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I work for a general contractor (houses) and we raised the rates of the guys earlier in the summer when gas prices went up, I would guess that it will happen again soon, not to mention the prices of lumber etc will be going up shortly.

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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$2.95-3.00 in flordia right now...... bleah

$1.39/litre here today. Someone else can work out the maths to convert to what the US uses. I cant be bothered. Its lots though!

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Before you criticize someone walk a mile in their shoes. That way you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

it was €1.46 per liter in the Netherlands last weekend. That's US $1.81 per liter, or US $6.86 per US gallon

can i be happy gas has dropped down to $2.85/gallon on average around here Not a large drop, but heck every cent counts, since I have to take an alternate route to work now Seems 225 went from being the easy way, to speed bump hell, to uh a parking lot it was 6 lanes Tuesday night, yesterday morning it was only 2, the others blocked off with cement barricadeswho's great idea was that:%)

"I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom." Thomas Carlyle

I'm shocked that no Brits have come forward and added to this thread.. similar to Dr.Bonke, UK petrol prices are currently running at about $6.81/gallon!

Its an increase of around $1.39/gallon on the prices a few weeks ago - still expensive...


Last edited by SuperMummy! at 09-Sep-2005 18:40

Just as well I cycle everywhere or I'd be destitute ...

About a two minute walk from my house (14 miles east of Liverpool in the UK) is a petrol station. The sign said 95p per litre for unleaded when I last looked a couple of days ago. That works out at £4.31 per gallon here in the UK. At current exchange rates that is $7.92 US.

So some of us in the UK pay nearly $8 a gallon. And it's going up. Some commentators are hinting that UK petrol prices could hit £6 a gallon in the not too distant future (thanks to crude hitting $70 a barrel on the world markets) which means we Brits will be paying the equivalent of $11.03 per gallon. Take a look at that figure for a moment ... eleven dollars a gallon ...

Now you know why no-one buys SUVs in the UK ...


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all i know is, prices are set by where u live. if u dont like it leave. their lower else where. as far as 70 a barrel? wow really? because it looks like everywhere i looked just now said $64.08.


http://www.wtrg.com/daily/crudeoilprice.html

oh well, what can we do.... nothing but keep on living.

Fish tanks are an expensive addiction

went away to my mates wedding on the weekend , a quick 2400km round trip and even though i avg 11l/100km it still cost me $360 for fuel, add in suit hire , motel room and gift the weekend cost over $1000 im just glad both me and my wife work . it must be so hard for single income familys to do anything outside the weekly budget

OH TOLEEDY!

Trystianity, we are actually #1 in the world for oil reserves, if you could the oil sands....in fact, we have roughly 8 times the reserves of Saudi Arabia....most of it here in Alberta, yet I paid $1.05/L ($3.39 US/G) today...and all the while I was filling up, I was thinking about how, if you removed our federal and provincial gas taxes, that gas would have been $0.62/L.
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I was thinking about how, if you removed our federal and provincial gas taxes, that gas would have been $0.62/L.

But how much would it cost you to ensure access to the services that the tax money pays for if you had to pay for them personally, at a commercial rate?

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As of yesterday:

$1.29 CAD / Litre

Converted that is about $4.10 / gallon USD. I actually heard it was up to $1.35 about 30 km away from here. In the past week or so gas prices have gone up about 20% here. Nevermind that most of our gas is refined in Canada so hurricanes and the like shouldn't touch our gas prices. Apparently prices have gone up here because demand for Canadian gas and oil has gone up a lot in the US because of Katrina. We are #9 worldwide for oil production and #2 for oil reserves behind Saudi Arabia so, understandably, some politicians have been accusing the oil companies of profiteering after Katrina but there are others that blame taxes as usual. Our gov't did announce they would be pumping barrels of oil out of the reserves to the USA to help after Katrina so I hope that has some effect on prices but I doubt it will.

I don't want to get political about it but how much more of this do people need to see before they get that we are faced with an energy crisis? Demand for gas keeps going up and up regardless of price. Sure, we all have to use some gas but there are ways of cutting back and changing fuel consumption habits. If you're not liking gas prices at the pump just wait until increased fuel costs start driving the prices of everything else up, groceries, etc. That's not even taking heating bills over the winter into account. Crises like Katrina just make the need for conservation more real and present, IMO.

i was just going by what the newscast said. maybe they didn't say wiped out, but probably said offline and then talked about the ones that were wiped out. and it was probably only specific to the gulf region

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went to see my BF last night and gassed up this am when I got home +/- 4 gallons used = $14.51 and thats about 21.5 miles to the gallon! :%)

Last edited by Trouble at 03-Sep-2005 22:49

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I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
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I beat you, Dallas.

I'm not turning it political. Just pointing out that there is not 95% of our refinieries in the gulf states.

now, production is different in each state - as listed in the PDF, but still, not all the refineries were hit, so production won't be so hard hit. But I was going on total refineries, not by production. LA, and TX (as well as CA) are the biggest refinieries, doing the most amount of barrels per day, but I'm just pointing out that not all refineries are in the Gulf States.

love how no NY. lets not turn this into political, liek my other gas thread.

Gulf states
texas, louisiana, mississippi, alabama = 46 refineries
minus the 23 in texas that weren't hit = 23 refineries

so at WORST CASE scenario - all the refinieries in LA, MS and AL were 23. Thats roughly 16% of the refineries in the USA.

total refineries in the USA : 143

United States (number of refineries in parenthesies)
Alabama (3)
Alaska (6)
Arkansas (2)
California (21)
Colorado (1)
Delaware (1)
Georgia (2)
Hawaii (2)
Illinois (5)
Indiana (2)
Kansas (3)
Kentucky (2)
Louisiana (16)
Michigan (1)
Minnesota (2)
Mississippi (4)
Montana (4)
Nevada (1)
New Jersey (4)
New Mexico (4)
North Dakota (1)
Ohio (4)
Oklahoma (5)
Pennsylvania (6)
Tennessee (1)
Texas (23)
Utah (5)
Virginia (1)
Washington (4)
West Virginia (1)
Wisconsin (1)
Wyoming (5)

Source (PDF format) :
[link=http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/refinery_capacity_data/pdf/table_38.pdf]http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/refinery_capacity_data/pdf/table_38.pdf" style="COLOR: #ffcc99[/link]

A HUGE reason we haven't built any new refineries is because of the environmental lobby.

For example, arizona has pushed HARD for a LONG TIME to build 5 new refineries, but the environmentalists jam up the legislation.

The big problem right now is that the US hasn't built a new refinery in almost 30 years. Also, 2 out of three refineries in the gulf are back on line. We're being gouged by the gas companies. I was paying 2.85 a gallon weeks before this whole shortage scare.