US: How much do you pay for gas?


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  1. 1. How much per gallon, on average?

    • $1.75 ~ $2.00
      3
    • $2.00 ~ $2.33
      1
    • $2.34 ~ $2.66
      18
    • $2.66 ~ $3.00
      38
    • $3.00 ~ $3.33
      21
    • More than $3.33
      16


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Doesn't matter which level of gasoline, guys.

I'm wondering because gas costs $2.99 per gallon here in Los Angeles, so I ask you what the heck is going on? :( Isn't the US in Iraq for oil? If so, howcome gas prices have gone from $2.10 a year ago to what they are now?

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I don't because I can't drive... yet :shifty:

Gas prices are $2.49 here, or at least they were an hour ago. Knowing how fast it changes it's probably spiked higher.

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I'm wondering because gas costs $2.99 per gallon here in Los Angeles, so I ask you what the heck is going on? :( Isn't the US in Iraq for oil? If so, howcome gas prices have gone from $2.10 a year ago to what they are now?

i guess you have yet to figure out that we're not there for oil...

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It's up to 2.50+ today...it's summertime, Iran's flexing it's muscles, we'll see over 3.00 very soon.

i guess you have yet to figure out that we're not there for oil...

yeah you'd think that broken record would be worn out by now :laugh:

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About $5-6 a gallon. Most of that goes into Blair's back pocket. The theving little ****bag.

Holy wolly, that's too much!

Premium here at LA are almost all over $3.00 today.

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we pay about 2.49-2.59 for regular this week. its insane considering how much oil we pump out of the gulf and refine right here in louisiana.

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How much do you pay for gas?

No idea.

I know I paid about $1.33 for a litre of petrol today though.

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I pay the equivalent of $5.70 per gallon here in Yorkshire, UK! Some of you Americans pay less than half that!

And I only get about 28mpg out of my Golf.

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I look at it like this. I pay less for a gasoline than I do for a gallon of milk.

Oil has to be shipped half way around the world in a ship that cost a quarter of a billion dollars to make. It then gets refined in billion dollar refineries, shipped by special trucks to local gas stations where it is stored in vastly expensive, environmentally friendly underground tanks where it waits patiently for me. For this potentially limited resource, I pay $2.79 a gallon.

Milk on the other hand is produced locally (when I lived in Wisconsin, it was literally just about 2 miles away) and usually processed (basically heated and bottled) at the same location it is extracted. Depending on the size of the dairy, it is either shihpped direct to retailers or shipped to distributers for shipping to end users. In most cases (in the U.S.) the milk in your glass has travelled less than 700 miles and is never more than about 10 - 14 days from cow to table. For this potentially unlimited resource, I pay $3.29 a gallon.

I went to Starbucks the other day with a co-worker. She ordered a -- well some fancy coffee drink -- that could not have been more than 12 ounces. She paid over $4.00 for it (she also complains about the cost of gasoline - hmph). Imagine that, 4 bucks for 12 ounces of fancy coffee. That works out to nearly $43.00 a gallon.

I will admit that Starbucks is a luxury item but the milk isn't. My brother's family goes through 18 gallons of milk a week (he has his wife, 3 sons and one daughter). I know plenty of people that use less than 18 gallons of gasoline a week.

Now why is it that we complain about the price of gasoline so much but other things that are by far larger a larger ripoff go without question? I'm not saying I like the price of gasoline, I'm just saying compared to some other things we consume daily it's still a deal.

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