Ah yes, the gas embargo days, I can still remember my Dad swapping plates between the cars so he could get a full tank of gas. We are lucky that we pay relatively little for gas compared to the rest of the world. People get conditioned to prices, if it had jumped instantly from $1.09 to $3.05 there would have been riots, and now were conditioned to think $2.50 a gallon.....WOW! Cheap Gas!!!

 

Precisely Big Oils' plans to grab all they can..

 

However, comparing us to other countries isn't a far spout either. Many other countries don't have the pipeline systems like we have here for transportation. If you had to truck all your crude and refined products all by truck... WOW. Do the math.

In Michigan, that has higher truck weight limits, the most the truck can carry is 13,000 gallons. Now out east we run big 24"-36" pipelines, but here in Michigan typically 8"-16". Our 12" runs at about 2600-2800 barrels per hour (2700bbls x 42gal = 113,400 gallon an hour). That is almost 9 trucks an hour. We run that round the clock and all over the state. Typically running 6-10 pipelines all day. And we're not the only company in the area... even your big oil companies still have pipelines.

So my point is, we have that level of infrastructure that most countries don't have.

 

True indeed.. But we also have oil companies making record profits..
Any reason at all will do to raise gas prices..

 

$2.89 here

 

I paid $3.23/gal of 93 octane yesterday morning when I had to put some petro in the SS to run some errands.

 

Dustin, where are pix of your HHR SS???

 

Oh that is true as well. I think that it's a quanity thing.

 

Regular Unleaded 87 gas is $3.09/gallon here in Green Bay, WI. I fill up with Premium though, which was $3.39/gallon. Ouch! When I first started driving, gas was $1.79/gallon. Oh, I wouldn't mind if we had that again...

 

Enjoy your youth.

When I started driving (legally @ 16) it was 24 cents a gallon...