Gas prices before the snow earlier this week

[piemma]

Raven:
I agree 100%. I'm note sure what we can do. I don't know if raising a ruckus with our politicians will help. It seems to me if the bakers started charging $5.00 a loaf for bread everyone would stop buying bread and bake there own. The problem with oil is they have us by the short hairs. We can't run our vehicles with out gas. You can heat with wood but I see guys getting $200 a cord so what's the point.

So what's the answer. I read an article in October that said gas consumption was down by 7 to 10% in the month of September. Was this was because the American public got tired of the $3.00+ per gallon? No, I think it was because school was back in session and vacations were over. As long as Jong Q Public can get gas they will buy it....at any price I think.

I just don't know what the answer is.

[Raven]

that we need to have rickshaws on bicycles....but a push towards an all electric car for the short hauls would eliminate gasoline consumption 100% even though they cost almost double the price of a gas burning vehicle...and if every two car family had one of each
then that would cut gas consumption (theoretically) by 50 % which would cut demand and lower the price for the other car's usage of it.

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by piemma

Raven:
I agree 100%. I'm note sure what we can do. I don't know if raising a ruckus with our politicians will help. It seems to me if the bakers started charging $5.00 a loaf for bread everyone would stop buying bread and bake there own. The problem with oil is they have us by the short hairs. We can't run our vehicles with out gas. You can heat with wood but I see guys getting $200 a cord so what's the point.

So what's the answer. I read an article in October that said gas consumption was down by 7 to 10% in the month of September. Was this was because the American public got tired of the $3.00+ per gallon? No, I think it was because school was back in session and vacations were over. As long as Jong Q Public can get gas they will buy it....at any price I think.

I just don't know what the answer is.

I still think the gov't should step in. How much have we spent in Iraq? Why not put that out there as a little bonus for a company who develops a legitmate technology to conserve fuel or use an alternate fuel?

[Mike P]

Left for RI on Wednesday---$2.39/gallon

Returned home last night---$2.55/gallon

WTF???

[Karl F]

Big Storm for tonight predicted, time to raise the pump price, as people will fill the tank... "just in case"....

ahh New Englanders... we make the bread and milk run, fill the tank, every time the weather forecasters predict a storm... follow the gallon price on milk too... I've been seeing a pattern there too...

I've talked to a few people in the retail food biz, they said it all traces back to the blizzard of 78, ever since then, people have a "stock up" mentality, when bad weather is forcasted.

[Raven]

its time to hear some politicians get pissed off.

and if not -> they need to go bye bye.

[vineyardblues]

- By the Cape Cod Times

Gasoline prices rise 5 cents per gallon
HYANNIS - The price of a gallon of gasoline rose five cents in a week, and 18 cents over the past month, according to this week's survey by AAA Southern New England.

After increasing three of the last four weeks, gasoline prices in Massachusetts start 2006 an average of 41 cents higher than a year ago, the auto club reports.

This week's survey of prices in Massachusetts found self serve unleaded regular averaging $2.229 per gallon. A year ago at this time, the average price was $1.819.

The range in prices for regular unleaded in the latest AAA survey is 22 cents, from a low of $2.13 9 to a high of $2.359, so motorists will benefit from shopping around for their area's best price.