$4.29 at my local station. That's up 15¢ in the last three days.

4.08 most places here

I paid $4.27 for premium today

Why are you buying premium, Longneck?

When the crisis ends, and people are standing there counting the cost, I wonder how many millions out of billions of people will come out on top??

My car (Mercedes) requires it. And yes it really does need it.

Thinking back to the gas/energy "crisis" of the mid 70s and early 80s, gasoline prices never jumped as high as this past year and we actually had trouble getting gas. License plates that ended in odd numbers could only get gas on Mon. Wed. Fri..etc. The government was requesting that homes and businesses adjust thermostats to save; every other light bulb was removed in office buildings and so on. There's none of those conditions now and the prices have increased much more than in those times, which tells me one thing. We're being F*cked! And the government doesn't give a sh*t. Why? Because those rapists are in on it. There is no supply problem, only a greed problem and I don't care what any of the Gangster BB economy experts say. WE'RE BEING VIOLATED! and Congress is checking on the high price of CHEESE!

And then we get your leftovers. Thanks America.

3.83-3.89

And New Jersey used to be one of the lowest. I paid 3.95 a gallon yesterday. Where's the justice?

"Don't believe we're on the Eve of Destruction?" - Barry Maguire, 1966

I don't think that jar is big enough.

For justice, we must go to Don Corleone."

I see no banners, no slogans and no marching on to the White House.

If America does'nt ask for lower fuel prices it won't get it.

He says something highly intelligent!

Yeah, all American's do is bitch and moan. It's our thing. Basically, the 70s came, and it was just such a horrible decade that everyone got really fucking stupid.

I thought you was gonna say "get this loser off the boards".

We moan here too.

I saw an interesting letter to the editor in my local paper. It said that while we can piss and moan all we want about gas prices, the "enemy" is not Big Oil, but our local governments. The example given was as follows:

If you fill a 15 gallon gas tank, the oil companies make between $1.05 and $1.50 in profits. However, in NY, the federal, state and county taxes collected average $8.70!!!! That's based on federal tax of $0.18 and state and local taxes averaging $0.40. So, who is doing the reaming here???

I'm seriously considering trading in my Cadi for a Honda.

Are the local governments reporting record profits of over $40 billion this year??

Good idea. MANY people come to our workplace in monstrous trucks. Dallas is full of macho men who want to drive big trucks

One petrol station is Cornwall is charging £1.99 a litre.

SC, I'm not saying that the oil companies aren't screwing us, I was just pointing out that we're getting screwed on a multitude of levels!

My car gets decent mileage. About 21MPG highway/city combined. But it's still costing me $200+ a month to drive.

A multitude of levels? Yes. Multiple orgasms? No!

Yes, it would be nice to get some pleasure out of all this screwing. As a friend of mine used to say, "I usually liked to be kissed first."

To hell with a kiss. Just buy me dinner first.

Did you hear that Exxon is going to close company owned gas stations because they can't make a large enough profit from them? They'd rather concentrate on raping us from the corporate level where the profits are greater.

I know that Shell did so, since I sold one of their former stations to a client, and there were several in the area for sale at the time. Talk about the Seller From Hell. We had the site in contract, my client was going through their due diligence (the environmental studies alone cost them a fortune), and then I got a call from Shell's attorney saying that because they hadn't passed a board resolution to officially sell the property (despite the fact that it was on the market for 6 months before my client bought it), they were putting a stop to the deal until the resolution was passed.

Gee, and we wonder why nothing gets done in corporate America??

But I digress! F**k the oil companies!! Is that more on topic??

I don't have a car, but don't like this sort of thing happening.

Would anyone here buy petrol from bootleggers if it was cheaper?

Aww SB said a bad word.

When they blockaded years ago I went down to the refinery and stayed there for a while. When Blair came on the radio everyone just jeered!

Gosh, what memories, it was very jovial - everyone just talking and laughing with each other. Then I was proud to be a Brit.

...and it gets their name off of the station so the association with obscene profits is insulated. We'll be mad at Mohammed's Quik Serve rather than the Exxon tiger going in our tank, I mean rear.