Can you believe the price of gas now???

jeez!!! don't know how I missed this thread!!! I resurrected one from the dead. Sorry!!!

Gas here is now $2.99 for 87 grade!!!

 

The picture I m 99% sure is from the Atlanta , the Governor has apparently also seen it and has warned about prosecution for gouging.
The area is reported to be 3.99. some parts are going to apparently have delivery disruptions also due to, electricity failures. cant get there from here problem.

The cost in life and misery down South is far worst that the cost we will all pay for a month or so. Thank God for the RED CROSS, Salvation Army etc. They take credit card donations, any thing helps.

Hopefully many citizens in all of the country will drive less to make more GAS available to others. If there is a 25 % short fall and we drove 1 or 2 less trips a week, imagine the gas that wont be used and ultimately the price should stabilize or ideal drop to PRE summer levels. and hopefully well have greater exploration everywhere to find more energy after the crisis.

 

UPDATE; Just paid $3.17 for regular in suburbs of Phila. some are higher. car calls for 91 octane, FORGET ABOUT IT! at $3.48

DRIVE THE PRICE OF GAS DOWN!
Slow down,drive less, OR wait in lines later.

Lets see, think I'LL slow down and drive less.

 

Damn, that is so unbelievable. I doubt the prices will drop anytime soon.

 

Chicago south burbs:

$3.29 87 octane
$3.39 89
$3.49 93

yikes on wherever that 6 bucks a gallon is at in the above pic!

 

I just got gas about 15 minutes ago or so and paid $3.06 for mid grade (89 octane) gas.

 

here in easton, pa it was funny when stepping out of the office the local exxon changed it 4 times

 

It's predicted to hit between $3.10 and $3.50 here by Saturday. I predict that it will spike to $5.00 before it drops back down.

 

Are you near Braden air park (airport)?

 

I got gas for $2.79 for regular.

Almost every gas station was out of gas (due to Katrina). I got back to my town at 7:20 p.m. and I drove from station to station until I saw a tanker truck pull into Mobil, so I followed the truck and I was 2nd in line to get gas. After I left, the line stretched around the station for at least a block. There must have been at least 30 cars waiting for gas after I was done at the station.

After I filled up my Explorer, I went home. I didn't get back to my house until 8:40 p.m.

 

nope right between rt 78 and rt 22 along the delaware

 

It is 2.78 here thank goodness for the motorcycle

 

Here in NJ they are only allowed to change the price once in a 24 hour period, if they get caught changing it more then once it's a 5000.00 fine.

They say a few weeks to a month & a half, if they get the refineries & pipelines back up and running, now they are letting foreign ships with fuel & crude oil to dock in US ports to help the supply problems, guess it's time to dust off my bicycle & hope for good weather.

 

Prespective

The Gulf Coast just got WRECKED. The Gulf coast is werre a SIGNIFIGANT amount of our domestic oil comes from. Prices will be spiking VERY soon.

More higher econmomy fuel cars + slower drivers + less driving + more carpooling on the behalf of EVERYONE in this country and we cound see gas prices go down to under $2/gallon. It won't happen though unfortunately.

By the way, Our oil importing doesn't look so good either. Oil future prices keep going up because EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY that we import oil from has some Strife of some kind happening or waiting to hapen. (Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Nigeria, Vewnezuela to nme a few.)

 

I filled up near my office in Anaheim (45 @$#%ing miles away @$#@#*&&!@#%^*) and paid $2.89 for 91-octane. When I left in the afternoon it was $2.99.

The average around here in the ghetto part of the Valley, where Tony and I live, is about $2.89 for regular, though I only passed one gas station when I went running this morning.

California doesn't rely so much on Gulf pipelines, because we have our own, down in Carson (a.k.a. Carsonigen), so we're actually cheaper than most of the areas. I'm on my way to Houston in about half an hour and I don't want to think about what I'm going to see there, we're staying real close to the Astrodome.

 

Respect to everyone: BUT; this is the doom that we heard in the mid1970s. Then there were gas lines. Prices spiked. Then they fell. Demand was only part of the problem, supply and holding back oil was another. Cars got 8-10 miles to the gallon. Then in 1979 it again spiked, no lines in most of the country, just higher prices. toped at .99. then dropped.

Sure China is using up oil, but then too, Walmart and other Corps are buying underpriced goods from the very factories burning that same oil.

France is 78% nuclear we are less than 20%. And France no paragon, does have very high oil prices but has 0, production in the country and most of the fuel charge is TAX.

If the US government would fund conversion from oil to electric over time while building nuke and coal plants. Crude could be used far less for electric generation, and heating; And gas would be cheap again. Then to the government must use federal land and build refineries and lease them to oil companies. NIMBY, tree huggers be dammed.

What do you think?

 

here is what I posted yeaterday on another thread, for what it is worth.
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DRIVE DOWN THE PRICE of GAS!
Slow down, drive less, or wait in lines like the 1970s.
Think I'LL slow down and try to drive less; for a while.


And please remember, no matter how much gas you can afford
you have no right to frivolously use everyone else's. You may be using the police, fireman or medical workers' who will be treating you when you need help. If they can get to work!

 

Oh do I remember those day's, odd/even plate fuel day's, going to a station at night that appeared closed to fill 55 gal drums for our tow trucks. I don't ever want to see that again, It comes back to conserving fuel & not running to the store or wherever just to browse or go on a road trip because your bored.
As well as building more nuke plants, they need to build more refineries to process the oil, they have been saying that has been a problem for a few years & now it's catching up to us, people just need to use common sense & for those that don't have any, need it forced into there heads & get out of there "me" thought patterns.

Even the President said yesterday, stop driving & buying fuel if you can.

 

It's filled up now, Zaphod as you may have seen by now. How hard is it to get around Houston by car now?

 

zap, this might not be the best time to visit Houston.

I filled up my car for $2.49 the other night, on my way home just now I saw a bunch of stations wanting $2.89 for the cheap stuff.

 

Dan, what kind of car are you driving? can't you get away with using 87 octane?

BTW, here's Daily Fuel Gauge Report

 

Its a week or so later;

did we all get used to getting soaked for gas?

 

Prices here dropped. After a brief spike to $2.92 (about 11 hours) it dropped back to $2.89 here and $2.87 a few miles down the road.

 

$2.87 for the cheap stuff here.

 

Not sure where you guys are but here in Pa. The lowest I have seen was 3.18 with most still much higher, for 87 octane.