Gas Is $1.41 Here. Yay!

[Gail Simone]

With my discount card, it's $1.31.

That is awesome.

[4thHorseman]

It was about $1.34 here the other day.

Today it's at $1.46. Definately confused on the 12 cent jump, but hopefully that's as high as it'll get for a while.

[scout1279]

The lowest I've gotten gas for is $1.84, and it was awesome. I had never paid less than $2.00 for gas before.

[K-DoG7p7]

YEah.. it was $5,45 here last time I took a look at the prices.. but it was $5,60 last time I pumped some gass

[darkhanamaru]

gas should be $4 at least ...sorry but the USA should have expensive gas like the rest of the world and investing the money into research and public transportation infrastructure

[Ben Morgan]

$1.65 here

[Weetomuncher]

I don't want to sound really dumb but are you talking about prices by litre or gallon because I know UK prices are incredibly high compared to almost anywhere else.

UK prices are about £0.97 per litre having reached £1.35 not so long ago.

[sk716]

It was $1.41 here last week, but has since jumped to $1.59, most likely in anticipation of Christmas traveling.

[K-DoG7p7]

UK prices are about £0.97 per litre having reached £1.35 not so long ago.
some quick calculation..
.. yeah.. thats about what we had/have here (Norway)

[Flamebird]

gas should be $4 at least ...sorry but the USA should have expensive gas like the rest of the world and investing the money into research and public transportation infrastructure

It really doesn't work that way.

The reason the gas prices are going back up, is

1: they can

2: they are slowing down production to hold available amounts so they can

3: claim shortages to justify raising prices.

oh yeah and

4: Because they CAN.

[Charles RB]

gas should be $4 at least

I agree out of bitterness at you and your low prices. :mad:

[Linkara]

gas should be $4 at least ...sorry but the USA should have expensive gas like the rest of the world and investing the money into research and public transportation infrastructure

Yes, because obviously our economies will match up PERFECTLY with the rest of the world's and we should raise the price so that lower-income households will have to pay more to get around.

Subsequently, it varies around here, but anywhere from $1.51 to $1.71 lately. The last full tank of gas we had cost just under $20. I know it won't last, but damn does it feel good. :biggrin:

[Erik Burnham]

gas should be $4 at least ...sorry but the USA should have expensive gas like the rest of the world and investing the money into research and public transportation infrastructure

And no one should live in rural areas that get a lot of snow.

I think there should just have higher gas prices in urban areas where other transportation is available. (;

[SUPERECWFAN1]

With my discount card, it's $1.31.

That is awesome.

Gas has fell below $40 bucks a barrell . OPEC has had a heart attack. They have massively cut production as the world slows. They are fucking scared now.

If Gas falls to $25 a barrell (which it can) then you'll see $1.00 gas.

gas should be $4 at least ...sorry but the USA should have expensive gas like the rest of the world and investing the money into research and public transportation infrastructure

No...no we shouldn't really. We'll take cheap gas now and be happy. Plus take the money were saving and do research into cheaper alternatives.

[Darediva]

We had an actual gas war last week when Murphy Oil opened a new stand-alone station/convenience store. People were lined up to buy $1.13 a gallon gas. Not me. I went over to Kroger and put gas in my car for $1.18 because I had a ten cent discount per gallon, and it was fookin' cold out there. Not worth saving less than a buck to sit around in a gas line. I got to do enough of that in the 70's, until I just parked the car and got a bicycle.

Now today, gas is back up to $1.48 a gallon for the holidays because they know they can get it. S'ok, I'm done with my travels for the year.

[PatrickG]

And no one should live in rural areas that get a lot of snow.

I think there should just have higher gas prices in urban areas where other transportation is available. (;

Yeah. This is one problem i have with, say, Thomas Friedman's arguments on why gas should be more expensive.

Where I live now, if I made more than $7 an hour (I don't), I could deal with, say, $3 a gallon gas. In a city with mass transit, $6-7 wouldn't be unreasonable.

But in the town where I grew up, 90% of the people live 20 miles or more from the nearest large employer and the average person drives 40 miles to work. Even if they worked at the nearest gas station, people pretty much have to go through a full tank a week.

Now, if people are working typically for under $10 an hour, 40 hours a week, that's $400 tops a week. Figure $40 a week for food and toiletries, $50 a week for gas, $150 a week for rent, $25 a week for power, $15 a week for other utilities...

Most people I know make less than $10 an hour and very few people I know in unskilled, low-risk labor can find anyone to give them a full 40 hours a week.

I have most of a college education and it took me around 25 applications and knowing people to get 25 hours a week worth of work. I don't qualify for anything better, for the most part, and I have legitimate reasons why I can't do some of the stuff that would pay better.

If you want to raise price on ANY commodities, I think you owe me a meager living in exchange for it. I'm happy with four walls, a space heater, drinkable running water and food that doesn't require a lot of preparation. But if i can't make that work splitting expenses with a roommate or two and taking as much work as anyone will give me, that's an issue.

i squeak by right now. There is no moral imperative, not national security or energy or saving the troops or religious dogma, worth making life harder for the lower class.

Some progressives, when talking about the idea of taxing things or preserving wildlife, are every bit as much moralistic, sanctimonious shitheads as their neocon counterparts.

The neocons want to protect the big guys courtesy of a grossly darwinistic misinterpretation of capitalism... and many progressives want to go after them.

But IMHO, NOTHING matters more than the IMMEDIATE protection of the lower middle and lower classes, FIRST, and then as a secondary consideration, establishing fairness, transparency and integrity in every concentration of power, public and private. Because no market is free as long as politicians and basic fairness policies are for sale.

Personally, I believe in pure capitalism as a solid system, at least, but also believe that it can only work in a pure democracy which requires a 2/3rds majority to pass any law. That way, to buy votes, you actually have to benefit most people to a point where they're comfortable siding with you.

Because we have a representative system, pure capitalism fails. The cost of buying enough votes is too low, promoting companies and the wealthy to hide behind the system rather than compete exposed in a free marketplace where they are unprotected against leaner, smarter and poorer competitors.

That's enough tangent from me though.