Yeah, I just got shafted that way this morning. I saw $2.79 at Speedway, and across the street $2.59, so I went there. The price sucked, and my tank wasn't even empty (though close), but I figured if I wait the extra day or two I could probably milk the tank, the price would have gone up ANOTHER $0.10 per gallon. It's insane! Oh, and I screwed up at the pump as well, getting premium rather than standard gas, so I paid $2.79 anyhow! I just hope premium gets me a few extra miles to make it worthwhile! $30 for 11 gallons. What the unholy screaming fuck?!
Argh! I've done that (i.e. accidentally picked the wrong pump). When I was driving back to work from Office Max at lunch time I noticed that gas was up to $2.79 at some. I'm down to a quarter-tank anyway, so I think I'll be filling up on the way home from work, if I can still find a place that's selling gas in the $2.50s.
I think we should start sending our gas receipts to GWB.
hmmm... "reliable" and "British Rail" are not often heard in the same sentence, but yes, compared to America there is a public transit system. Compared to the Netherlands, the UK public transit really sucks.
(a) I'm used to $4/gal or so in Germany right around 9/11. I won't get terribly concerned until gas prices hit that. That'll probably happen late first quarter next year. (b) High gas prices will lead to people insisting on reliable public transit to mitigate the impact on their checkbooks. Far too many places still treat public transit as "poor ghetto carless transport service", meaning neither reliability nor safety are high on politicians' radar screens. That should change in the near future. (c) Also look to see cities condensing their populations to downtown cores in the next 10-15 years as people start wanting to live, work, and shop within walking distance.
...Or I could be smoking crack and we'll just keep happily guzzling fuel in the US at 2x-3x the rate of the rest of the world until the magic day that the last gallon is pulled from tired ol' Mother Earth. In which case, the US deserves what it gets. >:-(
Well over here in Australia we're currently paying US $3.40 for a gallon (and I have to drive to work since I changed universities from RMIT in the CBD where I caught a train to, to Monash, out in the suburbs)
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Date: 2005-08-15 05:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-15 08:09 pm (UTC)I think we should start sending our gas receipts to GWB.
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Date: 2005-08-15 05:31 pm (UTC)I tend to take a spontaneous dookie in my pants when I see gas stations, now. Laughter sounds like a better, less stinky reaction.
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Date: 2005-08-15 05:55 pm (UTC)laughter, hmm? how very Hawkeye Pierce of you. i like it.
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Date: 2005-08-15 06:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-15 06:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-15 08:15 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-08-15 07:00 pm (UTC)(b) High gas prices will lead to people insisting on reliable public transit to mitigate the impact on their checkbooks. Far too many places still treat public transit as "poor ghetto carless transport service", meaning neither reliability nor safety are high on politicians' radar screens. That should change in the near future.
(c) Also look to see cities condensing their populations to downtown cores in the next 10-15 years as people start wanting to live, work, and shop within walking distance.
...Or I could be smoking crack and we'll just keep happily guzzling fuel in the US at 2x-3x the rate of the rest of the world until the magic day that the last gallon is pulled from tired ol' Mother Earth. In which case, the US deserves what it gets. >:-(
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Date: 2005-08-16 12:39 am (UTC)(and I have to drive to work since I changed universities from RMIT in the CBD where I caught a train to, to Monash, out in the suburbs)