Did you notice? Gas prices went up! Right... hard not to notice, that's all everyone is talking about. I'm getting quite tired of it.
Yes, gas is over $2.0 a gallon.. big freaking deal. We've been paying the lowest gas prices for years.. about time we start paying a bit more realistic one and maybe, just maybe reconsider the over-consumption of gasoline in this country. Wouldn't it be nice if we had a decent public transportation system that doesn't stop 2miles outside a metropolis and more transportation of goods by methods like trains rather than costly trucks?
Don't like paying so much for gas? Buy a small, fuel-efficient car, share a commute to work, use your bicycle.. but for Allah's sake, stop whining about the price as you fill up your 15-miles-to-the-gallon behemoth. And when November arrives don't forget who cut the funding for alternative fuel research. If you think that not buying gas on one particular day of the year will 'stick it' to the oil companies.. you've the brain reflexes of a pot smoking snail. Not *using* gas on a day a year might.. buying? No.. you'll have to fill up sooner or later, do you think anyone cares that it's not going to be tomorrow?
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Yes, totally.
The other day I had my first-ever $20 fillup. But that $20 fillup will last me all month, 'coz I get 40MPG (the Echo being one of those cars where the real fuel mileage is actually better than the EPA testing lets on, unlike hybrids which turn out to actually have worse mileage than the average sedan).
Though my mom almost does one better - she rides her bike and takes the bus. Though that gets cancelled out because of all the times she has my dad drive from home to pick her up in their gas-guzzling SUV. But it's a nice gesture at least.
#My tank is half-full right now..looked out this morning at the gas prices..its not very pretty in this part of California.
$2.55- there are predictions that we'll be seeing $3.00 here, which sucks. Luckily the once place I go to with my car (which is old, but still very fuel efficient) is the geek toy store (Frys), school (horray for evil college) and random shopping once in awhile..other than that, run, cycle, run, cycle..err..
Anybody who complains about the gas prices while filling up their Navigator can go bang their head against the wall..they deserve it for buying such monsterous-waiting-for-an-accident-to-happen cars..
#Beyond easy politics flames (fully justified -sometimes-) there's nobody in the big energy companys taking seriously the alternative of fuel. Why? it was cheap, it was in "easy controlable" countries with fuel as main/unique incoming source, the US had reserves (for themselves) for years (who cares about Alaska when we are getting cold in NY?), and finally, its a great money making bussiness which is going on, and pays off very well to any election process anywhere is needed to keep it up.
But sometimes things dont happen as we planned, or our needs become much higher than available resources and once that happens our bucks will not save us, simply. Its time to think what we will do to keep our lifestyle beyond fuels.
#Just to put that into perspective:
Where I'm living gas is $5.30 per gallon and the price keeps rising.
http://blogs.cocoondev.org/tomk/archives/000791.html
Time to stop whining, guys.
yeh Flynn here too, and more to come. $20 fill-up its a ridicoulous amount for a fill-up in these times, here in Europe.
Last saturday I ve filled-up my wife's car (I dont own) from 1/4, and it was € 23... that's about $27.56 for 3/4 of an average tank. So there is the minimal to expect.
#I'm actually more sick of people complaining about people complaining.
I have no problems with someone speaking out to bring attention to what they consider unjustified or wrong... but to complain that people actually care about something enough to do something about it (admittedly nothing very effective, but still SOMETHING) is kind of backwards to me. We have enough apathy in this country. Giving these people a hard time seems like a highschool mentality to me; "it's cool to not care."
Oh, but I do care.. just not about the price per gallon. I care more that our main source of fuel is a non-renewable resource and most people only care that it'll cost them $10 more this week to commute to work..
We should be looking at ways to use less oil.. not how to 'stick it' to the oil companies..(not that I like oil companies, I just don't see this as productive) A don't-buy gas day? That's the stupidest idea ever.. Should be a don't use gas day.
So let's say, the prices do go down.. what happens then? Everyone happily fills up their SUVs and goes on the road without a care.. Until the next time prices go up and whining starts again. Sigh.
German petrol prices are hovering around $5/gallon = €1.10/l. (And there has often been talk to make it DM 5,-/l = €2.60/l = $11.60/gallon.)
#personally, i'm amazed at the SUV/Hummer/big Truck
boom... did EVERYONE forget the 70s? sheesh. odd
number gas days - my mom baking pies for the guy down at the gas station so that he'd move the "No Gas" sign for us to fill up our Chrysler?
Jesus! What are these people thinking?
It's not like they're going to make any more
dinosaurs. It's a citizen's responsibility to
do the best they can to conserve - god knows
we can't rely on the government to shelter us.
IMO it's a matter of national security. The less
we have to rely on foreign energy sources, the
more secure we are. How is that brain surgery?
After living in the USA for the past 7 years, I often forget how inexpensive gas really is here. Just the other week I was talking to my Mum back in England and I happened to make an off-the-cuff remark about gas prices. She just laughed and laughed and *very* sarcastically said, "my goodness, you poor thing, however can you afford to drive?". At that time, gas prices in England were around $6 a gallon. I made a mental note never to complain about the price of gas again (at least to someone in England anyway) :-)
#The gas prices in Europe certainly are higher than in US, but you have a little 'better' fuel overthere. The regual in the US in 87 octane gasoline, while the premium is 93 octane. As far as I remember, the 'regular' in Europe (or at least in Poland) is 95 octane, while the 'premium' is 98. The 94 octane 'ultra' sold by Sunoco is usually about $.20 more expensive than the premium - around here (NJ) anyway. Just my $.02.
#The problem is not just in gas, we as a society have to stop wasting everything we have, people have become so wasteful, and it seems the richer you are the more wasteful you have to become. My grandparents taught me to conserve everything because they lived through the dirty thirties. I was recently staying with some people in Vancounver, Canada and they had a 4 children and each one had their own bathroom, phone, computer and 25" or larger T.V. has everyone forgotten how to share? This is the problems folks, we all are very selfish, myself included, but I blame society and the ideals that are pushed on us everyday by commercials, just try not to live the way "they"(big corporations) want you to, it is hard not to be a consumers when everyone around are hardcore consumers.
#Hey Jason, think about this quote (if you dont know it already) :
"If you want to change government, change the corporations, and government will follow. If you want to change corporations, change the consumer."
Yvon Chouinard
$2.00 per gallon? UK prices work out at roughly $5.43 per gallon (assuming £0.81/liter into US gallons - £1 = $1.77) ! And it's due to increase again in September in the form of government tax increases.
It certainly convinced me to drive less :)
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