so......how much do you pay for gas?

[crimsonknuckles]

this morning gas in my area went from $2.73 to $3.29!!! i\'m screwed this winter! oil heat!

[Stephengencs]

broccoli rabe $1.99 a pound

[leith]

I siphon from rich folk

[skalnbyc]

Cheapest gas in Oakland was $2.89 yesterday, though it may be higher today.  Most likely above $3 at the average Bay Area gas merchant though.  Personally, I don\'t really care because gas is such a small component of my expenditures.  I\'m more concerned for people on tight budgets that have to substitute other goods for gas.  

Hopefully gas will be slightly cheaper after the summer travel season ends and refining capacity is restored in the Gulf.  Either way, increasing global demand for oil is going to keep prices higher than we have been accustomed to in the long run.  Time to get those bikes tuned up.

[Spacey]

in all ser, I plan on leaving my car where ever it runs out.

Doesn\'t gas always go up a little bit during holiday weekends because of travel?

I like Leith\'s idea of siphoning gas from the rich guy, he drives a H1 and a H2.

Yes, Al is right here, time to get the bikes up and going.

[antbach]

It was $2.59ish at some places in RI yesterday. I drove by the same two places this afternoon and it was at $3.14-3.16 today! Im seriously considering blowing off my landlord this month and buying a scooter

[Ant-Man]

My parents just bought a Scion, it has a 1.5L engine, gets like 30-35 MPG...huge savings after filling up the big Buick Lesabre every week...

[boombox]

Gas at $3? Such great hardship!!! We have to pay nearly £1 a litre ie over £4 a gallon for regular unleaded and 5p a liter more for diesel, which is over double what you pay, then there\'s £150 a year road tax on top of the insurance. It\'s funny you guys having a price rise in the summer; I suffer most in th ewinter when most diesel prices go through the roof due to the demands for oil for heating.

As far as fuel economic cars go, I do think the States needs to get in on the act. My diesel Volvo does around 42 mpg or 53-55 on a long run. Even the big 4x4s still get approaching 30 mpg.

[SlimPickens]

cost me $45 to fill up a tank that 3 months ago only cost $25.  Hey, at least I don\'t live in the South, heard they\'re chargin\' upward of $6/g in ATL.... how is that legal?

[kyndkate]

Gas is $3.16/gal here in Indiana, and usually we\'re one of the more conservative states. We\'ve always had lower gas prices than everyone, until now.

[Spacey]

Get a Bike!

[Ant-Man]

Ya, over seas, the car engines are much smaller than here...some cars over there have 1 liter engines...If you want to pass someone on the highway you have to hit the A/C button with your index finger then shift down to 4/3rd gear, lol....talk about under powered...anyways...

cost me $45 to fill up a tank that 3 months ago only cost $25.  Hey, at least I don\'t live in the South, heard they\'re chargin\' upward of $6/g in ATL.... how is that legal?

I read something today, where a question arose that, how can gas stations charge that much for gas that is already in their tanks?  Good question, but I\'ve always asked myself this.  Why do they need to keep up with the day to day change in price?  When they go to fill their tanks they should then raise the price according to their costs.


I paid $2.89 for gas yesterday just as they were raising to $2.99, the guy said I was the last one to get that price...28 bux for half tank...BS

[skalnbyc]

I read something today, where a question arose that, how can gas stations charge that much for gas that is already in their tanks?  Good question, but I\'ve always asked myself this.  Why do they need to keep up with the day to day change in price?  When they go to fill their tanks they should then raise the price according to their costs.

Most of these stations probably receive daily shipments and thus the price that they pay fluctuates from delivery to delivery.  I used to work on a fuel dock.  I don\'t think the gas stations are making much, if anything from the rising prices.  From what I hear the refiners and oil companies are the ones making the bucks, while the gas stations operate on very narrow margins.  The oil oligopoly should be willing (or forced) to reduce their margins since the supply is being severly restricted in particular regions, most notably the south.  The profitability of the oil companies is also the reason why the development of alternative energy sources are being pushed so far into the future.  They don\'t want hybrids, solar cars and hydrogen vehicles to dominate just yet and have no incentives to spend heavily on the research and developement of alternative energy sources until the world\'s oil fields are depleted to exhaustion.

[Ant-Man]

The profit margin on petrolium for gas stations is very slim, the guy that runs the station down at the end of my street makes like a couple of cents on each gallon...

As far as them getting shipments everyday I honestly don\'t think it operates that way, because ultimatly if every gas station was getting a new supply of gas everyday, the high ways would be filled with oil tankers...maybe i\'m wrong, that\'s just a little logistical thinking behind it all...


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Ok I found what I was reading earlyer...

http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000006&sid=a2YWfT8rxhKQ&refer=home

Price Gouging

Alabama Attorney General Troy King said his office is investigating whether gasoline stations are breaking the law by unnecessarily raising the price of fuel in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

``Why are the prices going up on supplies that are already in tanks at gas stations?\'\' he said in an interview today. ``Alabama has a price gouging law. If we find that it\'s been violated -- it doesn\'t matter who has violated it -- they\'re going to be held to account.\'\'

The storm shut 1.36 million barrels, or 90 percent, of daily crude-oil output, according to the U.S. Minerals Management Service, which manages offshore resources. About 30 percent of U.S. oil production comes from platforms in the Gulf. The region receives more than half of U.S. oil imports and is home to about 50 percent of the nation\'s refining capacity.

[antbach]

having worked and managed a gas station for the majority of my teenage years I can say that gas in the tanks can and will be raised to the price of new shipments. most, if not all, places take daily deliveries as mentioned, and a few, like Forbes in New Haven and now No. High St take in multiple deliveries per day. The reasoning is that no gas station owner likes to run out of gas and will fill their tanks when it is at 1/3 full. So if they are going to bring half a load to their tanks at a new price they have every right to raise their prices accordingly whether or not you, as an individual pumper, are getting the old or new load of gas. If you were an owner would you want one of your employees calling you at 3am to tell you that the tank is now 2/3 full and the prices need to be raised? Nope. Working their six plus years I have heard every complaint in the book about the price of gas, and have been interviewed by news channel 8 on more than one occasion as to how I deal with pissed off customers (mind you this was when gas was like 1.47 a gallon!). Yes, I know I bitch about it all the time, but hey I\'m poor.

And for those of you pissed off about them raising it so much, you must understand that gas stations do not make more money when prices are raised. They actually make money when the price goes DOWN!