Price of Gas! (Rant)

[carsonshepherd]

I just put 6 gallons of gas in my car and it cost me 12 fucking dollars! $1.96/ gallon. Son of a bitch.

Makes me long for the Clinton adminstration, when our president was getting impeached for getting a blow job in the Oval Office, but gas was 98 cents a gallon.

Anybody else paying more than $1.96?

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I just put 6 gallons of gas in my car and it cost me 12 fucking dollars! $1.96/ gallon. Son of a bitch.

Makes me long for the Clinton adminstration, when our president was getting impeached for getting a blow job in the Oval Office, but gas was 98 cents a gallon.

Anybody else paying more than $1.96?

$2.08 at the station down the street from my office... and that's just regular. Premium is $2.40.

Makes me glad I got rid of my one-ton (12 miles to the gallon) when I did and not mind driving my little wagon (30 miles to the gallon) so much.

 

[LadyJeanne]

I can only dream of such low prices.

$2.35 in San Francisco for the regular unleaded. Went up 8 cents this week.

 

[yui]

Paid $2.06/gal last week. Sucks.

 

[minsue]

*waiting for the Europeans to weigh in on the subject*

 

[Wildcard Ky]

$2.05 for regular.

I'm dreading the trips to the lake when I have to fill up the truck and the boat at the same time.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Send your thanks to The American Petroleum Association c/o The White House.

 

[moonlight elf]

$2.25......it sucks big time....grrr

 

[logophile]

And our gas is still cheaper than almost everywhere else in the world.

I have a van. It has a 25 gallon tank. At 2.22 a gallon this week it was $50 bucks to fill it.
Ouch.

 

[carsonshepherd]

The cheapest place I found on my trip last week was $1.86 outside of St. Louis.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

*waiting for the Europeans to weigh in on the subject*

Yes, but they're smarter than most Americans, they don't drive SUV's the size of Kansas. They also have diesels that get 50+ mpg.

 

[minsue]

Yes, but they're smarter than most Americans, they don't drive SUV's the size of Kansas. They also have diesels that get 50+ mpg.

I love the way you say that as though we have no choice in the matter.

 

[Wildcard Ky]

And our gas is still cheaper than almost everywhere else in the world.

I have a van. It has a 25 gallon tank. At 2.22 a gallon this week it was $50 bucks to fill it.
Ouch.

Back to the lake thing. My truck has a 22 gallon tank, and my boat has a 40 gallon tank. Ouch........................

 

[carsonshepherd]

Yes, but they're smarter than most Americans, they don't drive SUV's the size of Kansas. They also have diesels that get 50+ mpg.

But now diesel isn't much cheaper than regular, if at all.

 

[yui]

Back to the lake thing. My truck has a 22 gallon tank, and my boat has a 40 gallon tank. Ouch........................

You might want to consider a sailboat or a canoe. Just sayin'…

 

[neonlyte]

*waiting for the Europeans to weigh in on the subject*

I've woken with indigestion and thought I might find a paliative here - foolish me!

In Portugal we pay slightly over 1 Euro a litre - about 5$80 a gallon.

Last time I'm turning the computer on in the middle of the night.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I love the way you say that as though we have no choice in the matter.

You want proof of how stupid some Americans are? Do you know what the number one complaint that people had about their new Hummer H2's last year was? Poor gas mileage. Well no fucking shit you morons... it's a freaking office building on wheels.



BTW... Hyundai Elantra Wagon... 14 gallon tank x 30 mpg x $2 gallon = 420 miles on $28

Hummer H2... 32 gallon tank x 12 mpg x $2 gallon = 384 miles on $64

 

[Wildcard Ky]

You might want to consider a sailboat or a canoe. Just sayin'…

BLASPHEMY!! I've got to have a 20 foot bass boat with a 200hp engine to keep up with the redneck Jonses.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

But now diesel isn't much cheaper than regular, if at all.

In the states it's actually higher, but the milage is also higher... so it's really a wash. In europe it's encouraged by the governments so the taxes on diesel are much lower.

 

[Dar~]

It cost me 42 dollars to fill my tank yesterday!!!

 

[ElizabethWest]

$1.90 a gallon here.

 

[neonlyte]

In UK it actually cheaper to run your car on cooking oil (diesel only), except it's against the law. Been some recent cases of people being fined for running their vehicles on used oil, about 0$40 a litre, dumb clucks used old Fish and Chip shop oil and got pulled over for smelling like a fryer on wheels.

Diesel prices in UK are now more or less the same as gas. Varies in other EU countries, but not by much anymore.

 

[yui]

BLASPHEMY!! I've got to have a 20 foot bass boat with a 200hp engine to keep up with the redneck Jonses.

http://www.addis-welt.de/smilie/smilie/autoboat/smi-rowboat.gif <--- 1yp (yui powered) or 2pp (people powered)

 

[Wildcard Ky]

$1.90 a gallon here.

I'll have to remember that for when I'm headin down to your neck of the woods.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

In UK it actually cheaper to run your car on cooking oil (diesel only), except it's against the law. Been some recent cases of people being fined for running their vehicles on used oil, about 0$40 a litre, dumb clucks used old Fish and Chip shop oil and got pulled over for smelling like a fryer on wheels.

Diesel prices in UK are now more or less the same as gas. Varies in other EU countries, but not by much anymore.

That is actually legal in the US because there are no regulations about using alternative means of power. Diesel is taxed, but if you use a not petrol based fuel then they have no say.

THere are a few shops in the US that convert existing diesels to cooking oil... mostly VW but some old Mercedes also.