I have a 2004 Acura TSX. It's a four-door sedan. I am in love with it and some day I'm going to blog about my obsession with it.
Today though, I want to gripe about gas. I have a sedan. Not an SUV mind you. It cost me $71.70 to fill up this evening. I honestly got in my car disgruntled after filling up. This situation is out of control.
What is the average profit a gas station makes per gallon?
Cash transaction: $0.12 per gallon
Credit transaction: $0.03 per gallon
I'm not interested in researching reasons why or why not the big oil companies are or are not swindling money from consumers, but I am completely annoyed at the fact that for my cute little low emissions vehicle, I am now paying what SUV owners were paying for a full tank of gas not too long ago.
Bothered. Super bothered.
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spot prices for oil are ~$136/barrel. barrel = 42 gal. $3.24 of those horrible gas prices are due supply/demand and speculatioen issues and goes straight to the Saudis. It's only getting worse. check out this visualization http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2008/06/11/visualizing_glo.html
Actually (not that I know THAT much about this) we get the vast majority of our oil from Canada. So really, we're just funding their socialist health care system. Darn Canucks.
just think how annoying it is every week with 2 cars, double the frustration!!!
Hello! We are swap partners! I can't wait to get to know you better!:-) Lori
I hate gas, too- sigh....
alberta canada supplies tonnes of oil and gas to the world. it is being taken out of my back yard and i am paying OVER $5 a gallon for it!!! ... suckaroo. suck it up princess ... (hugs)
I took a photo of my tank when it was nearly $50.
I drive a Honda Civic. I get 35+ miles to the gallon. And it used to fill up for $20.
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