Fill up the tank today--and start looking into carpooling
 

No kidding. After reading that, I called my wife and told her to fill up.

Around here, gas is around $1.94-1.98, so we're looking at $2.20-2.25 very shortly. Ouch.

Gas just went up from $1.81 to $2.09 around here, so hopefully that's not ANOTHER 25 cents... but it wouldn't surprise me, frankly.

what does everyone get so worked up about? i don't ever get it. what you wind up paying with these hikes usually only amounts to under $10 in extra costs. if you can't afford an extra $10 to fill up your tank you probably should sell your car and take public transportation.

gas is just one of those things that you will always pay for, no matter what the price. what are you gonna do - let your brand new SUV collect dust in your garage? no. you're gonna grin and bear it and pony up. same with electricity. electric companies could theoretically charge $1k per month in electric bills and you'd pay it. you wouldn't go without electricity.

so you can complain about it, but it gets you nowhere. you will always pay for gas regardless of what the price is. if it bothers people that much they shouldn't buy SUV's and stick to Honda Civics.

Yesterday gas was $1.88 a gallon, today... ONE DAY LATER it was $2.08.. wth.

Hmmm, I'm only down a quarter tank, but I'll look into topping it off this afternoon...

wow, I got gas today and didn't even notice

Damn. I don't think it's hit here yet. They should really make the news a bit more timely so we can take action in advance.

Will be filling up both cars today...

I'm with HA on this. I have a 12 gallon gas tank in my Honda. So...gas goes up 25 cents a gallon. Ok...so I run out and make an extra trip to save, at most, $3?!

Jebus...how many times do we spend an extra $10 to have a game sent to us overnight?

Quick, run for your lives! Gas is going up 25 cents! Moral outrage! Yada, yada, yada.

We'll pay $3 a gallon for certain kinds of water, $4 a gallon for milk, but if gas reaches $2 a gallon it's Armageddon.

I don't necessarily find the prices outrageous, I think the price fluctuations are the major problem for everyone. Why is a gallon of gas worth $.20-$.25 more today than it was yesterday?

The same reason a DVD is worth $5 more the day its released than two months later - supply and demand.

With gas, it appears to me that supply and demand is largely anticipatory, and the pricing doesn't really reflect 'now.' This is all in anticipation of what could happen - which makes it much easier to upwardly adjust prices in the present and then bring them back down when reality didn't actually mirror the perception of what would occur.

Not to mention that when I drive down to South Tallahassee (a whopping 10 minute drive), gas prices will be 5-8 cents cheaper.

I agree with that, Bbor. What I was mostly responding to are the people who will rush out or go out of their way today to fill up their gas tank.

You guys are missing the bigger picture....if gas prices go up....which is transport prices...that means food cost and other things that get shipped will also rise to cover cosws,and let's face it...once the price on goods go up it rarely comes back down even if transportation prices go down.

This is a much better argument, not the fact it costs some random driver an extra $3 a week on his commute.

Where I live, the prices can change by as much as $.25 - $.50 by going half a mile in any direction...literally.

Yep. Our nation's dependence on this will cost everyone more, even if you bike/walk everywhere you go.

It's as much the Chinese dependence on foreign oil that is driving this. Since I doubt that is going away anytime soon, better get used to the upward trend in gas pricing (and any other pricing that is affected by the price of gasoline)...

I agree, but I don't think you use 12 gallons of milk a week. :p

After my divorce last year, I was left without a car for the first time in 11 years. Even with the car (1 car family) I took the bus a lot. Now, I am reliant on the metro for all my traveling needs (til the summer when I can bike around town).

I don't miss worrying about things like this. I haven't bought gas in 4 months.

But does that explain why people feel they must rush out to get their gas tank filled up before the price goes up?

I think this is what HA and CraigSca were talking about.

If I notice the price change, I won't be mad long as I think about all the SUV drivers while I fill up my Civic. :)

The same reason people buy cases of batteries and soup for a two day blizzard.

Speaking as someone who lives in the land of expensive gasoline, I can tell you that this is totally true.

I have spent $154 on gas in the last 10 days.

To some of us, $3-10 dollars is a lot of money. Especially when that is twice a week, not once every two. *sigh* I need a new job.

I would be staggered if that were literally true. But you may live on neptune, for all I know.

Why? I can go to one corner here and the gas prices are $.25 a gallon different, and the next corner may be $.50.

You mean you don't tip convience store clerks? You're an ogre.

:rolleyes:

Stop tipping so much.

I paid $1.93 for high test last week in the morning, that evening it was $2.03. Today at the same station it's about $2.11 for high test. It's about 1.83 for the low-grade.

It makes me remember when I moved to Oklahoma in 1998 and that fall I saw gas for $.70 per gallon at two stations. Now it's getting to be triple that....which regardless of dollar value, is pretty significant.

Because it's the same forces that would make $.20-$.25 cheaper sometime in the near future. Remember the last it did this?

The point on cost of transport goods would keep prices higher. Maybe we should be complaining about those industries instead of the one that would dare to lower its prices.

A penny saved is a penny earned, beyotch! :D

The people in your car did though.... Whew! Cut down on the lactose, man!

Thanks for the tip. I went ahead and filled my tank. It is $2.03 for regualr here in Kenosha, Wisconsin. :)

Gentlemen, things could get much, much worse very quickly. Apparently Russia is attempting to create its own version of OPEC, and would like to do so using a gold-backed ruble as the exchange medium. Saudia Arabia, meanwhile, would like to begin using a gold-backed dinari as its official exchange medium. As you well know, Nixon took us off the gold standard in the 1970s, so we basically just print money and expect everyone to honor its value. If others start using a gold-backed currency and forsake the dollar to do so, you can expect some pretty drastic results.