Well in Alberta we are paying 109.4 a litre to 116. litre which works out to $4.04 a gallon to $4.38. And its only going higher...

My husband drives a big truck and we spent over 10 grand in fuel last year..

If anyone is interested there is a big thing about gas prices on www.comcast.net

I understand that gas is more in countries other than the US (i.e., Canada and Australia), but they always have been, if I'm not mistaken, so it's still basically increased about the same amount proportionally. There are places in Europe that have been paying $4+ per gallon for years--the US was always just able to keep it down before, but since we keep p!ssing off the countries from which we get the oil, umm, duh, our prices are going to go up :dizzy:

Here just outside of DC, we're looking at about $3.09 as the rock-bottom lowest price I can find--many are higher, and I'm sure it's higher by at least 10-20 cents in the city.

And yeah, the Exxon-Mobil thing has been going around for years (I think I actually first saw it in a chain email when I was in college, and I graduated in December 2003)--it'll never work. Supposedly, by boycotting those biggies, they will have no choice but to drop their prices, and then other companies would follow suit. However, my common sense tells me that even if a boycott actually did take place (which is obviously nearly impossible to orgnize, since it hasn't worked yet!), they might drop their gas by a little, but no one else would, at which point everyone would start buying Exxon-Mobil again because it would then be the cheapest, and then they would just raise it back up to the same prices as their competitors again. Also, what would stop them from just changing the logos on their pumps so people wouldn't even know what brand they were buying? I would think most people don't have a preference as to what logo is on their pump so long as the fuel makes their cars go :p

Another thing that angers me is that the tensions in the Middle East (primarily Iraq) began long before these crazy gas prices came about. If memory serves, what REALLY sent the prices soaring here in the US were the Gulf hurricanes--that was when we first saw prices fly above $2 a gallon (and up to $5+ in some heavily-affected areas). In the aftermath, prices started to (very slowly) creep back down, but now they're using the war in Iraq as an excuse to raise them again. Why, once all of the stations in the US Gulf were back on-line, did the prices NOT go back down to normal range before this next increase began? I HATE that they will raise the prices by more than $1 a gallon a day at the drop of a hat, yet it takes them another 6 months for the prices to go back down 20 cents :devil:

Oh, and to whoever mentioned going to 4 gas stations before finding gas--I did that this past weekend as well in Virginia Beach (I actually called my sister who lives there from my cell phone at the third station I tried and said, "Where the he!! am I supposed to get gas around here?!"). HOWEVER, I found out it was not because of a gas shortage, but rather because the stations were draining their tanks of the regular gas to replace it with an Ethanol blend (here in DC, we have up to 10% Ethanol in our gas, and I know Connecticut has been using it for a while now, too). This blend is supposed to be better for the environment, but of course, it isn't any cheaper at all.

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gassta...?zip=&src=Netx

A link that may help.

The above link lists the price of gas at stations within a zip-coded area.

The link is probably set up for Wynne, Arkansas, but all you have to do to get prices in your area is change the zip to where you live.

Cheryl

as of yesterday gas prices here in Mich were 2.89 a gal.

4myself - that is an excellent site! I use it all of the time.

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However - you can drive more to get cheaper gas... but once you add it all up after you travel to get that cheaper price your paying the same amount if not more because of the gas you use to get there and back! Unless of course, your going there for other reasons as well, or it is a big difference in price.

I don't drive at all--not just to "save" on gas, I mean.

It's a helpful link for people who live in metropolis areas. Also even for me, who works in a town with a population of less than 10,000. From one end of the town to the other is about three miles--nothing wrong, IMO, with driving three miles to save five-ten cents/gallon.

Since yesterday gas prices raised from 2.89 To 2.99

Americans are still dollars below the rest of the world per gallon. If people would car pool and think instead of having to jump in the car to go 2 blocks, we could use less and send a message to the oil companies...I live 1 mile from the supermarket and have gotten a cart so I can walk to the store. Good exercise for me and less gas. I found a car pool for work. The SUV are no safer than any other car so why do we have so many on the road...buy smaller cars that use less gas.

Ha, Americans won't change! There will always be those who refuse to be caught dead driving a minivan, so they will continue to haul their families around in gas-guzzling SUVs (granted, there are a few hybrid SUVs out there now, but that only allows them the mileage about the same as a mid-sized car, no better).

Also, many people are too rushed to afford the luxury of walking anywhere. For me, walking to and from the grocery store, for example, would mean an additional 40+ minutes added to my trip (I'm assuming I wouldn't be walking very quickly while hauling a cart both ways). That means I would be walking home in the dark in the evenings, which is not particularly safe in my neck of the woods, and so I don't do it. I work both a full-time and part-time job, so I can't just waltz to the store in the middle of the day. Also, aside from a grocery store, a McDonald's, and a Subway, there isn't anything other than other apartment complexes within walking distance. Riding a bike on these hectic roads means putting your life at risk--even walking is becoming a battle! My boss actually got hit by a car last week--not while she was in her car, but while she was WALKING (she lives maybe 2 miles from me).

If we all lived in Yorktown, maybe we could walk or even bike to places (I actually stopped at a Subway in Yorktown on my way down to Virginia Beach this past weekend--small world!), but unfortunately, that's not life everywhere or for everyone. I do drive a small car, though--a Honda Civic. It's not a Hybrid, though, since those were starting at more than $5k more than the one I bought, and I really can barely afford the car payments I have now (of course, when I bought my car a year ago, gas prices were under $2 a gallon) :dizzy: Maybe if hybrids were more affordable, more people would own them--why does environmentally-friendly have to equal expensive?

Oh, and carpooling is a good idea when feasible. I get in the office around 6 or 7am, though (so I can leave earlier in the afternoon to have time for job #2), and no one else will come in that early :p Taking a bus would mean a much longer commute, and I get up at 4:45am as it is.

I THOUGHT moving to a more urban area would mean I could drive less, walk more, use public transportation, all that good stuff, but it just didn't work out that way. I grew up in a teeny tiny town (well, a HUGE town area-wise, but a small town population-wise) where the closest grocery store (the only one in town) was miles away (not to mention I lived on a small mountain), and the closest store where you could actually buy clothes or shoes or anything was 2 towns away. So, small town, big city, I just can't win! :dizzy: Maybe I should get a horse? ;)

Nah, no winning there, either--

Hay
Vet bills
Boarding costs
No place to "park it" at work
Poop

You would get to hear that nice clop-clop sound a lot though......

I have been thinking of a :moped: though. But it would take forever to get to work!!!

I wish I could walk for everything (which is not much for traveling) I need to drive to. But many can't do that. I live 30 minutes away from the nearest grocery store! And that is when you go the speed limit of 55! If I walked that far I wouldn't get there for 3 days haha. Just putting some humor into this! Lol.

I am a minivan mom. I can't have a smaller vehicle. My family won't fit in anything smaller. We have tried it. But I tell ya, those minivans sucks the gas up sometimes too.

Hopefully something will change soon. With all of the hype on tv and everything maybe changes will start rolling out.... one day anyway.

I'm a hatchback mom. LOL I used to take the stroller and walk to the grocery store (about 1 mile) several times a week. There's a basket under the stroller and doing a little shopping several times, it would hold it all. But I'm not near enough to a store now and not in a good neighborhood for walking. The grocery store now is over several miles away.

Another idea though for someone who doesn't have time after work...if you have a fridge at the office, go shopping on your lunch hour. I used to do that up north. Then I'd put my cold stuff in the office fridge until the end of the day. I could get in some walking on my lunch hour that way too.

Course you could always cut the time to walk to the store out and get a bike with a large basket and go shopping that way. LOL