybe you ought to send that to our illustrious government officials up in Washington who don't drive!!!

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Oh yes, you must get one. Though I think the convertible model would suit you better than the coupe.



You can buy it at your local Little Tykes Dealer a division of Rubbermaid.

Very funny!!! Be sure and send that to Washington!!

Ours just went up another 10 cents last night (fortunately, I've scoped out where all the stations are that lag behind) to $2.47...

Guess my brother and I need to start getting on that electric car idea...

What's so amusing (well, not really) is that on 9/11/01, gas stations around the state (maybe nation?) jacked their price up to $3 a gallon or so, and were chastised (and threatened) by our governor for gouging, told to make things right or face penalties.

Apparently the trick is to raise it 10 cents a gallon every few days, and it makes it all okay...since ours was a mere $2.19 about a week or two ago.

I can't imagine staying home more than I already do

But it looks like I'll have to.


"I'm sorry. I can't come to work today. After taxes and fuel my take home pay is zero." I can't work for free."

I'm in CA and the cheapest gas here is $2.69 last week! Oy! And at some places over $3.

It's tough here because you HAVE to drive everywhere (and everywhere you go, it's at least 10 miles away) and it's difficult to find good carpool...

Unique and Maestro...you can do like JAlpha and get you one of his cars...

The waiting lists for those hybrid cars are SO LONG... Good thing is, I have a roadster that does 35 mpg. So I usually wave and grin at the soccer moms in SUVs as I accelerate past them...

Good for you... I wish the government (and we ALL know this isn't a perfect world BUT if it was) they would let people trade in their gas guzzlers for the hybrids... Yeah, right that will happen. Those people up in Washington don't have to drive!!!

Stop whingeing! Ours is about $1.50 a bloody litre!

<- Me. Sulking.

I quit my job recently because I used to drive 1 hour, 1 way to work and out of about $1000 I made a month, I paid out about $400 in gas, parking and food. I simply could no longer afford to go to work. I drive a 2003 Corolla and still had to get gas 2, sometimes 3 times a week. We don't have that extra $600 a month, but at least I'm not spending an extra $400, either.

By the way, the median gas price in my town (noticed this morning) is about $2.57.

WVWG

aspiringwriter said:

Good for you... I wish the government (and we ALL know this isn't a perfect world BUT if it was) they would let people trade in their gas guzzlers for the hybrids... Yeah, right that will happen. Those people up in Washington don't have to drive!!!

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I think it's the car dealers/manufacturers... they know they can't really sell those hybrids for outrageous amount of money (I think the Pirus, for example, is less than $20K) but supply/demand would jack up the price to way above MSRP. So the longer the wait, the more profit they would make.

$2.46 here...

What kills me are all the ads touting the supposedly phenomenal mileage these new hybrids get. I saw one for the Prius bragging about getting 50mpg on the highway. I learned how to drive on a 1961 Austin Mini that got 51. You'd think that nearly half a century later, they'd be able to make more of an improvement than that, especially considering the amount of technology crammed into that thing. Cripes, the Mini wasn't much more complicated than a go-cart and at the time you could buy two or three new ones for the price of a new Pontiac.

I'm not seeing much in the way of progress here.

I went to fill my tank two days ago and I had $40.

It used to get to about $35 and that was it and the tank was full.

I gave the clerk my $40 and happily pranced otuside to fill 'er up. It' got to $40 mark before my tank had that happy click to announce it had had enough fuel for the evening.

(shakes head) I say the US has a week where we rufuse to buy fuel.

I totally agree with you Marisa!!!

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Unique and Maestro...you can do like JAlpha and get you one of his cars...

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You can do like JAlpha and get you one of her cars.