Oh, man......gas to be at $3.75/gal by March.

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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited February 2011
    You guys should move away from CA :tongue:
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited February 2011
    xj4094dg wrote: »
    Did you see my photo in post 91? That was taken today on PCH just south of Sunset....

    Yeah! I filled up mine in the Ontario today. But I guess some rich city cost more coz the tax rate is higher and it cost more to operate?

    It's crazy to think it has already passed 3.85 barrier before the end of February!
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited February 2011
    DMara wrote: »
    You guys should move away from CA :tongue:

    That actually isn't a bad idea. I am thinking exactly the same. But the question is where is a lot better? :frown:
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  • txcoastal1
    txcoastal1 Posts: 13,274
    edited February 2011
    3.19 a gal here and the refineries and ports are around the corner....what sucks most of our crude comes from canada and mexico....blah...and we own as much as both...but EPA wont let us drill...wait till summer when the refineries rotate shut downs for maintenance and clean up

    http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited February 2011
    megasat16 wrote: »
    That actually isn't a bad idea. I am thinking exactly the same. But the question is where is a lot better? :frown:

    Yesterday I'm still filling my car up at $2.86/gallon in Houston, and I don't pay state income tax :biggrin: Also my house in Katy is 4 times cheaper than one of the same quality in CA :biggrin:
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  • xj4094dg
    xj4094dg Posts: 1,158
    edited February 2011
    DMara wrote: »
    Yesterday I'm still filling my car up at $2.86/gallon in Houston, and I don't pay state income tax :biggrin: Also my house in Katy is 4 times cheaper than one of the same quality in CA :biggrin:

    I'd happily pay $10.00 a gallon if all the non-natives would move to Texas or wherever else they came from. This place has the best year-round weather on the planet. I love it. :wink:
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited February 2011
    xj4094dg wrote: »
    I'd happily pay $10.00 a gallon if all the non-natives would move to Texas or wherever else they came from. This place has the best year-round weather on the planet. I love it. :wink:

    Are you an Indian or a racist? :tongue: Hope you enjoy the annual ash rain :biggrin:
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited February 2011
    3.33 here in CT.
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited February 2011
    This is the fault of GWB and his rich oil buddies! Oh wait...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,770
    edited February 2011
    xj4094dg wrote: »
    After I filled up today, I had to stop and get a shot of this (and a shot of something else when I got home).

    That's my gas-guzzling XJ in the shot. She takes only premium.....

    This is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.

    California really is a funny place - when we lived in the Sillycon Valley in the late 1980s, gas prices in CA were among the lowest in the nation (even cheaper in Southern CA) - presumably because oil was produced there and (I believe in those days) gasoline was refined there. Gas was under $1.00 a gallon in the San Jose area in 1989 (it had been considerably more expensive in Baltimore, from whence we came, in the same time frame).
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited February 2011
    I wouldn't be surprised to see $6+/gallon prices this summer, so plan for it.
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  • Fongolio
    Fongolio Posts: 3,516
    edited February 2011
    Where I live in British Columbia it's the equivilent to $4.40 a US gallon.
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited February 2011
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    California really is a funny place - when we lived in the Sillycon Valley in the late 1980s, gas prices in CA were among the lowest in the nation (even cheaper in Southern CA) - presumably because oil was produced there and (I believe in those days) gasoline was refined there. Gas was under $1.00 a gallon in the San Jose area in 1989 (it had been considerably more expensive in Baltimore, from whence we came, in the same time frame).

    Regular Unleaded in CA was 85c/gal in 2001.

    I don't know what gives that we now have to pay the highest in the Nation.
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  • jmwest1970
    jmwest1970 Posts: 846
    edited February 2011
    It was $2.89 for regular on Monday, $3.09 yesterday, and this morning $3.25! What necessitates a rise like that? Damn thieves!
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  • heiney9
    heiney9 Posts: 25,165
    edited February 2011
    jmwest1970 wrote: »
    It was $2.89 for regular on Monday, $3.09 yesterday, and this morning $3.25! What necessitates a rise like that? Damn thieves!

    Simply talk of unrest has driven the price up here in IL from $3.01 about a week ago to $3.29 this A.M. and i bet by tomorrow A.M. it'll increase about another .10c. Specualtors ahve pushed the price up $2.10/barrel for oil since last night.

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  • ricohman
    ricohman Posts: 12
    edited February 2011
    Gas has been nearly $5.25 a gallon for the past month. I can only see it getting worse now.....
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  • ricohman
    ricohman Posts: 12
    edited February 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I wouldn't be surprised to see $6+/gallon prices this summer, so plan for it.

    We will be over $6 a gallon by April.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,008
    edited February 2011
    steveinaz wrote: »
    I wouldn't be surprised to see $6+/gallon prices this summer, so plan for it.
    Ouch! There goes my raise.....

    You know, it wouldn't bother me but it's dipping into my audio fund. I'd rather my rig see the money than foreign pocketbooks.

    It looks as if the local news [from post #1] was right on track. Here in Charlotte, we are hanging around the $3.25/gallon mark. It used to be that South Carolina was 25 cents cheaper as soon as you crossed the state line but not anymore. Diesel is already at $3.69+-.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2011
    ricohman wrote: »
    Gas has been nearly $5.25 a gallon for the past month. I can only see it getting worse now.....

    No one knows where you are, how about a tip?
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited February 2011
    I saw $4.09/gallon (ok, it was premium unleaded) last night at a Shell gas station in Oakland, CA. And no, it was nowhere near the airport.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,008
    edited February 2011
    Hey fellas, I just found this nationwide gas price guide.

    http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

    Completely useless to the thread but it may come in handy for those that plan on traveling.
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  • quadzilla
    quadzilla Posts: 1,543
    edited February 2011
    DMara wrote: »
    Are you an Indian or a racist? :tongue: Hope you enjoy the annual ash rain :biggrin:

    Actually, for Cali, it would be the Native Americans, or maybe the decendants of the Spanish and South American natives. No one made it to the Americas from India. Although there's evidence that some Polynesian tribes made it before the Asians and Russians came across the land bridge.

    Or were you being racist by calling "Native Americans" Indians? 'Cause they hate that, ya know. At least my Navajo Aunt and all her familiy do.
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited February 2011
    I love the idea that "native Americans" prefer to be named after the group that came, stole their land and tried to kill them. When they lived here it wasn't "America." The "white man" named it America, and now they take the name their oppressors give their land? And that's preferable to "Indian?" Makes sense to me.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,008
    edited February 2011
    Well, before this topic goes South, I'd just like to say that I have the utmost respect for the folks that walked America [as we know it today] before Columbus hit the shore. I respect their way of life and I wish America was more like them today. We would be a better country for it. That's just my opinion.

    Quad, I had no idea they didn't like being called Indians. No clue whatsoever. Duly noted.
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited February 2011
    quadzilla wrote: »
    Or were you being racist by calling "Native Americans" Indians? 'Cause they hate that, ya know. At least my Navajo Aunt and all her familiy do.

    It proves that even the Indians couldn't get along to each others :biggrin:
    Kidding aside, you might want to complain to our government for using the word "Indians" :tongue:

    http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/race/indian.html
    http://www.archives.gov/research/census/native-americans/1885-1940.html



    bobman1235 wrote: »
    I love the idea that "native Americans" prefer to be named after the group that came, stole their land and tried to kill them. When they lived here it wasn't "America." The "white man" named it America, and now they take the name their oppressors give their land? And that's preferable to "Indian?" Makes sense to me.

    Well said.
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited February 2011
    Here in S Arizona, we're at $3.84/gallon as of this morning.
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  • jinjuku
    jinjuku Posts: 1,523
    edited February 2011
    That's the problem with oil. They just aren't making it any more.
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited February 2011
    Paid $3.35 here in Ms. today. I paid 3.04 on Friday last.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,008
    edited February 2011
    Oh Chit! I just thought of something. You might want to sit down for this.

    Worst case scenario. The Middle East goes all to hell [more so than normal, you know what I mean] and then Katrina's big sister hits the gulf during the summer hurricane season.

    Man, talk about bending over at the pump. Yikes! Keep y'all's fingers crossed this scenario doesn't play out. I'd hate to imagine what the prices would be.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited February 2011
    glad I got a cube :biggrin:
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