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tribefan226
Posts: 2122 - Karma: 209
for a gallon of gas. nearly ran a redlight when i saw it. what the fuck it better go down by winter
May 13 2008 11:05PM
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Sufferboy
Posts: 4241 - Karma: 122
im still sick of ppl bitching b/c the area im in has the 2nd highest gas prices in the US
Jun 3 2008 4:24PM
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[BRI]noceros
Posts: 2319 - Karma: 40
its way more then that in CT. like, 430 or somethin for regular.
Jun 3 2008 4:26PM
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ski_ENDUB
Posts: 2535 - Karma: 86
Yea Oregon isn't too far behind, I think it's 4.39 in some places in OR. 
Jun 3 2008 4:29PM
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Proze
Posts: 1094 - Karma: 7
You guys are pussies where i live in the summer it is 4.70 a gallon
Jun 3 2008 4:34PM
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Campeador
Posts: 7516 - Karma: -1,227
at least you get some service.
Jun 3 2008 4:39PM
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Sufferboy
Posts: 4241 - Karma: 122
we should go in to ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jun 3 2008 4:41PM
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Ben.
Posts: 21463 - Karma: 683
4.25ish in chi town. fucking ridiculous. i hate gas. im gonna sell my car i think
Jun 3 2008 5:24PM
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juanborlando
Posts: 3598 - Karma: 2,539
if i didnt live in such a rural area where i have to drive far to get everywhere, i would totally have a moped by now.  fuck gas and fuck my SUV
Jun 3 2008 5:32PM
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PilleDaKid
Posts: 3193 - Karma: 2,629
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Why are you guys bitching about this when gas prices have been rising for so long. Every summer they go up. It should'nt be that big of a suprise.
There is so many ways to avoid gas prices really hurting your wallets. Get a car with better mileage, ride the bus vs. driving to school, carpool. I agree that paying $4.05 (in my case) for gas really sucks, but you had to see it coming.
Jun 3 2008 5:40PM
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Malcolm
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yea at this marina i work at its at 1.43 per litre

Jun 3 2008 5:43PM
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TuscanTBone
Posts: 63 - Karma: 10
gas is about 4.20 in buffalo
diesel is 5.15
Jun 3 2008 5:51PM
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skiing_monkeys
Posts: 166 - Karma: 28
you think you got it bad... i pay 1.17 GBP per liter. thats about $2.50 a liter.

thats about $11.20 a gallon.

TRY FILLING UP IN THE UK.
Jun 3 2008 7:12PM
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tBatt
Posts: 9632 - Karma: 580
hahah i want that.

but over memorial day weekend gas prices were at like 4.30/gal
now their at like 4.05/ gallon
Jun 3 2008 7:25PM
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mizzike
Posts: 1386 - Karma: 251
$4.35 a gallon for gas and over $5.00 for diesel in northern california right now. Thank god my forester gets 25+ mpg
Jun 3 2008 7:49PM
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dman1260
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it kind of bugs me when people say, "it's 9 dollars in england" or in whatever European country.  The main reason for the difference between here and there is the level of tax levied by the government.  In England, the gas tax is something like 70% of the price of your gasoline.  This means that without a gas tax you would be paying 2.70 per gallon.  Where in the U.S. my gas costs 4.35 and only 10% of that is tax.  So, even without tax I am paying in the high three dollars.  So, looking where the costs are really coming from who here is getting screwed?  Looks like the U.S., not Europe or Canada. 

Also, when looking at the gas issue, you have to look at the fact that America has no real public transportation, so when gas prices go up, the average American feels more of an effect than the average European.  Now I know this is the governments fault to some extent, but it still does not remove the fact that when our gas prices go up, we are affected much more greatly than most other nations. 
Jun 3 2008 7:51PM
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babujib
Posts: 5039 - Karma: 104
lets move to Venezuela its 12 cents a gallon there, itd probably cost less for us to buy it there then ship it to the US
Jun 3 2008 7:55PM
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snwbrdmilf
Posts: 22441 - Karma: 2,806
HAHAHAHA yes. Fuck me sideways, love it.
Jun 3 2008 9:26PM
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steezyjibber
Posts: 15967 - Karma: 11,026
wow only 2.37 here

NOT
Jun 3 2008 9:28PM
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no_steeze
Posts: 23992 - Karma: 4,273
i was just in CT and i saw gas for 4.79, so yeah
Jun 3 2008 9:30PM
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mattster
Posts: 4120 - Karma: 41
i wish i could just walk to everything i need, i would be all over that
Jun 3 2008 9:41PM
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PeteyG
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hahaha that made me lawl all over the floor
Jun 3 2008 9:48PM
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Nicholas.
Posts: 10905 - Karma: 60
fuck my life im spending 55 every 5 days at this point. i need my job back. deff gonna be doing a lot of carpooling this summer.
Jun 3 2008 10:07PM
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sack
Posts: 4881 - Karma: 147
here it's like $1.40 for a litre. I'm like, a dollar forty??! for a LITRE???
haha
Jun 3 2008 10:12PM
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Bangor
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I think this is a good point that gets overlooked alot. I've never been to Europe, yet, so somebody from across the pond please correct me if I'm wrong, but generally speaking Europe is much more interconnected than the US. There are vast expanses of mostly rural areas in the US/Canada where having a car is, for all intensive purposes mandatory.

The public transportation systems in the not-major US cities also, for the most part suck. NYC, Boston, Chicago, etc. all have fairly decent public systems of transport. However, in Rochester NY where I go to school, the public system is a joke. Buses run at extremely long intervals, and there are very few lines to begin with. And there is no subway or other system running with that.





A large problem in the US is suburban sprawl in relation to this. There are a LOT of people who drive 20-30 miles each direction to work, because they choose to live in an outlying area. I don't see this being feasible for much longer. In combination with the current housing crisis, I think that we're already beginning to see the failure of this system........ foreclosures on homes that are the "American Dream" type of residence are skyrocketing; my question is: where are these people going?
Jun 3 2008 11:54PM
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Shadows
Posts: 8068 - Karma: 43
20-30 miles to work seems like an afternoon bike ride to me.
my town is largely populated by new yorkers who still commute. i live in PA, right on the jersey border. people move here so they can still "live" in jersey but get the benefits of paying lower taxes in PA, all while earning a Manhattan salary. shit is ridiculous. money hungry bitches.
Jun 4 2008 12:02AM
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spliff.Life
Posts: 7847 - Karma: 1,549
its that in boise too
Jun 4 2008 12:34AM
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TheFugitive
Posts: 60 - Karma: 11
Oh quit your whinging.

Here in Aus its $1.60 a litre. 1 gallon is 4.54609 Litres (google :p)

So we are paying $7.27 per gallon!!
Jun 4 2008 2:21AM
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funk.
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I remember here in Alaska seeing on the news that Hawaii had just hit record prices of $3.00 per gallon and were the highest in the nation a few years ago.. then I went to the gas station to fill up my boat and payed $5.50.  Its $7.25 in the closest town to my cabin right now.
Jun 4 2008 3:23AM
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1990
Posts: 1787 - Karma: 52
stop complaining all of you. In Germany the gallon is at 8,76$ and you whine about half the price.
Jun 4 2008 7:45AM
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WikiWiki
Posts: 5584 - Karma: 426
we were driving to the beach and it was 4.10 for 87- we had to pay 435 for premium though
Jun 4 2008 8:26AM
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BMB
Posts: 3138 - Karma: 232
3.99 its amazing.  TG i dont have to pay for my gas, my parents do.
Jun 4 2008 10:20AM
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g.muelheims
Posts: 457 - Karma: 110
there's a shitload of oil in alaska but yet the fucking hippies wont let us drill there
Jun 4 2008 10:41AM
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mammothpunks
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$4.40- $4.80 for premium. gotta love california. fucked up thing is i can see 10+ oil rigs out in the ocean from sb
Jun 4 2008 12:58PM
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messplay
Posts: 4483 - Karma: 1,066
$4.39 over here kids in CA

pray for us.
Jun 4 2008 2:07PM
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chapz
Posts: 10182 - Karma: 66
145.4 here.

i heard it $.03/litre in venezuela. WTF
Jun 4 2008 2:09PM
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DangerToes
Posts: 1042 - Karma: 33
youre lucky, cheapest in my town is 4.05, and you cant fill your whole tank because they cut you off at $50.00
Jun 4 2008 2:11PM
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lorida
Posts: 2833 - Karma: 46

If you can't afford it, get acquainted with your local public transit system.

My economics teacher (has PHD) and myself both agree that gas should be at $16/gallon.

Jun 4 2008 2:49PM
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pussymoneyweed
Posts: 2055 - Karma: 60
its gunna hit 5 maybe 6 this summer
then just to piss everyone off itll hit 20 if we don't change in like a couple years or a decade

hydrogen cars... not to far away though

i think the oil companys are tight wit the car companys (gmc ford extc) and they don't want the hydrogen cars out cause then they'll be the ones who are screwed.

honda has a hydrogen car. The probelm is, we don't have a depandable manufacturer that makes hydrogen.


Jun 4 2008 3:00PM
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funk.
Posts: 2679 - Karma: 33
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about.  The amount of oil up there would last the US 1 week.  There are WAY more efficient ways of dealing with the problem..  drilling ANWR is definitely not the solution.
Jun 4 2008 3:32PM
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funk.
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I almost wish we had a $3.00 tax on petro fuels.  It would make us conserve immensely.  Proof:

I live in Juneau, Alaska where 100% of our electricity comes from Hydro power.  We usually run at around 11 cents per kilo-watt-hour; roughly $200 per month.  On April 16th there was an avalanche that took out a few poles that connect us to our hydro power (approx 60? miles away).  Since then we have been running on diesel generated power at 52 cents per kilo-watt-hour; roughly $1000 per month.   So in the first three days after the event our power usage dropped by 30% city-wide.  In most people's homes (including mine) we dropped our power usage almost 80%.  Basically I'm saying that a huge increase in price will make people conserve..  If the prices keep going up at the rate they are right now we will have the same procedures when it hits $10 that we do now.  If it hit $10 overnight though?... But seriously I don't want to give up driving my beast of a  truck around.

But just think of all the money that could go into alternative fuels by taxing gasoline.  Every 10 cent increase is a $40 billion profit for oil company shareholders.. just imagine if that was for hydrogen or electric.
Jun 4 2008 5:23PM
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funk.
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It is actually fairly comparable.  We have about 35,000 people in Juneau.  We are burning 35,000 gallons of diesel per day.  I drive 16 miles round trip to work every day and my truck gets 18 MPG.  But yeah I was just trying to make a point of how taxing could benefit if done properly.  Personally I am pretty much totally against what I said before because I really like the way our country is set-up transportation wise.. I mean.. its fun.
Jun 4 2008 6:09PM
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dman1260
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i agree, i never said otherwise.  I was just pointing out that the argument for gas being more expensive in other countries is somewhat flawed when looking at the real price, not the price including taxes. 
Jun 4 2008 7:23PM
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