Hannibal Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 However it costs me over ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã40!! Thats $73 to fill up my tank from empty to full. Thats approx ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã4 ($7.30) a gallon. I really wish you Americans would stop boo hooing about the price of your petrol because you pay next to nothing compared to us Brits. I dunno how the US economic situation compares to britain but just because you guys pay more for gas there doesn't mean you're in worse shape. Why not? Oh, wait, there's a long rant coming up, which is no argument at all but since it's everything the poster could come up with... Minimum wage here is like 5.10 an hour, most grocery stores like walmart, krogers and meijers all pay less than 8.00 per hour for all starting positions. As far as i know meijers pays the same as they did before and when I worked there I started at 5.75 an hour as a bagger and cashiers started at 6.45. Some people work at meijers full time and that's their only income. Not to mention american cars have never been known for their great gas mileage. For people who are working 45 hours a week at only 8 dollars an hour they're getting a measly 380 a week with a third of that taken out for taxes, an extra dollar or more per gallon of gas means a lot. The price of everything has gone up for years now with the average income in this country staying around the same. When my dad was my age he bought a brand new harley davidson motorcycle(a smaller one) for a few hundred bucks, a new sports car was usually well under 5000 bucks, perhaps under 3000 depending on the car. His first job started at like 1.75 an hour. My first job started at 5.75 an hour just 3 years back. That's not a big increase considering that a new harley(even the cheapest ones) are over 6000 and even the cheapest of new cars are between 6000 and 13000 bucks and if you want a sports car, prepare to pay over 20,000. And of course only Americans had such price increases, no? :roll: It's called inflation. Take some Economy lessons, it'd do you good. You'd also learn that your country currently has such an incredibly high debt that it's causing your economy to suffer. Then again, all of this is probably hard to understand if you have a minimum-wage job at a supermarket... Matt's right, stop whining. Thanks to your dummy president you still pay a hell of a lot less than Europeans do - 60% of the gas price here are taxes. Of course, Bush would be out of office faster than you can say 'Kyoto' if he so much as mentioned adding some taxes to the fuel price right now. Also, don't complain if you drive a 12mpg car. I don't think they even make those anymore, and if they do, the designers should be hung. As should anyone who's freaking stupid enough to buy one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
insane Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Also, don't complain if you drive a 12mpg car. I don't think they even make those anymore, and if they do, the designers should be hung. As should anyone who's freaking stupid enough to buy one. Probably some SUVs or Hummers, and people buy them because they're so concerned about safety. Ironically almost everyone has bought them so when you crash it's most likely going to be against a huge vehicle that makes it all the same in the end... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 I may be shot for saying this, but I somewhat welcome higher gas prices. Yes it's horribe for global commerence but I am sick and tired of seeing morons in my nieghborhood driving a F-350 truck to school everyday, a truck meant for hauling like 50 tons uphill... in rain; and they use it to drive one person 10 miles. :roll: The best part is then those same people make fun of small 'wimpy' cars like my Beetle and brag about how big their trucks are. Oh and to top it off, if one of those millions of truck owners get into an accident with my fuel efficiant, practical car I will most likly die. Fantastic. Enjoying the 12 MPG you're getting now? I hope so. You drive a Volkswagen Beetle? Sorry, but those are pretty lame, especially for a dude to be driving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silver_Dragon Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Then again, all of this is probably hard to understand if you have a minimum-wage job at a supermarket... Whoa, hold it. If it's a part-time job he does after school or something...It's fine, that's exactly what I do, work for $7.00 US per hour part time after high school at a local technical college doing mainly grounds maintenance. (yep-emptying trash, cleaning rooms, etc.) but it gets my bills paid, and I have loads of extra spending cash in my pocket. Very handy. However, if it's a full time job.................. :? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 Here in Finland gas is about to cost 1.5ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì / L, which equals to $8.5 per gallon. So to us, your complains about gas costing like $4/gallon seem pretty ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrec Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 And of course only Americans had such price increases, no? :roll: It's called inflation. Take some Economy lessons, it'd do you good. You'd also learn that your country currently has such an incredibly high debt that it's causing your economy to suffer. Then again, all of this is probably hard to understand if you have a minimum-wage job at a supermarket... Ahhh durrr....of course other people besides americans had such price increases. My point was that inflation has continued to rise without wages going up and I don't know how that compares to Britain. Are you attempting to claim that all economies are exactly the same? The economies of little poor african and south american countries is exactly the same as America? Is that why millions of them starve to death every year? You're trying to make it sound like I'm stupid when you can't even read and decipher what my post was about. I did have economics in highschool and I obviously know more about it than you if you think just because they have inflation over there too, that our economic situation is exactly the same. After all, some of their taxes go towards paying for their healthcare which is one less expense that they have to pay personally. We have to pay for our own healthcare here or pay every month to an insurance company and we still get a ton of taxes. And those taxes don't pay for our healthcare...they pay for....wars in iraq or some crap. Hard for me to understand? Who do you think you're talking down to and why did you take it upon yourself to flame me for no apparent reason? Do you really need to berate people online just to feel smarter and tougher irl? If so, that's sad. I said I "WORKED" at a grocery store. Is the -ed at the end of the word too hard to grasp? That means that the word is in the past tense. Or if you still can't grasp it, it means that I did work, in the past. When I was 16 and still in school. You can't get many other jobs when you're 16, in school and have no work experience. Excuse me for starting at the bottom of the ladder and working my way up like everyone else other than the rich kids. I'm 19 now, and I'll be 20 in less than a month and I haven't worked there since I finished my courses at the local vocational school in computer maintenance/repair and networking. Matt's right, stop whining. Thanks to your dummy president you still pay a hell of a lot less than Europeans do - 60% of the gas price here are taxes. Of course, Bush would be out of office faster than you can say 'Kyoto' if he so much as mentioned adding some taxes to the fuel price right now. I didn't vote for him and neither did half of the population so don't lecture us about what our dummy president does. Don't you think we know what he does considering that we live in the country he runs to terribly? Just because you pay more doesn't mean you're worse off. If they started selling cars and gas in the poorest countries in the world, they could sell gas for 10 cents a gallon and it wouldn't make them better off than americans because they still couldn't afford to buy a car and drive it. America is getting to that point now. If gas goes up too much more, the average person won't be able to drive and feed themselves, they'll have to pick one or the other. That is hard on the economy because people have to drive to their jobs, sometimes for many miles becuase they can't find work right around home. Not to mention they've let the railroad industry decline over the years and have become dependant on trucks to haul goods all over the US and with gas prices going up(including diesel) it's going to make all of our goods go up and wages will still be stagnant. Also, don't complain if you drive a 12mpg car. I don't think they even make those anymore, and if they do, the designers should be hung. As should anyone who's freaking stupid enough to buy one. I don't, my last car got 25-30mpg. The one I'm about to buy gets probably 20-25. I'm fairly certain that I didn't say anywhere in my post that I drive a 12mpg car. Yeah, I guess you fabricated that one to make me look stupid? Real good job, give yourself a pat on the back for being an idiot who flames with no regard for common sense. Everyone back to posting normally, ignore the flamer, his mother never taught him how to play nice with the other little kiddies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmw Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 I've gotta say, some of you are being completely unrealisitc. Sure, we should all get on our bikes and get some excercise, but you're all just being nerds about it, seriously. Bikes are not a practical method to get around the place, where everything is so far away. If it's under 45mins bike ride...ok, thats practical. But when it takes 45 mins by car, yeah right. We live in a fast pace world, whether a lot of you nerds like it or not. We need to get somewhere, and get there fast. Plain and simple. And I know, now you're going to say "Well if you want to get there fast, expect to pay high prices for gas and don't complain." Well my comback towards that is, we want to travel faster because we're used to it. Remember the days when gas was 25cents a litre? I sure don't, cause I wasn't alive then, but the fact is, it once was. Im arguing that gas is no longer priced at its true value. It's priced based on whatever the hell gas companies can get for it, whether it be 25cents, or $1.45, which it was in a nearby city today. :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hannibal Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 And of course only Americans had such price increases, no? :roll: It's called inflation. Take some Economy lessons, it'd do you good. You'd also learn that your country currently has such an incredibly high debt that it's causing your economy to suffer. Then again, all of this is probably hard to understand if you have a minimum-wage job at a supermarket... Ahhh durrr....of course other people besides americans had such price increases. My point was that inflation has continued to rise without wages going up and I don't know how that compares to Britain. Wages have risen just as well, you fail to notice that you compare just the minimum wage. Minimum wage won't rise until the government decides to do that - it's not bound to anything but their decisions. If it didn't rise in 30 years, I suggest you complain to the current president, you know, the one you elected and all... Are you attempting to claim that all economies are exactly the same? The economies of little poor african and south american countries is exactly the same as America? Is that why millions of them starve to death every year? You're trying to make it sound like I'm stupid when you can't even read and decipher what my post was about. I did have economics in highschool and I obviously know more about it than you if you think just because they have inflation over there too, that our economic situation is exactly the same. After all, some of their taxes go towards paying for their healthcare which is one less expense that they have to pay personally. We have to pay for our own healthcare here or pay every month to an insurance company and we still get a ton of taxes. And those taxes don't pay for our healthcare...they pay for....wars in iraq or some crap. I do hope I'm not the only one who finds it funny that you complain I can't read, while you claim I said 'all economies are exactly the same', which is nowhere near 'America is not the only country who've had price increases.' I never said our economic situation is exactly the same - I'm glad it's not, with your lacking social support from the government, the expenses on the war in Iraq and the high debt. Hard for me to understand? Who do you think you're talking down to and why did you take it upon yourself to flame me for no apparent reason? Do you really need to berate people online just to feel smarter and tougher irl? If so, that's sad. I'm talking down to someone (or, if you dislike me picking on you, all the Americans here) who considers (him/them)sel(f/ves) to be in major trouble because of 'high' gas prices. I'm claiming that they shouldn't be complaining as they have less taxes and lower gas prices than most people in other western countries. Whether or not that's good for their economy I'll leave to you to decide. You've had economics, you say, so that shouldn't be a problem, no? :) As to why I 'flame you for no apparent reason', I suppose we have a different interpretation of the verb 'to flame'. I disagree with your opinion, and as this is a public online forum I believe I am allowed to voice my own, contradicting, opinion. Which is why I 'flamed' you, if that's what you want to call it. Now, I'll try not to go down that route again even though I think you just tried to insult me, but I think that the only reason people ever have for flaming someone is because thefey either disagree with the person's opinion or hate the person him/herself. As I didn't call you names nor start an off-topic rant about how horrible you are (I don't know you, so that'd be rather hard to do), I did guess that I wouldn't have to spell that reason out for you. I said I "WORKED" at a grocery store. Is the -ed at the end of the word too hard to grasp? That means that the word is in the past tense. Or if you still can't grasp it, it means that I did work, in the past. When I was 16 and still in school. You can't get many other jobs when you're 16, in school and have no work experience. Excuse me for starting at the bottom of the ladder and working my way up like everyone else other than the rich kids. I'm 19 now, and I'll be 20 in less than a month and I haven't worked there since I finished my courses at the local vocational school in computer maintenance/repair and networking. My English is fine, thank you very much. The fact that you've worked there and don't do that kind of work anymore doesn't bother me at all - I'm simply pointing out that you cannot complain about the wages granted on, well, minimum-wage jobs. They're called that for a reason, and as stated above, that wage only goes up if the government decides so. As we're talking Dubya, I doubt you'll be in luck any time soon. Matt's right, stop whining. Thanks to your dummy president you still pay a hell of a lot less than Europeans do - 60% of the gas price here are taxes. Of course, Bush would be out of office faster than you can say 'Kyoto' if he so much as mentioned adding some taxes to the fuel price right now. I didn't vote for him and neither did half of the population so don't lecture us about what our dummy president does. Don't you think we know what he does considering that we live in the country he runs to terribly? The fact that you as a person didn't vote for him doesn't make a bit of difference. I'm giving my opinion on your president - that's not anywhere near a personal flame or whatever. Feel free to take that personal, but it wasn't intended to be. Just because you pay more doesn't mean you're worse off. If they started selling cars and gas in the poorest countries in the world, they could sell gas for 10 cents a gallon and it wouldn't make them better off than americans because they still couldn't afford to buy a car and drive it. America is getting to that point now. If gas goes up too much more, the average person won't be able to drive and feed themselves, they'll have to pick one or the other. That is hard on the economy because people have to drive to their jobs, sometimes for many miles becuase they can't find work right around home. Not to mention they've let the railroad industry decline over the years and have become dependant on trucks to haul goods all over the US and with gas prices going up(including diesel) it's going to make all of our goods go up and wages will still be stagnant. I'll give you three guesses as to whose fault it is that this increase is so bad for your economy. Apart from that, I never intended this to be a 'I'm more pitiable than you are' debate, I'm just pointing out that I have a hard time understanding Americans complaining about gas prices (or any price for that matter) because usually Europeans pay more. Average wages in America were also higher than in my country, last time I checked. Seeing as we also pay more taxes, we'd be worse off. Except that we're sensible enough to drive cars that don't use gas the same way an average alcoholic drinks beer (motto: use more, do less). Also, don't complain if you drive a 12mpg car. I don't think they even make those anymore, and if they do, the designers should be hung. As should anyone who's freaking stupid enough to buy one. I don't, my last car got 25-30mpg. The one I'm about to buy gets probably 20-25. I'm fairly certain that I didn't say anywhere in my post that I drive a 12mpg car. Yeah, I guess you fabricated that one to make me look stupid? Real good job, give yourself a pat on the back for being an idiot who flames with no regard for common sense. I applaud your for your extraordinary reading of the thread, in which you have undoubtedly noticed that there are multiple other people talking about the milage issues the average American car has. I hate to disappoint you, but your post was hardly so important that I made mine solely to reply to you. Everyone back to posting normally, ignore the flamer, his mother never taught him how to play nice with the other little kiddies. I would agree, but unless I missed something you just violated your own advice. As for your personal insult, I could care less. If you think of me as a general flamer, umm, well... maybe you would be so kind as to read some other posts I've made, and you'd know I'm generally not like this. If my post was insulting, sorry. I'd just like to point out that yours was no less so. Guess we can call it even then. I've gotta say, some of you are being completely unrealisitc. Sure, we should all get on our bikes and get some excercise, but you're all just being nerds about it, seriously. Bikes are not a practical method to get around the place, where everything is so far away. If it's under 45mins bike ride...ok, thats practical. But when it takes 45 mins by car, yeah right. We live in a fast pace world, whether a lot of you nerds like it or not. We need to get somewhere, and get there fast. Plain and simple. Now, apart from the first post I replied to, I'm quite sure there have been some posts about this... but why does everyone only talk about taking a bike? Doesn't America have a public transport system? Yes, you'll be stuck like sardines in a subway car, but at least you'll be there faster and cheaper than your driving collegue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xyrec Posted September 2, 2005 Author Share Posted September 2, 2005 Hannibal....flaming means that you insult the poster instead of just disagreeing with them. You insinuated that my education about the economic system was lacking. You tried to make me sound like I was somehow less intelligent or informed or whatever, because of having held a menial job for a period of time. Some people can't get work any better than a grocery store bagger or cashier, it isn't their fault if those are the only jobs that are easy to get and not everyone has the luxury of job hunting for months until they find a good job. Anyway, I would consider some of the things you said as an insult and thus it is a flame, not just your input on the conversation. If you weren't speaking directly to me(which you were in some instances) you shouldn't have quoted me and then replied. Besides, I didn't start this topic as a "whaaaa, our gas prices are too high" thread. I was asking about people's opinions of the cause of the increase and where they think the price could climb, as well as alternatives to even using gas. No, you didn't specifically say that all economies are the same but you might as well have because you keep acting like the US shouldn't complain about high gas prices without really giving any information that would indicate that americans are financially capable of dealing with a large increase in gas prices. Just because gas is more expensive in Britain doesn't mean it's less affordable for british people than for americans. I really don't know because I don't have the charts and graphs of the average financial situation of people in both the US and Britain. You said that they have to pay more taxes there and for all I know that may be true but americans are far from tax free. We get huge taxes on our income and then they tax us on the property we own and after already taxing us on the money we earn they tax us on everything buy with that money. Even if they do have higher taxes in Britain, they have socialized medicine so a higher tax rate wo udl be acceptable. Here in the US we have to pay out of pocket for our medical or pay a monthly fee to an insurance company which will in turn pay part(not all) of our medical expenses and for most people, save money in the long run. A friend of mine recently spend over 250 dollars on a doctor visit and all they did was look at his eye and tell him it was infected, then perscribe some 100 dollar a bottle eye drops he had to use for 2 weeks or risk going blind if he didn't pay for the drops. That's hard on somebody who has 2 siblings and lives in government funded housing because his mom has mental and physical problems that prevent her from getting a good job and he's had to work 2 jobs while going to college just to help her feed the other two. All this health insurance stuff is no cake walk either. My grandmother just got done having a back surgery and ended up having 4 strokes because she didn't receive proper medical care and they did their best to boot her out of the hospital before she was recovered. She has an artificial heart valve and it makes her body react by thickening the blood and to keep from forming clots and having a stroke she has to take blood thinners. To do a surgery though your blood has to be thick enough that you don't bleed to death and for some reason, going off of the blood thinners totally destabalized her blood and it hasn't even gotten back to normal yet after well over a month. Yet because of medicare saying they would only pay for 5 days of hospitalization after the surgery they pushed her out the doors after 5 days and her blood was way too thick and she started having strokes. Medicare and the Insurance companies tell the hospital, we will only pay for this much care. If you give them more healthcare than that, we won't pay. Then because of that they don't give you the healthcare you need, they give you what is being paid for and that may not be enough. I don't know the national average for health insurance but it's not cheap. Most people that work for large companies can get a special healthcare policy that the company negotiates with the insurance company. However people like my father that run a small business have to pay a lot more and at one time I think our insurance was over 400 dollars a month. That's not easy to manage for a family that's total income is 2000-2200 bucks a month and still have to pay taxes, phone bill, gas bill, water bill, sewage and garbage pickup bills, food, mortage on the house, car payments and any random expenses that crop up like the roof starting to leak, damage from storms, mechanical failure in your car, any number of things. I don't know how to compare the british and american economies but don't think for a second that just because americans pay less for gas that it's somehow easier on them. Not all americans drive enormous gas guzzling SUV's and many of us have financial difficulties. Some people, usually elderly are on a fixed income. They're retired and so their income will never go up for the rest of their life. However much they get from their retirement funds, social security and what not is all they get, no matter how much the price of things like gas or food goes up. A gas price increase hurts many of us and we have as much right to complain as any other country. My point was that just because something is cheaper in one country doesn't mean it's more affordable to the people because not all economies are the same. I think we can agree on that, it's enough said. Most we've just been comparing gas prices and complaining but what I was trying to do were get people's opinions on whether this price hike in the US that is supposedly the result of hurricane katrina is really legitimate or if gas companies are just taking the opportunity to gouge and make a big profit. Also I want people's opinions of renewable energy sources, or energy sources that pollute less. Some people have mentioned biking, but that's only practical for a small number of people. You can't ride a bike in the rain or with a suit on and expect to look even halfway presentable when you make it to the office where you work. Hydrogen fuel cell cars have the potential to run on water which isn't exactly a renewable energy source because there is only so much water on the planet but by the time we'd actually run out of water our planet should be advanced to the point where we can go harvest materials we need for earth from other planets and use them to replenish what we've lost over time. Ethanol is another good solution becuase it's easily renewable, doesn't pollute, not difficult to produce, runs well in our current automobiles so no new fancy technology has to be brought out which takes time. Not to mention most people already understand how their internal combustion engines work and can work on them, maintain them and fix them in necessary but if you introduce a whole new type of car then everyone has to learn a ton more stuff. Electric cars are a nice idea but in parts of this country and in many places round the world there are constant power shortages and that would only be compounded if everyone in the world had their car plugged in and charging in the evening after driving all day long. Hybrid cars are good because they get more mileage for your money which reduced pollution because less gas is burned but like people have said already, they cost more and it takes longer for someone to begin seeing the savings. Since hybrids are new technology you can pretty much only buy them brand new, you almost never see a used one for sale. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new car so it's not a solution for everybody. As far as electric(which is needed to power electric cars) goes, wind, hydro and solar energy are always there, it's just a matter of harnessing it. Hydro dams can be expensive to make although I've had some ideas floating around my head for some time. Wind isn't always present so it isn't always a reliable source in all areas. Solar energy is pretty practical because it's always there for most of the day, every day. You can use some sort of solar system to heat your water so you don't have to expend gas or electric to get a hot shower and electric producing solar panels give a decent amount of power. The only thing is, I've heard that the method of making solar panels employs chemicals that arn't so great for the environment and to have power when the sun is down you need an expensive power grid system that runs on batteries and uses the solar panels to charge it up during the day so you have power all night long. Thoughts and ideas about gas prices and alternatives to gas and polluting forms of energy, not flames, that's what I'm hoping to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanSwano Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 some long4s posts here :wink: I'm intrested about using metanol as gas as I drink alot of that everyday :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomad30 Posted September 2, 2005 Share Posted September 2, 2005 wow im looking out the window of my car and i see prices at 2.99$/gallon i come 1 hour later 1HOUR LATER! :shock: and its up to 3.39$/gallon for the cheapest 1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaN Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Are you guys talking about Gas or Petrol? Petrol is $1.30 were I live and Gas is .50c ~Dan64AuSince 27 Aug 2002 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwisatz Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I don't drive, but what I do bicycle. And what I find funny is that perfectly fit people choose to drive 5 minutes to a restaurant rather than bike 12. Literally, there is a really popular pizza place like 5 minutes by car away from my house. My friends and I bike up there on weekends to eat lunch. We lose 20 minutes, but we get more exercise in, and we save fuel. It's little things like this that will add up and prolong our world's oil supply. handed me TWO tissues to clear up. I was like "i'm going to need a few more paper towels than that luv" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShakaKhan70 Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I think hyrdrogen cells would be a great way to go but I don't think they have quite finished developing them yet and working out all the kinks (someone please correct me if I am wrong), and also as xyrec kind of mentioned earlier the process of changing over to hydrogen would be big and costly. Every gas station everywhere would have to bring in new tanks and equipment, not to mention also get rid of the old stuff sometime, and it would take a while to train people to train other people to work on the new cars and build a whole new part of mechanical engineering education courses. It would be nice if they came out now, but I doubt they will be phased into use until the gas situation is much more dire. For now if prices stay up then ethonol and bio-diesel will probably be looked into as has also been said before. But if that becomes the case then OPEC might try something drastic to keep their money rolling in and we'll all get to keep our life giving liquid explosive a bit longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil_Elf Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I don't drive, but what I do bicycle. See how often you keep biking places after you're old enough to drive (you're 14?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 I filled my tank two nights ago at $2.89 a gallon, and today I went to the station and it was $3.10. When I was paying some guy was there with a $217 bill for gas alone, and as I stood to get my change someone came with a $100 bill and said, "let's see how far that gets me." Fortunately I get 31 mpg, and that's when I don't try to drive conservatively. I would not drive, but to be honest with you I'd rather pay the extra expenses than have to walk or even ride my bike. The only place I really drive is to school, and first of all nobody rides their bike to school, and you'd get killed going there. The Brits are getting the rough deal though; their prices are so high because of taxes, the same taxes put on cigarettes and alcohol, because apparently gasoline is taboo with the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indy500fan Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 When I was paying some guy was there with a $217 bill for gas alone, really? at all the gas stations around here the pumps shut off at $75. suvs cant even fill up anymore. unless they want to go in and pay the 75 and then come back out to get the rest, and then go back in to pay again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 When I was paying some guy was there with a $217 bill for gas alone, really? at all the gas stations around here the pumps shut off at $75. suvs cant even fill up anymore. unless they want to go in and pay the 75 and then come back out to get the rest, and then go back in to pay again. He did have two reciepts. Maybe in lieu of recent events the limit was upped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladmoney Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 yea its killer to fill up my car, it costs so much money, and i don't even have a job :cry: :cry: . don't know how i am gona pay for it. the thing is 4 months ago it was like 2 bucks, and it rose a $1 so fast. If i would have just bought alot of it then, i could have resold it for more and would have made a profit. Visit my DeviantArt Page at http://vladmoney.deviantart.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homer806 Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 gas is one of those non-renewable resources, which means when we use it all up it will be gone forever(not really, but it takes forever to come back). anyway, that means that it will just get harder and harder to find as we use up all the gas. it will go to 4$ and 5, and even 10$ a gallon, but by then we will hopfully have found a new way to power ourselves. most of our other means of powering cars don't work very well right now, except for cooking oil, which can't power all of us. so either find an alternate energy source, or learn to ride a bike. untile then, deal with it and quit hogging the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonialston Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Well at least if you think that 1 litre of Gas is still less than a litre of milk..it aint that bad :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vladmoney Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Well at least if you think that 1 litre of Gas is still less than a litre of milk..it aint that bad :lol: yea i know all you people in europe have it like $4-5 bucks per gallon, and i feel sorry for you. It must suck, but you guys don't really use cars as much as Americans do (thats our problem i guess). Visit my DeviantArt Page at http://vladmoney.deviantart.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megakiller32 Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 well in england, its almost ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã1 a gallon :P meaning about 70cents or 1.40, i dunno my maths isnt so good :oops: Quit Runescape 30th May 2006.Thanks to Hawkxs for my signature :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hukaideez Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 Today the price of unleaded is over ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã1.15 a litre in all of the local petrol stations. Not sure what that is in $ but it's about ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã4.50 a gallon here. You Americans got it easier because you aren't as heavily taxed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magekillr Posted September 4, 2005 Share Posted September 4, 2005 gas just rose here to 3.29 for the cheapest at this rate we're gonna catch you guys without the tax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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