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03-11-2008, 10:16 AM
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Bumping this old thread after reading this article.
I'm curious to find out what gas prices are around the country. What is the price per gallon in your area? Has it changed the way you travel?
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03-11-2008, 10:19 AM
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Bumping this old thread after reading this article.
I'm curious to find out what gas prices are around the country. What is the price per gallon in your area? Has it changed the way you travel? |
3.25 in DC
3.17 in Baltimore
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03-11-2008, 10:28 AM
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Gasbuddy
You can search for gas prices around the country and in your area... My area, its $3.29- $3.49
I was in Jersey/AC area this weekend and gas was $3.00.... and they pump it for you!!!  
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03-11-2008, 10:30 AM
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$2.96 at my house in MN, $3.17 at my house in WI.
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03-11-2008, 11:36 AM
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Hilarious!
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03-11-2008, 11:40 AM
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Yeah, I hijacked that for later use.
The beginning of the thread is crazy - it really is all relative. The question has been asked - at what price will people start refusing to pay? The same has been asked about movie ticket prices... Both are ridiculous. Yet we continue to pay them. 
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03-11-2008, 12:36 PM
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Yeah, I hijacked that for later use.
The beginning of the thread is crazy - it really is all relative. The question has been asked - at what price will people start refusing to pay? The same has been asked about movie ticket prices... Both are ridiculous. Yet we continue to pay them. |
Pretty soon someone will bootleg gas like they bootleg movies.....
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03-11-2008, 01:10 PM
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How do we refuse to pay for gas? I wouldn't be able to get to work if I didn't buy gas. No work=homeless. It's not an option. There is no mass transportation that is available and feasible for me. I will have to pay whatever price it is no matter what. Thankfully, I have a Chevy Aveo that gets around 29 mpg city/35 highway. Unfortunately, there is so much road construction that even when I take the highway now, I'm getting city gas mileage.
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03-11-2008, 01:29 PM
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It is called devaluation of the American Dollar and since oil is traded for $$ the price of oil goes up and so it goes gas at the pump to car tanks.
I drive a 9 year old Honda that gets good gas mileage and drive 4.5 miles daily.
So, maybe we can thank thoses that drive SUVs, RVs, PU Trucks, and drive go fast boats at the local lakes that eat gas up. 
Or, how about those who live in the country for the living and drive 60-100 miles daily to and from work?
We aint seen nothing yet! 
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03-11-2008, 01:45 PM
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How do we refuse to pay for gas? I wouldn't be able to get to work if I didn't buy gas. No work=homeless. It's not an option. There is no mass transportation that is available and feasible for me. I will have to pay whatever price it is no matter what.
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I was in the same position when working in los angeles. There is light rail now, but doesn't reach wide area, and if you work a weird work schedule like graveyard to do news editing, you're sunk.
To use "mass transit" and get to work, I would have had to take a bus to to the light rail station, then the train to LA, then shuttle bus to job. Problem was the last bus that connected with the train was around 7 p.m. and when i got there, standing a bus stop alone at night in downtown LA, no.
Then, to get home, would have to do it all over, again. Total of 2 hrs one way, sometimes more, mass transit. Driving--1 hr.
I've been out of LA for a few years, moving back for school, and the cost of gas is affecting where I look for housing. I would love to live at the beach again, but it's too far for school.
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