And You Thought Gas Was High Where You Are????

[mavaaoife]

Well.. so much for $1.25/gal ever coming back..

[ebpda9]

holly shit. we should be happy with 3.09 here then.

[pdiggitydogg]

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat???
No reason!
Here, its $3.25... Not that it needs to be said, but I wont be buying gas for awhile.
The whole thing really pisses me off. I mean, the gas thats at the stations is the same gas that was there last week. Its already paid for! There is gas in tankers, ready to fill gas stations, when they do run out. Guess what? Thats already paid for too!
Stupid hype. Stupid media (theyre the ones to blame for all this too)

[KwikR6]

Holy fuck...i pay 1.21 a liter

[Racing Rice]

Its 3.09 a gallon here as well.

[GT40FIED]

Yeah...you gotta love price gouging. To be fair, they have seen a ridiculous demand in the face of a shorter supply (8 gulf refineries have been shut down, 4 of which produce gas). Even then...$6 a gallon? That's like European pricing.

[JDMFantasy2k]

filled up last night, 3.50 for 93 octane :od

[Racing Rice]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
Even then...$6 a gallon? That's like European pricing.

Not quite.. They pay like $6 a litre. Besides, most of that is tax.

[dabouncerx24]

I guess I should be considered lucky? I paid half a tank today for 2.91 each gallon, and I live in SF :P.

My Econ teacher was right, he said expect the cheapest gas to eclipse 3.00 by the end of the year and he was right. But then again, countries like Japan and Germany have been paying for over $4.00 a gallon at the cheapest since a long time ago.

I guess we can only blame Katrina?

[MissJDM]

I saw that on the news earlier today, too.
It's $3.27 here in Oregon. :no:

Makes me not wanna drive..but I have no other source of transportation!

[Accord Man]

Don't worry guys.. It cannot stay this high for too long. It will soon go back down to what it was 2 months ago (ie : 1.00$/L in canada) .. And within 5 or 6 months it'll back to what it was about 18 months ago (ie : 0.82$/L).

So try to go easy for while..

:)

[KwikR6]

Originally posted by Accord Man
Don't worry guys.. It cannot stay this high for too long. It will soon go back down to what it was 2 months ago (ie : 1.00$/L in canada) .. And within 5 or 6 months it'll back to what it was about 18 months ago (ie : 0.82$/L).

So try to go easy for while..

:)
How do you figure it'll go back down? Not trying to be rude, but as of right now I don't think it'll come down.

[AzCivic]

i think it'll go down a little, not sure about going back to where it used to be ~2.50/gal sure as hell won't be where it should be ~1.50/gal

[JDMFantasy2k]

Originally posted by AzCivic
i think it'll go down a little, not sure about going back to where it used to be ~2.50/gal sure as hell won't be where it should be ~1.50/gal

fuck that, i remember when i was on vacation in arizona when i was like 12, shit was $0.99 /gal :yes:

[GT40FIED]

Originally posted by JDMFantasy2k
fuck that, i remember when i was on vacation in arizona when i was like 12, shit was $0.99 /gal :yes:

I remember that shit. That would've been the year AFTER I graduated high school.

I'm gonna go feel old now.

[CD5Passion]

yeah i think they'll push the prices way up then settled them back down at 3 or 4 and hope we'll just be happy that

[RxGoaT13]

$3.07 here
fuckin bullshit.... soon gas prices are going to be equal to minimum wage. hours work= gallon of gas.
:wavefngr:

[Violent Apathy]

Yargh, yeah I heard it was up to that in Atlanta, Columbus is only like 3.09 O_o

[Racing Rice]

.99 cents a gallon really doesn't seem that long ago at all. I had the Civic, so it was about '99 or early '00.

[mylittlecivic]

its almost to $3 here damm i miss payin just around a dollar

[ChrisCantSkate]

the main reason it is up right now is economic scare. there is no reason to have such high prices if everyone still consumed at their normal levels. we had a few days of lower than nominal supply coming out of the gulf, and although i know its still not back at 100% its not effecting supply enough to warent this pricing thats going on. ive talked to a bunch, bascially every gas station i go into, about how their normal supply is going and if they are out of gas for any extended period of time, florida remebers hurricanes and lets say gas was jumping roughly $0.25 a day for a while, started at 2.35 a gal, topped off around 3.75. back to the gas suppliers, not a single one has missed a shipment of gas, and they are all able(not nessisarily buying, but that was only 1 station) to buy their normal amounts of gas. i saw this coming 3 days before katrina hit, and i filled my tank @2.65 a gal for premium. i watched premium break the $4 mark, and sat there and laughed at my 3/4 tank that wasnt going anywhere anytime soon since im driving 5-10 miles a day when possible. now the funny thing is, the higher prices got, the more people freaked, horeded gas, sat at pumps for HOURS, and thought for sure gas was going to run out. now let me tell you a little thing in economics we like to call supply and demand. when you have a market trying to buy out your entire supply, then you have to raise prices to slow down consumption and bring things back to a level where the suppliers can meet the demand. on the topic of raising prices durring crisis, price gouging comes up ALOT. there was tons of it last year, and they kept their eye on it this year. now in my area we have ~40,000 students within say 3 miles of campus, they all want gas. thats alot of gas for 9 stations( off the top of my head thats how many i count around here, not the point, but it will make my point) to try and fill up at least 20,000 cars. raising gas like that was in direct relation to the increase consumption, and only indirectly do i believe katrina is the cause of this.

wow that got long winded... i wont be supprised if no one reads it :D

[ShEaNy]

1.19 a liter here...going up again soon