yay for gas prices!

[amol]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
:laugh: *FM laughes hysterically* screw you guys for being able to complain about those ****** low prices. here, we pay about $5.628 per gallon!

Yeah, but we're Americans!

 

[thomsbrain]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
:laugh: *FM laughes hysterically* screw you guys for being able to complain about those ****** low prices. here, we pay about $5.628 per gallon!

i think it's worth pointing out that america's infrastructure is built with long single-occupant vehicle commutes in mind. we are all spread out and have little or no public transportation. you might pay $5.60 a gallon, but something tells me you don't drive 1000 miles a week, because your country is hardly that big. same goes for the UK. if they drove as far as we do, they'd be doing laps around the entire mainland all week. so if they pay 50% more for gas, it doesn't add up to much impact on their pocket book. you see that in their cars, which are generally much newer than america's, and they consider cars with 100,000 miles to be super old. here, that's hardly getting warmed up, because a car with 100K on the odometer is probably only 5 years old. every $0.10 change in gas prices means $150 a year for me. gas going up by $1.00 means I have to increase my yearly spending by $1,500. that's probably your gas bill for a decade. so yeah, i think it's worth complaining about.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: thomsbrain

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
:laugh: *FM laughes hysterically* screw you guys for being able to complain about those ****** low prices. here, we pay about $5.628 per gallon!

i think it's worth pointing out that america's infrastructure is built with long single-occupant vehicle commutes in mind.

we are all spread out and have little or no public transportation.

you might pay $5.60 a gallon, but something tells me you don't drive 1000 miles a week, because your country is hardly that big. same goes for the UK. if they drove as far as we do, they'd be doing laps around the entire mainland all week. so if they pay 50% more for gas, it doesn't add up to much impact on their pocket book. you see that in their cars, which are generally much newer than america's, and they consider cars with 100,000 miles to be super old. here, that's hardly getting warmed up, because a car with 100K on the odometer is probably only 5 years old. every $0.10 change in gas prices means $150 a year for me.

gas going up by $1.00 means I have to increase my yearly spending by $1,500.

that's probably your gas bill for a decade. so yeah, i think it's worth complaining about.

Many of us real Americans are getting tired people in these rinky dink Countries making that argument of how they've always paid high gas prices.

It's a lousy apples and oranges argument.

These foriegn wusses wouldn't survive a month here.

 

[mobobuff]

3.40 for regular here.

 

[xanis]

The cheapest station close to me has been hovering around $3.05 since Friday. Luckily I can cross the bridge in Washington Crossing into NJ and pay about $2.89.

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: ForumMaster
:laugh: *FM laughes hysterically* screw you guys for being able to complain about those ****** low prices. here, we pay about $5.628 per gallon!

Nah, you can screw yourself for allowing your country to levy such high taxes on your gasoline...MOST "furrin" countries have VERY HIGH gas taxes, which makes their pump price MUCH higher than ours...but if you take out the taxes, their pump prices are pretty much the same as our prices (without the taxes)...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12452503/

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I filled up last week for $1.96. This week? $2.20.

i haven't seen sub $2.00 gas prices since i can't remember when, probably before all this crap in the Middle East started.

Wow, you are 900+ years old?

 

[Midlander]

Originally posted by: TallBill

Originally posted by: pontifex

Originally posted by: tfinch2
I filled up last week for $1.96. This week? $2.20.

i haven't seen sub $2.00 gas prices since i can't remember when, probably before all this crap in the Middle East started.

Wow, you are 900+ years old?

I actually paid 17.9 per gallon once. Too many years ago....

 

[Vidda]

Hell, I'm only 18 and I remember 90 cent/gallon gas when I was young. $2.90 for 87 in Tuscaloosa, AL.

 

[Corporate Thug]

wasnt get > $1.00 for a short period following 9/11?

 

[ed0ggyd0gg]

Try 3.35.

 

[B00ne]

You guys stop crying! I payed ?1.4/l today - thats $7.2/gal.

When it was temporarily down to about $6.something a few weeks ago I was jumping in joy.

$2 and some change is laughable

 

[OVerLoRDI]

Originally posted by: Vidda
Hell, I'm only 18 and I remember 90 cent/gallon gas when I was young. $2.90 for 87 in Tuscaloosa, AL.

Yeah when I was little I remember 99 cent gas, I'm 17 now.

 

[Rogodin2]

Up to $3.21 regular-$3.51supreme. Eastern Washington.

Rogo

 

[BMdoobieW]

I just paid $3.25 per gallon at the BP for 87. Over the past 3 or 4 months it went up from about $2.39 to $3.25.

 

[Rogodin2]

I remember filling up my 72 Nova for $.95c back in 92-it's steadily increased since then. Why would that be? Some of it is due to taxes, but the majority of it is the huge increase in demand (globaly)-with depletion modeling of the available oilfields it becomes evident that this smaller spikes/drops are irrelevant to the eventual climb to $5.00+pg here in the U.S. as a standard.

Rogo

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: B00ne
You guys stop crying! I payed ?1.4/l today - thats $7.2/gal.

When it was temporarily down to about $6.something a few weeks ago I was jumping in joy.

$2 and some change is laughable

what kind of car do you drive, and how far do you live from work?

 

[Aharami]

Originally posted by: Vidda
Hell, I'm only 18 and I remember 90 cent/gallon gas when I was young. $2.90 for 87 in Tuscaloosa, AL.

hah yea. summer of 98-99. the dollar amt u spent on filling up a tank was less than the volume of gas you got. good ol days

 

[Pacfanweb]

I remembe when I was a kid, riding my little motorcycle up to the nearest gas station and gassing up for less than .50 per gallon. It didn't even hold a gallon, so I could fill it up, buy a Pepsi and something to eat, and still get change out of a dollar.

 

[bwatson283]

I just filled up @3.15 on Wednesday here in CO

 

[B00ne]

Originally posted by: dartworth

Originally posted by: B00ne
You guys stop crying! I payed ?1.4/l today - thats $7.2/gal.

When it was temporarily down to about $6.something a few weeks ago I was jumping in joy.

$2 and some change is laughable

what kind of car do you drive, and how far do you live from work?

A VW Polo - I take my bike to work, but I have to drive around 700miles every weekend to see my wife...

Interestingly the gas is going up up up here too, even though the dollar went down down down