Gas in my area jumped to 1.139 per litre before going down to 1.049 today.
I take public transportation everywhere I go. This is certainly not going to make me want a car in the future unless I need it.
Jesus Christ! In rush hour traffic?
I’ve been going about 100 miles a day lately, too, but I work as an in-home technician, so I’m constantly driving to customer’s houses. Prices here jumped from $2.39/gal on Friday to $2.89/gal today, due to the hurricane, etc. Of course, this is Texas, and we have some oil of our own here. Lewisville, TX (one of the 6 cities I work in) has had all of its hotels overbooked with survivors of the hurricane in LA. Pet stores are setting up special accomodations for surviving pets of families, too.
We’re at 3.01 in some places, and Mayor Street is calling for price caps and rationing. :\
I heard it’s 5.00-ish in some parts of Georgia right now.
I’m glad my college is so fucking small I can walk to where I can get.
What would you rather do .drive a smaller car or deal with the escelating costs or natural gas. I would take the small car.About time people start to consider the Enviroment and other long term issues…If you could not tel I am an Enviromentalist.
I went to get gas yesterday. The cheapest place around was $2.99 a gallon, but the line was about a half hour wait. I just settled for $3.09 with no wait. I only needed about $12 to fill up my tank though.
Edit: My brother just called and told me that the place where I always get my gas is now at $3.30 a gallon. It’s usually about 20 cents cheaper than anywhere else.
It’s $3.12 up the street. I’m sick so I haven’t gone anywhere so I don’t know how much it is anywhere else.
I saw $2.75 yesterday night, $2.99 this morning, and $3.25 when I came home about a half hour ago.
The whole thing about shutting down the pumps was a hoax, and really, a pretty obvious one at that, but it really had pretty much everyone rushing to the pumps.
I live in Gwinnett, which is near Atlanta, and every gas station had about twenty cars waiting in line just to pull in to each gas station. A few stations ran out completely, and a good many of them started shooting the prices up like mad. Apparently, people were charging $6.00 per gallon in downtown Atlanta.
It’s rediculous. Everyone’s been complaining about gas prices yesterday and today, but the prices wouldn’t be so high if everyone just bought normally rather than panicing, spreading rumors, and having every person in the friggin’ state fill their tanks. By the end of next week, it’ll likely be relatively stabalized again.
Govenor Purdue signed an Executive Order that could fine gas stations that price gouged (like I was, when the price jumped to $2.81 while I was still in line). As it turns out, the whole thing was a hoax that was spread through word of mouth and cell phone text messages. A hoax of this proportions is pretty impressive.
Yeah. Some parts of Athens reached about $3.60 yesterday. However, on my way back today, I saw a Citgo on one of the main streets of Athens selling gas for $2.99, so that gives me some hope.
Luckily, I drive a car which gets about 33 MPG. Yeah, I could take the public transportation, but the non-UGA public transportation in Athens sucks. I literally would be adding on 3 hours to my day every week day if I used the bus. Compare that to 20-30 minutes of driving if I have a car. I would prefer public transportation, but not for 3 hours more every day.
The prices are still going up here in Texas. They climbed another $0.15 today.
They’re not manufactured anymore, yes, but are still sold here in Norway. They’re great here. They’re exempted from most fees and you can park and drive through toll stations without paying.
Have any of you considered how much gas prices went up in George bushes’ Two terms.Combined with his idiocy, and his bright ideas about not temporarily shutting off a main gas line running through an area about to be hit by a disaster and not informing citesens to evacuate ,the war he started…I am completely surprised he has not yet been assassinated.(and the vice president too.he is also a complete jackass.) he is going to DESTROY THE WORLD!!!
Maybe I should have clarified a bit… most of it’s the drive from my town to the area where I work. However, I’m stuck going through two work zones, and the one in the area where I work gets so backed up it’s not funny. It’s been even worse since school’s back in session. It takes a lot longer for me to go to work than to go home. To avoid even worse traffic on the interstate, I’ll take an exit off the highway I use and cut through town.
As much as I want to blame Bush for everything, I don’t think it could be helped that the world’s easily accessible oil supplies are running out.
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While I was riding the bus to school I saw the price at 2.99. This was in the morning though, and it wouldn’t surprise me if the price has gone up since then.
Makes me wonder how much my school district has to pay for all the gas the buses must be sucking up. I’m sure that doesn’t help with the whole school refinancing thing going on in Dallas. -__-
That’s because Norway rocks environmentally-speaking. And probably for other things, but you get my point. 
The Think never grew in popularity here (if I recall correctly, I heard they have all been taken back by Ford dealers, actually (don’t know about other provinces and the States, though)) and I’ve yet to see a Prius or an Insight on the road.
Most schools and larger public transportation systems buy their gas at fixed prices. Like, this summer I interned for a state senator serving on the MARTA oversight committee in Georgia, so I got to go with him to his meetings. Well, in one meeting, MARTA confirmed that they had bought gas for like $1.something at a fixed price for like a year, so it’s not as bad for them. Most of these systems HAVE to do it in order to price longterm. UGA, however, does not. It buys it at a fixed price every week.