$2.49 a gallon in Wide Awake Wylie... time to dump the gas-guzzling V-8!

As long the gas can is approved (must have a vent) and you fill it up on the ground (not on a truck bed) you should be OK. I would STRONGLY discourage keeping a whole boatload of emergency gas cans, as the explosive power of one gallon of gas is equivalent to about 15 sticks of dynamite.

Fill up my small truck - $42

Trip to visit relatives in Indiana - 4 fill ups = $168 and two full days

Delta round-trip ticket to Indiana - $109 + 27 tax + $5 Travelocity fee = $141

Thank God for Airtran, which forces Delta to have competitive prices.

So two weeks ago I paid $2.08 per gallon.... a few days ago I paid $2.38/gallon and it cost over $32 to fill up the car. Now it's $2.49. These rapid price jumps blow.

Re: Mass Transit
 

AMEN. I am so, so glad I am able to take public transit to/from work. Unfortunately, in the town where I actually live, the public transit is only good if you are going into the city during regular weekday business hours. (We have several weekday feeders to the Lisle train station, where you can catch the Metra train into Chicago. There's also one bus that goes to the Loop five times in the morning and makes five afternoon trips back on weekdays. One bus that goes from Joliet to Lombard, stopping at the Downers Grove train station on certain trips Mon-Sat. And that's it!) So if I want to go anywhere other than to/from work weekdays, I need to take my car. At least mine is small and gets pretty good gas mileage.

I am truly hoping that it doesn't reach over $3 a gallon here. I filled up my tank on Thursday and it was $2.27 a gallon (at Albertsons). But when i went with my mom to fill up her car at Sam's Club it was $2.42 a gallon. :eek:

I'm just happy that i can still fill my car up for under $20. Hopefully that will continue.

wow, im jealous... it takes 50 bucks to fill mine up... and you probably get further on your car too

When you start feeling sorry for yourselves, stop.

My name is Sandy, and I pay $2.83 a gallon at my local Chevron.

No one has Hawai`i beat. We'll always have the most friggin' expensive gas prices in the nation.

I paid $2.61 today. My boyfriend's car takes premium, so he gets to pay about $2.83 or so.

We were talking about this today... but does anyone think that prices will ever drop below $1.50 again?

I'm betting that we'll see $3.00/gallon before September starts up.

I don't think prices will go below $2.00 again, personally. Once they get us used to seeing that $2 to start out the price, it's not going down. People are actually talking about getting a deal when it's "only" $2.39! Our whole mindset changes.

Thankfully my car gets almost 30 mpg (28 if I use the a/c) because I commute almost 50 miles a day. But, it doesn't just affect how much you drive. Everything has to be shipped to stores by some method and those methods all use fuels, so expect the prices of everything to start reflecting the change.

I was up in Northern Ontario for the weekend (Sudbury and area) and gas prices up there are ridiculous. It's more expensive than Southern Ontario. Gas up north was at $1.05 a litre.

I paid $2.47/gallon the other day. I never thought I'd see the day when Atlanta gas is just as expensive as Orlando/South Florida gas.

Gas is around $2.37 in Denver. It's not bad, but I'm still glad I don't have to drive far.

My parents and I were getting ready to go to a horse show yesterday and stopped at the store at the end of our street to buy gas. It was $2.38/gallon. When my father came out of the store from paying for it, he told us that the the lady who was working in there had just taken a call from some important gas station person or another, telling her to raise it to $2.49/gallon as soon as possible. It was $2.49/gallon when we got home 4 or 5 hours later.

In my town, gas is 2.43/gal.

I had to fill up in Lexington, KY last Sat. and it was 2.51/gal

My oldest daughter lives in Ft. Lauderdale, it is 2.59 there.:eek:

When I bought gas Friday morning it was 2.39. When I got home Friday night, it was up to 2.49. Saturday it was 2.59 and yesterday it was 2.69. Come on now, 30 cents in 48 hours? All at the same station?

This was printed in one of our local papers last week, it's a bit of an eye opener. Gas in this part of the country jumped over a buck a litre for the first time this weekend, which puts it at about $3.25USD a Gallon. It's more expensive is other parts of the country, especially the far north as much as $1.15CDN/L or $3.65US/G


Here are the gas prices around the world as of March 2005 (in US dollars per gallon): Netherlands $6.48, Norway $6.27, Italy $5.96, Denmark $5.93, Belgium $5.91, Sweden $5.80, United Kingdom $5.79, Germany $5.57, France $5.54, Portugal $5.35, Spain $4.55, Japan $4.24, Czech Republic $4.19, Brazil $3.12 , Cuba $3.03, Taiwan $2.84, Lebanon $2.63, Panama $2.19, Russia $2.1 0, Saudi Arabia $0.9 1, Kuwait $0.78, Nigeria $0.38, Venezuela $0.12. (SOURCE: CNN)

Yeah, our gas went up really fast too. It went from 2.25 a gallon to 2.43.

I filled up our van yesterday and it cost me $38!! I am so glad that my new school I'm teaching at is only 6 miles from the house. We'll be saving a lot more this year than last year on gas, thank goodness.

Is this supposed to make us rethink SUV's and go hybrid instead?

At $2.95 a gallon, I can't even imagine driving an SUV.

i drive a chevy blazer...

$48 filled up my tank the other at 2.87 a gallon.

$2.49 Low Grade, $2.59 Mid Grade, $2.69 Premium, and $2.49 for Diesal. That is information as of last night . . . it could've gone up since then and it's only 10:45 am. I say Americans that don't honestly need SUVs (like people in the South that don't have to drive in the snow or those that don't own their own business) get rid of the SUVs. Most of the time, people only get SUVs for the power issue and status symbol the SUVs make. I just find them annoying so I don't find your status any better than mine just because you own an SUV and I don't.

Our newspaper a while back (around the start of the summer) talked about "regular" cars vs. Hybrid cars. The study they did/showed said that hybrid cars aren't actually that cost affective. First of all, they are more expensive to buy. And second, they don't get a lot of miles per gallon (most range from 25-28 mpg). But like...my nissan sentra, gets around 30-33 mpg. When gas is so high, those 2-5 mpg less that you get from a hybrid does make a difference.

I'm not sure where you're getting your mpg for hybrid cars (not hybrid SUVs), but my friend who has the Toyota Prius hybrid car gets 70 mpg, which is double what you'd get with a regular car. The hybrid SUVs get what a typical economy car would get that wasn't hybrid. Perhaps thats where the 25-28 mpg is coming from.

Well, today the price of premium gas broke the $3 barrier here. :eek: The prices went up 15 cents today...this after going up 20 cents a couple days ago. Most places have regular going for about $2.85.

At this rate regular should hit the $3 mark by the weekend...early next week at the latest.

I just got the mpg from the newspaper article. I just remember that they had a bunch of cars in order from which get the least mpg to which get the most....and from that article all the hybrids they showed were pretty much at the bottom of the list (where they listed the cars that get the least mpg.)

Of course my newspaper is notorious for making mistakes, or reporting false information, so your more than likely right!

There is an odd thing about hybrids... Typical cars get better gas mileage on the freeway but with hybrids, it's the other way around. They get better city gas mileage than they do highway. That could make it tough for a newspaper to do comparisons too, unless they print both.

THAT IS THE CAR THAT I AM COVETING! I am dying to get one of those. They have one here in town and I am wanting it so badly. Gas is $2.59 here. My SUV only gets 15 mpg. I really want the Prius' 50-60 mpg (sticker quote).

I was watching one of the news channels this last weekend and they said on there that gas prices are only going to keep going up. But they also said that once the price gets so high that people stop going places, the price will come back down. They stated that it isn't going to change unless we take action, which in this case is stop driving.

I know once I start back to school, instead of driving to class like I did last year I will be walking. I can't afford the gas. Gas prices range from $2.41 to $2.49/gallon here (and that's the cheap stuff).

I just filled up on base for 2.349, down from 2.379 over the weekend.

Around the rest of San Antonio, i've seen prices range from 2.44 to 2.79

It's at $2.59 (lowest grade) in Lawrenceville, GA. Y'all, I'm heading back to New York on Saturday and I'm SCARED! First off, that's a 900 mile-ish trip - whew on the gas.

Then, there's the price up in the area I live. Ok - when I first got to Georgia a few weeks ago, the low grade was at $2.29. If it's jumped $.30...ARGH!

It was $2.69 in my area when I left New York a few weeks ago! So, let's just say it went up $.30 there as well...that's $2.99 FOR THE CHEAP STUFF! :eek:

Now, I'm not saying I'm all-knowing but the way I understand it from everything I've read/seen, there's more to it than that.

First, you have the price per barrel (crude) that's been rising like crazy. I believe it stabilized a bit recently though.

Second, you have oil refineries in the U.S. that are working at capacity or being so overwhelmed that they shut down altogether temporarily.

Third, the reason that the refineries are so swamped is because environmental groups are blocking the construction of new refineries or even expansions of old ones. These groups are always pushing for alternative fuel sources - which would be great of course but it's so expensive - and with the majority of cars running on gasoline right now, it's a hard sell to fund the research.

It's a huge nasty circle. And, all the police action/battle/war mess has not helped things.

If this has already been discussed earlier in the thread, my apologies. I admit that I wanted my share of vent time!!

It took me $30.48 today to fill up my car--it was $2.49/gallon. And I drive a small, 4 cyclinder car with a 15 gallon tank. The gas prices are crazy!! Something needs to be done about this, big time.

Tell me about it - I WISH I could pay what everyone else is complaining about.

Get this - yesterday morning at North & Ashland it was $3.06 for premium. Last night, at the same gas station it was $3.19! It's amazing how quickly we get desensitized to gas prices. To think that last Saturday I was complaining about $2.95!

It is $2.69 by my house, or that is what it was last night. It changes everyday. Last time I filled up (last Saturday) it was $2.55. I drive a VW Jetta....took me $36.15 to fill it up.:(

Gas prices hit 2.69 here in WV and stayed there, but a few places fell a whooping 3 cents this morning.

However, I saw it for 2.59 at a Go Mart three towns over from me a few hours ago.

It's $2.72 in Washington for regular unleaded. and that's in a cheaper end of Renton.

you know what really sucks
 

my vehichle doesn't need gasoline to run, and according to the mfg. would run better on Ethanol, but that stuff is unavailbe in my area.

$2.77 here .........i even went as far as submittig my milage reimbursment for work today because my car sucks up gas quick and at that price i want some reimbursment!!!!!!!!!!!!