Price Gouging

[Sparky-Watts]

RE: I need a new commuter...

I'm not quite as old a fart as Mud, but I know what he's saying. Last week we were paying $2.49 a gallon and we were outraged by the price, right? Well, after paying as much as $3.50 a gallon for a few months, the price drops to $3 a gallon and we'll be tickled pink because the price came down....even though we're paying $.50 a gallon more than we were. I've seen it time and time again. Gas price soar to unbelievable highs, then are cut down a little, and we forget that we once had it for an even cheaper amount. So, after paying $3.50 for a while, $3 doesn't seem so bad. Next step is that it goes to $4, then drops back to $3.75 and we're happy we're no longer paying $4 for it......and on and on and on.

 

[90Xjay]

TC Wrote:

Another factor is that our government(s) tax the snot out of it.

I'd say.. check this out to see what your state taxes are.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/statistics/gas_taxes_by_state_2002.html

 

[Saurian]

RE: Foreign Financial Aid

I was thinking the same thing... When it was pushing the two dollar mark, finding it for like 1.85 was a bargain... Cheapest I've seen it here in Madison Heights is 3.14 this morning. If I found it for 2.85, I would consider that a hell of a bargain, despite the fact that I probably paid in the neighborhood of 2.58 a mere week ago... Supply and demand, after all...

 

[AZjeepn]

RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Suggestions...

It's only up to 2.79 here in AZ.

I can't believe I just said that.......

 

[redrooster]

RE: what

Yes, the government taxes the snot out of it, but it is a fixed price per gallon not a percentage. They collect the same tax if the gas were $1.00 a gallon as they would if it were $3.

 

[LadyJeepFreak]

Air Induction for ANY automobile

Gas went up in my hometown to 3.50 cents tonight. I got it this afternoon at 2.80 and last week at 2.60 :shock:

 

[redrooster]

RE: trans problems from towing???

It leveled out here yesterday at $2.99. Many stations have run out of Regular. Diesel is $2.79.

 

[currupt4130]

RE: trans problems from towing???

Hell yeah drill in Alaska! The caribou will survive and unfortunately so will the likes of greenpeace.

X2 twisted, unfortunatley our economy is dependant enough on oil that e have to do that but if it keeps life rolling on then thats what we have to do. sure id love to leave nature untouched, especially on a frontier like alaska, but whatever objects will move out of the way. I can just see an elk standing in front of a excavator and doing like the guy from tinnamen square... heh

 

[MerkL]

Who likes the idea of electric cars now? Save the gas for the Jeeps!