About those fuel prices…

[Ulu]

91 octane 2 years ago: $4.69.9 usg
Now $6.69.9

Says the man who is afraid to step foot inside the capitol city or be lynched.

I don’t feel oppressed though. We are going to be riding bicycles, but the Chinese are going to have a car, house, and 3 bicycles for every person . . . because of mass starvation.

 

[Ulu]

I went to the dentist today and I saw fuel prices as high as $7.09 .9

 

[tlindsey]

My Daughter works for a logistics company and independent truckers are refusing to work so yes quitting. Diesel fuel prices are doing damage. My Daughter is looking for a new job so sad but I have her back until she finds another job.

 

[esoxlucius]

My Daughter works for a logistics company and independent truckers are refusing to work so yes quitting. Diesel fuel prices are doing damage. My Daughter is looking for a new job so sad but I have her back until she finds another job.

I read somewhere recently that on average it is costing about £20000 a year more to run a typical long distance wagon over here in the UK. And that extra cost has to come from somewhere, so everything that is moved by wagon, which is virtually everything, goes up in price!

I hope things work out for your daughter Tom.

 

[krichardson]

I drove past a few filling stations on my way to work and they are at $5.09.I nearly vomited.

 

[tlindsey]

People are already siphoning gas from cars even destroying gas tanks in California.

 

[krichardson]

People are already siphoning gas from cars even destroying gas tanks in California.

I figured that that would be a thing sooner or later.Thieves were doing enough damage by stealing the catalytic converters from under people's cars and now they are destroying gas tanks!

 

[Supergeorge123]

It would be nice if someone would take charge to try to address this. The lack of refining capacity is driving a lot of the increases in price, is there no one who wants to actually do something positive for a change? From what i have read new refineries cost ~$5 billion to build. Perhaps there are too many regulations for private investors to want to build them, but if my reading of the constitution is correct (and i believe that it is) then state governments could build refineries themselves and the feds couldn’t do anything to stop them. There are many states that have the budgets to finance a project like that.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

$6.29 per gallon here.

 

[Ulu]

. . . There are many states that have the budgets to finance a project like that.

Can you spell boondoggle?

I’m waiting for some illegal gas siphoner to catch a disease from it and sue the gasoline companies. Then Congress can declare gasoline a schedule one toxic substance or some such BS & they can add an additional tax on to what we pay now.