Gas Prices hit $2/gallon!

[Talon84x4]

It's killing me, need to get my toy back together 

[94MtnYote]

 Holy frijoles! Thats ridiculous about time we put a price cap on this stuff.

[jimbo74]

$3.49 in norcal for 87 arco

[MiniSimp]

$4.59 Regular
Kirkwood Station
CA 88 & Kirkwood Meadows Rd 

[JanMarie13]

Isn't it crazy to look back and see how we were freaking out about $2 per gallon.  Sheeeet I can't even remember $2/gal. at this point.  I think I filled up for $3.19/gal. for 87 last week, but I know it's gone up since then.

[lilbuddy]

 Local Price Snapshot

Today                3.565
Yesterday        3.560
One Week Ago     3.483
One Month Ago     3.184
One Year Ago      3.061

Right around 3.50 for regular

[Misfit4Runner]

buying a street bike hell just the payment on one plus the gas would be less then that gas ALONE in my 4runner with 60miles a day.... plus I can get another toy legit!

[red]

add 50 cents to a buck more for diesel, better fuel economy but we're getting ripped off. and some people wonder why we're heading into a recession, people cant afford to even go to work!

[abnormaltoy]

$2.97 all over here in Tucson.

[Rockcrawlintoy]

3.40 a gallon here

[superyota]

i paid $1.89 this morning.  just kidding.  it was $3.45 a gallon.  some kind of alternative fuel has gotta come out sometime soon.  i can barley afford to drive to work and back.  half my paycheck goes to gas i'm going to have to pull my bike out and air up the tires here pretty soon. 

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

$2.97 all over here in Tucson.

ya tucson has cheap fuel for some reason.... i was just there 2 weeks ago and tucson had the cheapest fuel from there to oregon....

[abnormaltoy]

ya tucson has cheap fuel for some reason.... i was just there 2 weeks ago and tucson had the cheapest fuel from there to oregon....

I don't know what it is...we don't have any refineries, we're not on the way to anywhere. I guess we're just lucky.

[Toymin8r]

Should I post a pic of me filling my first tank of gas in 1988?  I was pumping regular, leaded gasoline and the sign in the background had 58.9 cents per gallon on it.  Priceless

[BigMike]

Allow me to whip open a can of conspiracy.

This video has been viewed over 4 million times, so you might have seen this, but none the less, sure whipped my brain up a bit!

[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBo4E77ZXo[/spoiler]


What the hell are high gas prices all about? Retarded, and we are taking it up our rears!


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[JanMarie13]

Should I post a pic of me filling my first tank of gas in 1988?  I was pumping regular, leaded gasoline and the sign in the background had 58.9 cents per gallon on it.  Priceless

  That is so awesome!  Post 'er up!   I can totally remember when I was little...I'm gonna guess it was about 1986-ish, and my mom had a little ORANGE Datsun 210 station wagon.  hahaha.  I remember I'd insist on paying every time we filled up, and she'd hand me a FIVE DOLLAR BILL and I'd always say "is this gonna be enough?" and she's say "it BETTER not be more than that!"  hahaha.  Oooohhhhh those were the days.....

[kneedownnate]

Allow me to whip open a can of conspiracy.

This video has been viewed over 4 million times, so you might have seen this, but none the less, sure whipped my brain up a bit!

[spoiler]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBo4E77ZXo[/spoiler]

Ok, I went to watch that and it's over 9 minutes   For those of us on dialup, how bout laying it out for us?  If you want me to wait and download it you won't hear from me for atleast 4 days!

[Stocker]

Holy frijoles! Thats ridiculous about time we put a price cap on this stuff.

Nonono!!  It might sound like a good idea, but it doesn't work out too well. Speaking as someone rapidly approaching Geezerhood, I was alive & well when federal wage & price controls were put in place during the infamous Jimmy Carter administration in the early Seventies.

What I recall is that my wages were frozen while prices continued to rise, some quite quickly.  And shortages, good grief...  anyone else remember gas rationing, and gas lines, and stations with no fuel? (I know, Arab oil embargo...)

Last year during Congressional hearings regarding oil companies' outlandish profits during a time of escalating prices, I remember one oil exec essentially telling Congress "Price controls will result in decreased supplies", pretty much threatening to create artificial shortages in retaliation.  Naturally, Congress responded by doing what they do best -- absolutely nothing.

[MiniSimp]

Ah... the days of "odd and even". Can't say I miss it.

[abnormaltoy]

  Thats ridiculous about time we put a price cap on this stuff.

Ask these guys if price controls worked and made their countries prosper.

[Rockcrawlintoy]

I don't know what it is...we don't have any refineries, we're not on the way to anywhere. I guess we're just lucky.

less fuel taxes maybe??

[NT-OUTBACK]

What's really burning my rear is why hasn't there been any release out of the strategic reserve?

These damn speculators will run our economy into the ground and I don't even want to get into how bad truckers and the airlines have it right now. In the end it all gets passed on to us through higher prices for everything. Well if we don't lose our jobs first.

Welcome to the start of the next depression v2.0

[TIMS89CRAWLER]

Should I post a pic of me filling my first tank of gas in 1988?  I was pumping regular, leaded gasoline and the sign in the background had 58.9 cents per gallon on it.  Priceless

ya those were the days man when i started driving it was .89 and man do i miss cheap diesel too... they reallly  stick it to us on the diesel....its bs

[*FFC*]

$2.97 all over here in Tucson.

Are you freeking joking me? We're looking at $3.64 when we were on our way to work this morning.. I think it jumped $0.15 over night!

[abnormaltoy]

less fuel taxes maybe??

I really didn't think that was the cause...these people out here tax everything they can.

http://www.api.org/policy/tax/stateexcise/index.cfm

Gasoline
http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/GAS_TAX_MAP_JANUARY_2008-2.pdf
Az 37.4
Ca 63.9

Diesel
http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/DIESEL_TAX_MAP_JANUARY_2008.pdf
Az 52.4
Ca 72.0

So, until recently, when fuel prices started to get way out of control, the average profit (10%) the oil companies made was one of the lowest of the built-in costs. Federal, State and Local taxes were and still are the single biggest outside influence on fuel prices.
We had one...(one!) freaking refinery go down, look at the effects that has caused. We haven't built a new refinery in over 30 years. Our refining capacity is at 1980 levels and our use has tripled from those levels.  

[Rocksurfer]

WTF! It's 3.35 here, stupid Commiforna will never see 2.00, if it gets low enough they'll find a new tax to put on it.

[unclejpl4x4]

$2.95 -- 3.00  depending on where your at in NJ



don't you mean 4$ 

[MiniSimp]

don't you mean 4$ 

No, he means $2, we will deffinetly see $4, hell, I already have.

[yotzilla]

this tread was sep. 06   now in eureka ca  3.75 for reg

[yota_krawler]

$4 for diesel and 3.59 for regular. Not sure who said it but I have to agree. Get the bikes out people!

I wonder what would happen if just one day NO body went to the gas pumps. No One. The whole day. Would gas go down? National No Pumping Day.