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Prisonerno6
Member
08-31-2002
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 4:25 am
And you know what frosts my very ample ass about the gas prices? That gas was sitting in the gas stations tank at $2.50 a gallon yesterday. Now suddenly it's worth 20% more? Heating oil went up 30% around here -- in August. Tell me that's for "supply and demand" and not price gouging. I'm terrified about the fate of a friend in New Orleans, but I am furious that the oil companies are being allowed to spread the devastation to every single person in the country. Food prices will go up because of delivery costs. Electricity prices will go up. The tourism industry will be devastated, because people can't afford the rising cost of gas to travel or the cost of airplane tickets. Public transportation will no longer be affordable for the poorest who need it. The cost of *everything* will go up.
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Sasha
Member
07-22-2005
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 5:17 am
It jumped 18 cents a litre in Nova Scotia. So it is now 1.289 a litre, which is approximately 4.88 Canadian a gallon. Okay I am horrible in math but I believe this converted to American dollars is approximately 4.01 a gallon. Any numbers people, please feel free to correct if wrong.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 5:31 am
I know- I'm planning to go to Arizona to see my dad in January. About a week or so ago the ticket was around $200 out of Milwaukee. It's $350 now. I don't know if I should buy it now or see if things are better by then.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 5:56 am
This morning when I went past the gas station on the way to check on mom, the price was 2.79 for regular. 15 minutes later, when I went by again on the way to the office, it had already gone up to 2.99! Dang! I should have stopped the first time I went by. Mid grade is 3.09 and premium is 3.23 for right now. I hate to see what it will be by noon. ETA - I am sure glad I've already paid for mom's heating oil this winter. I always pay for the entire winter at once, when they have their specials in the summer. Got 800 gallons for 2.10/gal! That'll be a bargain this year.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 5:59 am
Can they do that there? Wisconsin has no gas gouging laws, but stations are only allowed to change their price once every 24 hours. Also, they aren't allowed to change the price while people are waiting in line for gas- they get the advertised price when they pull up. I think what we need to do here then is to coordinate enough people to be at a 24 hr station and constantly be in line getting $1 of gas at a time. They could never increase the price then.
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Jeep
Member
10-17-2001
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:05 am
I don't know Kaili. I know there were a lot of cars at the station when I went by the first time, that's why I didn't stop. They must have let them fill up and then changed the price. That's the only thing I can think happened.
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:12 am
The laws vary state by state though- maybe it's okay where you live. I don't know. All I know is I need to move if it's going to keep going up. I drive 25 miles each way to work, and now that school is starting, I'll be driving more when I sub. Granted, I be getting paid more so it won't be as bad, but subbing each day isn't guaranteed.
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Tashakinz
Member
11-13-2002
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:37 am
Up to $3.39 this morning...
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:39 am
The gas station last night was $3.01, this morning $3.49, it was a Mobile station... $5 is looming large, as long as they cant get supplies and work on the gulf coast where 1/4 of the refineries are... I dont know how we'll survive the winter
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Mocha
Member
08-12-2001
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:41 am
$3.09 and $2.96
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Coco
Member
07-13-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 7:49 am
I've been regularly paying between $2.59 and $2.79 per gallon for the past few months for Regular Unleaded. Late last night as I was coming home from work, the Mobil that gets my gas money is now up to $2.89 per gallon. I'm sure I'll be seeing that rise even more over the next week or so.
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Pippin03
Member
08-24-2005
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 8:51 am
OK, So now I am at 1.35 per liter. That is about 5.13 per gallon. Yesterdy the price was 1.15 pe liter.
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Sasha
Member
07-22-2005
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 9:01 am
Pippin, isn't it outrageous!!! Is Montreal the highest in Canada? I know Newfoundland and PEI are regulated. So I wonder how high their prices will go once they get their 8 (I think) days notice. Being islands and all, it could get pretty high.
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Yankee_in_ca
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 9:04 am
Don't know what it is today, but we paid 113.9 in Vancouver yesterday... Unfortunately we had to drive to Whistler and back...
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Suitsmefine
Member
07-29-2002
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:20 am
I paid $2.69 per gallon last Saturday....this morning it was $3.00 per gallon!
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Kaykay
Member
01-21-2004
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:38 am
i have gas 
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:39 am

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Sasha
Member
07-22-2005
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 11:57 am
Just in from the Canadian News Wire An Nova Scotia-based independent oil company has reduced shipments of gasoline to P-E-I. Wilsons Fuel says the province's regulated price for gas is too low. Pump prices on the Island now range from one-dollar nine cents to one dollar 11-cents-per-litre. Wilsons decision means as many as 30 of the Island's 150 gasoline retailers could run out of fuel by the weekend. This is just insane.
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Twiggyish
Member
08-14-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 1:06 pm
I've started turning off the A/C in the car whenever possible. It's still hot here, but the mornings and evenings are cooler. I'm hoping that helps my car get better mileage.
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Escapee
Member
06-15-2004
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 1:08 pm
Remember back to 1980 when we had the gas crisis and it went to $2 per gallon? Well 25 years ago $2 was like $5 per gallon today, right? Also remember in about 1995 when gas dropped to abou $0.89/gallon? There is hope, they swear it's temporary, and I imagine that the reason for the gas spike is investmen related and not gulf crisis or iraq crisis, but thats JMHO. Tid Bit: California produces and refines 40 some odd percent of it's oil, and the other 50 some odd percent is brought in, but absolutely NONE comes from the middle east, so why I ask, is the gas in California so expensive since the start of the Iraq conflict? Anyone?
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 1:18 pm
Drive slower...every mile you travel over 60 mph lowers your car's fuel efficiency. Oh- and get a tune up. I don't know how significant the difference is though...
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Cdbga
Member
10-04-2004
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 6:24 am
In my area, they are selling gas T $3.29/gal at one intersection, but if you drive less than a mile to the other side of the mall it is $3.15/gal. Yesterday our Governor signed an executive order threatening to impose heavy fines on gasoline retailers who overcharge in our state (GA). We have an anti-gouging law that they can apply when they want to. I bought a Honda Civic Hybrid earlier this year and that is turning out to have been one of my better decisions. I use about half the gas I was using in my old car.
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 7:55 am
Today Lisa Madigan is trying to get the gouging stopped. She said that Chicago area does not get their gas from the Gulf, but from refineries in Canada. Another board I post on, a poster (who I've been familiar with in the past, but you still never, ever know if there is truth in the post...) is a trucker and said that there is gas, but the companies are "rationing" what they are sending out... had no clue why, but that was the report they were given. At 11pm I went to fill up the tank, and that Mobil station was down to $3.19 a gallon
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Reader234
Member
08-13-2000
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 8:02 am
Did anyone else hear a report that President Bush asked the other countries for help with oil? I've been googling to see if I can find a report, and i have not, I know I'm not making it up,
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Friday, September 02, 2005 - 9:43 am
I don't know if he asked, but Japan is arranging for us to get their share from wherever it is that they get theirs. "Gas, oil prices dip more than $1 a barrel": "EU security affairs chief Javier Solana said European nations are ready to offer oil from their strategic reserves. Japan also said it was in talks about releasing some of its strategic stockpiles to meet shortages in the United States."
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