# $368 a month on gas = 3 gallons a day! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 6, 2011, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/368-a-month-on-gas-3-gallons-a-day/580965 "2011-05-06T14:47:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/368-a-month-on-gas-3-gallons-a-day/580965/221 "2011-05-10T21:02:19Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > We must not have been to the right places; we were in awe of how good the roads were everywhere we’ve gone in the US compared to Canadian roads. Must have been somewhere warm. Minneapolis and and Montreal roads are nearly indistinguishable. Endless broken pavement and potholes. For those lauding European roads, I’ll take my busted up roads back home in Minnesota thank you. A ten foot wide strip of asphalt across the countryside with no shoulders, or safety devices of any kind is not a road. That is a path. As for the real roads, the autobahn in this area is constantly slowed by construction or repair of one kind or another. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/368-a-month-on-gas-3-gallons-a-day/580965/222 "2011-05-11T04:06:09Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > We must not have been to the right places; we were in awe of how good the roads were everywhere we’ve gone in the US compared to Canadian roads. As a matter of fact, south of our own border, the toll highway in Baja California is an utter dream to drive on–better than anything I’ve seen in Alta California ---
**Author:** ![curlcoat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea5d25/32.png) [@curlcoat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curlcoat)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/368-a-month-on-gas-3-gallons-a-day/580965/223 "2011-05-11T04:09:21Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > As a matter of fact, south of our own border, the toll highway in Baja California is an utter dream to drive on–better than anything I’ve seen in Alta California Wow. I haven’t been on that thing for many years, but the last time I was, it was no where near a dream! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/368-a-month-on-gas-3-gallons-a-day/580965/224 "2011-05-11T06:07:51Z")
> [@even\_sven](#): > > Here is a piece of advice. Do with it what you will. > > **Cheap gas is over. The old days are gone.** > > I’m ready for it. I’ve made a lot of choices to make sure I can handle gas price changes. > > I don’t care if you choose to prepare or not, but I do expect people to take responsibility for their choices. I’m not going to have a lot of sympathy for people who don’t prepare for what they known coming. You cant change America, but you can make sure you and your family are prepared. I honestly can’t see why you would think that. Oil and gas are commodities and go up and down depending on supply and demand. While we in Canada right now are bent over the oil barrel, taking it up the windward passage, we were in the same place two year ago, and people were saying the same thing, say bye bye to cheap gas. Within two months, we were back down to roughly 80 cents a litre, with gas edging into the lower seventies at one point. All a high street price of gas in North America is going to do , is to begin serious production of shale and coal liquification. Its in the oil companies best interest to keep prices of gas at reasonable levels, the person who said that they heard the price will go down to $3.50 a gallon, I believe it. Declan [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/368-a-month-on-gas-3-gallons-a-day/580965.md?page=11)