How Long Did It Take Us To Get Used To $3.00+ Gas?

Question: How long did it take us to find three dollar a gallon gas to be the norm?

Answer: Dam near no time at all.

A week and a half ago NPR did a bit about Exxon having once again reported its highest profit for a single quarter. No one was suprrised. NPR noted that this rise in profits occured at the same time that world oil prices were going down by improving their margins in refining and distribution. That was it, they are charging us more to refine it and they are charging us more to deliver it to the stations although those two elements of cost have not increased a plugged nickle.

Question: How long did it take us to find getting screwed at the pump to be the norm?

Answer: Dam near not time at all.

I get ill every time we pull up to a gas station! This weekend they tried to raise prices on us as we were pumping and charge us for the increased price!

on their morning commute to save all of 30 secs. off their drive.


idiots.

topat .07 a gallon... I will never "get used to it."

That's what this is all about. Brainwashing into believing that when (or if) the prices at the pump drop to about $2.80 that we are getting a good deal! BULLSHIT. I won't be happy until it's back to $1.88!!! I'll even take a flat $2.00. Anything else is bullshit!

those prices you want are a thing of the past and will never ever return.

:evilgrin:

but there are plenty of us living rurally that are screwed right now.

I've never been the type to drive if I could walk but right now I can't afford to even drive to work. And biking to work is not a safe option. I'd leave while still dark and bike on a county highway that is poorly lit and known for kids dragracing, then turn off onto a gravel road w/ no lighting at all and drivers who don't watch where they are going.

Today is my day off of work. Tomorrow I don't know if I even have enough money to buy the gas to drive to work.

So be smug but remember there are many low wage earners doing the work that few want to do. These workers are the ones feeling it the most and many cannot afford to drive at all anymore.

What happens if all the CNAs, the day care workers, the orderlies, the fast food workers, the housekeepers and the farm workers can no longer afford to drive to work but live too far to actually walk (or it's too dangerous to walk)?

Now it's the cost of filling up a compact car. $35 for a tank of gas would pay for groceries for a week or more.

Where's our mass transit? Where's our public transportation?

They include their *report* right next to the pollen count. "Ho Hum, EXPECT 4 dollars a gallon soon"

They've gotten their copy direct from the WH.

:shrug:

I'm not and I'm royally pissed off about it!!!!

And I drive a very tiny car and not that often!

I can only imagine the farmers and truckers anger!

complaining. Of course they have more options. Has anyone posted prices in London or Paris or Milan. That would be helpful,(metric conversion required).

if you want to be 'fair and balanced'. Besides, the Euro is rising while the dollar is falling, due to paying for war: like in the aftermath of Vietnam, you either get rising taxes or inflation (a hidden tax) in order to pay for the war's cost. You cannot avoid that.

GOP is now into full blown 'let's blame the upcoming financial pain on the Dems' mode. And Victor Gold yesterday on CSpan book tv was telling us what we all know, that in '08 the R's will lose big-time.

Related DU post here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2853735

I have !!

Continents BY SIZE

#6 Europe - (9,938,000 sq km) and #3 North America - (24,256,000 sq km)

The widest part of Great Britain is under 500 kilometers (311 miles)!!!!!!!!

At over 3.7 million square miles (over 9.6 million km²) and with more than 300 million people,
the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and third largest by
land area and population.

That's a lot of driving!! ;)

Accord for a Honda FiT. New car and save some gas money.

It was 'splained away as "normal seasonal shifts supply and demand".

Wonder if them "normal shifts" will happen this NON-election year...

and three nights of Leno and Letterman jokes

shouldn't your OP say $4.00 a gallon?