| Lisser 22.09.2005 14:39 |
I heard on the news this am that gas will be going up to $3.30 where I live. Right now it is at $2.69. I think I'll be staying home except for going to work from now on. It's way too expensive to go anywhere else. Sorry all, I meant to just reply to a thread and instead I guess I created a whole new one. I suck. |
| KillerQueen840 22.09.2005 14:46 |
2.69? Wow, that's cheaper than MA! I remeber it going up over a dollar in a week at the beginning of this month. It was atleast 3.30. But, now (I think) it's finally coming back down a little. Last I checked a few days ago it was 2.99. It might've gone up or down since then, though. |
| Erin 22.09.2005 14:49 |
That is why we filled up the tank yesterday..:-S It's $2.69 at the cheapest here...for now anyway. |
| doremi 22.09.2005 14:53 |
My car was low on gas last night, but I usually fill up in the morning after breakfast. Well, I watched the 10:00pm news last night and they talked about that Rita could be FAR worse to the gas situation as a THIRD of the USA's oil wells and refineries are IN Texas. I live about half mile from the gas station, so I figured that ''mass hysteria'', especially with the NEWS IDIOTICALLY blasting panic and fear and making matters worse, would cause people to panic and go nuts today. So...I ran up the street last night and filled up while gas was still cheap (it's come DOWN about 60 cents in the last week), to about $2.73, and while there was STILL gas available, and no lines. Sure enought this morning, I passed the same gas station and gas had jumped 10 cents since 10pm last night (and it was only 8am this morning), and there was a humongeous line of panic stricken people at the station. You know...I do want to know the news...but the WAY they GO OFF and instill panic and hype it up only creates panic in people. I was fine until I saw the news. When I saw them going off about ''shortages, panic, yada'', I said screw you...you are CREATING panic, so I better go and get my gas now before everyone goes balistic in the morning. |
| brENsKi 22.09.2005 15:48 |
Lisser wrote: I heard on the news this am that gas will be going up to $3.30 where I live. Right now it is at $2.69. I think I'll be staying home except for going to work from now on. It's way too expensive to go anywhere else.sorry Melissa - you really have no idea of hardship...In the UK our current price is just topping £1.00 per litre - that's £4.50 a gallon - the USA equivalent of that would be approx $8.20 a gallon we live in Great (RipOff) Britain |
| Erin 22.09.2005 16:42 |
<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote:True, but in America we tend to drive A LOT more. Plus, you have more public transportation than over here. Most places in the US, you HAVE to own a car and drive.Lisser wrote: I heard on the news this am that gas will be going up to $3.30 where I live. Right now it is at $2.69. I think I'll be staying home except for going to work from now on. It's way too expensive to go anywhere else.sorry Melissa - you really have no idea of hardship...In the UK our current price is just topping £1.00 per litre - that's £4.50 a gallon - the USA equivalent of that would be approx $8.20 a gallon we live in Great (RipOff) Britain Plus, the exchange rate really isn't indicative of how money is actually spent in the 2 countries. Really..the dollar is pretty equal to the pound as far as prices go. I'd take those high gas prices any day for free health care..;-) |
| Mr.Jingles 22.09.2005 16:45 |
<font color="lime">KillerQueen840 wrote: 2.69? Wow, that's cheaper than MA! I remeber it going up over a dollar in a week at the beginning of this month. It was atleast 3.30. But, now (I think) it's finally coming back down a little. Last I checked a few days ago it was 2.99. It might've gone up or down since then, though.2.99 as well here in NY |
| -fatty- 2850 22.09.2005 16:49 |
The recent increase in petrol prices has seriously impeded my hobby of setting fire to orphanages. fatty. |
| Janet 22.09.2005 17:06 |
Erin is right. My husband drives 50 miles a day just to his office and back alone, and he is an outside sales manager. This week alone he will average around 900 miles in the car. |
| Smitty 22.09.2005 17:10 |
It's $2.98 here per gallon. |
| doremi 22.09.2005 19:08 |
For the record, I am 44, did not own a car until I was 27. I took the bus and subway here in Baltimore, USA everywhere, but....after almost getting mugged and raped when I would get off work after dark, or the bus not showing when it snowed, and worse yet the only jobs I could get were burger flipping jobs 5 miles away... I HAD to get a car and have always had one since. Every decent job I have ever had was in NO way on any public transport, at least 50 miles and up to 45 minute drive on the interstate. Most of the USA, with exception of SOME city infrastructure like New York, Chicago don't have any decent public transport. Even Los Angeles, big city that it is has no decent public transport. America is basically, people living in suburbia...and the jobs and even recreation (malls, restaurants, concert venues, etc) are only accesible by Interstate. We created our own mess here. People MUST make sufficient wages that cover the EXPENSIVE costs of owning a car, for gas (IF gas is even available), car repairs and maintenance. And our whole economy depends on people getting to work and recreation...by cars....to earn their money and spend their money. That's also why the poor people in New Orleans were stranded during Katrina, as they did NOT own cars, and now in Houston...with Rita approaching...the news says that even people WITH cars cannot get out of the city because there are only 1 or 2 Interstates that lead out, and they are clogged and backed up for hundreds of miles,... ..which is also STUPID.. ...Whenever there is a traffic accident on an interstate here even where I live in Maryland, on a regular work day, they CLOSE the Interstate for hours and you are either trapped... ..or you have to take some LONG roundabout way through rural roads. The USA interstate system, and way of building homes/apartments that are inaccessible to anything without cars and via the interstates, which even then can FAIL if the interstates are closed or backed up....is absurd and will eventually kill the economy and way of life in this country. |
| Mean Mistreater 22.09.2005 19:17 |
...Whenever there is a traffic accident on an interstate here even where I live in Maryland, on a regular work day, they CLOSE the Interstate for hours and you are either trapped... You don't have to tell me! I have to drive into Bethesda to the Naval hospital there and it just makes me sick of thinking about having to get onto 495!!!!!! |
| doremi 22.09.2005 19:21 |
Mean Mistreater wrote: ...Whenever there is a traffic accident on an interstate here even where I live in Maryland, on a regular work day, they CLOSE the Interstate for hours and you are either trapped... You don't have to tell me! I have to drive into Bethesda to the Naval hospital there and it just makes me sick of thinking about having to get onto 495!!!!!!Don't you just love I-695, I-795, and I-95 at ''Rush Hour'', more like slug hour sitting still and moving a few feet at a time, while your engine overheats and you have an engine fire or watch some poor schmuck in the next lane hane an engine fire. |
| Mr Mercury 22.09.2005 20:03 |
<font color=green>Bren<font color=orange>ski wrote:Absolutely spot on with the Rip Off Britain part.Lisser wrote: I heard on the news this am that gas will be going up to $3.30 where I live. Right now it is at $2.69. I think I'll be staying home except for going to work from now on. It's way too expensive to go anywhere else.sorry Melissa - you really have no idea of hardship...In the UK our current price is just topping £1.00 per litre - that's £4.50 a gallon - the USA equivalent of that would be approx $8.20 a gallon we live in Great (RipOff) Britain |
| Yuri 22.09.2005 21:34 |
Im just happy I dont live in the bay area any more... no matter how much i loved my little green beetle. now i get everywhere by bike. it sucks but its taught me the joys of cleaning my room and doing my homework. |
| deleted user 22.09.2005 22:40 |
"I hit the wrong button, I didn't mean to make this a whole new thread!!!" .... but you did. Blood rivers will flow. I couldn't be happier. Damn. I don't have enough tampons. Now I feel sad. Cheers. Mr. Tampon Tea. |
| Lisser 22.09.2005 22:49 |
Mr. Tampon Tea<br><font size=1>Lotta hormones yo! wrote: "I hit the wrong button, I didn't mean to make this a whole new thread!!!" .... but you did. Blood rivers will flow. I couldn't be happier. Damn. I don't have enough tampons. Now I feel sad. Cheers. Mr. Tampon Tea.weenis |
| The Real Wizard 23.09.2005 00:18 |
I'm the 20th post... not a bad turnout for a topic that wasn't meant to be. I saw $2.20 today, per LITRE, not gallon. let's get it on , ah yeah |
| dragonzflame 23.09.2005 00:33 |
Hmmm, over here we have to use cars in most places too, especially in my city. I think our petrol is a little more expensive than yours, if my maths is right that is - which it probably isn't - we pay the equivalent of $US3.89 per gallon. Except here it's sold in litres of course which was what made the maths tricky. Anyway, we pay $NZ1.50(ish, depending on the octane) a litre, which worked out to $NZ5.62 a gallon. People whose cars take 96 octane are going to be pissed off becuase 96 is being replaced with 95, so those people who have to have at least 96 will have to buy 98... Ka-chingggg for the petrol companies! |
| Maz 23.09.2005 01:10 |
Lisser just posted this for the Google ads. She's in cahoots with the gas companies. |
| Teo_torriate04 23.09.2005 03:31 |
Lisser wrote: I suck.OMG! I'm in love... |
| YourValentine 23.09.2005 03:35 |
Whenever this topic comes up, Americans say: "yes but we have to go by car here, there and everywhere, that's how God made us" Wrong. I am NOT saying people should not own a car and use it. But it was not planned by nature that one country uses up the major part of the global oil ressources within a few decades. Which country are your children supposed to invade to get the remaining oil - and your grand children? In other countries people pay much more for owning a car and they need it, too. If a big country like China would use that much per capita, there would not be any oil left within 5 years. Smaller cars, alternative energies (bio gas), a public transportation system - if this is asked too much of innovation for the biggest economy in the world, then it's only a question of time until you have no petrol left at all. And it won't be about other countries: there won't be any oil, period. And in the end this may be the only way to save this planet because the biggest economy is also totally unwilling to help saving us from a clima catastrophe by reducing the CO2 emission and other greenhouse gas emission. |
| Lisser 23.09.2005 09:47 |
I would LOVE to have public transportation!! I hate having a car payment, paying for insurance, and gas. If I could get on a train or a bus near my home I'd be in heaven!!! It just doesn't happen in my neck of the woods. Hopefully one day it will. I doubt it though. Zeni.......SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!! You'll get your cut!! ;) |
| PieterMC 23.09.2005 10:09 |
Many Americans would use a public transportation system if it were available, but in most places it does not exist. If you want to go anywhere you must have a car. Public transporation is just not a choice for many people. You also don't get cheap internal flights in the US, like you do in the UK for example. It's something that you cannot really appreciate until you have lived in the US. Gas may be higher in the UK but health care is free over there. Over here you have to pay for health insurance, which is expensive. It all balances out. |
| Erin 23.09.2005 10:37 |
Lisser wrote: I would LOVE to have public transportation!! I hate having a car payment, paying for insurance, and gas.Oh yeah..tell me about it!! I'd be scared taking the bus here in Columbia..:-p It's just not feasible for America to have great public transport everywhere. It's way too big.. |
| deleted user 23.09.2005 10:50 |
Lisser wrote:I prefer vagina , young ladyMr. Tampon Tea<br><font size=1>Lotta hormones yo! wrote: "I hit the wrong button, I didn't mean to make this a whole new thread!!!" .... but you did. Blood rivers will flow. I couldn't be happier. Damn. I don't have enough tampons. Now I feel sad. Cheers. Mr. Tampon Tea.weenis ah yeah Cheers. Mr. Tampon Tea. |
| Lisser 23.09.2005 12:35 |
Erin wrote:I agree. Zeni made a good point about this already in another thread when this was brought up. She compared the population density to land mass of the Czech Republic to Minnesota I believe it was. We'll never get public transportation every where. Only inner-city people have access to it and you are right Erin, when you get in to the inner-city it is not safe.Lisser wrote: I would LOVE to have public transportation!! I hate having a car payment, paying for insurance, and gas.Oh yeah..tell me about it!! I'd be scared taking the bus here in Columbia..:-p It's just not feasible for America to have great public transport everywhere. It's way too big.. Pieter is also very correct about the cost of health insurance. I pay over $500 each month for health insurance and another $100 for dental and eye care plus co-pays of $15 for each Dr. visit, plus at least $10 per prescription. Mulitply that by the average 4 person family in the USA. It does certainly add up. I have excellent health insurance. Most people have deductibles of over $1000 they have to pay out of their pocket before their health insurance will pay one penny. I consider myself very lucky to just pay $500+ every month. |
| PieterMC 23.09.2005 13:27 |
Let's make a new country and all move there. We'll have cheap gas and free health care. |
| Maz 23.09.2005 14:18 |
And burritos for everyone. |
| iron eagle 23.09.2005 15:25 |
and free sexxxxy dances everyday at 5pm... with cocktails |
| PieterMC 23.09.2005 15:30 |
We can call it the Seeexy Nation |
| AC 23.09.2005 15:41 |
Camels for everyone! Especially for Lisser! |
| Lisser 24.09.2005 08:27 |
Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! Let's do it!! I loooove burritos, but no beans in mine please. I'll have margaritas for the sexxxxxxxy dance please. Gah I'm a picky bitch. |