California Gas Prices Reach $5 In Some Areas

KSBW-TV ^ | November 7, 2007

[2ndDivisionVet]

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The American Automobile Association of California said some drivers are now paying up to $5 a gallon for regular unleaded gasoline.

Crude oil prices hit an all-time high Wednesday, above $98 a barrel and analysts said with worldwide oil demand rising -- it is still not clear just how high prices will go.

In Salinas, AAA recorded an average of $3.39 per gallon. Santa Cruz is at an average of $3.37 per gallon.

KSBW checked and found gas in Gorda, south of Big Sur, is even higher. Drivers there are paying $5 for gas.

Over the past two weeks gas has gone up 15 cents in California alone, according to AAA.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Most of this is the fault of the California Assembly and their weird laws, forcing the oil companies to manufacture different types of gasoline just for California.

[Perdogg]

Serves the people of California right for electing socialists.

[Badeye]

‘Most of this is the fault of the California Assembly and their weird laws, forcing the oil companies to manufacture different types of gasoline just for California.’

Yep.

(disclaimer. I dont live in California....)

[truthluva]

Nothing a few new refineries wouldn’t solve.

[Plains Drifter]

Ah yes, the wonderful Golden State. I’m so glad we moved our family out of there five years ago. My wife and I were born in San Diego and it was a great place to grow up in the 50s and 60s. But as I said we left five years ago, we’ve never been back, and have no plans to go back.

[Rick.Donaldson]

So, California’s idiot lawmakers are making laws, that affect gas prices in MY state?

(disclaimer: I don’t live in California)

[Ben Mugged]

I live in California. I am a conservative leaning towards Libertarian and had nothing to do with the liberals in the California Assembly. Neither did my Wife, our Mayor or our Assemblyman.

Be careful with your wide brush......

[Badeye]

So, California’s idiot lawmakers are making laws, that affect gas prices in MY state?

(disclaimer: I don’t live in California)

Yep.

(disclaimer; I don’t live in California either)

[2ndDivisionVet]

Somebody elected them: I didn’t say everyone approved, but a majority of voters obviously did.

[TheDon]

Agreed. You get what you vote for!

[zek157]

I would like to see Californians pay about $50.00 a gallon.

AP via Breitbart ^ | Nov 8 02:11 PM US/Eastern | SAMANTHA YOUNG
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California sued the federal government on Thursday to force a decision about whether the state can impose the nation’s first greenhouse gas emission standards for cars and light trucks

[Arrowhead1952]

Darn, it's going up fast. Time to leave Kaliforneea.

$4 Gas Prices Returns to Northern California

Posted on 11/08/2007 11:50:15 AM CST by yorkie

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

$ 3.19 here in ohio People at the pumps are starting to realize it’s the futures market messing with the prices to they aren’ none to happy about it

Had one lady say if we went to war for oil then why aren’t we paying a dollar a gallon instead of three and a guy in the back of the store yelled we diodn’t go to war for oil we went to war for freedom I couldn’t beleive what i was hearing people are actually understanding what the hell is going on and it’s refreshing for me to hear it !

[yorkie]

Did everybody applaud?

[Ben Mugged]

Yep and that "somebody" was the liberals in this state. They gerrymandered the districts to lock in a majority in the Assembly and are heavily funded by the entertainment industry and Government Unions.

A better way of classifying the voters would be "the Entertainment Industry and Government Unions in California got what they paid for".

[LonePalm]

$2.78 on the Jersey Shore.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Obadiah]

Bingo.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

No applause but I smiled big enough to cover FR with happiness lol

[Realism]

I don’t live in Calif., our gas prices are going up also. Most people are silently waiting for the economy to collapse soon, so there is no real reaction. Upstate economy is so depressed already that it were not for high fuel prices we probably wouldn't notice anyway.

[Badeye]

‘I don’t live in Calif., our gas prices are going up also. Most people are silently waiting for the economy to collapse soon, so there is no real reaction. Upstate economy is so depressed already that it were not for high fuel prices we probably wouldn’t notice anyway.’

Where do you live? I’m in Ohio, we’ve seen a increase, but not to bad so far. Paying 3.06 for the low grade gasoline today.

[steve8714]

Even at $4.00/gal, most people still pay more in Fed taxes than fuel costs. The big worry is the price of diesel, which drives our economy, and moves much more directly with the world price of oil.
This is why we should be punching holes offshore and in ANWR.

[KarlInOhio]

It jumped to $3.199 just south of Dayton today. When I saw that I drove to a station which is slow on adjusting prices and got it at $2.969, but I expect they'll be well above $3 by tonight.

[Realism]

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes....

You make signs, for southern states, right?

[Kozak]

Wah. Lots of oil off the coast of California. Drill for it if you don’t want to pay the import price, if not STFU.

[Realism]

Upstate NY. lowest I've seen is around $3.17. Last November it was about $2.35.

[Redbob]

"Drill for it if you don’t want to pay the import price, if not STFU."

LOL!

Here's another vote for California to STFU!

[Badeye]

I suspect you are right it will be up by this evening. Thursday is the usual ‘spike day’ price wise with gas from what I’ve heard and witnessed.

[Badeye]

‘Upstate NY. lowest I’ve seen is around $3.17. Last November it was about $2.35.’

We have family up in Renson(?). When we visited in June of this year, I was charged ten bucks for two packs of smokes....(shakes head).

No surprise at your fuel costs.

[Realism]

ten bucks for two packs of smokes

Yeah this state is S.O.L. when we all decide to quit smoking.

[Badeye]

Ohio is in the same predictament. I’m wearing a patch right now, actually.

bout the 26,143 time I’ve tried to quit....(chuckle)

[Realism]

the 26,143 time I've tried to quit

You must be on the 10 year plan. At least you can say you've cut back.

[jrp]

$5? I paid $3.21 in San Diego yesterday morning.

[IronJack]

Must be because demand is up so much over a few weeks ago. Either that or a couple of high-producing wells just went dry. It HAS to be something in the supply-demand chain, because gasoline is just another free-market commodity, you know.

[HKMk23]

The long and short of it is that we've bound ourselves as hostages to idiot environmentalism.

Environmentalism says, "No more drilling."

Environmentalism says, "No new refineries."

Environmentalism says, "Make 57 varieties for sale in fractional markets all over the country."

And environmentalism COSTS US BANK!

Still, we're not out there with scythes and pitchforks tarring and feathering environmentalists, so I guess we must ENJOY this great exercise in economic self-flagellation, eh??

Maybe not you or I, but enough damned fools are happy about it all that mustering the impetus for constructive change has been ongoing for 35 years, and there STILL isn't enough force behind it to support Washington D.C. rescuing the economy by overtly telling the environmentalist whackjobs to go screw themselves.

Ahh, well; next universe, maybe.

[ravingnutter]

I had tried everything too...hypnosis, sinus injections, the patch...but I have been smoke free for 15 weeks now using that new prescription pill Chantix and have talked to many people that have quit using that. It's expensive...$104 for the 1 month starter pack, but it is worth it in the long run. I was able to quit after only three weeks on it and I had smoked for 41 years. The only downside is you have to take it with food or it will make you extremely nauseous. I quit because they were talking about increasing the Federal tax by $1/pack.

Back to the topic...gas around San Antonio is now running about $2.99/gal, up from $2.75 a couple of days ago when I filled up my truck. I'm thankful hubby gets a truck allowance on his job, his truck is older and therefore eats more gas.

[steve86]

we diodn’t go to war for oil we went to war for freedom

I clearly remember bushies saying we'll have $15 crude after this. Didn't work out that way.

[mvpel]

I want my 60mpg Honda Accord diesel noooooowww....

[Species8472]

And in related news;

Democrat Jor Liberman introduces bill to "protect" ANWR from oil drilling forever!

[bandleader]

When the barrel price spiked at about $80.00(about three-weeks ago),I remember hearing The Opec Oil Minister(radio report)say not to worry,this won’t last!I said(to myself)”Yeah,Right,It Will be $100.00 In No Time”!Well,here we are!!When are The DemonRats going to be made to PAY(ballot box)for what they have brought down on us?????

[bandleader]

I guess you could say that it serves us ALL right for electing a lot of “WOOSES”in D.C.!Why(when The Republicans held both houses/White House)didn’t they get something done about our energy problems?Why didn’t they get W’s tax-cuts out of”the sunset”??

[markman46]

yep.. something like 80 blends

[backhoe]

From my "Sticker Shock- $3 a gallon gas?" file...

I have covered, ( Or, as Seamole puts it... -backhoe's pseudoblog--... ) pseudo-blogged, these issues for years, so allow me to drop out of Lurk and Link mode for a rare bit of commentary-- we all need to get serious about our dependency on foreign sources of energy, and use our own resources.

Our consumer-based economy is driven by and dependent upon readily-available, reliable energy-- choke that off, and we'll all be back to using one rotary dial phone in the dining room, watching one TV in the living room, and driving one car per family-- probably a Hudson Hornet or a Nash Metropolitan...

We need to

1) end the nonsensical ban on offshore drilling off California and Florida--read and weep:

Castro Plans to Drill 45 Miles from US Shores, But We Can't

2) build a lot of next-generation nuclear power plants, not just for electricity, but for any process requiring heat, power, or steam.
And if we replaced our existing nuclear plants with this one there would be significant benefits.

3) end Jimmy Carter's idiotic ban on recycling nuclear waste, and reprocess the stuff rather than fighting over where to bury it. Europe has done this for decades.-- what to do with spent nuclear fuel? Answer here:

 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1468321/posts?page=50#50

hattip: Mike (former Navy Nuclear Engineer)

4) use the 300-500 years worth of coal we have on our own land, using the new clean-coal technology.
-Clean Coal Centre--

5) and finally, there's nothing wrong with conservation, we should all practice it- but you can't conserve your way out of a shortage. Nor is there anything wrong with "alternative" energy sources- except they don't supply the vast ( not to mention readily-available ) amounts of power we need at a price competitive to more conventional sources. Then again, there is this to ponder:

Energy From the Gulf Stream
http://www.energy.gatech.edu/presentations/mhoover.pdf

Not to mention, this new idea:

Irish Ready To Harness Tidal Power

We do need to get serious about this before we get strangled by a bunch of petty thieves and dictators who don't like us much.

My collection of energy-related links:

Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:

And kindly note, and note well-- the first reply to this post ( when gas was $1.45 a gallon ) was derisive... so, who's laughing now?

( And, to honk my own horn, here is a comment from another board on this subject: )

I happened to be going through a post by "backhoe" and followed his link to a thread he posted on 3-17-04. Pretty good thread titled "Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Some links" that was prophetic, and what do you know, the first reply was Why don't you stop panicking and solve problems that exist posted by "XXX" Backhoe has some very good posts, he mostly lurks and when he does post it is worth the read. From the reply that"XXX" made he appears to be something of a corn-fed kneejerker, even more so with two years to prove how right "backhoe" was.

Vest-Pocket Summary:

1- drill for gas and oil like crazy- onshore, offshore, and in Alaska
2- go nuclear for power
3- convert stationary plants to clean coal technology or Next-Gen Nuclear
4- slash taxes and regulations like crazy...

[Myrddin]

Check out Chantix. Every smoker I know that has used it was successful in quitting. Including my 20 year old son. It takes about a week for the initial low dose to block the pleasurable dopamine release from smoking. My wife's supervisor just started it last week. She walked outside for a smoke break, lit it up and realized she really didn't want it any more. Short and final smoke break.

[Myrddin]

My neighbor just ditched his Excursion sized SUV for a Honda Accord Hybrid. He hasn't had it long enough to get any good stats yet. My Mercury Mariner Hybrid (2008) is averaging 28.5 MPG. It isn't as good in summer months when I'm running the air conditioning. Once it cools off, the hybrid really shines.

[pointsal]

gorda.... well, what's the price of pot....FOB field?

who cares about gas, when grass is the commodity of choice in this community?

[Badeye]

Actually I have cut back dramatically. I suspect it will affect the GDP eventually.

[Badeye]

but I have been smoke free for 15 weeks now using that new prescription pill Chantix and have talked to many people that have quit using that. It’s expensive...$104 for the 1 month starter pack, but it is worth it in the long run. I was able to quit after only three weeks on it and I had smoked for 41 years. The only downside is you have to take it with food or it will make you extremely nauseous. I quit because they were talking about increasing the Federal tax by $1/pack.

Thanks for sharing this. If the patch doesn’t get it done this time, thats my next step.

Congrats on the fifteen week mark, btw.

[Badeye]

Thanks, if this doesn’t work, I’ll try it.