Gas prices

Prices at Safeway gas jumped from $2.71/gal yesterday to $3.21/gal tonight. A fifty cent increase in one day!! Sunoco was still at $2.93 this evening. This would be all well and good except when I read that oil companies are reaping record profits from all these increases under the guise of supply shortages. (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050728/earns_exxon_mobil.html?.v=8)

 

yup it's completely rediculous. Consumers are being taken at the pumps. It's horrible...

 

Well say goodbye to the good-life everyone. People still driving gas guzzlers should pay double that includes most SUV's I parked mine a month ago and have been driving a car that gets excellent gas milage.

I have nothing against SUV's which I own also or gas guzzlers just anything that does not get 30 miles a gallon should be charged double and I would pay that to make our car companies and others to do something about it. Drilling more in alaska is not going to solve this problem. The solution is not more oil but better use of the oil we have. OH what happened to all that oil in Iraq???? Hmmmmmm
How come very slow action by our military to our own crisis on the Gulf. Where are our soldiers????? hmmmmmm

I am from Houston and after a conversation on sunday that went something like "We are making so much F**king money we don't know what to do with it all. All hell is going to break lose when the public really finds out what we are really making." in that conversation there was also "Bush is destroying our country with his policies or lack of, this is from a staunch Republican friend of mine. I almost fell over dead"

Lee J Buividas

Lee J Buividas

 

Does anyone know what the current gas prices are for regular at either the Leesburg or Sterling Costco? I read somewhere that Costco has not gauged their gas prices like most places. Maybe I'll swing by there after work.

 

You and everyone else.

 

I'm surprised to see such a difference in prices at stations a mile apart. I usually don't shop around for 3 or 4 cents difference, but 25 cents a gallon is significant. Glad I didn't fill up at Safeway yesterday. I am hoping they will recognize the ridiculousness and bring it back down a little.

Pam D.

Edited for spelling - not doing well today.

 

We experienced a run on gas all around the Atlanta region last night. Many stations ran out of gas, and some gas stations doubled their prices to over $5 a gallon. Others were rationing gas. Every gas station I drove by on my way home last night had lines extending into the street. One of them was closed. In addition, a (false) rumor got started that the state police were going to close all gas stations at 4PM, which only added to the hysteria. The Atlanta Journal Constitution also has an article today talking about how SUV's are becoming "unsellable" on resale.

Here are the links (registration may be required):
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/breaking/katrina/01gas.html
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/0905/01gas.html
http://www.ajc.com/news/content/living/0905/01suvwoes.html

Just crazy.

 

Check this out. The site is a bit overwhelmed (go figure), so you might get error messages. Just try again in a few minutes. The prices are user-contributed, but there are a few members who update nearly every day. As of 9:00pm Wednesday, the price for Costco was listed at 2.89 (I presume that's 2.899). Presumably, Costco's price is higher this morning.

http://www.virginiagasprices.com/

 

Let me get this straight, you are politicizing Katrina and New Orleans? It's garbage like this that will help Republicans retain control of the White House and Congress. The problem in New Orleans has nothing to do with our soldiers. It has everything to do with piss-poor planning. Who builds a city in a bowl next the ocean? It's not like this was some sort of unanticipated surprise. Not even a year ago, the Univ. of Colorado was sending a warning to N.O. -- http://www.colorado.edu/hazards/o/nov04/nov04c.html

What were people expecting? A category 5 hurricane is heading for our bowl-shaped city, let's stick around and see what happens?

 

Wick who you are kidding!! First I have been professing for code and building construction changes for years especially for Houston as I am from Texas. Nothing political about the fact that we should have staged are National Guard near the affected area as early as last week when we saw this hurricane coming. That dumb-ass that we have for a president enjoys his vacation and trying to get support for his war while people are dying in our country and only yesterday he does a fly over wasting gas for what??? Today still not much military the police are overwhelmed this makes me sick. The orders come from the dumb-ass first and then on down in a major crisis such as this if you want to save and help as many as people as possible. This does not come from our fine military it comes from that guy down the street from us in that big White House. This president must have AD, look how long it took for him to say anything of significance during the tsunami the hurricane in Florida when he first took office and many other crisis, but this born again sure does not have a problem starting wars we are not prepared for or for the public to stay the course. People in his own party are sick of him.

If you want to say this is politicizing this recent tradgedy, bullSh*t these people needed help a week ago before the hurricane to get out. How many could not leave when they wanted to before the hurricane because they did not have the means the military could of done a fabulous job in getting them out in a orderly fashion and who knows how many would have been saved. What is the president doing waiting for the death toll before he mobilizes our resources which is barely happening now. Our fine military can not do it without the president’s orders and the orders of other politicians. Our military is phenomenal and take orders well do their job the best they can with the resources they have. We should been ready for this hurricane a week before.

More lives lost needlessly because of our President.

This is not political it is about saving lives correctly!!!

Wick, people that think like you are dangerous.

Now get your***down there and start helping.

Lee J. Buividas

 

My head hurts.

 

Lee, if it's about saving lives, then stop b!tching and start helping.

 

No we should of had our national guard there last week helping the people that did not have the means to get out get out and a place for them to stay. Also the guard would have been in position to keep law and order. How much simpler could it have been. How many died needlessly because of this. We knew this was coming this was not a surprise like 911. I blame this on our president and politicians not the military.
The presidents press secretarty is on TV now saying we need to save lives and ditching questions why this process was not started a week ago.

Wick I do apologize for my harsh response to you above.

Lee J Buividas

 

Wick I will add to your last post how do you know what I am doing? I am very connected to friends and family in that region especially Houston and somewhat New Orleans.

Lee J. Buividas

 

No worries.

But I don't agree with you. To state that Bush is to blame for this is unrealistic. Since when does the President take over a city from a mayor or part of a state from a governor? The mayors and governors are the responsible parties. They should have assessed the situation and requested aid from the Feds. But they didn't. Now that the hurricane hit, they have requested Federal aid.

That process is no different than any other hurricane that has hit the U.S. The only meaningful difference between the Fed response to Katrina vs. other hurricanes (e.g., Andrew, Ivan, etc.) is that N.O. is built in a bowl and the other cities weren't.

 

Well, I do know that you are on this message board trying in vain to blame Bush for the situation in N.O. and that, despite your "connection" (whatever that means), this vain attempt is not doing one bit of good to further the relief efforts in N.O. In my eyes, your attempts are focused on one thing -- blame. Blame does not equal help.

 

There is a thing called state power and something called federal power. The states should of better prepared themselves. This is not a federal issue. Our federal govt has a process thats written in law. In other words the federal govt run by the president cant just step in do what he wants. They do not want to impede on states rights. The states were late in requesting help, thus the situation. If you want to grant the federal govt more power, go ahead, but our founding fathers would be turning in there graves.

 

I don't buy what you just said in this situation; the area was called a federal disaster area before the hurricane hit. States fight for federal funds everyday and to believe they would not ask for help until late in this case is ludicrous. We all saw this thing coming days before it hit. Only today am I hearing much about what they have just done and going to do.

Not much yet as I see the cameras roll. Just preperation. Explain that to a family whose realitives died and wanted to leave and had no means to. Yet we are going to win in Iraq with this same thinking. I give up.

This is like a deer caught in the headlights!!!

Lee J. Buividas

 

Well, I'm watching the cameras roll and there have been 3000 people rescued from rooftops and streets by helicopter. They are being taken to triage then bused to hospitals. I'm seeing 5000 people in a shelter in Baton Rouge. I'm seeing people in the Astrodome getting dry clothes, a shower and a hot meal. I'm seeing the Coast Guard send 30-some Cutters to the area. I'm seeing the National Guard as well as State Police from all 50 states on their way to LA, AL & MS. That's a lot more than preparation. That's action.

 

Okay, people, back to the gas discussion.

I drove by Safeway at about 2:30 pm today and the price for regular was $3.21. I drove past Exxon(?)on Truro Parish here in Broadlands and the price for regular was $2.99.

Continuing on with my trip, I passed the 7-11 in Farmwell Hunt (near the Islamic ballfields) and the price was $2.85. The Exxon across the street was $2.87.

So my strategy is to always keep enough gas in my car to drive OUT of the Broadlands for my gas.

And I certainly won't be shopping at Safeway any more. Of course, I have a lot of company in that regard. But that is another thread!