Brace yourself: Gas prices may reach historic levels

Houston Chronicle .com ^ | 8/21/03 | NELSON ANTOSH, JENALIA MORENO

[Libloather]

Dwindling supplies in the face of increased demand...

Right now, no one is really using Alaska. Time to drill...

[ARCADIA]

Florida could use a few wells too. It is time to pump our own.

[Petronski]

Folks who might have balked at paying $1.29 a few years ago now pay $1.55 without batting an eye. I can see $1.80 becoming acceptable without too much effort.

Personally, I remember $0.89 with nostalgia now.

Drill Alaska! But also, Drill the Gulf (without restrictions)!

[WSGilcrest]

$1.659/gal. to $2.159/gal. in 10 days here in Vallejo, CA

[JennysCool]

Okay, now the Libs who said GWB was going to war for cheap oil will be spinning that he went to war for expensive oil. It's so hard to keep track of the spin.

[blam]

"Personally, I remember $0.89 with nostalgia now."

LOL. I remember $.23 and $.19 when there was a gas war.

[Libloather]

Personally, I remember $0.89 with nostalgia now.

I think I saw some Arizona prices at $3.69 a gallon.

That's gotta suck...

[Petronski]

Well, sure, but I paid $0.89 seven or eight years ago, not sometime in the 70s.

[Libloather]

I remember $.23 and $.19 when there was a gas war.

That was a few hundred years ago. Are you still safe to drive?

[RandallFlagg]

Ya know. I had a dream scenario...

Say that one of the "Good Guys" gets elected in California. One of the first things he does is allow drilling off the shorelines up and down the state (I know, I know. But read on...).

Then, after the envirowhackos have had their little hissy-fits, it's enabled. Then, after only three years of actively pumping crude out of the seabeds, an astonishing thing happens.

The removal of the crude (which tends to lubricate the plates) shifts the earthquake zones out deeper into the Pacific -where it's effects are no longer a threat to lives and structures in all of the danger zones in the state.

But, then the whackos will complain about the companies who profited building "Earthquake-proof" structures having to lay off people.....

[Humidston]

Tehee, you and me, FRiend!

[rwfromkansas]

Um, when you adjust for inflation, no record was set before the IRaq war.

To be a record, it will have to reach 3 bucks a gallon almost.

[cherry]

and how many states have just passed monstrous new gas taxes this year, as my state of Washington just did in July?

we must start drilling in Alaska, and we must start now...

I would also be in favor of tax incentives for more fuel efficient vehicles, better public transportation etc...

as far as public transportion goes, if the govt. could supply vans to carry people back and forth from their homes at a below the cost of private transportation and without hassle, then that would be a boon....

as it is now, taking the bus is not only slow, inefficient, unhealthy, stressful, and untimely....but it is still considered a step down from private vehicle...

[Myrddin]

Personally, I remember $0.89 with nostalgia now.

I remember filling the tank of my Honda CB175 with premium gas at 25 cents per gallon. It was summertime in 1972.

[Joe Hadenuf]

After taking Iraq and spilling our boys blood, you would think gas prices would be .65 cents a gallon.

[Petronski]

Well, I was just a kid in the seventies, but I remember when gas prices basically doubled in a matter of months: where we had been paying 39, we were now paying 70. I learned a lot about profanity that year.

[Mark17]

$1.659/gal. to $2.159/gal. in 10 days here in Vallejo, CA

I envy you guys. The cheapest premium I have seen in Fairfield, is $2.30

[Myrddin]

California needs to allow the sale of gasoline made outside of the state as well as inside the state. That would drive prices down immediately. Currently, only gas refined within the state borders and formulated per state specifications can be sold. Limited supply, high prices.

[TheSpottedOwl]

$1.659/gal. to $2.159/gal. in 10 days here in Vallejo, CA

1.62/gal to 1.99/gal in a week. Harbor Gateway, CA. This would be regular ARCO gas. Prices higher near freeway offramps...

[Myrddin]

I recall driving into a Union 76 station and seeing the price at 76 cents. I left immediately. The going rate everywhere else was 58 cents.