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View Poll Results: What Price will be the highest price for Regular Unleaded Gas This Summer?
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No More Than $2.25
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19.70% |
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No More Than $2.50
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27.27% |
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No More Than $2.75
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27.27% |
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$3.00 and over
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25.76% |
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03/04/05, 06:25 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: TX
Posts: 375
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gas
only $1.75 at super walmart, here in east texas.
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03/04/05, 06:31 PM
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MacCurmudgeon
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Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Northeastern Minnesota
Posts: 2,246
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I don't buy gas very often but Herself says it's about $2 now.
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03/04/05, 08:59 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: British Columbia
Posts: 13
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I cant believe you"re complaining, gas in Victoria, B.C. is 92.9 cents a litre. That's pushing $4 a gallon. I'm riding my trusty old Honda scooter freezing my butt off just on principle.
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03/04/05, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: SC and soon to be NC
Posts: 1,687
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It jumped again today a few more cents.
It is getting ridiculous and I am REALLY starting to think of going the Waste Oil route.
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03/05/05, 01:21 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Vancouver, and Moberly Lake, BC, Canada
Posts: 833
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Vancouver, BC, $3.00 USD per US Gallon
Today in Vancouver, BC, Canada: At 95 cents a litre, 3.78 litre per US gallon, and about 1.20 CDN/USD, THAT'S ABOUT $3.00 good old USA green backs per USA gallon. YIKES!
Somebody just said gas might get to $3.00, hello, it already is.
Guess what, get ready, say . . . hmmm . . . how would you feel about $30.00 per gallon -- not too far off.
OK, well, at least think about $10 per gallon -- coming soon to a store near you.
Not a bad idea to start thinking about efficiency and conservation, eh? . . . , as they say in Canada?
We've all looked at this, right? Peak Oil; Life After
Alex
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Last edited by Alex; 03/05/05 at 01:25 AM.
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03/05/05, 06:34 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 1,754
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In East central Ill. Thursday it went from $1.86 to $2.09 about 3 hours after I listned to the news that it could go up in a couple of weeks 
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03/05/05, 06:59 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Upper Michigan
Posts: 932
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gas was at $2.02 (for #87) yesterday when I filled up. I'm predicting it will go to $2.52 here.
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03/05/05, 07:13 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Posts: 320
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Gas was $1.79 here on Wednesday and jumped to $1.89 on Thursday for 87. My parents in upstate New York paid $2.04 yesterday.
I also heard to expect a .25 price increase within a week.
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03/05/05, 11:06 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
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Folks I know in the industry are unanimous when they tell me that the whole situation with gas being so expensive at the moment is nearly all speculation based. There is a problem as far as refining capacity in the US due to no new plants being built but that isn't the problem at the moment. Despite the never ending predictions of imminent doom and gloom from the sky is falling crowd there isn't any sort of shortage with what is coming out of the ground. At least that is what the geologists that I know that work with the stuff every day tell me.
One real problem is that prices at 2 dollars a gallon really stress the US economy. If it gets to the widespread 2.50-3.00 range there are going to be pretty severe effects felt. The US economy runs on energy and namely cheap diesel, gasoline and natural gas. The US economy simply can't run on 3.00 a gallon gas. Not without inflation and serious economic upheaval. Anything over 3.00 a gallon is uncharted territory. This is one case where the feds need to get off their asses and start doing some arm twisting with those who owe us favors and stop screwing around and start drilling here so we can provide more of our own oil.
It's a good time to be in oil stocks. I'm told anything over 23.00 a barrel is pure profit for them.
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03/05/05, 11:36 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: california
Posts: 23
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here in beautiful San Diego yesterday 2.59 a gallon! Gotta love all those additives!
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03/06/05, 12:23 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Western WA
Posts: 4,729
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Originally Posted by Quint
Folks I know in the industry are unanimous when they tell me that the whole situation with gas being so expensive at the moment is nearly all speculation based. There is a problem as far as refining capacity in the US due to no new plants being built but that isn't the problem at the moment.
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Yes! yes! and double Yes!
We should lock the greenies up so they cannot do even more damage than has already been done. Then we need take opec out of the equation. We need to control our own destiny with this deal. We need to drill the heck out of our country, set-up refineries, and make a true free market, without the influence of the opec mess. Only then can the invisible hand of market work its magic.
You can play around with so called alternative fuels and other modes of transportation. You can continue to squeeze every last drop of mpg out of existing power plants, but first, I want our nations resources focused on finding, extracting, and refining oil from our own soil.
The internal combustion engine does just fine on fuel as it is now. The infrastructure to distribute the fuel to the end user is already in place. The demand is there. Lets drill this place and stop this ludicrous madness of depending on other countries for our fuel.
Wayne
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03/06/05, 09:08 AM
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Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Vancouver, and Moberly Lake, BC, Canada
Posts: 833
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Think Globally
Do you know how much oil is left?
Do you know where it is in the world?
Do you know about alternative fuels, how to make them, or how to get them, or how long it will take to ramp up those new and unproven (or emerging )technologies, or how much it will cost to make a gallon?
Do you know where it is in the world?
Do you know the size of new oil finds compared to the previous oil finds.
Do you know what will happen if (when?) the world demand exceeds the world supply, by even a small amount?
Where does your food come from?
How do you get food from remote locations?
What happens when you have food and a lot of others do not?
Etc. etc.
Oh, yes, there is always the ostrich.
Alex
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Last edited by Alex; 03/06/05 at 09:18 AM.
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03/06/05, 02:06 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: NC
Posts: 806
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$1.89 gallon here in NC. Up near Lenoir had to pay $2.00 gallon for 87 octane.
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03/06/05, 03:42 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Indiana
Posts: 227
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Hi Everyone,
I didn't mean for this to turn into a fight between the greenies and big oil. That sort of talk belongs over on the general chat board. Just wanted to know what everyone's feelings on gas prices are. :no:
My feelings are $2.50+ gas this summer, and depending on how things go in the middle east maybe $3.
PS been out cleaning up my little greenhouse. Will post pics when I get it done. The before pics are just to embarressing. 
Duke
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