Shut Up About Gas Prices Already!

[EricKei]

Don't you know it's always the cashier/clerk's fault when prices go up?

But of course -- half of that money goes to the cashiers, cuz you guys are paid soooooooo well!

[blas]

When I worked at the gas station, it took everything I had to not start screaming and choking people when they'd throw money at me, accuse ME of "price gauging", accuse ME of raising gas prices, assume that I got some sort of profit from those huge prices, assume I was in charge of gas prices, etc etc etc.

[BamaBabe]

I've always wanted a transport device like the one in Star Trek.

Gas is $3.39/gal. here. It's gone up considerably within a two week period. I shudder to think what it will be by Memorial Day weekend.

[mikoyan29]

And it's probably the person driving the huge SUV that complains the loudest?

[Gaki]

"Maybe you shouldn't drive that F-150 then, huh?"

[Trixie]

I had a guy last night saying that he was going to get gas and come back for his prescription. He pushed his own buttons, he was going on about how it was $3.55 a gallon. I made some sympathetic clucking noises and moved on about my business. He was still ranting as he was walking out the door. There was nobody else around. He was probably coming back for some blood pressure pills.

[Teefies2]

I pass a C-store on my way to pick up my kids from school. This afternoon, it was $3.41/gallon on my way to the school. On the way back, less than an hour later, it was $3.56/gallon. Huh? a 15 cent hike in less than an hour???

[Amethyst Hunter]

And it's probably the person driving the huge SUV that complains the loudest?

Or the guys with the vehicular penile compensations (y'all know the kind: it's either a flashy sports car smaller than the box their Blackberries came in and gets like .02 mileage, or a GINORMOUS pickup truck whose side view mirrors are so large and stick out so much they closely resemble steer horns. Also with pathetic mileage).

Us grocery-grinders are hearing it too - food is related to gas (somebody's gotta transport all the nom's) and when fuel prices shoot up, food prices tend to as well.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

One of my co-workers on the apparel side has been driving her boyfriend's truck into work.

It's an old, diesel F-150, painted flat black, no pickup bed, and has straight pipes and an impressive array of lights.

Apparently her boyfriend has been taking her car so he can save on gas. The funny thing is, this means he's driving around in a car that has a decal reading "Cowboy butts drive me nuts" on the back window.

[Javarod]

$3.89 here.

Thank God I'm not a travelin' man.

Lucky you, i deliver magazines and drive an F150, care to guess what my gas bill looks like?

[Mikkel]

Gas is DKK 12 or a bit more per litre in Denmark. My calculations say DKK 12/litre is US$ 8.51/gallon ...
I don't think I have to say more .

[jajwhite]

WOW you get cheap gas.

In the UK it just went over £1.40 per LITRE. Higher in some places.

So that works out at about $9.54 a gallon here. You've got it all to come - only the rich will be able to drive soon ...

[blas]

Bear in mind that although it may seem like we Americans are getting a steal compared to you guys across the pond for gas, there is still a slight difference in currency and not only that, but also cost of living/minimum wage.

We haven't seen gas prices this high since spring 2008, so this is a big deal to us, and we're going to complain about it. Just the same as in 2005 during the Hurricane Katrina Gas Scare as I've always referred to it (every day that the storm got worse, gas went up, and up, and up) and gas flirted with $3 a gallon, that was the first time that we'd ever seen that. There was panic. There was hysteria.

As there was in 2008, and as now.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

I had a guy come into my sandwich shop yesterday grumbling about gas prices. His conclusion:

"It's all Obama's fault!"

[AccountingDrone]

Eh, that is why I drive a 41/43 mile per gallon diesel jetta instead of the 25/31 mpg gas jetta. [they claim it is 35/43, but I have never gotten below 41]