Tweets from around the U.S. " long lines at gas stations right now!" Panic buying! Fights!

In Alberta we're paying about $1.14 a litre. It takes 3.78 litres to make a gallon. so in the states i guess that would be about $4.30 a gallon. In Ontario when i moved i payed $1.42 a litre or $5.36 a Gallon so yea thats getting up there. When i first got out here a year ago gas was less than a dollar a litre and i didnt see that back home in Ontario for years prior to that.

I do believe it is time to grab all your gas cans and fill them up, too. We bought a couple today and filled them, along with both cars. I will probably get 2 more cans tomorrow and fill them, too. Damned plastic cans were 20.00 each by themselves.

just a question: is it safe to put gas in plastic cans and how long can you hold it, before is getting bad?

fuck cali and the constant we won't ship you food line of tripe.

hey douchetards , there are 10 cows or more for every person where I live. You will be starving long before we do, unlike you my food is within walking distance, down in the back 40 are 60 cows and chickens , ducks , goats , canned veggies are even closer. Yo EBT is no good way out here ) starve you fuckers

You are fortunate to be near food. I believe most are talking about those who live in the city and have no access other than a supermarket. There are millions of folks like this. Cities are horrible places when there is a catastrophe.

That's why you, on your back 40 had better be ready to protect those cattle from the hordes if it comes down to it.

I've seen desperate people, it is not pretty. I've been a little desperate myself before and I can tell you that desperate people are nothing like people who are not.

The difference in the UK is that we have our life style because of high prices and poor public transport.

Someone earlier in this thread mentioned about driving hours a few times a week to see their grandchildren in a football game. People in the UK don't do that sort of thing because of the high cost in fuel.
Most people only make necessary journies like commuting and shopping for food.

This article from 1 year ago

[link to www.bbc.co.uk]

"Drivers have cut their petrol consumption by more than 15% since the credit crunch and the recession.

The AA has calculated that petrol sales in the first six months of 2011 were 1.7bn litres less than in the same period three years ago."

Once I get home from work Friday night my car stays on the drive until Monday morning. Like most people I do not go out any more because of high fuel costs and it is killing our economy.

One of the things I cannot understand is why people in the USA commute so far, why don't you just move nearer your place of work?
How much time do you spend commuting everyday?
A 60 mile commute for me would take 2.5 hours with the traffic.

Public transport is not that good in the UK unless you live in a city and even then it is expensive.

But as someone pointed out before at least we have free healthcare.

good luck making it out here on foot LOL

Fueled up in yesterday at $3.949 in Duluth.

"Around the US" does not include North Carolina. Gas prices unchanged here, no lines either.

buncha whiney babies. we pay over $8 a gallon.

"Around the US" does not include North Carolina. Gas prices unchanged here, no lines either.

Every time someone in EU mentions that I have to ask this... What do you consider a long trip? I have to drive 60 miles round trip just to get groceries. Spaces and towns are a bit farther apart in the USA.

These gas prices of today, will be considered the Good Ol' Days if we start a war in Iran.

just a question: is it safe to put gas in plastic cans and how long can you hold it, before is getting bad?