I filled up last night and this morning it was up $.40 more a gallon!!
http://www.gas.com
"Prices not this high since 1981"

"Prices not this high since 1981"

Now average inflation in... so no its not as high as in the 80s and now that the Huricane is out of the Gulf, expect prices to fall a tinsy bit.

Or not. 5.50/gallon where I am. $5.75 at home in Atlanta. Gouging or not, this sucks.

here... $0.52/gal higher since monday morning.


Regular just topped $3.01

2.64 in the ham...but wait....we r running out of gas. Only few stations have gas and most only have premium.

$3 already in Fort Worth.

Keep on hearing that we have more than enough oil, just no way to refine it into gas.

Think it's time to tell the EPA to go [smilie=censored.gif] off and build some more refineries and not put them all in the same place.

Or not. 5.50/gallon where I am. $5.75 at home in Atlanta. Gouging or not, this sucks.

I read that on Pirate a few minutes ago.

On a side note:
Have you guys seen footage of the people looting? This is crazy. New Orleans is like... it has been described as the city in "black hawk down" but under water.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=389454

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=389454

Bah! is a really good thread with pics of the looting but I can't find it

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Oh and just because I think it's funny... laying slightly hidden between like 30 gasoline threads, here's on about "eight dollars a gallon"

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=389433

Found it!!!!!!!!!


Mods can you allow this to stay and not be absorbed into the Hurricane thread please.

First off I wanted to post what REALLY is going on in this city. Please don't get this thread locked people. The news stations are only showing a minuscule of reality. This post may offend some people but I will post what I saw, like it or not it is REALITY.
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Well last night I was watching the 6pm news when they announced the 17th street canal pumps failed as well as another break in the levee. My house is right off St. Charles Ave. and up to 6pm yesterday is was the only part of the city that was dry. Since the pumps failed and the new break St. Charles Ave. would be under 9ft of water in the next 12-15hrs. My brother and I felt if we wanted to save anything we had to leave NOW. We loaded up flashlights, rope, our medical ID's, both our .45 Glocks, 2 shotguns and rode out. En-route we listened to the radio which broad casted all the news about the looters and what not, in hindsight it was a mistake. My mother didn't want us to go by dad who is a Vietnam vet told to be safe and "shoot to kill" if it ever comes to that.

One the way we had to pass 5-6 checkpoints to allow entry into the city. We stated we were medical personnel who were activated, showed our ID and off we went. On the radio reports were coming in about the officer who was shot in the head, the 2 gunman who opened fired on the NOPD station, and how looters were carjacking cars to get out of the city. This started making my brother nervous and giving seconds thoughts.

Anyway we get to the city and it looks like a freaking war zone. The best visual I can give is the movie "Blackhawk Down" when all the Somalians are rushing the city. They are people EVERYWHERE, they are pissed off, and all have weapons, 2X4's, Axes, and guns. If this wasn't bad enough we are 2 white boys in a truck in a sea several hundred armed pissed off blacks. There wasn't a white person to be found. I couldn't get over the little 8-10yr old kids with weapons, I ever saw one carry a claw hammer!

These people were absolutely nuts rammed trucks(stolen I'm sure) in to jewelry stores stealing items, they were tearing apart Wal-Mart carrying out TV's, Playstations, DVD players, etc. One lady was wheeling out an entire rack of merchandise, not sure what it was but sure wasn't clothes for food. They were all laughing and carrying on like it's freaking Christmas.

We got stuck in traffic when we see the group of guys walking down the street w/ AK-47's, at that point the "pucker factor" kicked in, a couple Glocks and shotguns were no match for that. We haul azz trying to get to Uptown when we see these people chopping down the front door w/ an axe of this $4-5 million dollar mansion on ST. Charles Ave. I was just in total awe because it was so surreal. Making matters worse it's 11pm at night there is no electricity and you really can see anything or anyone until they are right up on you.

Our plan was to be in and out in 30min, this included putting his Harley on the trailer. It would have taken me 5-10min tops to get my stuff, all I wanted was my pictures from college, my clothes/shoes, and my computer tower. Well he got scared saying we are going to get jumped while putting the bike on the trailer. Keep in mind this is the only area in the city that is dry. So just like rats who move to higher ground these people were doing the same. Word must have gotten out that Uptown was dry so there started to be a large influx of people.

Needless to say he wanted to go home rather than take our chances. While it was the smart thing to do I was beyond infuriated w/ him because we made it this far. He just kept saying our lives aren't worth it. So we turned around, our next challenge was getting out of the city while not getting jacked. Reports came out that people were jumping in the back of truck holding the drivers at gunpoint. Traffic started to slow so I just nailed it got out as fast as I could.

Even though he was the voice of reason I'm still pissed. All I have is my life and the clothes on my back. I lost my house(which is now 9ft underwater) ALL my clothes, TV, computer, furniture, and photo albums and videos from childhood and college. What makes this worse is my brother owned the house and I was a tenant and I didn't have renters insurance, hindsight is 20/20.

I also hope everyone of the F*(king looters get Tetanus, E-Coli and F*(KING drown. I'm serious I really hope the all die for what they were doing to the city, killing people, and destroying homes. Never in my life have I ever seen people act live savages, it was truly sicking.


http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=389420&page=4&pp=25

Or not. 5.50/gallon where I am. $5.75 at home in Atlanta. Gouging or not, this sucks.

GA is $6! I hear

i filled up in the begining of this week, paid 2.43 and cost me 40 bucks for a half. the next day gas jumped over 70 cents to 3.19. ive had to park the zj, and im now riding the bus to school, and bumming rides off my friends. i still have a few bucks, but i have to pay insurance by the end of the year, and buy new tires, so i need to save all i can.

Sigh... what'cha gonna do? :dontknow:

We're all bitter about the bump in fuel prices (hopefully it really is temporary), but we have more important things to worry about with all this s--t going on down there. Most of us can deal with spending a little more than we're comfortable with for awhile. Those friggin' oil companies just better not get too carried away with this.

:cussing: that biatch Katrina.

Yes, my Mom's from NO, I was born in Biloxi. Just got the first word from an Uncle last night, he lost everything. Another relative has lost everything to looting.

I'm living a nice cushy life in KY, and I for one am not going to worry about the price---yet.

I agree with what your all saying. We can cut back on our spending some how. But it sucks when some one is making money from all this and we don't need too. I went out Wednesday night and filled the suburban up (42 gallons) for our trip, kinda thought prices might jump. So, we went to Laughlin, NV on the old gas prices [smilie=bal_cool.gif] I still have 1/2 a tank, but this needs to calm down soon. My worry is, the oil gang members see us paying these prices and are trying to get us used to it, then they don't reduce the prices

I'm just gonna build an oil refinery in my back yard and make my own friggin' gasoline. [smilie=icon_nanana2.gif]