$49 to fill up with gas today!

[IROC]

$49. $49! And I live in Alabama!! 19.5 gallons at around $2.53 a gallon. Sheesh...

Had to vent. I know you feel my pain.

Mike

[nostatic]

I filled up yesterday...$7.21

[turbo6bar]

Try filling a 30+ gallon tank in a diesel pickemup!!!

[motion]

Yeah, my F250 is 38 gallons, I think. I'm seeing diesel #2 around here at at $2.73. Yikes.

[IROC]

Originally posted by turbo6bar
Try filling a 30+ gallon tank in a diesel pickemup!!!

OK, got me there. Plus, I probably get better gas mileage... :>)

Mike

[kaisen]

I remember filling my '99 Suburban in June of 2000 when gas hit $2.00+ for a little bit. 42 gallons was almost $90.

I guess now that truck would have a $100 fill

E

[rcecale]

Damn, and all this time I thought we went to Iraq just to get their oil so we could have cheap gas!!!

Randy

[turbo6bar]

Originally posted by IROC
OK, got me there. Plus, I probably get better gas mileage... :>)

Yeah, but the 76 w/ 3.2 probably doesn't tow 4500 lbs like a rag doll either, eh.

[speeder]

Originally posted by rcecale
Damn, and all this time I thought we went to Iraq just to get their oil so we could have cheap gas!!!

Randy

That was supposed to be one of the benefits of invading Iraq, ie. "liberating" the 2nd largest known supply of oil from an unpredictable tyrant who could disrupt the supply and effect prices, etc...

It was considered a vital security issue for the U.S., the unfettered supply of oil from the ME. And it is, as long as our, (and the world's), economies are held hostage by oil as an energy supply. Unfortunately, the architects of the current situation have an uncanny knack for being wrong about 99% of the time and their adventure has had about the opposite effect as planned in all areas, including the supply of oil.

The current, unprecedented run-up in the price of oil is being caused almost exclusively by the fear of disruption in future supply, as opposed to any actual shortages. This is a new order, (and unbelievably profitable for oil companies and nice Arab countries), this situation simply did not exist before the botched Iraq invasion/occupation. Even after 9/11 or the Afghanistan war, nothing like this.

[on-ramp]

Isn't it like 45% taxes? If politicians really cared, they would lower the rate and give us a break.

[dd74]

Originally posted by rcecale
Damn, and all this time I thought we went to Iraq just to get their oil so we could have cheap gas!!!

Randy

LOL

The more I hear what they pay in Europe and Asia, the less likely I am to complain about prices here. Of course, Europe's gas taxes double the price per liter.

BTW: $51.60 - Malibu, CA. Not bad considering it could be $103.20 in Stuttgart or Manchester.

[kaisen]

If politicians really cared, they would lower the rate and give us a break.

Yeah, but they have to pay for the war machine.

[kach22i]

Originally posted by IROC
$49. $49! And I live in Alabama!! 19.5 gallons at around $2.53 a gallon. Sheesh...

Had to vent. I know you feel my pain.

Mike

You sound like you have a problem with free market business making a fair profit - commie pinko liberal.

http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=18800

(ExxonMobil just reported the highest quarterly profit ever, $8.42 billion, by an American company)

[creaturecat]

3.50 US for a US gallon of hi test in Vancouver

[TerryH]

ChevronTexaco is now buying Unocal. Pretty soon we will have just one brand in CA and one huge price too....

[speeder]

[Cut and pasted from Kach22i's link]: I'm tired of arguing about whether Bush is so ignorant he doesn't know that he is cutting alternative energy programs and subsidizing oil companies or so fiendishly clever that he knows and doesn't care what he says. In the end, it doesn't make any difference. You get wretched policy either way.


And as Tom Friedman recently pointed out, it would do a lot for world peace, too: "By doing nothing to lower U.S. oil consumption, we are financing both sides in the war on terrorism and strengthening the worst governments in the world. That is, we are financing the U.S. military with our tax dollars and we are financing the jihadists -- and the Saudi, Sudanese and Iranian mosques and charities that support them -- through our gasoline purchases."

I'm glad that someone is saying this, but who is listening?

[Hugh R]

Gotta fill up in the AM, it'll involve taking out a second mortgage.

[JavaBrewer]

Originally posted by nostatic
I filled up yesterday...$7.21

Yeah but your bike looks like something out of a bug cartoon. Seriously, lose the snorkle.

[dd74]

Originally posted by dmoolenaar
Yeah but your bike looks like something out of a bug cartoon. Seriously, lose the snorkle.

LOL! Where's the snorkel?
I don't know. The headlights distinguish it. So many bike front ends now look like Ultraman's helmet from the '60s.

[campbellcj]

I saw (driving past) $3.02.9/gal today for 91 at the "most expensive station ever", the 76 in the Malibu Cross Creek area.