# Have you heard?? Gas Going up $1.70/gal **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 27, 2000, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219 "2000-01-27T09:07:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SterlingNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SterlingNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SterlingNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/1 "2000-01-27T09:07:00Z")
\ **WARNING: FOAF Alert** \ Actually it’s not even really a friend. More like net-dredging. On the [“_ **Self Reliant Living** _ Board”](http://www.michaelhyatt.com/cgibin/ubbcgi/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro&BypassCookie=true) (a site that I have been mocking since it was previously the Michael Hyatt’s “The World’s Going to End on Y2K!” Page) some [posted](http://www.michaelhyatt.com/discuss/ubb/Forum40/HTML/000030.html) that gas prices will rise to $1.70/gal. A couple other threads talk about oil and gas problems. I’m wondering if any of you has heard anything about it. * * * [This is America](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/15/147l-011500-idx.html) A black woman warns cabbies to protect themselves by refusing to pick up young black men. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/2 "2000-01-27T09:15:00Z")
[Chandler Bing] Can you be _any_ more annoying, Sterling? [/Chandler Bing] But I’m kinda glad my primary mode of transportation is nuclear-powered. * * * The bat rose and fell. She bludgeoned the dead dog. Behind her, Vic’s Jag turned into the Cambers’ driveway. ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/3 "2000-01-27T09:16:00Z")
I have heard somethings about a sharp increase in oil prices but so far I haven’t heard anything about how drastic the resulting gas price explosion will be. Try [cnn.com/2000/US/01/26/energy.costs/index.html](http://cnn.com/2000/US/01/26/energy.costs/index.html) * * * The Top 10 Greatest Things About Procrastination: 1. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/4 "2000-01-27T09:50:00Z")
At the current exchange rate ($1 = NLG 2.20), an American gallon of petrol (3.78 liters) would cost approximately $4.10 in The Netherlands. ## Stop whining Yankees 😉 **Coldfire** * * * _ **"You know how complex women are"** _ - Neil Peart, **Rush** (1993) ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/5 "2000-01-27T13:18:00Z")
A barrel of NYMEX light sweet crude oil (the benchmark you hear on the news occasionally) closed at $27.84 yesterday; in January 1999 it was bouncing around between $12 and $13. Here’s a look at daily [crude prices](http://www.oilworld.com/1onymex.htm#year) for the last year. Given the general direction of the curve, it’s not surprising that retail prices for gasoline might be subject to upward pressure. ---
**Author:** ![BunnyGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@BunnyGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BunnyGirl)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/6 "2000-01-27T14:00:00Z")
> [@](#): > > A barrel of NYMEX light sweet crude oil Eeeewwwww! Who’s doing the tasting? ---
**Author:** ![NightGirl44](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@NightGirl44](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NightGirl44)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/7 "2000-01-27T15:36:00Z")
Gas prices here are already at $1.38 a gallon for regular, but it’s hard to determine just how much is general cost increase and how much is local tax. Here, the City shitheads, decided that they were not getting enough taxes from cigarettes, booze and property, so they decided to levy a tax on fuel. Remembering the great fuel crisis of the 70s due to the Arabic Consortium deciding to gouge the world for more money and the mass problems it created, many of which are still being worked out today makes me wonder about a few things. One is, would those people be smart enough to have realized back then that once they eased up on prices – which they did – that Americans would promptly drop all economy car desires and start producing and buying gas guzzlers – which we did, and IF they waited a bit and THEN UPPED the prices again, that the effect would hit hard on the American economy? The other is, I wonder how much other countries, including America, will tolerate being screwed by inflated fuel prices before someone, say, like America and the UK, find a reason to go in there with the military and take back the oil fields? ---
**Author:** ![BurnMeUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@BurnMeUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurnMeUp)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/8 "2000-01-27T15:41:00Z")
I’ve paid as much as 1.60 already. what’s another 10 cents? * * * If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully–as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors. ---
**Author:** ![Vestal\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/5e9695/32.png) [@Vestal\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vestal_Blue)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/9 "2000-01-27T15:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Coldfire: > \*\*At the current exchange rate ($1 = NLG 2.20), an American gallon of petrol (3.78 liters) would cost approximately $4.10 in The Netherlands. > > Stop whining Yankees 😉 > \*\* Right on, Coldfire! I heartily agree, and point it out to fellow Yanks under ‘it could be worse’! We Americans tend to be spoiled rotten; a look at what the rest of the world pays (gasoline, telephone, telly etc.) lends perspective. I grew up in Europe, and served active duty Air Force in the UK; what an eye opener! * * * VB Remember, you can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish! ---
**Author:** ![Flypsyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f0a364/32.png) [@Flypsyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flypsyde)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/10 "2000-01-27T16:02:00Z")
> [@](#): > > But I’m kinda glad my primary mode of transportation is nuclear-powered. Man, the tolls on that thing must be murder. ---
**Author:** ![disreputable\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/76d3ee/32.png) [@disreputable\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/disreputable_1)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/11 "2000-01-27T16:03:00Z")
Does anyone have any doubt that when gas prices do rise, the loudest complaints will be from the sport-ute crowd? Coldfire is right on, we are incessant whiners. This must end. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/12 "2000-01-27T16:15:00Z")
I paid 61.4 per litre this morning… I dont have my conversion hat on (over to you Cold) but its too much!! * * * We are, each of us angels with only one wing,and we can only fly by embracing one another ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/13 "2000-01-27T17:09:00Z")
I needed to read this cause it said gas prices were going up another $1.70/gal. But only meant to $1.70 gal. whew. It’s not the same as the oil embargo in the 70’s. We don’t rely on oil as much anymore. This is mainly heating oil anyway… * * * “I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.” ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/14 "2000-01-27T17:10:00Z")
Well when I was in CA early last year, their cheapest price was about $1.55 a gallon, it was then about .68 cents a gallon in GA. Since it is now $1.12, I can only assume that CA is up past $1.70. This was in Southern CA a little south of LA and north of San Diego. Any South-CA dopers around? What are the prices there? Jeffery ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/15 "2000-01-27T17:45:00Z")
\<— Bay Area Doper And your point would be? 😉 * * * **StoryTyler** “Not everybody does it, but everybody should.” [I Spy Ty.](http://sites.netscape.net/storytyler/homepage) ---
**Author:** ![NewtonsApple](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@NewtonsApple](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NewtonsApple)\ **Post date:** [January 27, 2000, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/16 "2000-01-27T17:52:00Z")
CA HERE! Tahoe- 2.09 a gallon Sacramento 1.25 (a secret place) 1.37-1.68 everywhere else SF 1.57 a gallon -N When I was stationed in GA I loved gas prices. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/17 "2000-01-28T06:01:00Z")
So why are American s still buying 8 MPG SUVs in droves?? ITS BECAUSE THEY DON’T CARE!! Even at $1.70 per gallon, you are still paying the same price (in constant dollars) as yoiu were in 1959! I guess Honda won’t be selling many of those 70 MPG hybrids after all! ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/18 "2000-01-28T06:01:00Z")
I think the reason that gasoline is so expensive in Europe is that there are what amounts to several dollars of taxes per gallon. In SC for example, the total taxes (State and Fed) are 34.3¢ per gallon. In GA, it’s probably lower. ---
**Author:** ![fuzzy-wuzzy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b38774/32.png) [@fuzzy-wuzzy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fuzzy-wuzzy)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/19 "2000-01-28T06:07:00Z")
I pay about $1.21 to $1.25 a gallon…that’s the average * * * “Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2000, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219/20 "2000-01-28T06:21:00Z")
Here’s a table of state gas taxes. On top of this add 18.3¢ Fed. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-heard-gas-going-up-1-70-gal/13219.md?page=2)