[ErnBatavia]

In our area of Kalifornia, we’re still hovering between $4.25 and $4.40....last week in Bullhead City, Arizona I paid $3.30.

[Biggirl]

WELCOME to summer!

[jiggyboy]

It’s easy for him to recommend just getting a hybrid or an electric car. For most of us who can barely manage to keep our ten-year-old sedan full of gas, that’s not an option.

[cuban leaf]

I have a Scion FRS that I use to commute 125 miles every day (round trip). My average mpg is 30.5. But I started hypermileaging a couple months ago. I now get between 36 and 38 mpg depending on the weather (wind and rain ding it).

I have a 13 gallon tank. This works out to an additional 72 miles per tank, using the 36 mpg number or 100 miles using the 38 mpg. Using the 30.5 number, that’s like getting either 2+ extra gallons or 3.35 extra gallons. At $3.70 per gallon that means between $7.50 and $11 per tank savings. That is huge.

And that doesn’t take into account that I don’t make as many trips to the gas station.

It’s how I do my part to not feed the oil companies any more than I have to.

[Eric Pode of Croydon]

When I find an electric car that can climb my 1/2 mile gravel driveway, with 6” of snow on the ground, I’ll start thinking about buying one.

[Fido969]

I’m sure the MSM will be all over this.

[factoryrat]

Get used to it, the days of cheap energy are over. A weak dollar, high cost of production, crushing regulation, political meddling, and vested interests in keeping prices up will all but guarantee high prices at the pump, and on the utility bill.

[I want the USA back]

Gas goes up every May and stays up for a few months, then gradually does down. Every year. Why is anyone surprised?

[Laurent.w]

How could gas prices go down when, outside the Middle East, drillings are more and more expensive.

In the West, the 3 last big reserves of cheap oil (Alaska, Mexico and North Sea) are now depleted.

Remaining oil reserves will be more and more expensive to tap.

According to the American Oil & Gas Reporter’s annual survey of U.S.-based independent oil and gas producers, "it is not until oil reaches $96 a barrel that a significant number of survey respondents would increase drilling, when 25.9% say they would do so. The percentage who would drill more wells jumps to 53.4 at $100 a barrel, climbs to 79.3 at $105 a barrel, and hits 89.7 at $110 a barrel."