it's $3.83-3.85 here...got gas yesterday for 3.78 a gallon because of a gas sale (put $40 in and it was almost full)

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Mary
mom to Jacob 6 yrs. old (first grader!!)
Nathan 5 yrs. old (registered for kindergarten!!)
wife to Matt for 7 yrs.

Wow, wait until you here what we are paying over here in the UK!
At the moment (according to my calculations) I pay the equivalent of $8.43 a gallon!

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Trying to save enough to fill up my account!

In Northern MS I saw it was 3.54 at Sam's. Elsewhere it is 3.60+. I am not planning on doing any driving except to get groceries once a week. I can't afford to waste any gas. I am going to cry if it gets over $4 a gallon here. My DD is supposed to be the flower girl in my DH cousin's wedding in July and they live in Oklahoma. We are planning on driving! Eek! It is 480 miles one way. I don't know what I am going to do.

it may be cheaper to fly (though i don't know, with prices going up everywhere, airline prices rise too..)

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Yeah but how much of that is taxes? Isn't the UK like one of the highest countries in fuel tax? like 70-80% of your total cost of fuel?

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it's $4.07 down the street for regular. I've put myself on a $30/week gas budget that I pay with cash from babysitting money, it helps me conserve to know I only have so much to use until Friday.
As for flying being cheaper, my inlaws live 420 miles away and with the three of us having to pay (now that ds is 2), it is still cheaper to drive. Sometimes the low cost airlines like Southwest have deals, but it is still cheaper to drive. The reality of the high prices for us is that we usually go for a visit at the beginning and end of summer, but we are only going once this year (plus christmas, presidents week, and spring break, of course)

I could be completely wrong...I'm so not an expert in this stuff...but I believe the taxes are a little over $4/gallon in the UK. That's what infuriates me so much about this, we pay around 50 cents/gallon for taxes here...the rest is the gas price. I just don't get how the price can go up 1-2 cents every day or so. I also don't understand why after all these years we're still depending on another country to supply a majority of our energy needs.

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Jenny, wife to Brad, mommy to two crazy little kids with one on the way!

We aren't using our own oil because congress keeps voting against it. There is over 250 years of our oil needs in our Rockies, Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska that the oil companies have been prevented from drilling.

Amen to that one! If you want to get mad at someone over gas prices, get mad at the environmental lobbyists! They are the ones keeping new refineries from being built and new sources of domestic oil from being explored!!

I was watching a news program at 3:00 this morning because I was up with ds and they said that in the next 2 years the price for a barrel of oil could go over $200.00 which would push the price to $7.00 a gallon The thought of that is really scary