Study: Gas prices up 16 cents in 2 weeks

Source: ap

Study: Gas prices up 16 cents in 2 weeks

1 hour, 51 minutes ago

CAMARILLO, Calif. - The national average price for gasoline rose about 16 cents over the last two weeks, according to a survey released Sunday.
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The average price of regular gasoline on Friday was $2.96 a gallon, mid-grade was $3.08, and premium was $3.19, oil industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said.

The nation's lowest price was in Newark, N.J., where a gallon of regular cost $2.73, on average. The highest was in San Francisco at $3.28, according to the Lundberg Survey of 7,000 stations nationwide.

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we need a real energy policy

I returned from Florida on 10/20 and gas was $2.98 at the corner convenience store. Today it's $3.18. Western N.Y. New York being one of the highest taxed states for fuel. No wonder people are leaving this state in droves.

I don't know what I'm going to do when I see my gas and electric bills this winter. I keep the thermostat set at 63 degrees as it is, even lower at night. Any lower than that and I may as well live outside. And the Bush spin machine is trying to tell us how great the economy is. :rofl: I have to laugh to keep from crying.

shithead stop threatening Middle East countries?

nt

It's only money we don't have.

:shrug:

rodeodance

Wait to the petrol cost more than 2 digits as it have been doing in the most of Europe the last 10 year or so. Then you absolutely have the right to complain.. US 3.08 for 3.9 Liter is not that expencive.. Wait to you experience 10-12 or more US dollar for One Liter(.1 gallon i belive), then you really have the right to complain...

Or you may start to demand CARS that you can afford?.. Not like this big SUV and its like, but more like the smal compact car they have in Japan, or in Europe..?.. US may have to change your life more than US belive, when the oil is going pretty expencive.. As they have been doing now.. It is a REASON that the US car manufactons are going from bad to worse lately.. YOu are great to build car, but you dosent build car that the rest of the world need, or can afford if you see into the petrol issue.. Even diesel driven american cars, seldom are going down from 1.0 Liter for 10km...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language..

ps, if you feel that I am not verry "sorry" about this sum you now have to pay on the pump. It is becouse I don't are.. Not at this.. But it is many other thing I am really sorry is happening to US this days...

Not as high as some places...yet.

Diclotican, we really should consider ourselves lucky that it's not as high here as it is in Europe and other countries around the world. I was so glad to get a car that is great on mileage, about 32 mpg, give or take.

celestia671

True, you are stil lucky in many ways, compared to other nations.. and it looks like it wil climb up both here in Europe and in the US.. I am not a chemist, but I really hope they someday soon, are working out some of the "Problems" and are made a syntetic thing, who can replace Oil as our current most important use of driving.....

This week our gasline price are going up, again to over NRK 12.00 THAT IS EXPENCIVE.. Dosent sound like mutch, but I really fear that our price on the pump wil go up to NKR 13.00 before the end of the year... Then I may let my car stand where it is, and just use it when absolutely necesary.. It is expenice here.. And you stiiiiil have some way to go, before you are hitting the same levels as in many country in Europe - still...

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

Sorry my late replay, my PC broke down, and have another PC to my own is up and go again.

How much do you pay for health insurance in Norway? I pay $8,000.00 a year for myself. Do you pay this much too? I'd gladly pay $10.00 a gallon for gasoline if I did not have to pay $8,000.00 a year for health insurance.

As for the car thing, we don't have much of a choice here as only the fairly well off people can afford to buy a new fuel-efficient car.

Personally, I drive a Honda Accord that gets about 30 MPG.

I am not looking for your "sympathy", I am asking that you look at the entire picture here. Many work for $8.00 an hour making $64.00 a day before taxes, etc. are taken out. That means you might end up with about $50.00 a day if lucky. If you must drive to/from work, it can cost as much as $10.00 a day or more depending on the length of the commute. Because of this, there is a big problem and it is called something known as the working poor in this country most of whom have no health insurance.

Do you have this in Norway? Had you ever considered these situations? It is very real here and I do not believe that anyone in Norway pays close to $1,000.00 a month for health care and that is because the money paid out for the gasoline there is used to pay for many benefits that your government has for its citizens that our government fails to provide.

I believe it is unfair to blame the American people personally. It is the fault of a system that is corrupt and out of control and leaches and feeds off of the average working person. I guess they don't have that in Norway?

:kick:

CountAllVotes

As I know it, we pay our health insurance by the taxes... I have never had a inscurance for my health, everytime I have needed a doctor I have get it anyway..Even when I was hospitalized, my stomage was geting my into some seriuse problem I was not paying a lot.. have to pay some sum in the Emeregency room, but that is something everyone do, 225nkr, by the way.. And then I was off to the hospital, and get a medication for my stomage, and my health was going right up again.. After a week, I was released and was going out of the hospital - and dont have to work my famous butt out, for the hospitalizering too.. . I know our taxes and be scary for a american who are not used to that type of direct and indirect taxasing.. More easy to have a life insurance,

No, I dont use 8000 US dollar for my healt insurance, I trust my goverment that mutch, as when I need it, I can get the help I need.. I pay my taxes, who in my situation is 25% of my earing eatch mounth, and get a excelent refound every year, when the sumer holiday is coming in... And I have to say, that I prefer to pay the taxes, and get "free" medical need when I need it, then to have to pay 8000 US dollar eatch year, just to get by if you have some medical problems.. And I have that....

I havent a new car, my car is 20 year old, a old Toyota Corolla, I lovly car I really "Love" and trying my best to get into shape.. Have some smal problems with it sometimes, But for a 20 year old car, it is in pretty good shape.. And it is going ca .5 for the 10km.. Thats like halv a Liter for eatch mile..(Metric mile)... And I are NOT a rich person, rather the opposite;P. But I get along, and even manage to save little there and now...
And I can NOT affoard a new car, anytime soon... Cars is rather expencive here in Norway, Have allways been, and I belive it wil be that for a long time in the future.. Stupid, but thats the fact

:spank:

True, Thats true if you is taking ALL the sums, it maybee is rather expencive to drive a car in the US.. Even more expencive than it is in Norway - and that mean it is expencive... I have take a rather rough math to what it cost to drive my 20 year old car a year here in Norway, with all the taxes, and the lot.. And I get a sum verry near nkr 20.000 eatch year.. That is EXPENCIVE for a man who have maybee little over NKR 200.000 eatch year...

You are maybee right, If the american public was knowing it was posible to have a affoarble univercial health care system, where ALL people can get help when needed, the bad idea is that you have to pay little more taxes, I really belive they want to get it.. It wil maybee not be as in Europe, or in our generous Scandianvian nations, but in some way, you may get a healt care system that is suited to your needs. In US...

I belive that US 0.800 a hour as a minimal wage is just sickining.. Its another way of slavery if you ask mee... You may have the freedom to do what you want, or to go where you want.. But with 8.00 a hour, you are not in the position to do someting... Everything you do, wil cost mutch more than if you are a rich person, who have a lot more than 8.00 a hour..
You maybee have to learn someting from us, in europe when it come to the strenght of the Union.. I know that many americans Hate the word Union, who they belive is something like the anti-crist... or comunist.. Or something rather bad... But in Europe Unions have doing great thing to the peopole, and even that the unions today dosent have the same apeal they have before, many peopole are still member of a union...

We do have some "bad aples" here too.. But for the most part everyone agree that we do have the right to have a public service for all. And that is a right everyone can agree about.. Even that we do have some disagreement of howe to build a ppublic health care, a public school system and so on.. But for the most part, its more sematic than that they want to privatice the whole thing...

I hope we have in our current goverment honest peopole.. And for the most part our goverment have been that, but now are Norway a verry smal country, where the goverment can't be doing something reallys tupid, and the public are not aware of it.. We have our chare of corrupt goverment officals, we do have our share of regular stupid officals... But for the most part, we do manage to have some honesty in our goverment, and therefore the most part of our taxes are going the right way.. And we dosent have that "big power" game to play in the world stage either..

But we are one of 3 other nations, who are not in the "red" but rather great in the "green" economical....

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

PS. Sorry my late replay, My computer broke down, and I am lending a PC from a friend of me, to my own is repaired...

Cobalt Violet

True. I allways forget that:eyes: But you are still spoiled when it come to the petrol.,....

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

Sorry my late replay, my PC broke down (virus) and I have a friends PC to my own PC is fixed..

while I agree with you about SUVS, please don't compare gas prices in Europe to gas prices here. The day they have to spend over $8000 dollars to get their teeth fixed or lose their home to healthcare costs, I'll feel bad for them paying more for gas. As someone who spent half her childhood in England I must say that many Europeans, always ready to criticize Americans for not knowing about Europe, really don't know jackshit about America.

SkittleWs

Vel I allways tray to learn more of your amazing, pusling nation.. One day you look like us, the other day you act and looks as something from another planet... It is confusing from a stupid european to try to understand why you complain about a gasolineprice when you have a great love for the big, thursty american cars.. Yes I want a big, american Car with a BIG BLOC V8 enigne.. But I cant afford it, not in the insurence, not at the petrol pump.. Therefore I am driving a rather old Toyota Corolla, who are excelent for my need.. But I really, really dreaming about the big, V8 engine sometimes.. And when I are seeing one of them... A BIG SMILE is coming to my face.. I really love the sound of the engines as it like.. But I know I cant afford it... Not today, not tomorrow.. But I can allways dream, cant I?

It is not free to get our teht fixed here in Norway... It is rather expencive.. But becouse I am under some medical help from our goverment I have free dental care.. And thank the lord for that;).. But I have to go to a school dentist, but she is great, excelent to medicate a man who are really afraid of the dentist.. (I am not excactly proud of it, but I am really afraid of the dentist, allways have been..)

Vel, good for you to have lived half your life in UK, I guess you have experienced a lot of Europe when you was here...

But as I say in the beginning.. I have allways tried to understand US, but I have rather lost it the last 6 year or so.. Once US was like a great "Uncel" or somelike that.. Our friends, and allied.. Now you look more and more like something from another world, from another planet, maybee from another galaxcy.. Confusing and someting to be afread about maybee to?

Diclotican

Sorry my bad engelish, not my native language

Sorry my late replay,my PC broke down, have lended a friends PC, to my own is up and go again..

Wonder how much they got paid to do the "study" and why in hell can't I get a sweet deal in study funding?

Source: thin air

Study: 5 0ut 5 Oil Exec's are laughing

13 minutes ago

WERESCREWED, USA. - Recent study shows that, 5 out of 5 Oil Executives are laughing all the way to the bank.

And yet the gas credit card companies are harassing my poor mother to death about her bills. Vultures!

Didn't you hear??? Exxon posted LOWER than EXPECTED profits!!!!11!! Those poor oil companies and their shareholders. I say we all go out and buy 50 gallons and pour it down the sewer to help them out!


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Twenty cents a gallon gas tax here in Michigan.

You know, diesel, that BYPRODUCT of the gasoline refining process? A gallon of it goes for $3.30 at the cheapest place in central NC. A few pennies more than PUG, more than a quarter pricier than RUG. That chicken-fat biodiesel is looking better and better at a CONSISTENT $3.50/gallon!

i knew i should have filled up on thursday, but nooooooo....