Record Gas Prices: Some Analysts Predict $3 A Gallon By Year's End

LA Daily News ^ | Mar 1, 2004 | Brent Hopkins

[hardhead]

Los Angeles gasoline prices hit a record $2.178 a gallon for regular on Monday -- up more than 50 cents since Jan. 1 -- and some analysts openly talked about it hitting the once-unthinkable mark of $3 a gallon, possibly by late this year.

The Automobile Club of Southern California reported that the price of gas soared 40 cents in the past month, putting it more than 22 cents above price a year ago and 1.1 cents higher than the previous high of $2.167 on March 21, 2003.

[johnb838]

Make the mass transit go where I need to go when I need to go there and I'll use it a-hole. Until then I don't care WHAT the engineers want. All I see are empty busses polluting the air right now.

[from occupied ga]

to direct-injection fuel delivery (e.g., directly injectin the fuel into the combustion chamber), which means we can increase the fuel efficiency of a car as much as 20%!

Diesels do that now, and they are a niche market vehicle. Most people opt for performance over fuel economy given the choice.

[commonerX]

""Make the mass transit go where I need to go when I need to go there and I'll use it a-hole""

What is with the "a-hole" stuff. I though we were having a discussion. If I new all you wanted to do was call people names. I would have not bothered.

[RayChuang88]

Actually, you don't see that many diesel-powered cars in the USA because diesel fuel in the USA contains too high a level of sulfur compounds, which can easily damage fuel-delivery systems and exhaust emission control systems. But with the EPA mandating drastic reductions in sulfur compounds in motor fuels (under 80 parts per million for both gasoline and diesel fuels), we can safely apply the very latest in fuel delivery and exhaust emission control technologies, which will reduce gasoline fuel consumption per car as much as 20% and allow diesel engines to meet the stringent Ultra-Low Emissions Vehicle (ULEV) standard.

Imagine all the new passenger cars switching to direct-injection fuel delivery and minivans, pickup trucks and SUV's all switching to the latest clean-burning diesel engines--we could reduce fuel consumption quite a bit.

[gore_sux]

This couldn't happen at a worse time.

I disagree. I think the president can go on the attack with this.

Attention Karl Rove: Get the president in front of a California gas station talking about ANWR, "blend" standards and refining capacity! Put the supply problem back on uncooperative Dems and enviromentalists.