Chicago gas hits $3.33 a gallon! How much are you paying?

3.00/gal for 87 in minnesota and going up fast!
3.20 for 91
 
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Here in the phoenix area for regular grade on the indian reservation today we are paying $2.78 for the delivery trucks on our special deal charge. Us regular folks pay $2.99. Monday it was $2.59 at the truck stop on I-10 south of Phoenix and I filled it up. That afternoon on the way home it was $2.79. Tuesday morning it went to $2.89. It is $2.99 in Maricopa, where I live 40 miles south of Phoenix, and it is normally .10 less than here, but now they are all $2.99 and threatining us with $3.19 by tonight....the money grubbing B-----ds. And I have a U Haul to fill up tomorrow :mad: I guess Ill have to stay home with a slab (30 pak) of beer in the pool this weekend.
 
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FreeFaller said:
Uhh...I hate to break this to you but they could flood the market with oil and it wouldn't do a thing. You can blame the high prices of oil on tree hugging hippies who won't let the oil companies build new refineries. Every time one of those things is proposed we as Americans bitch like crazy cause we don't want to live next to one. Don't blame the President for this. Blame yourself. We keep buying gas guzzling SUV's and don't want to build up the infrastructure to sustain our insatiable appetite for petrolium. The Republican heavy south was the only place willing to allow such facilities to be built. So your Bush bashing is misplaced. Go yell at greenpeace...
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hey i would have no problem if they buil a hol bunch of oil refinery right next to my house no problem at all as long as gas would come down man
 
Atleast you guys hav gas. What gas is left was being gouged at $5.00-$6.00 a gallon. Consider yourselves lucky.
 
FreeFaller said:
The fact that you all keep blaming the President is asinine. Check your facts...the President wants to build more refineries. Especially in California. But homeowners (average joe American) keeps listening to bunny huggers and won't let it happen. Sheesh...
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This proves my previous point and supports yours. Way to go President Bush!!!

U.S. eases air pollution rule to boost fuel supply
Wed Aug 31, 2005 7:52 PM BST
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - To make more fuel available in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration said on Wednesday it will waive certain air pollution regulations for gasoline and diesel in all 50 states.

The temporary easing of regulations will end on September 15, said Stephen Johnson, head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

"This action will result in an immediate increase in fuel supply. These waivers are necessary to ensure that fuel is available throughout the country," Johnson told reporters.

The waivers will allow gasoline with higher evaporation rates and diesel fuel with a higher sulfur content to be sold.

Gasoline futures traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose sharply on Wednesday to a record high of $2.90 a gallon on growing concerns about the U.S. supply.

Katrina's powerful winds and flooding shut nine Gulf Coast refineries with combined capacity of nearly 2 million barrels per day (bpd). Four others were running at reduced rates and two major Gulf Coast pipelines that ship gasoline to northern markets were closed.

The EPA late on Tuesday said it would temporarily permit refineries in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee to supply gasoline meeting a Reid Vapor Pressure standard of 9.0 and diesel with sulfur content higher than 500 parts per million.

On Wednesday, the waiver was extended to the remaining 46 U.S. states, Johnson said.

The policy change will allow more imports of high-sulfur diesel into the U.S. market.

Refiners will also be able immediately to sell gasoline intended for use in the autumn and winter, when pollution caused by hotter weather is normally not a problem.

Retail gasoline prices have shot up across the country due to the fuel supply disruptions caused by Katrina.

However, Rep. Joe Barton of Texas, the chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said on Wednesday he believed some service stations were gouging consumers at the pump.

The Bush administration is planning to loan crude oil to refineries from the nation's emergency crude stockpile to help boost available gasoline and other petroleum product supplies.

The government does not have a stockpile of gasoline.
 
Filled up on Mon. $2.69 for reg. Filled up today, $2.89, same station. Filled my Blackwood yesterday, $3.09 for 94 octane.

I understand that gas prices are going up but what I DO NOT understand is this :

I have always had at least 1 car that needed premium. Back in the day, the difference between reg. and premium was always .25 - .35 / gal . (eg. $1.50 / $1.75 / $2.00 last year) Now its pennies. The station where I usually fill up was $2.89 reg., $2.91 mid , $2.95 for premium. Does this mean that I've been ripped off all this time on higher grades?? Why is the price so close now ?

Looocie...you got some 'splainin' to do .....
 
well yously im in the car all day
and driving all around havnt seen any friends in like 3 days couse they all live like 40 minuts from me
around 30 miles and we drive another 30 miles into the city just to get somthing to eat man so that like 1 tank of gas every 2 days cant do that right now i berly drove 100 miles in the last 3 days
filled up on wensday for 2.75 93 at bp
 
Don't forget we have next to no public transportation. It's almost impossible for us to get to work any other way.
 
Gas prices are going to go up and I guess we who drive lo mpg vehicles have dug our own grave.....

But there is another crisis coming that nobody is talking about YET....

Winter is only a few months away...If prices rose this fast for gas, what is going to happen to prices for heating oil,coal and natural gas ??? Fortunately , that is one of the FEW problems that those of us in So. Fla will not have to face. All of the members up north might want to give this problem some thought now. Those with oil heat can fill up now or maybe get a delivery contract. Get your coal now. Make sure your heating plant is ready NOW. Not much can be done about natural gas I guess, except to let the politicos know that THEY better start working on that problem now.....

Just my 2 (make that 5.5, price of hot air just went up...) cents worth....
 
Buy a deisel and you can make your own fuel. I saw it on an episode of Trucks. They used old cooking oil but they used some weird machine to get all the animal fat and stuff out. It was pretty cool. Im thinking about getting a deisel mark vii.
 
I live in Canada and my lsc gets 22 mpg combined city/hwy.
our gas today is $6.14 a gallon!!! Our gallon is a little bigger
than U.S. Gallon but not that much. To put it another way,
to fill up my tank from empty is $107.00 Canadian or $90.31 U.S.

Kill me now.
 
Evian said:
I know in Europe gas cost a lot more but they get free health care with those huge gas prices. What are we getting? They say that the refinaries can't make enough for demand. My foot. If president bush cared about us. He would have the army core of engineers erecting new refinaries every month. Now I have got to pay $3.33 a gallon. Sorry for boiling over, but I think more Americans need to start complaining. Whats the situation in your area?
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$4.02 for Shell V-Power In Washington DC lastnight I am ssure it is $4.25 today. :slam
 
A gas station in Stockbridge, Ga., posts prices for gasoline from $5.87 to $6.07 per gallon Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.

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Unfortunately screwy information such as I posted above about Bush, tongue in cheek, is believed by many just because there's SOME truth included in it. That focuses the blame in the wrong place so that the real issues are missed. It is complicated, no doubt, but there are several to blame.

Enviromentalists want EVERYTHING shut down and have us ride bicycles or walk, as long as it is only on pavement. They have messed up every industry in America. We can thank them for the SMOG compliance fiasco on our vehicles. Thank them for gasoline that isn't. There's no end to the damage they've done to the American way of life. I'm going to say it again: the head of the Green Party, the largest 'environmental' group, was and effectively still is: Mikel Gorbachev, the ex-head of the Union of Soviet Socialist's Republics, and formerly our number one idealogical enemy. Not a coincidence. The U.S.S.R. was temporarily disbanded, but keep your eyes open kiddies. They swore they'd bury us, and nobody can see the handwriting on the wall.

Another Communist country has its own plans: China. They have effectively taken over what's left of our economy. We common people thought that all this stuff with free trade agreements [GAT and NAFTA] was going to be with the many other 3rd world countries, to give them a leg up into the modern world and share the pie. Others had different plans and rushed into the vacuum of China to pour in all of our American technology and factories only to strip America down to the bone and leave our skilled factory workers to jobs at McD's and Burger King. We have changed from a PRODUCING Economy to a SERVICE Economy, and that means we SERVE, and you figure out who we serve in the long run. Hint: we must serve the Producing Economies and pay their prices or we have no goods. Now the PRODUCING Economy of China has become a huge OIL CONSUMER and is a major cause of shortages throughout the world.

We can't reverse the process because the costs of starting up American business in commodities production are prohibitive, and ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS destroy that idea anyway. In addition, no American business owns any factories in China. It's against their Communist laws. So any time they want they can put the screws to America by making subtle changes in their own country, such as throwing out the nasty Americans once the technology and skills are built up in their own country. Think it won't happen? Think again. There's a vicious circle for you, and its jaws are open with its eyes set on you and me to consume us completely.

The European Union [primarily Socialist], especially Socialist France and Scoialist Germany, wants to cut us out of the world picture as well. They will exert more and more pressure on us to cave in to the Euro-for-dollars thing, making a common world currency. The European Union is fueled by pure Socialism, with most of their governments either stinking pink or bright red. They've already sold out and insist we do the same.

Then we have the 'Big Business' crowd. They are the ones that pushed for GAT and NAFTA and etc. and moved their factories away from America. It's a select few at the controls of some large multi-national businesses that have leveraged the rest of American business into following along or getting swallowed in the competition. How do you compete with $ 0.30 a day wages, here in America? So China blossomed and now NEEDS FUEL!

The Arabs don't care who is their customer for oil, and China is just as good as anybody else in their eyes. They have proven through all of the terrorism and other events and idealogical intrigues that America is far from their bossom buddy and friend. The Koran says to destroy the infidels, infidel. Getting the picture of what that means yet?

The real problem as I see it is that America has lost the full understanding of three words: Communist, Socialism and Treason. We could recover if we know who the enemy is and what his strategy is. We never will if the blame keeps getting put in the wrong place. We can't fight an enemy we don't know and can't see or understand.

Once we get back to the basics [won't happen] of what the real difference was between America and the rest of the world, and the difference between Capitalism and Communism/Socialism, and know that it is a fight to the death of one or the other, we will see that the oil thing is just another piece in the plan to destroy the country we call home, the United States of America. Currently we stand alone in the world, and our footing is slipping out from under us.
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Joeychgo said:
A gas station in Stockbridge, Ga., posts prices for gasoline from $5.87 to $6.07 per gallon Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005.
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No one was buying the gas from those gas station who had the gas so high, and they passed a law with strict punishment for gougers. I found gas for 3.19 premium yesterday morning, althoguh they ran out right after I left.
 
yeah ohio has that same law they past it a few years ago thout if hapend during that big powe outage no one could charge mor ethen 1 dollar more then every one els i think couse of gouging prices
 
Gas is down everywhere this afternoon, check your prices at gasbuddy.com.
 
MarkVIII93 said:
Buy a deisel and you can make your own fuel. I saw it on an episode of Trucks. They used old cooking oil but they used some weird machine to get all the animal fat and stuff out. It was pretty cool. Im thinking about getting a deisel mark vii.
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Yeah, I saw that episode too. Might want tofind out the cost of the machine first. Also, what do you do with the waste. I'm sure that the code enforcement cops would love to talk to ou too. Neighbors might object to the smell of rancid cooking oil. Other than that, great idea (just like most of the stuff that you see on those shows....impossible for the average person)

You could also convert your current car to natural gas. Costs @ $3k and fuel is @ half. A friend of mine used to run a program promoting this for Phila. Gas. He drove a car for years that ran on LPG. Ran great. Need to find a place to fill up though...
 
here in mtn. home ar. just payed $3.18 a gal. for the good :q:q:q:q!!!!!!!!!!!

but what can you do, i would have never figure it would get this high, i don't

look for it to go down much either, i don't think we will ever see it less than

$2.50 i think it's :bsflag: thou.
 
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