Is your gas price going up by leaps and bounds?

[daronspicher]

On 3/18, I paid 2.489
On 4/17, I paid 2.899 up 41c/gal in that month
On 5/15, I paid 3.259 up 35c/gal more this month, however......

3.259 I got this morning is the fluke, I was lucky to get it. Last night I noticed a couple of stations at 3.499 and thought, wow, that's a huge spike, I wonder if the two stations I go to most are also that high, I just filled up my mower gas cans on Sunday for 3.259.

5am this morning, I pulled into my usual BP (easier off, easier back on) and it was already 3.499 but the Mobil across the street was still 3.259, so I was fairly easily able to get over there and fill up... so, really what we have is a new benchmark of 3.499 on my route...

Which brings the 1 month increase to 60c/gal, the 2 month increase of $1.01/gal

I feel like I have a pretty good job and I guess when driving a prius, I can absorb an extra $70 a month increase in our household economy and sure, it's a bit of a bummer...

The sinking feeling I get when I process this price hike madness is the thought of people with lesser job income and far lesser mpg being able to absorb their increase. When do the dominos start to fall?

[slair]

I had a supercharged tC, so I had to pump premium. Once I started pumpin at like $3.60 - 70, I started thinking. One thought led to another and then before I knew it, I was parking my prius in my driveway . Now I only pump regular, and I havent ever had to fill it up yet. I'm still running off the gas the dealer gave to me, lol. I did some estimations and figured my gas bill would decrease more than half.
I was very heavy into racing both street and strip. I'm in a sleeper club called Illusions, who take older hondas or mitsubishi's, keep them looking stock, but drop around 10k into the engine. So much fun.
I used to LOVE to take my tC out in the country and just max it out. Crusing flat straight roads at 130+.
That is what I used to be, but now look at me driving a 4 dr automatic. haha....wow. Its amazing that the price of gas can make you do things you never thought you would do.

[splashback]

Gas prices can do that to you!
I went from a modified 04 GTO with the 5.7 and a Honda Pilot in my garage to a Prius (and the wife's van)

[galaxee]

prices have been hovering around $3 a gallon here for quite a while now. i think it was $2.97 the last two times i filled up, which would be over the last 5 or 6 weeks. last night it was $3.05 at a station on one of the bigger roads in town.

[MegansPrius]

Yeh, we're definately back into Chicago gas-price gouging season.

[Hobbs]

I found this Q&A. I live in the UK. Notes of sympathy welcome.

How do gasoline prices in Ontario compare with other provinces and other countries?

Ontario gasoline prices are, in general, very similar to the Canadian national average. Canadian gasoline prices compare very favourably with those in other industrialized countries. The chart, based on figures from the International Energy Agency, indicates that only the United States has lower average prices than we do. Net of government taxes, Canadian gasoline prices are currently just slightly higher than those in the US.

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Last updated: 7 December, 2006

[OlsonBW]

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman? Nope, it's gas prices.

[Earthling]

Big changes on the gas map:

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

For the first time in a very long time, we have cheaper gasoline in NY than much of the Midwest!

Harry

[quagmire0]

Ah, it's nice that our main car is a Prius! And the car I drive to work is a Civic, and I only drive about a mile or two each way. Chicago is rediculous with its gouging though. I wonder if the governor will suspend the state tax on gas again. How about punishing some of these price gouging gas dealers?

[malibucarl]

Hi,
According to this mornings LA Times, gas price in Calif actually went down a few cents. HOOOOOORAY!
87 Octane reg is still over $3.50/gal. The same article said the price will continue to rise.
Carl