Go get gas right now.

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Originally Posted by Sephex

I am sure most of you are aware of this, but gas is shooting up at an incredibly fast rate. Because the oil places are shut down in New Orleans because of flooding, gas production has stopped. On the radio today, a gas representative said that premium is going to hit four dollars. I have seen gas in my area at 2.95 and 3.25 for regular unleaded. I lucked out and got 2.72 a bit ago. However, it's going to rise. Fill up your tank ASAP.

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Dude your gonna cause mass panic(which already happened,which raised the gas prices even faster.).

Also tomorrow in Oklahoma.We'll be voting on a bill that will raise the gas taxes. Yeah thats crazy.

Gas here in Iowa is Reg is 2.50 and for Silver its 2.46 XD I was soo happy that gas has went down X3

it's probably going to go back up again this weekend when hurricane Rita plows through the gulf again and screws up the offshore oil rigs even more.

Gas has been going steadily down lately, but I dont necessarily view this as a good thing

I've seen chain emails telling us to buy gas (petrol) from non-brand name distributors. Is that a viable option?

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Originally Posted by eestlinc

it's probably going to go back up again this weekend when hurricane Rita plows through the gulf again and screws up the offshore oil rigs even more.

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-sighs- Your probolly right -sigh- :(

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Originally Posted by Pureghetto

I've seen chain emails telling us to buy gas (petrol) from non-brand name distributors. Is that a viable option?

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Name the companies that sell it, and I am there. That is only if greed leeds to another false demand. I had gotten this newsletter at work, that claimed that only a 7% loss in oil capasity was lost during the last huricane. It seems reasonable since we import all of the oil. Price is bound to go up when someone else is flippin the bill.

Bipper

7% is pretty big, and it was concentrated geographically too. For example Atlanta gets most of it's oil from LA based sources, so while it might have been a 7% loss nationally, it was much much higher here, and prices skyrocketed both due to gouging and to true lack of supply.

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Originally Posted by ShlupQuack

30 miles per gallon is pretty good. Especially since in the US a lot of people drive big cars which get that or less.

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Thats jsut the suburbs lol most students get cars thats are very economical and have excelent gas mileage.

Here in Melbourne (Victoria, Australia) petrol's gone up to 1.4AUD a litre. Probably go up to 1.6AUD a litre in a few days I guess. Sucks - used to stay at a good .7AUD a litre.

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Originally Posted by Pureghetto

I've seen chain emails telling us to buy gas (petrol) from non-brand name distributors. Is that a viable option?

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Name the companies that sell it, and I am there. That is only if greed leeds to another false demand. I had gotten this newsletter at work, that claimed that only a 7% loss in oil capasity was lost during the last huricane. It seems reasonable since we import all of the oil. Price is bound to go up when someone else is flippin the bill.

Bipper

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In 2004, 34% of crude oil was produced in the US, and the other 66% were imported. From what I can read on the EIA site, the production in the US fell from 5,427 thousand barrels a week before Katrina to less than 4,500 after (4,500 the past week). That's a 17% loss just in production, to which you should add that the Gulf is a major hub for oil and natural gas transit.
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/special...kat_oilpic.gif
http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/special...an_katrina.gif
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/steo/pub/contents.html

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Originally Posted by lordblazer

Thats jsut the suburbs lol most students get cars thats are very economical and have excelent gas mileage.

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if you insist.

Gas prices are falling pretty steadily here, but I imagine that eestlinc is right and this new hurricane is going to halt this progress.

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Originally Posted by RSL

Gas prices are falling pretty steadily here, but I imagine that eestlinc is right and this new hurricane is going to halt this progress.

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-sniffle- I really don't want it to -sniffle- I am the only person at home that has my drivers license so I am left with all the driving and stuff :cry:

Rita is set to hit Houston. Exxon and several other's are evacuating and closing down. Not good, I would asume that we should indeed prepare for a price hike. $5 a gallon Gas? was the headline on CNN this morning. Strickly a namesake as the guestimate was a dollar increase from what it is now.

by the way, thanks fro that endless, like I said its was just a newsletter that someone was passing around, and I belive it may have said thatthe percentage was off-shore specific, come to think of it.

Bipper