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 08/31/2005 08:31:10 AM · #1
Just got a call from my wife. Gas prices have already shot up 20 cents a litre in Montreal. That's 80 cents a gallon for you imperial unit folks. They are forecasting a 30 cents/litre jump in the price of gas out here where I live. Heating oil is going to be murderously high this fall and winter :(

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

Just glad we have a Honda and an Acura as vehicles...
 08/31/2005 08:34:32 AM · #2
Unbelieveable! It jumped 20% from yesterday to this morning! So much for driving around taking photographs!
 08/31/2005 09:33:40 AM · #3
Went from $2.62/gal monday, to 2.67 yesterday, to 2.80 today in Phoenix.
 08/31/2005 09:35:08 AM · #4
Originally posted by louddog:
Went from $2.62/gal monday, to 2.67 yesterday, to 2.80 today in Phoenix.


Up 40 cents on Cape. Just shy of $3.00 today...

R.
 08/31/2005 09:38:04 AM · #5
Nothing remarkable here in Luxembourg, Europe yet - I guess that will take another week.
 08/31/2005 09:39:40 AM · #6
Last night I saw a gas station that had closed for the day at $2.62, while the one across the street (normally the same price) was $2.84. Supposedly, we're in for another $.65/gallon hike by the weekend. Ug-lee.
 08/31/2005 09:40:49 AM · #7
Man, there are two things I never pay attention to and they always seem to be people's favourite topic of conversation: The Weather Forecast and Gas Prices.

Here's a typical conversation at the office:

Coworker: "Another day of rain...supposed to rain all week"
Mike: "Oh yeah? Oh well, it's been a nice summer"
Coworker: "Yeah, well we won't be going to the beach this weekend...it's supposed to be xxx degrees outside on Saturday. And man, those f%c&ing gas prices are killing me"
Mike: "Oh yeah, I haven't really been paying attention"
Coworker: Yeah, last night it was at xxx and this morning I paid xxx!"
Mike: "So, Burundi is finally getting a government together after all of this war"
*crickets* *some tumbleweed rolls by*
Coworker: "Uh...ok, I gotta get back to work."
 08/31/2005 09:56:38 AM · #8
Look at the bright side, great pricing on Hummers, Excursions, Suburbans.

It's going to get pricey to drive the 3 year old to Mommy and Me in an H2
 08/31/2005 10:12:09 AM · #9
Whew! I'm glad I got rid of my 13mpg Discovery. I get 2-3 mpg more now in my AWD Mountaineer! ;-) I filled up Monday night knowing that the prices were going to skyrocket.
 08/31/2005 10:15:52 AM · #10
Today I start back to college. Last semester i took online classes, now I will commute 30 miles each way...not sure what will cost more, the education or the gas to get it!
 08/31/2005 10:18:23 AM · #11
We finally got our $3.00/gallon for the cheap stuff. Ugh.
 08/31/2005 10:20:16 AM · #12
Originally posted by hbunch7187:
We finally got our $3.00/gallon for the cheap stuff. Ugh.

it was $2.62 here last night. But then, that was last night.
We filled everything over the past weekend, including the gas can for the mower!

Time to dig a really big hole in the back yard, hijack a tanker truck and bury it there!
 08/31/2005 10:21:53 AM · #13
Here it`s at $7.56 a gallon and $1600 for a canon 20D.
 08/31/2005 10:28:43 AM · #14
Originally posted by marbo:
Here it`s at $7.56 a gallon and $1600 for a canon 20D.


How many Hummers and SUVs do you see at the local mall?
Is something cheaper to offset the higher cost of these things, or do you do without what we here would consider necessities?
 08/31/2005 10:29:44 AM · #15
The worst thing is that the price of fuel is affecting every other aspect of life except wages. How long do you think it will be before people get paid more to reflect the higher cost of living?
08/31/2005 10:37:49 AM · #16
Originally posted by orussell:
The worst thing is that the price of fuel is affecting every other aspect of life except wages. How long do you think it will be before people get paid more to reflect the higher cost of living?


Good point. Everything from gas, to heating oil, to electricty and food is going to go up. I'm just happy that I'm not living on a fixed pension. Poor buggers.
 08/31/2005 10:40:41 AM · #17
Yesterday in Virginia: $2.49 for Regular Today in Virginia: $2.79.
I predict that gas prices will rocket past $3.00 and that we'll see $5.00 by Christmas. Oh for the good old days of $2.00/gallon gas!
 08/31/2005 10:41:56 AM · #18
Originally posted by marbo:
Here it`s at $7.56 a gallon and $1600 for a canon 20D.


Sheesh....$7.56

No wonder the world hates us...I mean it was only a few years a back were were paying less than $2. And only a decade and a half we were b!@#$% about it breaking a $1 a gallon.
 08/31/2005 10:55:22 AM · #19
It was at $2.89 yesterday in the bay area. Should have crossed 3.0 today
 08/31/2005 11:14:32 AM · #20
In 1999 when I was pregnant with my third child, I bought a 1997 Suburban. I didn't think much of it because I had three kids, two would be in car seats, and gas in the town where I was going to school for my Master's degree was only $0.78 a gallon. About four years ago, I remember driving to the DFW area for a school-related conference and having to pay $1.68 a gallon...and I was just freaking out about how expensive it was. Yesterday, in the little town I pass through on my way to work, gas was at $2.52 a gallon (at the cheap station). Today, the same station was $2.79. Here in the town where I work, it's $2.83 just about everywhere.

Man, am I glad that in the divorce I gave HIM the Suburban and I kept the Cavalier Z-24 convertible! ;)
 08/31/2005 11:18:33 AM · #21
What we spend on gasoline has almost doubled since April. that means about $125-150 or so every month now goes to gas that used to go into other things...like food and clothing, or camera equipment, fixing up the house, etc.

I don't think we have anyplace else to cut back...tim e for a third job.
 08/31/2005 12:34:53 PM · #22
Yesterday it was $2.39 a gallon, today it's $3.09 at the HotSpot (which is the only station/chain in the area to go up so high).

There was a report on this morning's news about reporting price gouging, so my sister-in-law called the Consumer Affairs dept. in South Carolina and they told her that they couldn't do anything about it since gas prices aren't federally regulated, so she called the local news station and is meeting with them right now...

We'll see what happens!
 08/31/2005 01:39:20 PM · #23
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
Originally posted by orussell:
The worst thing is that the price of fuel is affecting every other aspect of life except wages. How long do you think it will be before people get paid more to reflect the higher cost of living?


Good point. Everything from gas, to heating oil, to electricty and food is going to go up. I'm just happy that I'm not living on a fixed pension. Poor buggers.


That'd be me. Rising cost of food is already killing me, this is gonna make it way worse. Good thing I live relatively close to the good places to shoot (Cape Cod isn't that big) but a trip to Provincetown and back is still gonna cost me 15 bucks or so at $3.00/gallon. Can't make too many of those. And electricity and heating are gonna rise this winter.

Robt.
 08/31/2005 01:40:38 PM · #24
I'm buying a pellet stove
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