$3.17 a gallon today when I filled up here in West Michigan. Remember as fuel goes up

[sarcasmo]

so will our groceries. On the bright side the weather man said -2 tonight, brrrrrrrr.

[cutlassmama]

1. lovely

:sarcasm:

[sarcasmo]

2. Tried to come up with a bright side :) .

[mike_c]

3. $3.59 at the 76 station down the street-- Arcata, CA....

on edit-- that's apparently one of the "low" prices in town, as it comes up on the lowest gas prices web site....

[sarcasmo]

7. $4.00 by spring break or the end of next month?

[mike_c]

8. certainly by early summer, I'm betting....

Prices are rising daily here, it seems. I passed a gas station in Willits a couple of weeks ago, noted the price, then stopped on the way back through about six hours later. The price had gone up three cents during that six hours.

[slackmaster]

4. I paid a lot more than that this morning in San Diego

About $3.55.

It's one of our famous Sunshine Taxes.

[Sonoman]

5. $3.29 out here.

And my car gets all of 14mpg.

But it is sunny and 58.

Sonoman

[gratuitous]

6. And when gas was $2.75 a gallon

I suggested it was a good time to raise the federal gas tax for the first time in 17 years. Oh boy, did I get a pranging from the cognoscenti at DU! Oh, I was insensitive to the perils of the poor, the added $1.20 for a fill-up would just ruin millions of families, and on and on. Pearls were duly clutched, couches had to be special-ordered for all the fainting that was done. Now, 42 cents a gallon later, every extra penny of that is going to Big Oil, and not an extra penny for roads, bridges, and other infrastructure.

[maryf]

9. The tax would still be regressive...

would still be hurting the poor, and the gas cost would likely be higher anyway, and you seem to still be insensitive to the poor. Sorry if I'm reading you wrong...

Tax the rich!!! stop the tax cuts, that's the fair answer to infrastructure.

[GreenPartyVoter]

22. +1000

[gratuitous]

25. People who drive will find ways to afford it, in my experience

Let's say you fill up the car once every two weeks, 12 gallons at a time. At $2.75 a gallon, that's $33. At $2.85 a gallon, it's $34.20. While there's an obvious difference, I submit that it's not all that much, less than 4%, and the money is going toward paying for roads and other highway infrastructure, conceivably lowering the cost of running one's car (tires last longer, shocks don't get used up so fast).

Now folks get to pay an additional 47 cents a gallon, and none of that increase is going to lay or resurface one mile of highway, or put up a foot of guard rail.

[maryf]

37. BUT it still penalizes those who have very little...

While a 4% added tax on the rich's incomes won't even be noticed...regressive tax is still regressive...and for folks living in the country looking for work many have to commute, making the difference more noticeable. (I'm rural)

[GreenPartyVoter]

21. Maybe we "clutched our pearls" because we recognize the hardship

that the poor actually face?

You have a point about the high cost of gas, though. Let's tax the Big Oil companies and get the money that way, thereby leaving the poor out of it.

[maryf]

38. +1000!!!

that's the way to do it! :)

[PoiBoy]

10. $3.98 gal. regular unleaded today...

Maui...


:hi:

[JDPriestly]

11. It is $3.34 in LA although we have refineries right in our area.

[Initech]

35. I paid $3.40 this morning - Orange County.

[Initech]

12. I'm seriously toying with the notion of getting a hybrid.

Right now I'm having a having a hard time deciding between the Ford Fusion, Kia Optima, and the Hyundai Sonata.

[SmileyRose]

13. yeah, we spend gazillion and untold injuries and death to protect their oil fields / shipping lanes

and the best they can give us is $4 gas?

Heh, it's pretty bad when even right wingers like Trump can go on conservative talk, discuss telling the oil giants to go fuck themselves because not even the Republicans can talk America into killing itself for the sake of big oil profits anymore.

[taterguy]

26. We fight oil wars to make sure it stays available, not to lower the price

The 1973 Embargo crippled our economy.

Afterwards we had two choices:

1) Restructure our society so we'd be less dependent on oil.

2) Make oil producing nations an offer they couldn't refuse.

Carter made feeble attempts at Option 1. He was ridiculed and voted out of office.

Every President since then has picked Option 2, because no one wants to be a one-term President.

Sure, war is hell but it beats having to walk to work, especially when it's only poor brown people that are fighting and dying in the wars.

[Loge23]

14. ..so does PVC, steel, and anything transported by fuel.

I suppose we'll be reading about how inflation was under-estimated in a couple of months.

[Rhiannon12866]

15. $3.26 now for me, at the cheapest place in town, here in NE NY...

And they're predicting record low temperatures for the weekend, the weatherman said "dangerously low..." And we've had three snowstorms in the past 10 days. This is not ever my favorite time of year, and this winter is a rough one. :( :scared:

[Soral]

16. Its between 3.40 - 3.80 in Fairfield County, CT / Westchester County, NY

[NuclearDem]

17. $3.08 in Omaha...

And that's the Premium Unleaded I put in my truck...regular is $3.18.

[elocs]

18. Gas has gone down here in western WI where it was -19 last night,

but only supposed to be -1 tonight.

It's now $3.11 here and was $3.14 a week ago. It goes up by nickels and dimes, but down by pennies.

[Sherman A1]

19. $2.95 here in St. Louis.

It did go up to $2.99 just this week and has dropped off a bit. It was $2.85 for a couple of weeks, but in general it is creeping up.

[moparlunatic]

20. Higher prices=

Less driving. I'm hoping for $5.00 a gallon.

[Sherman A1]

28. Higher prices also = less spending on many other items

such as food(grocery stores), entertainment(movies, restaurants, etc), clothing, car repairs, books, newspapers, etc, etc.... all of which in one way or another employ people in your local community. I would be very careful for what you wish as lower spending in those areas, means less need for those employed in those sectors and the effects ripple through the economy.....

[Canuckistanian]

23. You've all got it easy. I pay over $4/Gal regularly here in Canada

I filled up yesterday for $1.07 a litre.

That's about $4.28 a Gallon with the volume and currency conversions.

[Bluenorthwest]

27. So you pay a dollar a gallon more for gas

Nothing for health care, and we have it easy?

[Canuckistanian]

30. Touché

Yeah, I guess I don't have much to complain about.

[barbiegeek]

34. Yea, you don't have to pay for Health insurance or Dr. Bills,

Actually, will you adopt me and my family? LOL

[Trajan]

24. Job Killing Gas Price Increases ...

to go along with job killing food price increases ....

MORE money for fat cat oilmen, and LESS money to buy more expensive food for their families ...

LESS money for automakers and TV salespersons and travel agents and technicians and bagel sellers and coffee baristas and movie theaters and rain gutter installers .... They get to try to survive with LESS money available in family purses .... ALL other business suffers when oil is allowed to shift price in such a volatile manner .... When those businesses suffer, people lose jobs .... Thanks to job killing price gouging by fat cat corporatists ...

The rich decide on job killing price gouging all the time .... Yet, nobody refers to it thusly ....

I would rather pay a high tax to the commons than a high fee to fat cat oilman ....

While we are discussing it; Why is it that US citizens do not own oil production in the US ? .... Why did the GOP-lead government promote a state owned petroleum system in Iraq, and why does it prefer to do business with state owned operations abroad, like Dubai World Ports, for instance ? ... or Aramco ? ...

A bunch of job killing hypocrites, they are ...

[OhioChick]

29. $3.11 here today...

http://gasbuddy.com/

[sarcasmo]

31. I forgot about gasbuddy, buddy :) .

[OhioChick]

32. There you are....

I was wondering who in Michigan was whining like hell about the cold temps. :evilgrin:

[barbiegeek]

33. Are we getting stuck with paying 4 the oil spill clean up in Gulf

[AlabamaLibrul]

36. 3.27 for 87 octane unleaded RBOB gasoline headed through Florida.

I gagged.