Gas so $$$
 

Sorry for the cuss word.

And going up higher. Erggggg, I have to drive the gas hungry pickup truck on the 1,360 mile trek back north in a couple weeks, that’s gonna hurt. Besides filling up the golf cart, I haven’t seen a gas pump since I tanked up the truck in Altoona, FL on January 3rd.

Last time the convertible needed gas, price was $3.12. Both cars still have half tank, so good to go until sometime in April

Price oil under 100 bucks now. Funny how price goes instantly at pump but takes weeks or months to come back down. Gas at pump should be less than 3.50 gallon, but the greed don’t work that way.

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When I left to visit family out of town on Friday, I had to pay $4.59/gallon to top off the tank before getting on the highway.

When I returned yesterday, I saw the same station showing $4.25/gallon.

It's not optimal for sure. I'd love to see gas prices lowered. Heck I'd do a big happy dance and buy everyone a round at the bar if prices got down under $2/gallon.

But as long as people rely on oil, the oil refineries will have us by the cajones. There's absolutely zilch anyone can do about it OTHER than start encouraging and using alternative energy sources.

We drove up to Homosassa Springs today-first time I’ve been off-campus for awhile. I feel bad for anyone who has a Diesel engine. It was around $4.59/gal.

BTW CFrance, funny meme. : - )

Alternative is great for going to the grocery store. We like to travel. Big trips. As in driving from here to Alaska and back. No way to do that in a battery powered car.

FYI, If you people not driving your vehicle for weeks on end or driving short trips because of gas prices,
put your battery on a trickle charger to keep it charged up.

good one...thanks for the laugh

reminded me of Rodney Dangerfield's brand of humor

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

As John Lennon might say

“Imagine” if our Gov would promote and subsidize oil drilling, speed up building transportation pipelines, and invest in technology to convert coal to a clean fuel.
Gas would be $1 gallon and home gas and elec bills would drop.

Inflation would be history, national debt soon paid back from energy export sales, and the USA would be the energy powerhouse of the world for the next 100 years.

I paid $4.89 at the pump yesterday. Big ouch that Prep H couldn't help.

Gas
 

With these gas prices even Tom Brady is going back to work!🤣😂

Remembering it all just two years ago .

Gas prices are so high Tom Brady had to go back to work! :)

Is it true, Tom Brady had to go back to work so he could fill up his gas guzzlers???
:1rotfl::1rotfl::1rotfl:

I'm looking forward to all the "Thanks Brandon" comments when gas settles back to its normal price range, having adjusted for the pandemic, supply gridlock, Russian invasion, etc.

Paid $5.29 /gallon for rec gas (non-ethanol) last week. I don’t use it in my golf cart but in my lawn mower , edger, blower and trimmer. Bad time to realize I was almost out of gas. Good thing I only needed three gallons. I use rec gas in my generator so hoping prices moderate before hurricane season!

Instead of filling up my golf cart for $8, it cost $18 last week. I guess elections do have consequences don't they?

Sorry not the way it works and not greed. The stations bought the gas when it was high and have to sell it for the higher cost until they have depleted that inventory. Gas goes up and down with the cost of oil but it is slower to respond to drops. The oil suppliers control the price by controlling supply not the gas stations.

Solution; sell “up north” and stay here!

…….or simply use our own, American, available but, now, underutilized energy sources until those other energy solutions become a reality

bee-eye-en-gee-ohh!

No too hot here in the summer! Last trip we made from north to south cost (1325 Miles) us about $105. Come this May I'm guesstimating it could run as high based on $7 per gallon, time will tell. The good news is here based on how little we use our van it's about $15 per week.

Gee. Wouldn’t that be great. But no, wait, wasn’t that what we were in the process of doing up until last year? Oh yeah. Must have been the Covid-19.

If that bothers you, don't go to Lowe's and buy any Lumber. A standard 2 x 4 that was $3.28 is now $7.94!

Personally I don’t think we’ll ever see $2. a gal. no matter who gets in charge. Those days are over!

USA Prices still half of those in the UK - spare a thought for us !!

Exxon made 84% profit last year. The others made no less than 38%. All from exporting cheaper U.S. oil and selling more expensive imported oil to us. Too bad we can't all go to a "Mom & Pop" American refinery to get gas.

Imagine
 

Imagine if We were still digging Coal and Drilling Oil wells like We use to do! More people would be working and America would be thriving….. We’d be an Energy Independent nation again!!!

dreamer

Sorry, over $100 today, going back up

As far as gas prices go, elections have no effect. What your saying is one elected person has control of the worlds gas prices. At least we still have a democracy....for now

Buy an electric car/cart!

Fuel prices can only go so high before the majority of us will be unable to pay those prices. Then the energy companies won't be making what they want, so they will lower the prices to the point that we all start buying again. Prices will pretty much stabilize, but at what point, I don't know.

Trying to make a simplistic explanation without getting into complicated economics.

Electric sure is becoming more attractive as fuel prices soar. 🚗🚙🚲 ⛽⛽⛽

You are ahead of the game. Gas at Sam's on 3/15 was <$3.00 a gallon.

Correct! But most of your driving throughout the year doesn't involve driving to Alaska and back. Most of it involves going to the store, going to neighborhoods in the Villages, going to restaurants, going to the doctor, going to the museum or library, going to rec centers, and all kinds of other things in and around the community you live in.

Don't forget that gasoline isn't the only thing petroleum is used for. All those plastic bags from the supermarket? If you're not re-using them for something, then buy some washable re-useable tote bags and use those for your groceries instead. Buying small bottles of water by the case? How about buy a decent thermos and buy the water by the 1-gallon jug instead. If you're strong enough, buy the 2.5 gallon jugs.

No, it's not a lot of savings. But imagine if everyone used their "freedom of choice" to reducing (rather than the pie in the sky eliminating) their petroleum use by even that little.

The oil companies might think "hm - not so many people wanting this product anymore. Maybe we could branch out and come up with other products to market to energy consumers."

What are you all winging about?

$4/$5 a gallon that's sooooo CHEAP.

Over the pond, the price is already c$8.68 per US gallon - with the news projecting this to top $12.77 in the next few weeks. Such is the price of freedom from a deluded tyrant hell-bent on starting the apocalypse

And the pulmonologists would be thriving and we would all be crabbing about the high cost of portable oxygen.