Ahhh WTF happened to gas prices?

I filled my car with gas a little more than a week ago. The gas price was under $2/gal. for regular. When I went to get gas at the end of last week the price per gallon had jumped 20 cents. Since then it has gone up 4 cents.

This makes me wonder where that hydrogen fuel cell is... So in the mean time, has anyone considered another solution to the rising gas prices; whether it is hybrid, smaller gasoline vehicle, diesel, etc? I personally wouldn't mind owning a VW TDI and have considered buying one.

A few months ago I heard something about modifying current gas engines to run on direct injected hydrogen. Has anyone else hear anything about this?

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Originally Posted by Acro-nym

Just imagine if gas ever got as expensive as milk! I always try to keep in mind that no matter how bad gas prices are, there is always some other practical item that costs more.

A gallon of whole milk cost me 1.98 yesterday.

Merv: I live in Oregon and it had been at 1.95-2.02 a gallon 2-3 weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by Arainach

Wah Wah Wah. People whine every time, yet we pay a quarter what the rest of the world pays.

What we NEED is to go back to gas rationing. Taxes won't work because rich people don't care. Limit people to 5 gallons of gas a week and FORCE them to start conserving and carpooling. People are too dumb to care about the future.

So just because the rest of the world has shitty prices, it is ok that we get stuck in the eye just that much more with the price of the gas?

What we need in a solution, not a jackass holding the country hostage with gas ration. Besides I can't get to and from work on 5 gallons a week, I currently use 10 gallons a week in my eco Civic DX and I only live 20 miles from my work. I know people who drive more than twice that to get to work.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

You are about 3000 miles from where I am. So what makes your guys prices so much higher there?

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Originally Posted by Jiraiya

Where the hell do you live where its under 2 dollars a gallon? Here its at a level 2.30-2.60 a gallon.

:/ I already answered that question... I currently is about 2.19 a gallon.

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Originally Posted by J-Man

In Vancouver, the gas prices change about 5 times each day, at every location, with very little pattern. Theres a segment on a radio channel that tells us where the gas is cheapest in the city.

See, shit like that would piss me off. Luckily it only changes once a day at most.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Shonos

We dont need more oil from a new source. We need an alternative fuel/energy source. That way we can use what oil is left for our products and food.

I could care less about people getting to work in cars. We run out of oil and you're going to be having trouble getting ahold of some damn food. Being able to get to work will be pointless if you have no food to spend that money on.

Oh and gas is 2.50 here. It gets really expensive for me and my brother to fill our gas tanks sometimes. Most of the time I dont even drive. I'l just bike or walk to where I need to go now. It's even worse for my father though. He can go through a full tank very quickly because the base he works at is so far. It costs him a large amount of money to keep gas in his vehicle.

Ofcourse.. it's been alot worse before. Almost 3/4$. So this is kinna a break from that.. still alot though.

The oil supply is not the problem, it is our ability to refine the crude oil that is part of these increased gas prices. I live 20 miles from my work place, that I have to drive to and from at least 5 days a week and it is still less than 30 dollars a week in gas. So wtf is your brother driving?!?


www.sega.co.jp, what part of Oregon are you in? Yeah Arco has the lowest prices in gas but I would never put that shit in my car. I'd rather pay 10 more cents a gallon for something I know doesn't have water in it.

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Originally Posted by Chaco

Gas Prices fluctuate anywhere from $2.80/g to $3.30 a gallon. For regular gas.

It jumped even worse in like October where there was a line at the Hess Station to get $3.39 gas. Gas prices are ridiculous but then again, I guess shit like this happens.

Wow that is really fucking expensive... Even when most of the US had gas prices over 3.30 a gallon, Oregon regular gas never broken 3 dollars a gallon.

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Originally Posted by Chibi Neko

Right now we are paying 1.06 per litre, but it is going up again in a few days... damn I hate being on a island sometimes!

Island? Where do you live in Canada?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Has anyone heard as to why there was such a jump in the prices?

How ya doing, buddy?

Wow that really sucks. What is funny is that CAD is worth more than USD but most goods in Canada seem to be way more expensive than in the US...

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Well gasoline sure as shit is more expensive there.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Anywhere else in Canada you mean? Here in Oregon we never seen 3.00 dollars a gallon for gas.

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Originally Posted by FLEX

That was what I was paying a few months ago, when Katrina blew through and the shit really hit the fan.

I take it there aren't as many SUVs up there

Shit, that is expensive... I guess I am lucky to never have had that kind of jump in price.

I was speaking idiomatically.

They are smaller overall with smaller engines. Not that much different than some of the subcompact cars you see here.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I feel fine driving my little civic around. I just stay away from big rigs as Civic + Jackknife = death trap...

What it comes down to for a lot of families is that they can afford the gas so they don't care that they are only getting 15mpg highway when they feel safe in their big ass SUVs. America has some of the lowest gas prices in the world. Until our prices get like those of Europe I doubt people will be trading in their large safe vehicles for the little perceived "death traps" that are most imported cars.

FELIPE NO

I think Geo Metros are worse... Worst car of the century.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

2% milk here is 2 dollars a gallon. Whole milk (3.5%) is about 2.5 a gallon.

Premium gas is over 2.60 a gallon now. Regular is about 2.30 .

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