my grandma from chicago said it was 5.25 a gallon over there when she left for california.

around 4.50 now here in Long Beach, CA

 

Gas is 3.99/gal here in Southern Illinois. On my way home from work the other day I stopped to get gas... sold out? So I drove across the street and the same thing. Suposively on the news it's saying even the gas stations are having trouble.. It's costing so much to have their tank's filled that they don't have that huge lump sump of money to get them filled. I'm definately feeling the hurt. 2 year's ago when I got my first car gas was just going above 2$/gal from what I recall. My car only get's 12 mpg also unfortunately and now I'm investing all this money into my 66 mustang which isn't going to get much better:S

 

I remember back when gas hit 2$ I was so pissed off!!!

Those were the days[&o]

 

I paied $4.74 for premium today, came down 8 cents since yesterday. To make it worse, the local government is assraping the refinery I work at, preventing us from expanding to meet current fuel needs and standards. Right now about 25,000 barrels a day of unfinished fuel has to be shipped by truck to other refineries to meet California Clean Air standards, then shipped back by truck to be sold. We supply about 90% of fuel to this area.

 

It hasn't hit 4 a gallon in kentucky yet got close a couple times.Ford gm and toyota did have electric cars in cali in the 90s but back out and crushed them all.If you can watch the movie who killed the electric car.Cheapest gas i remember was just under a dollar and im only 25.Part of the gas price being so high is our failing dollar and the hippies that won't let us drill or build new refinerys.

 

I blame the car car companys, and our government. Do you realize that back in the 90's GM, and Ford started leasing out zero emisions vehicles in California? Ford sold the Ford Ranger EV (electric vehicle) and GM sold the EV1 marketed under the Satrun name. About a few years after this though Bush announced the whole thing about Hydrogen powered cars being the way of the future (haha) and then the Car companys, along with the federal gov't filed a lawsuit against california (california adopted a law that a certain percentage of cars sold there had to be zero emisons) and they soon droped it from their legislature. The cars were hardly marketed, and near impossible to get. You had to call and fill out an application, and have an interview just to LEASE one. So when they no longer had to sell them, they never re-newed the leases on them, the took them back and now 99% of them have been SHREDDED!!
Now I know what you are thinking who the hell cars?! its an ELECTRIC car its a POS. But realisticlly there was almost no maintenace to do on them, no gas, it was a realitivly cost free car. And, with the right batterys in them the Saturn EV1's would get 100 to 200? (i think) miles on a charge, and would spin the rear tires.. You pluged them in at night when you got home and you were good to go. They looked like a normal car to.
My point is: The Government, and car companys fault, they by now, could have devised something taht would release us from our dependance on oil, and if they had, by now it would be far superior to what we have now. Even if they still wanted to use the fossil fuels we all know and love, if they put the time and energy into it we could have vehicles that get a lot better MPG than we do now. The problem is they have money tied up in oil, so they wouldn't be making all the profits they are if they bettered the automobile.

Look at the numbers, the overal gas millage today, is not much better than it was 40 years ago, everything else is better, more hp, more torque, better tires that last longer but our gas mileage still sucks.
Just my opinion, which you will not agree with but I don't care.
Rant over.
let the scolding (sp) begin...

 

i dont blame the govt or the car companies i blame the consumers. if the customer demanded it and paid for it we would have it.

 

$9.50 in Amstelveen

 

Quit blaming the government and the automakers! You sound like a child who expects your parents (the government) to make all the decisions for you. We live in AMERICA and we are a CAPITALIST country with a free market.

When I bought my Honda Fit back in August 2007, I knew that I needed a commuting car that got good gas mileage. It was the CHEAPEST Honda made (I got the base for a little more than $14,500it's costing me $300/month in payments).

I'm getting 42 mpg on my commute and the people who bought big SUVs and trucks are having to spend $100 to fill their tanks. Whose fault is that? The Government's?

Give me a freakin break!

95% of the cars on road with me everyday have only ONE person in it and in the city I live, the vast majority commute into L.A. at least 50 miles.

If the demand would have been there for fuel efficient vehicles, the car makers would have built them! But for the last 10 years the AMERICAN PEOPLE have wanted big SUVs and trucks with BIG engines.

GM is shutting down 4 SUV/truck plants as we speak. I wonder why? It's because you can't give a Chevy Suburban away right now.

Honda, on the other hand, is selling all kinds of cars. Hmm, I wonder why? It's because Honda has ALWAYS made efficient vehicles.

People should take responsibility for their actions. It only takes me 9 gallons to go 370 miles. And BTW, my Honda Fit has more interior room than my 1968 Mustang coupe and it's faster as well (289 2v C4 auto). And don't even ask about the mileage an old 1968 got.

So if a 1968 Mustang was perfectly fine for people back in 1968, then what's wrong with a Honda Fit. Let's see, the Fit has more room, better handling and ride, better climate control, better sound system, goes faster and it gets between 32-42 mpg (and makes hardly any air pollution). Oh, and it will run forever before it needs an overhaul.

My suggestion is that the people with gas hogs might want to look for a more efficient daily driver.

 

It looks like shiz.