Wow, I wish I bought gas yesterday!

[Deja Q]

Poll question: Wow, I wish I bought gas yesterday!

It was $1.71.

Today it's $1.89.

Prices of food is up because of fertilizer, containment, storage, and transportation costs - all of which revolve around plastic, gas, or oil-based products.

We're in a shit economy. The last thing somebody would want to do is make it worse by inflating prices. Indeed, the one thing the mass ass media has admitted to is that "when demand goes up, so does gas". That's true. And, amusingly, they say it in a way that suggests there is no crisis afoot. But with the theory of peak oil; after a certain point, "production" (COLLECTION) becomes more difficult - as a result, with our current use of the stuff, there is no such thing anymore as a freeflowing cheap source of readily available energy. The party's over, it's hangover time. And after the hangover is the reality that the party gave you liver failure and AIDS because you did the iggy giggy with greedy vermin.

Has peak oil come and gone, and we're just beginning to see the aftereffects?

[Dissenting_Prole]

1. We're seeing the beginning of the end

"We're literally stuck up a cul-de-sac in a cement SUV without a fill-up"

James Howard Kunstler




http://www.endofsuburbia.com/

[neverborn]

2. Same!

$1.65 to $1.79

[Deja Q]

3. Thx! I forgot to add: Other DUers, please say how much it's gone up...

in your area!

Two weeks ago, in St Paul MN, it was $1.65... Now $1.89.

And this is for 87 octane. 92 octane is $2.07 in St Paul.


Meanwhile, I've seen THREE Hummers on my journey to work. I no longer give them the middle finger and glare. I LAUGH at them. Gas will kill them. Even if they can afford a $50k piece of shit, their mileage rates are appalling... even if oil could be replaced, 9MPG is appalling.