Gas prices are getting RIDICULOUS!

[QuadJunkies]

At what point do we say enough is enough!
I am most certain that if the prices on gas keeps climbing, alot of the riders who travel to race or even vacation to dunes ect.. Will not be going far this year.
I know we will be one of them.
This will most def. hurt rider turnouts and all our pocketbooks!:mad:

Im sooooooooooooooooooooo sick of hearing all the LAME excuses.
This will only devestate our economy.

[416exfreak]

Im with you

Gas went from 2.78 per gallon for 87, to 3.01 per gallon for 87

The U4 i run went from 6.50 per gallon to 8 bucks!!!!:mad: :mad: :mad:

[mx428]

$3.70 a gallon in SoCal.

[450raider]

yeah gas is about 2.80 in TN, which aint as much as ca. but its still rediculous and im still not quite sure why, seriously....my friends say its somehow war related but can somebody fill me in on the link im missing between what i put in my truck/quad and a bunch of ragheaded homos in bedsheets hiding in sand?

too many things are screwed up with the world and it will not get any better. Everything from illegals immagrents, rag heads, corrupt governmenton the national level and local,bad economy, it goes on and on....Just get used to it and dont take anything too seriously, were all going to die.

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by mx428
$3.70 a gallon in SoCal.
thats what I was afraid of :(

Its over 3.00 a gal. here now and is expected to go up more this week.
Ive heard rumors that we could see 5-6.00 per gallon:huh

[esr250r86]

Originally posted by mx428
$3.70 a gallon in SoCal. I know!! In my town its about $2.89. It's crazy! But the minimum wage just got raised so maybe thats why gas prices went up too,so it equals out. Like california minumum wage is way high but the living is expensive there too.

[miller821]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
thats what I was afraid of :(

Its over 3.00 a gal. here now and is expected to go up more this week.
Ive heard rumors that we could see 5-6.00 per gallon:huh

I'll be pulling out the bicycle or investing in a crotch rocket if this happens.

[Shift_450R]

pfft, that aint bad come to canada. The average is $4/g.

[250r4life]

it has nothing to do with minimum wage... its going to be like this every summer... same way it was last summer...

same way it always jumps up about $.20 before a holiday weekend when everybody is going to be driving somewhere

[quads14589]

2.95 for diseal:D

[firefighterjosh]

Thats one of the reason I am only going to local races this year.:(

[trxwannbe]

yep $3.09 a gallon here tonight and $13.25 a gallon on saturday for powermist

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by ride hard man
I'll be pulling out the bicycle or investing in a crotch rocket if this happens.
I guess I could always buy a scooter for work :o

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by 250r4life
it has nothing to do with minimum wage... its going to be like this every summer... same way it was last summer...

same way it always jumps up about $.20 before a holiday weekend when everybody is going to be driving somewhere
Yeah, but its jumped 45 cents in two weeks here and its climbing more...least month they said prices would drop quite abit,but its quite the opposite.

You are right though.. The whole supply and demand during the busy times of the year,but what about all the other times? And is there REALLY a way to fight the gas war?Or does the Goverment know they have us all my the ballz and we will pay no matter what
:ermm:

[firefighterjosh]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
I guess I could always buy a scooter for work :o

Vrrom Vrrrooom:macho

[wckedclownz69]

moped time!

[JJs450r]

its about 3.00 here but the only time i ever notice up high is when its vacation time like when the school got out for spring break it went up, after that week went back down to about 2.65 now summers rightaround the corner and its back up to 3.00 i guess its the price you pay for living near the beach

[gncc025]

$3.70 a gallon for gas! thats when its time to start walking!

its somewhat cheaper here in MS like 2.80 a gallon. it is really almost unbelievable how much gas has went up just in the past 2 or 3 years.

guess its time to get the CBR i always wanted:)

[ZeroLogic]

Hoorray 24 mpg!

3.00 dollars here.:mad:

[Kendall33]

Kinda lucky here...for now.....gas is $2.70(for the regular unleaded)... at least my race gas hasn't changed...$17.00 a gallon no matter what!...haha MRX01

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by firefighterjosh
Vrrom Vrrrooom:macho
That is wrong in sooooo many ways :p LOL!

[79400ex]

It is all the hedge funds trying to make money in the oil market. I also think the oil company are on purpose bidding the price of oil. Last weekend on the way to Tenn. on friday gas was 2.98 a gl. in st.louis. On sat on the way home at the same station the gas was 2.79 a gl. figure that one out.

[72 chevelle ss]

I payed 3 a gallon here this morning filling my car up. Once I realized prices were going up like crazy I bought a little escort for $400, 35 mpg, I love it.

[jesshamner]

What is ridiculous is a gas station changing their prices 3 times in one day. How can that happen. The get charged by the tanker truck so unless that tanker truck went to refill the station 3 times, it is gouging.

[underpowered]

Originally posted by jesshamner
What is ridiculous is a gas station changing their prices 3 times in one day. How can that happen. The get charged by the tanker truck so unless that tanker truck went to refill the station 3 times, it is gouging.


yupp, thats what gets me. it is the SAME fuel, how can prices change so much? my uncle used to run a small local air port and he had to sell fuel for the same price until he got a new load, and that is how it should be.

but i hate gas prices. Exxon-mobil reported another 10% in earingins over last year so far. and they give excuses why they are so high while oil companies are reporting billions in proffits. i know gas hits $3 a gallon here, i will cut out alot of my driving. i am already looking into a street bike for the summer.

i remember reading in my local news paper that at a few gas stations they werent even giving you a full gallon, What you really were getting was 3/4ths of a gallon or 7/8ths of a gallon. 99% of the people didnt knwo because they just put it into their car, hold the pump wide oen and look around. Gas is insane. But it could be worse.

Alot of people joke about riding a bike everywhere or a moped but the truth is, alot of people do it in other countrys. When i went to the virgin islands i saw more lil 2 stroke scooters buzzing around then cars or trucks! Because those scooters get such great MPG. Gas over their was i think 6-7 US dollars.

Its like 2.60 by me. But whatever, I dont worry about it, i cant change it.

[Kickstarts-suck]

2.83 for 87 here


I might have to be looking into a 4cly instead of the v8 i want. :ermm:

my mom and dad were smart both of them have cars getting 29 mpg and 265hp.:devil:

[parkers30]

Originally posted by Honda86
i remember reading in my local news paper that at a few gas stations they werent even giving you a full gallon, What you really were getting was 3/4ths of a gallon or 7/8ths of a gallon. 99% of the people didnt knwo because they just put it into their car, hold the pump wide oen and look around.

In Most states the calibration is very tightly controlled and has to be checked regularly.

BUT those comments come all the time. My dad works for a gas station chain and often carries one of the calibration cans, when someone makes that claim, he just pulls out the can and fills up the can to show them it is calibrated, no more complaining :blah:

[jesshamner]

Originally posted by Honda86

Alot of people joke about riding a bike everywhere or a moped but the truth is, alot of people do it in other countrys. When i went to the virgin islands i saw more lil 2 stroke scooters buzzing around then cars or trucks! Because those scooters get such great MPG. Gas over their was i think 6-7 US dollars.

I wish we could move to that sort of transportation. People look down on it though. I mean who doesn't like to make fun of the guy riding a moped? LOL. We need to change the way we percieve people using this form of transportation. Then we can start saving money and feel cool doing it. :D

[mephyst]

I have a 42 gallon tank in my suburban... I live in So. Cal. $3.70 x 42 = $155.40 a tank!!

I am so glad that I have extremely rich friends to drive me around. My one friend always has his dad's business gas cards to every major gas station you can think of so if I drive he will just pay for my gas. It's definitely nice, and generous of him.

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by mephyst
I have a 42 gallon tank in my suburban... I live in So. Cal. $3.70 x 42 = $155.40 a tank!!

I am so glad that I have extremely rich friends to drive me around. My one friend always has his dad's business gas cards to every major gas station you can think of so if I drive he will just pay for my gas. It's definitely nice, and generous of him.
Hey.. Can ya hook a Sista up ??!:D
I coould use a fill up when we come down for the WORCS race next week. :p

[ShiftFMX]

Anyone want to buy and F250 with 33's on it :( :(

Man this sucks so bad, I spending a good $60 a week on gas. It doesnt make me feel any better that I am driving 8 hours down to Tennessee in 3 weeks, better start saving now! :grr:

My dad actually bought an '89 Probe with a manual trans last week for me to drive when I want, it gets like 30 mpg, that things gonna start getting alot more use!

jess it would be great if we could move to scooters transportation. Alot of other countrys do that.

If you drive a typical SUV that gets around 20 mpg and gas is 3 dollars a gallon, The guy in another country that is paying 8 dollars a gallon but is getting 80-100 mpg is STILL ahead. I think Americans need to start downsizing a little bit.

[Mxjunkie]

We went to the race's this last weekend and the price of 87 was $2.79, on the way home it was 2.89.. I'd like to know what went in those tank's to make the same gas jump up 10 cents? I think we have had enough of these outragous prices! It take's 50-60 dollar's to fill our truck up from empty.. Back in the 90's 50-60 dollars would last you for a couple tanks :o :p

MXjunkie "but the world is a much better place now compared to the 90s" I wish i could go back to the 90s :D they were a real good time

[Mxjunkie]

Some good racing happened in the 90's and some good time's, Gas wasn't as bad either. If you were to ask someone back then if they would pay 3 dollars a gallon they would probaly laugh.

The sad part is 2 dollar's is cheap now considering they went to 3 bucks. :blah:

[mephyst]

Originally posted by Honda86
jess it would be great if we could move to scooters transportation. Alot of other countrys do that.

If you drive a typical SUV that gets around 20 mpg and gas is 3 dollars a gallon, The guy in another country that is paying 8 dollars a gallon but is getting 80-100 mpg is STILL ahead. I think Americans need to start downsizing a little bit.

What people also don't realize is in many European countries the gas might be outrageously priced, but that is how they are taxed there. They tax them through things like gasoline to pay for road construction and all that, instead of us being taxed on everything.

[mephyst]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
Hey.. Can ya hook a Sista up ??!:D
I coould use a fill up when we come down for the WORCS race next week. :p

Haha, if I was the rich one I would totally have the heart to do it. ;)

Some countrys do tax through their gas, others dont

[JOEX]

Originally posted by Honda86
MXjunkie "but the world is a much better place now compared to the 90s" I wish i could go back to the 90s :D they were a real good time
Yea, being 10 years old was a great time:o :p

[Kickstarts-suck]

I miss back when i had my UTE and went to get gas and $5 got 5 gallons :(

[ny300exrider]

hence the reason why i am selling my quad....

in a year or two ill be cruising around town and commuting to school on a street legal supermoto bike....50+ miles to the gallon.

i need a new vehicle before then and im having a real hard time deciding if i should get a v8 truck like i have always wanted, or break all of my guidlines and get a *gasps* car. my 3.2 v6 suv is a pain in the @$$, i dont think a v8 silverado would be the smartest thing.

[quadracer707]

How about this I just drove my son with a 30' toy trailer diesel dually, from PA. to orlando Fla. to check out his school he will be going to MMI 900 miles 8 miles to the gallon around $3.00 gallon $ 350.00 One freakin way, guess what had to drive back home another $350.00. Also stopped & raced @ the WPSA in georgia. We were hoping to do most of the WPSA's next one ILLINOIS another 800 miles noway we can do this glad my son understands, It still cost me over $50.00 just to go to local races on the weekends. Figure this out I payed anywhere from $2.65 _ $3.15 per gallon for diesel.

On a serious note anyone in central PA. wanting to to WPSA racing minus OKLAHOMA 1100 miles away give me an email to split costs. We race "B" class on a yfz 450:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by quadracer707
How about this I just drove my son with a 30' toy trailer diesel dually, from PA. to orlando Fla. to check out his school he will be going to MMI 900 miles 8 miles to the gallon around $3.00 gallon $ 350.00 One freakin way, guess what had to drive back home another $350.00. Also stopped & raced @ the WPSA in georgia. We were hoping to do most of the WPSA's next one ILLINOIS another 800 miles noway we can do this glad my son understands, It still cost me over $50.00 just to go to local races on the weekends. Figure this out I payed anywhere from $2.65 _ $3.15 per gallon for diesel.

On a serious note anyone in central PA. wanting to to WPSA racing minus OKLAHOMA 1100 miles away give me an email to split costs. We race "B" class on a yfz 450:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad
We had 7 rounds this year that is 15 hours ONE WAY, 2 others are 9.
Ill be feeling your pain next wk end.
All I can say is the weather better be awesome at the beach!

Were paying 3.15 for 87 here. I think Diesel is like 3.50 now here.

[jiffers]

you lot make me laugh here in the uk its about £4 a gallon thats $7.95 been like that for a year 99 ron fuel is £4.50 which is $9
you lot have it cheap:D

[400grl]

I've decided I want to move to Canada.......:macho

[Quad18star]

Originally posted by 400grl
I've decided I want to move to Canada.......:macho

Oh no you don't ... not at $5-$6 per gallon you don't.

It's costing me about $500 per month to keep gas in my Dodge truck ... and that's not pushing it either ... I only drive about 55mph to "save on fuel":(

I think a for sale sign might go on it very soon , or I might park it and find a $600 beater car that gets 35 mpg until the prices drop. :ermm:

[TRX450RACER174]

Yep thats what i do drive a 1991 mazda p/u to work everyday $26
dollars a week to drive and my 06 silverado 3/4 hd sits in the drive way with only 2,000 miles on it, and over a $100 bucks to fill up i only take it to races.

Originally posted by Kickstarts-suck
I miss back when i had my UTE and went to get gas and $5 got 5 gallons :(

who the hell are you kidding? you're as old as me. you probably started at the youngest, riding the ute at like age 8. so that would be in 1997-1998. gas was not $1.00/gallon in 97-98.
p0on3ed:o

[Kickstarts-suck]

Originally posted by mjpridered10
who the hell are you kidding? you're as old as me. you probably started at the youngest, riding the ute at like age 8. so that would be in 1997-1998. gas was not $1.00/gallon in 97-98.
p0on3ed:o

did i say it was 97-98 :huh

[Toadz400]

I think he's got you there. I doubt you drove "your" ute and filled up for $1.00 a gallon.

I remember my dad driving us around and he'd get pissed when he saw gas for $.75 and refused to fill up until he found something cheaper.

[Kickstarts-suck]

Originally posted by Toadz400
I think he's got you there. I doubt you drove "your" ute and filled up for $1.00.

wtf i never said i filled it up for a $1 i said $5 got 5 gallons. and why you saying "your" ute?

[stalefish_132]

up here gas prices have been hovering between 1.02 to 1.18 per litre.
1.02 (Canadian dollars per litre) = 3.48162312 U.S. dollars per US gallon

1.18 (Canadian dollars per litre) = 4.02776008 U.S. dollars per US gallon.

the price of fuel won't be going down anytime soon so might as well get used to it. :ermm:

[spdygonzalez450]

i hate the fact the gas is so much but compared to a lot of other places we dont have it that bad, but it still sucks. i live in so cal and the price seems to be moving everyday sucks, but to shed some light on the topic

http://www.api.org/policy/tax/stateexcise/upload/GAS_TAX_MAP_MARCH2007_2A025.pdf

check out that it shows how much a gallon of gas is taxed across the US

also api.org is a great site to help. there has been a lot of factors that have played a role in this, the frence strike hurt their exporting thus hurting many around the world, and many refineries have had to go under construction at un expected times once again hurting the production, the saying when it rains it pours is very fitting. i hate the fact that i now have to set a side a certain amount of money just so that i can drive my truck i already just moved out and bascally started to do everything on my own. i swear my quad, and truck will be getting sold if it get worse, i just simply cant afford it and its sad, this will have major impact on the whole off road community. it sucks and it needs to change and the only way it will change is by us changing, sucks but i think it will get better

[MO-EX-RIDER]

the price of gas raises everything...food, toilet paper, beer....everything goes up but our paycheck stays the same and year end bonus' will be slim to none:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[gncc025]

yeah food,toilet paper and beer are VERY important! LOL!:D

[Pappy]

this entire deal is making me mad...lol

werent we supposed to be fighting in iraq for their oil:confused: (thats a joke, i know better, i just cant help myself haha)
im sure that is what ive heard non stop, and if that is the case why arent we paying $1.05 for gas:mad:


and i can remeber when i started driving gas was .67 a gallon, and in my senior year it was an outragous .81. when it hit $1 a gallon everyone was going nuts. what we arent seeing is the government doing enough to get our energy costs under control. my electric bill is high, fuel bill i am almost scared to open and god forbid i want to use natural gas to cook a steak..lmao
im one for less government, but i dont see much being done to curb the skyrocketing costs and this is an issue the governemnt should be all over!

Originally posted by Kickstarts-suck
wtf i never said i filled it up for a $1 i said $5 got 5 gallons. and why you saying "your" ute?


$5 for 5 gallons is basically impossible at the time period you are referring to. thats $1 per gallon. it was never that cheap in your lifetime

[Kickstarts-suck]

Originally posted by mjpridered10
$5 for 5 gallons is basically impossible at the time period you are referring to. thats $1 per gallon. it was never that cheap in your lifetime


I don't know how to prove it but I sure remember it being $1 a gallon

[Rulz]

Originally posted by mephyst
What people also don't realize is in many European countries the gas might be outrageously priced, but that is how they are taxed there. They tax them through things like gasoline to pay for road construction and all that, instead of us being taxed on everything.

And what alot of people don't realize is you can drive clear across Europe in 4 hours too! 4 hours of driving here in the US and you haven't crossed a state line!

[parkers30]

Originally posted by mjpridered10
$5 for 5 gallons is basically impossible at the time period you are referring to. thats $1 per gallon. it was never that cheap in your lifetime

I definitely remember buying it right at $1, and remember it being well under. He may remember it or at best put the gas in a family members car

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by parkers30
I definitely remember buying it right at $1, and remember it being well under. He may remember it or at best put the gas in a family members car
It wasnt all that long ago really. I remember it right before I bought my Home. I remember gas prices as low as 85 cents a gallon when I 1st started driving.
I believe the 1.00 a gallon was roughly 10 years ago.

[QuadJunkies]

Originally posted by Pappy
this entire deal is making me mad...lol

werent we supposed to be fighting in iraq for their oil:confused: (thats a joke, i know better, i just cant help myself haha)
im sure that is what ive heard non stop, and if that is the case why arent we paying $1.05 for gas:mad:


and i can remeber when i started driving gas was .67 a gallon, and in my senior year it was an outragous .81. when it hit $1 a gallon everyone was going nuts. what we arent seeing is the government doing enough to get our energy costs under control. my electric bill is high, fuel bill i am almost scared to open and god forbid i want to use natural gas to cook a steak..lmao
im one for less government, but i dont see much being done to curb the skyrocketing costs and this is an issue the governemnt should be all over!
AMEN!! To be honest, I dont know at this point WTF were even fighting for anymore....!
So why do you think our Goverment isnt taking more control of the fuel issue ?
I ask the same about our Medical issues as well.
All the pharmacuticals Companies are out of control and the Govement doens NORTHING to regulate it so that people can afford medical Insurance and and perscriptions.
We see all these things going sky high-except our wages to keep up with the high costs.:ermm:

[QuadJunkies]

btw...saying for us to just get used to it...

Well, this can effect us all in more ways than you might think .

Its not just for our commuting and recreatioanl but anything that has to do with transportation .
That includes your groceries and it could hit your wallet hard.
Even UPS :grr:

[Rulz]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
AMEN!! To be honest, I dont know at this point WTF were even fighting for anymore....!
So why do you think our Goverment isnt taking more control of the fuel issue ?
I ask the same about our Medical issues as well.
All the pharmacuticals Companies are out of control and the Govement doens NORTHING to regulate it so that people can afford medical Insurance and and perscriptions.
We see all these things going sky high-except our wages to keep up with the high costs.:ermm:

Unfortunately government isn't for the people, by the people and of the people any longer! Government is in place to serve business, plain and simple! That's why nothing is getting done with illegal immigration, cracking down on it would hurt business, even though if you polled all of legal American's, probably 95% would say, yes, kick out the illegals, yet government continues to do nothing because of the adverse affect it would have on businesses.

[NorCalRacer]

It's a competitive world these days. We have to step up our efforts a notch from our parents and our children will have to do the same. The cost of housing, food, gas, steel etc is going up, and the wages are dropping. Time to tighten up the old belts a little. Myself, I'm in debt until I turn 60, but hey, that's life:D
And I may get knocked for this, but if you can't afford it don't buy it. Gas is expensive but I haven't even noticed how much goes in my tank and I drive a V8, I guess the day I start caring I'll get a go-ped:cool: Until then, I will pay whatever they want and not complain about it. Life's to short to worry about the little things, and gas is still not worth stressing over. One nice thing is people won't be expected to do the 100 mile commutes anymore....

[parkers30]

Originally posted by QuadJunkies
It wasnt all that long ago really. I remember it right before I bought my Home. I remember gas prices as low as 85 cents a gallon when I 1st started driving.
I believe the 1.00 a gallon was roughly 10 years ago.

I was poking around, I started driving in 2001, and the records show sprices right over $1 for a few periods. What found was CA data and I am sure IL was probably cheaper at that point to.

The funny part is that I didn't buy my own gas until I left for college, at which point prices were already around $2...

it was 91 cents forever here

[ATV Chic]

When i first started driving in 1995, the prices were .87 cents a gallon. I could live with 1.87 a gallon due to "inflation", but it's getting out of hand...:cuss:

[Toadz400]

I remember when gas was $.70-$.90 and when I started driving it was around $1.85 which I thought was ridiculously high. Now if I saw gas for $1.85 you'd bet your behind I'd be spending more money on gas jugs than the gas just to stock up.

[stalefish_132]

when i said might as well get used to rising gas prices i ment that yeah we can complain until we are blue in the face but do you actually think that the pices are going to get any lower? the price of gas effects everything as allready stated earlyer in the thead but yes everything was cheap years ago, those days are over.

i guess i'm just used to the people around here that all they do is complain about gas prices. really when you think of it, the price goes up a few cents and dependign on how much it takes to fill up the differance in price really isn't much more than a a buck or 2 ( unless you are buying a few hundred gallons of gas). it does add up but i think people really overinflate the extra cost of gas.

JMO

[parkers30]

I am not saying that the price off gas doesn't bother me, but we all are going to continue doing what we do.

What I think chaps everyone is that gas was 2.30 or less just a few short months ago, I even saw it dip below $2 a few times. Now with no major explaination it is up ABOVE $3. I think we all just want a reason.

I'm just happy I have almost 40 gal in the truck, it should keep me going for a while and hopefully prices will go down.