Gas Now $3.99
 

Oh Happy Days, gas prices are rising.

And who do we have to thank for that?

Those EV's are looking pretty good! :clap2:

-driving is a privilege and only those privileged should be driving. (let's go 9.00 bucks a gallon!!)

Sales of:

RV's , V8/V12's , Boats (non sail) will be a thing of the past soon.

Even battery powered golf carts are a hassle and expensive to replace the storage. I'll trade my battery powered golf cart for a gas powered any day. I don't see anyone willing to do that. It's easy for retirees to laugh because they don't commute an hour each way to work EVERY day. By the way, those that heat their homes must also pay the increased price for energy. Don't forget what plastics are made of.

Yes, keep laughing but oil is here for the rest of OUR lives and even retirees will end up paying in the long run.

I predict that it will go to $4.00 and maybe higher.

and i'm pretty sure you need coal to make electricity? correct me if i'm wrong, but that's just another fossil fuel

Oil companies learned discipline. They won’t be drilling anytime soon. Enjoy the high prices

Daughter paid $4.25 gal TODAY on the way here to visit.



There's places I have been overseas that have been paying $6-8.00 gal for years. Guess what? Oil will be here for many more years. Those that want electric cars are the ones that do not have to work for a living and can afford the crazy high price of a car that might burn up in a heart beat. Until they find a sub for lithium batteries, expect to have to replace them every so many years for near as much as a new car, and also be wary of how you handle them because they can catch fire. Gas fueled cars are not the only fire hazard. Nice to think about how quiet they are and how easy to charge them at home, but good luck going on a long trip by auto. How many hours for each charge are you going to be sitting on the side of the road? And how many cars are in line in front of you? And how much are they going to charge you to charge your EV? Things that make you say "hmmmm?"
I'll take cheap gas and fossil fuel powered cars any day. Worried about the air? The aid is cleaner today than it was when I was a kid in the city.

You ain't seen nothing yet!

this always seems to become a problem as efforts are being made to use more renewable energy and electric vehicles. the fact that despite living in Florida, MA and NJ have more solar power than Florida. I could never have a gas golf cart, even the supposedly quiet ones, it's like driving a lawn mower. we have been trying to get off dependence of gasoline since the 70s but somehow the gas guzzlers keep getting made. yes, I feel sorry for working people but if anything makes a case for more hybrids, that does.

V. Putin, obviously is responsible for the recent increase in gasoline prices. There is a bipartisan movement in Congress lead by the GOP with some Dem support to now cut off all imports of Russian oil to the US. [The EU gets 40% of its gas from Russia, we get 7 %] This will result in another major increase in prices. Will you still blame the never built XL pipeline?? Would you like the Ukrainians to surrender today so we can save a dollar a gallon and happily let Russia back into the international community as business partners and bankers?

Sometimes indeed freedom isn't free. Will you support a federal program to give financial support to those who need to use their vehicles for business use during this time of international disruption.. caused by Putin? That support should not come to me or likely you as we use gasoline for pleasure mostly.

:shocked: Do I have this right..... it's at $3.99 and you predict it will go to $4.00 and maybe higher??

Circle K @
3430 Wedgewood Ln & Preston Dr $3.999 right now.

Good prediction. :coolsmiley:

I feel comfortable with my prediction. I didn't want to go out on a limb.

Crude oil has gone from:

$91.59 to $115.68 barrel in the last 7 days.

Thank you Mr Putin!

Putin for starting the war, futures traders for running the price up, and gas stations for taking advantage of the situation.

- While there is a slight increase in demand due to nicer weather in the south, that can't account for the tremendous increase in price.

- People point to the import of Russian oil but that has not been cut off for the US or, I believe for Europe - there is no less supply of oil.

- Some want to blame the Keystone XL but that hasn't changed the supply or demand in the last week.

The only thing that has changed is Putin started a war and the market decided that means there will be an oil and gas shortage and so the price should go up.

Two days ago we bought gas at $3.59, yesterday it was $3.79, and today $3.99. Did the stations sell so much fuel that they refilled their tanks twice already with more expensive product? Or, are they still selling the same fuel today but at $0.40 per gallon more than they were selling it for two days ago?

Right. We only need 300 million charging stations

Yes, the price of gas has gone up from what we had been paying just a few days/weeks/months ago. And the cost varies widely depending upon where you live in this country. Just to throw a small bit of calm into the equation however, we need to remember that the price of gas hasn't really jumped from the $0.53 per gallon of 1974 to $3.99 per gallon this year. A review of the price adjusted for inflation over many years as on this web page ( dollartimes.com/inflation/items/price-of-a-gallon-of-gas-in-1974 ) is interesting. I didn't want to create a hot spot but it will be easy to Bing or Google search it. In short the average gallon of 1974 gas cost the equivalent of $3.20 in this 2022 dollars. So, the current price is still more than it used to be in the good old days when we started suffering from the oil embargoes back then and many of us had started driving to and from our adult jobs. And the price on the pump after filling our tanks does hurt. But let's not jump off too tall a cliff just yet.

Putin and nobody else. Don't even go there.

So you think electric free. Electric going up also. You save about 1/2 if lucky.

Gas was going up long before Putin

Wall Street Journal
Shell bought 100,000 metric tons of Russia’s flagship Urals crude on Friday, according to people familiar with the transaction. It paid $28.50 a barrel below the price of international benchmark Brent crude, the widest discount on record. We are being duped.
Did your wife give you money for fuel?

It will be cheaper to buy an RV than a car.

Petroleum is priced on speculation driven up by Hedgefunds. Even if Keystone2 was finished and supplying fuel the prices would still be the same it’s a world market WSJ today “Shell bought 100,000 metric tons of Russia’s flagship Urals crude on Friday, according to people familiar with the transaction. It paid $28.50 a barrel below the price of international benchmark Brent crude, the widest discount on record.”!

Agreed

The keystone pipeline came on line in 3 phases from 2010 to 2017. It starts in Alberta Canada and end in the gulf coast. It is still on line. The Keystone XL pipeline phase 4 never came on line.

Much closer to the reason of the rise is
1. OPEC - their production strategies drive the hedge fund prices you refer to
2. Us the consumer - the law of supply and demand

10$ by memorial day, if the war has not gone nuclear

lol

The more production the lower the price.

Yeah, what happened to energy independence? The price was climbing way before Putin started his war. Some folks are so blind, that when they stumble, they blame it on the day of the week.

Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Shell and BP made nearly $25 billion dollars in profits during the last quarter of 2021, the highest level in 7 years.

The less demand the lower the price. <$2/gal Aug 2020 when we sat home due to a pandemic. Limited air flights, state border limitations, etc.

It was $3.49 on Tuesday!!

A smartly-worded post which, not surprisingly, has elicited no response or comments from those unwilling to face facts. Kudos to you, blueash.

$3.39 in Gainesville on Thursday morning. Both cars are full, so Won’t need gas again until April. Guessing lawn companies will be hurting the most, after those who are still working

The cost to a country of not being energy independent, if it could be, sooner or later becomes high for any number of reasons.

No plans to get rid of either camper, my boat or my F350. What goes up always comes down.

Right on
 

Good points, makes sense to me. The whole world is greedy.

Not to those of us who had to drive over 800 miles today... :mad::censored::mad:

Paid $4.05/gal to fill up today...

That's due to their higher taxes on gasoline...

Paid 3.79 at Wawa today.