I just paid...

[Jand3rson]

If you can afford the car, you can afford the fuel.

Bring on 5+ dollars a gallon, keep everybody off the damn roads

Damn fucking straight. Don't want to pay for gas? Don't drive. It's not that hard to find out ways to rearrange your money in places to offset the cost.

[e30s52]

gas to expensive so ride your bike plain and simple

[PiercedE30]

I have the option of running E85 in my E30. MUHUHAHAHA
2.70/gallon. But I need to finish tuning the car before doing that.

[Pac1373]

$1.33/ L here, filled up my work truck today, (97 dodge w/ 4.7 motor)


=$170.02


precedent setting for sure, thank god for company gas card's

[E30 Cabrio]

$4.20 for 91 octane. I only have a 1.5 mile commute and drive about 400 miles per month.

Somewhat off topic, but we have lots of oil under our own feet and can build nuclear power plants as well and become energy independent.

ANWR, and the Dakota's as well as other sites here in the US have billions of barrels of oil, and nuclear energy is cheap, safe and inexpensive:

http://www.nextenergynews.com/news1/next-energy-news2.13s.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR2006041401209.html

[atomic]

Somewhat off topic, but we have lots of oil under our own feet and can build nuclear power plants as well and become energy independent.

ANWR, and the Dakota's as well as other sites here in the US have billions of barrels of oil, and nuclear energy is cheap, safe and inexpensive:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...041401209.html

And have not built a refinery in over 30 years.

So yeah maybe after a few years of $5 a gallon gas that the tree hugging hippies and the damn liberals will not fight the need for more exploration and refinement here in the states...

[Larry e30]

I just paid 53 bucks for 13 gallons

[noid]

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

Venezuela has it good huh?

[bimmer_E30]

fuck thats shit, i only use 91 octane because i have JIM C chip and its about 132/L fuck thats expensive.

[nando]

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...bal_gasprices/

Venezuela has it good huh?

I bet you have to wait in a line for a couple hours to fill up. and I bet the average family makes $1500 a year.

free market > queueing theory.

[E30 Cabrio]

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...bal_gasprices/

Venezuela has it good huh?

Government subsidized gas in exchange for living under a murderous communist?

I don't think they have it as good as some would think.

I'll pass...

[Raxe]

I love my ETA.

[Danny]

I bet you have to wait in a line for a couple hours to fill up. and I bet the average family makes $1500 a year.

free market > queueing theory.

Hmm. Good point.

[JasonC]

I didn't look at prices when i came home tonight. But i have been staying home more. And with car shows starting up here, i can take my Corvair since it don't take much gas.

[E30 Cabrio]

Again, don't want to turn this into a political discussion, but the oil companies make about 9-10% profit margin on a gallon of gas.

Take that away and gas is still about $3.50 a gallon, and then when an offshore rig goes down and the oil company doesn't have the money to fix it, the cost of gas goes up even more.

But we have some politicians who want to do exactly that - take away or heavily tax oil companies thin profit margin, which will be paid for by you and me.

I wish there was an easy answer to this, but there isn't. Some people blindly claim that the oil companies are gouging us, but they're not.

Compare their profit margin now compared to 10, 20 years ago.

I bet it's pretty close to 9% without even looking it up.

Profit is up because worldwide demand is up. They are selling more product, but they have to invest money to sell more product.

Some people see all those numbers and get dizzy.

The only way to ease the problem is to explore and drill domestically, so that money is going into our own economy, and not that of countries that may be funding organizations that are interested in seeing our demise.

Domestic exploration/drilling and Nuclear plants won't make us 100% energy independent, but it would be a step in the right direction and would also lower the cost and be a huge boost to our economy and tax base.

BTW, for those people who can't say "ANWR" without also using the word "pristine" I give you this picture and caption of ANWR:



Oil seeps to the surface of the tundra, evidence of what lies beneath. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there could be between 3 billion and 12 billion barrels of economically recoverable oil.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/photography/anwr/anwr2.htm