Malibu Gas Station Already Charging More Than $3 a Gallon

[DBoon]

Not LBN, as they seem to have been charging this for a while

Link:
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MALIBU, Calif. (AP) 3.18.05, 8:10a -- Are Californians ready to pay three dollars a gallon for gas? Some already are.

The 76 Union station on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu is doing brisk business despite self-serve pumps selling regular unleaded at three dollars, five cents a gallon and supreme unleaded at three dollars, 15 cents.

Malibu today, the rest of the USA tomorrow?

[Cha]

1. Hawaii must be terrible!

When are the murikens going to rebel and oust the occupant who is in charge of all this shyte?

I pay $2.25 in New York.

[zelda7743]

11. Actually, we're not doing so bad

Kauai is at $2.59, Oahu is lower.

[Cha]

14. Wow.. Zelda! That's good!

I lived on Kauai from '92 to '98 and my son still lives there..I'll be moving back to the Big Island this time in a couple of years.

How do you like it there?

Welcome to DU! B-)

[catzies]

2. Yup. Screwing the blue states. SOP for the GOP.

I'm minutes away from Malibu, so our gas will go up soon too, (again), as we are subject to zone-based pricing. x(

[Selatius]

3. We shouldn't bitch at all

If the Europeans can put up with 4 to 5 dollars a gallon, we can as well.

[Cha]

4. They are so cute with their

itty bitty cars. How many suvs will go the way of the dinasaur?

The manufactors must be sweating bullets and wondering why bush isn't lowering the gas prices!@

[Warpy]

5. Europeans drive short distances, have mass transit, and

have health care. Fuel charges don't take the enormous bite out of their budgets that they do here, where people often live an hour or more away from work, there is inadequate to no mass transit, and we get socked for profit driven healthcare.

I'd love to see higher gas prices, anything to get what my 88 year old father calls "those fucking rolling billboards" off the roads. I just know a lot of us will be badly hurt in the process, and it's unfair to compare the US with Europe in ability to afford oil company profiteering.

[Selatius]

7. No, it's not fair, but it also should not have been unexpected

This was coming from a long way off. When someone like Carter in the late 1970s wanted to invest in alternative sources of energy, you know how far we've fallen behind. There's a price to be had for that, and it's being paid. If you're one of countless folks who bought SUVs for the hedonic value or simply to show your status (I assume you are not), you do not have my sympathies.

[JanMichael]

6. Ah, but the "rub" is this: Their prices were jacked up to pay for PUBLIC..

...Transportation already.

Thus, and this is hilarious, because they had the numbers high already their jumps in prices have be muted. There's a buffer.

Oh, it's frickin' hilarious, ain't it?

[BuyingThyme]

8. It's time to start printing up those three-dollar bills

with Bush's face on 'em.

Stick 'em on every gas pump in America.

[Deja Q]

9. Compared to inflation, how does 2005 gas price compare to 1981?

I wouldn't worry yet.

But soon, perhaps.

[Selatius]

10. If today was 1981, gas prices would be 2.80 on average

We're bad, but we're not there yet.

[PlanetBev]

12. I think I know which Union 76 it is...

Nestled near Cross Creek Village, not far from Pepperdine. People should boycott the owner's ass.

[Terran]

13. It jumped to $2.09 here in rural Missouri yesterday

A year ago it was about $1.42. I'm thinking, I'm hoping, that having broken that $2 barrier, some people will start thinking.