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We were spending $800 a month for gas, its so much better with this new job where its 1/2 that.
Im so over the gas prices - its $3.69 for reg unleaded around here...
$3.05 in SA. Ugh for everyone who has to commute. I'm thinking there may be something in this "public transportation" myth I've heard about, after all.
Yeah, theres another thing. Unless one lives in a big city, a lot of public transportation systems suck. Actually, a lot of big cities transportation systems suck anyway. Either way, I've always lived in a smalltown or the middle-of-nowhere country (except for 6 months in a big city). We NEED our cars to go everywhere!!
I have a feeling that we are going to be raped for gas for the next few years because the race is on. The oil/gas has to be sold as quickly as possible and as expensively as possible because the jig is up. The pollution is killing us and wrecking the planet, and new clean technologies will have to be used on a massive scale soon.
Just my 2 cents :)
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Hahaha funny Americans. Cheap petrol and still complaining.
Anybody in London would kick your ass if they knew.
Here it translates to about $7 a gallon. And the poor Brits are still amazed at how little we pay.
I think it's 3.25 per gallon here now. I noticed diesel reached 4.00 per gallon today, can you say inflation?
Exactly. Although I might add one of the reasons gas is so expensive in a lot of other places is because those countries tax it far more harshly than the U.S. does.
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...bal_gasprices/
As much as if offends my libertarian sensitivities, there are days I wish we'd follow their example.
Folks, the whole problem here is that people in the U.S. have gotten a sense of entitlement involving cheap gasoline, and seem to have no concept that developing nations (namely China and India) are starting to catch up to our conspicuous consumption habits.
Who exactly is they? The oil companies? Blame dinglebrain drivers who won't take their gas guzzlers off the freakin' roads and think that they have to live 50+ miles from work. If we are to solve, or at least contain the high gas price problem, conservation is going to be better than half the battle.
Oil is a supply and demand issue. You can only lower the price by lowering the demand. Unfortunately, that is something that requires sacrifice from people who are all too unwilling to do it.
Dont they have prices in liters rather than gallons so it seems like less?
Public transportation is a joke here. The bus doesnt even run in my part of the city because its one of the nicer areas and I guess they assume we can all afford to fill our monster SUVs with our husbands nice paychecks so we can drive the kids to soccer and go to the mall...
American's complaining about the price of gas is pretty funny.
here it's $2 a liter (8$ a gallon).
Hahaha we agree on this! I think it's funny that Americans are the LOUDEST complainers of gas/petrol prices, too! Every time I hear a complaint about it, it's from an American. I never hear a kiwi or pomme say it at all. They don't make internet posts about it and they might says something snide at the pump when your tank just cost you $76 (yes, mine does).... but Americans are like OMG $3 a gallon!! And it's like... you have the cheapest freaking petrol in most of the world and you use it on HUMMERS! Hahahaha.
Not trying to be anti-American... just pointing out what I see. It's freaking funny.
It's all relative. Today in Vancouver, gas is CAD$1.139/liter which is about U$4.31/gallon. Any time I drive to Seattle, I make sure to fill up before coming back to Canada.
^ I lol'd.
Remember how your car would be filled with friends and everybody would chip in like $1 or $2 and that was an acceptable contribution?
Remember how you could put $2 or $3 in your tank and actually drive here and there for a few days?
hahahaha :rotfl:
It's not just gasoline but the cost of heating oil is ridiculous too. :thumbsdow
In Canada, at least in the Greater Toronto Area, gas is about $1.05 to $1.10 per liter. $1.05 X 4.5 = $4.72 per Imperial gallon. US gallon is a little smaller I think, so say $4.50 per gallon. Lots of taxes on that, but to tell the truth, I'd pay more taxes on it if it went towards Government sponsored R&D for cleaner technology...or even healthcare, whatever.
^ I lol'd again.
I like this thread. It has lulz.
They need to make petrol cheaper so I can fill my Hummer and my SUV and my 4 wheel drive!!!
But supply and demand says you demand more for your large vehicles, so we can charge more!
But it's too expensive!!!
It's up to $16 a gallon in other countries!
But we're not other countries, we're America, and we want it cheaper!
Well you can't have it cheaper!
DAMN YOU... what will we fill our massive useless trucks with then?
Why not carpool then?
But that takes, like, effort, and I want cheaper petrol than...uh...er.. (where the fuck has cheaper petrol? Ah thanks!) Mexico! Without effort! Or cutting back! Or having to use my Prius instead of my H2!
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(I r joking)
you can get electric cars... like ones sold here:
or you can get a diesel car and convert it to bio-diesel:
or.. you can get a human car:
or... if you do live in a metro area, you can ride your bike, walk, take the train, streetcar, bus, etc.
or... if you can afford a "regular" car and you're a stripper and can obviously afford it, trade in for a toyota prius, honda insight, honda civic hybrid, honda accord hybrid, or one of the other hybrids out there to cut your gas costs in half or more.
don't complain about it if you can do something about it.
^^I'm assuming those of us scraping to get by that aren't strippers nor do we own big gas guzzlers are exempt from this argument ;) Oh, and live in cities that are definitely not walking cities because they are spread out, dangerous to ride bikes in, and have shitty public transportation too.
well if you're scraping by and you have a car and are complaining about gas prices, wouldn't it make sense to find a different solution so you're not spending 800/month on gas and thus "scraping by"? If you can afford a car, you can afford an alternative as well.
Just got up to $3.30 here, wanted to scream. A month ago I was paying $2.85.
Oh really? What would that alternative be?
Tucson.....
Is not a walking city. Not only is it spread out, but in the summer it is dangerous to your health to be out for very long.
Is not safe for bikes. That's a traffic and ignorant driver thing, but still.
Has horrible public transportation.
Anyways, the point is that it's not that simple for everybody. I'm driving a car that already gets 30 mpg and is 15 years old. And gas is still expensive. So while I'm not going to scream about it, I will gripe just a bit. And I can afford my car, so I can afford an alternative? LOL, how praytell? That car was given to me for free, and I put the minimal amount of money into it a month. If your scraping by like some of us, how are we able to buy an alternative?
And I never said I was spending $800/month on gas. That was Audrey.