GAS PRICES!!!!

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-04-2004
GAS PRICES!!!!
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Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:14pm
Gas prices here in Baltimore are at about 2.85. The guy at the gas station this morning said they will go up 15-30 cents by the end of the day.
Isn't this a little unnecessary since the gas currently at the stations is already delivered and paid for? What is really irritating to me is that the government has trillions to spend on studies, projects, drug treatment, etc, but they can't help out the working class on the hike in gas and the resulting hikes in groceries, etc. Pretty soon, I won't be able to afford to drive. Yet the prisoners in Baltimore city will still have three meals a day, cable t.v., and cash in hand when they get out of jail for housing, food, and clothing.
Is there a website yet for donations to LA residents? I would like to help if I can. As crappy as all this is, I guess we should all count our blessings for waking up with our families in tact this morning. Debt is NOT the end of our world.
Sorry for my ranting......

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Registered: 08-19-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Wed, 08-31-2005 - 1:21pm
Your in Baltimore? Cool!

Shannon


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Registered: 08-28-2005
In reply to: myboys636
Wed, 08-31-2005 - 2:58pm

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Registered: 03-27-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Wed, 08-31-2005 - 10:50pm

Gas is $2.98 here(SW Idaho), the cheap places are $2.89 We are really having to stretch our grocery budget, top that with school supplies etc. We cancelled our trip to the Oregon Coast. =-( Just to much of a budget strain now.

Like you said though, you look at the pictures of the South and things aren't so bad.

Dana

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Registered: 12-12-2004
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 12:10am
Hi, everyone! Gas prices? Girlfriend, you should try California prices. Among the highest in the nation. Why? Refinery at capacity, being repaired, fires, etc. Holiday weekend. Additives to prevent polution. About $2.89--3.06. Of course, when compared to other countries, our gas is cheaper. DH wants a mule. I figure I'll be driving at snail's pace anyway, so why not!? Is anyone else cutting back on gas or consolidating trips? Read somewhere to fill up when it is not hot (early AM, late PM). Any truth to that? Small businesses (so far) have resisted urges to raise prices, but I dont know how much longer that will be going on. Pizza delivery recently raised prices a little. Airlines are adding fuel surcharges. Anyone looking at hybrid cars or have experience with them? Whiz.
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Registered: 12-07-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 8:33am

I usually lurk on this board, but I just wanted to say that the government already massively subsidizes the fuel that we buy. Look at prices in Europe and other parts of the world. Their gas prices are around $6 a gallon right now. I know it really stinks that gas prices are so outrageous right now (They were $3.19 at the gas station near where I work yesterday afternoon-- and I live in the midwest where gas is "enhanced" with ethanol from corn.), but other programs that the government pays for like "studies, projects, drug treatment" are very important-- especially those for research.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I just wanted to point out that not only are we lucky to not have catastrophic damage to our cities, but also that we pay the lowest gas prices in the world.

Jessica

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Registered: 12-07-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 8:35am

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Dh was looking at them. They look like they are starting to be worth the extra money. They have gotten better as the second generation has come out.

http://autos.msn.com/advice/article.aspx?contentid=4018909&src=Home&pos=EditLead

This link has some info about fuel efficiency and hybrids.

Jessica

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Registered: 08-19-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 8:52am

government already massively subsidizes the fuel that we buy

Its not that our government subsidizes, its that European countries tax their fuel higher then the US gov taxes our fuel purchases.

Shannon


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Registered: 11-21-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 9:06am

Yes, and they tax it to encourage fuel and energy efficiency and, at least in Germany, cross-finance things like federal pensions. Not exactly the worst thing you can do with money, I believe. And there indeed is subsidizing in the oil-business, too, not for gas itself, but for building new oil platforms etc.

But apart from that:
The current rise of fuel costs is, as I just read in an interview with someone from a refinery, utterly irrational. But since the major economies in the world are dependant on - or even: addicted to - gas and oil products, prices go up and up. You will always find a buyer, as long as without oil and oil derivatives everything will come down to a screeching halt.

... that always gives me lots ti think about. Our next car will most probably not be hybrid, but able to run on diesel or vegetable oil (so called bio-diesel aorund here). Another solution I like.

Greetings, Jordis

ivy_jordis

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Registered: 08-19-2003
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 9:17am

"economies in the world are dependant on - or even: addicted to - gas and oil products, prices go up and up. You will always find a buyer, as long as without oil and oil derivatives everything will come down to a screeching halt. "

Here in the US we have put all our resources into developing automobiles & roads and put next to nothing towards public transportation. At $5 a gal in some areas we will be paying for it now.

"Our next car will most probably not be hybrid, but able to run on diesel or vegetable oil (so called bio-diesel aorund here). Another solution I like."

We have 2 gas & 1 diesel run vehicle. My husbands friends are trying to talk him into buying the Bio-Diesel setup, and start producing the bio diesel. (hes a diesel machanic so they trust him to do it I guess)

Shannon


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Registered: 10-30-2004
In reply to: myboys636
Thu, 09-01-2005 - 9:35am
There are places here in MI that are now up to 3.94 a gallon. From 2.89 two days ago. There is NO reason for that much of a jump. And that's just going into the labor day weekend where are gas always raises between .25-.40 cents.

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