Yeah it's $2.19 out in Burnsville, so I called my boss and asked if we could stay low until tm morning. So until about 6am, we will be at $1.93 for 87 and $2.03 for 92. Anyhoo, Sinclair, County Road 42 and 35W, right by b'ville center.

Gas Sucks. At least we aren't driving V8s! :secret:

i just paid $27 to fill up my talon. i have probably spent over $100 in gas just this week

I just did my third drive off!! ha ha ha :fworld: thanks for the lic plates Raptor Ha Ha Ha. :3gears: .......j/k

dont even start to complain dude...Gas price's aren't as near as bad as they were in the 70's man look at inflasion(spelling?) back then... by todays standards it would have to be around $3per gal to match the inflasion of the 70's. I'm not complaining man the most your spending more compared to like say a year ago is a few mor dollar's...so maybe dont eat that mc donald's your gonna go buy and get your gas...spend those few more dollars in all acuallity isnt that much...I'm not really conserned about it untill the price's hit $2.50-$3per gal... Yeah it sucks but it's gas and we all need it... Anyways I was talking to a few guys that work at ashland oil in st paul park...and I found out a big reason gas is so "spendy" is that one of there machinces that helps produce gasoline went down a little while ago and there trying to get it back up... the price's should also be relived because the world wide oil companies also did something or another and lowered the cost of oil i guess I read that some where. So there is a end in site, for lower gas price's.

I guess I'm really saying I dont give a crap really... plus all the crap I wrote above too lol

The oil companys don't determine the price of gas. The market determines that, but the oil companys just decide the number of barrels they want to produce.

Dude people doing drive offs is what fuck the honest people Not even cool. Cant afford gas get a second job i work two jobs to pay for shit like gas.


-joe

The oil/gas companies control the prices by limiting production to create a higher demand with a lower supply available.

I HOPE your joking :naughty:

1.95 by my house. Weird cause its in the city.

2.29/gal for premium in yuma

Of course he was joking...lol......

Yeah, prices suck but oh well.

so, what your saying is that in fact the oil companies DO determine the price of gas...?

supply and demand. think about it.

NO they just make it go either up or down. They dont make the prices for the gas we buy though. They make the barrel price... if that goes up then gas goes up.

supply and demand.

OPEC essentially determines the gas prices. They set the amount of production for all of the countries. They are basically all middle eastern countries. They cut oil production about 6 weeks ago and that is why the gas prices went up. OPEC is an evil thing. It is a monopoly on oil, just like DeBeers is on diamonds.

The US does not allow monopolies to sell in the US, that is why there are diamond importers that go overseas to buy diamonds. Monopolies are in total control of the market, but are suceptable to upstart companies. The problem is that the supply of raw materials (crude oil) is limited, so the possibility of an upstart company is very small. We really are at the mercy of the middle east.

This has been your economics lesson for the day. We now return you to your regularily scheduled program...

Thanks Teacher JET :D

Boy, you bitch about our prices over here. Try over in Europe where 10 years ago a gallon of 93 octane (they had higher octanes in Norway, 93 was about the lowest) would run you about $4-5!! That was 10 years ago!!!!!

lowest octane i saw in poland was 94 i think. im just gonna quit smoking.. benefit on that one either way :)

Its the same here now as it was last year in Hawaii..............I'm used to it.

Well look on the bright side of things, today some Saudi ambassador requested that OPEC choose to increase production when they meet sometime in the near future. Crude oil prices went down today because of that so hopefully, gas prices will slowly start dropping, hopefully.

I live in Spokane Washington and the prices are $2.19 for the lowest and $2.42 for the premium. What a drag considering my work is 13 miles away. On the up side though, my car gets 24-27mpg in the city so I don't pay too much for gas.

:lol: 13 miles away. Is that suppose to be far? I'm 29 miles away from mine. :rant:

From the first page, a monopoly (OPEC) does control the price of gas. They can cut production to increase the demand. With an increase in demand comes an increase in the price level to sustain the new market equilibrium.

Gas prices don't bother me at all. Gas eats up such a small amount of my budget it doesn't even matter. I think it is funny when people drive around thinking that a 5 cent difference per gallon actually means something. WOW, that saves 60 cents on the price of a fill up!!! I just don't see how people can bitch about the prices of gas rising. If you owned a business and you could raise the price and make more money, you would too.

leme just think this thru for a second...


i spend about $70/week for gas.. thats $280/month.. minimum... that is a pretty nice toy every month, or a nice loan payment too...

-E

i think tomorrow i'm gonna get some toulene and mix that with either 87 or 90, that might make the total amount for gas cheaper, and still more octane than the 91 premium here, haven't decided though, heard that its not the greatest on the rubber parts of fuel lines.

Dustin

Where do all you people go that are spending close to 100 dollars a week on gas? I drive from and to work a total of 35 miles every day and I still get one fill up per week ~25 bucks a fill??

I dont know about you guys but you must be taking some nice road trips to drive so much per week. 70 bucks per week is like 1000 miles a week for me. Unless your driving a gas guzzler how can you drive that much per week?

Well, I'll use us as an example. My work is 30 miles....one way. Then AJ has to drive over to St. Paul which is about 20-25 miles from my work. We are now up to 50-55 miles....one way. That's over 100 miles a day we drive.

The majority of us don't live at home with mom and dad, and actually have to commute a fair distance to work.

Don't really understand what the fuss is all about, it is still cheaper than a gallon of bottled water.

DSMchick is right, to get to downtown (where i work) it's about a 28 mile drive, so round trip that is 56 miles, my dsm gets about 23 mpg avg, so thats 2 gallons of gas, which is almost 5 buckx just to get to work and back, now... i usually go out to AV everynight to see whats happenin' or hit up starbucks/barnes and nobles and then i put on another 40 miles a night. so... thats about 100 miles a day, which is about 4.5 gallons of gas = 11.3 bux. 5 days of that would be about 55 bux. 2 days of going out to downtown to go hang out with the crew or race, thats about 80 miles of drivin' that one night. so 160 for fri and saturday = 17 bux for gas on the weekend. one week = 17+ 55 = 72 dollars a week just of freakin gas!!!!!!!! or 288 dollars a month on gas!!!! my god. im gonna go shoot myself

this is a good observation.. i like it.

The majority of us don't live at home with mom and dad, and actually have to commute a fair distance to work. [/b][/quote]
Umm... Like I said I live in bloomington and work in Minneapolis.. I go to work everyday :stick: Thats a pretty nice chunk of driving. Not close to what you guys drive I guess...

Wow, you should consider yourself lucky to live in Bloomington and work in Minneapolis. You will be able to take the light rail and not have to worry about gas pricesd or the cost of parking either.

I pretty sure they have park and rides for the rest of the 'burbs as well.

Sorry could resist. :stick:

???? 2.29 for a gallon of gas... 70 cents for a gallon of water. That's here at least

He said a gallon of "Bottled" water, not a gallon of water. Water is what, $1... per little bottle. Sure you can go to the grocery store and buy a gallon of water, but most people that drink bottled water are ones that like the convenience of just buying what they need, when they need it.

I've never got the craze of bottled water anyways.

Here they sell Sparklets water. Its 25 cents for a little baby 12oz bottle, 50 cents for like a regular bottle, 60 cents for a liter, and 70 cents for the gallon. It's all in a bottle. Just some bottles are bigger. Prices prolly differ here im guessing.

gas prices go up every year for memorial day, they just get a bit higher each time. the problem is a bit exacerbated by the war, but they will drop back down again

im doing okay with my mileage, so all you quit your bitchin.
about 20' for a commute.

OPEC does not control the price of gas, even if it did, only 42.8%(as of late 2003) of our oil comes from OPEC.The government and the transportation companies profit more than OPEC does.OPEC has very little to do with gas prices, other than the fact far too many people incorrectly think OPEC controls prices, therefore prices fluctuate when OPEC makes statements.If you want to point the finger, point it at our government, usually their tax profit on oil is at least(if not more) than OPEC itself profits off oil.And OPEC is the one doing the work, our government just sits back and collects $$$.