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Have you noticed who is staying absolutely silent about the gas prices? It's our good friends collecting twice the amount of sales taxes on each gallon of gas we buy,your state and county government. Hank

3.52 for regular here in west point. i get 8 miles to the gallon and enjoy every minute of it. Though $10.00 a weekend does not last long

If it makes you feel better, UK gas is ~$9.22/gallon for regular, ~$9.79 for premium . And they do have a bunch of early American V8 iron

I went out yesterday morning(Thursday) about 10:00 and the Mobil station near my home was $3.719. Two hours later, it was 3.739. On Wednesday morning, it had been "only" $3.679. I filled up at $3569 two miles away ( I will not buy Exxon/Mobil)

Rep Dennis Kucinich - about the only thing that I see going for him - he does have a very nice looking trophy wife http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Kucinich

As far as oil companies raping us - they make in the neighborhood of 9-10 cents a gallon, with Exxon Mobil a couple of cents more/gallon, which is what the local guy on the corner makes. Don forgot one thing on his list - the speculators at the world's investment trading companies.

Heck, if it gets too much more expensive($4+/gal), I'll cancel my yearly trip to York (been every year but one since 1986), and since I haven't paid my $68 swap meet fees yet, no big deal except the chance to meet up with some folks .

Just filled my Comet up yesterday and gas here has jumped 20¢ in the last week. Our low is $3.89, then $3.99, and $4.09. Diesel is $4.39 or $4.49 depending on which station you go to. I really wouldn't be surprised to see it hit $5 a gallon here this SUmmer. Last year our high was $4.79.

Ron

I heard another speech this morning full of the usual requests for freedom from special interest lobbyists, but the party of the speechmaker is the party that scuttled ANWAR oil development and amazingly I was surprised to hear even Bill O'Reilly say last night that environmental concerns in ANWAR are more important than the oil. Maybe O'Reilly should get the "Caribou Award"? I need to keep my cool but it is amazing that such a critical issue can be muddled in politics to such an extent. As mentioned by NTFDAY and IC2 O'Reilly did note the negative effect of speculators.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Originally Posted by Don Shillady

I heard another speech this morning full of the usual requests for freedom from special interest lobbyists, but the party of the speechmaker is the party that scuttled ANWAR oil development and amazingly I was surprised to hear even Bill O'Reilly say last night that environmental concerns in ANWAR are more important than the oil. Maybe O'Reilly should get the "Caribou Award"? I need to keep my cool but it is amazing that such a critical issue can be muddled in politics to such an extent. As mentioned by NTFDAY and IC2 O'Reilly did note the negative effect of speculators.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Not sure O'Reilly is pro econut after listening to some of his rant yesterday, but since I was in and out of the garage and the range of the radio, didn't hear it all so may have taken it out of context. Remember - politics are about politicians keeping their jobs, not about personal convictions - genetically, they don't have any

Originally Posted by Ron75

Just filled my Comet up yesterday and gas here has jumped 20¢ in the last week. Our low is $3.89, then $3.99, and $4.09. Diesel is $4.39 or $4.49 depending on which station you go to. I really wouldn't be surprised to see it hit $5 a gallon here this SUmmer. Last year our high was $4.79.

Ron

Hi'
You people over the pond are so lucky with your fuel price's $4.79=£2.50.
Try our price's, £5.00=$9.95. I'm in the middle of a 32 three window coupe
build with 350 Chevy power and TH3550 3 speed auto, that's a hell of a
lot of fuel and a hell of a lot of £££££££££££££££££.
Dave Kicks.

KICKSY,

From what some of the people that I post with over there tell me your taxes make up the majority of your fuel price. If we had the same tax rate here, our prices would be right there with your. Which brings me to another point. The Republic of California is thinking about adding another 10 to 25 cent per gallon tax to gasoline because the highways are so bad. That won't help as it will go straight into their pockets just like all the rest of the taxes do.

Ron

down here i new zealand its hovering around $1.90 NZD for 96 octane, slightly more for 98 octane and slightly less for 91 octane per litre. it doesnt bother me much, my impala with stock 283 and 3.36 gears a few years ago would take about $70 to go from Blenheim to Christchurch here which is 311 kilometres, about 200 miles and with prices now and the big block and 3.0 gears in the same car its only $100 for the same trip nursing the loud button, lookin at it that way it doesnt seem so bad. hotrods and old tin here are mostly hobby cars only driven on weekends so a weekends gas every now and then when ya take it out isnt so bad. no ones cars mileage has changed aye it just costs more to put the gas in, if i myself was concerned about fuel prices id own a scooter or rice rocket but yea its gettin worse here, the government wants to add another 40c per litre tax on aswell and we're already taxed on it! AND paying tax and road user charges on our rego

Just for the record, one US gallon = 4 quarts and 1 quart = 0.946 Liters. So

($1.90 NZD/Liter) x (0.946 Liter/quart) x (4 qt/gallon) = $7.19 NZD/US gallon

but I do not know the exchange rate for $NZD to $USD.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

yea our gas price doesnt seem so bad but then ya gotta bear in mind our smaller average hourly pay rate and wages than everyone else aswell and is all relative

Originally Posted by chopped66impala

yea our gas price doesnt seem so bad but then ya gotta bear in mind our smaller average hourly pay rate and wages than everyone else aswell and is all relative

You have a point there.

$3.69 reg, $3.95 premium. Looks like it's going to get ugly. Might have to confine myself to doing laps around the yard.

Street rod fuel ain't the problem because they get limited use. But the daily driver needs 3 fill ups each week just to get to work and back. That's were the hurt is.

Bob how far do you drive each day? Three tank fulls......ouch!

One Hundred miles (100) roundtrip daily, 5 days each week for work. Then shopping on the weekend (got to go to keep the wife in check)

Overall about 550 to 600 miles per week in my daily driver (AWD Subaru). Then on weekends, if I'm lucky I get to take out my old cars with the thirsty appetities (one at 8 mpg and the other at 10 mpg - both on a diet of premium fuels).