Dont buy gas Sep. 1

[dgreene]

I own a gas station in north carolina, and I can tell you that I make nothing off gas. The oil company pays me 2 cents a gallon to sell there product.

People thought I was full of it, but everyone that runs a store will tell you the same thing. It's sad that the man doing the running around and fooling with the public is the same man who doesn't make anything on it, while some ass in an office somewhere is getting rich.


Where's Efland?

 

[2quiktocare]

I ran an auto center in the 70's during the embargos and was also had 24 gas pumps. I can tell you now, government control of the industry is not what you want. We had lines of cars for miles. I was offered everything in the world from money to sex for gasoline. We did all the one day, no buy thing and many other things, and none of it worked. The thing that will help bring down gas is to build more refineries and to get our own oil out of the ground and to slow down our reliance on foreign oil. This is not going to be an instant fix, but it's a begining. If we want to maintain our place in the world economy, all of us are going to reach a happy medium and realize we need to use more nuclear power generation, and we need to start local drilling. We aren't looking at a materials problem here, we have a delivery problem.

Besides, turbo's get 20 mpg if ya dont drive it hard.

 

[microELVIS]

A thought

Good discussion going here and we were talking about this at work. Something we touched upon is that something good may possibly come out of this gas crisis.

What we were discussing was that these prices are artificially being generated, since there isnt really a major shortage its mostly all panic and people just want their money. Which is better I guess then the world actually running out of oil.

Now since there is such a large increase in price and so quickly causing such a disruption, it may open a door for the new technologies to gain some ground like the hybrids for example. The money for development may be worth it now or coming alot sooner then previously observed. We all know, a major change or revolution so to speak in the way we use our vehicles or vehicle gas consumption will not be changed unless there is a crisis which is beginning to form now. But we will see....

 

[TylerDurden]

I know atlanta and chicago are much bigger cities than where I live, but we here on the gulf coast (fl panhandle specifically) are in the middle of our 3rd gas shortage this summer. before hurricane dennis everyone bought gas prior because of what happened with Ivan (no gas for days afterward)....again with katrina, everyone bought gas before and most of the gas was gone by saturday afternoon. tuesday and yesterday some stations were already out again, and today what stations do have gas have LONG lines....that was as of 10 am this morning....

my point being, that panic and shorter supplies are feeding this scare. I currently have 2 cars with 3/4 tank fulls and 20 extra gallons sitting in my garage and in my buick....I have to strongly consider my gasoline consuption for the next week because of all of this....

 

[cwelk87gn]

It's no problem NOT to buy gas right now in south ALabama, because there is NO gas to be had. I would gladly pay 3.00 a gallon if I could find fuel right now. In fact people are stealing gas at a terrible rate.

 

[TurboJim]

2 words.. car pool....

If we got 1/4 of the cars off the road, thats 1/4 the fuel sold and thats a large drop in volume. After awhile, theyd get it.

 

[Quick6'n'-K.C.]

2 words.. car pool....

If we got 1/4 of the cars off the road, thats 1/4 the fuel sold and thats a large drop in volume. After awhile, theyd get it.

Exactly, its also all about supply and demand. I heard that we are using more gas everyday than they can produce, this is why the price of gas has reached its highest.
I can only imagine the price of gas in 20 more years, i will be running crisco in my diesel if it reaches 3.00 per gallon :biggrin:
BW

 

[darkred87T]

Sorry, but I heard that gas is going up 80 cents tommorow so I filled up. Also, there are huge lines at the pumps tonight. This is getting pretty scary.

 

[seeyabye]

In the it took me to type this, the oil company called to raise the prices again. It has become very difficult for me to look these people in the eye and tell them that gas is now 3.29 for regular. This is the same gas that was 2.66 two days ago, and 1.60 a year ago. I got a gas delivery this morning and will need another tomorrow to keep from running out. I've sold more gas in the past two days than I have in the whole week before. Tommorrow I have to write a check to the oil company for five thousand dollars (minus my 70 dollar commission) This is not cool. If people would calm down, this would not happen.

 

[seeyabye]

By the way Efland is just west of Hillsborough, but my station is in Chapel Hill

 

[NJVetteGuy]

Sorry, but I heard that gas is going up 80 cents tommorow so I filled up. Also, there are huge lines at the pumps tonight. This is getting pretty scary.

I got the price list from Gulf and I'm supposed to raise the price .32 tomorrow. I knew this was going to happen so I filled all my vehicles with gas Saturday/Sunday when it was still 2.4X a gallon/reg and 2.79 for Ultra 94 for the GN.