gas price in cali - on the news at $4.04 a gallon

[webby]

I guess a few towns outside LA are now averaging $4.04 a gallon yesterday. They showed it on the news as some of the highest prices of gas in the US right now. Beverly hills was also reported at over 4 dollars a gallon.

[Shemmy]

This sucks. Something has to give.

[06NighthawkSi]

3.10 for premium in indiana

[PhoenixDown]

LOL its $3 for regular here in NYC -- ill trade you!

[jaywo]

they did a thing on the news here in Canada showing gas prices around the world...
Canada is around 1.11 a litre right now... US is like .89 a litre... UK is like 1.89 a litre, Saudi Arabia is .24... and Venezlua is .04 a litre

All in canadian prices...

Think about that you could fill your car for like a buck fifty...lol

Crazy eh.

[Silver8th]

A tanker burst into flames in Pickens county Ca today after being ran into by a car.

[audibleforce]

I guess I needed something to stop me from driving my Si so damn much. I got the car on 12/23/05 and I already have 12,500 miles on it. The gas prices did the trick though. I dont go anywhere anymore because it's to the point where I will need a second job just to pay for gas, hehehe!. I hate Cali when it comes to gas prices. I would expect gas prices to be lower in California since we purchase more gas than any other state in the US.

I dont understand why people always say "We shouldnt complain because in London they pay $6.00 a gallon". They dont realize that we are the largest purchaser of gas so we should get cheaper gas prices. At least that's what I think should happen. We should follow Brazil and grow sugar cane for a gas alternative. Brazil is almost 100% independent just by providing fuel from ethanol taken from sugar canes. Our government is screwing us and we are taking it. Just makes me hate the Bush administration even more.

I am 100% down for protesting against gas prices. It's worth a day of work.

[GGSedan06]

I got an intresting email the other day which was a pretty good idea... they said how last year people were not buying gas on certain days which was a joke to the oil companies because they knew it wouldn't impact their sales much they would just make up for it on the other days so their idea was to spread the word to as many people (through email) as possible. The idea was to just stop buying gas from the biggest oil companies Exxon/Mobil forcing them to lower their prices which in result would make the rest of the oil companies lower thier prices... My thoughts are
1. I don't know which gas stations sell Exxon/Mobil (other than the obvious Exxon & Mobil stations) like Chevron, 76, and
2. Who else sells "decent" (not AM/PM or ARCO) gas?
3. Enough people have to stop buying gas from them to actually effect their sales.

[scotheocelot]

Gas prices will just worsen as time goes on. People will not stop buying it. Its not the American mentality. We would rather go in debt than take the bus or buy a hybrid. Im a mechanical engineer and we had a speaker come in from the Philips Conoco company (they are local) and speak to us about the oil reserves and fuel alternatives. My mouth just dropped when i saw the oil reserves!! We are not anywhere close to running out of oil! I was so mad to see that and listen to people talk about the shortage. Its all BS, people are just trying to make more money. They realized that they can ask whatever they wish and there is really nothing you can do about it. The shitty thing is that companies have been trying to build more refinery plants to turn the oil into gasoline because that is what the US is short on and that is what is killing our pockets. However, the companies cannot get aproval because local community turns down the proposal because they dont want a refinery in their backyard so to speak. Yet these same people will bitch about the gas prices lol!! So until the American people demand for more refinerys to be constructed or we just stop buying gas then we are Fk'd.


-scott

[aki]

Yay blame the Bush administration for everything. America wasn't evil until it invaded Iraq, afterall.

Gas prices are high for two reasons:
1) US stockpiles millions upon millions of barrels in anticipation for the day the world runs out of fossil fuel, which is when we can sell back and make tons of money. Hence we never dip into our oil reserves. So it doesn't matter that we're the world's top buyers of oil.
2) Oil companies are fearing Iran's militaristic president and his increasingly aggressive stance against the west. Iran's navy is one of the most powerful in the middle-east, and has the capability of blockading tanker ships. That's their fear.

[audibleforce]

A lot of people dont realize that we actually have a tremendous amount of oil in the northwest (especially in Alaska) and I believe the Gulf, but the Democrats and Greenpeace are stopping any development of oil rigs. That would dramatically drop our prices if we were to just use the oil available to us locally. I do understand the enviromental concerns, but something must be done. If Bush wants his approval ratings up then he would allow oil companies to place oil rigs in our local oil locations, but Bush only listens to what Cheney says so that will never happen. There are so many alternatives but it's the people that will stop this injustice (<--at least I think it is). We need to get some balls and stand up and do something about it. I cant imagine what the gas prices will be like around 4th of July or the entire summer at that.

[acetech808]

yup-mean catch 22.

[RODSCIVIC]

Gas prices shouldn't be so HIGH. Especially when Exxons CEO is getting a 400 million dollar retirement package. WTF?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041801158.html

[pixiedotcom]

Originally Posted by RODSCIVIC

Gas prices shouldn't be so HIGH. Especially when Exxons CEO is getting a 400 million dollar retirement package. WTF?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041801158.html

4 Words-"Sick Sad Little World"

[RODSCIVIC]

Originally Posted by pixiedotcom

4 Words-"Sick Sad Little World"

Very True, it just sucks we have to pay for it. I am glad I got rid of my WRX, for my 40 mpg Civic .

[CameronJr9]

Originally Posted by pixiedotcom

4 Words-"Sick Sad Little World"

Incubus fan?

[Celcius]

Here's a wierd chart that I don't understand:

[pixiedotcom]

Originally Posted by CameronJr9

Incubus fan?

TOTALLY!! Cam, you impress me more and more each day!

[CameronJr9]

Originally Posted by pixiedotcom

TOTALLY!! Cam, you impress me more and more each day!

I do what I can.

[letsgoflyers81]

Originally Posted by audibleforce

A lot of people dont realize that we actually have a tremendous amount of oil in the northwest (especially in Alaska) and I believe the Gulf, but the Democrats and Greenpeace are stopping any development of oil rigs. That would dramatically drop our prices if we were to just use the oil available to us locally. I do understand the enviromental concerns, but something must be done. If Bush wants his approval ratings up then he would allow oil companies to place oil rigs in our local oil locations, but Bush only listens to what Cheney says so that will never happen. There are so many alternatives but it's the people that will stop this injustice (<--at least I think it is). We need to get some balls and stand up and do something about it. I cant imagine what the gas prices will be like around 4th of July or the entire summer at that.

Drilling in ANWAR is not the answer. Say they do it and completely destroy one of the few untouched areas in the world to get oil to drop the price of gas $.10 a gallon and keep the SUV's on the road for another five years. Then what happens? There isn't that much oil there and then we'll be back right where we started, except we've destroyed a part one of the only habitats left that we haven't already tainted. I read an article a few years back that said at the current rate of oil consumption, we'd have none left in about 70 years. That's no more oil left anywhere on the entire planet. Say the numbers are off and we really have 100 years left. Fine, but we'll still continue to see oil prices rise astronomically every time there's an event which haults or slows oil production and as the resources dwindle and oil gets more rare, the price will continue to rise. What we need to is to get off of oil, period. It's a non renewal source that on a planetary scale is almost gone. Hybrids a good start to reduce oil consumption but it's only the start. Fuel cell vehicles are probably the future and that's where we need to be focusing, not on getting every last drop of oil at the expensive of ruining the environment. People need to stop driving big trucks and SUV's that get 13 mpg to run to the pharmacy and take their kids to school. People complain about gas prices but they drive their Hummers because they're Americans and that's what Americans are supposed to do. Sooner or later America will have to realize what we're getting ourselves into. Maybe that'll happen when we're paying closer to $6 a gallon like they are in Canada, or $8 - $10 a gallon like in some parts of Europe. Or maybe we'll still put "W" bumper stickers on our two ton super cab pickup trucks and drive around town because it's a symbol of freedom and we can't let the terrorists win.