What's the price of gallon of regular unleaded gas where you live?

[fetaby]

Things like taxes on the pasture land, cost of breeding/buying replacement stock, dealing with a highly perishable product needing constant refrigeration, the money and labor needed to maintain sterile conditions in the dairy, etc. and etc..

Also pasteurization equipment and packaging costs, and all the b.s. that goes along with packaging.

Aaaaand, I'd say 95%, if not more, of these processes really on oil/gasoline in some way also.

 

[looseliam]

Oops! The station that posted a $3.66 yesterday is $3.73 today. Please stay tuned. I'm thinking $4.00 by March 15. (Beware of the Ides of March.) $5.00 by Memorial Day. One can only hope.

Just wait for Crooked County to raise the tax on gas...

 

[levenshulme31]

£131.9 per litre or £6 per (uk) gallon
Cost me £76 to fill up yesterday. ($123)
(A UK gallon is 4.55 litres, A US gallon is 3.78 litres so that's $8.11 per gallon

A quick Google suggests that average US income is slightly higher than average UK income.

I suggest looking for cars which do more than 15mpg


and a sense of perspective - $3.60 per gallon? I should be so lucky!

And once again, our, already fucked up, economies are biting their collective nails wondering what the fuck is going to happen to the middle east oil-teet we are so dependent on, and no doubt, once again we will piss away billions on mindless military interventions to protect our perceived interests instead of investing in alternative energy which could guarantee self-sufficency into the future. All while the corporate fucks in charge will be making vast profits from increasing gas prices while stirring the political cauldron to convince the public that climate change is a myth and that alternative energy is a socialist plot to force your children to eat hummous while taking away their Hummers.

 

[Jack Springer]

It's about the same where I live.Of course we're getting fucked again.Diesel fuel is over $4.00 a gallon now.Look for prices of retail goods/food to skyrocket.That cost will be passed on to us..

On another note though,I've always wondered why a gallon of milk costs more than a gallon of gas..Seems a lot more work goes into getting a gallon of gasoline from an oil well 5,000 feet under the waves than the work involved with hooking up Bessie to an electric milking machine..

Milk is pretty much a controlled price commodity. The price that the farmers get paid hasn't changed much in decades. The extra cost is in processing, fuel, and retail.

 

[Knucklehead]

Because the milk is transported by all the work done to get the gas. So not only is the cost of the milk in the price, but the cost of transporting the milk, as well as profit for the grocer and the dairy and probably half a dozen more things that I'm leaving out cause I'm not in that business.

Things like taxes on the pasture land, cost of breeding/buying replacement stock, dealing with a highly perishable product needing constant refrigeration, the money and labor needed to maintain sterile conditions in the dairy, etc. and etc..

Also pasteurization equipment and packaging costs, and all the b.s. that goes along with packaging.

Aaaaand, I'd say 95%, if not more, of these processes really on oil/gasoline in some way also.

Good points,all of them.

As much as we are getting hosed and we are getting hosed,still beats the $7.00 a gallon they pay in Europe..

 

[NineOfClubs]

So, what does it cost to buy a gallon (4 liters) of milk in Europe?

 

[954dude]

$3.49 to $3.79 and it's been rising daily.

 

[ChickenGuy]

£131.9 per litre or £6 per (uk) gallon
Cost me £76 to fill up yesterday. ($123)
(A UK gallon is 4.55 litres, A US gallon is 3.78 litres so that's $8.11 per gallon

A quick Google suggests that average US income is slightly higher than average UK income.

I suggest looking for cars which do more than 15mpg

and a sense of perspective - $3.60 per gallon? I should be so lucky!

Americans have no idea what a fantastic bargain they're getting on fuel.

The prices in rural Scotland are amongst the highest in Europe and it's disgraceful.

http://www.petrolprices.com/

I just checked online.

The current price for unleaded in my town is 142.90p.

142.90p converted from price per litre to price per gallon (multiply by 3.7854) = 540.93p.

540.93p converted from price in pounds to price in dollars (multiply by 1.6325) = $8.83.


But I have a diesel car.

The current price for diesel in my town is 149.90p.

149.90p converted from price per litre to price per gallon (multiply by 3.7854) = 567.43p.

567.43p converted from price in pounds to price in dollars (multiply by 1.6325) = $9.26.


Expensive in the U.S.?

And once again, our, already fucked up, economies are biting their collective nails wondering what the fuck is going to happen to the middle east oil-teet we are so dependent on, and no doubt, once again we will piss away billions on mindless military interventions to protect our perceived interests instead of investing in alternative energy which could guarantee self-sufficency into the future. All while the corporate fucks in charge will be making vast profits from increasing gas prices while stirring the political cauldron to convince the public that climate change is a myth and that alternative energy is a socialist plot to force your children to eat hummous while taking away their Hummers.

I agree with everything there.

OPEC and the oil companies must be salivating with delight right now. They have yet another excuse to ramp up the price. Meanwhile, in the markets, investors and stockbrokers start their over-speculating and their futures exchanges and their derivatives etc. etc. etc. etc. - they push drama and panic, as they always love to do.

FACT: The prices would not go up if certain invested organisations weren't profiting from it.

 

[roadtripboy]

$3.39 per gallon here.

The thing I don't understand is: most of our imported oil comes from Canada. Only 2% from Lybia.

So, yes our gas is still cheaper than some other parts of the world. But, the current increase would seem to be totally unrelated to supply.

And the price is always different in different parts of the country. Southern California is almost always the highest. While southeast where I live is among the cheapest. Leading me to believe the price has nothing to do with cost. The price seems to be set by what the income levels can bear in each region.

 

[bankside]

$3.39 per gallon here.

The thing I don't understand is: most of our imported oil comes from Canada. Only 2% from Lybia.

So, yes our gas is still cheaper than some other parts of the world. But, the current increase would seem to be totally unrelated to supply.

And the price is always different in different parts of the country. Southern California is almost always the highest. While southeast where I live is among the cheapest. Leading me to believe the price has nothing to do with cost. The price seems to be set by what the income levels can bear in each region.

Supply is pretty much matched exactly to demand. If there was any kind of surplus production, it would result in lakes of excess oil just growing larger and larger without a buyer.

What about during a recession when the demand decreases? When the economy goes through a downturn, oil companies just take the opportunity to shut down their older, inefficient, low-yielding wells with higher production costs for example. And they can't turn those back on overnight just because Libya has cut back.

And so shouldn't prices just go up 2% ? No, because nobody would change their driving behaviour for 2%. The price has to go up a lot more to get people to live within the new limits. If they didn't, then any reserves would be depleted, and you'd see gas stations running out of gas, etc.

And why does the US have to pay more when they barely get any oil from Libya? Because it's an international open market. China buys three times more oil from Libya than the USA, and if they can't buy oil from Libya, they're happy to buy it from Canada. That keeps the price for Canadian oil up, in line with global averages. We're not going to give away cheap oil to Americans when China is willing to pay the going rate. We don't even get a deal ourselves at the pumps. What we pay to fill up the car rises and falls along with everybody else's gas prices, even though we mine it and refine it within a few hours' drive from here.

 

[roadtripboy]

^As far as I can tell the price of oil from Canada has not really increased a great deal lately.

All I'm really saying is that the price of oil, no matter what country you live in, appears be set not by the price of buying or producing it. But, seems to be based on whatever the oil companies think they can get away with.

 

[mbamike]

As of yesterday, $3.33.

 

[birddog7]

$3.39 per gallon here.

The thing I don't understand is: most of our imported oil comes from Canada. Only 2% from Lybia.

So, yes our gas is still cheaper than some other parts of the world. But, the current increase would seem to be totally unrelated to supply.

And the price is always different in different parts of the country. Southern California is almost always the highest. While southeast where I live is among the cheapest. Leading me to believe the price has nothing to do with cost. The price seems to be set by what the income levels can bear in each region.

It's called gouging...

 

[ronboy]

As of 4:30 PM EST on March 8, 2011, the price of gas at my local Valero station is $3.57 per gallon. The mini-mart down the street is an Exxon station, and they are charging $3.59. On the 6:00 news on WROC, TV-8, a Hess gas station on Rochester's east side was charging $3.63 per gallon. And so it goes.....

 

[Jayden]

$3.89 a mutherfucking gallon.

 

[Dobson73]

Around AU$1.45/litre which is about US$5.80/gallon.

We don't have the massive subsidies that I think the US has on fuel?

 

[Esquire0399]

$3.54... too expensive........

 

[hungrybrownbear]

A LOT of freakin money....

It's like 4 dollars/gallon right now.... ugh