How much did you pay for gasoline today in your State?????
476694
$2.98 per 9/10 gal. So Cal.
1052618
about $2,000 here in my state
634499
A gallon of gas in Brazil is about 4$.  It's Venezuela that's the cheap one because the government heavily subsizdizes gas there.  The price is a mere 15 cents or around there.
363434
Nationally, the average per gallon price for regular gasoline is $2.50.\n\nAre gasoline prices high? That's not the best way to ask that question. It's akin to asking, "Is Williams tall?" The average height of U.S. women is 5'4", and for men, it's 5'10". Being 6'4", I'd be tall relative to the general U.S. population. But put me on a basketball court, next to the average NBA basketball player, and I wouldn't be tall; I'd be short. So when we ask whether a price is high or low, we have to ask relative to what.\n\nIn 1950, a gallon of regular gasoline sold for about 30 cents; today, it's $2.50. Are today's gasoline prices high compared to 1950? Before answering that question, we have to take into account inflation that has occurred since 1950. Using my trusty inflation calculator (www.westegg.com/inflation), what cost 30 cents in 1950 costs $2.33 in 2005. \n\nIn real terms, that means gasoline prices today are only slightly higher, about 8 percent, than they were in 1950. Up until the recent spike, gasoline prices have been considerably lower than 1950 prices.\n\nSome Americans are demanding that the government do something about gasoline prices. Let's think back to 1979 when the government did do something. The Carter administration instituted price controls. What did we see? We saw long gasoline lines, and that's if the gas station hadn't run out of gas. It's estimated that Americans used about 150,000 barrels of oil per day idling their cars while waiting in line. In an effort to deal with long lines, the Carter administration introduced the harebrained scheme of odd and even days, whereby a motorist whose license tag started with an odd number could fill up on odd-numbered days, and those with an even number on even-numbered days.\n\nWith the recent spike in gas prices, the government has chosen not to pursue stupid policies of the past. As a result, we haven't seen shortages. We haven't seen long lines. We haven't seen gasoline station fights and riots. Why? Because price has been allowed to perform its valuable function -- that of equating demand with supply.\n\nOur true supply problem is of our own doing. Large quantities of oil lie below the 20 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). \n\nThe amount of land proposed for oil drilling is less than 2,000 acres, less than one-half of one percent of ANWR. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there are about 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil in ANWR. But environmentalists' hold on Congress has prevented us from drilling for it. \n\nThey've also had success in restricting drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off the shore of California. Another part of our energy problem has to do with refining capacity. Again, because of environmentalists' successful efforts, it's been 30 years since we've built a new oil refinery.\n\nFew people realize that the U.S. is also a major oil-producing country. After Saudi Arabia, producing 10.4 million barrels a day, then Russia with 9.4 million barrels, the U.S. with 8.7 million barrels a day is the third-largest producer of oil. But we could produce more. Why aren't we? \n\nProducers have a variety of techniques to win monopoly power and higher profits that come with that power. What's a way for OPEC to gain more power? \n\nI have a hypothesis, for which I have no evidence, but it ought to be tested. If I were an OPEC big cheese, I'd easily conclude that I could restrict output and charge higher oil prices if somehow U.S. oil drilling were restricted. I'd see U.S. environmental groups as allies, and I would make "charitable" contributions to assist their efforts to reduce U.S. output. Again, I have no evidence, but it's a hypothesis worth examination.
183877
What makes you so sure there is price gouging going on? You pay less for gas than almost every major industrialized nation in the world, but you complain about the price as you pump gas into your guzzling SUV. Sit back and realize how good you have it, because just about every European out there would love the opportunity to buy gas at 2.50 or even 3.00 a gallon ... they would consider it a bargin, not a price gouge.
140706
well, here in california gas prices are almost three dollars and from what i've heard, the farther east, the higher the gas price... so you do the predicting and calculations, sorry i wasn't much help. good luck finding out!
594660
Save them.  I have actually used about 200 to get a gallon of gas before.  Of course, that was ages ago : )
373951
http://www.energy.ca.gov/gasoline/statistics/gasoline_cpi_adjusted.html\n\nLove Mama Giggles
636188
how much ya paying $$$$
373324
i would love to drive to where you are and give you a present, but with gas at $4.00 a gal.,i think i just crashed the party! sorry
1182564
There's a lot of gas price information here:\n\nhttp://www.gas.save-a-ton.com\n\nGood luck. Save Save Save!
889761
When I started to drive in 1968, gas was a mere 29.9 cents per gallon (in N.J.) for regular gasoline.\n\nCigarettes were 35 cents a pack.\n\nMilk was about 40 cents a quart\n\nChicken was 29 cents a pound.\n\nBananas were 19 cents a pound.\n\nMinimum wage was $1.35/hr.
302247
$.12/gallon???  I can't believe it!  That's TWELVE CENTS/GALLON.  Ridiculous!!!
327476
12 cents... just guessing, ok? (googled it, and this is what i got : 1920- J.W. Putney sold his 242- acre farm near Becker for $110 an acre.\n\n1921- Early Storm in November drops about 8 inches of snow on Becker.\n\n1922- Early Potatoes sold for as low as $0.58 per hundred and as high as $0.70 per hundred.\n\nGas Prices Between $0.21 and $0.26 per gallon\n\nPound of Bulk Coffee sold for $0.30... ETC)\nAND IN An Article from September 6, 2003 -  If the price of gasoline relative to wages were comparable today to what they were in 1920, we would be paying almost $10 a gallon for gas. (See The State of Humanity, by Julian Simon, Blackwell Publishers, 1995, Chapter 28.)\nThe same is true, by the way for the cost of electricity and oil. Oil is slightly cheaper today adjusted for wage growth than it was 50 years ago and 5 times cheaper than 100 years ago. Electricity in to our homes is about one-half as expensive as 50 years ago, and despite the recent black outs, the service is more, not less reliable. ETC
402940
$2.79 here is Springfield, MO....It sucks...
171830
.445 per mile is the federal guideline.  It was increased in response to the increase in fuel prices.  You may want to try to collaborate with a local gas station and see if you can get gift cards for gas at a slightly lower rate.  For example, we work with Shell and they sell us a $15.00 card for $11.50 each.  When employees submit an expense report they are required to "bank" their milage in increments of $15.00 (15, 30, 45, etc.). It is not much of a savings, however it IS a savings:)
177599
I have a truck. SUV style and 2.50 is too much for it. 20 dollars will only put gas meter at a quarter of a tank with the way they are now.