gas hits $4.00 for regular unleaded on the north coast....

[mike_c]

$3.999 per gallon at Shell, 76, and Texaco stations in Arcata, Eureka, and Mckinleyville, CA.

edit-- Diesel is running $4.50-$4.60. Premium unleaded about $4.20.

Will it hit $5.00 by September?

[TomInTib]

1. It's been at $4 for at least a week here in S Marin.

Youch!

[mike_c]

2. I just noticed it here....

Ouch indeed.

[TomInTib]

4. I volunteered to fill a friend's tank last week.

We were going to Tahoe and, since I don't drive, I thought it would be a nice gesture to pay for gas.

I had not been anywhere near a gas pump for at least a year.

And I almost fainted.

I believe it might be cheaper for me to get a Driving License and buy wine, instead.

[Breeze54]

3. Fri. morning, it was $3.29 reg., now it's $3.35 in my town

:(

[TomInTib]

8. I saw a post by gateley...

She said taht she was driving to the store, noticed the price on the sign.

On the way back from the store, the price had gone up seven cents.

I told her to stay the hell at home, her going to the store was driving up prices.

[Breeze54]

11. LOL... I've pulled into a station AS they were changing the sign, guy on a ladder

and the guy laughed and told me to hurry up and fill up,

as he hadn't changed the price on the actual pumps yet.

I got the gas for the lower price. ;)

[havocmom]

10. Here: Friday AM $3.39, yesterday: $3.68

and we live over an hour from ANYWHERE. We won't be able to buy food after it is shipped here pretty soon.

[Breeze54]

12. I know... I have been pricing flour and yeast lately...

and we get milk locally, so it doesn't come across the country, anyway.

It's also the beginning of growing season, so maybe that'll help.

I don't drive much and it's due to the gas prices even though I have a tiny car.

[Township75]

5. If this is what pushes Americans to conserve gas and not...

drive oversized inefficient automobiles everywhere I am happy it got this high.

[Breeze54]

6. and the poor people and middle class thank you.

:eyes: :sarcasm:

I drive a roller skate and it's tough buying gas and milk and bread and....

People driving those huge SUV's kind of piss me off though.

[Township75]

14. Yay, well the poor, middle, and upper class will thank me

if we can do something to avoid global warming, and make this country less dependent on foreign oil.

It's tough for everyone. Myself too. I would love to bike to work more often, but I had to essentailly give it up two years ago. Too many pissed off motorists who think the road is theirs only. If anything they should be thanking people like me who make one less car on the road and use less gas.

The poor and middle class are suffering because we are so wasteful of gasoline. They will suffer less if we change our ways.

[Breeze54]

19. More efficient cars is a good thing but poor people need to be able to get to work

or we create an even worse problem.

[mike_c]

15. I'm of two minds, as I'm sure most folks are....

As an environmentalist, I totally agree. And for that matter, the price of gasoline is one of the LESSOR consequences of our dependence upon fossil fuels, economic or otherwise.

Unfortunately, most of us have relatively few choices at this point-- I won't be financially able to make any serious changes in my personal ride for several years at least, and even if I could afford to dump the moderate mileage small pickup I drive now, there aren't many possible replacement vehicles that fulfill my needs AND use significantly less fuel. Luckily, commuting is the least of my worries-- I only travel about eight miles to and from work, and at least some of the time my schedule allows me to use alternative transportation. I do have to travel for some aspects of my job however, including offroad travel in pretty rugged places, hence the need for a small 4W truck.

So the primary response that's available to me, and many other folks, is to use the vehicle as little as possible otherwise, consolidating errands, staying home instead of going to town for amusements, and so on. Conservation. It makes life harder. Ir's also making life more expensive generally because fossil fuels affect nearly every aspect of our economy. I might save some fuel, and some money, by consolidating my trips to the grocery store, but the cost of food is skyrocketing along with the cost of fuel for producing and delivering it, so my savings are essentially wiped out by the basic structure of our consumer market economy, which is predicated upon cheap and abundant energy, whether that's a bad thing or not.

The real solution is to transition to alternatives at the regional and national level-- other fuels, other forms of transportation, other ways of building our towns and cities, etc. Let's not kid ourselves, however-- this is not going to happen anytime soon, or without a considerable amount of pain, if it happens at all. The means to make such a transition are slipping away from us a little more every day as we squander our economic welfare around the world while embracing personal greed as a family value in our business dealings at home. Making that transition will require a significant amount of public investment, and that means competition with all the other things folks are getting squeezed by to keep their heads above water. Lots aren't going to make it. That is going to factor into the way our world changes as positive things, like fossil fuel conservation, progress. There is a shit storm of social and economic turmoil coming, I think.

[havocmom]

7. Thinkin we hit $5 by Memorial Day

[mike_c]

16. well, that will seriously impact my summer costs, for sure....

I hope you're being overly pessimistic, although I don't suppose it really matters since the current cost of gasoline ALREADY impacts my summer costs.

[rgbecker]

9. Just got a delivery of fuel oil, 150 gallons only $708.00.

Going to Florida next winter and close this house down. Will save $5000. Trouble is, gas at $5.00 will make it hard to get there!

[Breeze54]

13. What state is the oil fuel house in?

I don't blame you for going to Florida but won't you have to pay AC prices?

[rgbecker]

17. Massachusetts.

The idea would be to go only for the winter..find some work, come back for the summer. AC should be banned as far as I'm concerned. Fill the atmosphere with CO2 trying to cool it off. Wacko!

[Breeze54]

23. Want to rent it out?

How many bedrooms does it have?

:shrug:

[Warpy]

21. Jesus Christ on a trailer hitch!

My house back in New England had a 250 gallon tank.

Even 30 years ago, I was smart enough to put in a wood stove. That's how I heated the joint.

Someone told me the present owner removed it and patched up the flue.

Dumb, dumb, dumb dumb dumb.

[Breeze54]

22. $800.00 is an avg winter of heating with oil

at least it is, according to my sister. ;)

[Canuckistanian]

18. Just paid the equivalent of $4.68 here in Canada

Oh, yeah.

It's coming.

[spanone]

20. it ain't gonna stop imo, the oil men are swimming in money and blood..soldiers blood

[Breeze54]

24. And contracts from the Iraqi's ....

:(

[stevedeshazer]

25. You Californians crack me up

north coast...America apparently ends at the 42nd parallel and us folks in Oregon and Washington don't exist.

Excuse the northwest snark, because I love NoCal, and mike_c's point is well made.

[Jack Sprat]

26. A moped is looking more appealing all the time. n/t

[mike_c]

27. I think it's a specific place name....

At least that's the way I've always understood it. Just like "Mountain Ridge Road" or "Mill Valley," which I'm sure there are many many iterations of all over the country.

On the other hand, what is this "Oregon" and "Washington" that you speak of? :rofl:

[Robb]

28. Oregon and Washington

...are part of the Bay Area, I think. :D

[NightWatcher]

29. near my house went from $3.39 - $3.48 overnight (S Georgia )

[LeftyMom]

30. It was $3.99 in downtown Sacramento yesterday.

I paid $3.75 in a suburb.

I barely drive anywhere, and gas is killing me. I used to be able to fill the car up for $20 or so when I bought it in 2003, now that only gets me to 1/3 of a tank.

[Freedom Train]

31. In Europe it's over $6 per gallon

...and they don't seem to mind much. In fact, their economies are running better than ours. And stated policies from European Green parties call for gas to be priced at over $10/gallon and more. We are still way behind European prices, but hopefully not for long. High gas prices are not a problem, they're the SOLUTION to our environmental problems. Complaining about high price of gas is a REPUBLICAN meme, why are progressives using it? People need to be FORCED to consume less gasoline, and need to be FORCED to make the switch to alternative fuels. The sooner we get people out of gas-guzzling mega-SUVs and into high-mileage hybrids the better! European Greens get this, why don't their U.S. counterparts??

[newfie11]

36. Isn't that a liter instead of gallon. When I was in Germany in

October 07 gas was sold by liter.

[Freedom Train]

37. Gas is sold by liter in Europe, correct.

Except in UK where it's sold by British gallons, different than our gallons. But this is the U.S. Why would I as an American want to discuss prices in liters or UK gallons? The prices I stated are correct, converted to dollars per U.S. gallon.

[Harry Monroe]

38. I was in Sicily in 2003

And rented a car. Even back then I remember gasoline being over $5.00/gallon and thinking how we in the US were very lucky we weren't paying those kinds of prices. But I don't I think I saw an SUV the whole time I was there. Most of the cars there are tiny economical vehicles.

[Rex]

32. 5 dollars will be hitting the limit for the working class. Destroy

the last pillar of our infrastructure, thanks George and Dick. I'm sure greed will win out and destroy our Republic, sad it had to happen in my lifetime.

5.85 - 5 = .85 cents net gain per hour less every mpg. Not viable. Cya.

Sorry won't work, working class won't make it on a $600 bone.

Hope that wasn't the gamble.

[LazyBones]

33. hit it

It will hit $5 well before September. It jumped more than a dime over the weekend. What trades on the during the weekend other than their greed?
If everyone pedaled to work the state departments would have a fit losing revenue on vehicle registrations and the taxes on the gas. They would boohoo and give us something else to complain about.

[XemaSab]

34. Over 4 here in SB

:(

[Javaman]

35. 4 bucks nationally buy the 4th of july. 4.50 nationally by labor day..

I hope moron* and his room of dopes don't prove me wrong yet again.

my first prediction was 4 bucks nationally by labor day. ooops!