GAS 3.34 a gallon!

NetViper

NetViper

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These people are criminals!!!!!!!

We have gas at $3.34 a gallon today! That does not include the 15 cent gas tax that our Georgia governor suspended for september. WTF!!! Come Saturday, it will be $3.49!!!! Savannah is not even effected by the damaged pipelines from Katrina! Gas was $2.89 yesterday!!! CRIMINALS! :mad:

This country is heading for a recession BIG TIME if something isn't done.
 
Try 98.9 pence (UK) per litre, so that would be like nearly 2 bucks a litre !!
 
I found a station where the owner refuses to sell gas above 3.00 a gallon. If he can't sell it for less than 3.00 he closes down until he can.
Currently gas at his station is 2.96 low 2.98 mid 2.99 high. Here's the part that pisses me off, when he is closed the stations around his sell gas for 3.25+ a gallon. Last weekend he opened back up and within minutes all the other stations dropped their price to match his price. I know where I will be getting my gas for a long time, from an honest guy.
 
I could be wrong (but this post seems to confirm that I'm not), but I feel like a lot of the price increases are from the actual gas stations trying to gouge people based on what's going on in the media and people "thinking" gas prices should go up. For example, y should gas prices go up immediately after Katrina. Katrina slowed down the extraction of new oil and the refining process, but there was still gas at the gas stations and on route to the gas stations. The effects should not have been felt for a week or so and yet gas prices immediately jumped. I don't really know the inner workings of gas pricing so I could be wrong. I would love to hear how it works from someone that manages a gas station.
 
NetViper said:
These people are criminals!!!!!!!

We have gas at $3.34 a gallon today! That does not include the 15 cent gas tax that our Georgia governor suspended for september. WTF!!! Come Saturday, it will be $3.49!!!! Savannah is not even effected by the damaged pipelines from Katrina! Gas was $2.89 yesterday!!! CRIMINALS! :mad:

This country is heading for a recession BIG TIME if something isn't done.
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What can be "done" about this?

Are you a communist? I thought we were supposed to let the market decide what price is right. Refineries are down, supply is down, some stations were clean out after Katrina and gas is piped everywhere, buddy.

You think that because YOUR pipeline is ok that you aren't affected by the next state having no gas at all? Their pipeline is down and so they have to get it from your supplies and they compete. Price goes up.

Now, if the market will bear $3/gal, that's what ppl will charge.
 
Funny, I just noticed that gas in chicago subs jumped from 2.79 to 2.85 all of the sudden today. One thing that I find very interesting is in the past gas prices had as much as a .25 difference from the cheap places to the expensive ones. For the past 2-3 weeks almost every gas station was 2.79. There were a few at 2.75, but even the ones off of the interstate (which are normally a bit high) were the same. Who are the men in the shadows pulling the strings? The good ole land of freedom is not what it seems. These hurricanes were a blessing for the oil men.
I will step back and not put both feet on my soap box.
As NetViper said "This country is heading for a recession BIG TIME if something isn't done." So get your little ducks in a row.
 
<<The good ole land of freedom is not what it seems. These hurricanes were a blessing for the oil men. >>

Oh yeah, the "oil men." But, not you, right, because you don't own any XOM stock? What most makes me laugh is all the stockholders of "oil men" companies bitching about oil prices.

This is the FREE MARKET at work here. If you don't like it, don't drive. Ride your bike. Don't speed around in an expensive exotic sports car.

BTW, when 25% of US refinery capacity is off-line or threatened by a major hurricane, there are going to be gas supply interruptions. Oil has doubled in the last year or so...gas has finally caught up.
 
liftshard said:
<<The good ole land of freedom is not what it seems. These hurricanes were a blessing for the oil men. >>

Oh yeah, the "oil men." But, not you, right, because you don't own any XOM stock? What most makes me laugh is all the stockholders of "oil men" companies bitching about oil prices.

This is the FREE MARKET at work here. If you don't like it, don't drive. Ride your bike. Don't speed around in an expensive exotic sports car.

BTW, when 25% of US refinery capacity is off-line or threatened by a major hurricane, there are going to be gas supply interruptions. Oil has doubled in the last year or so...gas has finally caught up.
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Well, someone obviously owns stock in oil. You are the only one happy about this. At least you won't be spending any of that gas in your NSX.... then again, neither will I.
 
nuccaJB said:
Funny, I just noticed that gas in chicago subs jumped from 2.79 to 2.85 all of the sudden today. One thing that I find very interesting is in the past gas prices had as much as a .25 difference from the cheap places to the expensive ones. For the past 2-3 weeks almost every gas station was 2.79. There were a few at 2.75, but even the ones off of the interstate (which are normally a bit high) were the same.
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See, I would not be happy if Gas was 2.79, but I could understand it from all that has occured. However, $3.40, as I saw it 5 mins ago is a FREAKING CRIMINAL price. Why the HELL would gas be 61 cents more in Savannah Georgia than Chicago????
 
liftshard said:
<<The good ole land of freedom is not what it seems. These hurricanes were a blessing for the oil men. >>


BTW, when 25% of US refinery capacity is off-line or threatened by a major hurricane, there are going to be gas supply interruptions. Oil has doubled in the last year or so...gas has finally caught up.
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Except that we're buying the gas that was made from oil purchased a year or more ago for quite a bit less. They're making bank....Bush is lining the pockets of all his Saudi buddies and oil friends. Pretty damn sickening.
 
liftshard said:
Oil has doubled in the last year or so...gas has finally caught up.
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You need to check your stats. Crude oil has only gone up by 20% in the last year and a half from $40 a barrel to $66 a barrel the other day. The price of refined gasoline is what has doubled in the past year and a half.

Yes the number of refineries are the problem. Several are off line due to the storms, and we (as a country) needed several more new refineries built over a year ago to keep up with our current US fuel demands. Unfortunately we have not built any new refineries in many years now. So until more refineries are built we are probably going to see gas prices slowly keep going up.

If it makes anyone feel better though, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating if oil companies are profiteering and artificially raising gasoline prices. You can Read about it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9424585/

Enjoy
 
dnicho05 said:
If it makes anyone feel better though, the Federal Trade Commission is investigating if oil companies are profiteering and artificially raising gasoline prices. You can Read about it here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9424585/
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...and when found guilty the oil companies will pay a huge fine to the FTC which the gas buyer will not see any of the fine money. So the whole price gouging is really just another tax on the gas buyer.

In a perfect world when the gas companies are found guilty the gas companies should be forced to sell gas as much below their cost as they inflated it and for the same duration of time they sold it at inflated prices.
 
steveny said:
In a perfect world when the gas companies are found guilty the gas companies should be forced to sell gas as much below their cost as they inflated it and for the same duration of time they sold it at inflated prices.
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Now I like that idea a lot!!
 
We have gas at $3.34 a gallon today!

So what? We have it at $3.39 and the refineries are in our very own city, not several states away.

Savannah is not even effected by the damaged pipelines from Katrina!

Wrong. The main products pipelines going North and East from the Gulf Coast area are Colonial, Explorer, Buckeye and Plantation. Savannah can get its gas from one of these pipelines. These pipelines had power outages, so how is it that Savannah's gasoline supply was not affected by Katrina? :confused:
 
50 cents more a gallon = about 6 or 7 dollars more to fill your tank, 2 tanks a week, 52 weeks a year I dont think it will break anyones bank account.


Armando
 
People will NEVER leave their car, even if your price doubles.

At currently $8.45 a gallon we still got a growing traffic problem.
We've seen so many protests about not filling up for one day and all that sorta thing, never works....
 
MiamieNeSeX said:
50 cents more a gallon = about 6 or 7 dollars more to fill your tank, 2 tanks a week, 52 weeks a year I dont think it will break anyones bank account.
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That is true for NSX owners, but for a large part of the country that $6 or $7 dollars a tank is not so easy for them.
 
MiamieNeSeX said:
50 cents more a gallon = about 6 or 7 dollars more to fill your tank, 2 tanks a week, 52 weeks a year I dont think it will break anyones bank account.


Armando
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That's $600-700 a year. So for an average income person making a little over 40k, u're talking about 1/50th of their yearly after tax income. Still do-able but multiple that by the number of people that drive regularly in the US... that's a lot of money that could go else where in the economy. Like more NSX mods =) Throw in another 50% increase in home heating costs and I think u'll see an effect on peoples' spending and the economy.
 
But.....

50 cents more a gallon = about 6 or 7 dollars more to fill your tank, 2 tanks a week, 52 weeks a year. I don’t think it will break anyone’s bank account.

.....people still have the compelling urge to complain about something. :smile:
 
How Ironic

That is true for NSX owners, but for a large part of the country that $6 or $7 dollars a tank is not so easy for them.

And the irony here is that the very first post in this thread complaining about gasoline prices is from.............an NSX owner. :rolleyes:
 

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