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Old 09-11-2008, 08:33 PM
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Thumbs down F'ing-A gasoline is shooting up around here!!

Damn this hurricane season. Gas is shooting up here like crazy and is expectted to top near or over $5 by tomorrow here. This f'ing sucks! Expecially with the bike being down. If it stays up over this amount I told the wife I'm selling my Highlander SUV (which gets decent gas mileage for a SUV) and buying a second bike that gets excellent gas mileage. I will deal with the weather lol. Maybe a 400SM or something along those lines. I commute over 160 miles a day to work and back. Hopefuly it won;t last long and no oil rigs go missing like with Katrina. There are lines already at the pumps tonight and the stations are rationing gas.

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Old 09-12-2008, 01:15 PM
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As of last night gas was $3.58 here around my house. As of today it's $3.99-$4.29 on the rise and the gas stations look like parking lots. This is rediculous :/
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I bet shrimp prices are going to hell this weekend as well.....
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Old 09-12-2008, 03:06 PM
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State governor just declared a state of emergency. Gas stations have ran out of everythign but premium around here!!! Gas is now $4.79 due to premium. He says they are enforcing gas gouging laws as of now but I'll believe it when I see it. I rmemeber then president declaring the same thing and never once saw any gas station being held accountable. This is nuts here!
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Old 09-12-2008, 04:19 PM
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Arrgh, good luck out there.

Gas price is dropping here and I love it.

My bike is down too, until I fab up new pipes.

Stay safe!
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Gas is going through the roof here (NC) and in TN also... Over $5 in some places.. for regular..
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reported $6.20 around Asheboro, NC..
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Yep, the poor oil companies, who can blame them, scraping to survive....
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Good to know you can always count on fellow Americans to take care of one another during times of crisis.

Makes you almost consider living elsewhere in this world sometimes.
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My wife drove by a Sheetz gas station today and they had their gas listed for $9.99 a gallon! I don't suppose they ran out of gas

They say all the oil rigs are under attack by Ike, good thing Alaska isn't getting hit. Wait a minute... Do we even drill there yet?
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all the gas stations around my house ran out of gas. thankfully i got some before this happened.
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Here in Middle TN, most all of the stations are out or nearly out. If you can find gas itis right at $3.89.

The other stations are taking down their prices to indicate they are out of gas or putting a rediculas price like $6.00 to indicate they are out.

I guess the street bikes will be rolling next week after the storm rain passes
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you got it sweet we pay £1.24 a litre over here in uk
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I had to go to 8 different stations this AM before I could find any gas......
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