This is more of a rant/b****ing than a question. I was driving down 1960 and it's about 2.90-2.92 a gallon for supreme/premium. Granted, most of you guys probably use regular but my car can only take premium so I'm getting reamed up the ass. What happened to the fair price of about 2.30 for premium a month ago? It's getting ridiculous to the point where I'm really looking for a job close to home (I drive from NW to westheimer for work) since I don't make that much as a part timer to begin with. Insanity...INSANITY!
I'm right there with you man, I have to use supreme 93 on mine and it makes zero sense as to why it keeps going up. Seems like random gas price raping if you ask me, I was more understanding with the hurricanes and other issue like that but now I just don't get it
Yea it's not like our world is getting any bigger, and what war are they talking about, gas is like unlimited -- even i can make gas...
Summer=biggest gas season. Oil companies have the Bush administration in their pocket. Suddenly there is fear of war or more conflict in the middle east. Not much to the math there.
I don't think I would be b****ing as loud if I wasn't still going to school and work. This commute from north to south blows when you're working part time at about 12 bucks an hour. Hell, I'm even thinking about looking for a job up north that pays less just to save on the gas.
Gas futures prices jumped quite a bit when the whole Iran/British Sailor thing was going on, and it usually takes quite a bit longer for prices to go down than up. Stations seem to use the larger market prices to guide on price adjustments. That might account for some short term rise.
I dont have a car, but I do pay $55 a month for a subway pass. If I did own one, I sure as hell wouldnt get one that required Premium gasoline. Just hope the oilsands projects are everything they hope to be. Then Canada will have more crude than any of our interesting allies in the desert.
It bites. My old truck gets horrible gas mileage, but college isn't a good time to buy a new vehicle... how again would I make those payments... I live right by school, but have to drive to work, not to mention that most of the people who are important to me don't live right here in town, and I need gas to go see them...
It's the time of year where they switch from Winter fuel to Summer fuel IIRC. It normally raises this time every year.
Measured in constant dollars, prices are up to what they were in 1982. Apparently prices aren't high enough to cut down people's driving habits. From the NY Times: Drivers are changing their daily driving habits only slightly as gasoline prices top $3 per gallon in many parts of country; recent study by University of California Prof Christopher Knittel shows every time from November 1975 to November 1980 that gasoline prices went up 20 percent, consumers changed their driving behavior by cutting gas consumption by 6 percent per capita nationwide; drivers reduced consumption just 1 percent from March 2001 to March 2006 when prices rose 20 percents
That sucks. My work is 5 minutes away and I never have to leave this area for anything. I fill up once a month and get about 420 miles a tank.
You b*stard! I live 30 miles from work and have to drive around for work. Some days I end up driving 80-100 miles a day! Fill up about twice a week. Full tank at $3.00 cost me $33.00. At $2.00 it was costing me $22.00. That is $22 a week extra. Over a year (50 * 22 = $1100)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Doesn't even include my wife's car. That's a freakin vacation I can be taking. And all of this is if I drive my small two door Corolla. My Lexus GS300 just sits in the garage most of the time now. Otherwise you can easily double the $1100 a year just for me.
is there a more inflated and speculative-prone commodity than oil? hasn't crude prices dropped in recent days? yet the drastic increase in gasoline prices continues, and over what? pure speculative fear that iran might do something. what a crock of ****.
So...what exactly needs to happen for prices to go down? Also, will it happen sometime in the near future?
