$60 fill-up
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Originally Posted by websthes
that may be true in calgary where you have all that oil money passing thru... how long till the government there starts giving the taxpayer money instead of the other way around
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From: Montreal Canada
Originally Posted by calgary_redneck
Not just true here, acually I was refering to all northamerica. In my opinion it should be alot higher
kidding aside you're right.. gas isn't that expensive. gas went up maybe 50% since i started driving 13 years ago. but most of that just the last few years. same time as i started making more money and looking at a new pickup.
price of gas has nothing to do with what it "should" cost. david suzuki (canadian environmentalist) thinks gas should cost 10$/litre. i'm sure he knows the $$ costs of pollution, urban sprawl, dependence on imported oil better than any of us and has lots of good ideas on how to spend our money on sustainable this and thats.
and that's what scares me the most. not paying a few bucks more for gas because the economy has done well or maybe it's time we threw a few bucks at finding new oil. but government looking at this situation and only coming to the inevitable conclusion that they need to be spending our money in some new other way.
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From: Charlotte, NC
1.77 this week, was 1.66 last week for regular, its like 1.80+ for diesel now, this is just insane, i remember riding in my dads car and him complaining when it broke $1/gallon, where did those GREAT days go.......but still i had 1.36 when i first started driving 2.5 yrs ago.......where did those great days, before my accident 
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From: Layton UT
When I pull up to the pump in the '02 F-350 crew cab 4X4, I just fill'er up and don't even worry about the price.
Of course the truck belongs to Uncle Sam, and I am in the middle of Iraq.
And it's not really even a pump - its a tanker truck full of diesel gravity feeding a couple of nozzels.
Just glad I have a Ford to drive and don't have to pay for what that truck uses!
Of course the truck belongs to Uncle Sam, and I am in the middle of Iraq.
And it's not really even a pump - its a tanker truck full of diesel gravity feeding a couple of nozzels.Just glad I have a Ford to drive and don't have to pay for what that truck uses!
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From: Montreal Canada
the yard at the company i used to work we had this broken fuel pump... if you didn't watch it it would overflow. but we have these 100 gallon tanks we use to fill the heavy equipment on the job and it takes a while so guys wander off to do something else. guys would spill like hundreds of litres of diesel all the time but nobody ever fixed that stupid pump. bugged me most was the garage guys would get mad at you cuz they're working in the stink of all that diesel but none of them ever thought to order a new pump and fix it
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From: Prince George B.C.
I don't care whether percentage wise we pay the same for gas or not. Fuel up here in Canada is still more than what you pay for in the USA. But I guess most of that is because of our Gov't taxing the heck out of it. I miss my ranger for the mileage it got but now at least I can haul alot more in 1 load. If that new Escape turns out to be a good thing we may trade in our CRV for one.
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From: Iowa
Price Update: Diesel just went from $2.09/gal. to $2.25gal. overnight. I really hope these ridiculous prices would stop.
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From: Clearlake CA
I live in the northern Bay Area (napa valley) regular gas and diesel are tied at 2.39 a gallon up here.
It makes it a little hard to try to enjoy my F250 here.
If I fill all my tanks it would cost way over 200 dollars. I can hold around a hundred gallons total, with my extra tank.
I should have kept the ranger.
It makes it a little hard to try to enjoy my F250 here.
If I fill all my tanks it would cost way over 200 dollars. I can hold around a hundred gallons total, with my extra tank.
I should have kept the ranger.
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From: Prince George B.C.
your right
Your right Mucky....we all complain about the price of fuel on this side of the POND. It's you chaps on the other side of the big water that really get hosed. But when Oil comes out of the ground less than a few hours drive from where you live it's very annoying to see the prices soo high
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From: Eastern WA
$1.94 for regular unleaded (on sale though, typically $1.99 in the area), add 10 cents for each octane upgrade, add around 15 cents for "oil". Some will not agree, but really gas is still cheap. Minimum wage in 1979 was $2.65/hour and gas was 99 cents a gallon; today min wage (WA state) is $7.16/hour and gas price is noted above.
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From: Empire of New Jersey
i'm sure prices will fall down to the 1.50 level sometime, but the way things are now, regular prices over 2 bucks, is just a glimpse of whats it gonna be in the future. Theres lots of oil out there, but getting to it is gonna take more money and time to get at it, refine it, etc. And with other countries getting a more and more oil by the day, namely China (with all its people), its gonna be very hard to keep prices down. we're gonna have to do something or else this economy gonna's fall flat on it face.
