Gas prices....

[Bright_Star]

The secret to saving at the pump

Whenever I go to the gas station to get gas I rarely pay more than $25.00. How you may ask? It's simple. I wait until my gas indicator is at the halfway point before filling up. I NEVER let it go all the way to empty.
So that lasts me a good 2 weeks before it gets at the halfway point again before filling up.
PLUS it helps that where I live most of the places that I need to get to are within walking distance.
I don't bitch about gas prices. Why bother when the government doesn't give a shit if you pay 56 cents a gallon or $5.00 a gallon?
Seems to me if they keep raising prices that sooner or later people will stop driving & when they do that's when the oil companies will raise holy hell cause it'll affect their profit margins. & that's when the price will have to come down-whether they like it or not.
I see gas prices topping out at $5.00 a gallon before they start to drop back to more sensible levels.

[Dorath]

I feel old. When I started driving, 12 gallons would have cost around $10.

[daleduke17]

The thing I think is insane about gas is that it goes up 30 cents in one shot, but it goes down in 2 or 3 cent intervals.

When I started driving (1998): 12 gallon tank = about 15 dollars to fill up from almost empty.
Tuesday night: 16 gallon tank = 30 dollars to fill from 1/2 full.
This past weekend: 19 gallon tank = 20 dollars to fill from 3/4 full.

o_0

[VenomX]

While I am on the topic of gas prices...

About a year ago when gas kept going up and up the local paper and TV news would show up now and then to try and interview my boss, us, and the customers. I was told to always tell them we were not interested but they could do what they wished BUT had to stay off our lot since its VERY small.

One day a Pittsburgh TV station came to the station and asked for the owner/my boss. I told him we were not interested and to please leave. He said but... I said hey man the owner said he wasnt interested in chatting with the news please leave.

He left but an half hour later someone came in and said the TV station was at the gas station down the street selling the gas for $0.999 a gallon. I felt bad but also remembered there was only TWO of us working that day. The guy outside would have been screwed royally. I told the owner/boss the next day and he didnt seem to upset.

Yes it would have been a major mess, 2 pumps(4 nozzles/can do 4 cars at the same time), one gas pumper pumping the gas and collecting the money, and a very small lot. We would have shut down a major street with cars looking to buy gas...

[zzapp the witch]

Actually, to boil it all down, its Americans gouging Americans. Blame OPEC. Did you know that the billilons Exxon has to pay for the Valdez spill is equal to two weeks of their PROFITS???? And they're bitching about having to pay and trying to get it lowered STILL.......

[Greenday]

It was $2.99 last time I got gas...

[edible_hat]

One day my local paper had a lead story about high fuel prices. My first customer of the day was an old guy who always buys the paper and an iced coffee. His comment "That's bullshit, how come they don't complain about prices of everything else going up? Why single out petrol?"

[VenomX]

I have no control over the price of gas. Why do SC's think that complaining to me the whole time I am pumping their gas and sometimes even after they are done will change anything?

Some of these SC's come in EVERY day, sometimes more than once a day, just to buy a pack of cigarettes. They stand their and b*tch and moan to me about gas prices. When you try to tell them if they buy a CARTON of cigarettes they wouldn't need to drive here to get another pack for a few days they always say they can't afford a carton. But here they are an hour or two later buying a pack of cigarettes and $5 in gas.... an hour or two later another pack and another $5 in gas....

I just don't get it.....I have no control, they do, yet they have to complain to me...

BTW, We went from $3.179 a gallon tuesday to $3.339 wednesday. Major b*tching and moaning. My reply? Sorry only YOU have control, one way is to start cutting back on your gas usage.