Gas Prices

So this is currently a record setting summer for gas prices, especially in Canada where its reached over $108.4 per liter. That's the highest it's ever been and its supposed to keep climbing, I think we've seen the last of the days where prices were down around $0.90. It is becoming pretty damn expensive to drive a car.

Is the same shit happening over the border? I was just in europe and I know the prices there are insane too (except greece where everything is cheap).

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When you adjust it for inflation, gas was actually more expensive in the 80s in the US. I can still remember my dad bitching about it. Damn Jimmy Carter!

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late 70s were very expensive,one good comparison is that when jimmy carter was presedent every one had locking gas caps,it was so expensive they were siphoning it from the cars on the street,though i drive a big van for buisness ,i drive a 2002 mr2 spyder the rest of the time,5 speed 4 cyl, great gas milage!,

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well my license is suspended but i feel you, being from the USA, knowing we got lower prices than most the world for years, i think its about time we got a reality check, and well, reality check applies to everyone, this is un renewable without millions of years, so of course itll cost... wait 10 yrs without hybrid/ hydrogen cars, we are about 40 yrs from consuming all the oil in the world... i will be alive, and i like watching the news, so ill be sure to have about 200 kegs to hold me over while i watch my 24 hrs news channels taping and watching the fights over gas ... thats sounds too fun

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You guys have it lucky - reported today that some stations around the UK have gone over the £1 mark for 1 litre of fuel.

£1 = $1.79 per litre

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4133430.stm

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I filled up this morning. 94.9p at the local Shell.

FUCKING HOW ANNOYING?

Car was in the dealership the other day for repairs, so i got given an 05 plate Astra CTDi estate to play with (good job they gave me an estate as i fucked off to Global Gathering for the weekend).

Naturally i thrashed the fucking bejeezus outta it. Lovely car!

Err, dunno what it has to do with fuel prices or anything but i thought i'd let you know.

Oh no i remember now, it was like 97.9p for diesel.

SHITE!

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2.40 per gallon of regular this morning. Highest price I've seen in the SE USA

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Record high in Melbourne Australia

Fortunately i dont have to pay that because i have a company van supplied!!

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If i'm getting my conversion's right Here in Ireland it's working out about $5 a gallon (1.08euro a litre).

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yes it is bad,thank god for my Bp card

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Man, it's getting tough, putting an average of 40 to 50 dollars a day everytime I work. At 2.49 per gallon, it adds up. Plus big vans suck gas, especially with dual air conditioner systems (which kill gas mileage, but with 90 degree temps, I have to keep myself and the teens cool plus the products will melt if kept in high heat for too long) so I'm feeling it. I might even have to raise the price of our products just to cover the extra expense. Which is what is going to happen to everything else, as gas prices always effect, in the long run, the price we pay for other goods and services.

Kal is right, adjusting for inflation, we still are paying less, but again, when your use to paying under a dollar for a gallon (early 80's, when I got my license at 16, it was around 80 cents), 2.50 seems to fucking high. Granted, we pay less than most other countries, but there has to be some changes made. I wish I could use a better mileage vehicle, but my business doesn't allow for it at all. I have no choice but to use gas sucking, low mileage vans.

One good thing, I can write it off my taxes, and with Speedway's reward card, I am now at my 3rd free 25 gallons of gas, which I plan on using by Friday. That's $62 worth of free gas, and I've already got over $100 worth since they started the program. And the good thing is, they don't keep their prices higher than other stations, so I'm not getting screwed by using them all the time.

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By the way, for us English twats, we only understand the word "Petrol" Gas is different!

It's defo. bad for US consumers, you guys drive huge SUVs with (as candyman said) Air con and huge engines.

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The worst bit about it all is 60% of the price is tax here

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Originally posted by socks
By the way, for us English twats, we only understand the word "Petrol" Gas is different!

It's defo. bad for US consumers, you guys drive huge SUVs with (as candyman said) Air con and huge engines.

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Well, in my defense, I don't have much choice. Hard to shove 12 people, and yourself, into a Chevy Evo or Honda Hybrid. But for people who drive huge, ovesized SUVs, they deserve what they get. Rarely do I see someone driving one of those things with more than 1 or 2 people in it, yet they continue to bitch about the cost of gassing one up. The sad thing is that most of the owners buy them for the prestige, as in "Hey I'm rich, I can afford a $80,000 SUV that gets 2 miles to the gallon! Too bad I have to re-mortgage my house so I can fill it up and be able to drive to work everyday!"

The best story I heard sums up what most people buy SUVs for was on the local John Corby drive home show. I tells a story about how one day he's out shoveling snow in his driveway, when he sees his neighbor's, a woman, new SUV coming down the road. He waves her to stop, as he wants to check it out, and notices that her boyfriend is driving it. He approches the suv, and she rolls down the window yelling all excited "Hey John, how do like my new SUV?!?!" He replies that it's nice, looks really good, etc. but asks her why her boyfriend is driving. Her reply? "Because it's snowing and I'm afraid to drive it in the snow!"

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hey now,

Yesterday, I paid $2.55 a gallon. Total it was around $44.

I remember about 5 years ago, gas prices were under a buck.

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Just today, here in Northern B.C. Canada, regular gasoline is

97.9¢CDN/liter and people bitch and moan about the price.

But we have it ass backwards in North America. Right under the sign for 97.9¢/l there is a sign for bottled water

"2 1000ml bottles for $2"

So a dollar per liter for water is a good deal, but under a dollar a liter for gasoline isn't?

Unbelievable.

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Originally posted by ron989
I think we've seen the last of the days where prices were down around $0.90. It is becoming pretty damn expensive to drive a car.

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oh my..

we have to pay twice that, so hush your whining

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come to the UK. land of cheap motoring!

you pay for your car. then your insurance (which if you are under 25 will involve you taking out a loan the size of a 3rd world country debt just to get 3rd party insurance), then your road tax (which if you have anything over a 1400 will involve you paying tax that even racketeering groups wouldn't charge you as monthly interest).

then you have your breakdown cover, which involves having to pay for one of the better (and obviously ludicrously expensive) packages because the basic one will cover you for a guy to drive out to you, look at the car, shrug his/her shoulders and say they can't do nothing because your 3cm too far from your driveway or something equally unsexual.

then there's the joy of fuel prices. nuff said there.

then there's the joy of car maintenance where everyone in that game in the UK is basically out to rip you off for every penny you have. oh dear, my oil needs changing. £4 or something for a bottle of oil. plus £600,000 for labour.

motoring is bollocks. drive fast die young. that way you'll save yourself the expense of a life of motoring and can say at least you drove for a while. after you pass the novelty wears off when every cunt treats you like a fucking taxi.

motoring is an endless moneypit. but we all do it because cars are great! YEAH!

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Well today my job paid me a little over $16 for gas, and I put $15 in my tank and that will last me a couple of days, and when I work again I will get another $16 or so for gas. I myself don't have to pay for the gas I use. My job does.

I quit the tech support job, I make better money doing what I'm doing now.

I thought this type of job was demeaning and something I would never do because I would be lowering myself to do this job, and on average I make at least $12-15 an hour. I make better money now.

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fuel priceing is ridiculous and from what i have read in the news and stuff....world demand ( mostly USA and China) has pushed up prices and terrorism has too...fucking 96p for a liter here...tho i know in wales the independant garages are up to 124.9p a liter.....cunts!

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