Have gas prices affected you?

[capnhowdy]

Snow days? Georgia?

Although it seldom accumulates, yes it "snows" here almost every year. If you are one of the lucky ones you may actually get to glimpse a snowflake or two before it hits the ground and melts. If there is the faintest hint that it WILL snow, all the schools and half the businesses close automatically. Like a bunch of kids at christmas, waiting on a gift that never comes. Funny as hell to me. And funniest thing is I'm right in the middle of it. Georgia is not prepared for snow or ice, so it only takes a little to bring power lines down, make trees fall into the roads, etc. Even knowing that, EVERYBODY just sits around and PRAYS for snow.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by capnhowdy

Although it seldom accumulates, yes it "snows" here almost every year. If you are one of the lucky ones you may actually get to glimpse a snowflake or two before it hits the ground and melts. If there is the faintest hint that it WILL snow, all the schools and half the businesses close automatically.

Damn, I miss those days. I rememeber one year it snowed on a Sunday and they automatically closed schools in Gwinnett county for Monday and Tuesday because it was so heavy. Sunday evening, the snow began to melt and on Monday morning it was gone. On Tuesday, it hit 65F outside and all us schoolkids were in heaven. It was awesome.

Of course, there is always the snow Atlanta saw in the blizzard of '94. That was true insanity for the South.

[Clodfobble]

Hobbs, tw isn't trying to convince people to change their driving habits. He's saying that obviously gas prices are not too high since the driving habits haven't changed yet.

If gas prices were really too high, you wouldn't say "we should car pool but we can't..." You would simply car pool because you had no other choice. If convenience is still an option, then gas must not be too expensive yet.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Relief at the gas pump is progressing visibly here in southern CA: $2.68/gallon this morning, down four cents from yesterday. Not bad for the pricey California blends, especially those oxygenated winter ones.

California gas prices act like the light curve of a Cepheid -- abrupt rise and considerably more gradual decline. Everyone in the state knows this means fat profits for the refiners. No one's yet been able to bring them to heel about this, though building a couple of major new refineries would likely help. I don't know how much of the comparatively quick price relief has a political basis this time -- but Californians also know we get none of our oil from Gulf production.

[Griff]

I'm just glad I heat with wood.

My peekup is in the shop so I borrowed the bro-in-laws to get some fencing. Traditionally we fill the tank on a borrowed truck... $47 dollars freaking ouch. I'm gonna drive that smugmobile in all kinds of inappropriate weather this winter.

[capnhowdy]

I love those commercials w/wood, propane & electricity.

Griff, I thought wood retired.

[elSicomoro]

Yesterday, it cost me just under $30 to fill my tank...I run it almost down to E all the time. That's the first time it has cost less than $30 since August.

The pizza shop I work for just increased its delivery charge this week from $2 to $2.50. No complaints from customers...yet.

[wolf]

They'll bitch when it gets to $3.

I paid $2.54 yesterday for regular. (and darn good thing I did, because I bought 14.22 gallons. That is as close to sucked totally dry as I have ever gotten.)

[plthijinx]

well they are starting to come down on their prices. think the pressure the feds put on the oil companies for their "record" profits had anything to do with it? maybe/maybe not. topic could've been talked about somewhere else here, haven't had time to surf around the threads lately. anyway a quick repost of a link to help you find Cheap Gas found gas in my area below the $2.00 mark. $1.89 to be exact....

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Here in the Oxnard CA area, we're pleased to see California blends now at around $2.45/regular, down from a high of three-plus. I think the pressure plthijinx is speaking of wasn't governmental but of the general public around here -- the refiners and suppliers had the habit of ramping prices up steeply and then doing a much slower decline, to the jaundiced regard of everyone in California who burns gasoline. This time I think the refiners are paying attention to the politics of the matter, and are rolling prices back with more alacrity than the last couple of times. Good PR, I must say.

[busterb]

Want to save gas? Let the state whole? your DRs a while. I put 20 bucks in my p-up the morning of Katrnia, still have 1/4 tank. Filled up Honda the 9/7/05 still have 1/2 tank. Some how I don't think this's going to be a great money saver!

[Elspode]

I look at the current level of fuel prices this way: Just because I'm being backsided with a smaller crank than before does not change the fact that I'm being sodomized.

[plthijinx]

Originally Posted by Elspode

I look at the current level of fuel prices this way: Just because I'm being backsided with a smaller crank than before does not change the fact that I'm being sodomized.

don't move, you'll only make it hurt worse!

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by busterb

Want to save gas? Let the state whole? your DRs a while.

Uh...wha?

[wolf]

The state has been insisting that buster leave his vehicles sitting in the driveway for a while, as a consequence of a little misunderstanding.