Wow, thats worse than the remote California town where I live.

quickdraw: Wow, thats worse than the remote California town where I live.


Where I'm at in NE California, it's $3.79 in town for regular. At a somewhat more isolated gas station on the lake, it's $4.09 for regular.

If things keep going the way they have been we'll all be paying $5.20 in a couple years.

Does everyone realize the national average was $1.38 per gallon when Bush took office? When he leaves in January it will likely have tripled in price. I'm not saying it's all his fault, I'm just putting a timeline on it.

And the $5.40 a gallon you'll spend for premium will get you a free newspaper that's free to begin with.

/called it

Epsilon: If things keep going the way they have been we'll all be paying $5.20 in a couple years.

About 26 months, by my back-of-the-Google calculations. Your point?

"Remember this the next time someone tells you "it's good for the environment". I'm sure it is. How good is it for you?"

'cos your own personal needs are more important than the needs of the planet and the generations to come... right?

Godscrack: GIS for gorda

Hmmm, this is one of the pics I got
Link

Oh, and I dunno if the above is NSFW or not, but you may wanna proceed w/ caution. Those of you that end up looking, lol.

Epsilon: If things keep going the way they have been we'll all be paying $5.20 in a couple years.

Does everyone realize the national average was $1.38 per gallon when Bush took office? When he leaves in January it will likely have tripled in price. I'm not saying it's all his fault, I'm just putting a timeline on it.

Yeah, I loved how the other day when a reported mention the possibility of $4 a gallon gas, Bush reacted like the guy was retarded.

I'm surprised others in Europe haven't chimed in yet. I pay about $6/gallon for diesel, and regular unleaded is not much cheaper.

/car gets 45mpg

or a "reporter" even...

nautimike: Epsilon: If things keep going the way they have been we'll all be paying $5.20 in a couple years.

Does everyone realize the national average was $1.38 per gallon when Bush took office? When he leaves in January it will likely have tripled in price. I'm not saying it's all his fault, I'm just putting a timeline on it.

Yeah, I loved how the other day when a reported mention the possibility of $4 a gallon gas, Bush reacted like the guy was retarded.

That's only 1/2 of it.

Bush said he didn't hear about $4/gallon gas, then a few minutes later said that he was working on things that were important to Americans, like the rising price of gas.

We're paying the equivalent of $8.25/gallon, and we're lower than the rest of the EU. Of course, we have some form of mass transit that actually works pretty well, and we get way better mileage on our cars than you.

/funny thing about that
//Switzer's $5500/hr hooker comes to mind for some reason

Joce678: "Remember this the next time someone tells you "it's good for the environment". I'm sure it is. How good is it for you?"

'cos your own personal needs are more important than the needs of the planet and the generations to come... right?

Think about it this way:

What is a horrible source of pollution? Burning tires.
How do you get burning tires? Riots.
How do you get riots? $5 a gallon gasoline.

I think I've been to that station. Big Sur is our favorite place so far. Unfortunately, Highway 1 is pretty hostile for walking or biking, even if you're up for the long treks between points in that area. I don't think there are alternative routes nearby either.

Everything else there is pretty expensive too.

crazywisdom_uk: We're paying the equivalent of $8.25/gallon, and we're lower than the rest of the EU. Of course, we have some form of mass transit that actually works pretty well, and we get way better mileage on our cars than you.

/funny thing about that
//Switzer's $5500/hr hooker comes to mind for some reason

Hell, it's hovering around €1.60/liter ($9.50 or so a gallon, according to Google) at the garage down the street from my building, and the folks who live around here still put in 60 or 70 liters at a go. But then again, if you can afford to live in central Paris and pay for parking and insurance, keeping your tank full is a trivial matter.

I can't afford that, so I ride my bike or take the Métro everywhere. A motorcycle would be nice, though.

nashBridges: California regulated their own special gas, so they raised the price for everybody. If they'd just burn the same stuff the rest of country uses we'd all be paying less.

Not exactly (new window)

The summer blend between California and the rest of the states are comparable - $.12 vs. $.06, which I think is the Atlanta blend, which is closer to the other 10(+) variants. Not sure. Don't discount refineries pushing winter supply and intentionally putting a crunch in order to meet a mandated date. Or, just a bad coincidence with a low supply combined with a higher price in oil.

"Remember this the next time someone tells you "it's good for the environment". I'm sure it is. How good is it for you?"
Hmmm, I'm not sure. Are we counting my lungs (and my relatives) who walk around in the decreased pollutants caused by summer gas, or are we just going by the $.12/gallon?

ameeriklane: I'm surprised others in Europe haven't chimed in yet. I pay about $6/gallon for diesel, and regular unleaded is not much cheaper.

/car gets 45mpg

And I'm paying about $4.25/gallon for diesel, and my car gets 26mpg

/can't wait to start making biodiesel again
//just needs to warm up a bit more

ameeriklane: /car gets 45mpg

My '92 Grand Am gets 41 mpg. I was shocked when I did the math. That place has always been high priced. If you need fuel you're going to buy some.

nashBridges: California regulated their own special gas, so they raised the price for everybody. If they'd just burn the same stuff the rest of country uses we'd all be paying less.

Remember this the next time someone tells you "it's good for the environment". I'm sure it is. How good is it for you?

As somebody who breathes regularly, I'm thinking that it's pretty good for me. As someone who can't apparently look past his own wallet, you appear to disagree.

I've been paying about $5.20 a gallon for quite a while now. Whats your point????

I drive 50 miles a day round trip for work. I take the Grand Am. My '68 Ford Futura only gets about 15 mpg, so it stays in the garage. I drive to the bar or out to lunch when it's nice out.

I swear I read $2.50 when I took a first glance at that headline...

/needs coffees

I really miss the 99c/gallon days :-(

I've been to Gorda...little piece of nothing carved out of the side of Feather River canyon. My father works for CalTrans and was considering a transfer there. He told them to fark off after he heard the entire road tends to wash away once a year. It's one of those towns that really has no reason to exist.

gorbishof

'92 Grand Am's do NOT get 41 mpg. You're doing it wrong if you get that number.
In comparison, the most I've ever gotten out of my Vibe (which has a 1.8L Toyota Corolla engine, and a 5sp manual) is 39 mpg... which is 47 mpg by the UK standard.

Bush said he didn't hear about $4/gallon gas, then a few minutes later said that he was working on things that were important to Americans, like the rising price of gas.

Yeah, I'm sure he is...




He doesn't hear about the price of gas because as President he never has to see a gas pump. The cars, helicopters, AF1, etc. come to get him already fueled up at taxpayers' expense. Granted, that's a perk of the presidency, but given his and his entire cabinet's ties with the oil industry, I can't see how he could "do" anything without a conflict of interest against his greedy oil buddies.

Dolphin: 92 Grand Am's do NOT get 41 mpg.

That's what I thought. My odometer is proving me wrong.
This only gets about 30 mpg. The wife drives this around town. I'll take the GA.

Dolphin: 39 mpg... which is 47 mpg by the UK standard.

????

maybe we'll finally get gas stations to give away free dinnerware with a fillup and free toys for the kids again since stations may have to lure customers as we try to cut back. i loved tearing apart the little tickets and trying to match up halves of cars to win something as a kid. better yet would be to have attendants again ready to wash your windows and fill your wiper reservoir for free while pointing you to the sparkling clean bathroom. its a hell of a price to pay for a free drinking glass but maybe the guy wiping your windows is the now broke hotshot financial whiz banger in town you always hated.

Are girls from Gorda called Gorditas?

I really don't care. As long as I get good mileage going to work I can play with the toys around town.
6-7 mpg. Worth it.

Heeeey, don't worry about all this. When you no longer have a job you won't need to buy gas. Problem solved.

gorbishof

When calculating miles per gallon, one has to take into consideration that there are different standards between the US and the UK for liquid measure gallons. I'll compare it to liters, since a liter in the USA is a liter in Canada is a liter in Zimbabwe.

1 gallon of liquid in the USA = 3.78 liters
1 gallon of liquid in the UK = 4.55 liters

For example:
If you just travelled 350 miles, and to fillup was 10 gallons (37.8 liters) in the USA, you'd have gotten 35 mpg.
If you just travelled 350 miles with the same car in England, you would only have to fill 8.3 gallons, and you would have gotten 42 mpg.

Confusing, isn't it? This is why Metric is vastly superior.

When we first moved to Hinesville,GA in '98 it was $.67... Here in middle of nowhere,TX it's now $3.15. My new car gets 28-30mpg.

RP54: When you no longer have a job you won't need to buy gas.

Good point. We use a tanker truck
worth of diesel every week at work. The bosses are starting to freak out on the price.

it's the weak dollar too folks. in 2001 dollars that $3.00 gas is only $2.00.

you're doing a heckuva job shrubby.

I left Cheyenne with a full tank and drove 168 miles. Topped it off with 4.5 gallons. The mat isn't hard. I'm sure I did worse going back home going west and uphill.

10 years ago marina dock prices were 2.50gal, I'm soooo glad dad sold the boat before he died, I hate to think I could unload it now.

Any Farkers with boats know how much it's going for on the lake? Gotta be around 5bucks a gal

ah, there you go. You can't accurately calculate mpg on short trips and small fillups like that. It becomes much more accurate if you drive til your tank is pretty much empty, and do a complete fillup. Of course, it's even more accurate if you do it over a 5 or 10 tank average.

186 miles. 'bout bed time.

gorbishof: Dolphin: 92 Grand Am's do NOT get 41 mpg.

That's what I thought. My odometer is proving me wrong.


There's just no way. The *highway* rating for a '92 Grand Am is 29MPG. Even hypermiling you couldn't get 41.

I'd suggest that either you're doing the math wrong, someone is putting in a couple of bucks worth that you don't know about, or your odometer is malfunctioning. Or maybe the fuel injectors for two cylinders are 100% clogged.

/98 Grand Prix here
//18.2 MPG :(
///Glad I didn't get the supercharger.

Dolphin: ah, there you go. Y

I agree. I have drove this particular POS on many 1000 mile trips. I usually averaged 33-35 mpg. A fresh tune up helped a lot. Anything over 30 is fine by me.

Dmala: ///Glad I didn't get the supercharger.

Sissy.

To be honest I was going downhill with the wind behind me. 4-5000 feet downhill. I'm sure that helped. POS still does pretty good compared to the rest of my rides.

I wonder if pricing of gas, lack of refining capacity, increased use of botique blends on a state-by-state basis, oil scares in the Middle East, lack of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico/ANWR, popularity of gas-guzzling SUVs in North America, and failure to start large-scale oil shale recovery are not all factors. We need to develop more energy-efficient and alternate energy cars ASAP regardless of who is in office, maybe when gas hit $4 or $5/gallon nationwide we can start figuring out better solutions. Maybe we should start with a nationally standardized blend of gasoline to cut down on the cost of refining? I'd also be interested in what oil companies are actually paying for the oil, not the speculation prices on the international market.

/remembers gas getting more expensive as dreadnaught-SUVs became en vogue
//wonders if China, Russia, and third world countries aren't driving up gas prices as worldwide demand increases (Tata Nano will make that worse)
///believes we should cut back our oil use to only what we can produce here so that problems in the Middle East don't give Wall Street heart trouble

"6-7 mpg. Worth it."

damn straight.

Make it stop!!