Katrina brings more bad news for U.S. pump prices (Reuters)

August 29th, 2005 by tamarin2087 Leave a reply »

 Oh goody.  I drive a Saturn 4 banger and I am paying over $20 a tank.  Maybe its time to get that bike I’ve been eyeing.

Katrina brings more bad news for U.S. pump prices (Reuters) –

There is a new name for what ails U.S. drivers at the gasoline pump, and her name is Katrina. If things weren't bad enough last week with the average U.S. retail gasoline price hitting a record $2.61 a gallon, Hurricane Katrina struck at the heart of the U.S. oilpatch on Monday. Katrina's 135 mph (216 kph) winds walloped crude oil platforms and shut down about half the Gulf of Mexico's oil production. The storm also shuttered eight Gulf refineries that normally churn out about 1.8 million barrels of gasoline each day -- about 9 percent of daily U.S. needs. Hurricane evacuees line up at a gas station that has no fuel just off Interstate 10 south of Slidell, Louisiana, August 28, 2005. (Mark Wallheiser/Reuters)Reuters – There is a new name for what ails U.S. drivers at the gasoline pump, and her name is Katrina.

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  1. Anonymous says:
    August 29, 2005 at 7:45 pm

    Yeah, saw this coming, Yeah, saw this coming, so last night at around 10:30 we went out and filled both our cars while it was still only $2.50 a gallon.

    James only put in a quarter of a tank of gas in his GMC Sonoma 4 banger and it cost him 10 bucks…

    My 4 bangin’ Rav4′s tank was almost on “E”, so it cost us a little change over 26 bucks to fill up…which should last me a week…but it used to cost 26 bucks a month to drive that thing.

    …

    Remember when you could run down and put 5 bucks in the car and it would actually get you more than just home again?

    This is just Assinine.

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