gas at 3bucks a gallon

[sabbat hunter]

if gasoline is 3bucks a gallon right now for regular, what will it be come memorial day weekend?

[Rick Myers]

1. Read a story yesterday that claimed $4.00 by summer.

Don't recall where I read it... But It's $2.80 in Minneapolis today, goin' up!!! :grr:

[kestrel91316]

2. Don't know. But a year from now, we will be WISHING it was only $3.

[Dead_Parrot]

8. I know I am...

It's US$4.35/gal in NZ. I always get a spasm when I hear Americans complaining about fuel prices... :)

[depakid]

9. You should see the price in Britian

At close to $7.00 per gallon, they have spasms, too!

(actually, some years ago, they had some pretty nasty protests over petrol prices).

One thing I like to point out to them though, is that the average Brit doesn't "have to" drive nearly as far as the average American "has to."

[kestrel91316]

10. It's $3.20 right now at the cheapest place in my neighborhood,

for 87 octane regular.

[jaysunb]

3. $ 3.50 + for a month now...

here in So California. Welcome !

[Beaverhausen]

17. Yeah- $3.00 a gallon would be welcome at this point

why do we pay more, damn it???

[Redstone]

4. If everyone drove less, the price would go down. Pretty simple.

Redstone

[Javaman]

14. but then when the price is down, people will drive more. LOL

after katrina gas prices went up, people drove less and stopped buying giant SUV's. It looked as if the general population grew a brain, but then prices went back down, SUV's went back up and people drove more.

the issue at hand is the "boil the frog" syndrome we are living in right now.

They ease up the price little by little so no one stops driving.

That was part of the lesson the repukes and the oil companies learned after katrina.

the stoves dial is now set at 3 bucks, in the summer it will be set to 4 bucks.

I believe $4.50 to $5.50 will be the break point for many people here. mostly the lower and middle class. the rich don't care, they have the money.

I wrote something a while back. The type of car one has is looked upon as a status symbol. Soon, just having a car will be that status symbol.

[Delphinus]

19. You're right ...

It *is* boil the frog.

I remember, vividly, in 2005, before Katrina - it was April, actually, and I had just got done reading Jared Diamond's "Collapse". I had to travel from one end of town to the other for a job-related duty - maybe five miles each way - and I saw the price of gas at $2.37 and I cried. I sat in my car and cried. Now I pay $2.85 and it doesn't faze me - well, it does, but I have become accustomed to the price.

[Sequoia]

5. That's why I ride the bus for $10 a month.

No worry, no road rage, pretty vineyards on both sides of the road. Can read my book and drink coffee. See the sun rise, hear the birds sing, all is peaceful. Seriously people, if you work for a company that offers an incentive program try using a few days a week or month. It takes just about as long to get to my destination as it would if I drove my car. When I take the car I have to run dumb ole errands so get home later than the bus anyway. Now, if I had a train...I'd take that in a heartbeat.

[Javaman]

13. The bus is the best. I have caught up on so much reading it's scary. lol nt

[Sequoia]

20. I've been known to be so engrossed I miss my stop.

[ramapo]

6. Driving is cheap....too cheap

The automobile infrastructure has been heavily subsidized over the past 50 years, primarily by the federal government and all taxpayers, not just the users. The highway subsidy makes whatever has gone to Amtrak and other railroads, with all the attendant harping from conservatives, look as trivial as it is. There has been a consistent failure to own up to the cost of driving. Gas in the United States is cheap. It should be $6.00/gal with the $3 going to fund construction and maintenance of roads and bridges, as well as for mitigation of some of the mess that has been caused by our auto culture. Then of course gas comes from oil and nobody is making anymore of that stuff anymore and that should figure into the cost too.

[sabbat hunter]

7. some have to drive

like my brother in law who works in outside sales. he needs to drive to his clients

[ramapo]

11. We most all have to drive

Right now there are few to none alternatives. Unfortunately cheap motoring cannot continue just because we want it to. Change will be difficult and expensive. It will be painful or worse to some.
I believe we can choose to change in some controlled fashion or we can continue on our present course which guarantees a painful correction.

[Javaman]

12. Welcome to the new norm...

ride your bike more, take the bus if you can (even half way to work), group all your errands together (try to do them in a circle rather than back and forth), buy less, eat less crap, don't by plastic anything, plant a garden, compost, capture rainwater, change your bulbs, got to sleep earlier, make meals at home, have pot luck meals with friends, get to know your neighbors, read more and most of all; appreciate life when you are happy.

[sanityraines]

15. I'm not complaining, but then...

I don't really drive...anywhere at the moment. I work in a gas station right now for the last month and saw the price go from $3.05 to $3.09 in one week then go up to $3.19 the following week. If I had to drive I think it would really suck. My husband and mother complain about it, but I think if we had better transit it wouldn't be that much of an issue. We live in a valley so bike riding to the nearest bus stop is pretty much out of the question as it's at the top of the hills about 5 miles away. There are no other transit option that I'm currently aware of that will come down here except the cabs...and I think they cost more than gas...lol.

[Javaman]

16. This sounds goofy but I had an idea for people who live in valleys..

that need to get to the top without the use of a car. Solar powered tow ropes. hop on your bike and hang on.

I'm actually not kidding.

[CRF450]

18. Just over 3.00/gallon here for premium

Cost $45 to fill up my car with premium, and over $65 to fill up my Dakota:o But thank god I get fuel allowances for my job:)

[Howzit]

21. Think $6 or $7 a gallon

I think we can look forward to $6 or $7 a gallon in the not so distant future. How else are we going to encourage people to use less fuel?

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070418-1127-ca-boxer-globalwarming.html

Sen. Barbara Boxer said Wednesday she sees a bipartisan consensus developing on her Environment and Public Works Committee in favor of legislation to curb global warming emissions.

Boxer supports legislation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent below 1990 levels by 2050, which is modeled on California's landmark global warming law signed last year by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegg

“I have a consensus developing in my committee across party lines that we will in fact look at bills that cap carbon,” Boxer said. “That's why I think it's such a breakthrough.”

[NMDemDist2]

22. it jumped $0.25 in 4 days here!

:wow: