When Dae Lynn and I were traveling from Chicago and back we saw gas priced at $4.15!!! I read that the national average is over $4 now!

I paid 3.85 the cheapest.. I have seen it at 3.95

We still have gas at $3.95, but in Lafayette, it's over $4

Whenever I go up to the country, I fill up in NJ. It is the cheapest around here.

I just paid $4.17.

I went to town this morning and it's at $3.95 here. So far it's not over $4. I heard on the news by some kind of professional that it could be up to $5 by July 1. That is way too much. It also showed on the news the truckers in Europe protesting also. They are paying over $8 and $9 dollars a gallon in some areas. I just couldn't believe it.

Here I remember riding my bike to the gas station around the corner when I was little to get gas in a one-gallon can (to mow the yard) and it was 25 cents. When it went to 26 cents, my dad through a fit...LOL. Oh if he could see it now.

Remember "cruising" through town on Fridaynight? Putting $2 in the car would last all night!

I swear I feel less traffic on the roads. I had a pre-op doctor visit this morning and actually set my cruise control for about 8 miles coming across on the Beltway at lunchtime, where it is always bumper-to-bumper with stop&go traffic. Some of it is that school's out, but I've never been able to run the cruise there before. It was pretty spooky.

You probably felt like you where alone in the world didn't you???....lol. That guy that was talking about the gas prices on the news said the only way to get the prices to drop would be for the usage to go down 25%. Right now we're only using 1-2% less.

Gas spiked another 5 cents per litre here on Monday (as I was in a city 2 hours away and needed to fill up to get home!) so now it's about $1.40/L all around the province. That equals about $5.30/gal. Just to travel to get to my 2 day course and back for work it cost me $90 in gas, and my car is really good on gas!

I need to post some pics of truck dealerships around here. Texans love their big trucks, or did. Dealers are declining to take the big SUV's in trade saying they will never be able to sell them. Truck dealerships have the big trucks out front with big plastic numbers down the side stating $12,000 off.

I talked with a customer today who has parked his big diesel truck and just bought a small fuel efficient Nissan. His car payment and gas bill combined will be less for the small car than his fuel bill alone for his paid for truck. So sad. He's keeping the truck to pull trailers when he needs to and will use the car for his daily driving.

Hubby drives a Lincoln Navigator, and his gas bill is over $600 per month. :eek: We're reviewing options.

It's really a hardship for people who have long commutes right now. I feel bad for them, and am relieved I'm not one of them. I'm also VERY glad Greg's a company driver rather than an owner operator so we don't have to pay for his diesel fuel. He drove 3400 miles last week, gets a bonus for getting over 7 miles per gallon... so at $4.24 per gallon he used $2,059.43 worth of fuel just last week at that 7mpg rate.

And people wonder why the price of everything in the stores is going up?

I'm already wondering what's going to happen next winter when we have to heat our homes! On the news tonight they said fuel oil in my area is $4.43 per gallon right now. Thank God natural gas is about half that... but it's still going to really hurt everyone.

Oh, my, I hadn't thought about heating oil. We use so little heat down here. Sure hope we don't have people dying because they couldn't afford the heat. More people may be moving south as a result.

Something's gotta change.

Until 'We the People" do something about it, it will not change. We all need to change our lifestyles a bit and if everyone would do it, we would probably see a difference. It's just that we have those that will say..."well, those 3 people over there are conserving, so I won't have to" and then they are the ones who complain.

I just wish we weren't as selfish a nation as we are. It's very disturbing.

Janet, I agree with all you've said. I just don't understand why it's going so high and I'm very worried about where it will go. My oldest daughter's not sure they can keep up with their house payment, car repairs, food for 6, gas prices, and electricity prices for much longer.

I don't understand why we can build refineries here. I just don't get it. Does anyone else know? There is no reason why we can not produce more of our own fuel. One guy on the news was saying something about certain areas having endangered species. We are going to have to face the facts that we can't save everything ....and ourselves too.