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Author Topic: Gas prices is creeping up again Andy Muirhead Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Galashiels, Scotland Registered: Dec 2000 posted 06-20-2009 08:33 PM                     Fair play to you Bobby, I'm impressed by your research. As you pointed out, There are connections somewhat closer than perhaps you have over there. I apologise if I was rude in my earlier post, but in this subject you can possibly forgive it as in my location (and I have to drive 20 miles just to get to Galashiels) a car is absolutely essential - there are no alternatives at all. I'm just very frustrated at the spiralling fuel costs, and sorry if I vented that frustration at you!  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 06-21-2009 10:56 AM                     There's also another alternative: bicycle paths. Not enough cities in the US have them or are trying to develop them. I live close enough to my work place that I can bicycle to and from there in less than 20 minutes. Unfortunately, the ride is somewhat dangerous thanks to not having any sort of bike path network at all. A few doctors, real estate people and such are promoting a new bike path network for Lawton and a Rails to Trails project to convert a decommissioned freight rail line into a path running from Lawton up into the Wichita Mountains. But I have no idea when or if anything substantial will ever happen.  |  IP: Logged Brian Guckian Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 594 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Apr 2003 posted 06-21-2009 11:07 AM                     A massive rail development / re-construction programme in the US would provide hundreds of thousands of jobs. It would also enormously expand the market for rail vehicles of all kinds. GM etc. could then re-direct manufacturing into that area. With climate change and peak oil the day of the automobile and short-haul aviation is very much over. In Scotland, the railway to (or near) Galashiels is planned to be re-built as part of the Borders Rail project. And here in Ireland, we're eh, still building unsustainable motorways we don't need and seeking to cut back on some of our rail services - duh  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-21-2009 01:38 PM                        Although I use my car when I have to do a photographic assignment, most of my commuting is by public transportation when I visit my mother at her nursing home almost every day at Kapolei, Hawaii and when I go to my color lab in Honolulu to drop off and pick up work. Honolulu's mass transit system is considered one of the best in the country and have won the "BEST IN THE USA" award two years in a row a couple of years ago. The monthly bus pass now cost $40.00 and will increase by $10.00 next month for everyone under age 65 except children. We seniors have the best deal in town when we can buy a ANNUAL pass for just $30.00 I love our transit system with very comfortable busses and the opportunity to catch up on my reading and sleep or do some of my work with my laptop computer. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Brian Guckian Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 594 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Apr 2003 posted 06-22-2009 08:12 AM                     Sounds great - very civilised! quote: Bobby Henderson But I have no idea when or if anything substantial will ever happen. That's because the enormous cultural attachment to the automobile worldwide has to be broken. And it should be done by using the same clever advertising techniques that mostly caused this problem in the first place  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Jorgenson Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1002 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: Feb 2005 posted 07-12-2009 08:51 PM                        ...and the price is going down again  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-12-2009 09:17 PM                     Yep, back down below $2 for 87 octane at a few stations around here.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-12-2009 11:49 PM                     That's typical! Down here (a 90 minute drive from Edmond) the price of 87 octane is $2.39 per gallon. And that price has been in effect only since late Friday when the prices were previously in the $2.45 - $2.49 range. Whenever the price of oil jumps at all, the price at the pumps also jumps immediately. When oil prices fall the gas stations always take their sweet time in lowering prices as slowly as possible.  |  IP: Logged Galen Murphy-Fahlgren Master Film Handler Posts: 405 From: Canton, MI, USA Registered: Oct 2007 posted 07-13-2009 01:40 AM                     I paid $2.45 Saturday night, which is the lowest I've seen since early June. It's nice that gas prices here are among the highest in the contiguous states, seeing as the unemployment rate is closing on 15% and incomes are falling rapidly. Nothing helps dig people out of a depression like rising energy prices. Fortunately for me, I just doubled my fuel efficiency by getting a motorcycle.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-13-2009 01:46 AM                     Oil prices are gradually slipping a bit - now around $62/barrel. But, the price of the pumps over here haven't changed any - $2.73/gal for the last three weeks ..  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 07-13-2009 08:21 AM                     The folks running the United States are in a battle over just what to do. One side wants to tax us to prosperity while the other side wants to price gouge us to prosperity. Typical for those out of touch douchebags.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-13-2009 07:57 PM                        Hawaii's prices is still the highest in the country at $3.15 for a gallon of regular. With the recent Hawaii state fuel tax increase, it was about $3.25 a little over a week ago but it is good to see the prices coming down again -Claude  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-15-2009 12:49 AM                     Now things are showing a decrease - oil below $60/barrel and we're down to $2.63/gal  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-15-2009 06:11 AM                     Gas is $2.399 per gallon here today. What a wonderful boost to our tourist business for the Summer. KEN  |  IP: Logged Kenneth Wuepper Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1026 From: Saginaw, MI, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-17-2009 05:08 PM                     Today it is $2.329 per gallon.  |  IP: Logged

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