Every week when my gas tank gets low, I drive around looking for the cheapest gas station. Every week, I settle for a higher price than I promised I'd pay. Last week, I said I won't pay over $3.79; even though I knew I place I could get it for $3.77. This week, I went, "$3.89? That's not a bad deal." Most of the gas stations around me average $3.99 to $4.05.
Back on April 27th, it was reported that Corzine, the govenor of New Jersey, proposed that the state of New Jersey lift it's ban of self-serve gas stations to keep from gas prices from rising. It's now June and I'm still paying $3.89 on gas. To fill half a tank in my car costs $30.00 now. Something must be done.
I just read kaywillan's blog "Raising gas prices on purpose?" and was appalled. There is talk that raising gas prices is in attempt to "combat global warming" and teach us to conserve. How are we supposed to learn to conserve? Until we learn our lesson, we won't get lower gas prices. No one can really conserve when it comes to the necessities, such as driving to work everyday. I do try to cut back on driving so I don't have to fill up the tank every week, but it's impossible. I work two jobs and have other obligations, such as babysitting, to fullfill. I'm starting to cut off seeing my friends, because I simply can't afford to.
What really bugs me is that we have Alaska where we can drill for gas and have it be cheaper for all of us; but because of the enviromentalists who go overboard, we either don't, or don't drill enough.
Back to my first point, people in New Jersey get taxed on gas more, because we have don't have self serve stations. If we served ourselves, we could save more money. The fact that some people just want to stay in the car and have someone wait on them is just stupid.
I'm a girl and wouldn't mind pumping my own gas. It's a good thing to learn since all the states besides Jersey and Oregon pump their own gas. It wasn't until I went on a trip to Florida that I had to learn. The next year when my class went on our Senior Trip, I was the one pumping the gas.
PUMP YOUR OWN GAS AND SAVE SOME MONEY!
A Way To Lower Gas Prices
By pkubik08 - Posted on June 11th, 2008
Tagged: expensive gas
• fuel economy
• gas prices
• gasoline
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Better future
But Jersey has and has always had some of the cheapest gas prices in the country.
--Mike
It does have cheaper gas compared to most states, but it could be cheaper.
$3.77??!?!? LAST WEEK??!?!
Your freaking right, cheapest gas!!
I am soooooo jealous...
Prices here in Chi-town have been well over $4 for weeks now.
And yet, my stepdad still puts on the AC instead of lowering the windows...
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
And I am paying over 4 dollars a gallon. And with a 20 gallon tank you can imagine what that costs to fill. the only good thing about my car is it is a Hybrid and I get about 42mi to the gallon. But it is still expensive, especially when I drive over 150 miles a day 5 days a week.
It was 4.49 per gal and that was low grade. I payed 65 dollars to fill my tank and I had to do it myself. Count your lucky stars its not higher then 3.77...sheesh I wish.
Blame Congress and blame environmentalists.
We have lots of oil. A few squeaky wheels have made it almost impossible for us to drill for it.
Call your Congress person and demand that they open the coasts and ANWAR for exploration and demand that they fast track new refineries through the regulatory process.
The environmentalists are deliberately beggaring us.
ANWR would do jack because:
1) The oil estimated to be there is anywhere between 1.9 billion barrels (90% likely) and 16 billion barrels (unlikely). Given our consumpion deficit of about 7 billion barrels a year (oil we currently import), the oil from ANWR would last us anywhere from 4 months to 2 years. By that time, OPEC would be squeezing things even tighter and we'd have just distracted ourselves from finding a real solution.
2) With the amount of development required to drill in ANWR, it would take 10 years before we'd even see a drop of the oil from there.
The drilling in ANWR is just a political stunt to try to boost various politicians' approval rating. Our only real hope is development of alternative energy or better diplomacy.
--Mike
We have been trying to get development to happen there for well over a decade. If the obstructionists had not done there thing a decade ago, that oil would be online now. If we make the decision now, 10 years from now people will be thanking us.
Will it be an end all be all solution? Obviously not. But the price of oil is determined by the last incremental barrel of oil supply. Another million barrels of oil on the market per day would make a difference for the better.
America has vast reserves of oil in the form of shale and at today's prices they look economically feasible. Likewise Canada has vast oil tars that are looking very economically good at these prices.
I don't disagree with you though that we should be developing alternative energy. Energy prices are established by the incremental supply so every barrel or MCF or kilowatt makes a difference. We should be fast tracking EVERY possible source of energy with particular emphasis on the kind that is known to be plentiful and clean which is nukes.