I'm endlessly amused by all these comparisons to snapple, water and so forth. I'm wondering who introduced this rediculous meme in the first place... obviously someone with a vested interest in keeping people from freaking out over gas prices.

First off, and lets be real here, most people drink their water from a tap which only has some nominal municipal water charge, or however much it costs in power to run it from the well and filter it. BOTTLED water, a luxury, charges what people are willing to pay, like every other luxury (ie. snapple, potato chips, or whatever other measure of cost-per-weight you want to use).

What all those luxuries don't do, that gas/oil does, is increase the price of OTHER things. You don't see the cost of bottled water affect the price of a head of lettuce, or the price of scope. The price of gas, however, DOES affect the price of that lettuce directly. If it costs an extra $.25 per head to transport it, you can bet that it'll cost an extra $.35 in the store to buy it, in addition to the extra buck it cost to get you to the store in the first place. :2 cents:

try driving an escalade in southern california, sheesh its like 60 or 70 for a full tank.

Gas is heading to $70 a barrel.

Why are you complaining??? In Sweden we pay around $1,50 per litre :(




Soooooooooooooooooooooo?


GFY

Thats mean: Full tank for me (70 litre) = $105

Really?

Seems my water bill was $19 last month.

I'm willing to bet that you didn't drink most of that, either. :winkwink:

$50 to fill a WRX ... $1.00 a litre in queensland

Filled mine today $47.50

Isuzu Rodeo.

Hey man hit me up on the Q

50 painful fillings. :thumbsup

I'm really happy with my Civic's fuel economy. Of course with my heavy foot I only get about 27 MPG. My gf gets around 30 MPG.

I'll probably end up getting a Toyota Prius or similar hybrid. 50 mpg city ain't bad, and apparently some people have been hacking them to accept wall current, yielding up to 180mpg(!!!!) for short trips of 30-40km or less using predominantly battery power. Considering the majority of our vehicle use is buying groceries from the local superstore (around 20km round trip) or ferrying kids around (always within 40km) it sounds pretty close to perfect. :thumbsup

Before you enviro's jump down my throat, yes I know I'm offloading energy consumption from the pump to the power station, and yes our local power generation is coal-fired so it's still fossil-fueled. Get over it. If more people used electric cars, it'd allow fuel consumption vs. power generation to be centralized and more efficient, reducing the need to truck gas all the hell and gone and make the skies far, far cleaner over major cities. :321GFY

You all need to stop whining about gas prices.

Seriously you sound lie a bunch of girly men, "gas prices are too high" "we pay too much" "what if it gos higher" blah blah blah.

Gas prices are actually under what they should be according to the average income.

What makes it worse is how much higher is it really? $25 cents? 5 bucks more per fill up on a 12 gallon tank?

Skip the supersized bigmac meal - theres your extra $5 at the pump.

If you read back, the real price (inflation adjusted) is pretty close to double that of, say, 5 years ago. So that's $12+ per tank.

If you have a guy who drives an older car that gets 15mpg in average city traffic, has to commute to work 30mi (15 there, 15 back) every day, he's going to refill once a week. That means an $50 a month going to gas, and out of his family's pocket purely in just getting to work and back.

To you and me $50/mo may not be much, but to some that's the difference between a proper diet or hunger... and if it goes higher, it's going to bite harder.
That doesn't even take into account the across-the-board increases in cost of food, food preparation (if oil or gas stove, or electric in a gasoline-burning power plant), heat (as above), etc that could yield hundreds of real dollars of difference.

I said a couple years back that people really didn't have a cause to bitch, particularly those here who (ostensibly) are doing better than many. Things have changed. :2 cents:

Oops, just realized that post I was referring to is in another thread. Here's a link:
https://gfy.com/7034265-post20.html