Cost of gas in your area?

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

More then a normal state. Whatever your paying, its 10 cents more in california, at the very least. The reasons because the smog gestapo here demands a cleaner formula.

The end result is the oil companies price gouging, whenever someone sneezes in the middle east, all the more painful.

And yeah, given their profits, i see no justification for the prices other then pure corporate GREED. I mean seriously, are they using Libya as their excuse this time? I'm not "buying" that excuse, not for one freaking minute.

Wait until it reaches $5 a gallon by summer. The oil corps are loving this.

[Ducimus]

Originally Posted by Armistead

Wait until it reaches $5 a gallon by summer. The oil corps are loving this.

You know, i really wish the impeding crash would just happen already, cause at least then i would not be wondering about the future anymore with this sense of impending doom. At least that's the impression I have, that the economy is just sitting there, dangeling by a thin thread, and all it takes is a good gust of wind to send it all crashing down. I don't think its a question of If, but when. High cost of gas could do that. That goes up, and it will send everything else spiraling out of control until the "Great Recession" turns into the "Great Depression version 2.0".

[Ducimus]

I took these photo's just 20 minutes ago.


Monthly expenditures are definately going up. What worries me in the long term is what the new gas price will be fixed at after Big Oil runs out of excuses. Gas prices will probably drop in the future, but they'll be higher then what they were before. Im guessing it will probably go down to 3.50 or 3.75 after all's said and done. I HIGHLY doublt we'll see it go back down to the 3.20 to 3.30 it was before. Why do i expect that? cause its what the big oil exec's did to everybody before. no reason to not expect them to dick us over again. Yeah I realize that oil production has peaked, but i cannot see how prices are justfied so long as Oil is turning BILLIONS in pure unadulterated profit.

edit: Oh and BTW, this is the cheap station in my area. The other stations usually charge 5 to 10 cents more.


More important then unleaded, is Diesal! Cost of foods, goods, and services should be going up soon.

I wonder where it will peak at. In an odd way, i hope its 5 dollars, or more!. Maybe that will get enough people bitching at the politicians to reign in those greedy bastards.


EDIT:
Oh here's a fun fact. Of my 8 hour work day today, 3 of them just went into my gas tank.

[Rhodes]

€1.593 Unlead 95; €1.725 Unlead 98; €1.443 Diesel; €1.515 Diesel+; €0.826 GPL (gas) per litre.

[Platapus]

The taxes on Diesel are very high.

Would people be in favour of a separate tax for commercial use of diesel and a separate tax on Passenger car diesel?

Diesel technology has many advantages. Personally, I like the idea of a passenger car that has a Diesel-electric series powertrain.

I wonder how many people would buy a diesel car if the taxes were more aligned with what people bay for MoGas?

[Ducimus]

Not in my area, but in my state.

5.40, yup, thats five dollars and fourty cents.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-590490

In my area, last i looked, it was 4.20, though I paid 4.30 in Orange.

[Bakkels]

Well there's always worse. Here in Holland you pay €1,74 per liter which comes down to $9,50 per gallon..

[nikimcbee]

~$3.80

I miss my .99 cent gas from the mid 90s.

[Jimbuna]

In the UK we are now averaging over £1.30 a litre...absolutely disgraceful and nothing short of legalised robbery

[TarJak]

Average is AU$1.45/L at the moment. About AU$0.10 more for premium 98 Octane.

[jumpy]

Originally Posted by Platapus

I wonder how many people would buy a diesel car if the taxes were more aligned with what people bay for MoGas?

MoGas = LPG? (lpg used to be about 30-40ppl it's now around twice that much)

Well, here in blighty diesel used to be cheaper than petrol, this, encouraged by the government, led to many people buying diesel cars. Over time diesel became more expensive with the addition of higher fuel duty. dutylolz. I'd expect your model to follow the same lines.... be afraid, be very afraid.

Currently 1 litre of diesel can be as much as £1.41.9 (indeed higher in some places), with petrol being about 5ppl cheaper.

in real terms it means filling up from empty will cost about £130.00 per tank (89L).
This is with the bog-standard economy diesel fuel, never mind about your V-power from shell or whatever.
It makes me rage every time I get rapped at the pump.

[Bakkels]

Originally Posted by jumpy

MoGas = LPG? (lpg used to be about 30-40ppl it's now around twice that much)

Well, here in blighty diesel used to be cheaper than petrol, this, encouraged by the government, led to many people buying diesel cars. Over time diesel became more expensive with the addition of higher fuel duty. dutylolz. I'd expect your model to follow the same lines.... be afraid, be very afraid.

Currently 1 litre of diesel can be as much as £1.41.9 (indeed higher in some places), with petrol being about 5ppl cheaper.

in real terms it means filling up from empty will cost about £130.00 per tank (89L).
This is with the bog-standard economy diesel fuel, never mind about your V-power from shell or whatever.
It makes me rage every time I get rapped at the pump.

So diesel is more expensive in the UK than regular petrol?
That's kinda weird.. Or are there tax-benefits when driving diesel in the UK? Cause here in the Netherlands, diesel is quite a bit cheaper than petrol, but you pay more road-tax (or whatever it's called in English).
So you only benefit from diesel when you're driving more than 30.000 km.

[Ducimus]

MoGas = LPG?

I dunno what LPG is, but "MoGas" is what Unleaded gasoline is called in the US military.