General Chat / Fuel...

We don't use fuel for heating, we have some kind of environment friendly groundwater ac/heating unit thing. Works good until the pipes freeze, bastard installers.

Of course I agree that it's a long term thing - for that reason it's in the general public's best interests that this rise doesn't last too long. However, if it did last long, at least then the government would have to do something about it. As it is they are instead buying up all the oil they can lay their hands on to reduce the price, thus reducing the onus on them having to do something constructive/sustainable. But hey, it never pays to have too much faith in people in positions of power.

Prices in Atlanta are currently between $2.80 and $3.00. Shell and the stations not affiliated with an oil company have had problems with supplies. The whole $6.00+ thing lasted for a couple of hours. Andbody who got in line to buy gas because they got an email saying the pumps were closing should have had their licsense revoked.

Personally I reckon it's no bad thing that people are having to pay more for petrol. If people just led lives that were compatible with less consumption in the first place, maybe it wouldn't be that big a deal.

Actually, I agree with you alot there ~

I only posted this topic to compare prices, and find out why it's going up.

Up here in Michigan it has actually dropped. I think a lot of it had to do with BP never raising their prices last week (maintaining about $2.85 a gallon for reg.) and thus selling their supplies of all octains clear out. Many stations are following suite to move product. Even so prices up here at most stations are still at $3.10 or so for regular and about $3.35 for the good stuff (93 octain which is what my family runs).

It's putting a pinch on out budget, a little. However it's got to be hurting a lot of less fortunent families worse. My family is upper middle class (thanks to the lower costs of living in this area of the country) so we'll make by just fine. One pattern I've noticed recently though is that it seems like everyone in the whole nation is trying to sell random things for cash, probably to make up for the price spike in gas.

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The gas station on campus here at UT Arlington ran, as I'm told by my roommate. Although, it's not so bad since our prices are starting around $2.79 in some areas still, but I assume they ran out. Still, $3.03 isn't bad considering the moment.

you cant ever expect gas prices to drop because we are RUNNING OUT OF IT, its a nonrenewable resources so once its used up, its gone.

Did you learn that in Infant School?

Anyway, I use premium, and that's 1.00+ GBP in some places. Bastards.

If people weren't so idiotic, and didn't make all these panic runs to the gas station and fill up jerry cans and all this other stupid shit, gas prices WOULDN'T be so high and no one would run out!

Unbelieveable.

Personally I reckon it's no bad thing that people are having to pay more for petrol. If people just led lives that were compatible with less consumption in the first place, maybe it wouldn't be that big a deal.


Damn I sound so fucking up my own arse, but I think there must be some truth in the stuff I say...

I agree, buy I live in Southern California. Our public trasportation is shit, and everything is so spread out. You pretty much have to own a car to get anywhere around here. I really wish it didn't have to be like this.

or be Lance Armstrong

Personally I reckon it's no bad thing that people are having to pay more for petrol. If people just led lives that were compatible with less consumption in the first place, maybe it wouldn't be that big a deal.


Damn I sound so fucking up my own arse, but I think there must be some truth in the stuff I say...

I agree, buy I live in Southern California. Our public trasportation is shit, and everything is so spread out. You pretty much have to own a car to get anywhere around here. I really wish it didn't have to be like this.

fucking right on.

Fucking sucks, everything is like, 30 minutes away or more.

The only thing in walking distance is fast food. Go fucking figure.

my nearest friend is a city over.

I heard it can reach up to $6 bucks.

I'm getting my bicycle ready to ride.

Personally I reckon it's no bad thing that people are having to pay more for petrol. If people just led lives that were compatible with less consumption in the first place, maybe it wouldn't be that big a deal.


Damn I sound so fucking up my own arse, but I think there must be some truth in the stuff I say...

I agree, buy I live in Southern California. Our public trasportation is shit, and everything is so spread out. You pretty much have to own a car to get anywhere around here. I really wish it didn't have to be like this.

fucking right on.

Fucking sucks, everything is like, 30 minutes away or more.

The only thing in walking distance is fast food. Go fucking figure.

my nearest friend is a city over.

Hey, at least you picked a good time to lose driving privvies. It can't be more expensive to take the bus now, can it?


But yeah, SoCal is NOT the place to be w/o a car.



BTW, it's official. We are now paying more for gas than in any other time in history. This includes 1980-81 after the Iranian Revolution, which WAS the previous historic high. Adjusted for inflation, the national average has surpassed even that.

Which means you will NEVER see sub $2.00 gas again, and even sub $2.50 is kind of doubtful, given the oil industry's absolute refusal to ever lower prices that much after they've gone up.

Today I witnessed, with my own eyes, prices at Cumberland Farms go from $3.41 to $3.29 within an hour.

wtf, indeed.