That is so weird
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That is so weird
Lol, it's 4 US dollars a gallon now for me! This is getting annoying! When i start driving it'll be like $5 a gallon. I am not paying that much!
When I went to Jamaica in '07 the prices were a bit weird. It was mainly currency change that did it, but even without currency change at the time it was 4-5 USD. In their currency ( can't remember the name ) it was like 22-25.
We just had a $.68/litre sale at Canadian Tire here. Apparently the cars were lined up out onto the main street.
Lol, it's 4 US dollars a gallon now for me! This is getting annoying! When i start driving it'll be like $5 a gallon. I am not paying that much!
$4/gallon is approximately $1.05/litre. Here it spiked from about $1.05 to an average of about $1.20 within the last month. It's going to be at least $1.50 here by the end of the summer based on current statistics. $5/gallon is only about $1.32, so you'll still be paying a lot less than here. Don't much see what the fuss is about if you're getting it so much cheaper than us.
Anyway, this is why I'll be paying a few thousand dollars extra for a hydrogen car and not have to pay the car's worth in gas within a year.
That's nothing, we're sitting at 1.35 constantly...
By the end of spring it is going to be $4 to $4.50 a gallon. That is what I was told. I'd rather ride my bike or walk.
OMG, it went up again. It is roughly $4.18 today. That's $.18 more in one day! That's crazy!
By the end of spring it is going to be $4 to $4.50 a gallon. That is what I was told. I'd rather ride my bike or walk.
So surely the high prices are a good thing if it means people use less fossil fuels
Yeh that seems about right Ross, lol.
By the end of spring it is going to be $4 to $4.50 a gallon. That is what I was told. I'd rather ride my bike or walk.
So surely the high prices are a good thing if it means people use less fossil fuels
In theory, yeah - it'll help encourage people to hop onto their bike, or walk. However, the problem lies for people who live in areas where they either a) don't have decent public transport as an alternative, or b) live too far away from their work to make use of "alternative" transport.
As a reply to this, i'd love public transport to be cheaper, and actually help encourage people to use them...but getting the bus or train nowadays is really expensive. Privatisation failing there.
By the end of spring it is going to be $4 to $4.50 a gallon. That is what I was told. I'd rather ride my bike or walk.
So surely the high prices are a good thing if it means people use less fossil fuels
In theory, yeah - it'll help encourage people to hop onto their bike, or walk. However, the problem lies for people who live in areas where they either a) don't have decent public transport as an alternative, or b) live too far away from their work to make use of "alternative" transport.
As a reply to this, i'd love public transport to be cheaper, and actually help encourage people to use them...but getting the bus or train nowadays is really expensive. Privatisation failing there.
Aye, three years ago city buses here were $2.00 a ride. Two years ago it was upped to $2.25. Last year it went up to $2.50. This year it's supposed to go up again.
As well, a 15 day BritRail pass is going to cost me about $400 when I go on my UK trip.
If governments are encouraging the public to use public transit, this really doesn't seem like the best way to show it.
For me getting on the bus every day costs about $1.00 a ride. I used to use the bus when my school was far away and when I was younger. Now i use my bike to go to school. I would love to use my car, but its to expensive to leave it in the school parking lot. I race with it on tracks. Right now I am laying off of racing as because of the gas prices.
When i am older i don't even want to drive a car anymore. Unless the gas prices go down. That's way too expensive.
For me getting on the bus every day costs about $1.00 a ride. I used to use the bus when my school was far away and when I was younger. Now i use my bike to go to school. I would love to use my car, but its to expensive to leave it in the school parking lot. I race with it on tracks. Right now I am laying off of racing as because of the gas prices.
I do skateboard to school when I've got a lot of energy and don't want to go to first period, but it's about an hour's skate [two hour walk] to school so that's not something I can easily do every day.
At the moment I take the school bus, but I'll be moving this summer and have to take a city bus to school next year. Of course, I'll get a bus pass, but $50/month is still expensive.
Also, Fairview Mall, Conestoga Mall, Stone Road Mall, theatres, downtown, the skatepark, etc. are all pretty far away from the area where most people live, so getting there requires public transit or a ride as well.
For me getting on the bus every day costs about $1.00 a ride. I used to use the bus when my school was far away and when I was younger. Now i use my bike to go to school. I would love to use my car, but its to expensive to leave it in the school parking lot. I race with it on tracks. Right now I am laying off of racing as because of the gas prices.
I do skateboard to school when I've got a lot of energy and don't want to go to first period, but it's about an hour's skate [two hour walk] to school so that's not something I can easily do every day.
At the moment I take the school bus, but I'll be moving this summer and have to take a city bus to school next year. Of course, I'll get a bus pass, but $50/month is still expensive.
Also, Fairview Mall, Conestoga Mall, Stone Road Mall, theatres, downtown, the skatepark, etc. are all pretty far away from the area where most people live, so getting there requires public transit or a ride as well.
But if you take the city bus it would actually be cheaper a month then gas. You spend like $40 a week for a full tank of gas as an estimate. It depends what type of car you have. But still a city bus sounds better to me than driving a car every day. A car would be more expensive.
For me getting on the bus every day costs about $1.00 a ride. I used to use the bus when my school was far away and when I was younger. Now i use my bike to go to school. I would love to use my car, but its to expensive to leave it in the school parking lot. I race with it on tracks. Right now I am laying off of racing as because of the gas prices.
I do skateboard to school when I've got a lot of energy and don't want to go to first period, but it's about an hour's skate [two hour walk] to school so that's not something I can easily do every day.
At the moment I take the school bus, but I'll be moving this summer and have to take a city bus to school next year. Of course, I'll get a bus pass, but $50/month is still expensive.
Also, Fairview Mall, Conestoga Mall, Stone Road Mall, theatres, downtown, the skatepark, etc. are all pretty far away from the area where most people live, so getting there requires public transit or a ride as well.
But if you take the city bus it would actually be cheaper a month then gas. You spend like $40 a week for a full tank of gas as an estimate. It depends what type of car you have. But still a city bus sounds better to me than driving a car every day. A car would be more expensive.
The city bus would be all well and good if the city had proper route times. The route 22 bus runs through the biggest teenage residential area in the city, but has the shortest time span.
Monday - Friday: 6:30am - 10:30pm
Saturday: 7am - 6pm
Sunday: Doesn't run
How can I be dependant on transportation that's only running half as much as I need?
I usually leave my house at around 5:30 on Saturdays, meaning I need to find alternate transportation home.
I have community service stuff on Thursdays & alternating Fridays as well, which runs until 10pm, plus cleanup after. I have to run for the bus to make it afterwards, and it's not rare that I miss it.
In this case, the extra money for gas is worth it to have transportation I can depend on.
Gas isn't a problem with me. Sure it will get annoying, but science is developing extremely well and were eventually going to have a better way of either getting gasoline, or giving fuel to a car.
Honestly the price wont bother me because I'll be getting a car that will have 45-60 miles per gallon so I'll have to get gas not that often
Tricky, there are already alternatives. Electric cars, solar cars, hydrogen cars, hybrid cars.
However, the oil companies have such a hold on our governments because of profits that hydrogen cars and the like remain much more expensive.
Those special types of cars are expensive though.
Yeah, gas prices are insane. That's what happens when you give the environmentalists what they want.
As of now, we can't drill in Alaska, or even build more refinerys of our own.
Currently where I live, gas just hit $3.69 per gallon. I filled up last week at $3.59. It's definitely climbing, but referring to if it goes up to five, I highly doubt that anyone would be driving. People are already going poor due to this and food prices.
Actually, the food prices are linked to gas in many ways. The stores where you buy food are jacking the price of their goods through the roof to make up for the high shipping price that the truckers give due to gas prices.
Those special types of cars are expensive though.
However, the oil companies have such a hold on our governments because of profits that hydrogen cars and the like remain much more expensive.
Honestly, buying a hybrid, or hydrogen car wouldn't save you anything.
As Ajay said, expensive is the word. They may save gas, but if the car costs 20 thousand next to my truck that costs a whole 1 grand, you'll lose money.
You could just take the money that you put out for the car, and stick it in your gas tank. Either way, new cars are not the answer. Americans need to drill their own oil, and build more refineries.
Honestly, buying a hybrid, or hydrogen car wouldn't save you anything.
As Ajay said, expensive is the word. They may save gas, but if the car costs 20 thousand next to my truck that costs a whole 1 grand, you'll lose money.
You could just take the money that you put out for the car, and stick it in your gas tank. Either way, new cars are not the answer. Americans need to drill their own oil, and build more refineries.
Used hydrogen vehicles are only about $8000.
If you say that gas is averaging around $1.25/litre right now, and let's say one fills up 25L every 2 days [which is about how often my dad refills]; the $7000 the truck saved you from the start is gone in less than a year and a half.
We are paying $1.43 AUD a litre here in South Aust.
I've thought about having my truck switched over to hydrogen, actually. The only thing stopping me is how much it's used. It's hard to find the right places to get hydrogen. Good thought, though. I might switch to that someday. You'll still never see me in a hybrid, though. I can't stand those. They may be good on gas, but they're ugly and expensive.Honestly, buying a hybrid, or hydrogen car wouldn't save you anything.
As Ajay said, expensive is the word. They may save gas, but if the car costs 20 thousand next to my truck that costs a whole 1 grand, you'll lose money.
You could just take the money that you put out for the car, and stick it in your gas tank. Either way, new cars are not the answer. Americans need to drill their own oil, and build more refineries.
Used hydrogen vehicles are only about $8000.
If you say that gas is averaging around $1.25/litre right now, and let's say one fills up 25L every 2 days [which is about how often my dad refills]; the $7000 the truck saved you from the start is gone in less than a year and a half.
Aw crap, it's $3.57 right now but i didn't get gas on the way home. Tomorow it'll be more i believe so i'm getting screwed out of money.
We need flying car's like the cartoon "the jetsons"
Lol, they have cars that run on vegetable oil and electric cars. Flying cars wont happen, unless they give it a structure like planes, but then it would cause to many accidents, and then the gotta make floating stop lights lol/
Lol, they have cars that run on vegetable oil and electric cars. Flying cars wont happen, unless they give it a structure like planes, but then it would cause to many accidents, and then the gotta make floating stop lights lol/
There are already numerous working "flying car" designs; the more advanced ones being run by computers [no accidents as it's all automatic]. The only reason they won't go anywhere is that the price tag is $1 000 000 for the cheapest [working] ones that are manually controlled.
I'm going to jump back to the whole hydrogen idea. My science teacher can get really big into conversations about this whole topic.
Basically according to him, to get hydrogen you need to separate water. Something we did earlier in the year. You'll need mass quantities of electricity, and water. By the time you've done all this you've pretty much burned enough coal doing that and wasted more energy then you will be saving with your hydrogen car.
It's better than a gasoline car, because there would be less killing our atmosphere, but there are still other factors.
He always suggests solar. Solar energy has developed extremely well, and why there isn't a car that is used off solar power it makes no sense. On the off chance there wasn't any sun for a day, and your car had run out of reserved energy you would go to a secondary source. Still electricity though. It would work perfectly.
And who says that you can't get a Hydrogen car that separates water using solar electricity?
People who want to make as much money as possible in their one life, and not care about what happens later.
I want to get a special car!?
People who want to make as much money as possible in their one life, and not care about what happens later.
Which is the opposite of what Hydrogen car producers would like to see happen. If they didn't care about the future, they'd never have made Hydrogen cars to begin with and just stuck with the greenhouse gas-emitting gasoline powered cars.
Hydrogen does require energy to separate from water, yes. However, the majority of companies that supply Hydrogen use renewable resources such as wind power or solar power.
Again? The gas prices went up again. I just went down to new jersey and it's $4.37 there.
Wow 4.73 is that for Unleaded? ours for Unleaded is 3.69
At this point, I, personally, don't think gas prices are going to drop unless the economy crashes completely.
It's to the point that I wish it would just to get it over with.
I live in the UK and the price at last cost was about £1.20. I am 24 and now I don't want to start learning to drive.
It's unleaded. In the US i don't think they sell leaded.
I was talking about both as both desial(sp) and petrol both leaded and unleaded have increased in price.
I really think if your car uses deasil you are unlucky. It's $5.36 for one gallon now.
That's right. Due to environmental laws, it's illegal to sell leaded gas in the United States as it's very bad for the ozone. I think it was in the 80s that they started making unleaded.It's unleaded. In the US i don't think they sell leaded.
That's just something I remember hearing, though I don't exactly have proof of it.
I really hate the prices. I had to put gas in my van. It took 50 dollars! That's too much to afford!
At this point, anything that can put a little bit more money back in our pocket's to get from point A to point B would help out a lot.
To save on gas, i basically just drive to work,buy food at the store and once and awhile drive to my parents house. Till some miracle happens to fix this gas price problem, we all have to find ways to cut our driving expenses's down. Doesn't matter if you drive a 4 cylinder car, with the price's getting jacked up, you'll soon be feeling a thin wallet.
I swear between, the tax's going up, gas going up, i could go bankrupt in a few year's or need to double my salary to live comfortablly.
BTW, this morning i put $20 into my car and didn't get a half tank since my car was on Empty. Yes, i had the idiot light come on saying "get gas ya moron"
Right now i want to ride a pogo-stick..
I'd knock my teeth out trying that.
It's almost $4.00 per gallon here now.
Completely unexceptable.
It's almost $4.00 per gallon here now.
Completely unexceptable.
I spent about six months a year in Visalia, California. It is the film site of controversial teenage life film Ken Park (very controversial). Visalia when I was about eight the city buses costed about 50¢ a ride. You could ask for a 'transfer pass' to hop on another bus at no cost within minutes (like route 1 to route 4). When I was ten the price raised to a buck a ride. Fourteen raised to 1.50. Sixteen 2 dollars. 17 3 dollars. Now I'm nineteen last time I checked it's nearly 4 dollars.
wow, thats not good.
now its 4.03 on the other side of town, not sure over where i am at, but the other side of town its a couple of cents higher like about 20. So like 4.25
I just paid $3.99 today for regular gas. It'll be pas $4.00 this week for sure. I'm pretty sure no one will lower the gas price's these days anyway's. WTF, put me in debt trying to drive to work. lol