Gas Prices recently

even though i mentioned being glad to take the bus, as well?

I'm just not a bike person at all. I love you, my feet.

Over here it costs usually around 75p ($1.19) per litre, this equals roughly £2.75 ($4.37) per (US) gallon, with about 80% of this going to the government as duty, ostensibly to discourage people using cars too much - much the same as the rest of Europe.

I know that places are a lot further apart in the States than over here meaning a real need for cheaper fuel if travelling is required, but how would you feel if your prices were to fall into line with ours as an environmental (both local and global) measure?

I've read that Wednesday is generally the optimal day-of-the-week to buy gas.

I'd actually like to see this happen, and the United States to reconsider its policies that emphasize personal cars over public transportation and pedestrian-oriented urban development. But between the oil and car companies' political might and the powerful public opinion in favor of cars, this isn't likely to happen.

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Kids these days...

Holy shit

$4.73 this morning at the cheapest station in my hood.

Good thing we invaded Iraq.

-- hstencil, Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:00 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

Yes, well, how come all that confiscated Iraqi gas isn't free in the US right now?

Apparently black-market gas was a bit less than $2.50 a gallon in Baghdad back in March, with the official price about half that.

http://www.upi.com/International_Security/Energy/Briefing/2008/03/04/baghdad_fuel_drops_above_official_price/2913/

http://laist.com/2008/05/29/post_40.php

http://laist.com/2008/05/29/post_40.php

Not surprised at all by this.

I'd buy stock in Netflix.

wow. it's still under $4 here at least.

how long til it's above $5?

it was 4.99 basically everywhere in Northern Arizona/Southern Utah a week ago.

the prices are a bit high right now (I paid $1.699/gal for 87 octane tonight),

Remembering the good timez...

I think it's up to $1.57 a gallon

;_;

lol xp

it was 4.99 basically everywhere in Northern Arizona/Southern Utah a week ago.

wtf u doing spying on missionary training

i wish. did grand canyon/vegas/zion/bryce canyon/monument valley with el wifey.

lol alienation

'd buy stock in Netflix.

-- Eazy, Thursday, 5 June 2008 19:21 (2 minutes ago) Link

Don't know about that. Don't think cutting trips to the video store to save gas is going to be the first line of cost-cutting.

xpost drove through a polygamist town, though. shit was bleak as shit.

I mean Netflix may/may not be a good buy regardless, but I don't think gas prices are a reason.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/historic_blockbuster_store_offers

serious seinfeld channeling with the thread title. (sorry)

Business idea up for grabs: Buy up unwanted Escalades and Hummers and whatnot super-cheap and start a company that rents them out for music videos and films.

but if they're not expensive they won't be wanted in the vids

Business idea up for grabs: Buy up unwanted Escalades and Hummers and whatnot super-cheap and stack them up in vacant lots in NYC, rent them out as apartments

Humming Heights

Pre-furnished studio habitations -- FREE ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM

Will these come with a stripper pole, though?

Gas prices going up again by 35%.

Sam Laidlaw, Centrica's chief executive, said: "This is a business that has got a million shareholders - a lot of pension funds and people have got their savings invested in British Gas shares and we have to look after them".

So let's get that right - British Gas are happy for poor pensioners to freeze to death in order to subsidise the lifestyles of rich pensioners.

Maybe we'd better have another go and see if Communism can work in practice...

Nationalise the bastards

Paul Bettision, chairman of the Local Government Association's environment board, said: "Energy companies are making massive profits at the expense of hard working families."

But you lazy pensioners and single bastards who refuse to breed deserve all you get

so they're telling me my gas bill is being used to subsidise a gamblers winnings?

Essentially, yes.

They're not even pretending to use world oil prices as an excuse any more - they could hardly do that since prices per barrel have recently shot down by almost the same amount in the opposite direction.

Yes, millions to be put in penury and the general economy to suffer just so that Mr and Mrs Hitler can go on their five-year-long sea cruise and build their fourth conservatory.

Best thing is for people to vote with their feet and switch supplier, that's kinda how the system works. Sure it's a sucky system, but if you're in it you have to play it.

It's anticipated that most major suppliers will follow suit so it's into the woods and rub those sticks together.

Well pick a non-major one then, they're about. www.uswitch.com is pretty good. I guess OAPs don't have that luxary tho. Is winter fuel payments still only £250?

I don't have to. I switched away from B/Gas some while back. I'm talking about those who don't have the luxury of switching.

My mum gets £300 in winter fuel payments but don't forget that's in Scotland.

Gordon Brown doesn't mind nationalisation, as long as it's Northern Rock.

Well, I think he does. The two big nationalisations recently have been event led rather than policy led. How much would BGAS cost to nationalise, and would the electorate be happy with that many billions of pounds being spent on it?

Well the electorate can SHUT THE FUCK UP about gas prices then

My gas bill is currently £870 for a three-month period in a three-bedroom house. This seems ridiculously high, is it?

can only compare with using oil over here (which is expensive) it's enormous

That does seem pretty high. Gas bill for our 3-bedroom house for Nov-Feb was about £350. Is your bill based on estimates? Who's your supplier?

I've just got a bill for £300 for gas for a 2-bed flat (it's estimated, and due to a fuck-up on their side I've failed to do anything about since last June I've no way of checking how close it is), which I thought was bad enough. The energy companies have just started backdating price rises haven't they? (just in time for the prices to actually go down in real terms)

Matt, check the period of billing as well. They may have charged you for 6 months there.

Meter reads are always u&k though. Being billed to estimates sux the monkey. Even if it's only a couple of units out, you still feel like you're being jipped.

That's based on a meter reading. Although I may have cocked it up, I don't know. The meter was last read in December so it can't be backdated that much.

For English Gas...
That does seem a lot Matt DC, what was it last year?

For America Gas...
http://www.designverb.com/wp-content/images/2007/06/gasprices.jpg

Are we confusing petroleum w methane on here? I can't tell anymore.

I think we've maybe had central heating on for five or so hours in the evening and maybe an hour in the morning. Is that excessive in this day and age? I have no idea.

No, that's about what we have it on. Although we tell the heating to go up to 20 degrees rather than 22 - dunno how much that saves.

They're talking about natural gas. The picture just posted is petroleum prices by the gallon.

It's also two years old, apparently.

"Your estimated daily gas usage:

This quarter last year: .23
Last quarter: .23
This quarter: .1

[Estimated] Charges this period £21.14"

turns out the actual gas used for this quarter is, you guessed it, closer to .2 than .1 for an actual bill of £46.64

dear edf, use some common sense.

3.87 for regular unleaded - just dropped $69 to fill up my tank

$_$

$3.89, the most i've ever paid? (in the US)
i have this little honda and it still took 40 bucks to fill up

$1.29 a litre in Toronto. If I'm calculating correctly, that's $4.88 per gallon.

kevin wtf kinda car do you drive

http://www.seriouseats.com/images/20081209-wienermobile.jpg

i know a dude that drove that for a year

they used to recruit at my school (and i assume various college campuses) so for one day each yeah you'd stroll into campus and stumble on the weiner mobile just chillin

It rolled into campus earlier this semester.

2010 altima - i get pretty good gas mileage actually but my tank is p huge

cheapest in la right now is around 3.95-3.96 unleaded

cheapest I've seen at least

also what the fuck does oscar mayer recruit for, sounds like they're running a secret police or shadow army or basketball team

oscar meyer makes super heroes

they recruit 'creative' college kids who want to get into marketing or w/e to drive the truck around for a year & do promo for them (i believe they also blog? you have to live in the vehicle itself iirc)

man a weiner blog that is next level

They're pretty common tbh