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Message Subject BREAKING!! $6 Gas is here
Poster Handle Anonymous Coward
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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...cool2


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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