when i fill up my work truck, i max out the pump at 75 bucks! and i put regular octane in my truck! when are they coming out with heavy duty hybrid trucks? cause i would buy one in a second.
My last gas bill (3.67/gal) was $15.50 for half tank that lasted me a whole week. It's been a week since then, I drove alot more this week, buts still not close to the 1/4 mark. I'm probably not going to fill up until the end of the week. I expect my bill to be about $28. I'll probably fill up at costco again by the end of the week. Right now, it stands $3.71 for regular. I would say gas prices aren't high enough because SUV drivers are still gunning it on the road over here. Well, at least you guys don't have to pay the diesel prices...Today I saw a Shell gas station posting DIESEL #2 at $4.86 per gallon!
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my last fill up in the Fit was about £40 ($80USD)
in the UK, it is about £1.10 per litre (about $8 per US gallon)
Why is european gas so high? For that matter... why are petroleum companies able to post multi-billion $$ profits & no increased production to ease the market here....
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Don't look for gas to go down much in the future. Supply cannot catch up with demand for several years. It's there but we can't get it out of the ground.
It sucks they won't open up ANWR to drilling. Its a huge debate up here, as well as in the senate (shot down again last week).
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A 1998 United States Geological Survey (USGS) study indicated at least 4.3 billion (95% probability) and possibly as much as 11.8 billion (5% probability) barrels (0.9 to 2.5 km³) of technically recoverable oil exists in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 1002 area, with a mean value of 7.7 billion barrels (1.7 km³). In addition, in the entire assessment area, which covers not only land under Federal jurisdiction, but also Native lands and adjacent State waters within three miles (5 km), technically recoverable oil is estimated to be at least 5.7 billion (95%) and as much as 16.0 billion (5%) barrels (0.7 to 1.9 km³), with a mean value of 10.4 billion barrels (1.2 km³). Economically recoverable oil within the Federal lands assuming a market price of $40/barrel (constant 1996 dollars - the highest price included in the USGS study) is estimated to be between 3.4 billion (95%) and 10.4 billion (5%) barrels (0.5 to 1.7 km³), with a mean value of 6.8 billion barrels (1.1 km³).[3] (current market prices are over $120 and using inflation rate between 1996 to 2007 it comes out to $89 dollars in 1996) The U.S. consumes about 20 million barrels (3,200,000 m³) daily.If the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge oil reserves were used to supply 5% of the U.S. daily consumption -- most is imported from Canada (19%), Mexico (15%), Saudi Arabia (11.5%), Nigeria (10.5%) and Venezuela (10.5%)[11] -- the reserves, using the low figure of 4.3 billion barrels (680,000,000 m³), would last approximately 4300 days, or almost 12 years. Using the high estimate, the reserves would last approximately 11800 days, or 32 years. Total oil independence at 20 million barrels per day (using the before mentioned 10.5 billion barrel mean) would only supply the United States for 525 days (or less than a year and a half, but this complete supporting is impossible). Using the increasing price of oil this supply (with 10.5 billion barrel mean and crude oil at over $120 a barrel) would be worth 1,260,000,000,000.00 ($1.26 trillion).
Perhaps you might think if Hillary's elected the OPEC Muslims , who don't think much of women, just might resent her and price crude so our gas goes to $8/gallon.
Europeans have had a lot more taxes on the gas than we have and that's why their cars get double our mpg. And their gas prices double ours.
Its too late for us. It would take a decade to see much of a change even if all new cars got 40 mpg.
You might want to consider that the politicians and Big Business conspired to send our manufacturing to China and India so they could build and buy more cars that compete with us for the crude to make gasoline. Thats why crude is selling at $127/barrel as I write this. Crude at $127/barrel virtually guarantees near $4/gal gasoline.
And all we have is a crooked lawyer on one hand, a closet Muslim on the other, and a sacrificial lamb in the wings. The 'Trojan horses' will be displayed in full this fall.
i hope this thread is directed towards americans/canadians only cos with the prices in the UK, u wont even want to drive any car!! currently prices are at 112.9p per litre, which is the cheapest around.. prices went up by 4p within the last week.. prob cost about £45 ($90) to fill up the jazz which is the L13a, thats also before the price increase set by the government in October increasing a further 2p...
^ Is commuting to work and school a common occurrence in the UK? It seems to me that, because of the mass transit infrastructure, daily driving a car is not the norm.
I have a step-brother who lives over there and he drives his car to the train station but that is it.
its $4.19 in joliet.........thank god i got a fit 30+ mpg.......woop wooop
but thats alot thou
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Western Canada is the single largest expoter of oil to the U.S.
There is a huge refinery 15 miles from my home.
And I pay over $6 a gallon.
You guys in the U.S are getting a screaming deal now, but it is catching up with you slowly!
i didn't vote. prices are changing every day. but yeah, i feel it. if feel bad for those in SUV's and trucks and stuff. bigger tank = much bigger bill
Don't ever feel bad for people who drive trucks or SUVs. They had a choice too, and for the price most of them paid they could have bought 2 Fits, or 2 civics before the '07 model year. The only people with trucks I feel sorry for are those that need them for work.
If every person in the country owned a Fit, or any small fuel efficient car for that matter, we would see a pretty large decrease in domestic demand and in prices at the pump. Even with the growing demand of China and India we'd still be better off than we are now.
I hear that Ford is closing down their SUV/TRUCK production plant in the US. Looks like times have changed, but some Dinosaurs sill think it's 1998. I wonder what would happen if I didn't spend the extra money I saved on gasoline. Hehehe. I've been riding on the same tank for almost 2 weeks now! TAKE THAT OIL COMPANIES!!!!
IT TAKES A SMALL CAR TO STICK IT TO THE OIL COMPANY!
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