It cost me nearly 1/2 day's salary to fill my car today.

[Squatch]

What in the fuck?

Feb 25, 2000 average gas price: $1.54 per gallon

Today's average gas price: $2.67 per gallon

73% rise in 6 years.

Need a source? Google it yourself.

Here's a question: what did GWB do before politics?

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Answer, screw people over and take their money.

[converted_democrat]

9. Everything the man touches turns to shit... n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

12. He suffers the reverse Midas touch.

[movonne]

15. For us not him...he and his cronies, corporations are doing just fine..

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. Which is all he cares about.

[MADem]

22. Everything he touches turns to shit--he should go into the fertilizer biz

[benburch]

2. In early 1999 I was paying $0.998 per gallon regular unleaded.

I am SO glad that I bought a Prius now.

[3waygeek]

3. Near the end of 2000

after Xmas, I found regular unleaded for $0.79 at a station west of Atlanta. Today I paid $2.54.

[Burried News]

23. Yes. I paid 0.76 in Atlanta at a Quick Stop. same year.

[paul_fromatlanta]

4. I compare with high school - 1982 - $1.50 a gallon and I made $6 an hour

Compared to that - gas is cheap.

[Lindacooks]

6. Not if you still make 6 bucks an hour.

As many do.

[paul_fromatlanta]

13. that would, admittedly, suck.

[Squatch]

7. It cost me 1/2 day's work...*just to get to work*

[paul_fromatlanta]

11. good Lord, how far do you drive?

[Squatch]

25. 13 miles, one way.

[paul_fromatlanta]

26. Something is wrong with the math unless you make $5 a day or get 2 mpg

[Squatch]

29. I make about $120 a day.

What's 1/2 of $120?

That's how much it cost me to fill up my car.

[arcos]

31. But you don't fill your car everyday.... nt

[Squatch]

34. So, that makes it OK?

[arcos]

35. Well, it doesn't cost you 1/2 day's salary to get to work...

You spend that when you fill up your tank, probably once a week or so.

Sorry, I know it may be expensive by what you've payed in previous years, but you Americans are really spoiled about gas prices.

Everyone else in the world pays much more while usually making much less money, so it's hard for me to feel sorry about this.

I make about $64 per day ($8 per hour), a VERY good salary here, and it takes me about $40 to fill up my car at about $3.8 per gallon.
I WISH I would spend half of a day's salary to fill it up.

[Squatch]

37. So, this thread is about how bad you have it?

...and how George Bush is doing a good job keeping oil prices down, when you consider other countries. Gotcha.

[arcos]

38. No, this thread proves just how spoiled Americans are...

And how lucky you are that you pay so little.

Your answers really show how insensitive some of you are to the rest of the world, but... who gives a fuck about other countries? After all, as long as gas prices in America are kept artificially low you can keep on driving your gas guzzling vehicles and the world will be a great place! :eyes:
Go on, keep on whining in your little bubble...

[Cobalt Violet]

42. Do you have to pay for health insurance?

How's the cost of living there.

[paul_fromatlanta]

32. My mistake - you said "fill up" rather than how much gas you use each day

Sorry about that.

[SmokingJacket]

24. That was good money in 1982...

I remember making 3.35 in 1987...

[0007]

36. In 1951 gas was .17 cent a gallon and I worked at the Roxy theater

ushering and doing the marquee for .55 cent an hours. Diesel was .06 cent a gallon. I was later fired, because I was caught smoking in a cafe that was three blocks from the Roxy. The rat fink!

[OhioChick]

5. Regarding gas prices........

weren't they like $1.18 or so when Clinton left office?
The good old days...........

[Earth_First]

8. We were talking this afternoon...

In 1996 when I first started driving, gasoline was $0.96/gallon.

[C_U_L8R]

10. that's a 50% salary tax

that goes straight into the pockets of Bush's oil pals.

You'd think by this point that even the Republicans
would be torching em at the stake... I guess your
average Republican just has money to burn (sarcasm)

[bobbieinok]

14. in 2000 republicans in congress were yelling at Gore/Clinton b/c of gas co

cost

anyone in congress saying anything about gas cost now?????

[raysr]

17. Why aren't the pukes SCREAMING

about the cost of gas? A long way between point "a" and point "b" in those red states.

[depakid]

18. Get used to it

Because those prices are going to keep fluctuating dramatically- and the moving average is going to continue to rise ever higher. The only real question is how steep the curve's going to be.

At this point, my guess is that absent major demand destruction, a rise of another 73% over 6 years is extremely optimistic.

Even that would amount to $4.63 per gallon in 2012.

[TomClash]

19. He drank other people's Oil

and now he's paying them back - at usurious interst rates.

[arcos]

20. Gas costs about $3.8 a gallon here...

And most people make about ten times less than in the US.

[B Calm]

21. Remember when they use to say Clinton has no energy plan, he

closed down refineries, blah blah blah.. Then right after Chuckle Nuts stole the first election, they said now that we have a Texas Oil President watch the price of gas go down...

[rainbow4321]

27. Probably why he had a slip of the tongue...

when he said energy instead of immigration..he was busy counting his oil profits right before he got off the plane:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_TAKE_2?SITE=NJBRI&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Cameras were rolling. Microphones were on. President Bush stepped up to comment on a Senate compromise on immigration legislation.

Wait. Was it energy or immigration?

Maybe Bush had rising gas prices on his mind when he said he was pleased that Republicans and Democrats were working together to get a bipartisan, comprehensive "energy" bill.

Realizing his mistake, he stopped and called for a Take 2. "Let me start over," Bush said, standing next to Air Force One. Bush, often the first to admit that he's not a great orator, got it right the second time.

[Yollam]

28. Here in Japan, the price has barely changed.

If you're wondering if you're being ripped off - yes, you are.

The price back in 2000 for a liter of gas here was 130 yen/liter. Right now it's about 155 yen/liter. It's up, but not at the astronomical rates it has gone up in the US.

Even at the worst, it was like 160.

[Squatch]

30. Alright...how much does a Yen go for nowadays?

[Inland]

33. Let's say four bucks a gallon. nt

[Yollam]

39. 100 yen is about 85 cents.

http://finance.yahoo.com/currency/convert?amt=100&from=JPY&to=USD&submit=Convert

So it's about $1.35/liter, $5/gal.

Sounds expensive, but it has always been much higher here, and the US is catching up while prices here are stable. Also consider that there are a lot more taxes built into the price of gas, a lot of people don't have cars since they are not a necessity here, and those who do drive a lot less often, much shorter distances, etc.

The way things are going over there, the US price will match the price in Japan, with the major difference being that here, most people can commute by train, while in the US, millions of people commute over 45 minutes one way from their homes in the exurbs.

[Nobody]

40. Run three companies into the ground

like he's doing to the USA.

I am so very glad I drive a car that gets 70 mpg.

[B Calm]

41. I go in for my yearly review this week. I don't think my cheap labor

boss will give a rats ass how much the cost of living has raised when he gives me another piddly raise..