it's $3.99 a gallon here.

Paid $3.65 today. WHAT A DEAL!!!!  ::)

cheech & Chong?  I still better wait til I get home for streaming video at work, no telling who's monitoring my usage  :o

There's all kinds of Cheech & Chong stuff on YouTube~

Anyway, many stations around here are now 4+ per gal. all grades.

I did hear on the radio the market might be peaking.  I can dream can't I?
:(

Anyway, many stations around here are now 4+ per gal. all grades.

I did hear on the radio the market might be peaking.  I can dream can't I?
:(


For once I'm going to have to come over to your side. Right now supply is meeting demand easily yet by simply posturing that the price will increase, the thieves on wall street are enabling to go higher, for once, Market sanctions might be a thought.

As of today, it's $3.89 a gallon.  :(

I've read some articles about gas thieves and how they're drilling holes into the gas tanks of other people's vehicles. Now there's something else to worry about.  :(

For once I'm going to have to come over to your side. Right now supply is meeting demand easily yet by simply posturing that the price will increase, the thieves on wall street are enabling to go higher, for once, Market sanctions might be a thought.


Theives, schmieves.

March 08/March07 gasoline consumption shows the largest year-over-year decline in 30+ years.

Perhaps $4.00/gallon (USD/USGal) is the tipping point at which US consumers stop buying and start walking, biking, carpooling, swallowing their pride and taking the bus, or moving closer to where they work. 

I don't enjoy $4.00/gallon any more than any other American.  But I'm seriously impressed the geeks who've reverse-engineered their Priuses and developed techniques like "pulse-glide" and "warp stealth".  A skilled driver can get 70-80 MPG out of a stock Prius.  An unskilled driver gets 50 MPG.  And neither driver need be an obstacle to traffic.  My inner gamer geek thinks that "hypermiling" sounds like fun, and my inner engineering geek thinks that "hypermiling" is going to be the 21st century's version of "hot rodding".

There are numerous do-it-yourself conversions for hybrid vehicles that enable them to be recharged by plugging them into the wall socket overnight (thereby using the off-peak-hours, and thus cheapest, electricity that your local utility company can generate), for costs that, even at a mere $3.00/gallon for gasoline, can deliver miles-per-dollar (which is what we really care about) well over the 100-miles-per-gallon mark even for the most unskilled driver.

Necessity is the mother of invention.  (Corollary: Necessity?  She's a mother.)  But that's how free markets work.  The 1970s featured Chrysler's Cordoba (with Rich Corinthian Leather) and upstart Honda's 50MPG "Civic" CVCC technology.  Over the next 10 years, Honda utterly destroyed the Big Three.  But looking at what's under the hood of cars today, is that so bad?  We've got 70s mileage, but we've got 500 horsepower under the hood.  Or we've got 70s CVCC mileage out of four cylinders and the acceleration of a V8.

It's Malaise 2.0.  Who knows what sorts of technological advances will be in the vehicles we'll be driving 10 years from now?  I love my gas guzzler, but within my lifetime (maybe within 10 years), I'm going to have to order fuel for it online.  One day a month I get to turn gasoline into CO2 and noise, but if the Tesla Roadster and whoever makes the Aptera are any indication of what's in store for body styling, and the Prius hackers are any indication of what's in store for shadetree mechanics/hackers, the other 29 days of the month sound like fun too.

(Gas thieves?  LOL!  My car's so old it still has a locking gas cap, and it shipped that way from the factory!)

Well, so much for $3.85. The station that was at $3.85 yesterday upped the price, but they were in the midst of changing it, so all I know is that it's 3 ninety-something. I'm betting it'll be $3.99.

I'll edit tomorrow morning.

Edit: Close, 3.95... great.

Yes.

Dave's not here!
c'mon man, open the door. it's Dave.  ;D


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7gWB7IzxtU
I must have watched 10 other Cheech and Chong videos once I got home and got started

Theives, schmieves.

March 08/March07 gasoline consumption shows the largest year-over-year decline in 30+ years.

Perhaps $4.00/gallon (USD/USGal) is the tipping point at which US consumers stop buying and start walking, biking, carpooling, swallowing their pride and taking the bus, or moving closer to where they work.


Heck, out here there might be more folks using public transportation, such as the train. I know ridership out here has certainly gone up in recent times.


I don't enjoy $4.00/gallon any more than any other American.  But I'm seriously impressed the geeks who've reverse-engineered their Priuses and developed techniques like "pulse-glide" and "warp stealth".  A skilled driver can get 70-80 MPG out of a stock Prius.  An unskilled driver gets 50 MPG.  And neither driver need be an obstacle to traffic.  My inner gamer geek thinks that "hypermiling" sounds like fun, and my inner engineering geek thinks that "hypermiling" is going to be the 21st century's version of "hot rodding".

I'll have to look that one up; I don't believe I've seen that term before...but I think I can intuitively guess its meaning.

Theives, schmieves.

March 08/March07 gasoline consumption shows the largest year-over-year decline in 30+ years.

Perhaps $4.00/gallon (USD/USGal) is the tipping point at which US consumers stop buying and start walking, biking, carpooling, swallowing their pride and taking the bus, or moving closer to where they work. 

I don't enjoy $4.00/gallon any more than any other American.  But I'm seriously impressed the geeks who've reverse-engineered their Priuses and developed techniques like "pulse-glide" and "warp stealth".  A skilled driver can get 70-80 MPG out of a stock Prius.  An unskilled driver gets 50 MPG.  And neither driver need be an obstacle to traffic.  My inner gamer geek thinks that "hypermiling" sounds like fun, and my inner engineering geek thinks that "hypermiling" is going to be the 21st century's version of "hot rodding".

There are numerous do-it-yourself conversions for hybrid vehicles that enable them to be recharged by plugging them into the wall socket overnight (thereby using the off-peak-hours, and thus cheapest, electricity that your local utility company can generate), for costs that, even at a mere $3.00/gallon for gasoline, can deliver miles-per-dollar (which is what we really care about) well over the 100-miles-per-gallon mark even for the most unskilled driver.

Necessity is the mother of invention.  (Corollary: Necessity?  She's a mother.)  But that's how free markets work.  The 1970s featured Chrysler's Cordoba (with Rich Corinthian Leather) and upstart Honda's 50MPG "Civic" CVCC technology.  Over the next 10 years, Honda utterly destroyed the Big Three.  But looking at what's under the hood of cars today, is that so bad?  We've got 70s mileage, but we've got 500 horsepower under the hood.  Or we've got 70s CVCC mileage out of four cylinders and the acceleration of a V8.

It's Malaise 2.0.  Who knows what sorts of technological advances will be in the vehicles we'll be driving 10 years from now?  I love my gas guzzler, but within my lifetime (maybe within 10 years), I'm going to have to order fuel for it online.  One day a month I get to turn gasoline into CO2 and noise, but if the Tesla Roadster and whoever makes the Aptera are any indication of what's in store for body styling, and the Prius hackers are any indication of what's in store for shadetree mechanics/hackers, the other 29 days of the month sound like fun too.

(Gas thieves?  LOL!  My car's so old it still has a locking gas cap, and it shipped that way from the factory!)


The oil companies are not the free market, they're an international fascist cartel.  Mmmmmkay?

And the reason nukes work so well in France is not because it's cheap---it's anything but--rather because it's a government-controlled socialist system, not-for-profit, in the interests of the state and the people.

I am pessimistic about big business and/or big government saving our sorry asses now.
:o

The oil companies are not the free market, they're an international fascist cartel.  Mmmmmkay?



I concur.  I saw an article on Bloomberg last week in which an oil executive said that oil should be priced at $65 per barrell instead of the current $130 per barrell.  They blamed Wall Street for increasing price and demand by buying alot of oil futures.

Its rather annoying.  MOST of the US oil comes from Venezuela, which is crazy because Chavez is a lunatic.  However,  if there is a small fight in Nigeria - price goes up. If it rains in Japan - price goes up.  There are ALWAYS ridiculous excuses to increase the price of oil/gas.

The cheapest I saw today was $3.95, most were $3.99 though.

Mad place near me is now $4.39.9

Mad place near me is now $4.39.9
ouch!  :o    I have to get gas on the way home, not sure what the prices are. probably around 4.17.
that's as much as a triple grande mocha at Starbucks  >:(

The highest I saw today was $4.05 (regular unleaded), and the lowest was $3.92 (regular unleaded) at a very crowded Arco station.

Out here, they just made a big jump (20 cents) in the past couple days alone. :o

I got this feeling that it's gonna reach five bucks a gallon before this month is over.

I was scouting the gas prices out on my way home from work. the station I usually go to was $4.33 and I'll be needing to get some tomorrow.

As of today, regular unleaded was at $3.85 here in Kansas City.

However, tonight we had a wave of thunderstorms pass through the area, and a bolt of lighting hit a giant tank full of 58,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline at a fuel terminal here in town, causing a massive explosion.  I drove near it after work and could still see huge fireballs shooting out of it.

So I wouldn't be surprised if regular unleaded shoots to well over $4 a gallon tomorrow.  :-\\

As of today, regular unleaded was at $3.85 here in Kansas City.

However, tonight we had a wave of thunderstorms pass through the area, and a bolt of lighting hit a giant tank full of 58,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline at a fuel terminal here in town, causing a massive explosion.  I drove near it after work and could still see huge fireballs shooting out of it.

So I wouldn't be surprised if regular unleaded shoots to well over $4 a gallon tomorrow.  :-\\




  I hope no one was hurt...

  I hope no one was hurt...


Thankfully there were no injuries reported.  :)

I got this feeling that it's gonna reach five bucks a gallon before this month is over.


I think you're probably right about that, Jeff... :(

Over here, the highest I've seen lately is $4.07/gallon for unleaded...

Thank goodness I don't live on Maui...their prices are much higher!  :o

As of today, regular unleaded was at $3.85 here in Kansas City.

However, tonight we had a wave of thunderstorms pass through the area, and a bolt of lighting hit a giant tank full of 58,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline at a fuel terminal here in town, causing a massive explosion.  I drove near it after work and could still see huge fireballs shooting out of it.

So I wouldn't be surprised if regular unleaded shoots to well over $4 a gallon tomorrow.  :-\\




That.. is worth the extra cost. Dude you should have taken a picture!

looks like our prices here in the SF bay Area went up another .20 today  $4.43 gal  >:(

As of today, regular unleaded was at $3.85 here in Kansas City.

However, tonight we had a wave of thunderstorms pass through the area, and a bolt of lighting hit a giant tank full of 58,000 gallons of unleaded gasoline at a fuel terminal here in town, causing a massive explosion.  I drove near it after work and could still see huge fireballs shooting out of it.

So I wouldn't be surprised if regular unleaded shoots to well over $4 a gallon tomorrow.  :-\\



Damn... good thing no one was hurt, but that sucks. Waste of gas. You're lucky though, barring the fact that you probably will hit over $4 because of this, that's some of the cheapest gas in the country. My area is a little above that.


Out here, they just made a big jump (20 cents) in the past couple days alone. :o

I got this feeling that it's gonna reach five bucks a gallon before this month is over.


I have a feeling you're right.

Prices haven't gone up around here in about a week, so I'm expecting them to very, very soon.

This evening, on my way home from work, I had to get gas and it cost me  $4.45 a gallon

I had a tune up on my engine.. I'm getting just under 30mpg now.. let it go to $5.  ;D

$4.49 here.  :o  >:(  >:(  >:(

$3.98...maybe a little lower.

But like I said, the chances of me getting my Drivers License is the same chancs as Cleveland winning a Championship.

And if my temps lapse, I'll get a new packet when Cleveland wins a Championship.

I paid $3.89 last night.

The station I mentioned at $3.95 is still there, but other prices around town are dropping a bit. The Hess across the street from the $3.95 Sunoco I mentioned dropped from $3.91 to $3.89. A few others did as well.

How exactly to you gauge the MPG you're getting?

gas went up to $3.99-$4.09 (depending on the station) today. :-\\ ::)

Gas in SC is as low as 3.63 a gallon at the Racetrack station...

I have a different philosophy now: I try to find the most expensive gas station I can and fill up. Why? Because my a-hole boss enjoys not paying me on time and tries to dick me on labor. So, I enjoy finding the most expensive gas I can so he can eat a big fat gas bill when he pays me.

I wish I had a diesel truck now, lol.

Ant

news flash! gas is running out. we screwed around with SUVs and mcmansions too long and now we're screwed.

so sorry. :( i honestly think a few years from now the wheels will have completely come off the wagon. we just dicked around too long, we knew this was going to be a problem back in the 1970s but we kept diddling about in dreamland, making huge trucks and wasting our resources prespammersitely, and now, to paraphrase churchill, the time for preparations has passed, now is the time for consequences.

i'm not sure i really give a damn, but i feel bad for the people who have kids. maybe there's some chance we might be able to come up with an 11th hour save here, but i doubt it. and if so we'll be leaving the next generation a big pile of epic fail, as the hipsters say. there's gonna be a lot of suffering.

It's already around $4 1/2 dollars a gallon in Southern Cal! :o :o

This week, I will only go places if I need to...and if I do, it'll probably be to the store.

^^Wow! How awful!  :(

It's $4.16 at my corner gas station as of today.  :(

Remember when they used to do commercials for 'gas stations'? Come in and get free Football Team glasses, or GULF will give you a plastic horseshoe to put on your bumper to show you go to GULF.

Guess they don't need our business anymore?

If they do anymore commercials, they should just show the station sign and play the song 'HIGHER AND HIGHER' under it.

news flash! gas is running out. we screwed around with SUVs and mcmansions too long and now we're screwed.

so sorry. :( i honestly think a few years from now the wheels will have completely come off the wagon. we just dicked around too long, we knew this was going to be a problem back in the 1970s but we kept diddling about in dreamland, making huge trucks and wasting our resources prespammersitely, and now, to paraphrase churchill, the time for preparations has passed, now is the time for consequences.

i'm not sure i really give a damn, but i feel bad for the people who have kids. maybe there's some chance we might be able to come up with an 11th hour save here, but i doubt it. and if so we'll be leaving the next generation a big pile of epic fail, as the hipsters say. there's gonna be a lot of suffering.


Where the hell did you get that source?

Because if it's true, then we'll be back in the Middle Ages again!

As described on the news, the country/suburbs were built on the $1 a gal. gas to get around where we needed, and now it's outdated...what do we do?

Some have talked of Revolt soon..by election time, possible 5.50 gas or more! with oil at 150$ or 200$............

Let's all build underground and 'air' can transport us up and down to various levels and..er.....um...(I GOTTA GO WRITE A MOVIE....BYE!)

A recent article in our local paper interviewed a gas attendant at a local station. He said that even though the prices are sky high...there are some people (especially the elderly) still who come in and ask for $1 or $2 worth of gas. He even said that an elderly gentleman came in with a $5 bill. He bought a pack of cigarettes, and there was like 45 cents left over. He asked to put it toward gas. :o

Also..AAA and other towing companies have stated that the number of tows have severely increased, as people are running out of gas because they just don't have the money to put toward gas for their car.

How sad. :-\\

Remember when they used to do commercials for 'gas stations'? Come in and get free Football Team glasses, or GULF will give you a plastic horseshoe to put on your bumper to show you go to GULF.

Guess they don't need our business anymore?

If they do anymore commercials, they should just show the station sign and play the song 'HIGHER AND HIGHER' under it.


Actually, gas station owners are making minmal profit if not breaking even... almost their entire profit these days comes from other purchases.

Since we are on InThe00s... let me say, the '00s are turning out to be a terrible decade. It started out strong but after 9/11, it all went downhill. And this is one of many, many reasons. I can't afford this anymore. I'm seriously considering the possibility that I may have to sell my car and not drive anymore. And I live in a suburb. 'Cause now we're all gonna start having to struggle paying for groceries as well soon (mainly because of gas prices, by the way).

All those stations I posted before having dropped, jumped up again - $3.95 is the lowest price.

Where the hell did you get that source?

Because if it's true, then we'll be back in the Middle Ages again!
it's called lookin' around.  :D

it'll probably be worse than the middle ages, in the middle ages they didn't overdevelop their habitats the way we have.

don't mind me, i'm probably just in a gloomy mood.

The expensive gas station near me had gone down to about $4.33 last week but then on Firday I noticed it had jumped up to $4.48.

it's called lookin' around.  :D

it'll probably be worse than the middle ages, in the middle ages they didn't overdevelop their habitats the way we have.

don't mind me, i'm probably just in a gloomy mood.


I don't think you're in a gloomy mood.  I'm afraid that you're 100% correct.  It's really scary, actually, to see things happening the way they are.  What is this world coming to?  I find myself actually worrying about this on a semi-regular basis... It's more than just a fleeting thought now.  We are in trouble and something needs to be done.

I don't think you're in a gloomy mood.  I'm afraid that you're 100% correct.  It's really scary, actually, to see things happening the way they are.  What is this world coming to?  I find myself actually worrying about this on a semi-regular basis... It's more than just a fleeting thought now.  We are in trouble and something needs to be done.
crap. i was sorta hoping you were gonna come up with a convincing argument why i was being a chicken little and crazy doomsayer.  :( predicting the end of the world is only fun when you're probably wrong, yanno?  :(

crap. i was sorta hoping you were gonna come up with a convincing argument why i was being a chicken little and crazy doomsayer.  :( predicting the end of the world is only fun when you're probably wrong, yanno?  :(


.. and you laugh at me owning firearms.

Well, you know things are bad when even the Saudis are saying that oil prices need to be curbed.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/09/news/international/saudi_oil.ap/index.htm?cnn=yes

I think we should stop complaining now. Well, no we shouldn't but we should be a little grateful.

You wanna see some serious pain? http://alaskagasprices.com/Bethel/index.aspx

I've recently started contributing to GasBuddy Massachusetts... but I was looking for the highest prices just for the hell of it, and that's what I came across. Wow. I'm gonna have to take a plane to the grocery store when flying becomes cheaper than driving, lol.

Mobil just raised their gas prices to $4.67 over here.  8-P  >:(

Hey Al -

http://www.slate.com/id/2193222/?y=1

Flyover country don't seem so bad now huh.  ;D

There's only one station left at $3.95. The rest are all $3.99 or above.

i saw signs this morning that said $4.55 for regular. I'll be needing to gas up tomorrow, so it may be up a little, maybe not. no matter what, i gotta get it. me and a couple guys at work were pricing Vespa/Moped scooters online.

NO BLOOD FOR...

oh, well, okay, i guess. blood for oil. sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUM4u7nF3O4

NO BLOOD FOR...

oh, well, okay, i guess. blood for oil. sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUM4u7nF3O4
hell yes blood for oil!  unless you're planning on riding a bicycle

The high I saw today was $4.19...the lowest was $3.97, needless to say, we went with the cheaper one.

$4.21 for regular unleaded as of today.  :(

This evening my family and I went out for dinner...it was my first time going out since Monday...and I noticed that all three of the stations nearest my home had their gas prices above $4.50 a gallon. It was horrible! >:(

$4.00 mark is receding into the dust and the sunset.  Some expert said $4.15/gal. was about the max-out point, but prices would continue to remain high.  Yet, the very next day, many stations around here broke the $4.40 barrier.

Who knows WTF kind of s---t is going to go down around here!

Remember the Joads?  They pieced together junk automobiles and headed west from the dustbowl.  This time around, people are going to traveling down the Interstates in drought-horse wagons!

http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/peepwall.gif

See, I get the feeling somebody around here is lying about something import and they're lying about it to me!

The Addams Family is not such a great choice if you must have a ruling class!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/02/blackbat.gif

I really feel for some of you guys, with $4.40 - 4.55 in your areas... I mean it's 3.99 here and I'm still struggling.

This sucks. I hate when the Europeans complain about how we complain - you know, theirs is taxed that high. Ours is just BS, so we have the right to complain. The money is going into pockets, not towards anything worthwhile.

Drove by my favorite station yesterday. It was 4.99 5.09 & 5.19 I'll get pix today.

Drove by my favorite station yesterday. It was 4.99 5.09 & 5.19 I'll get pix today.


Omg! I had a feeling it might've already gotten to five bucks where you're at. :-\\

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5267640865741878159

It's dropped a couple pennies a day for the past week around here.

Down around $3.75.

$4.49 for a gallon of regular  >:(

$4.49 for a gallon of regular  >:(


It's interesting to see the difference between states.

You're paying almost 20% more for the same thing exact product!

It's between $4.03 and $4.49 around here.

It's interesting to see the difference between states.

You're paying almost 20% more for the same thing exact product!
the unusual thing is that here in the bay area, we have several oil refineries, so what's up with that  ???  why are we getting gouged

Heard China is already drilling off the Eastern coast, and there's a guy inMontana who is being paid about  10K a month for oil found on his property.maybe getting around 2000 barrels a day but it's being done...BUT WE ARE STAYING DEPENDENT ON THE OVERSEAS COMPANIES.

Go figure. 

the unusual thing is that here in the bay area, we have several oil refineries, so what's up with that  ???  why are we getting gouged


Taxes and the fact that to even get the oil it has to travel further. That and also doesn't California have tougher laws regarding what can and can't go in to gasoline and emissions etc?

They seem to have dropped by a nickel today, but I'm sure it is only a lull here in outstate Mass.
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/07/nervous.gif

As for drilling, the oil companies don't even drill wells at all the places they're already approved to do so.  This is purely anti-democratic.

Taxes and the fact that to even get the oil it has to travel further. That and also doesn't California have tougher laws regarding what can and can't go in to gasoline and emissions etc?
I believe you're right. this state sucks in more ways than one.  I have to gas up tomorrow, I saw $4.53 per gallon today. that's not quite the deal I was looking for, but I got no choice. tomorrow is Spare The Air Day and free transportation is being provided from almost every mass transit system, from buses to BART, and the Ferry's that go across the bay, but it's only until 12 noon, and then after that you have to pay  >:(  what a cheap ripoff, why don't they do the whole friggin day. 

I believe you're right. this state sucks in more ways than one.  I have to gas up tomorrow, I saw $4.53 per gallon today. that's not quite the deal I was looking for, but I got no choice. tomorrow is Spare The Air Day and free transportation is being provided from almost every mass transit system, from buses to BART, and the Ferry's that go across the bay, but it's only until 12 noon, and then after that you have to pay  >:(  what a cheap ripoff, why don't they do the whole friggin day. 


That's retarded. So anybody wanting to use it to go to work is then stuck.. well, they can pay but it sort of defeats the purpose.

I just got an e-mail from my congressman Russ Carnahan (the guy who took over from Dick Gephart - We elect well in South Saint Louis). Anyway, his basic gist was - Give it 6 months and we're going to pass a whole bunch of renewable energy bills as well as, wait 6 months for the shift from the Strategic Oil reserve, the same thing that happened in 2000 when the price dropped a third in the space of a couple of months.

Basic thing still is that this is not a supply - demand issue. Supply is easily meeting demand. It wont forever, but right now it is, this is an artificial price increase and the bubble will pop, we all saw what happened with the 'sub-prime' loan business right?

That's retarded. So anybody wanting to use it to go to work is then stuck.. well, they can pay but it sort of defeats the purpose.

I just got an e-mail from my congressman Russ Carnahan (the guy who took over from Dick Gephart - We elect well in South Saint Louis). Anyway, his basic gist was - Give it 6 months and we're going to pass a whole bunch of renewable energy bills as well as, wait 6 months for the shift from the Strategic Oil reserve, the same thing that happened in 2000 when the price dropped a third in the space of a couple of months.

Basic thing still is that this is not a supply - demand issue. Supply is easily meeting demand. It wont forever, but right now it is, this is an artificial price increase and the bubble will pop, we all saw what happened with the 'sub-prime' loan business right?
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/19/countdown-mccain-oil-and-the-enron-loophole/

apparently it's less like the sub-prime bubble and more like the enron thing in california from back in 1999, 2000. it may backfire on the oil companies if everyone sells their SUVs and gets subcompacts and moves closer to public transportation and the oil companies are looking at a long-term permanent reduction in demand.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/06/19/countdown-mccain-oil-and-the-enron-loophole/

apparently it's less like the sub-prime bubble and more like the enron thing in california from back in 1999, 2000. it may backfire on the oil companies if everyone sells their SUVs and gets subcompacts and moves closer to public transportation and the oil companies are looking at a long-term permanent reduction in demand.


I had no idea that smeg-stain Phil Gramm was involved with the McCain campaign, not sure how I missed that.

Same basic concept, purposely inflated prices... watch the bubble burst!

All we can do is get our piece of the pie by shorting stocks in which high oil prices have a negative impact.

All we can do is get our piece of the pie by shorting stocks in which high oil prices have a negative impact.


Just remember, the market can remain irrational far longer than you or I can remain solvent.

Still, you've got the right idea.  The market doesn't reward people for being on the long side or the short side of a trade.  The market rewards people for being on the right side of a trade.  The oil bubble will burst when the last agonized bystander finally throws in the towel and says "I give up, I've gotta get on the bandwagon before we hit $100 (oops) $150, $200, $300, or $1000/bbl".

(It's all my fault.  I didn't buy any oil stocks over the past year, and boy, are my numbers showing the pain. :)

I had to pay $4.59 a gallon today.  I'm about ready to start drilling in my backyard

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/22/32256877_fc1d42d339.jpg?v=0

QUESTION TO CONSIDER:

Years ago gas stations gave out gifts, i.e. team drinking glasses(which later proved to contain lead paint and had to be tossed),maybe a mascot doll,flag,or sticker of their company logo.

I would think this was provided by the GASOLINE COMPANY, or at a minimal charge to the owner for your constant patronage of his station...or the brand.

So, are we to assume the BILLION$ making companies could care less of the consumer?- as they have not(or I haven't), seen any 'thank you gifts' for a long time!

They just take our money and run.

So now we know who we are dealing with!

QUESTION TO CONSIDER:

Years ago gas stations gave out gifts, i.e. team drinking glasses(which later proved to contain lead paint and had to be tossed),maybe a mascot doll,flag,or sticker of their company logo.

I would think this was provided by the GASOLINE COMPANY, or at a minimal charge to the owner for your constant patronage of his station...or the brand.

So, are we to assume the BILLION$ making companies could care less of the consumer?- as they have not(or I haven't), seen any 'thank you gifts' for a long time!

They just take our money and run.

So now we know who we are dealing with!

It was always drinking glasses over here.

QUESTION TO CONSIDER:

Years ago gas stations gave out gifts, i.e. team drinking glasses(which later proved to contain lead paint and had to be tossed),maybe a mascot doll,flag,or sticker of their company logo.

I would think this was provided by the GASOLINE COMPANY, or at a minimal charge to the owner for your constant patronage of his station...or the brand.

So, are we to assume the BILLION$ making companies could care less of the consumer?- as they have not(or I haven't), seen any 'thank you gifts' for a long time!

They just take our money and run.

So now we know who we are dealing with!



Here in Saint Louis, at a few stations (especially Phillips 66) if you buy 10 Gallons they give you a ticket for a buy one get one free baseball deal. I thought it was a great offer until I realized that you only have a chance at getting the buy one get one offer, there are loads of additional crap prizes.. but still, it's something.

i just bought one of these yesterday. it's getting delivered on saturday. 8)

http://www.raymermotorsports.com/yamaha/scooters/vino_classic/Images/vino125-black.jpg

i think i'll fill it up with premium gas. cuz i can afford it. :P

i just bought one of these yesterday. it's getting delivered on saturday. 8)

http://www.raymermotorsports.com/yamaha/scooters/vino_classic/Images/vino125-black.jpg

i think i'll fill it up with premium gas. cuz i can afford it. :P


THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

I'm jealous :(

THAT IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

I'm jealous :(
i'll let you drive it, cutie. but you can't run it into any trees, okay? and i can't go faster than 20 mph for the first 300 miles. :o

i'll let you drive it, cutie. but you can't run it into any trees, okay? and i can't go faster than 20 mph for the first 300 miles. :o


It was the car in front of me that hit the breaks for no reason,ok? ::)

It was the car in front of me that hit the breaks for no reason,ok? ::)
you know what's weird, the front and rear brakes are arranged backward from how they are on a bicycle (on a bike, the rear brakes are on the right, but on the vino they're on the left). i wonder if it's because the japanese don't read left to right? i dunno, it'll take a little getting used to though.

you know what's weird, the front and rear brakes are arranged backward from how they are on a bicycle (on a bike, the rear brakes are on the right, but on the vino they're on the left). i wonder if it's because the japanese don't read left to right? i dunno, it'll take a little getting used to though.


wait...

this is your commute vehicle now?

Have you put a new muffler on your Camry? I'll give you a couple grand for it.

here ya go Jeff...

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it's been this way for a week now.

I had no idea that smeg-stain Phil Gramm was involved with the McCain campaign, not sure how I missed that.

Same basic concept, purposely inflated prices... watch the bubble burst!

Karma +1 for "smeg-stain Phil Grammmmmm" I could rub that guy's personality in the dough and make me some Ugly Cookies! Back in the '96 presidential campaign.... But this ain't on the politics board so I'd better stifle. 
:-X




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"If she's not on the 519, then I'm gonna know wot sorrow means and I'm gonna cry, cry, cry all the way home...all the way home..."

-'Tap

here ya go Jeff...

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa235/snozberries44/499gas.jpg


it's been this way for a week now.



Ouch. :o


The prices at the stations near my home have stayed pretty much the same for the past week or so now, too: 4.59, 4.71, and 4.81

i just bought one of these yesterday. it's getting delivered on saturday. 8)

http://www.raymermotorsports.com/yamaha/scooters/vino_classic/Images/vino125-black.jpg

i think i'll fill it up with premium gas. cuz i can afford it. :P
that's a cool Hog Tia.  I'm jealous. what color did you get?

that's a cool Hog Tia.  I'm jealous. what color did you get?

Hey, I know a dude who could chop that thing real good, stetch those forks out real far, Hell's Angels kinda stuff!
:D

Hey, I know a dude who could chop that thing real good, stetch those forks out real far, Hell's Angels kinda stuff!
:D
oh heck yeah, and I'd cut the sleeves off my levi jacket and get a big  inthe00s  patch on the back http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2361010352_cdd547c1a2.jpg?v=0



i just bought one of these yesterday. it's getting delivered on saturday. 8)

http://www.raymermotorsports.com/yamaha/scooters/vino_classic/Images/vino125-black.jpg

i think i'll fill it up with premium gas. cuz i can afford it. :P
OK seriously, Tia is gonna save an arm and a leg on his gas bill. how many miles per gallon and what's the top speed once it's broken in?

that's a cool Hog Tia.  I'm jealous. what color did you get?
as shown. i'm told it'll go up to 60 or so but i've only gone up to about 45. i think it's supposed to get between 75 and 100 mpg depending on how you ride it.

I guess the individual businesses aren't able to take it anymore. The gas station in my town, Somerset Gas just changed over to a Gulf today.

Meanwhile a couple of stations priced over $4.00 dropped to $3.99 and a few others dropped to $3.95 and $3.97.

oh heck yeah, and I'd cut the sleeves off my levi jacket and get a big  inthe00s  patch on the back http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3280/2361010352_cdd547c1a2.jpg?v=0



Haw haw haw! That thing looks campy!  Well done!
;D

Way to go..Best bang for the buck when travelling a-b
Just don't try to buy a months worth of groceries at a time!
I'd rather get a Hummer Than drive one!

$3.89

The Hess station up the street dropped to $3.99 9/10, and I went, "Oh boy!"
:-\\

Still dropping a bit... lowest is now $3.94 at, gasp... an Exxon. But since Exxon is selling all their stations, I really think this one was sold already. It was $4.29 and easily at least 25 cents higher than any other station (and always has been) and overnight one night it dropped to $3.95. Now it's $3.94.

And one of the local brand stations converted to a Gulf the other day... the little businesses can't make it anymore I guess.

Still more than $4 1/2 per gallon here. The good news is that it hasn't gone up any higher in the past week.

Paid $3.77 today, but I was out in the sticks.

Always remember, it ain't the vendors getting rich off the high pump prices.  In fact, a couple of the smaller stations in my vicinity have gone out of business since gas approached the $4.00 mark.
:(

Let me see, a gallon is 3.78 liters...1 dollar is 0.62 reais.

In Brazil we're paying 5.90USD for gallon.
But we have ethanol so :P

i've gassed up maria twice, each time it's cost less than four dollars. ;D i like to buy premium gas.

Prices still $3.95 here, oil dropped $9 a barrel

It's been running anywhere from $4.05 9/10 to $4.39 around here in western Massachusetts, although it runs as high as $4.55 9/10 closer into Boston!  They're really gouging for diesel, which routinely tops over $5.00 gal. That's why prices on food and other goods are skyrocketing.
:(

I saw it hit 4.15 a gallon U.S. I live in Fla.

^Still more than that in California... but I actually saw it come down a bit yesterday. $4.46 to $4.68 at the stations near my home.

It went up to $4 here.

I now have a bike, but I'm still trying to learn how to ride it. So if I still can't balance that bike, I'll get myself some training wheels.

$4.92  >:(  >:(  >:(

Still hasn't broken $4 here. Highest I've seen in the past few days was $3.96 but average is around $3.85. Last time I filled up I paid $3.81.

It came down a little here too Jeff.  The gas station by my house went from $4.61 to $4.59 .  The one by my work went from $4.55 to $4.53

those two crazy gas stations are holding steady at $4.99 ~ $5.09 & $5.19  I always see people tanking there  :o

Gas is as low as $3.69 in parts of SC and as much as $4.15 in NC/VA. I spent over 300$ this week driving 1k miles to SC and back.  :o

Ant

The prices in Portland, ME, were comparable to Boston's prices, which are high but by no means remarkable these days.  Things out west here are a bit cheaper than Boston area, runnning anywhere between $4.04 and $4.59.

Today, I saw gas at Petro Canada was 1.34 /L, so rather than get it there, I decided to take a chance and go to the next gas station, and I'm glad I did because it was 1.27 /L

Oil down $6 today, so maybe we will see a little drop.  Once people start conserving and slow down oil use, to build up reserves, oil/ gas prices should come down a little bit.

It actually ended up closing almost $10 down.

My $4.99 station came down to $4.79 yesterday

Oil down $6 today, so maybe we will see a little drop.  Once people start conserving and slow down oil use, to build up reserves, oil/ gas prices should come down a little bit.

And then people will start being careless again, prices will rise... wash, rinse, repeat.

My $4.99 station came down to $4.79 yesterday

That's still more than we have out here...


It came down to $4.44 over the weekend... my Shell Station ran out of 4's to use for the big sign displaying the prices, they had to make hand-written fours!

It came down to $4.44 over the weekend... my Shell Station ran out of 4's to use for the big sign displaying the prices, they had to make hand-written fours!



;D

Cheaper than it was, which I never thought would mean 4.02 9/10 gal.
::)

Today I noticed the lowest price at the Shell station near my home was $4.32 a gallon. It's coming down!! :D


The other day I was out and about in L.A. and saw $5+ for full serve at the gas stations along Ventura Boulevard.

Today, I was almost on E.  The one station I passed was 1.25.  I took a chance and the next one was 1.24.  I'm glad I gassed up at that one because the next one was 1.34 LOL

It is now down to $4.29.

I saw $3.91 in Holyoke but it was probably another desperate attempt by the chamber of commerce to get people to come to Holyoke!
:D

We can hope that oil reserves are nice and high at 10:35 EST tomorrow morning.  This combined with the "crackdown" on speculators will push oil down more.  $120 would be nice.

I have to gas up tomorrow morning at 4.29 gal, that's the lowest around these parts

It's down to $3.89 here.

Finally bust back below $3.70 here in Missouri.

$3.69. I guess this is our return for agreeing to a substandard educational system.

My regular station, the Amherst Hess is down to $3.99 for the 87 grade thanks to the recent drop in crude prices.  I'm sure it's just the eye of the storm!
::)

Still above four bucks here. ::) I was out and about in L.A. again today and saw prices above $4 1/2 a gallon as I got closer to downtown.

$4.09 as of today.

Gas prices came down a bit as of yesterday.  $4.85

In 2004 everyone was complaining that it was $2! 
My next car will be a Prius.  I wanted to get one but the 2 dealers I went to were all out.

In 2004 everyone was complaining that it was $2! 
My next car will be a Prius.  I wanted to get one but the 2 dealers I went to were all out.

Heck, even as early as 1999 or 2000, people were complaining about $2 gas.

It's gotten to the point now where $2 for a gallon of gas would be considered super-cheap!

Heck, even as early as 1999 or 2000, people were complaining about $2 gas.

It's gotten to the point now where $2 for a gallon of gas would be considered super-cheap!

$1.53/gal.  What a ripoff!
;D

Down in the $3.50's in town, but I was out in the boonies the other day and saw $3.29.

got gas in the car today...it was at $3.89

Down in the $3.50's in town, but I was out in the boonies the other day and saw $3.29.


Same here.

Still above four dollars in California. But it is going down.

cost me $55 dollars to fill up today, but that was premium at 4.35 a gal so it is coming down a bit

Gas in Santa Barbara averages 4.29 -4.39 for regular unleaded.  Mike you can get premium here for anywhere from 4.49 - 4.59

My fun crazy gas station has dropped down to 4.79 for regular unleaded.  Mike would pay 4.99 if he tanked here.  ;D


I have a theory... Perhaps the gas prices went as high as they did to test the population and see just how much people were willing to pay for fuel.  And now that they've dropped the price only to make us think we're paying less but really we're paying more than we were when prices first started to rise however, we're so happy that we're not paying what we were last month that no one is complaining about the current cost.... plus in a few months or a year they know just how high they can raise gas again.


...... or it could be bunnies  ;D    (anyone who gets this obscure reference has my undying loyalty)

Same here.


One of the benefits of flyover country.

It's down to $3.79 here in Southeastern MA.

It's down to $3.79 here in Southeastern MA.


I'm out in Hampshire County and the cheapest we've got out here (that I've seen)  is $3.87 at the Amherst Hess.

$3.35 in town. I've seen it in the 20's and 30's out in the sticks but it's really coming down in town as well. Still more of a drop to come, Oil has dropped by a far larger percentage than the price at the pump reflects so far.

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Not like he had anything to do with it...'nuff said.

At ibid. Amherst Hess, it's down to $3.69.9, which is the cheapest I've seen in six weeks!
::)

Yeah it dropped to $3.69 here as well.

Not quite that cheap here in CT but I did pay less than $4 a gallon this week.

$4.01 today, it's the cheapest in what seems a long time

Dropped down $0.20 this week.  Now $4.54. 

Well, out here in California, it's finally slipping back under $4! :D In fact, yesterday I was out and about in L.A., and I saw prices as low as $3.95. However, on Ventura Blvd, they were all still higher than $4, with a whopping $5.25 for diesel. 8-P

When I was in Cali in April it was $3.95...


Here it's dropped to 3.59

When I was in Cali in April it was $3.95...


Here it's dropped to 3.59


Here too...but so far only at Amherst Hess.  It seems like petroleum limbo...how low can you go...until I remember $3.59 was an unheard-of high, even post-Katrina!
::)

well as gas prices continue to fall (I paid $4.02 but the average is $4.15) my wacky gas stations were charging $4.79. 

One of them dropped today to $4.49.... but the other stands firm at $4.79.... remember this is for Regular Unlead 87 Octane.....  :o

3.59 here.  I called for a quote on fuel oil for the house last week.  It started out at 4.09, but when they delivered it a few days later it had gone down to 3.87.  I am very lucky I have a small house, one story.  People are going to suffer from the cold this year.

Odd thing about oil is when the Alberta Tar Sands were discovered , They claimed it had more reserves there than Saudi Arabia ever had!........Shhhhhhhhhhhhh!...(don't let them know!)
Its a booming community up there where summer is best described as 2 months of bad snowmobiling!

Magazine sung about "I will Drug you & F__K you on the Permafrost"

Canada is  $1.22 per liter - 4.5 liters to the British Gallon (which is bigger than the American Gallon)

Mr.Wizard will explain later!