On my drive out to Canyon Country here in Los Angeles I was stuck at an intersection where I watched workers at a gas station changing out the placard style gas price display for a LCD digital one.  

Instant updates to gas prices from the mother ship.  

It's going to be a long summer.

I'll give you something moderately scary. The hydrogen powered car was patented in the 1930's. It was given a public test drive down to the local lake (I forget which city) and filled using the water out of the lake, and then drove off never to be put into production. It works by separating the hydrogen molecules out of water, and as a result, burns about 4 times hotter than gasoline fumes, but moves a car without any issues.

Add to that the emissions are pure water vapor. Nothing more.

Why don't we have this? Well, the oil companies shut it down that quickly. I believe they don't want anyone to know it even exists or is possible. Give two thoughts to the explosive nature of pure hydrogen and it'll all come together.

Quoted from dogglebe My wife and I are visiting Scotland and England in a few weeks and will be renting a car for a few days.  Gas prices worry us.

Phil, you should be worrying about them driving on the wrong side of the road - then gas prices.

They should be afraid of me, no matter what side anyone drives.


Phil

$4.16 this morning!!! Unbelievable. Normal, IL

http://www.gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx

This lists the average price by city, but you can go to the main page and pinpoint the cheapest gas stations in your area, at least those in the US and Canada.

Wednesday, I paid $4.11 a gallon in Connecticut.  Thursday, it was $4.22 at the same gas station.

The SS gathering is going to bankrupt me....


Phil

Quoted from dogglebe Wednesday, I paid Wednesday, I paid $4.11 a gallon in Connecticut.

That is probably one of the weirdest sentences I've ever read.

I hear that Tuesday and Wednesday are the best days to buy gas, presumably because it's far enough removed from the previous weekend, yet not close enough to the upcoming one.

Prices here range from $3.97 to $4.15 a gallon.

People have started stealing gas from automobiles by drilling holes in the gas tanks too.

Ok...slightly sickened by you guys complaining at the gas prices in the US....save a thought for us in the UK. Current prices (excuse the rough estimate) are approx.

$12-13 per gallon

This is not a typo! (£1.30/litre)

obvioulsy translate this to household fuel bills and we've had just under 100% increase in the last year.

*runs around in a circle clasping her head* we're DOOOOMMMMEEEEDDDDD!

The low dollar makes it sound extra bad though...

When the dollar was at it highest it would've been around $5-6/gallon...

That's still ridiculously cheap. What is this in relation to expendable income.

E.g it costs me and hubby £120 / month in fuel (at not alot of mileage) , we spend £150/month on groceries for us and 3 cats