I only live a few blocks from where I work, so I don't have to buy alot of gas as I can either walk or ride my bicycle, but today I had to buy some stinkin' gas and it is $1.75 here in central Wisconsin. The last I remember seeing, it was $1.46. WTF???? So, how much is it where you are? :confused:

(I couldn't find the previous post of this nature)

Out here in Cali, i'm paying 2 bucks a gallon now, or as of Friday. I'm sure it'll be more the next time I go. I use about 30 gallons a week on my commute.

Fayetteville, Arkansas $1.58

$1.89 Regular
$2.09 Premium

Gas
 

In cincinnati it is around $1.59

Well, California is the same>>>LOL..it's $1.58.9 here.

$1.559 for regular
$1.759 for premium

Here in Charlotte....

1.43 regular unleaded
1.59 premium

Looks like I'll have to take out a second mortgage just to have gas money to get to work.

mmaddog
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Here in Garden Grove, California it $171.9 for regular and $195.9 for premium.

$1.63 Wichita
usually lower then most.

1.59 - Columbus OH

Harrisburg, PA

1.59 Regular

$1.69 Omaha/Council Bluffs area

$1.49 Regular
$1.59 Premium (Ethanol)
Milan, MO



by the way...can someone tell me why ethanol isn't CHEAPER than regular??? Wasn't that the idea to help farmers and lower prices of gas. If corn is only 1.20 a bushel, shouldn't gas made with corn be cheaper???



taking slow easy breaths...

1.71/gal unleaded regular

too scared to look at the higher octanes :D

Ahhh... Ethanol.

Bob Dole used to work for a retailer in KC who was one of the first to switch to a 10% ethanol blend back in the 80's, and you never heard such a pack of b*tching, know-nothing complainers in your life.

Usually the same people that were buying a bottle of Heet at the same moment they were whining about an alcohol blend...

$1.60 as of this morning in Scottsbluff, Ne Haven't been over to Denver as of yet but I'm sure it's much higher. Damn price gouging Mutha fuckers!!

$1.59 in Indy, the home of motorsports. *L*

Well...it's already changed...


Regular...$1.69
Ethanol...$1.71
Super...$1.79



preparing to break out the LeMans...

SF Bay area.

Regular: $2.00
Premium: $2.20

They have us all convinced out here that we need to pay more for everything.

$1.69 in Iowania
 

I screwed up and sold my 30mpg car 3 weeks ago..and now have nothing but a 12mpg(but very cool) F150...

My saving grace is that my family has fuel barrels and we get some gas that is drained from gas tanks of cars being crushed....for $.75/gallon...

It is a mix of everything but only comes from large yards that crush often....I mix it with a 1/2 tank when I'm home....cheapens the trip considerably....thinking about getting a 250 gallon barrel for here...but the local tree huggers and city zoning would probably have a fit.

Davenport, Iowa 1.579 to 1.619

My girlfriend live about 100 miles away, so on the weekend it cost me some major coin to see her. Looks like I'm going to have to cut back on the golf this year.

Hoover

Would be easier to just cut back on the girlfriend, Hoover.

Get your priorities straight, man.

Mine is about $1.20

Senator....

I could not even picture myself without her. We are going to get married next May so the problem will solve itself. I walk to work each day, but on the weekends I put on about 300 miles, and my car only get about 23 mpg. I would chose a different car, not a different girlfriend.

Hoover

Hoover's g/f must read the BB sometimes. :)

My car only gets 12-15 MPG.

Hey, you never know.

Hoover

I'm guessing Hoover's GF stole his login and is posting FOR him.....

so nice of her to reveal his sensative side. ;)

Yesterday we paid $1.73 in eastern South Dak.

Okay I know this sounds wacky, but I got an e-mail from a friend who was talking about lowering gas prices and how to do it. The idea behind only buying on certain days does not work and we all know it, what we should all do is to boycott the largest oil company exxon/mobil for a long enough period to force them to lower their prices to make a profit. Once they lower their prices we stop the boycott and return to them for the lower prices and that in turn that forces the other companies to lower theirs to compete and we are back to lower gas prices.....for a while anyway....I think it sounds really good but we need to get more people aware and behind this "boycott".

A lot can happen in a year, Hoover (or Hooverette...)

Besides, Bob Dole was only kidding. Bob Dole certainly holds no grudge against members of the money-gr...er...fairer sex.

And what the hell are you driving now, Kloster?

Bob Dole gets 15 city/27 highway. It's about time to break out the bicycle to get back and forth to work.

1978 Chevrolet 4X4...8city/8hwy/4mycrappygravel.


Thank God I'm only 3 mi. from work...

You know what, if the back seat and leg room was a little bigger I'd get one of those electric/gas hybrids. They have good pep and the battery is charged during breaking and coasting so no (or not much) plugging in is necessary. Honda and Toyota are selling them for 20K (taking a big loss on that BTW), but we're talking 70 mpg in the city. When gas hits $3-5 they'll be in demand for the urban motorist I think. Too bad domestic auto makers are once again going to trail the competition by a decade or two.

Bob Dole might consider the Honda if Bob Dole didn't vomit every time Bob Dole saw one of the hideous things.

Why they felt the need to make it look like a cross between a dung heap and an AMC Gremlin, Bob Dole will never know...

I bought a Regency conversion Yukon for my 30th birthday, Bob. It's absolutely loaded. Right after I bought it, gas prices began to increase from $1.20 to nearly $1.60 per gallon, therefore I'm still in denial about the price of fuel. It's pretty difficult to part with $35 everytime at the gas station.

"Looks like I'm going to have to cut back on the golf this year. "

My God man! Lease a pair with an option to buy. What’s next give up Beer?

Here in Knoxville, it is 1.49 to 1.69, about the same as last summer, being retired helps, one tank every two weeks tops, sometimes more.

Watch out Rod!

Hoover's future ex-wife is bound to jump in and give a description of his pair or something...

Giving up beer is NEVER an option...
 

And I'll WALK before I pay $17 to fill up my Honda...I still got a bike I always promise the girlfriend I'll use on the Kady Trail....

Hey I still golf 4 times month, still drink beer with the guys. Just with the higher cost of gas, I'm going to have to scale back a bit. As I get older there are somethings that I just don't do as much, like play poker with the guys 4 times a week, Drink till 2 am Thursday thru Saturday, and golf 3 time a week. I still do the things I want to, but I don't have the time like before. I guess one of you might want to save this so once I'm married you guys can get a good laugh.


BTW, I would rather pay 17 bucks to fill a Honda that will go 400 plus miles, than my car that takes 20 bucks and goes 285 miles.

Hoover

Hey Brad - my aunt & uncle own a bike shop on the kady.

$2.09 !!!!
 

You are all lucky. Here in Northern California the cheapest price for regular is $2.09 ! It is crazy and supposed to get much worse this summer. Would love to be paying $1.60 !!!!!!

$1.59 unleaded or $1.62 super unleaded in the thriving berg of Windsor, Mo.

Trouble is, this town is so small that you have to go out of town to buy anything even the slightest bit unusual. So add more gas bought for the price of small town living.

Funny thing...

Went to get Gas tonight, in Cameron MO, and 1 gas station had reg unleaded at $1.53, and across the street it was $1.67.

I mean .14 difference in the same town? this is getting ridiculious.

the price of gas here went from 1.55 to 1.69 tonight

i sure wish the oil companies would give us some vaseline so it wouldn't hurt so bad while they rape us.

I paid $1.94 for regular unleaded last weekend at a station in Naperville (suburban Chicago) - the same station was $1.35 two months ago. Prices in Chicago itself are at least $2.00 and rising steadily - here you get the worst of all worlds - big oil greed and liberal scumbag outrageous taxes. I see no end in sight, and fear that by July I'll be wishing I was only paying $2.00 a gallon - it'll probably be closer to $3.00. This sick thievery has no limits. The oil companies cry about short supplies and then post record profits. What scum.

I feel like everytime I fill up I should get a kiss and a cigarette - but they'd probably charge extra for that, too.

May all involved burn in hell.

well here in neody gas went up 10 cents a gallon for four days in a row. its fu**in Bullsh*t how the price can go up that much but not one d*mn station had to put more gas in their tanks but yet they raise the prices.

Last fill-up here in Albuquerque was $1.51. I received an interesting email a few days ago forwarded from a friend. It suggested that as a gas boycott for a day wasn't feasible perhaps a boycott of the largest producers, Exxon and Citgo, would be. Might get their attention. I plan to stick with it. May do no good at all but I don't really feel like contributing anything more to Exxon's profits either.

was just curiousif anyone saw my last post abouot bringing down gas prices and what you think?

Posted this thread on the weekend - now this morning it is $1.91 for regular here in Wisconsin Rapids. For those of you who have no choice but to drive to work, I feel for you. For those of us that are lucky enough to be close enough to work/errands to walk or ride a bicycle I say DO IT!!! I had to drive today because of the rain, but I have not used $5 worth of gas in 3 weeks because I ride to work everyday.

$1.79 in n.e. missouri yesterday.
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(going to either have to give up beer or driving to work)

Bay Area increases rates:

Regular is now $2.09

Premium is now $2.29

These prices are just about everywhere. Unbelievable

test

$1.69 for the cheap stuff today in Wichita.

I know many of you despise govt. involvement in industry, but I think it's time for Uncle Sam to step in and fix this situation by whatever means necessary.

Rising gas prices screw with our entire economy, and IMO the whole "supply/demand" argument is a load of BS. Aren't companies like Mobil, Shell, etc. the ones that get oil out of the ground all over the world, including the Middle East?

If there's a shorage of oil, then why are oil companies raking in record-shattering profits?

Would the President have the nerve to drop the hammer on the industry whose leaders have been greasing his palms for so long?

Normal speculative behavior is to hoard a product rising in price to increase its value. This is estimated now to be $3 to $4 this summer. Which of course will cut demand and release the speculation. However, this theory assumes a volume of stocks to hoard which may not be the case. This may just go until demand is cut 5 to 10% on a daily basis. The profits from this spike will unlikely return to the consumer so net economic demand will go down. This in turn will further reduce demand at about the time prices are rising to offset the higher energy costs. Thus the price/demand structure of the last two decades will be upset. Higher prices meeting decreased demand is usually quickly and severely dealt with in free markets.

Very good question. I am one of those that do not believe that the govt should get involved in this situation, but your question does make you go hmmmm.....

1.42 here at the Jersey shore.We're still one of two states that dom't allow us to pump our own.

Clint-


There is no shortage of oil---just too much of a dependence on foreign sources for it.

It will get worse before it gets better, but once we slap the environmentalist whacko's around a bit--start drilling and refining here, using Nuclear and burning more and more coal you'll see some changes.

Eight years without an energy policy was a *****, but the times--they are a changin’

TORONTO (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney warned on Monday that the whole nation could face California-style blackouts as he outlined a national energy strategy relying heavily on oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear power development -- but not conservation.

I don't buy the "we're too dependent on foreign sources" argument, either.

If America depends so much on FOREIGN oil, then why do AMERICAN oil companies record mind-boggling profit increases when gas prices go up?

You can bet your home that the oil industry greases OPEC palms as much as their own governments'.

"You announce that the production of oil will be decreased, making YOU look like the bad guy, and we'll give you a f_cking sh_tload of money. Deal?"

Just jumped to $1.75 here in SUX. Anybody have a bicycle, er, no, wait, MOPED for sale?


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pt ~ pi$$ed off and not taking it anymore. even considers walking across the street...

It may have been said, but I find it a suspicious coincidencet that the gas prices have gone up because of "low supplies" or "OPEC not producing enough" and the profits of all major oil corportions are setting records...it's obscene and something needs to be blown up....:mad:

Big Daddy,

We've got a Chevron station in Angels Camp that is now 2.39 - 2.49 - 2.59 across the board.

I have to chuckle at the folks who are whining because their prices "have jumped" to 1.59.

After getting corn holed for electricity this past winter, these gas prices are just chump change for this NoCal resident...

Our new Energy Secretary just predicted gasoline prices may exceed a $1.68 this summer.

SAY WHAT?? That dude need to log on to the planet and see that he's clueless.

A local station owner here in Wiskey Rapids told me this morning during my daily Coke stop that he fully expects to be posting $2.50 for regular before it goes back down.

BTW - anyone know what station owners pay for their fuel for their cars????

Cal Injun,

They have us convinced here that we need to pay more for everything. The prices I posted were the cheapest I can find. Sharon Heights is over $3.00 a gallon now. BTW, you wouldn't know anyone that works at DMV would you?

BIG DADDY

Trying to get a green sticker for the new dirtbike.

1.55 cpg in KY for unleaded......And on the rise to boot. With summer coming and the puplic on vacations,yeah you can expect them to sore to 1.75-1.85 cpg range.

_________________________________

A politican's response to this ....Crap,it's only money,we'll make more!

__________________________________

Three words ...
 

Too fucking much!

Prices went up by 10¢ between Tuesday and Wednesday here in KC ... in KS (where I work) it's around $1.69. In MO (where I live) it's about $1.60. Doesn't sound too bad, unless you consider that my truck gets about 20 MPG going downhill with a 40 MPH tailwind and I commute 70 miles each day.

But cigarette prices at QuikTrip went down ... $22 for a carton. What a bargain! :rolleyes:

MM
~~Needs to work from home.

Gasoline is a world wide traded commodity. If speculators start hoarding above ground stocks then who knows the price. Some are predicting $3 to $4 without spec hoarding. Stay tuned. This is not a controllable issue within our borders.
Some years back, oil tankers used to wait offshore for the highest bidder. Of course, if the consumer starts to hoard, it gets ridiculous.

The administration may think it is to their benefit to egg on the crisis in order to render their solution more palatible but this can get out of hand in short order. Just as bad mouthing the economy, instant news and instant reaction go hand in hand.

Clint-

Our supply from OPEC is between 55-62% What would you say is too much?

Oleman-

Man it has to be frustrating for you. Another Clinton disaster comes home to roost early in the first term.

Two oil men in the White house to deal with it. We are going to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. Increase Nuclear, and go explore onshore public lands.

The new admin will begin outer continental shelf exploration outside of western and central Gulf of Mexico.

Democrats will whine---greenies will jump out of trees and America will finally have an energy policy.

Good Luck with your mission, so far it's been a rousing success. :)

Michigan
Since my post a few hours ago, Bush has flipped and now is actually coming around to the Carterian view and proposals. Before hanging everything on Clinton, the Repubs were unfriendly to his proposals and the oil industry knew better than rob the country under Clinton. But it does fit with the current administration, if they can blame Clinton then they don't have to do anything.

Does anybody let out a good belly laugh when driving behind those huge SUV's that were mass purchased by the gullible public a few years back?

"Yeah buddy, like the price of gas was gonna stay below $1.10."

I still drive an '87 Celica (28-30 mpg) while my two '65 Galaxies stay covered in the garage. It doesn't look pretty but it beats hearing that gasoline vacuum from an eight cylinder.

Can not verify it, but rumor has it that the oil companys just put in a large order for the #3 for their signs. I wonder why that would be!!!!!!!

Oleman-

Flip flop? What are you referring to?

The conservation policies in Cal?

''I think conservation has got to be part of making sure we have got a reasonable energy policy, but what the vice president was saying was we can't conserve our way to energy independence,'' Bush said. ''We have got to do both. We've got to conserve, but we also have to find new sources of energy.''

Care to try again?

We will drill; we will open up the Alaskan Reserve.

We will explore more options. We will burn more coal.

More Nuclear plants--more power for our country from all these sources.

*******************

BTW-The oil companies knew better than to rob the Country under Clinton?

Wasn't he the prez last summer when this all finally came to fruition?

Retail Gas $2.50+---Home power bills through the roof. (Don't believe me--ask Bob Dole)

And his answer--tap into the strategic reseves. Great ploy--too bad it didn't work--for him or Al.

8 years--no energy policy--Hazel and Richardson, buffoons, the both.

Good Luck.

Michigan
The previous position of Bush was that conservation would hurt the economy. The budget he submitted reflected a policy geared completely to hydrocarbon supply. Then, they started using the word conservation but had no policy. Yesterday, they recommended the thermostat solution.
This is much the same route he has followed in Cal. It was someones elses fault so not his problem. Then it became a committee thing working around the edges and now finally is listening to the problem of his campaign contributors gouging the Californians.

They still say that only a great increase in co2 production will solve the problem. When, confronted with the fact that increasing the fuel efficiency of SUV's by three miles per gal will yield more supply than ANWR they are silent. However, Ford on its own admitted the problem which might goad them to look more closely at their theory.

"The previous position of Bush was that conservation would hurt the economy. "

Source that for me please....Quote--not an opinion from the DNC

Michigan
Please reference a source you would believe and be glad to comply. I saw it with my own beady eyes, so I am sure I can find someone else who did since it was all over the news for days.

Politically Correct had it right tonight. How come Bush has faith in the ability to build SDI and does not have the same faith in developing alternative fuels?

oleman-

What part do you not understand? Source---A quote from W.

Kind of like I did here.

''I think conservation has got to be part of making sure we have got a reasonable energy policy, but what the vice president was saying was we can't conserve our way to energy independence,'' Bush said. ''We have got to do both. We've got to conserve, but we also have to find new sources of energy.''

(An AP story)

Not an opinion from a poorly named TV show-- a quote stating what you said that was the President's position.

"I saw it with my own beady eyes"

Your eyes have probably gotten worse with age, your opinions skewed by your own bias.

Just a quote. From a source.

Remember this oleman---when you leave that corner you have painted yourself into you will leave the footprints of a trapped man with little more than biased opinions.

Good Luck cleaning the floor and getting the paint off of the shoes.

Michigan
The quote you used was the flip-flop!! Thanks. He was correcting what Cheney had said just a few hours earlier! Cheney had down played conservation. Bush is going to be giving national speeches on conservation before this over. I will get a bunch of quotes for you as long as you accept AP and such as quotable. But can't believe you missed his comments on restricting energy use as damaging to the economy.