Gasoline Prices: Get Ready for ANOTHER Increase

[prayerfull]

Mr. Prayerfull wants to purchase a motorcycle. I'm not really feeling that too much, but after paying $78.00 this morning to fill up the Tahoe, I might just have to give in on this one.

[black_princess]

Originally posted by prayerfull
Mr. Prayerfull wants to purchase a motorcycle. I'm not really feeling that too much, but after paying $78.00 this morning to fill up the Tahoe, I might just have to give in on this one.

$78.00 . . see thats why I always put that cheap 87 gas im my car. . . my mom always asks my why I use that cheap stuff, and I have to tell her that there is NO way ima put some 89 or hi grade stuff in a car that's not even garunteed to start. It's like gambling everytime I turn the key yall . . . can we say hooptie anyway im a broke college student and I cannot afford it the way gas is headed

[GoldenGlow2000]

I am in Chicago and the gas prices are damn near $3.00!!!!! It now takes 27.00 to fill my tank from EMPTY. When I first got it, it only took $10.00!!!! I know it's not as bad as you guys with SUV's but this is ruining my plans to get my JAG!!! I am really thinking otherwise!

[enigma_AKA]

^^^Girl, if you are anywhere near the Loop, gas is already past a dollar. I work downtown now and will ONLY take the EL---park and ride for me, baby!


Hint--gas is cheapest on Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings because tha's when people least fill up their tanks. At least, according to my mother.

ETA--BTW, I found gas for $2.70 (where I live--North Shore) and was damn near about to cry I was so excited!!!

enigma_AKA

[GoldenGlow2000]

Now that is so sad! Now we have to ride around for a deal?! Come on!!! This is beyond ridiculous! Now when I see anythig that says 2.7? I think WOW! What a deal! ?

[Diva_01]

It just keeps creeping and creeping on up, every week! I hope it tops off at 3.05 and falls again like last summer...v

[Wonderful1908]

$40.02 for an my car Prissy an Alero?

WTH?

Originally posted by enigma_AKA
^^^Girl, if you are anywhere near the Loop, gas is already past a dollar. I work downtown now and will ONLY take the EL---park and ride for me, baby!


Hint--gas is cheapest on Tuesdays and Wednesday mornings because tha's when people least fill up their tanks. At least, according to my mother.

ETA--BTW, I found gas for $2.70 (where I live--North Shore) and was damn near about to cry I was so excited!!!

enigma_AKA

It was 3.17 a gallon downtown <<---I posted this the other day, it was somewhere on the North side, downtown

[enigma_AKA]

Originally posted by MsSweetness
It was 3.17 a gallon downtown <<---I posted this the other day, it was somewhere on the North side, downtown

Ri-dayum-diculous. I didn't see it over $3.05 yet, but I know you're telling the truth. Me and the Red Line are going to be great friends.

On a positive note--with all the walking I will be doing, I will be closer to my ideal weight by the time of Boule!!

enigma_AKA

[UpPinkies]

Originally posted by GoldenGlow2000
I am in Chicago and the gas prices are damn near $3.00!!!!! It now takes 27.00 to fill my tank from EMPTY. When I first got it, it only took $10.00!!!! I know it's not as bad as you guys with SUV's but this is ruining my plans to get my JAG!!! I am really thinking otherwise!

I'm in Chicago too. I HATE it that we have a gas tax. By me its 2.99 to 3.05 in the burbs. I had to redue my whole budget due to gas prices. Then they are saying gas could go up to 4.00 here. Well, I will be riding the bus.

[GoldenGlow2000]

Originally posted by UpPinkies
I'm in Chicago too. I HATE it that we have a gas tax. By me its 2.99 to 3.05 in the burbs. I had to redue my whole budget due to gas prices. Then they are saying gas could go up to 4.00 here. Well, I will be riding the bus.

I guess we both will be riding the bus! SAVE ME A SEAT!!

[Lady of Pearl]

It's about $3.19 for premium, can't complain too much, almost $20.00 will fill me up, has anyone heard about possible gas shortages in the Philadelphia, Delaware areas? this was on the news this past Friday! I saw Bush in California in the paper looking at possible alternative fuel systems-We Americans do not like to give up our automobiles!

[Sister Havana]

I'm in the suburbs of Chicago and gas prices are beyond ridiculous here, I agree!

I am so glad I can take public transit to and from work. Pace, Metra, and the CTA are my three best friends during the week.

[teena]

Full story

Running on cooking oil
Grease could replace gasoline
By DANIA AKKAD
Herald Salinas Bureau

DAVID ROYAL/The Herald
Daniel Fernandez, left, and Swarup Wood converted their Mercedes to run on used cooking oil. A Mercedes cruising around the Peninsula is hardly noteworthy.

Most of them, of course, don't smell like lunch.

Running in front of CSUMB's Chapman Science Center on a warm Tuesday afternoon, the exhaust puttering out of associate chemistry professor Swarup Wood's 1984 Mercedes smells like beef patties sizzling on a hot grill.

Nine months ago, Wood and his neighbor, associate physics professor Dan Fernandez, bought kits from a company in Maryland to reconstruct their cars' engines. With shipping, the kits cost $850. It took a weekend of dawn-to-dusk tinkering. Not an easy task, mind you. But by Sunday, the pair had successfully set up their cars to run on grease -- and found a way to take control of their gas habit while gas prices spin off the charts.

One tank of vegetable oil will run a 1984 Mercedes for a good 300 miles, sputtering out less pollutants than regular gas or diesel, at a savings of about $50 a week, they estimated.

[DC_Zeta1920]

Its a shame when you have to make life decisions at the pump.

I drive 10 miles to and 10 miles from work and thankfully, I will be starting a new job soon that is Metro rail accessible.