Gas prices almost $5
By banadux
@banadux (630)
United States
September 12, 2008 7:19pm CST
Anyone else notice that gas prices are getting close to $5 today. It looks like Hurricane Ike is going to kick the entire countries butt not just Texas. I have a full tank of gas right now and I'm hoping the prices go back down before I have to make another trip to the pump.
5 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
13 Sep 08
Wow. I am glad I don't like where you do. Gas is staying steady at 3.54/3.55 a gallon here.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
13 Sep 08
I was out and about around 4 o'clock today and I just checked it on the MSN Gas finder.
Seems like gas around her takes awhile to go up sometimes though.
When we evacuated for Gustav people were complaining about paying $340./a gallon. Apparently until not that long before Gustav they were paying about 3.25/gallon. At that point we were paying $3.54/gallon.
@revellanotvanella (4033)
• United States
13 Sep 08
oh man, I should of filled up ahead of time but no I had to put it off thinking that Gustav didnt affect prices and nothing will happen. Bush claims there is measures to avoid gas stations from hiking up prices but they showed right on cnn them doing that very thing. My mother-n-law is over there in Houston and still waiting to see how she pulled through. We called her before the storm but she said she talked to the neighbors and nobody was evacuating and that was friday morning.
I have diesel so I imagine Im gonna get hit hard and the gas station down the street always keeps their diesel priced 30 cents above the other stations. We cross the state line to get gas now where its usually 50 cents cheaper than where we live, thankfully, its only a 15 minute drive. Im trying to boycott my car and go back to not using it. It really has been an eye opener because where as I was once very independent and could take a train and bus no problem now its like a big deal.
@banadux (630)
• United States
14 Sep 08
I'm not really sure where the gas prices originate. You can't blame the individual stations. An owner at a local station got his latest truck and he had to pay over $4 a gallon to fill up the pumps for the gas station. He can't very well charge less than that. Supposedly that area will be without power for as much as 2 to 3 weeks so I think the prices will take a while to ease back down at least in the east coast.
@luvstochat (6907)
• United States
13 Sep 08
I knew that they would use this hurricane as an excuse to raise the already high gas prices anytime they can come up with a reason to raise them they will. We already can't afford the gas prices so why not make them higher right? Soon we won't be able to afford to even put a gallon of gas in our vechicles.
@newlands6801 (986)
• United States
13 Sep 08
well right now the gas prices around are hitting $4 but they'll probably go up again over night last night they rose 50 cents and today when i went out store were running out of gas all they had were premium so its really no telling what gas prices might reach its just a waiting game....will they go up to $5??will we have a shortage for a week or so??
