In the city it's already well over $3/gallon for regular. It's around $2.90-2.95 here in suburbia.

I am so glad I take public transit to work!

I just filled up at $1.17/litre today! :eek::eek::eek:

Over $3.00 for regular.

Did anyone else hear about the CEO of Exxon retiring with like $800 million or some outrageous thing like that. I think that was combo of cash, benefits, and stock options but still.

gas prices from around the world per gallon

Netherlands Amsterdam $6.48
Norway Oslo $6.27
Italy Milan $5.96
Denmark Copenhagen $5.93
Belgium Brussels $5.91
Sweden Stockholm $5.80
United Kingdom London $5.79
Germany Frankfurt $5.57
France Paris $5.54
Portugal Lisbon $5.35
Hungary Budapest $4.94
Luxembourg $4.82
Croatia Zagreb $4.81
Ireland Dublin $4.78
Switzerland Geneva $4.74
Spain Madrid $4.55
Japan Tokyo $4.24
Czech Republic Prague $4.19
Romania Bucharest $4.09
Andorra $4.08
Estonia Tallinn $3.62
Bulgaria Sofia $3.52
Brazil Brasilia $3.12
Cuba Havana $3.03
Taiwan Taipei $2.84
Lebanon Beirut $2.63
South Africa Johannesburg $2.62
Nicaragua Managua $2.61
Panama Panama City $2.19
Russia Moscow $2.10
Puerto Rico San Juan $1.74
Saudi Arabia Riyadh $0.91
Kuwait Kuwait City $0.78
Egypt Cairo $0.65
Nigeria Lagos $0.38
Venezuela Caracas $0.12

$3.19 a gallon for me where I live. :mad:

Is that really that outrageous for the CEO of ExxonMobil?

That doesnt suprise me since my friends who work for both Halliburton and Shell thank me all the time for adding money to their retirement fund every time I pump gas. According to them, they have never had a supply shortage even after Katrina and such.

Yeah, my dad who is in oil and gas is pretty happy right now. Especially after the record setting price of oil last Friday at 74$ per barrell.

And actually, the oil and gas industry really was not affected hardly at all by Katrina. I had a bunch of statistics that showed the damage and it was very minimal.

As a career or as an investor?

$33 to fill up my tiny little Acura RSX.

When i'm going to the office, I drive 2 miles to the park 'n ride and take the bus in. So that's great.

However, this week and next, i'm on the road 4 days out of 5.

Blah.

IRS, please raise mileage back to at least the 48.5 cents/mile it was right after Katrina. (currently it's at 44.5 cents/mile)

I am so glad I didn't buy an SUV. Especially in Pittsburgh, with all the hills and windy roads.

I love the friggen gas games in KC area.

QT who I despise run and ruin the gas prices.

5 days ago, they were at 2.90. They then run the gas down about a penny every 3-4 days and Then, Whoa, up 12-14 Cents a Gal.

Wow, the Our Federal Govt. is going to Investigate and see if We The Consumer is getting Priced Gouged!:rolleyes:

Thank You Our Duely Elected Moroons!

KDDANI, Drive and ride in peace. Nice to be smart enough to have a small car and use park and ride!:cool:

Sadly humorous article on CNN today:

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- Some California drivers are resorting to desperate measures to beat the surge in gas prices at the pump -- deliberately running dry on the state's freeways and simply waiting for rescue.

Lujan's 20 trucks roam the busy freeways of Orange and Los Angeles counties as part of a publicly funded patrol that gives a free gallon of gas to drivers who have run out of fuel. It also offers other basic assistance to drivers whose vehicles have broken down.

read the rest

Yeah, my family's royalties have actually been pretty substantial lately. We used to be in O&G, had an oil company, several good wells. Sold 'em all off when Carter effed up the industry for the little guys. Now, we're only getting pennies on the dollar for what those wells should be paying us.

Lousy Democrats.

I work in O&G and my company is very happy these days... you'd think they'd show their happiness in my paycheck...

If it is any consolation, Houston is the energy "hub" and our gas prices here range from $2.95-$3+

Man, I thought Houston would be alot more expensive. It always seemed as if Houston was just about 10 cents behind Cali.


PS. You ever eat at the House of Pies!? It's YUMMY DUDE!

http://www.wyff4.com/news/9009756/detail.html

LOL, do they have a case?

GREENVILLE, S.C. -- An Upstate gas station has sued, saying that a competitor's lower per gallon prices at the pump have caused them to lose profits.

Pantry Inc. owns a gas station in Gaffney. It sued in Cherokee County, alleging that Petro Express had kept prices at two of its Gaffney stations below cost.

Pantry's suit said its competitor violated South Carolina's Unfair Trade Practices Act. Under the law, motor fuel companies cannot sell below cost with intent or effect of impairing competition.

Pantry said it has lost $165,000 and is seeking three times the amount it lost.

Isnt that where Enron WAS Located?

The Band Aid approach isnt going to do anything at all. When A Select Committee brings CEOs from Oil Companys to the table and CEO of Exxon says We did not raise gas to make profit, but to get The American Public to quit buying or slow down and they went for it is BS!

God, Our Big Govt. It is better that We see today, but, damn, We are not total Morons! :rolleyes:

Today, wow, down to 2.79.:( Gas War!:mad:

Actually funny you should mention that but in the past month I've had 2 instances of people approaching me at the gas station claiming they are broke and out of gas and asking for donations. Thats never happened to me before! Desperate times, desperate measures...

I filled up at $3.01 for unleaded Monday...:mad:

If you can't afford gas....don't drive.

Simple as that.

"Sorry Boss, I can't come in today because I can't afford the gas. By the way, how is that raise looking for me?"

Sudden drop from $2.89 to $2.79 at the station near me.. and on Thursday, the day it usually goes up up up. Hmmmm.

If you can't afford to drive to work...then you have some problems and probably don't have the money to own a car.

Ride a bike or something. Hell, this could be the best thing to happen to the US. It may get all the lard asses riding bikes to work.

I know people who commute 50 miles each way to work everyday. I don't think they'd ever make it on a bike! I'm lucky that my commute is only 25 miles each way and that I get 30 mpg.

And, it's not as though the only thing going up is gas prices. I just got my flood insurance bill for next year and that went up $200 (thanks Katrina). The adjustable rate mortgage bad news will come in mid-May.. probably $120 increase a month, from what I can estimate. I used to spend about $30 a pay period on gas and now I'm spending $80, so that's $100 a month more. Went to the grocery store today and EVERYTHING was 10-20 cents higher (they say because of increased shipping costs due to gas prices). You buy 50 items at an average of a 15 cent increase per item and you're talking about $7.50 a week or $30 a month. Any one of those alone is no big deal. All of them together is around $260 a month. It starts to hurt. The luxuries go out the window. Oh, and the heating gas bill.. DOUBLE what it was last year. My bill for Jan. was over $300 and it would usually be $150. So now you're up to $400 extra per month. I don't know many people who can swallow an extra $400 a month in bills easily. Just keep tightening the belt...

At that time it will come down to luxuries vs necessities. I know a lot of people that have bad spending habits and would rather spend their money on going out, new electronics, clothes, etc before they even think about bills.

Comes down to living within your means....which most people HATE doing.

the gas station i usually go to has been at $2.99 for the past week. what gives? usually it goes up 2-3 cents per day. i am not complaining though.

starting next week i will be taking public transportation to work. the bus stop is right outside my apartment door and the building i am at is a 2-3 minute walk from the rail station.

Thanks to the Saudis for their cooperation and help.
 

Thanks to the Saudis for their cooperation and help.

They are flooding the market with millons of extra barrels of crude, and forcing the US price for gas down, helping to re-elect the good guys and hasten the Democrats into high-paid lobbying and consulting jobs.

The Saudis are not dummies. They realize that if Democrats ever get control, al-Qiada and bin Laden will run wild - with their first target the oil under Saudi sands and the Saudi government.

Why yes! That's gotta be it... oil prices are dropping because the Saudi's don't want Democrats elected :rolleyes:

'Course it could also be that Alberta stepped up it's shipments of 'heavy oil' to the US for processing, as Oil Sands production almost doubled this year... but hey, can't possibly be this, because it doesn't centre on a foreign nation catering to US partisan politics...

Coop, agree to a certain degree.

But, the change over from summer to winter gas is also a consideration because of the aditives.

The US has a crap lot of oil, but the problem is refining!

American Car Companys are dieing on the vine for many reasons, one being non guzzleing cars.

They complain but do not do anything about it!

I drive 4 1/2 miles daily and some complain as they drive 50 + miles a day to work! DA!:mad:

So, who makes the decission about how far you drive and how much it costs?

You're mentally retarded.

Yes, Saudi Arabia, that great bastion of anti-terrorist feelings . . . wow.

Then why did gas at the station right by where I work jump 20 cents today?

Is it a Citgo? ;)

Edited because I hadn't had enough caffeine yet when I typed "Chevron" instead of "Citgo."

"Ann Coulter": Members of the Saudu house support al-Qiada et al.....and no one there seems to even attempt to control what is said what is said from the towers.......um.........for a country that controls just about everything else that goes on....um.........

I dunnno, but I just bought Gas at 1.97$ over the weekend.

In my area prices have dropped 20 cents in the past few weeks...about $2.54 or so now....

I paid 1.97 on monday, but it's up to 2.22 here now. Great, who'd we piss off this time?

Perhaps your, and our, answers are here:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15004503/

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14990662/

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8533441/

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15017321/

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12400801/

He's not kidding, the Al Saud family would probably much prefer a republican administration

True... it's not like they have the same connections within the Democrats - the Democrats would be much harder to wring consessions or deals out of...

Nope, there's a Speedway and a Shell right by my office, that both took the jump. And then another set a few miles down the road that I pass. Prices had been dropping until this recent spike.