Gas Prices

[moparmike]

If the governement would reduce the tax on gas that would go a long way it is a fact that they actually make more profit then the as company on gas sales.....so don't expect them to regulate prices as they would be cutting their own profits

[bruce]

Shoot, I'd just like to see them go back to the prices mentioned at the beginning of the thread!

[RS23U1E]

While I am sure their are people at the nest who remember lower prices - I can still clearly remember when I was 16 filling up at 89 cents per gallon. Sometimes finding change from the ashtray to put a few gallons in the tank.

[bruce]

I'm probably one of the oldest geezers on the Nest, so pretty sure I can top you all.

Driving my '70 Challenger when I was a kid--gas was 50 cents per gallon or so. Could put in 5 dollars worth and cruise all night.

[1bluegtx]

I'm probably one of the oldest geezers on the Nest, so pretty sure I can top you all.

Driving my '70 Challenger when I was a kid--gas was 50 cents per gallon or so. Could put in 5 dollars worth and cruise all night.

Yeah i also remember having to work three hours for that 5.00 LOL
Remember sunoco 260? i hated paying .96 a gallon for that.

BRIAN

[bruce]

And of course that .50 per gallon was AFTER the oil embargo of '74... life was good up until then--crusin' my dad's '62 T-Bird convert on .35 per gallon or so.

That .50 per gallon gas was one reason the price on my '70 Challenger was so cheap in 1974--$1,050 for a 4-year-old car with 68,000 miles on it...

[Eric]

I'm probably one of the oldest geezers on the Nest, so pretty sure I can top you all.

This is probably true

[ILUV72RRs]

I remember telling a friend after I bought my first '72 Road Runner back in 1972 that something was up. He asked me what I meant? I told him, "Haven't you noticed that there hasn't been a gasoline price war now for well over a year? Something's up." Wasn't long after that that we had our first gas crisis. At that time gas was averaging 32 to 36 cents a gallon here in southern California. During a price war on the last day of it the price sometimes would get as low as 19 cents a gallon! I'll turn 64 in June, Lord willing. I never in my wildest dreams thought it would ever get this crazy.

[bruce]

I'm probably one of the oldest geezers on the Nest, so pretty sure I can top you all.

This is probably true

Who asked you Eric?

[Smellslike1974]

I remember watching an episode of Top Gear.They were talking about gas prices over there and also here In the states.I know Its complete bs about the gas prices but they made a very good point.

GAS Is something that millions of dollars Is spent on just to get from our earth,something that Is then stored,put through tests and modified In many ways.and now costs around 3 dollars a gallon for It.

MILK,Is something we naturally get from cows,much cheaper to get and Its around the same price as gas a gallon.

That Is what makes you think,It makes you see that the prices could be worse and Its amazing that your paying the same price for something that Is hard to get.If only cows produced gasoline and milk was earth produced.

haha wouldn't bother me I rarely eat cereal.Id have me a lot of cows though!

[RS23U1E]

I was stewing about the gas price thing when I came across this article which made me fear that sooner or later we are going to be paying a lot more still. The US hasn't built a new refinery since 1976! There doesn't appear much chance for any new ones either. Imagine what would happen to prices when some disaster causes a couple of those to go offline, or God forbid something worse.

http://www.slate.com/id/2102031/

Even worse - our government is loaning money so that refinerys get built elsewhere...

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/fed ... l-refinery


PS - Cows DO produce gas... pretty hard to put it in the tank though!

[rradar71]

In about ten days, I am leaving with my camper from Florida to go (hopefully) to Alaska. It is something that I had planned to do for a long time. It would have been cheaper two years ago. Then again, two years from now this year may seem cheap. I am hoping to get back home before a big hurricane gets going in the gulf for yet another reason to raise prices. Yes milk is expensive, but you buy it and it usually sits in the refrigerator for awhile. At 9 mpg, it's like throwing a gallon of milk out of the window every 8 or 9 minutes.

[moparmike]

I love it when some expert puts out a report claiming the high costs in refining gas.......here is the truth about their high costs......Last year they made record profits in the billions on GAS,,,,YES the poor gas companies whose costs are soooo high (so they claim) made record profits during a recession,,,,,,what is more disturbing is that the government made more then the gas companies by taxing gas.....the bottom line is that the government should reduce the tax on gas as we are in a recession.... Here in Canada the taxes added to the price of gas is out of control...right now our dollar sits at $1.05 and yet our gas is almost $5 a gallon.

[71 runner clone]

heard on the radio today, the reason gas is so high right now is, all the refineries shut down at the same time to switch over to summer blend. guess they never heard of stock piling before hand. of course that is the gas companies excuse- for now!

[71GTX]

Its all Bush/Cheney's fault that gas prices are this high in the US....