Wow, $3.769 per gallon gasoline in Orlando today at my Shell station

[whistle]

...some stations like Citco and discount were a few cents less per gallon, but this is the highest I've seen my station charge and that makes gas here 94.225% there to $4.00 per gallon :yoiks:

[thunder rising]

1. 3.99 North Palm Beach County

[madmom]

2. On my way home from work today it was $3.899 highest yet here.(NW Ohio)

[NEOhiodemocrat]

6. I am in NW Ohio also

today a couple of stations in the town we live near went up from $3.66 and 9/10 to $3.95 and 9/10. Wow

[Blue Diadem]

7. Bowling Green's up to $3.95 today.

Have you seen this website:

www.gasbuddy.com

gives the prices of various gas stations as reported by gas buddy spotters.

[LSparkle]

3. $3.99 in Southern California for 87 octane

$4.09 and $4.19 for upper grades.

By the end of this week, I predict the cheap stuff will
be over $4. Good thing I just filled up (at $3.89/gal.)

[blue sky at night]

4. try.....

three freaking NINETY-Five!

[SalviaBlue]

5. $4.87 for diesel today in Central California. Ouch!!

[BeatleBoot]

8. $ 4.05 over the weekend in Michigan

saw it near Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday.

But I filled up today for $ 3.95 regular unleaded.

Thank you to Dick Cheney's Energy Bill and all that voted YES (ahem).

[HockeyMom]

9. $3.82 in Naples

up from $3.76 YESTERDAY at the same station.

[taterguy]

10. And yet you continue to buy the stuff

When is enough too much?

[BeatleBoot]

11. When it doesn't makes sense to go to work anymore.

When it costs more to drive to work than it does to live.

Pretty obvious answer, but you asked.

[taterguy]

12. Sorry, I forgot that automobiles were the only way to get to work

It's a mistake that I frequently make since most days I manage to get to work just fine without a car.

YMMV of course.

[uponit7771]

20. If you live in a city with decent mass transit I can see this but in a major city like DFW there is

...no transit out to where MOST people live which is the burbs.

I don't have a bus stop within 2 miles of my house.

[taterguy]

22. I don't live in a city with decent mass transit

But silly me chose to live close to where I work, since I have this crazy notion that fighting wars for oil is a bad thing.

[whistle]

15. I set a gasoline limit of 20 gallons per month last September and have pretty

...much kept to that cap or below for the past nine months. That pretty much was the ration quota during WWII.

<snip>
Gas Rationing During WWII

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor dramatically ended the debate over America's entrance into the war that raged around the world.. On December 8, the Senate unanimously endorsed President Roosevelt's request for a declaration of war against Japan. The House followed suite with only one dissenting vote - Jeannette Rankin of Montana. Three days later, Germany and Italy - fulfilling their treaty obligations with Japan - declared war against the U.S.

As eager volunteers flooded local Draft Board offices ordinary citizens soon felt the impact of the war. Almost overnight the economy shifted to war production. Consumer goods took a back seat to military production as rationing began almost immediately. It was truly a total war affecting every citizen whether soldier or worker, mother or child.

Rubber became the first commodity rationed as the Japanese invasion of the Dutch East Indies cut off our supply. Gasoline rationing reduced the number of miles the average citizen drove and thus conserved rubber. Voluntary gas rationing proved ineffective and by the Spring of 1942, seventeen Eastern states had instituted some form of mandatory gas rationing. By December mandatory controls extended across the entire country. On average, motorists who used their cars for "nonessential" purposes were restricted to 3 gallons of gas a week.

Every man, woman and child received a ration book restricting consumption of essential products. Many planted "Victory Gardens" to supplement their grocery list. By 1944, whisky had disappeared from liquor store shelves as distilleries converted to the production of industrial alcohol. New car production was banned beginning January 1, 1942 as former auto plants switched to the production of military vehicles. The ban was lifted on July 1, 1945. Thirty percent of all cigarettes produced were allocated for service men, making cigarettes a scarce commodity on the home front by 1944. By the end of the war, rationing limited consumption of almost every product with the exception of eggs and dairy foods.

References: Cohen, Stan, V for Victory, America's Home Front During World War II (1991); Reynolds, Clark, America at War, 1941-1945 The Home Front (1990).

<link> http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/vogas.htm

Still SUV gas guzzlers outsell most other models in the U.S., so without a national energy conservation program the shit-for-brains ding bats still get their way in the U.S.

[taterguy]

18. Suburbs and interstates weren't around during World War II

So any attempt at rationing gas today would have to take a vastly different form.

A three gallon limit would be more than I currently consume but folks who live more than 10 miles from their place of employment might have a problem with it.

BTW, the article you quote says the ration was three gallons a week which comes out to 12 gallons a month, except for the months that have 6.66 weeks I guess :)

[uponit7771]

21. Average Communte is 25 minutes or around 18 miles per day one way.

[taterguy]

23. Who can drive 18 miles in 25 minutes in current traffic conditions?

Or did someone just make up that stat?

Maybe you can drive 18 miles in the middle of nowhere but from the door of your house to your desk?

I don't think so.

[whistle]

25. That's true and where there were suburbs (i.e. Milwaukee, New York City, Chicago

...Minapololis/St. Paul, Boston, Detroit. etc.) there were well established mass transit systems in the from of street cars, subways, light rail commuter trains and buses as well as trans-continental passenger rail trains that allowed people to get from home to work and back without the use of personal automobiles.

[ColbertWatcher]

13. Make sure you take a picture and post it online!

Noting the date and city and state of the offense!

[whistle]

14. I can't afford a digital camera, the money is going into my gas tank

...just saw coming home from my doctor's appointment that it has gone up again to $3.799, now it's 94.975% of the way to $4.00 per gallon in Orlando FL.

[Sewsojm]

16. $3.82 in Eastern North Carolina

[MANative]

17. $4.09 for Regular here in CT

sucks. Lowest price within about 10 miles is $3.94.

[uponit7771]

19. The 125.00 a barrel price wont hit for a month or two from now

[anakie]

24. that is still 25% cheaper

than what we pay in Australia; and we are cheap compared to Europe, so enjoy the good times while they last. If it weren't for your tanking dollar the price in Australia would be substantially higher than the $5 USD per us gallon we are now paying.

Peace