GAS PRICES!

[Ajaxx]

Highest here is $3.13 for 93 octane

[cab2g]

Why are people complaining about this? Gas was over $4.00/gal a short time ago. You didn't think it would ever go back to that price? I'm surprised it stayed low for so long, but that's mostly due to low demand because of the recession. Now speculators see demand rising and the economy picking back up. Gas will be back to $4/gal. It'll suck, but I didn't buy an SS to save the planet or to save $$$ on gas. I bought it because in a few years when gas is $6, $7/gal I'll have to buy a 40MPG car as my primary transportation. Why is everybody acting so surprised? Gas was $1.10/gal in 2002. It's $3.30/gal today. You can bet it'll be $7/gal in 2018

And as other people have mentioned, look around you. Other countries pay around $8/gal. If they can afford it w/o starving to death or living on the streets, so can Americans. I don't want to pay $8/gal by any means, but it's not the end of the world. Put things into perspective. Many people pay $100/mo on cable TV, another $50 on internet and another $80 on their cell phone along with $4/day ($80/mo) on coffee and $120/mo eating out for lunch. We have it good in this country. Learn to love what you have while you have it.

[xpanda305x]

3.50 for reg gas :(

[heRS]

Legal extortion. If they were making normal profits instead of incredible profits it wouldn't be so bad. The "haves" have a choke-hold on the "have-nots" but you choke your cash cow too long and it dies. Then you got nothin'.
I bought my cobalt because it would give me great gas mileage when prices were ultra high. I bought my Camaro because it delights me and I don't much care about the price of gas.
The comments some of you guys make in a direct attempt to make another feel small (you know who you are) demonstrate what a pathetic individual you are. Did you throw kittens in the dryer as a child too? No matter what comment someone makes*, there is no need to ridicule them for it.

*Any comments that include maro, raro, camero or caramo are exempt from the above statement.

[Sawyer]

not bad now at all...its going to get worse.

http://cnnmoney.mobi/wk_snarticle?articleId=urn:newsml:CNNMoney.com:201 01227:oil_commodities:1&category=cnnm_business

[mikeSS]

remember US demand peaked at 2007.. its the rest of the world that is demanding more gas.

[King Sun]

going from a 1991 suburban 2500 to my ls I could not be anymore happier. 45 dollars??????? that used to be not even half of the tank

[Scottishgames]

Went from $3.05 to $3.20 for reg. today

[Lauryn200]

Originally Posted by cab2g

Why are people complaining about this? Gas was over $4.00/gal a short time ago. You didn't think it would ever go back to that price? I'm surprised it stayed low for so long, but that's mostly due to low demand because of the recession. Now speculators see demand rising and the economy picking back up. Gas will be back to $4/gal. It'll suck, but I didn't buy an SS to save the planet or to save $$$ on gas. I bought it because in a few years when gas is $6, $7/gal I'll have to buy a 40MPG car as my primary transportation. Why is everybody acting so surprised? Gas was $1.10/gal in 2002. It's $3.30/gal today. You can bet it'll be $7/gal in 2018

And as other people have mentioned, look around you. Other countries pay around $8/gal. If they can afford it w/o starving to death or living on the streets, so can Americans. I don't want to pay $8/gal by any means, but it's not the end of the world. Put things into perspective. Many people pay $100/mo on cable TV, another $50 on internet and another $80 on their cell phone along with $4/day ($80/mo) on coffee and $120/mo eating out for lunch. We have it good in this country. Learn to love what you have while you have it.

As packed as the stores have been for Christmas,I don't think folks around here are worried about gas going back up.

I was stationed in Germany(Europe) and gas is way more exspensive over
there than here.You can always buy a Chevy Cruze,don't they get almost 40 miles to the gallon??


NYC gas is hovering around:
$3.35 for 87 and $3.50 for 93

[mikeSS]

Originally Posted by Darth_Emma

Higher gas prices are the best thing that can happen for promoting innovation in alternative energy sources. I'm not saying it isn't hard on people to raise gas prices. It is. That's why we need alternative energy technologies.

Also, drilling in remote areas solves nothing in the long term. It might help prices for a few years, but it is very short-sighted. We can harm areas that may be the only true remaining wilderness areas and in a few years, we're right back where we started - looking for more. We need other sources of energy that are renewable.
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Happy holidays to all of you.

yes i agree, but in a recovering economy we need low gas prices

and you are wrong about prices going down for only a few years if we drill. we have more oil here then the middle east will ever have under our grounds. its been proven. so gas would be cheap for a while.

[coolman]

Originally Posted by jrhaus76

What'cha waitin for?

After today, I'm starting to go on your side. Maybe if gas prices went to $8.00 per gallon there would be less nut cases on the road.

[Captain Awesome]

Originally Posted by Mindz

91 Octane is currently 3.70 or so here in the SF bay area...

I heard you're going to be paying even more now that you've got your very own state run cap-n-tax system. I'm sure other states will follow.

[Captain Awesome]

Originally Posted by shad2009

A pack of cigs in some states = 3 gallons of gas...we have it good in some aspects...why complain about something we can't change...if you want to complain about gas, sell your camaro and buy a hybrid

Why say we can't change something when all we have to do is defund these maverick unelected beaurocracies and get back to representative government?

[Darth_Emma]

Originally Posted by mikeSS

yes i agree, but in a recovering economy we need low gas prices

and you are wrong about prices going down for only a few years if we drill. we have more oil here then the middle east will ever have under our grounds. its been proven. so gas would be cheap for a while.

I am a professional geologist and I worked for a major oil company for a while. I know a few things about petroleum reserves from reading the scientific and petroleum-industry literature (for example, the Journal of Petroleum Geology). Drilling anywhere (foreign or domestic) is not going to be a long-term solution to our energy needs and it certainly won't help the environment to continue to burn fossil fuels.

When you say "it's been proven," I would be interested to read the scientific literature that you're referring to. It would be great if you would cite your source.