Summer Gas Prices

[Xsyven]

If any of you are drivers out there, there's no doubt you haven't noticed that our seemingly steady gas prices have gotten a bit crazy. In Southern Utah, where I live, our stable $2.30 has skyrocketed past the $3.00 mark within this past month. The gas stations by the freeway exits are even $3.14.

On the way home from my friend's tonight, I noticed that the cheapest gas in town finally joined the expensive gas parade, and broke the three dollar barrier. As I pulled into the gas station, I frowned upon this sight, and decided to take pictures, and post them on SWF. That way, everyone that doesn't live in the US can make me feel better by saying that they "have to pay eight pounds for just one litre of petrol."

Anywho, this local Maverik's cheapest gas, other than diesel, is $3.02.

I threw twenty bucks into gas, and got a meager 6.647 gallons out of it. I even have a special Maverik card that gets me $0.02 off of every gallon! Luckily, they put three numbers after the decimal, so I can round it up to 6.65 gallons if I feel like it. Pump 12 has finally conquered the mighty twenty dollar bill, by not warranting at least seven gallons.

I had about 1cm of gas left on my gas gague when I put the twenty in. Luckily, I drive a small crappy two-door Hyundai that doesn't seem to even need gasoline that badly. It almost got me to 3/4 full.

So, tell me SWF. How much has gas climbed up to in your area? I want to know whether I'm getting ripped off from the rest of the US, or actually have a decent price.

 

[Dibs]

Gas in my area is about $3.47 and still rising.

A 20 doesn't get me even to a solid 6 gallons. *sigh* I hate high gas price season. My fuel gauge is never even above the halfway point anymore. I miss seeing it full.

 

[Mugquomp]

I filled up for $2.76 a couple of days ago at a Valero. That's the cheapest I've seen it around here. Most places are in the $2.79-2.83 range, with Mobil stations being the most expensive of them all at $2.89

 

[ScaryMunky]

Gas around here was at $2.90 two days ago, now it's $3.00. F'ing sucks. I had to drive 140 miles today to pick my friends up from the airport, too. (70 miles there, 70 miles back). I'm ecstatic!

 

[TakDragon7]

Gas prices here are at $2.99. It was much lower like days ago. It's goign to hit the 3 dollar mark here very soon.

 

[AHotGreasedUpJigglyPuff 4 Luvin']

3.00$? You should feel lucky that God pays attention to your country!

Here in Canada, we have to pay eight pounds for just one litre of petrol!

 

[TakDragon7]

Holy crap. That's fricking crazy. They just want money so we look poor to everyone else.

 

[Xsyven]

He's lying. He lives less than a mile away from me.

If you read my first post, you'll see why he said that. o_o"

 

[Sporkman]

I love the American take on our skyrocketing gas prices. Not, "How can we make the cars America drives run better," but "Hey, now we're almost paying as much as the UK does for gas! That's not fair...we're Americans."

Brilliant. I most prices over here are 98p to just over £1 for a litre. Time for some math because you guys are behind the world in measurement.

Answer: 1 l = 0.264172 gallons (US Liquid)

Because US gallons are different from UK gallons (Fantastic!) I've used US gallons as indicated by "(US liquid)".
So 1/0.264172=3.78 (To two decimal places)
We then take the UK price of £1 for a litre, times it by the amount of litres in a US gallon (1x3.78) and we get ... wait for it ... £3.78!
Now we put the strong pound stirling up against the weak and puny US Dollar:
£1 = $1.9989
3.78 x 1.9989 = 7.5564
$7.56 (Rounded up) is how much we pay for a gallon of fuel.

So get down off the top of your ****ing SUV and stop complaining about your stupidly cheap fuel prices.

 

[Xsyven]

You read what I said in my first post right?

As I pulled into the gas station, I frowned upon this sight, and decided to take pictures, and post them on SWF. That way, everyone that doesn't live in the US can make me feel better by saying that they "have to pay eight pounds for just one litre of petrol."

I knew it was going to be Sporkman to come to my rescue! And he was just as harsh as ever! And I wasn't complaining about your post, I was seriously looking forward to it.

 

[Sporkman]

I did indeed! And as always, I aim to please

EDIT: I'm not sure I even did the maths right

EDIT2: No, it's all good

 

[thechunkylover]

$3.00 a gallon for regular. It's gone down alittle where I am.

 

[Rapid_Assassin]

It was $2.89 - $3.15, depending on which city I buy the gas in. Stations near the colleges are more expensive than those near the middle of nowhere here.

 

[Venom Dream]

I don't drive. Take that, gas prices!

 

[KevinM]

Rapid Assassin there is one near North Attleboro that had 2.69 today.. the line was hella crazy like me and my friend waited there for almost twenty minutes to get in haha

 

[Rici]

You read what I said in my first post right?



I knew it was going to be Sporkman to come to my rescue! And he was just as harsh as ever! And I wasn't complaining about your post, I was seriously looking forward to it.

You probably didn't read my post in the other Gas complaining thread. In there I said that I had to pay 6,18/gallon.

 

[Chill]

Sporkman, Xysven has your number.

 

[Rusty Shacklefurd]

Right now, U.S.A has pretty much got the cheapest gas prices. Just hop across the border into lower mainland B.C. and gas prices are about $1.25 a litre, which is about 5 bucks a gallon, and right now the difference between Canadian and American dollars right now really isn't that significant so that's a pretty big difference in price.

 

[commonyoshi]

Typical gas prices are $3.40 a gallon in California right now.

I'm sick of all this stupidness about gas prices. The people I know who complain the most are the ones who buy double lattes (sp?) at Starbucks ever single morning before school. That's ten dollars right there. They have no reason to complain if they're throwing money around like that.

I take the bus so poop on all of you. Dignity? Who needs it!

 

[XZalla]

Those gas prices are high and I don't even drive!! Metro and bike ftw...

 

[Xsyven]

Commonyoshi, it's the fact that those double lattes didn't cost $1.40 per gallon three years ago.

 

[Eor]

I love the American take on our skyrocketing gas prices. Not, "How can we make the cars America drives run better," but "Hey, now we're almost paying as much as the UK does for gas! That's not fair...we're Americans."

Yes, of course, because everyone knows Americans are dumb racists who drive massive SUVs and complain when anything bad happens.

Grow up. Our prices are lower because the United States is the third largest producer of petroleum in the world. You're the 13th. It's bloody natural that a producer's prices are lower then yours.

Even without that, your gas prices are so bloody high because your government places extraordinary taxes on fuel. 75% of what you (UK) pay at the pump goes to the government, not oil companies.

If you take out the taxes, you would be paying $1.97 (based on the British average of $6.06 from 2005), compared to American (without taxes) $2.17 (same year).

I think it's time you learn more about your own economy before trying to claim the people in this thread are ignorant, ungrateful rednecks.

 

[Rusty Shacklefurd]

Seriously though, when Americans complain about gas prices, you're pretty much saying "Crap, why the hell does gas have to be not so cheap instead of ludicrously cheap!?!", American gas prices are pretty much just catching up with the regular gas prices everyone else in the world used to have.

 

[Gamer4Fire]

Record. Breaking. Profits.

 

[TakDragon7]

He's lying. He lives less than a mile away from me.

If you read my first post, you'll see why he said that. o_o"

Oh ok. Now I see why he did that.

 

[Sporkman]

Yes, of course, because everyone knows Americans are dumb racists who drive massive SUVs and complain when anything bad happens.

Grow up. Our prices are lower because the United States is the third largest producer of petroleum in the world. You're the 13th. It's bloody natural that a producer's prices are lower then yours.

Even without that, your gas prices are so bloody high because your government places extraordinary taxes on fuel. 75% of what you (UK) pay at the pump goes to the government, not oil companies.

If you take out the taxes, you would be paying $1.97 (based on the British average of $6.06 from 2005), compared to American (without taxes) $2.17 (same year).

I think it's time you learn more about your own economy before trying to claim the people in this thread are ignorant, ungrateful rednecks.

The bit you quoted is something I saw on urban dictionary one day, a comment by an American. I wouldn't use the terms "our" or "gas". I found it funny so I used as my opener.

And I'm complaining about the fact Americans are complaining that their fuel prices are "stupidly high" when they are still much cheaper than everywhere else. My whole point is that your prices are lower than elsewhere, whether this be due to the fact you are the 3rd largest producer of petroleum in the world or that our taxes are high. You're still paying less, alot less in this comparison, yet you're still complaining. It's like you get a bigger slice of cake than the guy next to you but you're unhappy because it's not even bigger!

As for the SUV comment at the end, I was just switching 'high horse'/'pedestal' to fit the context. I thought it was humorous...

 

[Xsyven]

The same gas station as the first post, is now at $3.17.

It's raised 15 cents in 13 days. Gross.

 

[TakDragon7]

That's crazy. It's like 3 or more bucks here still. It showing no sign that it will go down. From what I'm hearing, at the end of summer, the gas prices will be at 4 or more bucks.

 

[Dibs]

Well, today is the highly anticipated.... *yawn* day to not buy gas. And congratulations guys, gas around my area has been hiked up to .25 cents.

 

[OmegaXXII]

I just read this in the news and it is expected by analyst that gas prices are already at an "all-time" high in some areas like Chicago and San Francisco and predict that prices will go up even more during the peak of summer ,but even though gas prices go up, people are still gonna buy and fill up their car regardless because I mean how else are people suppose to commute to work by walking? no it is a definite choice that people will have to pay higher prices. I feel pity for people who only own an SUV man I mean come one a person with an SUV has to be rich or else you'll go broke, I mean with a gas prices of $3.09 a gallon a person an with SUV will easily spend over $70.00 ! Which means for me that I might have to start ridin' my bike to work

 

[Wikipedia]

Oregon. Pump your own gas. Pay 9 cents more for the service. $3.59 a gallon.

 

[TakDragon7]

Well, today is the highly anticipated.... *yawn* day to not buy gas. And congratulations guys, gas around my area has been hiked up to .25 cents.

Same here...like it WAS going to work anyways