Posted By Teflon Jeff on 07/22/2008 11:35 AM
4.099 this morning.

On the plus side, all this highway driving is improving my gas milage.

Posted By Faragdar the Wise on 07/27/2008 9:23 AM
down to $3.60/gallon yesterday

I can't believe I thought that was a nice price

Where is Milton, Ontario?

Posted By Thenameless on 08/05/2008 12:32 AM
They had it won after the car was invented.

Posted By Username on 08/07/2008 3:26 PM
I wife filled up in Baytown, Tx for 3.43$. Not too shabby. Now it just needs to drop to 2.99$, then 2$!

Posted By zenthrus on 08/08/2008 5:09 PM


The funniest thing about the high price of gas is that rather than encourage mass transit options it's literally bankrupting them. Bus lines are shutting down service everywhere and light rail (esp. the local light rail) are literally falling apart because the cars are overloaded/overworked and the oh-so-intelligent transit planners underplanned commuting by roughly 20,000 people per day.

Posted By Thenameless on 08/09/2008 2:20 PM
That's an amazing little story.  You'd think they could just buy more train cars/engines with the increased profits.  Going out of business because of too many customers is something else.

Posted By Thenameless on 08/07/2008 8:18 PM


What the hell kinda Texas grammar is that?  Send me those Elf Spearguards already.

we're under 4 here, 3.99!

Posted By zenthrus on 08/10/2008 9:43 PM
Profits would imply that our local transit authority was competently run like a business. Instead, it's run like a government bureau. Huge overhead, incredibly poor planning, and extra-poor decision making. Also with fuel prices where they are mass transit faces the dual problem of high fuel cost (takes fuel to run buses/trains) and low sales tax revenues (Joe taxpayer can't afford to spend as much on consumables so the states are taking in less money to subsidize public transportation).

Instead of buying a fleet of new cars (~$12 million per car) they decided to cut costs by buying used cars (~$8 million per car). Half of those cars became useless within the first 6 months and the rest are questionable. So, instead of spending an extra ~$4 million per car to get new cars they're spending ~$16 million (half on the car, half on maintenance/repair) per car trying to keep the used piles of crap running. Currently they've got roughly 50% of the cars they purchased available for use (the rest are in various states of disrepair at the rail yard and aren't really getting fixed because the mechanics are needed to keep the on-line cars going).

The rail line was planned to support between 10000 and 20000 daily commuters. The university to which the rail line connects has roughly 50000 daily commuters, more than half of which ride the trains. That doesn't include the additional 50-100000 business commuters daily. The rail line was designed to run 2-4 car trains (expecting to primarily run 2 car trains except during peak hours (8am and 6pm). Since more than double the number of commuters use the rail line than they planned for they've put more than double the recommended miles on the train cars effectively ruining them by wearing them out twice as fast as they planned for.

It's a total joke.