The price of gas (Pasadena, Deer Park: home, taxes, prices)

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

Has it gone up all over or is it a Texas thing?

[TexasHorseLady]

All over. We're actually cheaper than some places.

[oldtoiletsmkgdflrpots]

Why did it spike?

[eepstein]

Texas will always be cheaper than the rest of the country. When gas goes up, no state whines about it more than Texas. Them F-150's and Tahoes have big tanks and filling them up gets more and more costly!
But again, 3 dollars a gallon for gas is practically GIVING IT AWAY compared to the rest of the world.

Originally Posted by TexasHorseLady

All over. We're actually cheaper than some places.

[AmberAzeneth]

With as much gasoline that is refined and made in the Pasadena-Deer Park area you would think it should be even cheaper than it is here. Boy do I miss the days when gasoline was .99 cents or less a gallon. I am sorry that I startd to complain around Thanksgiving 1995 that gasoline hit $1.19 a gallon. It did eventually drop back down to a little below .99 cents but shot back up to never come down again. It is amazing how the big petroleum companies will use natural disasters(hurricanes) or wars(the first Persian Gulf War and now the present)or even high travel holidays(Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving) to justify their own agendas to raise the prices of fuel. There is no reason gasoline should cost more than .99 cents a gallon. With all of the refining technologies they use to produce gasoline it should be nearly $3 cheaper a gallon. The ever rising price of gas has become a joke!!

[jazznblues]

Texas doesn't have the cheapest gasoline prices in the US. It looks like Utah is cheaper, and Colorado is about the same. Other states with low gasoline taxes have prices close to Texas.

The "map" below is pretty cool - it shows gasoline prices by county.

USA National Gas Price Heat Map - GasBuddy.com

It is no surprise that California has some of the highest prices in the US. They tax gasoline at 65 cents per gallon - the highest in the US.

Fuel taxes in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[loves2read]

why did the price spike--because the Alaska pipeline had a shut down and eventhought that brings in very small % overall of oil used to make gasoline here in US anything is an excuse to raise prices--even when there is surplus in the tanks of big suppliers

[TexasHorseLady]

Hey, folks, I remember when I (and everyone else) was moaning because the price of gas jumped - from $.25/gallon to $.72/gallon. Somehow I suspected that it wouldn't ever get that low again, even when the "gas crisis" was over, because they'd found out that we would pay three times as much for gasoline and even if they didn't HAVE to charge that much, they would - and I was right.

[ogun]

yeah i remember the night i was shocked to pay over 80 cent a gallon. i came home and told the parents the world was probably gonna end soon!

[texan55]

peak oil? non-renewable resource? nahhh one day it'll be 50 cents a gallon again.