What's a gallon of 87 regular unleaded in your neck of the woods?

£3.80 ish which comes in at about $7.70 at current rates? You can feel the government shafting you every time you fill up :mad:

Lol

2.34 87

It's horrible, It hasnt even warmed up yet it is still in the lower 30s and high 20s and we just got pounded with more snow! Id be walking/cycling if it was warm enough.

1.98, but I'm sure it will get worse soon. Sucks for me because I commute 110 miles a day for work.

2.28- 2.32

About $2.08 or so a gallon. I can't wait for spring so I cant start just riding a bike to work and stop buying gas.

yeah. and its all the chineses fault you know, theyre bying all that oil, stockpiling it for ww3

who do you thinkll win that one?

:D

I work at an investment firm, and sorry to break it to you boys, but at 50$ish US per gallon right now, people are expecting crude to trade for as hight as 80$US per gallon within 5 to 10 years. on that thought. Energy equities are still attractive investments because like Prince Harry said, Chinese demand is driving up the prices of Commodities. Also, this Chinese Demand is clearly a long-term trend, with no signs of abating, any energy companies, Alberta oil sands, Crude, Cement, Nickel, Aluminum, etc etc.. good to be long of.

sorry what I meant after all that crazp was that gas prices are gonna go up more.

i got you juicyjoe..

still 80£ a barrel, that sounds like something out of a madmax movie.

i can picture the humungus character at a gas station

"just give us the oil, the pump and the whole compound - ill give you free pass inn the wasteland

i love that iron mask and the swedish acsent :D

"you heard him say, just walk away! he gave his word!

about 1.99, for now. Im sure its on the way up.

2.09 in Mich...it's bull****.

If only we could revisit the days where gas was $1.39...

I remember gas being Right around a buck. and Cigarettes right about two bucks a pack, for Marlboro's. Ahh the gold ol' days, just ten years ago. :(

Yeah but your wages reflected that,
here right nows its about $1.90

It's about 1.89 where I live.

Petroleum is a limited, nonrenewable energy source. There is an unlimited demand for it. So no **** the price is going to continue to rise.

Here's an idea, let's start putting more energy and monbey into developing alternative fuel sources. Remember that great idea Carter had back in the 70's? Then we wouldn't be so dependant on middle eastern oil and that entire region could fall back into the third world and nobody will give a ****.

BTW, The original Mad Max and Road Warrior were both great flicks.

This morning near my house gas was 2.39 a gallon for 87. I guess I win. :mad:

This morning near my house gas was 2.39 a gallon for 87. I guess I win. :mad:

One of the few downsides of living in San Diego I'm sure. :D

This morning near my house gas was 2.39 a gallon for 87. I guess I win. :mad:


Such a hard life you have living in a year round perfect climate. :D

Hey Sho-nuf, explosivo and Oldgringo...

You guys interested in joining my NCAA tournament pool?

$1.86 here wich is outside of Atlanta. I also heard that they expect it to go up .25 with in 2 months and to go up as much as $80 a barrel within 2 yrs. Time to get the mopeds out.

Here's an idea, let's start putting more energy and monbey into developing alternative fuel sources. Remember that great idea Carter had back in the 70's? Then we wouldn't be so dependant on middle eastern oil and that entire region could fall back into the third world and nobody will give a ****.


It's not gonna happen. Do you really think big oil is going to just sit back and watch their monopoly on the world's most precious resource disappear because some scitentist invents an efficeint new fuel source? Never gonna happen. Here's the thing: the only way that this research is going to get done is if government funding subsidizes it. No one company can allocate enough resources to get it done on their own...if they even tried shareholders would through a fit. And there's no way the gov't is ever going to provide the funding. Do you think companies like Halliburton, which have their claws all over the present administration, would let that happen? No way. And there's a half-dozen other big oil firms that are propping up gov'ts all over the world.

The ties between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia also play a factor. Just because Michael Moore might have exaggerated the links between the two countries does not mean that there aren't any. Since day one since the House of Saud took power it has had ties with the U.S. When the U.S. wanted in the Europe-dominated Middle East oil industry it went to Saudi Arabia. Do you think the Sauds are going to let the one industry which keeps them rich and keeps them in power become obsolete? Not bloody likely.

Well it's inevitable. The oil will dry up some day and we need to be ready. As gas prices increase the human outcry will become louder and eventually The government of US and other nations will start funding alternative fuel R&D. This may not happen for another 50 years but it will happen.

Either that or we really will end up like the road warrior. :eek: :D

Either that or we really will end up like the road warrior. :eek: :D

That sounds great!!!!!

Well it's inevitable. The oil will dry up some day and we need to be ready. As gas prices increase the human outcry will become louder and eventually The government of US and other nations will start funding alternative fuel R&D. This may not happen for another 50 years but it will happen.

Either that or we really will end up like the road warrior. :eek: :D

This is the sick thing about society that people have to understand: the powers-that-be would rather see the whole world go to hell than to lose their grip on power. Big oil firms will run the world into the ground before they concede a cent to alternative energy research. When the oil dries up we may not have the mechanisms in place to deal with it. You have to prepare for disaster before you can deal with it, at least when you're talking about a 6-billion plus world population.

Anyway, I'm a pessimist about this issue, so you can take or leave what I say :cool: .

If the world goes to hell, then big oil does too.....no what the big oil companies are really trying to do is find an alternative powersource that THEY and no entrepeneur can control and harvest etc.

If the world goes to hell, then big oil does too.....no what the big oil companies are really trying to do is find an alternative powersource that THEY and no entrepeneur can control and harvest etc.

I see your point, but when we talk about oil companies we really mean the people in charge of oil companies, and in reality none of them give a damn what happens to the company in the future. They only care about what happens to it whiel they're in charge. They'll do whatever it takes to maximize shareholder value during their tenure. What that means is that they'll do what they can while they're there to maintain the oil company's dominance over the energy sector. Once they're gone, the company can go bust and it doesn't mean a thing to them. Sure, there would be one unlucky guy in charge when it all goes to hell, but it's easy to find a sap to put in charge to take the heat when something like that happens.

Another thing is that the only energy sources that can be controlled are those that are non-renewable, like coal and oil. The world economy is built on people sucking the planet dry. We've wiped out or nearly wiped out all of the gold, iron, timber, ivory, fish, coal, oil, and all kinds of other stuff in most parts of the world. There will be no way we can create a sustainable economy as long as it is based on selfish greed.

Time to buy that VW TDI boys, 40MPG!! :eek:

Of course its diesel but its as efficient as it gets wihout buying a 2 seat hybrid.

stupid ****s going up like theres gonna be no tomorrow, right now it is $2.28.

I point and laugh at the stupid ****s driving Hummers.

I point and laugh at the stupid ****s driving Hummers.

Why?

If they can afford it why is it such a bad thing to drive a hummer?

Why?

If they can afford it why is it such a bad thing to drive a hummer?

Let's see...they're too big for the road, making things more dangerous for the rest of us. They consume obscene amounts of gasoline, which creates air pollution and makes a scarce resource even more scarce, which incidentally drives up prices. Plus they cost more than it would cost to feed probably hundreds of third-world children for an entire year.

I'm not trying to tell people when they can and cannot buy...but since you asked :cool: .

Let's see...they're too big for the road, making things more dangerous for the rest of us. They consume obscene amounts of gasoline, which creates air pollution and makes a scarce resource even more scarce, which incidentally drives up prices. Plus they cost more than it would cost to feed probably hundreds of third-world children for an entire year.

I'm not trying to tell people when they can and cannot buy...but since you asked :cool: .

Why is it so different then people who buy a pick-up, large sedan, etc etc as opposed to say a Hybrid/electric vehicle?

Everyone knows the problem at hand (pollution). But no one does anything about it even though its within their grasp. Why do people just rag on the Hummer buyers. Why are we not ragging on the people who bought top of the line compact sedans instead of a civic hybrid which woulda cost less or the same?

as far as the too big for the road argument, why arent we raggin on the owners of extended S-10s, Range Rovers etc all of which are longer than the hummer.

im seeing at alot of places its 2.39 and im complaining about 2.05. i guess i should just shut up and be happy

Why is it so different then people who buy a pick-up, large sedan, etc etc as opposed to say a Hybrid/electric vehicle?

Everyone knows the problem at hand (pollution). But no one does anything about it even though its within their grasp. Why do people just rag on the Hummer buyers. Why are we not ragging on the people who bought top of the line compact sedans instead of a civic hybrid which woulda cost less or the same?

as far as the too big for the road argument, why arent we raggin on the owners of extended S-10s, Range Rovers etc all of which are longer than the hummer.

You're right. The Hummer owners only share the blame with everyone else you've mentioned. Of course they'll get the most attention because they're the flashiest, most expensive vehicles around, but that doesn't mean they're the only ones causing problems.

This is the sick thing about society that people have to understand: the powers-that-be would rather see the whole world go to hell than to lose their grip on power.

anyone who doesn't realize that is a moron. anywayz, i dunno nor care how much gas is. just another bill.

1.89 here. Hoping it doesnt go up too much.

1.98, but I'm sure it will get worse soon. Sucks for me because I commute 110 miles a day for work.
I hope you get over 20 miles a gallon, 1.95 a gallon, in Mexico it sales per liter about 1.25 a litter so close to $5.00 a gallon

my car gets about 30 miles to the gallon, not bad but I much rather get 45+ like I use to with my honda crx

$1.79 here.

There have been several designs for cars that would self-regenerate their own fuel, so basically, you wouldn't even have to get any type of fuel source, at least for long periods of time.

And hell, say we went to hydrogen, they did a test on some cars and some of the cars were able to go from the west coast all the way to the east coast on one tank of gas.

Hydrogen would be ideal because every country in the world has that. People try saying it is flammable and explosive. What the **** do you think gasoline is? And hydrogen is much lighter, so it would try escaping into the atmosphere. It wouldn't be any more dangerous than what we drive now. That is just OPEC or Bush or someone pushing that bull**** line on us.

$1.79 per gallon here in New Orleans....

im seeing at alot of places its 2.39 and im complaining about 2.05. i guess i should just shut up and be happy


Isnt it horrible that you have to be happy at paying $2.05 for gasoline?

Isnt it horrible that you have to be happy at paying $2.05 for gasoline?
just be glad your car doesnt run off of bottle water, Mercedez has a car that runs off of water I think