You guys ready for $5 a gallon

[bigbaldito]

Out here in So. Cal. gas went up 15 cent the minute they announced the closing of the Alaska Pipeline. The news is talking $5 bucks a gallon very possible. Imagine close to $100 bucks to fill up almost any car. Out here some pumps only allow you to buy $100 anyway.

[small change]

Out here in So. Cal. gas went up 15 cent the minute they announced the closing of the Alaska Pipeline.<<<<<<<

Here in the Midwest we get gas both from the Gulf and Canada, But I looked to fill up this am anyway just to get a jump on any unexpected increases

Here in Northern Ohio it was 2.89 this morning and I used my GetGo discount and paid 2.29

[amickracing]

It jumped I think 12 cents here over night, mighta been 15 cents. Anyway, now gas is around $3.30 a gallon... perfect timing with 400,000 bikers in the area to burn gas.

I swear this whole gas price thing is a huge scam.

[tech_support007]

Heard on the radio this morning that the price went up over night but then dropped back down this morning.... Your in San Jose Area right?

[ralphtheplumber]

Still $3.02 here.

However, the state fair is going to start in a week or so. There'll probably be a hundred thousand people from out of town showing up here any minute.

They usually jack up the prices 30-40¢ for that week.

[bigbaldito]

Costa Mesa tech price ranges from $3.01 to $3.39 depending on what hood your in. Thats the true scam same brand different price just different neighborhood.

[pgrasso]

Originally posted by small change
Here in Northern Ohio it was 2.89 this morning and I used my GetGo discount and paid 2.29

I used up my GetGo discount last week and filled up at $2.39. Need to buy a lot of groceries over the next month, as the GetGo rewards are double until Sept. 5.

-Pete

[ct_hvac_tech]

Isn't it funny how they closed the alaska pipeline in 1992 and the price did not go up, but today, in the age where greed as as bad as ever, the price now all of a sudden has to go up?

[dougfamous]

I remember when Tower 2 collapsed on 9/11, the gas stations here all went $4 a gallon CASH ONLY and had lines down the street.

Greed and money make the world go around!

[gruntly]

Doesn't anyone remember the early seventies?

Housing prices soared, Car prices were jacked. Gas got stupid, if you could get it at all. Pricing for everything went haywire and the average paycheck couldn't keep up.

Checked the parallels... You can count'em blindfolded. Then remember what happened to finally bring it under some temporary semblance of control.

[bigbird]

price & wage freeze?

[jakester65]

What did finally happen? I was born in 1972 so I don't remember what finally brougt it under control.

[gruntly]

Okay... so here's the short version...
Look up the historical crisis' and their links.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_...torical_crises

With the closing of part of the Alaska pipeline opened in 1977 to prevent crisis like in 1973:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Pipeline

What would happen now if the OPEC nations decided to shut off or slow down the taps? I solomny predict this is only the beginning. This will make trillionaires out of an elite few while the mass majority will have to suffer through this... again. Nothing can plunge an economy into uncontrolled recession faster than rampant and unchecked commodity prices, especially such a dependent commodity.
I don't know how some people can sleep at night.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...080801132.html

Time will tell.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions

Take note: Not one listing of a recession from 1937 to 1973!