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These Gas Prices are CRAZY!!
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I really am fortunate to live where I do. I sometimes forget that in the day-to-day struggle
This weekend, I can go to the Oregon Zoo, OMSI, Forest Park - I cna get almost anywhere in the metro area with my school bus pass. So think I will do this zoo this weekend if I have any cash left over. Maybe I'll take a photo good enough to post in the "photography" thread
Checked gas at station across the street from us, Arco is $3.35
Checked gas at station across the street from us, Arco is $3.35
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I live in a rural area, so I drive everywhere. And it cost $40 to fill up the Impala back when gas was @.75-ish about 4 days ago.
Between two dually crew cabs, the Impala, Grand Am, & full size van, we probably spend more on gas in a month than we do on a hosue payment!!
Anybody for $1.19 -$1.27 a litre? That's what I'm looking at, unless I want to burn a bunch of gas chasing a (slightly) lower price. Not looking forward to the next fill-up -- fortunately it's a few days away -- maybe I'll get lucky and hit a blip on the right day. That of course is for regular. Sheba prefers mid-grade.
It's $3.39 here. So glad I never drive, except that I'm going to have to start commuting to my teaching job 3 days a week this summer
Seriously happy that I live in a place where I can take the bus or the El or ride my bike everywhere I need to be. And I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for old lady grocery carts so I can walk to the grocery store!
It won't keep rising, though. The gas prices are artificial, actually, meaning they're not really controlled directly by supply and demand, they're controlled by foreign countries and the cartel and Big Oil. They released a report last week in which crude oil supplies are fine, normal, but the refined oil supply is slightly down, so they can artifically raise the prices AND justify it in the mind of most clueless Americans. Also, places like Saudi Arabia like to slowly riase the prices until we start complaning and claiming that we're going to become energy-independent (yeah...right), then they drop the prices, keep up quiet for awhile, then raise them again.
So no, they won't keep rising. At least not consistently. And we'll keep being duped by Oil Execs and the Mideast Royalty they're figuratively in bed with.
Seriously happy that I live in a place where I can take the bus or the El or ride my bike everywhere I need to be. And I never thought I'd say this, but thank goodness for old lady grocery carts so I can walk to the grocery store!
It won't keep rising, though. The gas prices are artificial, actually, meaning they're not really controlled directly by supply and demand, they're controlled by foreign countries and the cartel and Big Oil. They released a report last week in which crude oil supplies are fine, normal, but the refined oil supply is slightly down, so they can artifically raise the prices AND justify it in the mind of most clueless Americans. Also, places like Saudi Arabia like to slowly riase the prices until we start complaning and claiming that we're going to become energy-independent (yeah...right), then they drop the prices, keep up quiet for awhile, then raise them again.
So no, they won't keep rising. At least not consistently. And we'll keep being duped by Oil Execs and the Mideast Royalty they're figuratively in bed with.
TiffanyL;1757952 said:
I just passed the gas station on my way home (in Seattle) and it was $3.45/gal.
It's $3.27 a gallon here today. I whined last week when I filled up at $2.79/gal. Sure looks like the tourist trade will be suffering this coming Memorial Day weekend. Almost glad that I will be stuck in town on call.
i don't have a car but i still care about gas prices. it is around $3.35 a gallon here in Eugene, OR. it's highway robbery
I'm up here in Portland - I agree. The people I really feel for are not those in cities who do have transportation options (even if they don't care for them) but those in rural areas and people on many reservations who are so terribly poor to begin with.
The gas hikes don't really hurt those who can afford it, they hurt those who cannot.
The last time I got gas was this past Monday. It was $3.59 a gallon. I don't know if it's gone up in this past week.
no kidding!! you know what helps though? a bottle of white zinfindale
it's around $2.85-88 here/ gal. for now. tomorrow it'll probably be 3
Regular is still mostly under $3 here. That won't last long. I just paid $2.92 on the way home from work today.
I have a 20 mile commute and DH has an 8 mile commute. He has the hybrid and we're about to swap cars. Thank heavens we bought a hybrid last year (he gets about 50 mpg). I'm curious what the waiting list is for hybrids these days.
I have a 20 mile commute and DH has an 8 mile commute. He has the hybrid and we're about to swap cars. Thank heavens we bought a hybrid last year (he gets about 50 mpg). I'm curious what the waiting list is for hybrids these days.
i'm on the boarder of iowa and illinois. it was $2.89 when i filled up monday. i'm kind of afraid to see what it will be next time. and i don't buy a particular grade, just whatever's cheapest.
around here the middle grade is usually cheapest.
About 2.89 a gallon here, higher in some places.
$1.05 here too today (about $4 per gallon)
It's 2.79 for regular here.
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I did find one place that was $1.71 this weekend, too bad my tank was already full.
