$3.36 here. It's about $9 a gallon in the UK. My family are not impressed when I complain about the cost of fuel here <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Sparky, join the Miata club <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/kewl.gif" alt="" />

>>>*Everything is relative of course. My brother just sold his Honda Element (probably a good thing, I was in that machine). He said it "only" got 25 MPG.

He bought a Ford Escape hybrid, no amount of talking would get him into a Toyota. "Not going to buy no 'furrin' car, no way!"

*Uhh...That last one was a...Honda??

He was tickled because it gets almost 32 MPG.

"Drove all the way from the gate to the house on the battery, no gas at ALL!"

Word for word...

...Big grin....

I figured out what he spent as a difference, the amount he drives works out to him being 175 years old before he gets close to breaking even.

"Dollars per mile is what matters...." I started to say before he interrupted me and stomped out to his shop and slammed the door.

I remember hiring my first employee, 1971. Minimum wage selling gas for me was $0.85 per hour, my pumps were set at $0.36.9. Oregon minimum wage is now $7.95 per hour, about 10 times higher.

Gas is around $3.50 here...*About 10 times higher.

Right on the button. The reaction to fuel costs thus seems a bit irrational to me. It appears to be right on schedule with normal inflation.

Course it could have wandered up normally instead of all at once but still....

So when I go to the gas station and fill up my big old Chevy 4 X 4, and see the total hit $90.00??

Why, I just say, .....????...."GO**DAM THIEVES!! 90 BUCKS!! @#$#@!!!...!!!

GRRRRR...... <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/angry.gif" alt="" />......*LOL**....*EB

I hear ya'll on the high prices. I paid $3.49 for 87 last nite. It's $3.55 this morning. I have to agree with Ted, I just wish it didn't happen all at once.

Thats what you guys get for living in CA. But thats pretty much equivalent to everywhere else cause the cost of living, shopping, gas, working equals out. You guys get paid more but you spend more. In the end, it almost equals out <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

So when we complain about 3.29 gas prices, its cause our minium wage is 5.85 <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/butwiggle.gif" alt="" />

$3.39 for the cheap chit. But I have to use premium with the supercharger, so I'm paying $3.59. My town generally has the highest or second highest fuel prices in Wyoming.

I still believe the post Katrina price hike was a test to see if Americans would pay $3+ per gallon. Once everybody did, I believe it was easy for the suppliers to justify charge more. I'm just glad I live in a small town with a short commute....

$3.35 for reg unleaded.....

I saw $4.10/gal at a Shell in Sacramento!! During my driving lifetime, gas has gone up 10 times. During some alleged oil glut in 1987, Arco was $0.39/gal...I could afford street racing on $3.15/hour!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/scared.gif" alt="" />

$3.13 at the new fuel center...must have gone up. Filled up the truck, the Hyundai and my Blitz cans for the yard warriors.

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As if our gas prices are not high enough. The state of Colorado now claims that they need to raise the taxes on gas. Seems that because cars use less gas now, they are not collecting enough revenue to maintain the roads.

Minnesota just went through a $6.6B tax increase that includes almost $.06/gallon increase in taxes on gas. The dems ***** about people not being able to afford their mortgage, then they slap the same people with more taxes. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

And then you have Congress, in their infinite wisdom, yelling at the oil companies about profits... which are relatively low when compared, in percentage of revenue, to the rest of the market. But you'll note that Congress NEVER mentioned they are making 2-3 times as much per gallon in taxes as the oil companies are in profit.

The time has come to stop the environmental BS and take advantage of our own natural resources. The shale in CO, the 4.4 billion (estimated) barrels in ND, off shore in the gulf, etc. Last I heard, we could keep solvent on ERL for over 200 years.

Yet we're not allowed to touch it.