Drivers get hit at gas pumps as oil prices climb

[UpInArms]

http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3524772&nav=9qrxbUBY

CAMARILLO, Calif. - Gas prices are on their way back up.
Prices have surged an average of eight cents a gallon in the last two weeks according to an industry survey.

Prices had been falling since April.

The average retail price for all three grades of gas hit $2.24 cents a gallon on Friday, up from $2.16 on June 10th according to industry analyst Trilby Lundberg.

The price is eight cents from the all-time average high of $2.32, which was set in April.

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[Roland99]

1. Wonder how SUV sales are doing of late?

I remember when the high was hit before, SUV sales were tanking, even used-SUV sales.

[phantom power]

3. They are doing quite poorly. Just look at GM's fortunes, lately.

Or check out the car commercials. Lots of great deals on SUVs, these days. They'll do anything to get them off the lot.

[Hawkeye-X]

9. Yep - Those "employee discounts" garbage ads?

All GM. Trust me.

Saturn - owned by GM
Saab - owned by GM

My parents have GM products (both Cadillacs), and I'm reminding them they bought it AGAINST my advice. They could have gone foreign but they didn't. Both of them are gas-guzzling piece of crap.

Thankfully I own a Honda Accord which has excellent MPG.

[barb162]

2. I'd like to see every damned gas guzzler off the road

maybe this will help it along

[ozymandius]

4. There's already a market for this service.

[natrat]

5. from what i gather there is somewhat of a chance the shit is going to get

ugly and it will cost $300 to fill up said suv

[getmeouttahere]

6. Boo fu**ing hoo!

It used to be that a family of four could get along just fine with a mid-size car or less...

[Skittles]

13. when I grew up there were seven of us

and we were never in anything larger than an Impala

[obreaslan]

16. I totally agree, but...

Doesn't that also mean that it will cost $125-$150 to fill up your average mid-size? I know you can go further on the money, but I don't want to pay that much to get to work. I live in an area that doesn't offer access to public transportation, so I am stuck driving to work. Wishing for higher gas prices to punish the SUV owners is one thing, but in the end it affects us all.

Bottom line, this really sucks! :(

[Terry in Austin]

23. Count on it

A recent item from Reuters:

Gasoline prices in the United States should reach and pass $3 per gallon within the next 12 months, which will be a blow to the economy and consumers, legendary oilman T. Boone Pickens said on Tuesday.

Investment bankers Goldman-Sachs are saying in an investment advisory to their clients that oil should go up to $105 a barrel in the next few months. That would translate to about $3.60 at the pump.

Even at two dollar prices, it's starting to have adverse social effects by making the daily commute too expensive. Of course, as prices rise, the same effects will work their way up the socio-economic ladder.

And the prices won't be going down.

Two words: peak oil. It's happening; it's going to change everything; it's a good idea know something about it.

...Got plans?

[Logician]

7. BOO HOOOOOOOO

Perhaps idiots in America will begin to reassess their motivations for putting a corrupt, incompetent regime in the White House!

Tooo baddddd......... You voted against your own economic and other (civil rights and freedoms) best interests, by listening to the religious right wing-nuts in the WH and Congress.

But think how lucky you are! You've got friends in high places who will stand with you to protect fetuses and embryos, and keep those perverted gays from entering into marriage! And will help you do away with the teaching of evolutionary theory, because after all, it is *just* a theory.

F***king idiots! LAUGHABLE!

[getmeouttahere]

8. We can only hope, Logician

[BeHereNow]

15. Welcome to DU Logician!

I share your twisted mirth...
Pride, (in the good'ol murikkan sense, ARROGANCE
and IGNORANCE) goes before a fall, eh?

THEY voted for the fascist fucks and now the
bill is due for their self induced demise.

The dark side of me is enjoys watching the
unraveling of these idiots...hate to admit it,
but I do.
We tried to tell them, but noooooo, we
were just whining "libruls..." unpatriotic
"lefties" etc...

Fuck em.
Oh wait, no need to do that...
They have fucked themselves quite adequately.
BHN

[The_Casual_Observer]

10. I laugh at every suv driver I see.

They piss their money away on gas and huge car payments. Tough ass.

[getmeouttahere]

11. Me too....it gives me a good chuckle...

but I get pissed when I see a Hummer. Those things have no business on the roads.

[Wright Patman]

12. In Nov. 2003

a Chevrolet Suburban ran off the road into me at 40 mph. I barely survived.

Sales of SUV have been tanking ever since. That'll teach 'em to mess with WP.

'No weapon formed against me shall prosper ..."

[cliss]

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[mccoyn]

17. I was sweating driving home.

$2.25 was the most common price I saw. I was running on fumes when I saw a play for $2.18. I stopped there, but a little farther along I saw a place for $2.33. As much as the increase surprised me I was more surprised by the variablity. I'm glad I don't have to pay for gas to get to work at least (bicycle communting is actually money saving exercise.)

[DainBramaged]

19. SAY WHAT?

You were sweating over how many gallona X how many cents when you don't use the car to commute?:spank:

[DainBramaged]

18. Forget the SUV drivers smug nuts

Has anyone ever asked the question why if prices of crude on the futures market are above $60 a bbl., and the gasoline here was produced with lower priced oil, why the prices jump with the price of crude futures? Not spot market, futures prices as we saw today?


We're getting hosed, and no one speaks out about it. Fuck SUV drivers (and those too narrow minded to see the calamity here), the prices of crude affects EVERYTHING in our everyday life.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

22. But certainly there's a commensurate immediate drop when

the futures price drops.

Certainly.







They should be hanging from lampposts.

[salin]

20. Imagine that - just in time for one or two more hikes before the Holiday

weekend.

[NickB79]

21. For all of you laughing at SUV drivers

Just remember that the foodstuffs and retail goods you buy at almost every grocery store and retail store in the US are shipped via semi-trailer for hundreds, if not thousands of miles. The food you eat is produced on farms far from the cities that use large amounts of diesel fuel and petroleum-based fertilizers and herbicides to grow their crops. As fuel prices go up, we will ALL pay for it.

I'm not trying to defend SUV's; I tried to talk my mom out of buying one, I drive as little as possible in my mid-size car, and was just looking at a Scion xA today (38 mpg, wow!). I understand the anger at SUV drivers expressed here as well. I grit my teeth every time I see one in rush hour traffic. However, we have to move beyond our anger and frustration and start to find real solutions to the problems that are coming down the road. The SUV's are just the canaries in the coal mine, so to speak. The time for the rest of us to hurt just as badly is coming soon enough. Instead of gloating that SUV drivers are getting pummelled at the pumps, we should be discussing ways to switch to alternative energy sources and the most efficient forms of conservation possible.

[Terry in Austin]

24. You got that right!

> ...start to find real solutions to the problems that are coming
> down the road. The SUV's are just the canaries in the coal mine,
> so to speak. The time for the rest of us to hurt just as badly
> is coming soon enough.

(see #23 above - "Count on it")

[Sugarbleus]

25. My gasoline bill has been as high as $200. That is as much as

I would have previously paid if I went on a trip to Idaho and back (Calif here).

I am not a daily driver, so we saved on gas. However, I now have a teenager and his mother living here and they drive the damn car every chance they get. It's killing us in gas bills.

I've yelled at them to take the bus. Our state isn't interested in public transit so much. The cost of a bus ride is $1.50 one way with NO transfers. It's $5.00 for an all day pass; $35 for a "student" monthly pass--forty something for an adult, and the routes have been cut as well as the hours of service!!!

We are low income folks so the cost of getting around is a huge problem either way.

Anyone view the film "The Corporation?". In it they suggest that the GOP et al start the wars around oil in order to manipulate the price of fuel stateside. BASTARDS!