Are the gas prices ever going to go back to normal?

Question

I drive a Honda Civic and I pay anywhere from $35 to $40 to fill up my car. Ok ... I'm going to be brutally honest. To pay this much to fill up a Civic, a freakin Civic, is quite ridiculus. I'm not talking about an F350 pick up truck, a hummer, or an SUV ... I'm talking about a Civic. What in God's name is going on here? No one should have to pay this much to fill up a little 4 cylinder car. Are the gas prices ever going to go back to normal? I remember back in the 1990's as a teenager, driving around looking for a gas station with the lowest price to fill up my car, and I thought that $1.50 was really high then. But to pay $3.50 a gallion ... WTF!!! This is just really pissing me off!

Answer 1

Hey, Honda Civics gets good gas mileage so you're using your money and gas to your fullest potential. Gas is $3.65 for 87octane here, and I just shelled out about 55 dollars to fill my Camry. I wonder how much those morons cruising in their Hummers and Escalades are spending on gas per week.

Answer 2

You are not alone in how you feel about the current situation with regards to gas prices. I feel the same way. And if you have noticed this as well, the price of diesel has recently skyrocketed which will have the effect of increased prices of all things which are transported by the trucking industry. I saw the price of diesel fuel at my local gas station just a few days ago, and it was $4.27 a gallon! And not only that, the price of home heating oil has also been subject to recent increases. I last paid $3.59/gallon just a week ago to fill my oil tank.

Will the price ever return to normal? I think that is difficult to answer because how can we define what 'normal' fuel prices are considering all the increases in the recent years. I think the question to ask is this: Will the cost increases ever stop, or even taper off a bit? Right now, it doesn't look too good for the near future. I have a bad feeling that we have not seen the worst of it yet, and that this summer the price of crude oil will hit yet another all time high - if not much sooner. So, when will the prices become relatively stable once again? I personally believe that will not happen until the price of gas reaches at least $4.00 a gallon, or more. But thats just my opinion. Lets hope that I'm wrong! I can't afford to live like this, and I'm sure that millions of other Americans are in the same boat, or worse. I really don't understand how so many people can afford to drive vehicles like Hummers, big pick-up trucks with huge engines, and similar vehicles which guzzle gas. Maybe they are just wealthy? I really don't know how those people can afford to keep operating those vehicles anymore. But they do - somehow.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

The growing population around the world with the need to fuel cars, buses, trucks, planes, power stations, etc. contribute to the rising cost of gasoline.



Also, the iraq war also adds more to the consumption of oil through humvees, tanks, aircrafts, rockets, helicopters, carriers, etc. Thousands of gallons go to waste when many of these vehicles are blown up and conserving oil is at the bottom of priorities when you want to win a war.



The less oil supply for demand, the higher oil industries can justify their price tag at the gas pump. They've broken record profits for so many quarters. Reports say the high price of gas today is just the beginning.

Answer 5

It's the same in the UK. The price I pay now to fill the tank on my Volvo V70 station wagon comes to about the price I paid you my first car when I started driving.



Seriously.



We are paying just under £5.00 a gallon (probably about $11 or $12 dollars these days.) So to fill my tank it would cost about $140 - $150 dollars.



Seems like we are all getting screwed on an international scale.

Answer 6

The main reason for your gas prices is that the oil companies like it that way. In fact, they would like them as high as possible.



With increasing demand, especially from developing countries and production static the international price is not easily going to "get back to normal" - although it will drop in the northern summer as demand drops.



In the US, no new refining or storage capacity keeps the supply down so prices up even more.

Answer 7

No, it will never go back only going to get worse. In Amsterdam the money exchangers will no longer take the dollar as it is dropping so fast, they want Euros. People all over the world are loosing faith in the dollar, Bush has spent America into oblivion.

Answer 8

I dont think so. I planed to buy a toyota landcrusier this year, but now I change mind to VW tiguan.

Answer 9

"Normal Price" when dealing with a commodity - is an Oxymoron.

Answer 10

I don't know what normal is anymore!!!



The cost is eating me alive!!!

Answer 11

they will eventually. that is the reason we went to iraq in the first place. didnt we.

Answer 12

they are normal, better get used to that.