I know there's prolly a topic on this a ways back, but I couldn't seem to come across it...

I filled up today, and didn't notice how high gas had gotten recently. Around here even when it was high I think it only got up to 2.02 or so. Now it's up to 2.08 and it's been there all week. Anyone else in other areas notice the increase lately?

 

Yeah, it's all over the news here. We're up to about $2.30 a gallon.

Looking at a used Jetta with a TDI...

 

Yea it is getting pretty crazy here also! It is around 1.85. So a little better than you.

I SUCKS SO BAD!

 

I paid 1.90 yesterday. 4 wks ago it was 1.53.

 

I'm in the same handbasket as everyone else, it's 2.09 here for regular.


What the hey, just like John Belushi in Animal House: "my advice to you is to drink heavily."

 

Yah, but I think it's becoming cheaper to drink than to drive. But hey, if we can't afford gas, then we can't do both drinking and driving at once at least.

 

Get used to it, current reserves are at their lowest point since 1973, and we are consuming a lot more more now then ever dreamed of back then. With oil shipments from the Gulf Coast region running in slow motion since all the hurricanes any additional disruption in supply could send oil prices through the roof (like $90.00 a barrel or higher). I fully expect oil to hover in the $45.00 - $60.00 range into the foreseeable futures. $1.80 gas is going to seem like the good old days pretty soon.

 

73 was the year of the big oil shortages right? (I wasn't around back then)

 

I remember that, I was driving a '73 Cadillac that got 12MPH.
Dono

 

12 mpg! Man, for a '73 Caddy, that was a sipper!

 

$1.93 yesterday, makes the company car not look so bad these days. 1992 Crown Vic wit 165,000ms of pretty hard service.

 

$2.399

Oil prices actually peaked in 1981 at over $60 a barrel in today's dollars.

Before 1973 I was paying less than .40 a gallon and driving a 30 mpg VW.

Jim

 

If diesel keeps going up, it will be cheaper for me to convert to heated tanks, and buy new soy been oil in bulk.... The most I have seen locally for diesel is $2.23.9 - I can get cheap soy bean oil for that much.. the conversion would cost me about $500.

 

I paid $1.83 yesterday for regular. What concerns me is diesel is $2.06! It hits me with my motorhome (8mpg), but it will hit all of us as the truckers are having to pass on fuel price increases to consumers. That will make everything we: eat; wear; drive; use increase in price!

 

I think the high gasprices are a good thing they might make northamericans rethink their waistful life style. I find is pretty funny when people whine about not being able to drive their giant buses(motor homes) like its something everyone should be able to do.