3.5 CENTS?

Try 3.5 dollars (new window)

I'm selling my Geo Metro (still getting 40+mpg) this summer for far more than it's worth to a dumbass sucker. If any of you are a dumbass sucker, I'm asking no less than $1500 for a car worth at best $300.

/not going to have a problem finding a dumbass sucker this summer

Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it's $3.39 - that's a 102 percent increase in just three years.

Thanks Obama!

This (along with the ever raising parking fees in Chicago) is why I am moving my family back to the city - even with sending my kids to Catholic school I will be saving $600 a month after selling my car (cost savings include gas, parking, car and insurance) - the lessened commute should also help my stress levels too.

Anyone else here that has lived outside of a city consider doing the same?

lordaction: Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it's $3.39 - that's a 102 percent increase in just three years.

Thanks Obama!

We should celebrate how President Bush's swift action helped bring gas prices down from over $3 per gallon in 2007 to those low, low prices of 2009, leaving Obama with such excellent economic conditions. Too bad Fartbongo had to go ruin all of that.

Oil goes down, gas goes up. Can't explain that

p the boiler: Anyone else here that has lived outside of a city consider doing the same?

Seems a little silly if you ask me - the cost of living is outrageous downtown. What are you going to do, buy a two bedroom condo that costs as much as your current McMansion? I'd stay in the burbs but live within walking distance to the Metra. Then, I'd ditch one of the cars and use the other as the grocerymobile. Easy does it.

A major oil refinery closed and a few others had power outages those events may have had some affect on the price of gas. But who bothers to pay attention to the news, not the writer of the article that's for sure.

hmm...methinks a scam is afoot...

Quick, get the DOJ number out, I know they will figure out if the oil companies are working in collusion.

NOT.

Meanwhile, profits are up, because they don't have to report sales to foreign nations...where their excess is going.
And we're stuck with the bill inside.

Shaggy_C: p the boiler: Anyone else here that has lived outside of a city consider doing the same?

Seems a little silly if you ask me - the cost of living is outrageous downtown. What are you going to do, buy a two bedroom condo that costs as much as your current McMansion? I'd stay in the burbs but live within walking distance to the Metra. Then, I'd ditch one of the cars and use the other as the grocerymobile. Easy does it.

Not silly at all - I don't have a McMansion by any means - I actually have a house built in the late 80's in an older established subdivsion. Cost of Living is higher yes, but at the same time for the most part we come to the city for shopping (outside of groceries right now - and places like Stanley's offer better, cheaper produce) - also, it won't be the loop or Lincoln Park, thinking Lincoln Square where things are more reasonable, but easy access to public trans and lot's of families.

I don't see things like gas or parking coming down so in the long run it makes more sense - the metra is an option yes (I currently live nowhere near one), but I guess it is just not for me.

neversubmit: A major oil refinery closed and a few others had power outages those events may have had some affect on the price of gas. But who bothers to pay attention to the news, not the writer of the article that's for sure.

Ever notice how tapping new mine fields takes years to translate into increased supply (and lower price) but one guy has to change a light bulb in a refinery on the other side of the world and gas goes up ten cents before he is even finished?

People around here whine about gas prices, but demand a special 'clean' blend AND shut down the only Oregon refinery.

lordaction: Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it's $3.39 - that's a 102 percent increase in just three years.

Thanks Obama!

In FL we were close to $4/gallon. It's lower now. Thanks Obama!

p the boiler: thinking Lincoln Square where things are more reasonable, but easy access to public trans and lot's of families.

If I were going to stick around downtown after having kids, it would have to be in Roscoe Village. Lincoln Square itself is nice, but it seems like you go too far in any direction and things get a bit seedy. I always felt a bit uncomfortable running out there, especially if you head due east from the square towards the lake front. Within the span of about three blocks it goes from nice shopping area to abandoned houses and graffiti. The problem with Roscoe Village, while it is charming and has that "small town" feel in the middle of the city (including parks and tons of kids) is that property taxes there are higher than anywhere else including the loop.

karmaceutical: neversubmit: A major oil refinery closed and a few others had power outages those events may have had some affect on the price of gas. But who bothers to pay attention to the news, not the writer of the article that's for sure.

Ever notice how tapping new mine fields takes years to translate into increased supply (and lower price) but one guy has to change a light bulb in a refinery on the other side of the world and gas goes up ten cents before he is even finished?

It's a two pronged problem, on the one side the peak oil movement says the lack of new oil refineries proves we have past peak. On the other hand the price of gas is used politically as a way of goading the American people to war. Ain't public relations grand?

Shaggy_C: p the boiler: thinking Lincoln Square where things are more reasonable, but easy access to public trans and lot's of families.

If I were going to stick around downtown after having kids, it would have to be in Roscoe Village. Lincoln Square itself is nice, but it seems like you go too far in any direction and things get a bit seedy. I always felt a bit uncomfortable running out there, especially if you head due east from the square towards the lake front. Within the span of about three blocks it goes from nice shopping area to abandoned houses and graffiti. The problem with Roscoe Village, while it is charming and has that "small town" feel in the middle of the city (including parks and tons of kids) is that property taxes there are higher than anywhere else including the loop.

The place we are looking at is a block away from the main strip in LS, I do agree that if you are going to head out around there you don't want to go west or north, Ravenswood directly east isn't too bad. I agree with heading further east into Old Town. Agree about Roscoe too.

p the boiler: The place we are looking at is a block away from the main strip in LS, I do agree that if you are going to head out around there you don't want to go west or north, Ravenswood directly east isn't too bad. I agree with heading further east into Old Town. Agree about Roscoe too.

I meant Up Town, not Old Town

Just dumped my 97 olds after 14 yrs of service for a Kia Rio (2012) 40 mpg is awesome and it rides great.


/Fark you sales guy i dont want undercoating!

You guys just don't understand, the price had to go up because demand went up or went down or the supply went up or went down. Seriously, it's simple economics...when anything happens, the price must go up. DUH. Back off the patriot oil corporations!

Mikey1969: lordaction: Regular gasoline per gallon cost $1.68 in January 2009. Today, it's $3.39 - that's a 102 percent increase in just three years.

Thanks Obama!

Sorry dude, it was down to that rate for maybe 6 weeks, having plummeted form $4.12 a gallon, and it still isn't as high as under Bush. Remember, under Bush, gas went from the $1.10 to $1.35/gallon that it hovered around through almost the entire 90's, and doubled almost instantly, only giving us that brief month and a half of low prices again once.

As a matter of fact, gas has only recently started climbing around here, after dropping $1 per gallon, from around $3.75 to $2.75/gallon, lower in some parts of town.

Thanks Obama!

Thats some mighty fine ignoring of the facts by pretending they arent accurate. there Mikey. I mean, your facts ARE accurate, but so are his.

/ Just wait, election time is coming, its time for the price fixers to buy the Government's looking the other way for three years again by making it cheap for a few months..

the cost of gas doesn't go up and down with the cost of oil, otherwise it'd be dropping at the pumps right now. It's following employment numbers. More people working, more people buying gas, more profits to be had. Gas will be at the highest amount possible that the market will support long term. Right now $5 gas wouldn't be sustainable for the economy...otherwise it'd be $5 a gallon.