20 cent jump in gas in 7 days!!!

[excelscior]

I'm in California and in the Los Angeles area. A Chevron gas station went from $3.85/gal to $4.05/gal in 7 days. 1 week before Memorials day $3.85 for their cheapest. Now their cheapest gas 7 days later is $4.05/gal and premium is $4.25/gal. What a ripoff! :mad:

[Shoreguy]

Yep...still buying at Arco for under $4, but everywhere else is done.
Disgustly...I passed by a "Thrifty Gas" yesterday on El Segundo Blvd., just before Inglewood Ave. (I work at the old Xerox Centre)....$4.29 for Regular Unleaded. I really didn't know whether to laugh, cry or shoot the "Thrifty" owner.

[darrenw1967]

in the uk it is now over $11 a uk gallon

[leprechaun_40]

I'm betting on over $5 a gallon by July 4th

[mireland]

I'm betting on over $5 a gallon by July 4th


I'm betting $10 a gallon by the end of the year.

[herosrest]

You can work out roughly what it will be costing in 6 months by the price the crude is purchased at now for 3 months ahead.

[Train]

Those in the UK need to use http://www.petrolprices.com/

[excelscior]

Rougly from 6pm to 6am the next day the price went from $4.05/gal to $4.09/gal. We are totally being robbed. The only good thing I see coming out of this is that it reduces the congestion in traffic. I don't see as many cars after 6pm as I used to around my neighborhood. Bu t still............. :mad:

[excelscior]

:mad: Somewhere within a 6 hour period while I was at work. Gas went up another 5 cents!!! Now it's at $4.15/gal to $4.17/gal across the street. Wow how can that be justified to have a double price jump within a 24 hour period? :mad: That is absurd!!! :mad:

[herosrest]

No, it's business. As usual.

There needs to be a serious debate about the role of profits and why there isn't enough of them at the moment.

[Train]

Twice in 24 hours, just depends on the state, but like some stations I know of, they get 3 loads a day and they can jump the price after they pump each load.
Depending on what they pay for the load.

[werz]

The banks are forcing up the price through speculating on the commodities futures market.
The Fed is giving them the low interest loans, which are supposed to be for lending to customers, but are being used to gamble on the oil price.
There's no shortage of oil, as OPEC keeps saying, this is an artificial crisis, created by banks and the brokerage companies that are trying to earn back money they lost doing the same as they did to cause the housing bubble that ended up causing the subprime collapse.

[millermil121]

That's too bad.

[mobo57]

$97.14 to fill my combine last night. Gonna have to cut down on this, last weekend:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/mobo57/IMG_2705.jpg

[leprechaun_40]

$97.14 to fill my combine last night. Gonna have to cut down on this, last weekend:
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f161/mobo57/IMG_2705.jpg


I'll bet that hurt, right in the old wallet :eek:

[j.m@talk]

Yeah its great ........ That'll be 60 litres @ £1.15 a pop ......... £69.00 $136.41 Usd ....... I walk to the shops a lot these days ;) ............ NO WAY JOSE........ All them there pplz around, I can run loads over in the JM mobile :mad: ........ But I did (As I have loadsa time on me hands) Do some tuning ....... Replaced the Distributor cap & rotor ..... Got some new leads ...... Cleaned out the PCV & that other valvy thing with the wires & tubes going to it, polished up the throttle butterfly area etc etc..... Yey gotta 100 more miles outta a full tank ....... (It was getting sloppy tho) Plugs & filters were fine ;)

[leprechaun_40]

Loadsa time? You joined the great unemployed?

[mobo57]

Ok broke the 100$ mark. $102.23 for a tank. :mad:

[Imperion1]

What gets me are the gas stations that change their prices twice in the same day.

[leprechaun_40]

I saw it for $4.39 today. About whizzed my pants :eek:

[mobo57]

I wish I could find it at 4.39$. Paid 4.57$ last night. This morning drove by the same station, was at 4.61$.
Thnk you George. He took care of his buddies didn't he?

[leprechaun_40]

Our Idiot governor wants to slap another tax on gas too. She's not getting re-elected this fall

[mobo57]

Ok... here they come:
http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=84561&;
I vaguely remember my college physics and it seems to me it's take more energy to separate the hydrogen from the O2.
But then again...

[werz]

Why do I believe thats the first and last time we'll ever see that car.
Either the technology doesn't work, or big oil will buy it out and shelve it, before too many people get to hear about it.

[drewster]

From what I understand, The H is obtained from oil at this time anyway, so It's not so green right now.

[herosrest]

Hi everyone, joy and bliss to you all. Ahem. The fuel you pay for now was crude oil 3 - 6 months ago. Say 3 months ago ok. price then was a $100 barrel. So in 3 months time....... u do the math. :t :D

[Lgbpop]

Hi everyone, joy and bliss to you all. Ahem. The fuel you pay for now was crude oil 3 - 6 months ago. Say 3 months ago ok. price then was a $100 barrel. So in 3 months time....... u do the math. :t :DRemove the oil company employees' wages/salaries (They're paid for working even if they're drilling dry holes), the cost of equipment maintenance and utilities, the insurance and benefits premiums, and the government taxes charged and almost all the rest is being used to buy the $130-per-barrel oil on the market now.

Here is the USA, the numbers being thrown about lately are the 18¢/gallon the government gets versus the 8¢/gallon that the oil companies make on average. Why isn't the government being villainized when they're getting more than twice as much - for not lifting a finger - than the company that did all the work to produce the oil? Furthermore, ever thought that the stockholders these days are overwhelmingly hard-working people whose retirement plans own oil stocks as an investment?

My dad's - and thousands of other peoples' - 401(k) retirement monies would have been a lot closer to what was projected if the government wasn't using the oil companies as a cash cow. This idea of a few "fat cats" rolling around in piles of ill-gotten money is 100 years old. Get with the times.

[Train]

The goverment is strting to panic, wasgington state has dropped about 400,000 gal a day is gas usage. At 54.4 cents a gallon tahat really adds up in lost revenue.


Wonder why the republicans smothered a 45% windfall tax this year.

[mobo57]

RHere is the USA, the numbers being thrown about lately are the 18¢/gallon the government gets versus the 8¢/gallon that the oil companies make on average. Why isn't the government being villainized when they're getting more than twice as much - for not lifting a finger - than the company that did all the work to produce the oil? Furthermore, ever thought that the stockholders these days are overwhelmingly hard-working people whose retirement plans own oil stocks as an investment?

My dad's - and thousands of other peoples' - 401(k) retirement monies would have been a lot closer to what was projected if the government wasn't using the oil companies as a cash cow. This idea of a few "fat cats" rolling around in piles of ill-gotten money is 100 years old. Get with the times.

The tax 18.4 cents per gallon goes to building and maintaining the system of roads and highways in the states. Reality is it is not nearly enough to do the job. Just look at other countries that have higher or lower taxes on gas and their infrastructure. Two countries I have been to that are good examples are Egypt and the UK.
In Egypt the gov controls the price of fuel. Gas is around 40 cents US a liter. The road system in Egypt is one if the worst I have seen. Compare that to the UK where gas is over $2.30 a liter and around half that is tax. Their infrastructure is one of the best.
Unfortunately the Hannity "no-spin zone" does spin.

[herosrest]

WEST CHESTER, Ohio - Motorists hope one Ohio service station's mistake wasn't a sign of the future. For several hours on Thursday, a Speedway station in the Cincinnati suburb of West Chester advertised regular for $9.09 a gallon on a sign high above an interstate highway.

[j.m@talk]

The road system in Egypt is one if the worst I have seen. Compare that to the UK where gas is over $2.30 a liter and around half that is tax. Their infrastructure is one of the best.
Unfortunately the Hannity "no-spin zone" does spin.

We are really lucky as far as tax goes ....... We get to pay 17.5% tax on top of our fuel duty ...... But I dunno how much that is :( ...... It ain't cheap tho

On the Brighter side of things we Brit motorists also get "VED" who? ..... "Vehicle Excise Duty" (Annual fee) Ya gets charged differing amounts & theres all sorts of different calculations pending on when ya car was made & the ammount of nasties it sprays out when is goin' ....... Mine is about £190 per year as I remember (I try to forget)

[mobo57]

Last night's fill up.. $110.17. :mad: And got the annual registration renewal for the wife's B-M-Trouble-u the other day, $484!! :eek:

[mireland]

:t

[j.m@talk]

A LOTUS is what ya need :)

Lots
Of
Trouble
Usually
Serious

Whats your daily driver ? ...... Ya don't clog the roadz wiv ya combine do ya?

[Lgbpop]

Last night's fill up.. $110.17. :mad: And got the annual registration renewal for the wife's B-M-Trouble-u the other day, $484!! :eek:You oughta move, or overthrow your government. I filled my Taurus wagon for $46 and annual registration is $36.10.

[mobo57]

Unfortunately I live in the land of the fruits and nuts, with the Governator, he'd pinch my head off. Think his wife got to him.
Did some figuring a while back. My total federal income tax came out to just under 26%. State was 8%. SSI, SDI, Medicare etc. was another 6.5%. So 40% of my pay is gone before I even see it.
Of the take home part, if 30% of my spending goes to mortgage, 15% goes to food, and 10% into savings, that leaves 45% of my take home for general expenditures, which works out to about 27% of my GROSS pay. Out of that portion, NOW about 20% goes to gas (petrol), subject to our 38 cents/gal of state and federal taxes. The rest of the general expenditures are all subject to state/local sales tax of 8%. So gas and sales tax adds another 4 to 5% on top of the gross. So just direct taxes consume about 45% of my paycheck. Forget my portion of my health care, deductables, school costs, etc.
Overthrow the government? I would, but I can't afford to. :(

[herosrest]

It's called freedom?............ :rolleyes: :t

[mireland]

It's called freedom?............ :rolleyes: :t


where? certainly not in GW country... :rolleyes:

[herosrest]

erm............ ok, Bravery then? :D :t

[j.m@talk]

Eh ero' did ya see the dude on the telly the other night trying to flop his M Class Merc 4x4? ..... Paid £12K for it 12 months ago & the used car dude dude said it was probably worth £6K now but wouldn't give him £5K for it ........

Ya could pay 5 fer it & ship it elswhere to flop it on ........ Absolutely no ingenuity some peeps.......

Negative equity with a car ....... MUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[bruceb]

In my area of NJ I can find 87 octane for around $3.91 a Gallon
But go just 15 miles west into Parsippany & it will run about $4.10 a Gallon
In Lodi, just off Rt80 (RT17 North exit) there are 3 stations and they would
usually be about 5 cents less than in my own town.

[j.m@talk]

I've never seen 87 Octane........ Its a Minimum of 95 I use 97 to 99 pending where I shop ....... Mind you it costs the earth ........ worth it tho being close to sea level & a minor timing tweak ..... Better MPG & More powa :D

[leprechaun_40]

Hey bruce, come north to CT, where taxes are high. It's finally down to $4.11 in a few places. Can't even afford to pay attention these days.

[j.m@talk]

Bloody Luxury........ £1.15 a Litre here ......... Well Puffy that is ....... Has gone down a bit this week tho :D (97 RON) that

[leprechaun_40]

You deserve to pay more though, ;)

[j.m@talk]

Prolly Troo that :(

[herosrest]

Eyeball - Sun's shining.................... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8sCN481ADQ

[bruceb]

This link explains octane ratings

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octane_rating

87 here in the US is the same as 90-91 in the UK / Europe

[j.m@talk]

Blech ....... Anyways Unleaded has to be at least 95 here & 97 to be super Quite why I dunno ..... But there ya are :t

[BadDriver]

What's an arsonist to do? :( With the price of gas and all oil products going through the roof the cost of torching someone's house has more than doubled.

The solution is first ya cuts the gas line on yer victims car and catch HIS gas, don't worry if ya spill some just don't get it on you. (more on that later)

Now ya just splash some of his gas around his domain (hey, there might be some left over for your ride so don't use more than needed ;)) and toss a match at it.

Now, remember that bit of gas you spilled under the dudes car.......you got it, another match. Get away quick, when the fumes in that tank go.....:eek:







There has to be some humor in getting raped at the pump. Right? :(

[leprechaun_40]

And they don't even kiss you when they're done :eek:

[j.m@talk]

I gots to admit I don't go out on Jaunts as much as I used to :( No I don't mean kerb crawling :rolleyes:

But fuel always has been silly expensive here & as I mentioned earlier, some of the supermarkets have reduced the fuel costs recently. Not by much tho :D

http://www.petrolprices.com/images/newbanner.gif (http://www.petrolprices.com/)

[Train]

Still $4.49 a gallon here, But note that in Portland, Oregon it can be had for as low as $3.89. Definately not the 17 to 38 cents I paid for gas for so many years.

[j.m@talk]

Why not get your chaps to suck all that oil outta the Texan Gulf/Alaska & keep it for the home market, Thus retaining cheap fuel. ?

[mireland]

Why not get your chaps to suck all that oil outta the Texan Gulf/Alaska & keep it for the home market, Thus retaining cheap fuel. ?


if they started drilling right this second, it would take betwen 5-8 years before we even saw it.... :(

[j.m@talk]

Looks like you been caught wiv ya pants down again

[mireland]

Looks like you been caught wiv ya pants down again


not me..I just siphon gas out of other peoples tanks... :D

[BadDriver]

Why not get your chaps to suck all that oil outta the Texan Gulf/Alaska & keep it for the home market, Thus retaining cheap fuel. ?

We need that reserve for when we invade the UK, that's why. Now shaddup! :mad:

We know you are manufacturing poison gas. Stay outta the burrito joints or else.

[j.m@talk]

I'm reading up on LPG conversion .........

Its megga bucks to have done ....... But It ain't rocket science ........ Might give it a burl if tha price is right

[BadDriver]

not me..I just siphon gas out of other peoples tanks...

When I was a youngster we used to steal gas from the school board. Those school busses hold a lot of feul and sit way higher than the average car or truck. 6 foot of garden hose and you had your own personal gas station. ;)

Once we mistakenly siphoned diesel into a 66 chevelle. :( The thing smoked and knocked like crazy at about a 50-50 mixture. We took the car to the river and siphoned the toxic carp out of the car and into the water supply. Before we left one of the guys felt bad for "poisening "the river and lit the sheet with a match. The river blazed with about 25 gallons of diesel and gas. :r

Then we went back to the bus lot and found a gasoline bus. :mad: :D

[j.m@talk]

I've never seen a gasoline bus ...... Theys all diesels here

[BadDriver]

I've never seen a gasoline bus ...... Theys all diesels here


Most of'em are here now. :( Actually when I was a kid, they had just started switching to diesel. All of our busses used to be gasoline. (School busses that is.)

[j.m@talk]

Mind you 90% of cars available here have a diesel engined version ...... So if ya were really keen ya could still do it ........ Infact most of the 4X4's are diesel ...... Nasty klunky POS they are ....... :mad:

[leprechaun_40]

Hey, I saw gas for less than $4 a gallon yesterday. Thought it was a mistake at first. :eek:

[j.m@talk]

I'd chop off my left testicle fer £2 a gallon fuel :(

[mireland]

I'd chop off my left testicle fer £2 a gallon fuel :(


err, but then you'd have none left over... :D

[j.m@talk]

Heeeey No Fair :mad: