Steven Mendoza Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 (edited) I'm paying $2.89/gallon for 93 octane in Baton Rouge When I go back to New Orleans this summer, it's around $2.99/gallon. The way I see it, I need my car eveyday, so there's not too much use complaining. If I was paying $4/gallon, I'd still have this same attitude: It may be expensive, but I need it to get things done. The only adjustment I've really made is staying on top of maintaining the car a lot more. Oil changes at or before I need them and checking the air pressure in my tires on an almost daily schedule have helped some. And just better planning when I go somewhere helps, too. If I go out once, I'll try to go everywhere I need to at that time... No use in driving back and forth between my apartment, school, and whatever stores I go to when I can just hit them all in a row. Edited May 7, 2006 by Steven Mendoza Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volvo Virgin Posted May 7, 2006 Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 It just amazes me that most of you are missing the overall impact on the economy.I have people in all economic and financial walks of life involved in my life,and let me assure you it is affecting the less fortunate or fixed income families dramatically.The current price of oil/gas is only the leading edge of the ridiculous higher prices,and many of the goods,services and utilities influenced by the domino affect don't fall into the"drive less or drive a smaller car"justification. :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azinwa Posted May 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2006 Face itOur country is run by oil men.Most of the clean up contracts in the gulf region were given to company's that knew someone.There were NO WMD's in Iraq.Teddy # 2 is up to the same stuff as his old man.The V.P. shoots someone and gets away with it.Don't get me wrong, this is still the greatest country in the world.HOWEVERSomething got to give soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aequitas_Veritas Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 wow, it just cost me $60 to fill my tank, WTF, am I driving an SUV now!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeachRat Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 $60/tank here now... you can't find 87 under $3.09. Do the math for prem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
POOKDIZZLE Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Gas here in MA. went down a little over the weekend we are around $3.08 for premium and $2.89 for regular. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomin850 Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 wow, it just cost me $60 to fill my tank, WTF, am I driving an SUV now!?Gotta love Socal huh? :monkey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aequitas_Veritas Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 Gotta love Socal huh? seriously, I would love some $3.09 premium gas. Its hitting like $3.59 here for 91. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomin850 Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 seriously, I would love some $3.09 premium gas. Its hitting like $3.59 here for 91.You be lucky...Ventura is ~3.60+ now 91 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAzOR Posted May 8, 2006 Report Share Posted May 8, 2006 (edited) We are being taken for a total ride. And I'm not a conspiracy type but mainly there is no competition between oil compaines. They are colluding and are killing us while we convert to hybrid and inevitably cut fuel consumption in half, while they triple the price now and hold the line so they come out on top in the end.In 1993 a true hybrid vehicle came out and was headed for mass production by a company called Clean Air Concepts. I rode in one. Not surprisingly, no auto manufacturer would sell the startup any assembly line manufacturing equipment and the car was quietly killed by its politically influenced benefactors. Then the EV craze hit and GM released the EV1 (a truly excellent car) and Toyota and Nissan with the RAV4 and a minivan. They were not sold but leased and were greatly loved by those who had them.It is interesting to note that no American manufacturer came out with a decent hybrid powertrain until Toyota and Honda started making a big buzz with the Prius and Civic. Sounds like a cigar smoking room deal between big US auto and big oil to me.Curiously, during this time of EV tryouts, gas prices dropped to all time lows (depsite higher than ever consumption and the shockwaves of the first Iraq war) and stayed there while GM called in the leases and crushed the remaining EV1s and most other EVs were quietly scuttled. Now, thirteen years later we have high gas prices, hybrid vehicles (which all run on gasoline of course) and no EVs in sight. True that EVs could not refuel quickly and that limited their range, but for many, the range was enough. And now, considering technology today like that used in gas station fast passes and advances in robotics, an automated battery changout station is a realistic proposition. Pull in and lineup the car, swipe the card and out comes your battery and in goes another. What, maybe 90 seconds. Anyway, I am not expecting anything like that, at least not now that I know better.EVs are a huge threat to not just oil, but auto manufacturers. EVs are amazingly simple with no transmissions and only one primary moving part. Very, very low maintenance. That would have clobbered the auto dealers who make a good $$ on maintenance.No mystery here, we are under the thumb. Edited May 9, 2006 by RAzOR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Volvo Virgin Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 We are being taken for a total ride. And I'm not a conspiracy type but mainly there is no competition between oil compaines. They are colluding and are killing us while we convert to hybrid and inevitably cut fuel consumption in half, while they triple the price now and hold the line so they come out on top in the end.In 1993 a true hybrid vehicle came out and was headed for mass production by a company called Clean Air Concepts. I rode in one. Not surprisingly, no auto manufacturer would sell the startup any assembly line manufacturing equipment and the car was quietly killed by its politically influenced benefactors. Then the EV craze hit and GM released the EV1 (a truly excellent car) and Toyota and Nissan with the RAV4 and a minivan. They were not sold but leased and were greatly loved by those who owned them.It is interesting to note that no American manufacturer came out with a decent hybrid powertrain until Toyota and Honda started making a big buzz with the Prius and Civic. Sounds like a cigar smoking room deal between big US auto and big oil to me.Curiously, during this time of EV tryouts, gas prices dropped to all time lows (depsite higher than ever consumption and the shockwaves of the first Iraq war) and stayed there while GM called in the leases and crushed the remaining EV1s and most other EVs were quietly scuttled. Now, thirteen years later we have high gas prices, hybrid vehicles (which all run on gasoline of course) and no EVs in sight. True that EVs could not refuel quickly and that limited their range, but for many, the range was enough. And now, considering technology today like that used in gas station fast passes and advances in robotics, an automated battery changout station is a realistic proposition. Pull in and lineup the car, swipe the card and out comes your battery and in goes another. What, maybe 90 seconds. Anyway, I am not expecting anything like that, at least not now that I know better.EVs are a huge threat to not just oil, but auto manufacturers. EVs are amazingly simple with no transmissions and only one primary moving part. Very, very low maintenance. That would have clobbered the auto dealers who make a good $$ on maintenance.No mystery here, we are under the thumb.Well spoken and very accurate. It's called big business and how deep the government is in their pockets.Special interest groups and our corrupt political system are killing any assemblance of fair trade and a healthy economic state. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodrigo Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 last night on the news.Brazil.Ethanol.$30 per barrell.i still like gasoline though. I am getting really sick og the word Gas...its everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 $2.59 for the cheap stuff in GA this AM... Add $0.20 for the 93. This was at a BP, RaceTrac and a QT - and my tank was already full. <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aequitas_Veritas Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 $2.59 for the cheap stuff in GA this AM... Add $0.20 for the 93. This was at a BP, RaceTrac and a QT - and my tank was already full. thats just cheap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_R Posted May 9, 2006 Report Share Posted May 9, 2006 Now that's just sad... Big Oil has got us thinking that 2.59 is cheap. In Columbia - a self-sustaining oil country - they pay $0.16 per gallon. Venezuela? $0.70 Of course the average income is rediculously low... IIRC Columbia was ~5k a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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