Feel good in the US

In a recent thread, someone told me (shock, horror) your gas now costs as much as $3.20 a gallon.

FEEL GOOD. In the UK it cost over $9 a gallon!!!!!

Kate

That person is lucky if they are only paying $3.20 Kate! In Missouri they are $3.29 and in Illinois it is as hight as $4. In California I know they are over the $4 mark at this point!

But you are right, you are paying way more then us & we should just be happy and gas on up!

here where I live in Ohio it is 3.55  a gallon !!!!  and that is with a 10 cent discount from my grocery store !

They said on the news that gas will go anywhere from 4-6 dollars before the summer is over with

It's $3.77 in the Great Northwest!  I started taking the bus to work and love it!  I resisted for years and now feel stupid for all the wear and tear on my car and money I wasted! 

But...$9.00!?  U.S.?  We ARE lucky!

Lisa O.

I could only dream of having public transportation available where I live.

Even if I lived in my town.. there's no buses here.  I live 5 miles out.. I drive in once a day to go to my gym and try to coordinate all my errands to run while I'm in town.

I have a trip to see my oncologist coming up at the end of this month.. which is a 200 mile drive.. ONE way...that will be fun.

My bariatric doc is an hour drive from me.. I think I'm going to start carpooling with a few other gals from my city when I go to support group.. or else cut way back on going.  (don't get that much out of it anyhow..)

Gas is 3.38 here.. without the 15cent discount.  That was earlier today.. who knows what it will be tomorrow.

www.gasbuddy.com might be helpful.

my son is turning 16 tomorrow and thank goodness he has been putting off getting his drivers licenese. So far he hasnt felt the need for it like most teenagers do . I couldnt wait till I got mine lol. He is the opposite and thank good ness for that .

Between gas prices and then on top of that my car insurance going up additional 190 bucks when I add him to the policy yikes !!!!!

The big problem is that Americans don't like small cars or diesels..I would love a 4 cylinder diesel....Not available, except VW. So if you drive a pick up that has the gas mileage of a tank it might as well be 9 bucks a gallon,,,My theory is.....If gas prices keep going up, the powers in charge will finally encourage the manufacture of small cars and diesels..Can you just imagine how great it would be to own a 4 cylinder BMW  x1 diesel running on French fry oil powered bio diesel here in the States..we'd never run out of fuel......Hello BMW people.........!!
they told me that Americans will not accept 4 cylinder "luxury cars"  go figure...

Petra

There's been some speculation that some are wanting the prices to get painfully high to make consumers buy more economical cars....  (not naming names)

 Yeah, but my health insurance is $784/mo and I have no job.

 It also takes a lot more gas to drive from one end of OUR country to the other. It takes you, what - ten minutes?