$4 Gas and Tough Choices
It looks like gas is more than flirting with the $4 mark.
Cleveland prices appear to be at $3.95 and rising, because we all know they're not about to drop anytime soon. We found at least one station in Akron with regular unleaded gas at $4.19!
So here's the question: With gas prices so high and going higher, what choices are you having to make? Are there certain luxuries you are giving up to pay for gas? Are there certain items you just can't do without no matter what the price of gas?
Sound off by adding a post below.
Cleveland prices appear to be at $3.95 and rising, because we all know they're not about to drop anytime soon. We found at least one station in Akron with regular unleaded gas at $4.19!
So here's the question: With gas prices so high and going higher, what choices are you having to make? Are there certain luxuries you are giving up to pay for gas? Are there certain items you just can't do without no matter what the price of gas?
Sound off by adding a post below.
posted by lbarr at
12:39 PM
56 Comments:
We saved a country from a murderous dictator. The country has plenty of oil. I think for the amount of lives and resources we used to free their people, it would entitle the U.S. to some crude compensation.
Who buys Vpower gas anyways? Stop with your "angled" news. Gas is $3.95 on that sign to anyone with a somewhat normal compression car and half a grain of sence.
I urge any complainers to make gas for cheaper anyways. Hopefully we'll be paying $10 before too long! Doesn't matter to me, I'm loaded.
All I can say is "CONGRATULATIONS OIL COMPANIES" - YOU MAY MAKE YOUR RECORD PROFIT FOR THE SECOND QUARTE, I HOPE YOUR FAMILIES ARE SLEEPING WELL AND EATING WELL! The working Americans are being gouged big time and it is a shame that our lovely officials in Washington are just sitting back watching this happen. There should be laws in place to protect the American people from such out landish gas prices. All I can say is UNBELIEVEABLE and God Bless this Country!
Get use to it. Nothing is going to change, no matter how much we complain. I don't think we will see gas below $4.00 ever again.
When is our government going to step in and do something? We have paid the price with lives but there have been no benefits for the US. So much for foreign affairs!
When is another country going to help us for a change?
On the other side of the track, thanks oil companies my mutual fund looks great!
The thing about this particular gas station is that it is CONSISTENTLY 40 cents/gallon above other prices in the area. At least. Less than a mile down Graham Road, gas is $3.69/gallon! And it's the same two blocks down State Road - $3.71/gallon. I'm not sure why this Marathon is so expensive, but it is definitely the exception, not the rule.
This site is a rag. The articles that are posted are, at best, uninformative. They have little content or investigation. The gas station in Akron with the $4.19/gallon price is a service station that is always $.20 higher than anywhere else. The drive-by media stikes again! Get off your rear end and publish a complete story!
I drive by the gas station every day that you mentioned, the one on Graham Rd in Cuyahoga Falls. They are ALWAYS at least .50 a gallon more than any other station. I always wondered how they stay in business.
It is just a scam by the oil companies. My uncle owns a gas station and said there is no reason for the rising prices, just greed.
And people wonder why everyone is hurting financially.....UNBELIEVABLE.
This is a country of "me" not "we". If YOU don't like the price of gas,get off your butt and do something about it! It takes more than just blogging and complaining about it to find the solution. Our government is NEVER going to do a darn thing about this if we don't stand united and fight for a change.We elected them and they can be replaced,remember the consumer has power.There are more "common people" in this country than representatives..Time has showed us the changes we can make if people stand together, instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you!!! United we stand strong divided we fall!
It is absolutely ridiculous the way the price of gas keeps increasing! My family is at the point that we can't cut back on much else...the only place we drive is to work and one weekly trip to the grocery store. Every where else we either skip going or we walk to local places. I hope all the politicians making big money off our tax dollars and the oil companies that are finacially raping the average American on a daily basis are happy with themselves!!
How is the Average American supposed to live? Soon its going to be buy gas, eat, buy medicine.
If companies don't give their employees cost of living raises how are we are as a country going to afford to live.
I am so tired of us as a country helping out everyone oversees. What about helping out our own country for a change?
How do we get to our places of employment to pay for the gas we use? It is getting out of hand. Make the rich, richer and the poor, poorer. As a single female, I have to work 3 jobs to make ends meet. Now I can't afford to work. Stimulus checks are great when you have to pay your taxes with it. Thank You, Maureen
Anyone that lives in this area knows that this station is always inflated over other nearby stations by up to 50 cents a gallon. I don't know why. Other stations in the same area (on State Rd) are $3.89. Still expensive, but by featuring the one station in the area that is always overpriced, Channel 3 takes the price out of context and makes a big deal out of nothing.
All I can say is thank goodness I work at home and don't have to driver to far for my kids after school activities.
The oil companies are only in the 8% profit margin area. They aren't exactly swimming in cash like say Microsoft. The only thing the government needs to do is quit appeasing the libtards in California with thier worthless enviromental standards the oil refineries have to follow. We need to allow the oil companies to drill more domestically as well.
The government HAS to do something, people will have to quit there jobs because they can't afford to drive to work, then the government can support them
I see people asking, "When is the government going to do something?"
They already did. During George Bush's first term. When Vice-President Cheney had numerous secret meetings with people in oil, gas, electricity, and the energy industries and they established U.S. energy policy.
Without Congress. Without the people. This was all public at the time. No one cared. No one did a thing. All people ever do is whine and complain and comply - but they never lead or take action...or vote...or vote intelligently. They vote out of fear or something that has no bearing on if the person will make a good president.
You thought Bush / Cheney was the way to go? You voted for them twice? Well, now we all get to live with their energy policies which Congress and the American people were kept completely in the dark about. Add to that how every American consumer and American business bows down to China and India and their consumption is skyrocketing...and we have our current problem.
Why do people fail to lead? Why do people always wait until its too late and then whine and complain and expcet the government to do something? WE THE PEOPLE...are the government.
Remain apathetic, idle, pre-occupied, self-absorbed, filled with fear and this is the best you can expect. We get the government we deserve because of the citizens which comprise our Republic. Quit whining, quit rolling over and finally do something about these problems for a change.
I'm sure George and Dick's portfolio's are doing quite well, while the 99% of us watch our 401k turn to 101k's!
No one uses that Marathon gas station. They ALWAYS have gas that's very high compared to everyone else. If you go to the Giant Eagle across the street its at least .25 cheaper everyday. It's a service station that has gas that no one uses.
=======> SO WAS THE IRAQ WAR WORTH IT??? ARE YOU GLAD YOU GAVE TWO TERMS TO THE BU$H/CHENEY OIL COMPANY GUYS??? <=======
Its not the oil companies fault. They only posted modest profits of 7-8 percent(the record is in the amount not the profit margin, Coke makes a 34 percent profit...). The problem lies in the idiotic environmental policies that wont allow us to drill or build refineries in our own country. By the way the middle east isnt our number one importer of oil--mexico and canada are. Before you guys go off on alternative sources-- as the demand for oil goes down becasue of alternative energy, so does the price of oil. Guess what? When oil becomes more affordable alternative energy sources become less profitable. Alternative fuels are a no win situation if you look at the problem in terms of economics.
I thought that these stimulus checks were for the country to spend and improve the economy. Now everyone is saving the money to spend on gas that we need to get to our jobs and keep our families afloat. Thanks government for all the help and support.
LOL anyone who complains about getting free money and now not being able to spend it their way is insane. Let me explain what happened in summary:
a very wealthy oil man gave us all a 'stimulus check' this month. a lot of us had it direct-deposited, most of us had it put into savings and some others into checking. still others are waiting for the USPS to bring it to them, so for the next 6-8months as all of us receive our 'free money', the economy was supposed to grow rapidly.
but something else happened too. the savings and even some checking accounts that our money is sitting in, even for a day or so, bear interest. this interest comes from the fact that the banks invest all their money, including the new stuff, into various things, among them oil. so now the oil companies have incentive to increase prices, as they've been boosted an extra little bit this week, and in the weeks to come, by our money.
so the oil companies charged more, making us pay with the same money that's paying them already, for a product that is being funneled through a system designed to skew numbers any way they want. it didn't help that the fed continues to cut interest rates, making our dollar more and more worthless when we go to buy oil, sometimes from OURSELVES!. so what to do? i see prices surpassing $6/gallon this summer. they went up here in the akron area 20 cents in one day last week, and today another 34 cents today. they're not going down, they're only going up over time.
and the saddest part is, the war now costs more too. what a shame we could've built schools, hospitals, fed the world at least once, and more, but we chose to spend it on violence. and the world hates us still.
Denny said: 1972 or 1973 gas crunch thats 34 or 35 yrs ago and we still don't have a solution. Nobody to blame but the politicians whether they be democrat or republician. They talk alot until their elected then they sit on their big fat (A) until it time to run again. I like their deal no social security dont have to worry about medical either and a big fat check every month. We don't need professional politicians 4years for the senate 3years for congress and then boot them. Liar's and crooks. Drill for the oil in North Dakota lessen the burden of the working people. wages getting less and less and everything else is going up. May God have mercy on us. Bad feelings if this continues on the path it has started.
The station you picked to show in your story is a joke in this area. Their price is always 20 to 40 cents more per gallon, even when prices were just over the 3 dollar mark. I literally have yet to see anyone buying gas there and I drive past there 6 or 6 times a week.
A modest profit of 7% to 8%??? You call that modest in a dinosaur industry? The grocery stores would love that.
Do you really think they want to build another refinery when making record profits? Would you?
If they did they would build a refinery in mexico. A country that would welcome them with open arms.
It's criminal what they are getting away with. Collusion, price fixing, call it what you will. The oil companies have regionalized their offering. This is why we see less competition on the corners. This is why BP is selling their stores. There simply isn't any competition.
Add Bush filling the federal reserves by 10,000 barrels a day.
I can't believe some people are so gullible.
Years ago I was told by a history professor that this country would see another revolution. This time it would be the rich against the poor. That day is fast approaching. Bush and Cheney have done nothing but line their pockets and destroyed this country. May God have Mercy on their souls...because I don't. Congress, Republican and Democrat aren't any better...all them need to spend at least 30 days in the shoes of the poor. They wouldn't last 10 minutes. All of them need to be fired. Very interesting that Bush/Cheney will not allow the minutes from the meetings they had with the Department of Energy when they first took office...it is so easy to claim "National Security"...it is only National Security because they know the American People would come after them and boot them right out of office. IMPEACH BUSH!!!
=======> OIL PRICES INCREASED 5FOLD FROM $24/BBL TO $125/BBL DURING THE BUSH REGIME! SUCH A DEAL! PUT YOUR CORKS IN & RUN FOR COVER IF YOU FOOLISHLY VOTE FOR A THIRD NEOCON TERM (MCKOOK)! <=======
the gas prices have gotten out of control...they're riduculous!!!most people work to live...now most of their paychecks are going to pay for the gas so they can get to work to make more money to spend on gas...so much for the "free money", it's all going to the oil companies...thank goodness they're all rich enough that they don't any of the "free money"--they don't need it-they already have everybody elses!!!!...some thing needs to be done soon about the economy and the rapid increase in prices!!!!!
I don't care what some people say. The only reason we're paying so much for gas at the pump is greed and selfishness. Not necessarily any one person's or company's greed, but greed and selfishness none the less. Think about how the price goes up daily. Usually at about 6-10 cents(or more)at a time. And always, ALWAYS when it's known that people will be driving more. Yeah, go ahead and try to convice me that's not taking advantage of the people. Sure, sometimes they go down a bit, but it is always only 2-4 cents and it only lasts a day or so, then shoots back up beyond what it was before it went down. Sometimes the price changes twice in one day! Pay attention people, you'll see. And think abour the solutions that have been proposed and the excuses why we can't. "Not enough refineries" - open the ones that have been shut down or build new ones. Trust me, "the people" will appreciate it. "we have oil on our own lands just can't drill because it may hurt the environment". Whatever. There are ways to do these things without destroying our environment. I for one am tired of hearing the excuses from the EVERYONE. And I am also very tired of hearing about all the "little things" we, "the people", on the bottom, who are hurting the most, can do to save gas! Don't they think we are doing that every day? In most cases, most of us just don't have the means. We can't all afford to drive around to find the lowest prices or go out buy a new, more fuel efficient car. And definitely most of us can't ride a bicycle to work(believe me, I would if I could-work is an hour's drive for me and many others). Work overtime? For some it's an option, but not all. Besides, these days all anyone is doing by working overtime is giving up more and more family time so they can afford gas for the extra driving. Make sense? Not really helping there, is it? It's getting harder to put food on the table or keep a roof over our heads. Many of us may end up losing everything we have just so we can get to work. Work to provide for what? Savings? Vacations? Family outings? Investments? Yeah right. All those are things I was taught that you work for growing up. Save money so you can provide for your family and give them nice things. We are a lucky people now if we survive -financially - day to day. Alot of us can't even do that. And all those choices and options to have nice things or "luxuries" are being taken from us and our families - for excuses. Do I want the government to take control? No. That's not always a solution. In fact, it's usually more of a problem. What I want is simply this - solutions, not excuses. And it's going to take alot help from the people - and companies - in this country, who can afford to put those solutions into effect. The solutions are not going to come from the little people who are struggling day to day just to put gas in their cars, giving up food on their tables, so they can get to work to pay their rent. Sad but true, "we the people", the ones truly struggling, don't have the means to fix this problem. No matter much we wish we did. So we are dependent on the ones who are taking us for a ride in this country to help. well, guess what? It doesn't matter if the solution is right out there in the open for all to see and it makes sense to everyone, I doubt that the profitable ones who COULD change things(and trust me, they know who they are) will ever step up and do the right thing. After all, wouldn't want them to give up that 7-8%, now would we?.
I've read some of your postings on her and I am saddened. Saddened to see that so many people are blaming the people who are suffering the most for "whining" and "complaining" while "doing nothing" to solve the financial crisis we are all suffering from in this country. What exactly are we supposed to do? I mean, I watch everyday how the people voted into office in our congress look out for themselves more than the people who voted for them. Making promises and putting forth these great "health benefit plans" and "energy conservation plans" etc, etc, etc. Maybe I'm a little jaded by it all, but it really, really hurts to see that so many people - people who, like me and my family, are struggling to just get by - honestly believe everything they are told by the government, by big oil companies and by everyone who is "on top" in this country. It seems to me that is why we can't seem to stand together and take our lives back(financially) from those who are taking awayso many of our choices in life, even if indirectly. I hope that eventually we will all say "enough is enough" and come together as a whole to take our financial freedom back, whatever it may take. And I pose a question to you all. What would happen if, say, even for just a week or two, EVERYONE(us "little people") in this country decided that they weren't going to work because, oh, I don't know, they just couldn't afford to? Do you think the politicians and CEO's would get the idea? We have given the power to the wrong people in this country and we have forgotten what this great country of ours was founded on - freedom and the pursuit of happiness. Is everyone happy out there? I know SOME of us are...
Well bye bye local economies! I can tell ya I wont be going ANYWHERE except to work now. Greedy oil companies have screwed us now for good! Hope they enjoy being the cause of a higher unemployment rate!
It is quite sad to see not only the price of gasoline as high it is, but that our whole country is facing a downturn it might not recover from for years to come because it was allowed to happen.
It looks like the same old stuff,
we are in the middle east and we onlyy but less than 2% of our oil from them and we buy most of our oil from that nut case dictator in Venezuela.
You would think our congress people would earn their pay, that oil has been in the ground for millions of years and it cost more now to pull it up than 10 years ago..BULL.
John P.
Gotta agree about that station at $4.19 in the Falls. It really isn't a "regular" gas station. It's next to a car repair/auto body place, and is mostly used for their purposes.
You can go there and buy gas if you wish, but I live around the corner from it and I have never seen anyone buying gas there. There's a BP down the street that is $3.87 a gallon as of tonight, and a Giant Eagle GetGo within sight, probably at the same price as the BP before gas discount "perks".
There are just 10 days left til the launch of
WWW.BIGOILEXPOSED.COM
Then not only will the oil companies have some explaining but also will the idiots in Washington.
This is getting way out of hand.
I was spending $14.76 pr/day and now it's $15.88 pr/day. That's
approx. $317.00 pr/month to go to work. I only take home $850.00 pr/month, what in the world is our
government going to do when myself
and lots of people like myself loose our homes because it costs so
much to go to work that we don't have money for the bills or loose or jobs because after paying the bills theres nothing left to by gas to go to work. King Bush what about the people in this country ?
Don't we matter anymore ?
I have a flex fuel vehicle. I would just like to know why, when E85 is made from corn, does the price go up with the price of petroleum based products?
I bought gas at this station last week and was pleased with the service. My car was cleaner when I left then when I came and gas up the street is almost as expensive! Steve is a good guy and these gas prices are efficting him as much as us!
Do not re-elect your congressman, they arent doing anything for YOU! Elect the challenger!
AL SAYS THAT IF PEOPLE THINK THAT THE GAS PRICES ARE GOING TO TOP OFF AROUND 4 DOLLARS A GALLON THEY ARE IN FOR A RUDE SURPRISE MY QUESTIONS AND I HOPE I AM WRONG IS THAT NOVEMBER IS COMING (ELECTION) AND AFTER WE MAKE A CHANGE IF THE PRICES GO DOWN SOMEONE IN HIGH OFFICES OF THIS GOVERMENT HAS ADDED TO THEIR RETIREMENT PACKAGES MORE MONEY THAN
100 OF US NORMAL WORKING PEOPLE WILL MAKE IN OUR ENTIRE LIFETIME.
AGAIN POLITICS PAYS.
When will the goverment step in tpo protect the people here in the U.S.. We are their to defend and send funds outside of this country when we need help right here. Between gas prices, utilities, and food prices going up. How can anyone survive. Employers are not raising salaries to match the cost of living. if anything they are making profits by cutting cost at the expense of employees by passing on more of the expense for medical benifits. I am sick of all of this the government needs to step in an regulate gas prices and utilties. We need to be able to live comfortably here in America and stop coming to the aid of all these outside countries that are in crisis when we are in crisis here.
This is bull!! They say we are in the midst of a recession? Keep driving the prices up and you will have one!
Here is the way I see this:
How often do you get a payraise? Most of us are lucky if we get one pay raise per year. Yet the cost of gas goes up 10-30 cents per week. The United States is the third largest oil exporter in the world, yet we continue to pay exorbitant amounts of money for foriegn oil. Does anyone remember 8 years ago, when George Bush was trying to win the presidency, he denounced Bill Clinton's energy policy saying he had no plan and didn't know what he was doing. When GW Bush said that, oil cost $35 a barrel. Now its $125. And he stands by this?? The government has a responsibility to protect its citizens from price gouging and this is exactly whats happening. This supply and demand crap is garbage. The supply is there, but the oil companies and foreign countries have admitted to limiting the amount of oil they ship out. We are bending over backwards for these companies when we have our own oil here in the US. I know Alaska is a beautiful country but if there is as much oil there as they say there is, we need to use it. People simply can not afford to pay more and more and more for gas when their income is at a standstill. People are paying more than ever for health care, for groceries, for fuel, which means for electricity and heating the home, and are expected to do so on a fixed income. How the government is blind to this is unbelievable to me. If the next president doesn't do something, we will be in another Depression within the next decade.
So let me get this right? We have been sending our men & women to Iraq to liverate the country, and we're not getting any compensation from them at all... take the oil, we owe them NOTHING. And, we just sent China $500K for "relief"due to the Earthquakes there.... but we can't get our govt to get OUR backs & offer us some relief when we are the ones who deserve it most? Gimme a break! It won't be too long before the pay we're making at work doesn't cover our basic needs. Time to claim our place on the food chain & open up Alaska.. maybe it won't have effects for years to come, but look at the mess we're going to leave our kids with!
I wish just once our government would step up to the plate, and help the American people. We believe in helping others but seem to forget helping our own. This country is not headed in a direction that I am proud of. Please help the Working Poor for this is becoming the fastest growing class of Americans.
hasn't anyone noticed the huge coincidence??? We just started to receive our stimulus checks and the price of gas has gone up considerably - even when the price of oil was down. The government has a plan to force us to spend that money and not hold onto it or pay other bills as so many of us had planned to do.
I don't understand why our country doesn't utilize the oil supply that we have here in the U.S. This is ridiculous! It's interesting that our president is involved in the oil business..hmm...
I would like to know why our President hasn't put a stop to these outrageous gas prices yet. I remember Clinton did, why can't Bush?
I have read all the post and am amused by almost everyone of them. Lets blame Bush - well I hate to tell all of you this but gas prices started to rise before Bush got into office. Furthermore the largest increases in the gas prices have come under the Democrat controlled Congress. I believe that Speaker Pelosi said they were going to lower gas prices for everyone - never happened. The price of gas in less that two years has gone from $1.89 on average to almost $4.00/gallon. But it is all Bush's fault? If Clinton had stepped up to the plate we would already be drilling in Alaska but he nixed that. If you want gas prices to come down - flood the office of Congress with emails and phone calls telling them to start drilling in Alaska and quit listening to the enviro wackos who are really the ones ruining this country and causing us to spend all of our money on gas. Please also demand that Congress uncap the many wells that we already have in this country. This would help greatly by putting more oil on the market and drive down the price. It is supply and demand. Remember also that India and China use more fuel that we do which contributes to the high price of oil. Furthermore - there may be another revolution in this country but it won't be rich versus poor it will be globalist versus nationalist. If you want America to survive for future generations stand up to those that won't do anything about the problems in this country. Vote not on party affiliation but on whether or not they will get us back to the basic principles of America. Our Founding Fathers envisioned (and created) a country where there was limited government, limited taxation yet have a central government that could protect the country. Also remember what President Kenendy said - ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Meaning - keep being dependent on the government - this is the United States of America not the United Socialist States of America. You want change you have to demand it and make it happen.
Bush *IS* to largely blame for all of this! His gross misleadership and world stage influence, and his invasion of Iraq based on lies, has raised the ire of OPEC, and they now 'have us by the cojones'! OPEC can singlehandedly bring this country to it's knees, and they are succeeding already. The dollar is losing to the Euro, and the price of oil/gas has more than tripled since this Texas buffoon stole the Presidency! Bush is a massive FAILURE on so many fronts, and it's time Americans wake up and realize the damage he's done to this country!
They tell us that it isn't that we do not have the oil supply, it's that we do not have enough refineries to process the oil. Have the oil companies not reported record profits for a while now? Have any new refineries been built yet? Not to my knowledge. Can't they finance the oil refineries being built now? What's the problem?? Don't you think they should be taking these record profits and building new refineries?
I also want to know how we are supposed to just get by like this? Rising gas prices have caused businesses to close (resulting in umemployment), food prices to go up, and made it impossible for the average American to do anything other than going to work.
I am so glad the my husband got into a better job cause at least we are staying afloat. If he didn't get a better job, one of us would have to quit working cause we could not afford the gas to go back and forth to work. Not all of us are LOADED. My family is not well off, it DOES matter to me.
And where are all these hybrid cars you keep hearing about? Oh, I forgot, there is a WAITING LIST TO GET ONE! Yeah, like that is going to even help. The car makers are not going to mass produce them cause they are in cohoots with the oil companies! WE ARE AT THEIR MERCY!
Sorry kids, no money for the class trip to D.C. this year. Sorry kids, no family vacation. Sorry kids, no unneccessary anything. Thanks!
Thanks a lot Washington for showing our kids that the average American doesn't matter anymore.
If Al Quaida's real goal for attacking us was to hurt us financially, they may have done it.
Bush is a DISASTER, period! Who in their wildest imagination would have thought that the price of gas would not double, or triple (which would be outrageous enough!), but almost QUADRUPLE in price during this incompetent administration!!! GET MAD my fellow Americans... we need CHANGE bigtime!!!
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