Just one of the reasons I miss living in NJ, AND they pump it for you (still?)

Now using mostly mid-grade for my daily driving. If I anticipate a run I use premium...

 

We won't catch up to Europe unless we quadruple the gas tax. They buy oil at about the same price we do.

There is no shortage of oil. (at least now). No oil deliveries are threatened. There is rampant SPECULATION. The sanctions against Iranian oil amount to maybe 2% of supply.

Oil is a futures commodity market. The gas you are pumping today was bought and payed for at least 6 months ago. Just watch what oil company profits do next year. I predict record profits again.

We are getting screwed again...

 

^^Wouldn't be so bad if they'd supply us with some vaseline go go along with it!

 

Anyone who daily drives a car/suv that gets less then 24 MPG combined knows the writing is on the wall.

 

The "A" number 1 reason why I bought Llanrhaeadr, good gas mileage! The on-board computer says 35 mpg after my (whopping) first 190 miles. Forty is within reach after break-in and more distance driving.

 

Interesting article why CO gas is less expensive than the national average (not political):
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dis-un...182602059.html

 

Wow that's worse than my GTO. My GTO gets 16 MPG.

 

We keep thanking our lucky stars that we were able to get 2 Fuel Efficient vehicles, my MINI and Hubby's 2010 Kia Soul SE#3 Shadow Dragon "SMAUG", when we did!! We were driving an 11mpg Dodge Durango and an S-10 Chevy Blazer!! The Blazer was Sold to make room for Molly, the Durango was traded in on the Soul!!

 

3.99 for premium here in Maryland

 

Where in Maryland are you from?! Member of C3M!???

 

I drove past a Shell in West Hartford, CT last night where 93 was $4.79.9

Glad I had 3/4 of a tank and get 32 mpg around town.

 

I'm working hard to get my CRX going again. Almost there.
I drive 96 miles per day. I do decent but it adds up plus there
is a little tribe of us, with a baby. Babies are EXPENSIVE.
http://s1098.photobucket.com/albums/...terior%20Redo/
I just redid the interior totally. I only have a little bit to go on the AC fix
then basically paint and I am done. (note: easy to say that is still several months of work). I lost pics to the suspension, brakes, etc rebuild. It is not clear to me
the mpg with that engine. My old engine I could get 44 no problem but I never
actually worked this one out. I have a professionally rebuilt head to put on, and new injectors.

 

LOL!!! Overhere in Belgium we pay 8.83 USD/gallon. (1.733 EUR/liter)

Quit complaining! ;-)

 

I am glad that I have a Mini I do not really let gas prices bother me, if I still had my vett then ouch!

 

I agree...We are getting off easy.The Middle east is about to erupt, and the gas prices will soar. Hang on it's going to get bumpy.

 

But for no particular reason. Oil supplies really aren't going to change...Most of the recent price hikes are pure speculation.

 

Yup, it's mainly due to the actions of speculators, and the media.....a lot of which are surprisingly ignorant. I remember several years back Shell had an issue with a semi-submersible type rig where the spars on one side continued to fill with water causing the rig to list big time. The media then freaked out about how this would affect production and such. The result was a spike in oil & gas prices. The punchline here is, this happened when the rig was being relocated, it wasn't drilling or even hooked up to a well so it had no impact on production at all. The media mentioned this in passing at the end of the day, but it was almost like an afterthought and by that point the damage had been done, the prices did go back to normal, but it took a few days....vs the 30 min or so it took for them to jump up.

 

This site isn't supposed to be a politics, but since you opened that door... Obama has only been President for three years and the commercial development of algae conversion for fuel (like using corn for ethanol) has been going on for at least a decade.

Personally I don't worry about the price of gas. I didn't buy my 2005 S because of the mpg or to drive like a grandma....I bought it to DRIVE LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO BE DRIVEN!

 

+1!!

Molly drinks only the Good Stuff and gets her fill on Friday Nights!!

 

Amen, if I wanted to debate politics I'd be on a political forum. I have no problems criticizing the media or correcting the general public's misconceptions with verifiable facts, but lets keep opinions on political issues out of things please.

 

where did you find 409 in queens?

 

I do on another site, and it's ugly (to put it kindly), that's what I like about NAM!

I know the algae idea has been in the works for at least 10 years. I know someone who was sort of involved in the research, and it's still not viable. The corn ethanol is a joke, it's just subsidized unsustainable food burning.

Other than that, all we can do here is watch the price zoom up....

 

Except that we live in a world where science is constantly debated as if it were merely opinion, as evidenced in the comments on this thread that suggest oil supplies "aren't really going to change". That's actually correct only if you understand that they are not going to somehow continue. It's a finite resource we are using up. Fire away at that fact all you want, but the more we use it the faster it's going to disappear.

 

More than 60% of what we pay are pure taxes. That's the only reason for the ridiculously high prices we're faced with at the moment.
Overhere we call cars the "dairy cows of the Belgian government".

But hey, as mentioned by others previously... if I would be that concerned about gas prices, I wouldn't drive a MCS.
Fyi, 18.3 MPG... I only drive my sweety around town...

 

I agree that supply will eventually run out, but that's not the case right now. Oil supply isn't really a supply and demand commodity, it's controlled by a cartel. (like diamonds and dope) They fix the prices, and the production. And in almost every instance, when demand, or perceived demand, exceeds production, someone will break with the cartel production quotas and try to make some more money. Also as price goes up, people will drive less, buy more fuel efficient things, and demand will go down.

This will be true as long as production capacity exceeds demand. When the wells eventually dry up, then you will really see supply and demand take over.