Gas Prices

[9000white]

i remember them days well --one place i worked had a sign on the wall that read----"if you dont like your job there is a barefooted man just outside the gate that wants it"

[barmy_carmy]

You Americans and Canadians get your gas as you put it, cheap compared to what we pay in UK, We pay $7.60 per gallon here. And Diesel is even more. And your right it does put the cost of living up as a lot of goods travel by road, It is so expensive to live in UK now, which is not very good if you dont have a lot of money.

[iwannadie]

im wondering how bad it really will get this time right now in the phoenix area gas is 2.50(cheap stuff) i have a feeling it will hit 3$ and stay near there for a while... i remember a while back(years now i guess) the oil pipe broke in alaska(?). and suddenly people were hording gas here, people filling any type of container they could even plastic milk bottles. the prices went so high because of demand and scared people thinking it was the end of gas forever. gas stations were actually forced to refund the price difference for those people that had paid upwards of 10$ a gallon.

there were few people that got their hands on very large metal drums and such and were filling them up for between 5-10$ a gallon, within maybe 2 days the prices went back down below 3$ a gallon, suckd to be them when gas went back to normalish prices leaving them stuck with all that gas they paid triple price for and not eligable for a refund.

[oldnslo]

Prices will never go down as long as we the stupid public continue to use the stuff at ever-increasing rates. It is so obvious. If we can't assemble the brainpower neccessary to plan and combine trips and curtail unneccessary usage, we are screwed. And deserve it.