How Close to $3 a Gallon are you?

[AMANOCC]

Now $3.45 for premium

[ANDY M]

Desani water is $1.00 per 500ml in a vending machine here.
Do the math, and it's over $4.00/gl for water that came from the municipal water source (tap water) that was filtered again and bottled.
When gas starts to cost more than water, it's time to get really upset!

[Canucklehead]

It's about time you guys pay as much as we pay on a regular basis, and your still not paying as much as we do, and we have the second biggest reserves in the world in our back yard, anyways.................complaining falls on deaf ears, remember you elected him.

[Donutblue]

Tell ya what Canucklehead, I'll trade ya. You pay my health insurance rates, I'll pay your gas costs.

[Schonyenko2]

I hesitate to get into these conversations as they tend to get pretty partison, but I was just watching cable news, and they were saying part of the reason that the prices were going up was a shortage of corn to make ethanal. That is pure BS. We've got a glut of corn here in the midwest, and the price per bushel tend to drop, rather than rise. I've got 3/4s of a million bushels just up the road from me waiting for the prices to go up so farmers can get a little profit.
Now there maybe a shortage of conversion plants, but that's not what they said.
Be you Democrat, or Republican, this country needs to have a plan, like Kennedy stated,"A man on the moon in ten years" to do the same with energy independence. We could, and should me self sufficient in less than ten years. It's not just a matter of filling up your car, it's a matter of national security. To not address this issue with that degree of importanence, is pure incompetence.
Anyway, on the issue of a corn shortage, someone is lying. Again

[olredalert]

--------I can tell you for a fact that truckloads full of corn go into Canada 4 miles from me to be used to make ethanol. I dont know what this ethanols use is once made but I see the corn trucks every day of the week going on to the ferry........Bill S

[PeteLeathersac]

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--------I can tell you for a fact that truckloads full of corn go into Canada 4 miles from me to be used to make ethanol. I dont know what this ethanols use is once made but I see the corn trucks every day of the week going on to the ferry........Bill S

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I'll look when I'm filling up next but I think there's a little sticker on the pumps here in Ontario Canada that says 'contains up to 10% ethanol'? . I wonder about ingesting any by siphoning etc. as isn't ethanol highly toxic?

[PeteLeathersac]

Here's a few gas prices at the pump from around the world in US$ equiv. gallons....a few are unbelievably cheap! . Aside from the political tensions it would be nice to keep a garage full of musclecars in one of these cheap-gas places? .

~ Pete

Netherlands $6.73

France about $5.80

Most other major European countries $6.00

Japan about $4.50 a gallon.

China less than $2 a gallon.

In Iraq, until recently, 10 cents a gallon but risen to nearly 40 cents a gallon!

Iran less than 35 cents a gallon!

Venezuela 12 cents a gallon!

[bad1racing]

Are we not the country that not so long ago used to take millions of bushels of corn out into the Atlantic Ocean and just dump it.It probably still happens we just dont hear about it.At that time we were having problems feeding people as we are today,why not put it to use and stop some of the hunger?Not that we could ever make it happen,but,if everyone filled up on one day and didnt put any more gas in until the next week that would cause such an uproar at the stations that you would think something would happen.How about uncapping all of the wells that were capped in the 70s-80s with 40percent of the oil left in them because it was to costly to refine it.Now it would make $$$ sense to take it out.I can remember going down to the corner station and putting .15cents in to fill the tank.I think 32.9 a gallon.Right now its 2.90ish for no-lead.
Kendall

[PeteLeathersac]

I remember as a kid one day in specific needing thirty cents to fill the minibike tank but just couldn't pull it off. . After that last round w/ my ex wife, some days it feels like those days are back?

Hey we need a musclecar clubhouse for the boys in Venezuela so we can all take advantage of that 12 cents a gallon gas? .

~ Pete