Driving for enjoyment just died!
 

Word on the street is that gas prices will be over 5 dollars a gallon by tommorrow, in Nevada.

My suggestion, gas your car now, and buy a bus pass.

On another note I just bought a red 1987 VW Scirocco 16V 5spd, it gets good gas mileage.

Actually, if everyoe runs out and buys gas because we think the price is gonna get jacked up... not only will they jack it up early, but we'll also run outta gas. Just buy gas when you're around 25% to 50% full. Don't wait till you're totally empty in case we do run out and you have to stretch for a few days.

I wonder if it's gonna cost me more in gas to run Seca than the $550 entry fee? :eek: At this rate, I'm just gonna start running 100 octane... it'll be cheaper. :lol:

It's already $6/gal some places in the south, and they've been running out of supplies. I think they're more directly affected by the shutdowns at all the Gulf refineries.

Our oil is mostly refined in the Bay Area IIRC. Oil comes in via tanker, gas goes out via pipeline.

Well, I had to gas my wife's Eagle up anyway. . . :|

$5/gal sounds a little high, though, even for Nevada - I was checking out CNN.com, and the national average right now is about $3, and they list most places in the south and on the east coast as running $3-$4, with random bastards charging up to $6. And that's with a couple of major pipelines down. I guess we'll find out though. . .

If prices do shoot up, I may have to skip the Lovelock Solo2 :mad:

Damn, and my EVO drinks like a freakin drunk... :(

Throw it up for Benicia...

phew, good thing sperry owes me a tank of gas :lol:

Yeah, at 8/29/05 prices. :P :(

You know, I get this sick feeling we'll be saying that a lot pretty soon :(

Costco was a zoo at lunch(11:30). 4 car wait when I got there 8+ by the time I left. $3.05/gal. for 91. Looking at others as I drove around, 91 runs all the way up to $329 on Wells & I80 Shell and Chevron. 76 in my neighborbood is only $3.15

Did you actually wait in line for gas Dean? Fuck that!

Costco often has a line that is a couple deep, but it goes quick. I probably waited a total of 3-4 minutes to pull up to a pump. Other places I drove past with decent prices looked busy as well. The gougers were fairly empty.

I forgot to comment on Bob's original theory of driving for fun being dead. These from May '04, so they are only higher now, and driving for fun isn't dead in many of these countries. we have gotten off easy for years on gas prices compared to much of the world. Her eis the list of everything over $3.00/gal in May of 04...

yah but non of those place are 3000 miles coast to coast..........

that makes a big difference when you live in a country that you only need to drive 10 miles a day to get everywhere. I drive 12 miles just to get to anything, making a night out a 70 mile round trip

$3.29 for super in Truckee.......that's the cheapest up here. Most of the other stations are at $3.39.

Scott: Laguna Seca $550 + 3 tanks at the track and 1 for commute at $5/gal? That is approx. 56 gal......................o who cares! it's Laguna you are gonna have a fricken blast. I am very jealous!

:lol: I'm looking at about 8 to 10 tanks of gas... 1 there, 3 or 4 a day for 2 days, and 1 back. Hell w/ the 2.0L I was going through about 1/2 to 2/3 tank in 30 minutes on track.

So, I'm figuring 14 gal * $5 * 8 refills = $560. :eek: I need a gas sponsor!

How about a no gas sponsor... BEANO

When I left AU in July 03 we were paying about $AUD1.10 a litre, or $AUD4.16 a gallon. I can't remember what the exchange rate was back then but at today's rate, that is about $US3.16 a gallon. So quit yer bitchin!! :P

All this talk made me go fill up the car. From this morning $3.29, just now $3.45! The station attendant said $4.00 easy by tomorrow.

On a mildly related note, google search is the best thing evAr ... this search works perfectly:

1.10 AUD per litre in USD per gallon

It even recognized the correct spelling of litre! :D

Its still 3.11 at chevron down here in Natomas

but I looked across the street and saw that safeway had just changed their premium price to 3.35 a gallon :eek:

Man I'm fucked. :( The $300/month paycut I took by buying the van is starting to look like $5-600 or more.

Can you say Trunk Rack? Whatever it is that you haul, you need to make it fit in/on the Miata! Even if you buy a hitch and one of those mini trailers from Harbor Freight.

So who's riding their bicycle to the meet tonight? :)

Costco here is only $2.88/gal. :) Basically everywhere else is over $3 though, even for regular.

Looks like the GVR-4 is going to be in the garage for awhile, at least until gas prices go down alittle. I'm glad i bought that Scirocco can't argue with 325 miles on a 12 gallon tank!

This morning in Carson gas was $2.65 per gallon for 91, right now it is $3.35 for 91. I don't think driving for enjoyment is dead yet, but hopefully this jump in gas will get some of those huge trucks and suvs of the road.

I love Scirocco's. That's one of the cars I gawk at when I see them.

I'm going to be driving around 6-700 miles this weekend. At least my MC gives me 5% back on gas and groceries.

I'll be making a trip to the bay area for a drift day, this weekend. Does anyone now what gas prices are like down there?

I'd be surprised if they're much different than here. They're usually the same.

yeah, from what I've heard from my bay area buddies, its about the same.

I don't really care if they stop driving or not (it'd be nice, though). I just want them to regret owning one - even for a little while.

It wasn't $5 a gallon today! Well at least this morning. The peril continues!

Dun dun duuuuuuuun.

I feel bad saying this but I filled up yesterday with 89 octane and payed $2.50 a gallon.

Gas prices seem to be going up $0.20/day here.

Seconded. it cost one of my buddies $56 to fill aboiut 2/3rds of a tank in one of those behemouths yesterday... :lol:

I paid $3.09 yesterday in Reno, I drove by the same station this morning and the price has jumped to $3.45.

I'm glad I filled up two days ago when I suspected this would happen...

Will it ever go down again?

maybe, the news I have been hearing was that these prices are a result of higher barrel prices that have takin place the past few weeks and the stations are just now adjusting. The things happening in the south had nothing to do with the first incresses, but now with a 16% less production I'm sure they will incress even more, once we get that 16% back in production we could see prices for 91 at about 3.09 - 3.29 as a final new rate

I paid 3.29 for premium last night at about midnight... I was surprised it was that low. Chevron on S. Meadows.

I think it was the same at the Chevron here on the corner of 395 and 50 (Carson and William).

If the higher prices have nothing to do the south the we are really in for some crap in the near future.

Yep!!

Its not $5!! I told all my friends and people that it was going up! No one believed me tho.. haha. Good thing.

so how much does 5 gallons of 100 unleaded cost now?

I would bet 100 octane at the track is still right around $5/gal.. It has seldom been affected by mainstream fluctuations as far as I know.

I think it was $7 a gallon last time we were at RFR

RFR doesn't count. I'm talking about tracks with actual pumps, not some guy a couple barrels of race gas and a we take cash sign... :)

What... I heard you can get 100 for like $3.95. I dont know tho, never bought the stuff.