Gas Prices Soar! - Page 6

winnieb · #76 03-21-2005, 03:21 PM

Gas was $2.04 over the weekend, for the cheap stuff. I filled up, 27 gallons of gas and $55 less in the bank!!!!

IowaStatePhiPsi · #77 03-21-2005, 04:44 PM

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Originally posted by RUgreek
Still, it was cool when gas was like .89 cents a gallon a few years back. Just another one of those "when I was your age" stories I get to tell down the road...

Hell, I'm telling that now to my cousin's kids. Oh you turned 16 and got your license! When I was your age gas was 90 cents a gallon! Amazing what a 6yr age difference can do for stories in a family.

texas*princess · #78 03-21-2005, 05:44 PM

are prices still going to go up?

i haven't really had the need to fill up until today, and i was seriously shocked.

DeltAlum · #79 03-21-2005, 06:14 PM

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Originally posted by IowaStatePhiPsi
Hell, I'm telling that now to my cousin's kids. Oh you turned 16 and got your license! When I was your age gas was 90 cents a gallon! Amazing what a 6yr age difference can do for stories in a family.

OK, now let's go WAY back.

My very first car (high school) was a little four cylinder Austin Healey Sprite.

You had to use "high test," or what we would call premium today because of its high compression engine.

It had an 8 gallon tank, but I didn't know that.

The first time I went into the gas station to fill up, I told the "attendent" who pumped the gas in those days -- no self serve -- that I wanted "$2.00 worth of high test."

It wouldn't fit.

At 21 cents per gallon, the most I could have paid to fill up was $1.68.

Rudey · #80 03-21-2005, 06:38 PM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
OK, now let's go WAY back.

My very first car (high school) was a little four cylinder Austin Healey Sprite.

You had to use "high test," or what we would call premium today because of its high compression engine.

It had an 8 gallon tank, but I didn't know that.

The first time I went into the gas station to fill up, I told the "attendent" who pumped the gas in those days -- no self serve -- that I wanted "$2.00 worth of high test."

It wouldn't fit.

At 21 cents per gallon, the most I could have paid to fill up was $1.68.

They had cars back then?

-Rudey

DeltAlum · #81 03-21-2005, 06:45 PM

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Originally posted by Rudey
They had cars back then?

-Rudey

Yeah. I think they were invented a year earlier. Of course the minimum wage was raised all the way up to $1.25/hour that year, too.

IowaStatePhiPsi · #82 03-23-2005, 06:58 PM

I'm sure this won't help...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4377519.stm

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Huge blast rocks Texas oil plant

An explosion has rocked an oil refinery in Texas, killing at least four people, according to local TV reports.

Television pictures showed firefighters picking through the smoking wreckage of the BP plant, south-east of Houston.

Emergency services warned people living near the site of the explosion to stay indoors, the Associated Press reported.

US gasoline prices jumped to a new high as word of the explosion hit the financial markets, reaching $1.604 (£0.8589) per gallon.

The explosion happened at 1330 (1930 GMT) at the western end of the plant, which covers an area of almost 500 hectares.

The Texas City refinery, 35 miles (55km) from Houston, is the third biggest in the US, employing 2,000 people.

It processes roughly 450 million barrels of crude oil each day.

That figure is approximately 3% of the US' domestic oil supply and one-third of BP's output across the US.

A BP spokesman told the BBC there was no official confirmation of casualties, but said at least one man was flown off the site by emergency helicopter.

Texas City resident Mike Martin described "a real loud explosion, like a sonic boom".

"It shook the pictures bad enough to where it knocked them off the wall. And it frightened me, so I jumped out of bed."

AznSAE · #83 03-23-2005, 11:44 PM

this morning it was at 2.03

i have never seen it passed $2 EVER over here.

AGDee · #84 03-24-2005, 02:09 AM

$2.19 here...

Oh, and I heard a BP refinery caught fire tonight and it's already making crude oil prices skyrocket. Adding fuel to the fire (literally and figuratively!)

I get corny when I'm tired.. sorry

ETA: I should read two posts above mine before I post, huh? My sincerest of apologies.

moe.ron · #85 03-24-2005, 04:18 AM

Bad news:

Indonesia was not able to meet its quota. The OPEC quota is at 1.4 bdp. Indonesia was only able to pump out 952,600 bpd. More bad news, Indonesia will only be able to pump 1.3 bpd by the year 2008.

DeltAlum · #86 03-24-2005, 11:31 AM

The refinery explosion in Texas City yesterday will drive prices up a couple of cents per gallon according to news reports today.

ZTAngel · #87 03-24-2005, 11:47 AM

I paid $2.09/g this morning. I think I'm going to start rollerblading to work.

BetteDavisEyes · #88 03-24-2005, 11:55 AM

I found cheap gas yesterday! It only cost me $2.35 a gallon.

This sucks.

#89 03-28-2005, 03:45 AM

Yep $2.37 this morning....$20 barely moved the dial

Kevin · #90 03-28-2005, 11:13 AM

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Originally posted by DeltAlum
The refinery explosion in Texas City yesterday will drive prices up a couple of cents per gallon according to news reports today.

I'm wondering whether or not that was really an accident. I've heard that any shortage in gas in the US isn't really attributed to our lack of crude oil, it's attributed to our lack of refinery capacity.