Gas Prices Where You Are?

In greater Portland, OR area paid $2.75 per gal. on tuesday, and today at same station it went up to $2.85!

Alaska.... 2.61 a gallon

Netherlands: $6.48

Now stop whining

I haven't been to a gas station for a while, but a recent discussion about prices yielded a value of around $2.85 as of yesterday in Madison, WI.

Of course, I just take the bus or walk for a realized cost of nothing per mile. Of course, one could argue that bus usage is factored into my tuition or that walking requires fuel of a different nature. Still, I'd say I'm fairing better than my car-driving compatriots.

spare a thought for those of us living in England, we are currently paying around £4.60 for a gallon. This is probably going to rise even higher over the next year, perhaps going over the £5.00 mark.
Assuming an exchange rate of $1.70 to the pound that makes it approximately $7.74 a gallon. Most of that goes to our beloved government!

$3.06 USD here, but I spent a month in the U.K. a while back, so I am NOT complaining one iota.

3.33 as of yesterday.... Calif foothills..

I saw US$2.79 tonight, the line was around the block, so I'm guessing it was one of the few good deals in the area. (LI, NY)

$0.85 for a can of beans. Sorry

It's already over $3.00 a gallon over here where I live...but considering how high it is in England...and Sweden (over $9.00 a gallon there), I am hard pressed to gripe. I know it's high, but we don't have it as bad as Europe. I don't know why that is, but there you have it.

I look in my cabinets to see if I have enough Ramen noodles to eat for the next month.

I took this nearly 2 weeks ago. Its a couple of blocks from where I work in DC.

I paid 2.59 last night in Austin.

You know, Damanios, I've seen a few euro's post to this effect. While the prices are very high, I think it's also out of context. When I lived in Germany, I was astounded by the gasoline prices, but please consider:

1) In the US, we do not have (with the exception of the north east) a reliable transportation infrastructure. I live in California, and while we have buses in my city, the bus stops are sometimes several miles apart.

2) Again using California as the example, the great majority of our population moved here and settled AFTER the advent of the automobile. In Germany, I was able to walk to a market. Here, it would take me over an hour each way, and there is no other transportation I can take for large purchases (I do bicycle to the market if I just need a few things)

3) I'm currently blessed to have a commute to work short enought that I can ride to work on my bike most days. When I lived in Los Angeles, that was not an option. I lived 17 miles from my work, and it took me an hour to commute daily in my car, which burns a lot of gas. I did carpool to save gas and money, but again, there was no other viable transportation system.

Please don't think of this as a defense of "whining", I'm just saying my experiences in Europe seemed to show me that you, collectively, have built a society in which many things can be done without an automobile, where we have built one where it is a near-necessity.

What to me would be a more meaningful and valid thing to ask instead of "what does gas cost where you live" is "how much do you spend on gas a month".

Taco


ps. 4) we're fat and lazy.

Thanks, Taco. Needed to be said. Even though Austin is a so-called "green" city, there is no way that most people could get by here without an automobile.

Although, it is worth noting that many American cities ripped out existing trolley and/or rail systems after WWII as automobiles and freeways and suburban sprawl took over the landscape.

Canada. $1.10 /litre

http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=68579

Evidently, it was approaching $6/gallon down in Georgia...

Okay, hurricanes are bad... true... they do lots of damage, mess up lots of stuff... true... BUT

that was yesterday and within 24 hrs gas prices in Atlanta (my section of it anyway) have jumped *OVER* a dollar a gallon. All of this is on gas that was delivered days ago, if not a week ago. All because delivery of the next load is going to be delayed?? What's up with them jacking us on gas they haven't even gotten yet?

So, now they're going to tell us they need to jack us some more to pay for repairs to their damaged facility and all, but *they're* not going to be the ones ultimately paying for the repairs... unless they're uninsured, and, let's be realistic, if they're not insured, they deserve to be stuck w/ the bill themselves. But we all know that'd never happen cause they'd whine to the government and get a bail out. Which, when you think about it, they're most likely going to get government money anyway under the "disaster relief" plan.

So, they'll get insurance money to fix stuff and they'll probably get government money to fix their stuff too, *then* they're gonna jack us - probably for more than double what they're gonna get from insurance *and* the government combined.

Don'tcha just love the system!

<PS - forgive my crappy mood - watching gas prices jump from $2.79 to $3.99 over the course of a couple of hours angers me.>

[edited to add a "PS"]

$3.25 here in maryland....and heard nationwide gas will be about $4.00 by the end of next week.

The major suppliers have already started rationing to the pumps east of the rockies....although they call it allocation.

Unfortunately some of us Need that Hemi....you know the ones that build this country and keep its infrastructure in tact

I don't drive, but I'll look around today and see what the new posted prices are. I think our local prices are largely an academic issue by now, though, since central Phoenix apparently pretty much sold out yesterday

-- jj

3.29 -

I commute 60 miles one way to work - so even in my little neon its a really bad

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On an academic level its is possible to think of how higher gas prices will encourage the development of more fuel efficent / alternative technologies.

But from what I can see , instead the Auto companies are simply downsizing their work force / reducing development / cutting costs.

It may seem counter to what you hear fropm certain circles; but the time when Auto companies are willing to investigate new things is when the money is pouring in from popular vehicles - not when theres a downturn in sales on profitable vehicles like trucks and SUVs.

It is around £3.42 per gallon here, or $6.84 there.

Gas? Florida's sold out! But the sign's at the staions say $2.79-$2.89

$2.79 here in South West Arkansas, North East Texas North West Louisiana