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BREAKING!! $6 Gas is here
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[ link to tampa.cbslocal.com] TAMPA (CBS Tampa) — Talk about pain at the pump! Some Florida drivers are spending nearly $6 a gallon to fill up their gas tanks. According to GasBuddy.com, motorists are shelling out $5.89 for a gallon of regular gas at a Shell station in Lake Buena Vista, topping out at $5.99 a gallon for premium. It doesn’t get better at a Suncoast Energy station in Orlando, where drivers are paying $5.79 for a gallon of regular. Quoting: FyreStorm When I first read your headline I thought YESSSSS!!!! Gas at ONLY $6 a Gallon WOOOO HOOOOO...!!!!!! Then I realised you are in the states and shattered my dreams of buying gas at only $6 a gallon. TODAY a gallon of gas here in the UK is $10.63 So please get over it.... gas at $6 a gallon equates to the same we were paying in 1993. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 11275020 I know, I know, poor us. Except that the average american COMMUTES TO WORK more than 50 miles roundtrip, a day. My husband commutes 75 miles, round trip, a day -- and that doesn't count the numerous driving trips between the three campuses that he supports as an IT guy (which they do not reimburse him for). So sorry, I understand why you want us to shut up about it, but I don't think that YOU understand why we are so worried about it. Quoting: tandym Of course I understand, By the same token you seem to think the UK is about the size of a dime or something? My daily drive to work is 30 miles in each direction, 60 mile round trip, infact the UK is 730 miles 'long'. So a round trip from "Lands End in Cornwall" to "John o Groats at the tip of Scotland" is about 1460 miles, just about half the width of the continental USA. You imagine paying as we do today $10.63 per gallon. This is why us folks here in the "old world" just smile when we see posts proclaming SHOCK HORROR $6 a gallon..!!! The US could put another $4 per gallon ontop of the $6 and it still wouldn't be as expensive as it is here. I appreciate we are all in the same boat, our boat just cost more... Peace. Quoting: Missile Offensive 11275020 You have got socialized health care. If I didn't have to pay through the nose for health insurance and not go bankrupt even thinking about going to a doctor then I could afford higher gas prices. So your boat does not cost more. I believe we have you beat.
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