Chicago gas price average is the highest in the nation (transfer, buyers)

[Craziaskowboi]

I just pumped gas for $3.649 per gallon yesterday.

[Vlajos]

Luckily we drive about 50 miles a week. I could care less what gas costs.

[aragx6]

I feel badly when I see people hurting over rising gas prices, but like vlajos it really doesn't affect us at all anymore. SO has the long commute between the two of us: 4 miles each way.

[prelude91]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Luckily we drive about 50 miles a week. I could care less what gas costs.

I understand what you are saying, but really, you could care less (assume you mean couldn't care less)? Food prices, Airline Prices, just about everything is effected by the rise in oil.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by prelude91

I understand what you are saying, but really, you could care less (assume you mean couldn't care less)? Food prices, Airline Prices, just about everything is effected by the rise in oil.

Thanks for catching my typo!

Still don't care about the cost of gas. More incentive to get alternative energy sources going.

[Jesse69]

I think the oil refineries near Chicago are fed by a pipeline. My brother once worked at the Citgo Oil Refinery in Lemont. So we're close to sources of oil.

I go down North Ave and fill gas in Melrose Park, so I save about 20 to 28 cents a gal avoiding city taxes. I also shop and eat at Culver's there after filling up.

[jimmythegreek]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

This is news?

It is news to many prospective transplants.

I thought I would point something out to them.

[bostonguy1960]

It's $3.83 regular (maybe lower) near/in Boston. But I just had to pay $3.99 in South Boston at Gulf.t Reports on local news this weekend had some locals paying well over $4.00?

[SJaye]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Thanks for catching my typo!

Still don't care about the cost of gas. More incentive to get alternative energy sources going.

But do you care about the cost of food?

Many foods, like oranges, are not grown here, and have to be shipped in from other regions of the country/world. Part of the cost of that item of food is the cost to transport it, which goes up when oil prices go up.

Sure, the city gas tax probably has little to no effect on the price of food, but the price of oil, which has gone up, and is the primary reason gas prices have gone up.

Some feel this temporary pain is worthwhile to prompt a change to a more stable system of energy and transportation in the future, others worry about the economic effects, but it seems to me that few people are completely unaffected by this.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by SJaye

But do you care about the cost of food?

Many foods, like oranges, are not grown here, and have to be shipped in from other regions of the country/world. Part of the cost of that item of food is the cost to transport it, which goes up when oil prices go up.

Sure, the city gas tax probably has little to no effect on the price of food, but the price of oil, which has gone up, and is the primary reason gas prices have gone up.

Some feel this temporary pain is worthwhile to prompt a change to a more stable system of energy and transportation in the future, others worry about the economic effects, but it seems to me that few people are completely unaffected by this.

I am unaffected by it.