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Current Events => Economics => Topic started by: thundley4 on February 11, 2011, 04:04:13 PM
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AP article. (http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133690837/gas-costs-rise-set-record-for-this-time-of-year?ft=1&f=1001)
Does anyone else think that we will see $5/gal by the end of the year if not by summer?
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AP article. (http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133690837/gas-costs-rise-set-record-for-this-time-of-year?ft=1&f=1001)
Does anyone else think that we will see $5/gal by the end of the year if not by summer?
I think it isn't out of the realm of possibility.
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I hope not.
Our regular gas is $3.19 a gallon and premium is $3.40/gallon.
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I hope not.
Our regular gas is $3.19 a gallon and premium is $3.40/gallon.
You are breaking my heart. Regular here is over $3.50/gallon. I don't even look at Premium.
I foresee $5.00/gallon by autumn.
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Filled up just a little while ago...$2.90 a gallon.
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You are breaking my heart. Regular here is over $3.50/gallon. I don't even look at Premium.
I foresee $5.00/gallon by autumn.
Ouch!!
I have to put premium in my car, so that's why I pay attention to it. Just put $50 in my car. That should last a couple of weeks.
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Good thing the Obozo put the moratorium on American oil drilling, huh?! What a douche.
It cost me roughly 45-50 bucks to fill up a half a tank. :o :o
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Good thing the Obozo put the moratorium on American oil drilling, huh?! What a douche.
It cost me roughly 45-50 bucks to fill up a half a tank. :o :o
How do you fill up a half of a tank?
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How do you fill up a half of a tank?
:-)
Fill it till it's full, not half full.
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Full wallet/empty tank...empty wallet/full tank...funny how that works.
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Full wallet/empty tank...empty wallet/full tank...funny how that works.
You said it Johnny. That's how I feel sometimes. :banghead:
Not complaining because if you want to play you have to pay.
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Same gas station, Monday, 2.93, Today, 3.39, for Unleaded. Dang.
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AP article. (http://www.npr.org/2011/02/11/133690837/gas-costs-rise-set-record-for-this-time-of-year?ft=1&f=1001)
Does anyone else think that we will see $5/gal by the end of the year if not by summer?
http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
$3.145 average in New Hampshire, $3.194 nationally today, according to AAA.
I'll make a call right now: $4.35 national average by Memorial Day weekend.
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$3.45/gallon for regular around here this morning.
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$3.07 for 100% gas/ 87 octane here.
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Filled up this morning for $2.98.......
doc
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I try not to look at gas stations as I drive by them these days. But I *THINK* our regular was $3.35 a gallon on Monday. So the gas for our gas guzzling V8's is probably $3.55.
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$3.09 to $3.19 here.
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If America would eliminate restrictions for gasoline extraction, refinement, and production, we could:
1. End the "energy crisis."
2. Force the Arab world to establish market economy practices.
3. Save trillions of dollars from going overseas, adding to the ability to invest in new technologies.
4. Render Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea obsolete from a bargaining standpoint.
5. Save billions in national defense costs.
It's really that simple. There is only one impediment.
The current Democratic Party.
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Filled up this morning for $2.98.......
doc
Wow. I want your gas prices Doc.
I went by the gas station where I usually fill up, (Hess) and it went up by 4 cents. 3.339 for the 89 grade. YIPPPEEEE!!!! :argh: :argh:
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Wow. I want your gas prices Doc.
I went by the gas station where I usually fill up, (Hess) and it went up by 4 cents. 3.339 for the 89 grade. YIPPPEEEE!!!! :argh: :argh:
I gave 3.23 for midgrade today. Since I get 29+mpg, on a 11ish gallon tank, that is filled weekly, I don't feel it as much as most. I remember after Katrina we hit over $4. It was noticed, but it didn't cripple me. However, there will be a lot of Duallies and SUV's around here hurting really soon if this keeps up.
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Gas is $2.99 9/10ths today in Texomaland. Went to Dallas and everywhere I looked gas was $3.10 9/10ths or more. I already had a full tank before I left for Dallas, but I'll go fill up tomorrow because I know it's only going to get MORE expensive. I wish I could afford something more economical, but I'm stuck with my truck. Besides, this one's paid for.
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I find it amusing people complain about anything less then 4 dollars a gallon. I haven't seen gas that cheap in years. This is the reason I won't own a large car/suv or even think about getting a truck. The record gas price here was 6.26 (1.65/L) if I remember right.
Regular here is 4.64 (1.23/L)
Premium is 4.91 (1.30/L)
And Diesel is 4.72 (1.25/L)
I'd love gas that cost under 4 dollars, consider yourselves lucky.
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5 bucks a gallon? Perhaps, but it sure looks like we are gonna get to at least 4 bucks a gallon within the next few weeks.
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I find it amusing people complain for anything less then 4 dollars a gallon. I haven't seen gas that cheap in years. This is the reason I won't own a large car/suv or even think about getting a truck. The record gas price here was 6.26 (1.65/L) if I remember right.
Regular here is 4.64 (1.23/L)
Premium is 4.91 (1.30/L)
And Diesel is 4.72 (1.25/L)
I'd live gas that cost under 4 dollars, consider yourselves lucky.
Part of my complaint is that the media was all over President Bush when prices went up. Now that ObeyWon is in office, not a word is heard. Or, if there is discussion about it, no blame is placed on ObeyWon.
$3.15 and 3.25 here today.
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I find it amusing people complain about anything less then 4 dollars a gallon. I haven't seen gas that cheap in years. This is the reason I won't own a large car/suv or even think about getting a truck. The record gas price here was 6.26 (1.65/L) if I remember right.
Regular here is 4.64 (1.23/L)
Premium is 4.91 (1.30/L)
And Diesel is 4.72 (1.25/L)
I'd love gas that cost under 4 dollars, consider yourselves lucky.
Yeah, but that's the imperial gallon isn't it?...larger than the US gallon.
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Yeah, but that's the imperial gallon isn't it?...larger than the US gallon.
Nope, I used the US gallon to convert that.
1 US gallon = 3.78 Liters is how I did it.
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Nope, I used the US gallon to convert that.
1 US gallon = 3.78 Liters is how I did it.
So, you're paying a $1.50 per gallon more for gas than I do....and Canada sells the U.S. 9 million barrels of oil per day at ...say $80 a barrel which would = $720,000,000.00 a day...quite a haul there. ...and you're riding around in a small car that you're more likely to get killed in....but you get free healthcare...don't sound very free to me or very good deal for your money.
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So, you're paying a $1.50 per gallon more for gas than I do....and Canada sells the U.S. 9 million barrels of oil per day at ...say $80 a barrel which would = $720,000,000.00 a day...quite a haul there. ...and you're riding around in a small car that you're more likely to get killed in....but you get free healthcare...don't sound very free to me or very good deal for your money.
+1.
TANSTAAFL.
Free never is.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4Tmi_fpUHs[/youtube]
0dumbo salivates with glee for the day Americans will have to pay 7 - $8/ gal for gas ... to be 'fair'.
Sen. 0dumbo admits no plan to reduce gas prices. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKzPMIu8zhk&feature=related)
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT8GG38MGCY&feature=related[/youtube]
Stinky Says NO Drilling In ANWR As It Could Be A Problem
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Went to work this morning...gas was 3.199 a gallon. Came home, it was 3.279 a gallon.
Oh, and heating oil (cash price) is now 3.429 a gallon.
Way to look out for us "little people", Odumbo.
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$3.50 for regular in Las Vegas on my side of town. Betting it will be $4/gallon (for regular) by March 18.
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$3.07 for 100% gas/ 87 octane here.
Good point, here we can't get 100% gas without a lot of shopping around. 10% Ethanol in most gas here now with the state allowing an increase to 15% soon but I don't know when that goes into effect.
They say 10% but a $5 test kit from an auto parts store will show the truth of it, up to 18%.
$3.51 for regular today in Western New York, usually 20 cents less on the Indian reservations here.
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I live by a gas station that is always one of the cheapest in the area. This past weekend, I believe regular was running about 3.00 even. Last night, it was 3.18. It claims it is 10% ethanol.
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Spiked up to 3.55/gallon here this morning.
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Went and filled up this morning and the price had jumped from $3.25 yesterday to $3.39 this morning.
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I try to fill up closer to home, $3.25 a gallon vs $3.35 near work, but then again Falmouth is full of rich people
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I try to fill up closer to home, $3.25 a gallon vs $3.35 near work, but then again Falmouth is full of rich people
You working in Falmouth now? Thought you were in Saco. Falmouth always has had wealth, old money.
They won't be the least concerned over this:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/564290/201102251830/Does-Obama-Want-8-Gasoline-.htm?
$8.00 per gallon. Jeeves, park the Rolls, were taking the Jag it gets better mileage. :rotf:
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You working in Falmouth now? Thought you were in Saco. Falmouth always has had wealth, old money.
They won't be the least concerned over this:
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/564290/201102251830/Does-Obama-Want-8-Gasoline-.htm?
$8.00 per gallon. Jeeves, park the Rolls, were taking the Jag it gets better mileage. :rotf:
yes, I live in Saco, but work at the Falmouth Walmart. we will be going to be expanding to a Super Walmart this summer. I am very excited for that.
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If America would eliminate restrictions for gasoline extraction, refinement, and production, we could:
1. End the "energy crisis."
2. Force the Arab world to establish market economy practices.
3. Save trillions of dollars from going overseas, adding to the ability to invest in new technologies.
4. Render Venezuela, Iran, and North Korea obsolete from a bargaining standpoint.
5. Save billions in national defense costs.
It's really that simple. There is only one impediment.
The current Democratic Party.
And the GOP from 2001 until 2007 when they held all 3 houses.
fixxed
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The blame falls squarely on Obama. One for the drilling ban in the GOM. They still aren't drilling even though the ban has been lifted because of the new requirements. Two for threatening to take away tax breaks for the oil companies because they make too much money. This is just a taste of what will happen if the later happens. Who will pay for the loss of 65 billion a year if it does? We will, and god forbid if the current turmoil in the mideast hits Saudi where 80% of our oil comes from.
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The blame falls squarely on Obama. One for the drilling ban in the GOM. They still aren't drilling even though the ban has been lifted because of the new requirements. Two for threatening to take away tax breaks for the oil companies because they make too much money. This is just a taste of what will happen if the later happens. Who will pay for the loss of 65 billion a year if it does? We will, and god forbid if the current turmoil in the mideast hits Saudi where 80% of our oil comes from.
Hate to tell ya, noob, but you need to get your facts straight.
Canada is 1st, followed by Mexico, THEN Saudi Arabia (at about 13 percent of our FOREIGN oil). We still produce about 40 percent of what we consume, so 13 percent of 60 percent is closer to about 8 percent of our total consumption.
LINK (http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html)
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Hate to tell ya, noob, but you need to get your facts straight.
Canada is 1st, followed by Mexico, THEN Saudi Arabia (at about 13 percent of our FOREIGN oil). We still produce about 40 percent of what we consume, so 13 percent of 60 percent is closer to about 8 percent of our total consumption.
LINK (http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html)
Looks like our neighbors are smarter than we are.
PS: Opps :thatsright:
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Left for work this morning with Cumberland Farms at 3.249 a gallon. Drove by same station on way home, 3.369 a gallon.
We are so very ****ed.
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Left for work this morning with Cumberland Farms at 3.249 a gallon. Drove by same station on way home, 3.369 a gallon.
We are so very ****ed.
I was going to post the very same thing.
So, left for work this morning, with Quik Trip @ 3.19. Drove by the same station on the way home, 3.29.
We are indeed, ****ed.
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If this keeps up, plan on $4 nationally by sometime in April. Current national average is $3.375, and ALL states are above $3/gallon retail (Montana is lowest at $3.065.) NH is at $3.305. While Hawaii is the most expensive, California is only 2 cents behind at $3.766/gallon.
(http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/images/NAT_grph.jpg)
Note the wholesale price and the jump in January, which didn't translate (at the time) to retail prices. Gasoline futures for April delivery are currently at $2.82 a gallon. A week ago it was $2.67. Home heating oil futures (wholesale) are at $2.95 a gallon. This translates to gas prices in the $3.75 range, MINIMUM, unless futures prices drop back to the $2.60-2.65 level.
We are so, so, SO screwed.
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What truly, truly amazes me is the level of apathy from your every-day joe. No one seems to even see this happening. And very few people have made the correlation between gas prices and the price of goods sold. :thatsright: Oh well, I suppose it is a great Darwin experiment. On an related/unrelated note: In November I was able to purchase a 5lb bag of sugar for .79, and a 5 lb bag of flour for .49 at my local Aldi. Last weekend they were 1.89 and 1.79, respectively.
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What truly, truly amazes me is the level of apathy from your every-day joe. No one seems to even see this happening. And very few people have made the correlation between gas prices and the price of goods sold. :thatsright: Oh well, I suppose it is a great Darwin experiment. On an related/unrelated note: In November I was able to purchase a 5lb bag of sugar for .79, and a 5 lb bag of flour for .49 at my local Aldi. Last weekend they were 1.89 and 1.79, respectively.
Your sugar & flour is still cheap compared to what I have seen. Name brand flour & sugar (for 5lb bag) are over $2. :( I just bought off brand to save a few pennies.
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Your sugar & flour is still cheap compared to what I have seen. Name brand flour & sugar (for 5lb bag) are over $2. :( I just bought off brand to save a few pennies.
Yeah, that is why I buy off brand.
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I'm still amazed at how little you all pay for things like gas, flour, milk, sugar, etc. If you want to know where you're headed take a shopping trip over the border sometime.
I know most don't care about us up north but this is quite interesting from my perspective...If you're goes up to 4$/g where does that leave us? Well over 5$/g
(http://66.70.86.64/ChartServer/ch.gaschart?Country=Canada&Crude=f&Period=1&Areas=Canada%20Average,USA%20Average,&Unit=US%20$/G)
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I'm still amazed at how little you all pay for things like gas, flour, milk, sugar, etc. If you want to know where you're headed take a shopping trip over the border sometime.
I know most don't care about us up north but this is quite interesting from my perspective...If you're goes up to 4$/g where does that leave us?
(http://66.70.86.64/ChartServer/ch.gaschart?Country=Canada&Crude=f&Period=1&Areas=Canada%20Average,USA%20Average,&Unit=US%20$/G)
Screwed & Canadian.
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Screwed & Canadian.
Redundancy?
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I'm still amazed at how little you all pay for things like gas, flour, milk, sugar, etc. If you want to know where you're headed take a shopping trip over the border sometime.
I know most don't care about us up north but this is quite interesting from my perspective...If you're goes up to 4$/g where does that leave us? Well over 5$/g
(http://66.70.86.64/ChartServer/ch.gaschart?Country=Canada&Crude=f&Period=1&Areas=Canada%20Average,USA%20Average,&Unit=US%20$/G)
I would suspect that a significant portion of the difference in pricing between Canada and the US on not only gasoline, but most other commodities as well, is the extra taxes (both direct and hidden) that the Canadian government levies to pay for their "free" healthcare system........
No such thing as a "free lunch".........
doc
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I would suspect that a significant portion of the difference in pricing between Canada and the US on not only gasoline, but most other commodities as well, is the extra taxes (both direct and hidden) that the Canadian government levies to pay for their "free" healthcare system........
No such thing as a "free lunch".........
doc
Gas taxes don't go to health care, Payroll and income taxes are the main source of money for health care. Gas tax goes to things like road construction and such.
Take a look at this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada#Comparison_to_other_countries
I don't care what is said about our system, I'm happy with it and have no problem paying into it. What I do have prblems with taxes being used for a glass domes and fake lakes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/02/19/parl-reno-palace.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/827453--g20-fake-lake-makes-its-debut
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Gas taxes don't go to health care, Payroll and income taxes are the main source of money for health care. Gas tax goes to things like road construction and such.
How many roads do y'all got???? I never saw any when I watched Ice Road Truckers....:whatever:
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Gas taxes don't go to health care, Payroll and income taxes are the main source of money for health care. Gas tax goes to things like road construction and such.
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All creative accounting........in fact your government requires "X" dollars to support your system, you can manipulate the sources of funding to accomplish that goal, but the bottom line is that the "total taxation" that you pay is what funds all the social services that you receive. You also have VAT (hidden) taxes on goods and services that go to your General Fund. Balance transfers are a simple budgetary gimmick that ALL governments use to cloud the manner in which money is spent.
Our gasoline taxes also supposedly go to road construction and maintenance, but if you look at the actual accounting, they all go into the "General Fund", that is raided for everything discretionary that government spends.
In the case of the US (before ObamaCare), as a free people, we were at liberty to "pay as you go" for health care........buy insurance or not, the responsibility is upon the citizen. In your case you are paying for health care everytime you earn or purchase anything, whether you need to use it or not.
Historically we as Americans have opted for personal responsibility.......we don't need the government dictating what services we are "entitled to", and taxing the hell out of us to pay for them for everyone, or how we live our lives in general.........it's a different mindset.
I fully realize that as a Canadian, it is hard for you to understand the "American mentality", when it comes to our attitude about government.........but it is what it is........
We WOULD, however, appreciate if your countrymen are so satisfied with your system, stay on your side of the border when you need urgent aggressive cancer treatment, transplant surgery, or any other form of cutting edge medical care. In summary, you chose your system.....live with it.........
My closest friend was Chief of Neurosurgery at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit for over a decade, handling the riskiest, most complex cases in brain surgery, and over 60% of his patients were Canadian subjects who simply could not receive the needed procedures under NHS. Although NHS might be fine for relatively healthy people, it is the advanced medicine where it falters.......your system is simply incapable of attracting the talent and the infrastructure required to do anything other than routine services with any competence, and to that you have to add the vast level of bureaucratic administrative costs that government management incurs, making it more costly still
We're off-topic though.......[/threadjack]
doc
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How much is gas in Oh Canada? Is it still priced per liter? Compaq??
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Gas today jumped 18 cents at the cheapest station to 3.39 a gallon. Needless to say I voiced my opinion by ripping out the lot. I normally don't lose my temper like that but gas has gone up for nothing. Our oil supply has YET to be affected by the situation in the middle east. The oil companies just wanted a excuse to raise prices. Guess they missed making record profits year after year. Funny thing is last time gas cost this much oil was almost $200 a barrel. See any funny about that.
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Gas taxes don't go to health care, Payroll and income taxes are the main source of money for health care. Gas tax goes to things like road construction and such.
Take a look at this...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada#Comparison_to_other_countries
I don't care what is said about our system, I'm happy with it and have no problem paying into it. What I do have prblems with taxes being used for a glass domes and fake lakes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2011/02/19/parl-reno-palace.html
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/torontog20summit/article/827453--g20-fake-lake-makes-its-debut
Don't let anyone fool you; taxes all go into the same pot and are just shifted around to make you think that they are designated for this or that program.
I am glad that you are happy with your system. However, you do have a problem with how we run our government. That tells me that your are a meddling fool or a liar or jealous.
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$3.54 (for regular) in Las Vegas at the Texaco.
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Hate to tell ya, noob, but you need to get your facts straight.
Canada is 1st, followed by Mexico, THEN Saudi Arabia (at about 13 percent of our FOREIGN oil). We still produce about 40 percent of what we consume, so 13 percent of 60 percent is closer to about 8 percent of our total consumption.
LINK (http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.html)
We only get around 15% from the M.E. Although we import most of our oil from Canada, liberal democrats want to ban oil from them that is derived from oil sands because of environmental concerns. No kidding. We have liberals in this country that are not worth the powder to blow their worthless ass up. One day the Canadians may tell us to stuff it and sell more of their oil to the Russians.
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The Tribune has an article this morning. Gas prices in Chicago have surpassed $4/gal at some stations. Still $3.55/gal around here.
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http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
Time to head back to this, people.
ETA: $48.50 to filll up my tank yesterday, and I still had 1/4 tank when I filled up.
A full tank (with the ethanol shit in it) gets me 3 1/2 days. If pure gas (as of April 1st) I'll get 4 to 4 1/2 days driving.
I'm already figuring $80-100/week for gas by Memorial Day.
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Monday to today, my gas station went up from 3.19 to 3.39. 20 cents in a few days.
Dang.
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$4 plus is getting more and more common around here for premium gas. Lowest grade was between $3.78 and $3.85 driving home last night. Shocking that with all that tax money California is still broke :whatever:
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Found this in my inbox this morning:
How Obama Is Making Gas Prices Higher
Yesterday, for the first time since September 2008, the price of a barrel of crude oil topped $100 on the New York Mercantile Exchange. But while the recent unrest in the Middle East has had some marginal effect on rising prices, the most significant factor has been increased oil demand worldwide. That is why, long before the recent protests even began, analysts were predicting $4 a gallon by this summer and $5 a gallon by 2012. Anyone could have predicted that the recovering world economy, coupled with the continued growth of India and China, was going to push oil prices higher. So if an Administration wanted to keep gas prices down, they could have mitigated increased oil demand by increasing domestic oil production. But that is not what the Obama Administration has done. Instead of increasing domestic oil supplies, the Obama Administration has cut them at every opportunity, and Americans are now suffering because of those choices.
Back in February, when the protests in Egypt were first unfolding, Energy Secretary Steven Chu was asked what the Administration could do to combat rising world oil prices. Chu responded: “The best way America can protect itself against these incidents is to decrease our dependency on foreign oil, in fact to diversify our supply.” It is now one month later and the Administration has not updated its talking points.
Heritage (http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/03/morning-bell-how-obama-is-making-gas-prices-higher/)
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Up a dime this morning.
Regular gasoline $3.54, 15% ethanolated gasoline $3.44.
<<uses only regular gasoline in vehicle.
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I have no idea where to buy non-ethanol gasoline in town. There may be one station out by the junkyard that sells it, but I don't see any in my neighborhood. The next closest place I know of is in Tullahoma or maybe Columbia. Neither of those counties do smog checks either.
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I have no idea where to buy non-ethanol gasoline in town. There may be one station out by the junkyard that sells it, but I don't see any in my neighborhood. The next closest place I know of is in Tullahoma or maybe Columbia.
All stations in Nebraska have to carry both kinds, regular and regular laced 15% with ethanol.
I'm not sure why this is.
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I have no idea where to buy non-ethanol gasoline in town. There may be one station out by the junkyard that sells it, but I don't see any in my neighborhood. The next closest place I know of is in Tullahoma or maybe Columbia. Neither of those counties do smog checks either.
None here. There is one place I heard of that is about 2 hours away, rumored to have it.
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None here. There is one place I heard of that is about 2 hours away, rumored to have it.
Are we walking the same thing, madam?
I'm referring to gasoline with a little bit of ethanol in it, not the mostly-ethanol fuel.
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Are we walking the same thing, madam?
I'm referring to gasoline with a little bit of ethanol in it, not the mostly-ethanol fuel.
I believe we are Frank. It is my understanding that in the DFW area you cannot get gasoline without the little bit of ethanol in it. We don't have any pure gas around here.
For those interested in finding real gas, here is a link. I can't vouch for it's accuracy though.
http://pure-gas.org/index.jsp
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Wow, are the lefties howling for Zer0's (non-existent) 'nads yet?
I seem to remember a time not so long ago when rising gas prices were all Bush's fault. :whatever:
I gassed up last week, midgrade fuel, at $3.61 a gallon. Guess we aren't as bad off in SE AZ as alot of youall are, judging from some of the posts here.
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Wow, are the lefties howling for Zer0's (non-existent) 'nads yet?
I seem to remember a time not so long ago when rising gas prices were all Bush's fault. :whatever:
I gassed up last week, midgrade fuel, at $3.61 a gallon. Guess we aren't as bad off in SE AZ as alot of youall are, judging from some of the posts here.
I just ordered a topoff of my oil tank. $3.599. Up 45 cents from my last fillup less than six weeks ago, and almost a dollar since my first fill in November.
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Filled up for $3.17 yesterday, but noticed that it jumped to $3.32 here overnight.
Gasoline without ethanol is widely available here......Casey's is usually where I get it, and it is rated at 87 octane.......gas with 10% ethanol is sold at the same price (at Casey's), but is rated slightly higher at 89 octane, and my vehicle (which has a "Flex Fuel" engine) gets slightly better mileage with the 10% mix.
Pure ethanol is also available around here (usually at QuickTrip or MFA stations), and generally sells for about thirty cents per gallon less than gasoline. I've used it a couple of times, and found that my gas mileage drops 40% on pure ethanol, therefore the cost savings simply don't come close to offsetting the reduction in mileage.
Strange as it may seem, there IS an engineering advantage to using a fuel with a small amount of ethanol. Basically, alcohol will absorb water, but pure gasoline won't. Therefore using a mix will ensure that moisture and condesation that forms in your fuel tank in winter, doesn't become a contaminant.......it is absorbed by the ethanol, and burned with the reat of the fuel, keeping the system dry.
doc
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Filled up for $3.17 yesterday, but noticed that it jumped to $3.32 here overnight.
Gasoline without ethanol is widely available here......Casey's is usually where I get it, and it is rated at 87 octane.......gas with 10% ethanol is sold at the same price (at Casey's), but is rated slightly higher at 89 octane, and my vehicle (which has a "Flex Fuel" engine) gets slightly better mileage with the 10% mix.
Pure ethanol is also available around here (usually at QuickTrip or MFA stations), and generally sells for about thirty cents per gallon less than gasoline. I've used it a couple of times, and found that my gas mileage drops 40% on pure ethanol, therefore the cost savings simply don't come close to offsetting the reduction in mileage.
Strange as it may seem, there IS an engineering advantage to using a fuel with a small amount of ethanol. Basically, alcohol will absorb water, but pure gasoline won't. Therefore using a mix will ensure that moisture and condesation that forms in your fuel tank in winter, doesn't become a contaminant.......it is absorbed by the ethanol, and burned with the reat of the fuel, keeping the system dry.
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I think (I could be wrong, and I am sure someone here will correct me.) that we are still set on our winter fuel blend, which is 15%. I know we have 15%, but I think it decreases to 10% in the summer.
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Gasoline WITHOUT ethanol is NEVER available here. :argh:
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Strange as it may seem, there IS an engineering advantage to using a fuel with a small amount of ethanol. Basically, alcohol will absorb water, but pure gasoline won't. Therefore using a mix will ensure that moisture and condesation that forms in your fuel tank in winter, doesn't become a contaminant.......it is absorbed by the ethanol, and burned with the reat of the fuel, keeping the system dry.
Right.
But my automotive mechanic, right here in one of the major ethanol-producing states, providing lots and lots of good well-paying jobs, some years ago told me not to use the 85-15% blend; to use only regular gasoline.
Something about "it depends upon the engine," and my engine apparently runs better on regular unblended.
I did notice when I was doing this, using blended gasoline during the winter (this was before he told me not to), the miles-per-gallon dropped, and not just a little bit. Like about 5-6 mpg.
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Right.
But my automotive mechanic, right here in one of the major ethanol-producing states, providing lots and lots of good well-paying jobs, some years ago told me not to use the 85-15% blend; to use only regular gasoline.
Something about "it depends upon the engine," and my engine apparently runs better on regular unblended.
I did notice when I was doing this, using blended gasoline during the winter (this was before he told me not to), the miles-per-gallon dropped, and not just a little bit. Like about 5-6 mpg.
Oh well hell Frank. 5-6 MPG? Man, I bet I could get up there if I had regular gasoline. I am obsessed with my MPG. Well, fixated is probably a closer definition.
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Right.
But my automotive mechanic, right here in one of the major ethanol-producing states, providing lots and lots of good well-paying jobs, some years ago told me not to use the 85-15% blend; to use only regular gasoline.
Something about "it depends upon the engine," and my engine apparently runs better on regular unblended.
I did notice when I was doing this, using blended gasoline during the winter (this was before he told me not to), the miles-per-gallon dropped, and not just a little bit. Like about 5-6 mpg.
Probably true......my engine is designed to run on "pure ethanol", albeit with a significant drop in efficiency. It seems to perform better on a 10% mix than pure gasoline however........dunno why, but it will deliver about 2 mpg more with the mix than on just gasoline. Since it is a relatively high compression ratio V8, I suspect that it has to do with the increase in octane, and the injector timing.
Engine designs have changed quite a bit in the last decade, so the older the vehicle, the less tolerant it will be of ethanol mixed fuels.
doc
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Gas goes up tonight, it'll be interesting to see how much it changes compared to the last set price.
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Oh well hell Frank. 5-6 MPG? Man, I bet I could get up there if I had regular gasoline. I am obsessed with my MPG. Well, fixated is probably a closer definition.
I used to track the MPG on my Mustang when I had it. It was a 97 GT which was supposed to get 17 city 20 highway, but I always put the good stuff in. With smart driving I got 20-23 MPG every where except downtown. I have turned the timing of red lights into an art I may have too stop at 8/10.
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I used to track the MPG on my Mustang when I had it. It was a 97 GT which was supposed to get 17 city 20 highway, but I always put the good stuff in. With smart driving I got 20-23 MPG every where except downtown. I have turned the timing of red lights into an art I may have too stop at 8/10.
I average 29.4 currently. I put mid-grade in the car, and drive roads that I can actually move on, instead of stop/starting. Dang car has an average consumption read-out, and an instant. I had to change from instant to average, because I was getting too much road rage when people's driving affected my speed, and my MPG.
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I'm averaging about 20, but my car doesn't have a working speedometer or first gear. :whistling:
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Filled up for $3.17 yesterday, but noticed that it jumped to $3.32 here overnight.
Gasoline without ethanol is widely available here......Casey's is usually where I get it, and it is rated at 87 octane.......gas with 10% ethanol is sold at the same price (at Casey's), but is rated slightly higher at 89 octane, and my vehicle (which has a "Flex Fuel" engine) gets slightly better mileage with the 10% mix.
Pure ethanol is also available around here (usually at QuickTrip or MFA stations), and generally sells for about thirty cents per gallon less than gasoline. I've used it a couple of times, and found that my gas mileage drops 40% on pure ethanol, therefore the cost savings simply don't come close to offsetting the reduction in mileage.
Strange as it may seem, there IS an engineering advantage to using a fuel with a small amount of ethanol. Basically, alcohol will absorb water, but pure gasoline won't. Therefore using a mix will ensure that moisture and condesation that forms in your fuel tank in winter, doesn't become a contaminant.......it is absorbed by the ethanol, and burned with the reat of the fuel, keeping the system dry.
doc
Which may be part of the reason that pure gasoline in winter is nigh on impossible to come by.
And for whatever reason, my gas mileage (same driving habits) is about 3-4 mpg LESS with the 10 percent ethanol blend than it is with the pure gas blend in the summer. I get 17-18 during winter, and as much as 22 mpg during summer.
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Which may be part of the reason that pure gasoline in winter is nigh on impossible to come by.
And for whatever reason, my gas mileage (same driving habits) is about 3-4 mpg LESS with the 10 percent ethanol blend than it is with the pure gas blend in the summer. I get 17-18 during winter, and as much as 22 mpg during summer.
I haven't used "dry gas" in the winter in ages. I will have to see if I still have a can in the shed.
I will have to go look right after I scrape ice off the front steps. :whistling:
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Which may be part of the reason that pure gasoline in winter is nigh on impossible to come by.
And for whatever reason, my gas mileage (same driving habits) is about 3-4 mpg LESS with the 10 percent ethanol blend than it is with the pure gas blend in the summer. I get 17-18 during winter, and as much as 22 mpg during summer.
Providing self-drying fuel is, perhaps, a small part of the decision mix.
However, there were a couple of "political" reasons for the 10 - 15% ethanol mixed fuels.
First is government subsidies for the use of ethanol which the Fed pays to the refiners to continue the practice, this is tied to the farm and environmental ethanol lobby. (DUmmies call this "corporate welfare".....even though it is THEIR advocacy groups that create this)
Second, mixing 10 to 20% ethanol with gasoline reduces NOX and CO2 emissions produced by a vehicle by a slight amount, and these regulations typically come from state environmental agencies. Unfortunately all of the various state (and even city) regulations result in twelve different "blends" of fuel (at last count) that refiners need to produce. This complicates logistics, and results in wide price and availability variations from state to state on fuel.
No government official would ever propose this, but simply having the Feds adopt the most stringent fuel mix/emissions standards for the entire country would reduce the price of gasoline by 20%.......overnight.......and eliminate "spot shortages", and the resultant price swings. This simple solution makes far too much sense, and it would have the further benefit of eliminating a plethora of state bureaucratic jobs.
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I haven't used "dry gas" in the winter in ages. I will have to see if I still have a can in the shed.
I will have to go look right after I scrape ice off the front steps. :whistling:
Yup, there is a can of Christy Dry Gas (methenol) from @ 1997.
ETA At least they are not putting MTBE in any more ( right??)
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Went by a station today, $3.49 for ethanol blend and $3.59 for the non-blended.
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I pay $5.20 per gal of diesel.
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Another day, another 14 cents. I wish I was kidding. Cumby's by the house was $3.369 this morning, $3.509 this afternoon.
FML.
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Gas went up anywhere between 5 and 10 cents tonight for the week. Our gas prices only change once a week, it was quite a rush at the gas station today.
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I average 29.4 currently. I put mid-grade in the car, and drive roads that I can actually move on, instead of stop/starting. Dang car has an average consumption read-out, and an instant. I had to change from instant to average, because I was getting too much road rage when people's driving affected my speed, and my MPG.
I would get road rage regardless. If I am not stuck behind someone or have someone riding my ass I am dodging wrecks almost everyday. I swear the drivers out here get dumber everyday.
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I average 27 mpg, driving mainly in stop and go traffic.
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Today's AAA average nationally for regular unleaded is $3.471, up from $3.427 yesterday (4.3 cents in a DAY, up 36.3 cents from last month.)
The one thing I really like about the AAA numbers is it gives an "equivalent" E85 price; meaning what price you're paying for the mileage or BTU's you'd normally get from a gallon of gas versus the cheaper E85 price, and it's quite revealing.
And it's official--California now has the highest average regular unleaded fuel price at $3.845/gal. Even more expensive than Hawaii and Alaska.
MT and WY are still cheapest at $3.141/$3.143, respectively, as if that's "cheap". NH today at $3.386, but good luck anywhere around here finding it that cheap. Most places have already jacked it up to the $3.50-3.55 range.
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3.39 here today. At the store I am monitoring that is.
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$3.37 here last night, but, I get discount coupons for the gas station owned by the supermarket I shop at. I paid only $2.87 per gal. instead.
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Today's AAA average nationally for regular unleaded is $3.471, up from $3.427 yesterday (4.3 cents in a DAY, up 36.3 cents from last month.)
The one thing I really like about the AAA numbers is it gives an "equivalent" E85 price; meaning what price you're paying for the mileage or BTU's you'd normally get from a gallon of gas versus the cheaper E85 price, and it's quite revealing.
And it's official--California now has the highest average regular unleaded fuel price at $3.845/gal. Even more expensive than Hawaii and Alaska.
MT and WY are still cheapest at $3.141/$3.143, respectively, as if that's "cheap". NH today at $3.386, but good luck anywhere around here finding it that cheap. Most places have already jacked it up to the $3.50-3.55 range.
Yes, and I need to fill up today :bawl:
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I topped off last night (less than 1/2 tank.) $32.00
Gotta run down to Boston and pick up a CC'er tonight.
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I was watching Fox News one morning, and they said for every cent that gas goes up $4 million dollars a day are taken from consumers pockets. So the 60 cent increase in recent weeks is costing the economy $240 million dollars a day.
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I just find it impressive that for the first time that I can remember, the gas on post is almost $.20 cheaper per gallon.
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Congrats, America--average price now at $3.509 a gallon. Crude at $106+ a barrel.
All over a country (Libya) that supplies 1/2 of 1 percent of our oil.
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$3.37 here last night, but, I get discount coupons for the gas station owned by the supermarket I shop at. I paid only $2.87 per gal. instead.
Same here. We shop at Smith's. Once you get 100 points, we get 15 cents off a gallon. I am two points away and need to fill up soon.
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Prices around here still fluctuate depending on which part of town you're in. I paid $3.50 :mad: for regular at the Shell in my neighborhood, but I drove in to work this morning and it's still $3.30~3.31 at the Speedway and BP across the street.
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Congrats, America--average price now at $3.509 a gallon. Crude at $106+ a barrel.
All over a country (Libya) that supplies 1/2 of 1 percent of our oil.
I think it is time to line up the oil companies CEOs, and speculators before congress to explain why in the hell prices are so high. Funniest thing is our oil supply has been left totally unaffected since all this mess started/
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I think it is time to line up the oil companies CEOs, and speculators before congress to explain why in the hell prices are so high. Funniest thing is our oil supply has been left totally unaffected since all this mess started/
FYI, OPEC sets the price of oil not the oil companies. You can beat up on the oil CEOs and speculators all you want but this country has had a f....up oil policy for the last 40 years. No new drilling in the Gulf of M., no drilling off our east and west coast, no drilling on land in the west, no drilling in Anwar, pissing billions away on green energy such as Ethanol. Natural gas could be used to fuel every 18 wheeler in the US. Our politicians are 100% responsible for the high cost. Jimmy Carter stated, we would not be dependent on foreign oil in 25 years. When the price dropped after the oil embargo, the politicians and the public forgot about new production. The oil companies want to drill but the morons in DC and the Env. wackos will not let them.
FYI, gasoline is about the same price as a gallon of milk or a gallon of orange juice. Why is that? Let's have an investigation why their prices are so high. Funniest thing is that people like you do know squat about the oil industry.
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5.08/G (1.34/L) this morning for diesel and 4.83G (1.28/L) for Regular gas.
But only if my math is right.
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5.08/G (1.34/L) this morning for diesel and 4.83G (1.28/L) for Regular gas.
But only if my math is right.
What part of that sparsely populated land mass to our north do you speak of? For example, what time zone are you in up there Compaq. I was planning a trip Down Maine and into the Provinces this sumer but at the current rate of fuel increases I'll be lucky if I can afford to turn the rig around in the back yard...
The tourist industry will take a pretty good hit if these prices hold. It's not just the big rigs that burn diesel to get from point A to B.
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5.08/G (1.34/L) this morning for diesel and 4.83G (1.28/L) for Regular gas.
But only if my math is right.
I use 3.8L to the US fluid gal - this is a close approximation not the exact figure.
Using this you are correct - assuming your per volume price is accurate.
There are several different accepted measures for a gallon depending on locality and if it's "dry" etc and so on - thus this is is yet another reason why I prefer the metric system.
Which is besides the point - What you're paying is STILL cheaper than what I pay.
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I use 3.8L to the US fluid gal - this is a close approximation not the exact figure.
Using this you are correct - assuming your per volume price is accurate.
There are several different accepted measures for a gallon depending on locality and if it's "dry" etc and so on - thus this is is yet another reason why I prefer the metric system.
Which is besides the point - What you're paying is STILL cheaper than what I pay.
Not only do we have to consider the conversion of weights and measures, I fear we also must know if this is expressed in Pounds, pence, and shillings. I mean what is Compaq's cost basis, is it Canadian or American money he quotes and what is the exchange factor if that is the case. When I did the calculations the other day I think I used 3.75l to the gallon (US liquid).
And what measure for the gallon? Is Oh, Canada are still partial to the Imperial gallon? No one said it would be easy. :rotf:
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/GasCan.jpg/200px-GasCan.jpg)
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Distances in Canada are in furlongs per fortnight.
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FYI, OPEC sets the price of oil not the oil companies. You can beat up on the oil CEOs and speculators all you want but this country has had a f....up oil policy for the last 40 years. No new drilling in the Gulf of M., no drilling off our east and west coast, no drilling on land in the west, no drilling in Anwar, pissing billions away on green energy such as Ethanol. Natural gas could be used to fuel every 18 wheeler in the US. Our politicians are 100% responsible for the high cost. Jimmy Carter stated, we would not be dependent on foreign oil in 25 years. When the price dropped after the oil embargo, the politicians and the public forgot about new production. The oil companies want to drill but the morons in DC and the Env. wackos will not let them.
FYI, gasoline is about the same price as a gallon of milk or a gallon of orange juice. Why is that? Let's have an investigation why their prices are so high. Funniest thing is that people like you do know squat about the oil industry.
Well last time gas prices were this high oil was $180 a barrel. Right now it is $104 per barrel. I have no problem with businesses making money out the ass, but when they take advantage of me because I have no other choice but to take it then I have a problem. With current oil prices gas should be the price we were paying in Nov.
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Well last time gas prices were this high oil was $180 a barrel. Right now it is $104 per barrel. I have no problem with businesses making money out the ass, but when they take advantage of me because I have no other choice but to take it then I have a problem. With current oil prices gas should be the price we were paying in Nov.
Actually, the peak oil price was $147/bbl.
Oil, like all other commodities, is just that--a COMMODITY, to be bought and sold. If less is available due to interruption or lack of supply, the price goes up.
If you want to blame someone, don't blame Exxon-Mobil, blame OPEC. Blame our current administration for not having done something about this months ago, or when they DID do something, they shut down drilling in the Gulf. Blame the administration for allowing the rigs to be leased out to other companies which means even if the moratorium was lifted there isn't any way to drill now. Blame Congress for not allowing the drilling to take place after Bush opened up permits offshore and elsewhere in 2008.
And no, if crude is $105 today, and was $76 in November, no, the price should NOT be the same.
But keep one thing in mind, boys and girls, when adjusted for inflation, we're about where we were in 1980. We're NEVER going to see oil under $40-50 a barrel. EVER.
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Actually, the peak oil price was $147/bbl.
Oil, like all other commodities, is just that--a COMMODITY, to be bought and sold. If less is available due to interruption or lack of supply, the price goes up.
If you want to blame someone, don't blame Exxon-Mobil, blame OPEC. Blame our current administration for not having done something about this months ago, or when they DID do something, they shut down drilling in the Gulf. Blame the administration for allowing the rigs to be leased out to other companies which means even if the moratorium was lifted there isn't any way to drill now. Blame Congress for not allowing the drilling to take place after Bush opened up permits offshore and elsewhere in 2008.
And no, if crude is $105 today, and was $76 in November, no, the price should NOT be the same.
But keep one thing in mind, boys and girls, when adjusted for inflation, we're about where we were in 1980. We're NEVER going to see oil under $40-50 a barrel. EVER.
I blame Obama,and friends just as much. I even blame the Republicans for not doing anything when they had the chance, well until it was too late. Even if drilling in the GOM went back to ull swing by DEC - June 2012 it won't be enough. The hype over the middle east seems to be having less of an effect, but I don't see prices going down even if it is just 10-15 cents.
One reason I am so pissed about this BS is in NOV. it only cost $113 to fill my tank. Now it would cost $142 or $29 more than just four months ago. It might not hamper me too much since my only bills are my truck payment and insurance, but it would cost me $180 a month just to go to work and back. At least the Mobile area is fairing better than most with most stations charging $3.39 per gallon.
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Actually, the peak oil price was $147/bbl.
Oil, like all other commodities, is just that--a COMMODITY, to be bought and sold. If less is available due to interruption or lack of supply, the price goes up.
If you want to blame someone, don't blame Exxon-Mobil, blame OPEC. Blame our current administration for not having done something about this months ago, or when they DID do something, they shut down drilling in the Gulf. Blame the administration for allowing the rigs to be leased out to other companies which means even if the moratorium was lifted there isn't any way to drill now. Blame Congress for not allowing the drilling to take place after Bush opened up permits offshore and elsewhere in 2008.
And no, if crude is $105 today, and was $76 in November, no, the price should NOT be the same.
But keep one thing in mind, boys and girls, when adjusted for inflation, we're about where we were in 1980. We're NEVER going to see oil under $40-50 a barrel. EVER.
OPEC sets the price. Oil companies that drill overseas do NOT profit from the higher prices because contracts with M.E. countries are based on each barell of oil that they remove from the ground. It makes no difference if the price is 50 bucks or 150 bucks, they get the same amount in most cases.
Valero is the largest refiner in the US. They pay market price refine it and sell it to wholesalers and on down the line with everyone taking a cut of the pie. Another point is that profit margin from the refiner to the gas station operator is very thin. Volume is where they make money. Plus, a station operator basis the amount he will charge not what he paid for his current stock but what he believes the next shipment will cost him and adds a few cents on to that per gallon.
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Get this!!! $51.00 to fill my tank!! $51.00..........UGGA!!!!!!!!!!!! :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :bawl: I almost starting hyperventillating at the gas pump!!! This is craziness!!!!!! :badmood: :badmood: :angryvillagers: :wtf3:
A pox on the gas/oil people!!
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Get this!!! $51.00 to fill my tank!! $51.00..........UGGA!!!!!!!!!!!! :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :bawl: I almost starting hyperventillating at the gas pump!!! This is craziness!!!!!! :badmood: :badmood: :angryvillagers: :wtf3:
A pox on the gas/oil people!!
If it's any consolation - to fill both tanks from bare empty on my pickup sets me back something like $250.
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I have been watching my same station all week. The price held from Friday. No increase. I have to get gas today. Danged if it didn't go up 11 cents over night. :thatsright:
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$3.90's for regular, and over $4 for the two higher grades out here now.
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$2.39 out here at the airport. Diesel is 40 cents more.
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$2.39 out here at the airport. Diesel is 40 cents more.
Was that a typo?
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$2.39 out here at the airport. Diesel is 40 cents more.
2.39?
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3.35 in Augusta. That's 83.42 per fill-up in the truck (348.6 miles) and 6.03 in the scooter (153 miles). :popcorn:
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3.35 in Augusta. That's 83.42 per fill-up in the truck (348.6 miles) and 6.03 in the scooter (153 miles). :popcorn:
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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I'll have to double-check. I forgot what it actually was. :thatsright:
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I'll have to double-check. I forgot what it actually was. :thatsright:
Naw, chris, you typed $2.30-something. You must've meant $3.30-something.
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I blame Obama,and friends just as much. I even blame the Republicans for not doing anything when they had the chance, well until it was too late. Even if drilling in the GOM went back to ull swing by DEC - June 2012 it won't be enough. The hype over the middle east seems to be having less of an effect, but I don't see prices going down even if it is just 10-15 cents.
One reason I am so pissed about this BS is in NOV. it only cost $113 to fill my tank. Now it would cost $142 or $29 more than just four months ago. It might not hamper me too much since my only bills are my truck payment and insurance, but it would cost me $180 a month just to go to work and back. At least the Mobile area is fairing better than most with most stations charging $3.39 per gallon.
If Obama stated that he was allowing permits to go forward in the GOM and they could start drilling now along with giving his blessing for drilling in Anwar, gas prices would plummet. Obama wants high gas prices. The higher the better so that the government can take over the industry. It's for our own good will be his lies, and then you will really see prices jump up. This public and media outcry of high prices is playing right into his hands. Obama and the Democrats are waiting for the right opportunity to pounce on the big, bad oil companies and come riding in on their white horses.
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If Obama stated that he was allowing permits to go forward in the GOM and they could start drilling now along with giving his blessing for drilling in Anwar, gas prices would plummet. Obama wants high gas prices. The higher the better so that the government can take over the industry. It's for our own good will be his lies, and then you will really see prices jump up. This public and media outcry of high prices is playing right into his hands. Obama and the Democrats are waiting for the right opportunity to pounce on the big, bad oil companies and come riding in on their white horses.
I think you have nailed it dead center, Lacarnut. This from The Weekly Standard via Drudge today-
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hope-and-change-gas-prices-have-gone-67-percent-obama-became-president_553930.html
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Is there any end in sight?
Will gasoline really hit $10 a gallon, as the Obama administration has predicted?
Please see graphic on the following web page.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hope-and-change-gas-prices-have-gone-67-percent-obama-became-president_553930.html
Ah, January of 2009. Hope was in the air, but more importantly, gas was under two dollars a gallon. Since then gas prices, have gone up 67 percent and it's an ominously upward trend. Interestingly enough, the Heritage Foundation also took a look at the first 26 months of Bush's presidency -- gas only rose 7 percent during that time frame.
Now obviously turmoil in the Middle East has something to do with our current astronomical gas prices, but keep in mind that by this point in the Bush presidency 9/11 had happened and we were on the verge of invading Iraq. So while the president can't be entirely responsible for global commodity prices, it's still worth asking what Obama's doing to make things worse.
After all, this is the President who told us "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.â€
This is the President that appointed a Secretary of the Interior that famously said he didn't mind if gas hit $10 a gallon.
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I'm going to merge this thread with the existing discussion on gas prices.
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Is there any end in sight?
Will gasoline really hit $10 a gallon, as the Obama administration has predicted?
Please see graphic on the following web page.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hope-and-change-gas-prices-have-gone-67-percent-obama-became-president_553930.html
Ah, January of 2009. Hope was in the air, but more importantly, gas was under two dollars a gallon. Since then gas prices, have gone up 67 percent and it's an ominously upward trend. Interestingly enough, the Heritage Foundation also took a look at the first 26 months of Bush's presidency -- gas only rose 7 percent during that time frame.
Now obviously turmoil in the Middle East has something to do with our current astronomical gas prices, but keep in mind that by this point in the Bush presidency 9/11 had happened and we were on the verge of invading Iraq. So while the president can't be entirely responsible for global commodity prices, it's still worth asking what Obama's doing to make things worse.
After all, this is the President who told us "We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times … and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK.â€
This is the President that appointed a Secretary of the Interior that famously said he didn't mind if gas hit $10 a gallon.
Hmmm... That looks a lot like the link I posted 2 1/2 hours before, eerie similarities.
Regular is $3.69/9 here in Western New York today.
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Ah, January of 2009. Hope was in the air, but more importantly, gas was under two dollars a gallon.
The last time we saw gas under 2 bucks a gallon was in 2004 not 2009.
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The last time we saw gas under 2 bucks a gallon was in 2004 not 2009.
Speak for yourself. I have a receipt from when I filled up the day Obama was inaugurated. $1.719 a gallon. And that was an increase from earlier in the month, when I saw as low as $1.499.
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Speak for yourself. I have a receipt from when I filled up the day Obama was inaugurated. $1.719 a gallon. And that was an increase from earlier in the month, when I saw as low as $1.499.
I stand corrected then. Oops
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Looks like the hype from the middle east is wearing off a bit. Prices here have stabilized and oil has drop $5 in two days. Hopefully oil continue falling like that on monday, and gas soon to follow.
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Still going up. 5 cents since last week. Better than the 12-15 cents a week, but fuel prices may have a bit before they're "caught up", and no signs of crude prices getting back to the $75/bbl range anytime soon.
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Still going up. 5 cents since last week. Better than the 12-15 cents a week, but fuel prices may have a bit before they're "caught up", and no signs of crude prices getting back to the $75/bbl range anytime soon.
Must be somewhere in the 3.40 range for regular huh?? I have found that Maine is always at least 10 cents higher than NH. We are looking at $3.53 at Cumby's
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Depends on the town. Most of the places around here are in the $3.49-3.52 range. BJ's in Portsmouth is $3.39 IIRC, close to the same price as the "cheap" areas like Exeter and Newmarket.
Anything close to the major roads (Rt. 101, Spaulding, I-95) that isn't a club store is going for $3.50/gal.
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Depends on the town. Most of the places around here are in the $3.49-3.52 range. BJ's in Portsmouth is $3.39 IIRC, close to the same price as the "cheap" areas like Exeter and Newmarket.
Anything close to the major roads (Rt. 101, Spaulding, I-95) that isn't a club store is going for $3.50/gal.
I try to fill up when in NH when I visit My mum(Gibbs on RT1,Portsmouth, Rye line)because it is cheaper. In the last few years Shaws Supermarkets has had an ongoing deal with Irving. As Shaws are so expensive to begin with, I don't see where the savings are, even with the Shaws card.
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Regular is 4.95/G (1.31/L)
Diesel is 5.14/G (1.36/L)
Quite a price hike when the prices changed the other night. I think I'm going to run the car on homemade biodiesel or whatever it is. Perhaps haul out my old LPG Renault 5.
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We are at $3.71....but for once it didn't go up overnite. Stayed the same. When it goes to $4, people around start getting mighty agitated. Food or fuel? Very few rich people around here.
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$3.55 here. It's been around $3.51-3.57 for at least a couple weeks. I suppose it will only go up again.
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3.37 here today. This station went up to 3.41 on Thursday, and then back down to 3.39 Friday through the weekend, and now down to 3.37. It's a pattern, it will go up again on Thursday, if it continues.
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3.37 here today. This station went up to 3.41 on Thursday, and then back down to 3.39 Friday through the weekend, and now down to 3.37. It's a pattern, it will go up again on Thursday, if it continues.
Just in time for the weekend.
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$3.79 today dammit!
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I filled up at a Wal-Mart station (I forget what those are called) for $3.27.9 on Sunday, but I saw gas for $3.25.9 at a station that was closed (it was late at night).
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Prices just went down today by 2 cents, so we are at 3.65 for the mid grade at Hess.
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It's all Bush's fault, dammit !!! :sarcasm:
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Goes down 2 cents, goes up 10. Same crap they did after Katrina.
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$3.55 and $3.65 here today.
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It's all Bush's fault, dammit !!!
Who else's fault could it be?
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Who else's fault could it be?
Are you trying to be retarded? Or does it come naturally?
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Are you trying to be retarded? Or does it come naturally?
I didn't expect it to be taken seriously. The fact you all still take me seriously amazes me.
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I didn't expect it to be taken seriously. The fact you all still take me seriously amazes me.
You'll have to excuse me, I've been reading the DUmp for the past decade. Nothing surprises me from your kind. Just Google Katrina+Bush.
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It has been flirting with $4.00 all week. Cheapest I have seen is $3.89, most $3.96 -99, with one at $4.04. This is in southern California.
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Who else's fault could it be?
I'll give you a hint.
He currently "occupies" the white mosque, has big ears and is a red diaper doper baby. :wink:
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Some stations are coming down just a bit, but not very fast. Saw "discount" gas as cheap as $3.39 this morning. Still $3.49 at Seabrook Sunoco though, and $3.50 in most places around my house.
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I think back a few years when things were good ...and I calculate...
9 engines running X 12 hour days X 70 gallons per hour consumption X at least 5 days a week X 4 weeks a month X $3.00 per gallon off road diesel fuel = right at $50,000.00 a month fuel bill...oh my....I'm glad I quit when I did...the next heart attack would have been a killer for sure.
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Prices have pretty much stabilized here. $3.31 lowest $3.54 highest. The highest price is off I-10 headed to MS. This is the highest split I have ever seen between high and low in Mobile county.Usually it isn't more the 15 cents. Pretty much what has happened is as the off brands go down the major brands go up, the two biggest asses being BP and Shell as usual.
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Same station monitored, it crept down to 3.32, today it is 3.39.
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$3.67 in obamaville.
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Filled up at BJ's yesterday for $3.399.
AAA has the price since last week dropping 1/2 cent per gallon. Still up 38 cents over a month ago.
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Filled up this morning for $3.29......it's been dropping here steadily for a week.
doc
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Filled up this morning for $3.29......it's been dropping here steadily for a week.
doc
I filled up for 5.15 yesterday.
Oh, wait, that was 5.15 total. :stirpot:
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...but the truck, which has a 24.9 gallon tank and gets 14 MPG is on E. ...and rain is in the forecast. :(
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...but the truck, which has a 24.9 gallon tank and gets 14 MPG is on E. ...and rain is in the forecast. :(
2 words: Rain poncho
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I filled up for 5.15 yesterday.
Oh, wait, that was 5.15 total. :stirpot:
I filled up for almost nothing today. Homemade biodiesel FTW.
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I filled up for almost nothing today. Homemade biodiesel FTW.
How do you handle the fuel taxes? What are they in Canada btw? Had to imagine the state will forgo their due for too long, what would happen to the roads and bridges?
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How do you handle the fuel taxes? What are they in Canada btw? Had to imagine the state will forgo their due for too long, what would happen to the roads and bridges?
Biodiesel in my province at least is exempt from fuel taxes.
Fuel tax for regular gas is 15.5¢/L (58.5¢/G) and regular diesel is 15.4¢/L. All provinces are different but thats what we pay here.
However fuel also has HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 15% (highest in Canada) added to the cost. But I don't have to pay that either since I'm not buying it from anyone.
During the summer months I don't buy fuel and with he cost of it spending time on the weekend to make it is time well spent.
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Biodiesel in my province at least is exempt from fuel taxes.
Fuel tax for regular gas is 15.5¢/L (58.5¢/G) and regular diesel is 15.4¢/L. All provinces are different but thats what we pay here.
However fuel also has HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 15% (highest in Canada) added to the cost. But I don't have to pay that either since I'm not buying it from anyone.
During the summer months I don't buy fuel and with he cost of it spending time on the weekend to make it is time well spent.
For now, maybe. Give it a year or two.
Hmmmm...time well spent? Let's see...I make $XX.XX per hour, times 1.5 for Saturday, carry the 1, carry the 1 again...
Nope. Better spent filling up. 8 hours making a tank of gas that smells like french fries, or making enough to fill my tank 10 times? Hmmmm...
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For now, maybe. Give it a year or two.
Hmmmm...time well spent? Let's see...I make $XX.XX per hour, times 1.5 for Saturday, carry the 1, carry the 1 again...
Nope. Better spent filling up. 8 hours making a tank of gas that smells like french fries, or making enough to fill my tank 10 times? Hmmmm...
Isn't true that the price heating oil goes down in the summer?? so many people I know are struggling, they put only 100 gallons at a whack in a 300 gallon tank, It seems like they run out of gas that much faster.Then they panic when they run out, especially on the weekends.(it cost more to deliver beyond office hours) though wood pellet stoves are quite popular as well. We sell the pellets at work for approx 5.20 a bag. I am not sure if these customers are using their pellet stoves as the primary heat, or supplemental however.
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Biodiesel in my province at least is exempt from fuel taxes.
Fuel tax for regular gas is 15.5¢/L (58.5¢/G) and regular diesel is 15.4¢/L. All provinces are different but thats what we pay here.
However fuel also has HST (Harmonized Sales Tax) of 15% (highest in Canada) added to the cost. But I don't have to pay that either since I'm not buying it from anyone.
During the summer months I don't buy fuel and with he cost of it spending time on the weekend to make it is time well spent.
Without going into great detail what does your process entail and what safety standards do you follow to ensure you are not a hazard to your neighbors and the environment in the process. What type of permitting is required.
Every time I read of someone whipping up a batch by hand I think of meth labs. Don't know why that is but I do, maybe it is the explosions that you see in the movies.
I would love to fill the MH with tax free fuel. Wouldn't it be lovely. :naughty: At eight miles to the gallon you know you have been somewhere when you stop to pump 100 gallons. And the petite pumps for diesel cars just makes it all the worse, a mistake I try to avoid whenever possible.
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Isn't true that the price heating oil goes down in the summer?? so many people I know are struggling, they put only 100 gallons at a whack in a 300 gallon tank, It seems like they run out of gas that much faster.Then they panic when they run out, especially on the weekends.(it cost more to deliver beyond office hours) though wood pellet stoves are quite popular as well. We sell the pellets at work for approx 5.20 a bag. I am not sure if these customers are using their pellet stoves as the primary heat, or supplemental however.
I use mine as supplemental, buy pellets by the ton deliverd in the summer. Using pellets can cause problems if you let the rest of the house cools down and heating pipes on the outside walls freeze. I have auto delivery for oil and budget for it as best one can. Lately it is more like playing the futures market. :argh:
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When I was heating with oil I had a 275 gallon tank. It could cost a bushel of cash to fill that puppy and blow the monthly budget. I was in that house for five years, the heating oil fired the furnace and the hot water tank. The first year (I moved in in Aug) I got lucky with the previous tennant leaving me an almost full tank and that lasted almost to Christmas, mostly using just the hot water heater and not so much the furnace until November. Then it got cold.
I had the tank refilled, with a little sticker shock and hoped it would be later than sooner before I had to have it filled again. Wrong. The house was built in 1836 and was about as well insulated as a picnic pavilion. No wonder the rent was low, $275/mo. The house was in very good shape for its age but the plaster and lath walls were hollow, the newer windows helped a bit. Electric was cheap, not a factor really at about $30/mo. so my rent and utilities were roughly $300/mo for half of the year. For the other half of the year that figure was triple, hence the low rent.
The price of heating oil in the winter months can make you wince, almost double what it is in summer so I wised up quick. After that first winter I went down to the heating oil company and had a chat with the nice lady there in the front office. She showed me the monthly price fluctuations over the past five years, always bottoming out in late July. I asked if I could buy ahead of time, "sure, no problem". Bingo. I sold some toys, a boat and a snowmobile to pony up some cash and went back when the price bottomed and pre paid $3000 when it was $2.15/gal and made myself budget for the next year so it wasn't so bad and I didn't have to sell things just to keep the heat on. Roughly the cost to rent the place averaged out to about $600/mo. That next march I had to buy more oil at almost $5/gal to get me through the rest of the winter. I gambled and got half a tank for just over $600. It got me through till the weather began to warm up but not quite really, April was still cold but not as brutal as Dec-Mar so I didn't have to worry about the pipes freezing and being single then I just put up with it. I bought my oil in advance each sumer for the next four years. After remarrying my wife & I got another 100+ year old New York farmhouse but this one has been heavily remodeled and upgraded and heats with natural gas :-). I'm thinking about adding a pellet stove to the kitchen.
I will never never heat with oil again.
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Crazy gas price spike. The cost of a gallon of regular here has held at $3.69/9 for about a month. Yesterday it was $4.12/9. Today it is back to $3.69/9 again. ???!!!!
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The Raceway across the street from work is down to $3.29 a gallon after being above $3.3X for a few weeks.
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Gas dropped .03 to $3.42 and $3.52 since yesterday.
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Looks like the price is pretty much rock steady around here for the time being, with no major swings more than a couple of pennies either way in about two weeks.
AAA says national average is up about 4 cents over the last week, and 25 cents since last month, but most of that increase took place in the first two weeks of this month. We should see what happens as Libya shakes out and refineries come out of spring outages and start summer runs, meaning higher gasoline inventories.
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$3.57 and $3.67 here.
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I paid $3.49 yesterday.
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I paid $3.49 yesterday.
I saw a sign for $2.99 today but then realized the station has been closed for months. I paid $3.439 at BJ's
Of course a buddy sent me an email saying Exxon was going to be running porn clips on the pump monitors so the customers could watch someone else getting screwed at the pump. :rimshot: Don't forget to tip the waitstaff folks.
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Regular went back up over the weekend, but I forgot what it went up to. I will check tomorrow. And while I am thinking about gas prices, I think Shell is pretty dang tricky with their pump placement. F'ers put the HIGH grade smack in the middle. I prefer to fill up with midgrade, but the last two times I was at the pump my car got a treat. My 10 cent a gallon discount didn't go too dang far.
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Regular went back up over the weekend, but I forgot what it went up to. I will check tomorrow. And while I am thinking about gas prices, I think Shell is pretty dang tricky with their pump placement. F'ers put the HIGH grade smack in the middle. I prefer to fill up with midgrade, but the last two times I was at the pump my car got a treat. My 10 cent a gallon discount didn't go too dang far.
$2.39 on post in Colorado yesterday.
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$2.39 on post in Colorado yesterday.
Pics or it didn't happen.
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Not only gas price cost of everything is going high, we are going down because of this living cost.... :banghead:
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5.02/G for regular (1.33/L)
5.21/G for diesel (1.38/L)
That's what the new prices are for this week.
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I looked. :o I really have to get my gas tank on a better schedule. This weekend it was 3.39 for regular, same place today was 3.59.
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I looked. :o I really have to get my gas tank on a better schedule. This weekend it was 3.39 for regular, same place today was 3.59.
My sad lament is this that the old car got better mileage but took hightest. ( 2mpg believe it or not for way more HP ) They are both six cylinders. One was German, one is American. Then too the Mercedes didn't have a remote starter. :thatsright:
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5.02/G for regular (1.33/L)
5.21/G for diesel (1.38/L)
That's what the new prices are for this week.
You gotta pay for that shitty Canadian medical insurance somehow.
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$4.05 is the cheapest I've seen around here for regular :censored: A few offer a 10 cent discount per Gallon if you pay with cash.
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You gotta pay for that shitty Canadian medical insurance somehow.
Not all of the gas tax is for health care, which is a part I don't mind paying on stuff. Most of the health care funding comes from income tax.
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Not all of the gas tax is for health care, which is a part I don't mind paying on stuff. Most of the health care funding comes from income tax.
What is the rest applied to snowballs? :yahoo:
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What is the rest applied to snowballs? :yahoo:
Canadians got snowballs? :rotf: Yeah I guess that would figure. I really do need to download Canadian Bacon, 'ey? The few, the proud, the Canucks, presiding over a vast empty.
After reading Compaq's last post I am guessing my trip to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton won't be happening. But I am thinking Maine may be worth about half a tank. Compaq, it has nothing to do with you guys health care I just don't want to spend that much money on fuel this summer.
I just picked the fuel oil delivery receipt off the door which shows this delivery at $3.09 for dyed number two heating oil (diesel by any other name I do believe) and at 165 gallons that would be about $510. So I can burn fuel oil going to Cape Breton and shiver next winter or I can burn fuel oil next winter and look at pictures of Cape Breton in a toasty warm living room.
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$3.09 for heating oil? No shit? WHERE?
It's starting to (slowly) come down but most places are still in the $3.50-3.60 range. I've used this site for comparison and it's pretty accurate:
http://www.newenglandoil.com/newhampshire/zone2.asp?x=0
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$3.09 for heating oil? No shit? WHERE?
It's starting to (slowly) come down but most places are still in the $3.50-3.60 range. I've used this site for comparison and it's pretty accurate:
http://www.newenglandoil.com/newhampshire/zone2.asp?x=0
I am on a pre-buy with the same people I have done business with for well over twenty years. We have established a pretty good working relationship.
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Help may be on the way in the next couple of years. Boone Pickens stated that Congress will pass a Natural Gas energy bill by July 4. It will be to convert diesel trucks to natural gas. However, I suspect it will also apply to natural gas distribution to homes. We are swimming in natural gas. The price is very low but has recently picked up. EXXON purchased XTO (a major natural gas corporation) for a reason. They see the handwriting on the wall. Natural gas can greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Bummer might have something right for a change.
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Help may be on the way in the next couple of years. Boone Pickens stated that Congress will pass a Natural Gas energy bill by July 4. It will be to convert diesel trucks to natural gas. However, I suspect it will also apply to natural gas distribution to homes. We are swimming in natural gas. The price is very low but has recently picked up. EXXON purchased XTO (a major natural gas corporation) for a reason. They see the handwriting on the wall. Natural gas can greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Bummer might have something right for a change.
Cars and trucks driving around with liquid gasoline is one thing, having them going around with pressurized natural gas is a whole other safety concern IMO.
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Cars and trucks driving around with liquid gasoline is one thing, having them going around with pressurized natural gas is a whole other safety concern IMO.
Natural gas will be our best chance to wean ourselves of foreign oil. Greenie energy will not do it
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Natural gas will be our best chance to wean ourselves of foreign oil. Greenie energy will not do it
Coal, natural gas and nuke for electricity, and our own oil for transportation uses would get us a long way there though.
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Electricity production is the largest consumer of oil in the US. Roughly 38% of the oil used domestically goes to electricity production (27% goes to transportation -- that's a whole lot of batteries). Cut that and you've cut out a whole lot of money going to OPEC.
http://www.eia.gov/emeu/aer/pecss_diagram.html
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Help may be on the way in the next couple of years. Boone Pickens stated that Congress will pass a Natural Gas energy bill by July 4. It will be to convert diesel trucks to natural gas. However, I suspect it will also apply to natural gas distribution to homes. We are swimming in natural gas. The price is very low but has recently picked up. EXXON purchased XTO (a major natural gas corporation) for a reason. They see the handwriting on the wall. Natural gas can greatly reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Bummer might have something right for a change.
If I remember correctly gas does not give as much 'bang' for the buck.
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We could easily increase natural gas production by 50% in the next few years. We have pipeline running thru many states so infrastructure would not be as costly as this greenie crap. Natural gas is pumped back into the ground from wells in AK. What a waste. Just goes to show you how many morons we have had in DC for the last 50 years. I don't know what stage the natural gas pipeline from AK to the US is in but it should provide a great deal of supply.
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We could easily increase natural gas production by 50% in the next few years. We have pipeline running thru many states so infrastructure would not be as costly as this greenie crap. Natural gas is pumped back into the ground from wells in AK. What a waste. Just goes to show you how many morons we have had in DC for the last 50 years. I don't know what stage the natural gas pipeline from AK to the US is in but it should provide a great deal of supply.
In south central Illinois you could see the oil well pumps in the fields at night. They were burning the gas off and had huge flames on them.
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If I remember correctly gas does not give as much 'bang' for the buck.
Then there is this, which is why, IIRC, the very Green P_town North went out of the CNG busses and back to diesel.
http://bicycleuniverse.info/cars/buses-naturalgas.html
It is being used to generate electricity here. Haven't heard any bumb rap on that.
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In south central Illinois you could see the oil well pumps in the fields at night. They were burning the gas off and had huge flames on them.
It is callled waste gas cause it is not feasible to use or transport. The waste gas is burned off to release pressure on the equipment as a safety precaution. These flare offs are done at refineries, chemical plants, gas plants, etc.
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Gas prices went up 4 cents today at Hess, where I fuel up.
Hey Obozo. What are you doing to help out America and the American people with rising food/gas prices, you imposter?
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Gas prices went up 4 cents today at Hess, where I fuel up.
Hey Obozo. What are you doing to help out America and the American people with rising food/gas prices, you imposter?
Up $0.18 since this morning. Now at $3.90.
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It went up ten cents today, for regular gasoline, to $3.74.
The 10-15% ethanol mix is $3.64.
More than two times higher it was the last hour George Bush was in office, a little over two years ago.
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6-8 cents since yesterday, depending on where you go.
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$3.45 a gallon here in north-central Missouri.
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6-8 cents since yesterday, depending on where you go.
That seems to be the "normal" increase now. Not pennies at a time. It's much worse than that. :banghead:
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We are 20 cents higher than a week and a half ago. $3.59 for regular.
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Gas went up 1 cent, Diesel went down 3.
Heating oil is 3.89/G (1.03/L). My tank holds 1000 liters and I have to fill it because I ran out. If I fill it I'll end up paying 1030+$ s I'd rather just fill it to have.
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Last Wednesday, gas dropped a penny to $3.56 and $3.66. Today , it is $3.67 and $3.77.
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Gas went up 1 cent, Diesel went down 3.
Heating oil is 3.89/G (1.03/L). My tank holds 1000 liters and I have to fill it because I ran out. If I fill it I'll end up paying 1030+$ s I'd rather just fill it to have.
Is heating oil more or less Diesel+Colour? I was told that the other day, the guy said it would run in my car.
God help you if you get caught and your tank gets sampled. At least here it's a fine in the neighborhood of several thousand bucks.
BTW--current regular unleaded price now $3.645/gal nationally. Just over 45 cents/gal away from all-time high.
$3.544 average in NH, (I just filled up for $3.569.) Up 17 cents over the last month, 83 cents over the last year.
It might not be $4.35/gal nationally by Memorial Day as I earlier predicted, but $4 is a virtual certainty.
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God help you if you get caught and your tank gets sampled. At least here it's a fine in the neighborhood of several thousand bucks.
I don't plan on it, I was just wondering. They don't test for that sort of thing around here but I still don't plan on doing it.
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I don't plan on it, I was just wondering. They don't test for that sort of thing around here but I still don't plan on doing it.
Down here they sure as hell do. Random stops, particularly of the truckers at the weigh stations.
You'll see that rule bent a lot in areas that have a lot of farms. If you've got a truck you use exclusively on the farm, etc., it's fine, but as soon as you hit a public highway there better not be any off-road diesel in the tank.
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God help you if you get caught and your tank gets sampled. At least here it's a fine in the neighborhood of several thousand bucks.
BTW--current regular unleaded price now $3.645/gal nationally. Just over 45 cents/gal away from all-time high.
$3.544 average in NH, (I just filled up for $3.569.) Up 17 cents over the last month, 83 cents over the last year.
It might not be $4.35/gal nationally by Memorial Day as I earlier predicted, but $4 is a virtual certainty.
That is gonna definitely suck!!!!!! I was tyhinking of asking my manager if i can work 4 ten hour days and see what he says......
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That is gonna definitely suck!!!!!! I was tyhinking of asking my manager if i can work 4 ten hour days and see what he says......
That was a big meme in the MSM a few years back, the first time we had $4/gal gas. Then again, we also had Frau Pelosi and the rest of the 'Rat bastards clamoring for investigations.
Now? Not so much. Which means the MSM is NOT going to print the stories like they did in 2008 about the poor commuters, or people working 4-10's, etc., or towns who do the same to save on fuel.
And FWIW, I don't have that luxury right now. 6 days a week. One tank lasts 4 days, meaning 1 1/2 tanks a week. 7 tanks a month. $65 each fillup. Plus tolls. Yeah, I'm looking at $500/month just in gas/tolls right now.
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That is gonna definitely suck!!!!!! I was tyhinking of asking my manager if i can work 4 ten hour days and see what he says......
Tania, have you looked around for places up that way? Four tens is a great way to save gas.
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That was a big meme in the MSM a few years back, the first time we had $4/gal gas. Then again, we also had Frau Pelosi and the rest of the 'Rat bastards clamoring for investigations.
Now? Not so much. Which means the MSM is NOT going to print the stories like they did in 2008 about the poor commuters, or people working 4-10's, etc., or towns who do the same to save on fuel.
And FWIW, I don't have that luxury right now. 6 days a week. One tank lasts 4 days, meaning 1 1/2 tanks a week. 7 tanks a month. $65 each fillup. Plus tolls. Yeah, I'm looking at $500/month just in gas/tolls right now.
You don't have EZPass??? Man that is rough. You could take rt 1 from Portmouth or rt 108 thru Dover/stratham,and then picking up 101, but that is very slowgoing and a headache.
I remember msm taking about 4 day schoolweek. But people started pissing and moaning, longer schooldays or extending the school year. and the extra day of kids being by themselves.
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That was a big meme in the MSM a few years back, the first time we had $4/gal gas. Then again, we also had Frau Pelosi and the rest of the 'Rat bastards clamoring for investigations.
Now? Not so much. Which means the MSM is NOT going to print the stories like they did in 2008 about the poor commuters, or people working 4-10's, etc., or towns who do the same to save on fuel.
And FWIW, I don't have that luxury right now. 6 days a week. One tank lasts 4 days, meaning 1 1/2 tanks a week. 7 tanks a month. $65 each fillup. Plus tolls. Yeah, I'm looking at $500/month just in gas/tolls right now.
Can you deduct tolls on your Income Tax?
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Can you deduct tolls on your Income Tax?
I don't think so. I go thru 2 myself, I have Ezpass. I am sure there are loopholes. For ex: If that was the only route he had. But it would be all stop and go on the roads I mentioned.
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That is gonna definitely suck!!!!!! I was tyhinking of asking my manager if i can work 4 ten hour days and see what he says......
I work three twelves, I'm not going to do two 18 hour days to save gas. Oh wait a minute, I walk to work. :-)
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Can you deduct tolls on your Income Tax?
I do have EZ-Pass, and I'm still spending $20-plus per week with the 30 percent discount.
And no, you can't deduct it unless it's tolls and mileage to someplace OTHER than your primary work location.
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I do have EZ-Pass, and I'm still spending $20-plus per week with the 30 percent discount.
And no, you can't deduct it unless it's tolls and mileage to someplace OTHER than your primary work location.
Total suck. Costs me $32 to fill up my tank, 40 ish miles round trip daily, I fill up once a week. I'll shut up now.
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Gas prices went up today AGAIN!! 3.87 for the mid grade, which the truck requires. Almost at 4 dollars. :argh: :argh:
How does the American economy survive this?!
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Gas prices went up today AGAIN!! 3.87 for the mid grade, which the truck requires. Almost at 4 dollars. :argh: :argh:
How does the American economy survive this?!
i dunno, but Sparky was right on the money about $4.00 being here before Memorial Day
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Gas prices held at $3.69/9 here for a month. For the past week they have been at $3.77/9 for regular.
Diesel is $4.19/9.
I feel bad for everyone in this but especially for the independent owner/operator truckers. Those guys are particularly screwed.
Like Sparky pointed out, the traditional Memorial Day spike isn't even here yet. Going to be lots of "staycations" this year. What really pisses me off is a government agency (EPA) holding so much sway over something that is so vital to this nation. IMHO constantly rising oil prices are a clear and present danger, call it what it is- an enemy.
It's time we killed that sucka, DRILL DRILL DRILL, RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW!
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i dunno, but Sparky was right on the money about $4.00 being here before Memorial Day
$3.92 here right now.
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Up again today.
$3.79/9
Diesel still at $4.19/9
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Up to $3.97 since this morning.
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$3.92 here right now.
$3.609 this morning.
$3.707/gal national regular unleaded average ($3.509/gal month ago.) $3.544/gal average in NH.
Filled up yesterday. $67.00, which will last for 4 days, give or take. 5 fill ups in the next 3 weeks, so we're looking at $350 to get me to the end of the month. Plus tolls.
**** Obama. And where are the Dems calling for investigations NOW?
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i dunno, but Sparky was right on the money about $4.00 being here before Memorial Day
Yes, he was, unfortunately.
Looks like we'll exceed 4 bucks during the summer if this bullshit keeps up. Who's running this great Country anyway? Oh yeah,.....a communist communist organizer.
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I filled up this morning, and regular was at $4.12 :bawl:
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$3.49 at the Raceway @ work. It's gotten to the point where that is the only place I buy gas.
This is obviously George Bush's fault. Somehow.
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$3.669 at the Cumberland Farms by the house. Up 6 cents since Tuesday.
Oh, and I figured this would be best served here. Get ready to buy a new monitor after you punch the one on which you read the link:
CLICK AT YOUR OWN RISK (http://www.heraldnews.com/news/x675823241/Obama-Expect-little-short-term-relief-on-gas-prices)
Let them drive hybrids! Couple that with "Obesity Queen" Me-Shell and her meme of, "Let them eat rice cake!" and the left called Bush arrogant?
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Bump.
$3.83/9 regular
$4.23/9 diesel
:bs:
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I filled up this morning, and regular was at $4.12 :bawl:
That bad on the coast? Here in Florida it's like $3.59. Thought it was bad here!
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$3.87 and $3.97 here today.
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$4.05 in some stations hereabouts.
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My local is 3.65. I saw 3.75 on the highway.
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Whew!!! I was beginning to get worried.
Rest assured.
We are in good hands and surely Presidential weight will Trump that big bad nasty legacy of G.W.'s rabbid oil debaucherey of the past. Soon it will be over.
Here we have a Man Of The People and he will surely swoop in and set things right.
It may even get so good as to see us return to the gas prices of the Carter era. (rainbows & skittles, people. Harp music. Fluffy white clouds parting as sunbeams reign down and even old Buicks plump out their dents and sloff off their rust and shine anew just like in the movie "Christine" with the '58 Chrysler) What is everybody so worried about? These are the Good Old Days!!!
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/04/06/obama_i_remember_what_it_was_like_to_pump_gas.html
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Diesel is $1.55 per liter right now.
Can't afford to :fuelfire: so I'll have to :stirpot: instead.
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$3.48:9 here yesterday. Cost me $73 to fill up...most I've ever put in this truck.
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$3.84 regular gasoline, $3.74 15% ethanol blend, in northern Nebraska.
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National average at exactly $3.75/gal for regular unleaded today.
At the current monthly rate of increase, it'll be setting the new record by Memorial Day. The old record price, in case anyone was wondering, was $4.114/gal set on 7/17/2008.
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Well, I guess our hwy locations are now average. Typically we are always below. Bummer dude.
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$3.47. It's gone down a few pennies this week.
I'm beginning to wonder if I should start claiming mileage as an expense at work since I have to work out of two different buildings. 15-mile round trip, but it adds up over a busy week.
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And once again it went up for the week by a few cents.
Regular is 5.21/G or 1.379/L
Premium is 5.38/G or 1.425/L
And Diesel is more or less the same at 5.09/G or 134.8/L
I see Premium going above 6$ at some point this summer.
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I would have paid $4.11 a gallon today, but had a .10 cent off discount with my Smith's card. So $4.01 a gallon. I could only afford to put in $20 for now, that didn't get me even half a tank.
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And once again it went up for the week by a few cents.
Regular is 5.21/G or 1.379/L
Premium is 5.38/G or 1.425/L
And Diesel is more or less the same at 5.09/G or 134.8/L
I see Premium going above 6$ at some point this summer.
Sorry your government is ****ing you in the ass. Diesel here is $3.75.
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Sorry your government is ****ing you in the ass. Diesel here is $3.75.
But they get free health care. ::)
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I remember visiting England in the 80's... it was the last time I got to go. Dad pulled up to the filling station without looking and tells the guy "Fill 'er up!" Petrol was about 85 pence/litre. With the contemporary exchange rate, that was about $4/gallon and that was 20+ years ago.
Other than that, I remember my sister puking in Uncle Don's car and some cousins showing me porno mags and not much else. Oh, and Hyde Park in London.
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But they get free health care. ::)
I explained this already, health care is funded by income tax. Fuel tax is used for a whole variety of other things.
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Up again.
$3.89/9 regular.
$4.29/9 diesel.
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I explained this already, health care is funded by income tax. Fuel tax is used for a whole variety of other things.
I was not talking about your fuel tax vs income tax. Chris said, "your government is screwing you" or something to that effect. So I was basically telling Chris that it was okay, because you guys get free health care.
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$4.10 at some stations this morning.
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$3.54 - $3.89 regular
$3.85 - $4.02 diesel
It all depends on where you go to fill up. North Louisiana area.
The only thing that saves us is my husband can use his work vehicle when he wants. He does not have a limit on gas.
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Just paid 4.09. Lowest I have seen today 4.03, most at 4.11 to 4.19. So Cal area.
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$3.689/gal at Cumby's by the house. $3.749 at the Sunoco in Seabrook.
National average of $3.77/gal this morning.
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$3.689/gal at Cumby's by the house. $3.749 at the Sunoco in Seabrook.
National average of $3.77/gal this morning.
Odd. I thought Seabrook was always a lot cheaper than inland.
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Odd. I thought Seabrook was always a lot cheaper than inland.
I think they're going through more volume and therefore they're going up faster than out of the way places.
Then again, it wouldn't surprise me at all to drive home tonight and see gas at $3.80.
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Regular gas was $3.87 when I filled up on Saturday, but I had to get premium. That was $4.11, but I had my 10 cent per gallon discount, so $4.01. I thought Las Vegas would have seen $4 for regular by now.
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$3.79 regular here in Denton on my way home from dinner today.
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3.79 at my local store this morning. Yesterday it was 3.63. Wow.
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The station that has been at $3.49 for weeks jumped up to $3.65 last night. Ouch.
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$3.98 for ethanol blend, $4.08 for the regular.
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$3.98 for ethanol blend, $4.08 for the regular.
I have to ask even though I've looked this up, because I've gotten various answers. What is this "ethanol blend" stuff? I have yet to hear anything good about it.
We don't have it in Nova Scotia so I'm just wondering if it makes ad difference in how a car runs and such.
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I have to ask even though I've looked this up, because I've gotten various answers. What is this "ethanol blend" stuff? I have yet to hear anything good about it.
We don't have it in Nova Scotia so I'm just wondering if it makes ad difference in how a car runs and such.
In Nebraska, "ethanol blend" can be 85-90% regular gasoline, 10-15% ethanol.
According to my own mechanic it does make a difference, mileage per gallon being lower the older the motor vehicle is.
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What the hell's happened with car mileages? We had a 1987 Toyota Camry that got 34 MPG around town and up to 46 MPG on the highway. We once went from Chicago to Buffalo, NY, without having to stop for gas. And I could actually work on that car - not everything, but today I can't do ANYTHING to a car.
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What the hell's happened with car mileages? We had a 1987 Toyota Camry that got 34 MPG around town and up to 46 MPG on the highway. We once went from Chicago to Buffalo, NY, without having to stop for gas. And I could actually work on that car - not everything, but today I can't do ANYTHING to a car.
Now we charge to take the lead out and put ethanol in. GO FIGURE.
I still want to hear more about the environmental controls Compaq uses in his bio-diesel operation.
I keep hearing about all the synthetic diesel made from waste grease. What I really want to hear about is the ability to make it from pig $hit and turkey entrails. It can be done so I am told.
Corn ethanol is just another form of farm subsidy to keep em on the democrat reservation. Again, I credit FDR with creation of that mentality. Between unions and farmers his legacy is still being felt today.
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Now we charge to take the lead out and put ethanol in. GO FIGURE.
Corn ethanol is just another form of farm subsidy to keep em on the democrat reservation. Again, I credit FDR with creation of that mentality. Between unions and farmers his legacy is still being felt today.
There are actually TWO problems with your broad-brush statement above.......
1. There are damn few farmers here in Missouri, or in Kansas, or Nebraska for that matter that are on the "Democrat reservation"........the vast majority of them (here it's around 70%) vote reliably Republican. I would be reluctant to lump farmers in with the unions.........
2. Government subsidies are NOT given to farmers for growing corn for ethanol. The subsidies for ethanol are given to the manufacturers that produce the stuff from agricultural products, in a hapless attempt to make it competitive with gasoline (which it's not). Has ethanol use increased the prices that the farmer receives for his corn crop?.....hell yes, and that is all he is really interested in. The only Federal subsidy given to GRAIN farmers is for not growing anything (what used to be called the "soil bank"). The amount paid for this program is so paltry that the only land that ends up there is usually that which is unsuitable for production.
There are small grants, and low interest loans available to grain farmers for terracing, and similiar land improvements for erosion control, as well as conservation projects like "wetlands" for wildlife preservation. These are no substitute for producing fields and free market prices.
On our farm (totalling about 880 acres) we have 30 acres that we place in the "soil bank" because it lies in the flood plain of a nearby creek, and anything planted there frequently is lost in the spring. How much is our "subsidy" for that 30 acres? Last year we received a bit over $1500........which is about what we'd receive at current prices from one acre of productive land planted in corn.
There ARE subsidies for organic farming, and other such liberal hippy crap, but generally farmers are only interested in maximizing their yield, and therefore their income, they are the penultimate capitalists.
Dairy farming, and some types of meat production are subsidized to an extent.
doc
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$3.808/gal national average.
But it's interesting to note that while crude has stayed (mostly) flat except for the last week, the wholesale and retail prices continue to climb.
Any particular reason? Spring refinery outages, perhaps?
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$3.808/gal national average.
But it's interesting to note that while crude has stayed (mostly) flat except for the last week, the wholesale and retail prices continue to climb.
Any particular reason? Spring refinery outages, perhaps?
Seasonal blend changeover?
ETA: Those evil rethuglican oil companies are doing it to make Obama look bad. /DU mode
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Seasonal blend changeover?
ETA: Those evil rethuglican oil companies are doing it to make Obama look bad. /DU mode
Which requires outages, thus reducing inventories further still. Right now the eastern refineries are shifting towards summer production (more gas, less diesel/heating oil).
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There are actually TWO problems with your broad-brush statement above.......
1. There are damn few farmers here in Missouri, or in Kansas, or Nebraska for that matter that are on the "Democrat reservation"........the vast majority of them (here it's around 70%) vote reliably Republican. I would be reluctant to lump farmers in with the unions.........
2. Government subsidies are NOT given to farmers for growing corn for ethanol. The subsidies for ethanol are given to the manufacturers that produce the stuff from agricultural products, in a hapless attempt to make it competitive with gasoline (which it's not). Has ethanol use increased the prices that the farmer receives for his corn crop?.....hell yes, and that is all he is really interested in. The only Federal subsidy given to GRAIN farmers is for not growing anything (what used to be called the "soil bank"). The amount paid for this program is so paltry that the only land that ends up there is usually that which is unsuitable for production.
There are small grants, and low interest loans available to grain farmers for terracing, and similiar land improvements for erosion control, as well as conservation projects like "wetlands" for wildlife preservation. These are no substitute for producing fields and free market prices.
On our farm (totalling about 880 acres) we have 30 acres that we place in the "soil bank" because it lies in the flood plain of a nearby creek, and anything planted there frequently is lost in the spring. How much is our "subsidy" for that 30 acres? Last year we received a bit over $1500........which is about what we'd receive at current prices from one acre of productive land planted in corn.
There ARE subsidies for organic farming, and other such liberal hippy crap, but generally farmers are only interested in maximizing their yield, and therefore their income, they are the penultimate capitalists.
Dairy farming, and some types of meat production are subsidized to an extent.
doc
If I get time later I will start a topic in either politics or general discussion and drop a link to address this further rather than reply on this thread.
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If I get time later I will start a topic in either politics or general discussion and drop a link to address this further rather than reply on this thread.
I made a new thread The Legacy of FDR here :
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,57928.0.html
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National Average: $3.833/gal
NH Average: $3.745/gal
Just topped off at Sunoco. $3.859/gal. 16 gallons, $62.00.
Making my final call right now. New record national average by Memorial Day weekend (over $4.114/gal nationally.)
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$4.16 around here now.
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$4.16 around here now.
OUCH!~
I filled up 2 days ago for $3.699 ($55) and then saw two more stations at $3.649. :banghead:
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3.84 up from 3.79 last week.
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I just filled up on high test for 5.82. :popcorn:
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I just filled up on high test for 5.82. :popcorn:
Jeezus, what're you doin'? Buyin' avgas at 110 octane?
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Jeezus, what're you doin'? Buyin' avgas at 110 octane?
I believe that was the total of his fillup, not per gallon price. For his eco-vehicle. :-)
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I believe that was the total of his fillup, not per gallon price. For his eco-vehicle. :-)
It costs more than that to fill up a lawn mower.
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I believe that was the total of his fillup, not per gallon price. For his eco-vehicle. :-)
:rotf: pwned again!
:-)
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It costs more than that to fill up a lawn mower.
He didn't say it was a completely empty tank. :-)
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:rotf: pwned again!
:-)
Laugh all you want. I filled up for $5.82. :tongue:
....but I had to drive to post to get my CAC card renewed after lunch and took the empty truck. Bought 4 gallons for 15 bucks. That ought to get me back home. :bawl:
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He didn't say it was a completely empty tank. :-)
It was sucking fumes.
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It was sucking fumes.
How come you drove your truck?
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How come you drove your truck?
A bunch of 20 year olds in high-powered cars. Soldiers like to speed up to 75-85 miles per hour on Jimmy Dyess Parkway that leads into Gate 1.
My scooter only does about 62. I can't die on a scooter. Riding one is bad enough. I don't want to imagine the obituary.
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A bunch of 20 year olds in high-powered cars. Soldiers like to speed up to 75-85 miles per hour on Jimmy Dyess Parkway that leads into Gate 1.
My scooter only does about 62. I can't die on a scooter. Riding one is bad enough. I don't want to imagine the obituary.
I can totally understand that. Good call, and worth the extra cash.
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Filled up this morning for $3.80, oh, excuuuuuse me, $3.7999. Like THAT fools anyone.
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I'm waiting for tomorrow morning until I fill up again. The Raceway is @ $3.64.
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Laugh all you want. I filled up for $5.82. :tongue:
....but I had to drive to post to get my CAC card renewed after lunch and took the empty truck. Bought 4 gallons for 15 bucks. That ought to get me back home. :bawl:
I was laughing at myself, Reb. I got suckered into thinking you paid $5-something per gallon. :lmao:
The scooter thing is a great way to go, if you can stay away from the crazy cagers. Mrs. E keeps on badgering me for a Vespa. The way she drives, she'd be smeared on the concrete within minutes. No friggin' way.
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I've come to the conclusion that I like 2 wheels and may be in the market for a Harley pretty soon.
This is me:
(http://photos.ecarlist.com/g4/y3/1u/bZ/s2/iC/hj/Uz/dF/i5/bQ_640.jpg)
...but there's no way in hell I could pull this off:
(http://ryangerald.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/1958-harley-davidson-fl.jpg)
Maybe I should try this out first to get used to'em:
(http://www.blogcdn.com/www.bloggingstocks.com/media/2007/03/harley3.jpg)
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$3.75 in Plano last night. $30 got me a little more than half a tank.
Once I get a job, I'm going to be in the market for a motorcycle as well. Personally, I'm looking for a Triumph Sprint ST, preferably 2002-2006.
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I'd like to have a motorcycle but I'm not sure the state will let me. If I ever have to take another eye test, I'm screwed. I knew I should have reinstated my motorcycle license when I moved back here in 2001. :(
I could start working on an electric car. The greenie weenies at work would probably give me my own parking spot for it. :rofl:
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Here in MA, the mid grade is at 4.05. I filled up on Sunday for 55 bucks, with a half full tank. :argh: :argh:
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My husband took this picture at a truck stop in Primm, NV. Ouch.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/versawife/gaspricesapr19.jpg)
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Primm looks a lot better in that picture than it does in Fallout: New Vegas... :-)
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My husband took this picture at a truck stop in Primm, NV. Ouch.
Someone actually ADMITS to stopping in Primm?
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Someone actually ADMITS to stopping in Primm?
He was route testing for his company. They give him a bunch of locations to drive to to ensure the GPS isn't giving dumb ass directions.
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Gas has dropped to $3.85/$3.95 here.
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Gas has dropped to $3.85/$3.95 here.
Filled up at $3.59 this afternoon.......
doc
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Less than half a tank yesterday. $33.80.
I go through a tank every 4 days.
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Filled up my car for $40. A tank of gas lasts me about a week.
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Filled up my car for $40. A tank of gas lasts me about a week.
Working 6 days a week means my gas/tolls bill each week runs about $120-125.
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Filled my tank with mid-grade yesterday for $36. I had a 10 cent off voucher to use.
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I filled my car for 75$. It was almost fully empty.
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In the People's Republik Of New York, Western New York, the future fifty first state-
Regular $3.97/9
Diesel $4.29/9
Twenty cents cheaper on the Indian reservations, Marlboro $44/carton
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And from Nova Scotia today I once again have the prices at my local Irving.
Regular $1.38/L ($5.21/G)
Premium $1.45/L ($5.48/G)
Diesel $1.36/L ($5.14/G)
I used a bunch of coupons filling the car today and got Diesel for 1.20/l or 4.53/G! I got the car to almost empty and used 4 or 5 gas coupons I've been saving.
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Cumby's by the house now at $3.869/gal. $4 by end of the month?
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Cumby's by the house now at $3.869/gal. $4 by end of the month?
(Wanna meet at the Cumby's parking lot when you get off work? :wink: )
You know I couldn't resist... :lmao:
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(Wanna meet at the Cumby's parking lot when you get off work? :wink: )
You know I couldn't resist... :lmao:
Don't you have to go pick up the truck????
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLS_HARAYZQ[/youtube]
ETA: Don't ask, people. Private joke.
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In the People's Republik Of New York, Western New York, the future fifty first state-
Regular $3.97/9
Diesel $4.29/9
Twenty cents cheaper on the Indian reservations, Marlboro $44/carton
When we visit my wife's brother south of Buffalo, we always gas up on the Seneca Indian reservation, where it's $0.15 - $0.20 cheaper. An added benefit is we're not giving our money to the crooks in NYS government.
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When we visit my wife's brother south of Buffalo, we always gas up on the Seneca Indian reservation, where it's $0.15 - $0.20 cheaper. An added benefit is we're not giving our money to the crooks in NYS government.
I will be interested to see how much my 2 oil royalty checks will go up for the month of Feb. :-)
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I'm seriously giving some thought to yanking the engine out of my BMW and converting it to an electric vehicle. 1st gear is non-functional but the torque of an electric motor generally makes 1st gear unnecessary. If I eventually scrap the BMW, I can re-use everything in another car... maybe a Triumph Spitfire or MG B.
$40-50 a week for gas buys a lot of batteries.
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I'm seriously giving some thought to yanking the engine out of my BMW and converting it to an electric vehicle. 1st gear is non-functional but the torque of an electric motor generally makes 1st gear unnecessary. If I eventually scrap the BMW, I can re-use everything in another car... maybe a Triumph Spitfire or MG B.
$40-50 a week for gas buys a lot of batteries.
There are a million kit sites on the net for electric conversion. Popular options I noticed, the VW Rabbit, Cabriolet, and Porsche 914. The 914 might be ok but if you go with a Cabriolet .... :whatever:
I also saw a Spitfire and a B could be interesting. Up here those didn't last long with all the salt. And of course they also suffered from Lucas, Prince of Darkness syndrome. :rotf:
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The Lane Motor Museum had a 144v Spitfire conversion on display last time I was there. It was really pretty.
I found a couple of kit sellers. Average price is $4,500-5,000 for a 120v or 144v kit.
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The Lane Motor Museum had a 144v Spitfire conversion on display last time I was there. It was really pretty.
I found a couple of kit sellers. Average price is $4,500-5,000 for a 120v or 144v kit.
Seen this one?
http://www.electroauto.com/gallery/vp914.shtml
Only a dolt would buy a Volt :rotf:
ETA: now I could really see one of these being converted and used at the beach in the summer...
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/cat.php?id=15
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National average: $3.869/gal. NH average: $3.823/gal.
Yeah, how's that hopey-changey shit working out for ya, assholes?
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Chicago, IL has the highest gas prices in the lower 48 states @ $4.335/gallon. The only other city with more expensive gasoline is Honolulu, HI.
http://www.gasbuddy.com/GB_Price_List.aspx
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National average: $3.869/gal. NH average: $3.823/gal.
Yeah, how's that hopey-changey shit working out for ya, assholes?
I had a sprocket hit me up for gas money while washing my car a few days ago. Should have told him to contact Obama. I thought he was supposed to pay your rent and free gas money.
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdScVerrBU[/youtube]
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I had a sprocket hit me up for gas money while washing my car a few days ago. Should have told him to contact Obama. I thought he was supposed to pay your rent and free gas money.
Sprocket? Besides that gear-lookin' thing on bikes and motorcycles, wtf is a "sprocket?"
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Sprocket? Besides that gear-lookin' thing on bikes and motorcycles, wtf is a "sprocket?"
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc7lPwfQAKk[/youtube]
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[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc7lPwfQAKk[/youtube]
I can't do Youtube, Spark. Firewalls 'n such.
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I filled up at a different station today, 59$. I didn't notice at the time but I thought I filled the car when I really didn't. The place to fill you car is on a slight incline.
Diesel was 1.37/l or 5.19/g.
It's getting to the point I'm going to have to charge significantly more to even get to someone's door for a repair call just to cover the ever increasing gas prices.
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3.999 here yesterday at the local station I use. It has never been that high before.
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National average: $3.879/gal. NH average: $3.823/gal.
National up a penny from yesterday. Even the generic "cheapo" gas stations are over $3.80/gal here. Most in the $3.85-3.90 range. Over the border in ME it's topping $4.
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Noticed it was $3.91 for regular in Las Vegas. This price was spotted at Maryland & Tropicana - across the street from UNLV.
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$3.949 at the Seabrook Sunoco, meaning by the time I get home tonight it'll be close to that price at the Cumby's on Route 125.
FML.
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$3.949 at the Seabrook Sunoco, meaning by the time I get home tonight it'll be close to that price at the Cumby's on Route 125.
FML.
3.79 at my local gas station. Been the same for a while now. I gave 3.94 for mid-grade. First time it has cost $40 to fill up. :bawl:
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Got just under 1/2 tank. Wondering if I want to wait until tomorrow to fill up or do it today.
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Got just under 1/2 tank. Wondering if I want to wait until tomorrow to fill up or do it today.
A half tank is my tipping point, especially when prices are just continuing to head north. I'd say get it now and you're ready for the weekend.
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A half tank is my tipping point, especially when prices are just continuing to head north. I'd say get it now and you're ready for the weekend.
What is this "weekend" of which you speak? I can get 4 days out of a tank. I'm still working 6 days a week. I guess filling up every third day won't kill me. At least that way I won't have to swipe my card twice to fill up.
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What is this "weekend" of which you speak? I can get 4 days out of a tank. I'm still working 6 days a week. I guess filling up every third day won't kill me. At least that way I won't have to swipe my card twice to fill up.
:lmao:
Sparky, nobody said anything about "time off."
Suck it up and drive on, my friend. You're getting paid for your time. :wink:
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Indeed I am, but not nearly enough, and when it takes $20 to do a round trip between work and home, that's just crazy.
Oh, and nationally we cracked $3.90/gal today. $4/gal nationally by next weekend, kids?
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Indeed I am, but not nearly enough, and when it takes $20 to do a round trip between work and home, that's just crazy.
Oh, and nationally we cracked $3.90/gal today. $4/gal nationally by next weekend, kids?
4.09 here in the mitten Spark! :banghead:
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$3.79 at the BP on Hwy 31 and $3.63 at the Raceway out by the airport.
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I'ma scooterin' along.
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I'ma scooterin' along.
I'm considering this for one of my cars: http://www.e-volks.com/about3.html
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I'm considering this for one of my cars: http://www.e-volks.com/about3.html
How much would your power bill be to charge that every day, on top of the 5,000+ you have to spend for the kit? I don't think the output per unit of gasoline I get with the scooter can be matched. I can literally drive almost all week on a gallon and a half of gas.
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I'm not sure, but I'm spending $50+ a week on gas as it is. I was thinking I could leave it plugged in at work. :whistling:
Do you have to have a motorcyle license for one of those?
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I'm not sure, but I'm spending $50+ a week on gas as it is. I was thinking I could leave it plugged in at work. :whistling:
Do you have to have a motorcyle license for one of those?
In Georgia, anything over 50cc's. Most of the smaller ones are 49cc. My hog is a 150cc. :afro:
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I'm trying to avoid the DMV. If I ever have to take an eye exam again, I'm screwed. I don't think they would give me my motorcycle license back, which is why I haven't replaced the last bike I had.
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Interesting read-
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/27/obamas-top-six-gas-price-myths-busted/
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Interesting read-
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/04/27/obamas-top-six-gas-price-myths-busted/
I agree with most of it, I only take issue with number five. Before I say anything else I agree that ethanol is a bad idea however, they make it seem like no bio-fuels would help when that's not the case.
Sure bio-fuels can't replace current petroleum products but things like more bio-diesel would be a good thing. Things like bio-diesel are easy to produce and can be made from any number of things, such as various forms of waste which is a major benefit to it.
Just because ethanol is a bad choice is no reason to knock all alternative fuels.
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I agree with most of it, I only take issue with number five. Before I say anything else I agree that ethanol is a bad idea however, they make it seem like no bio-fuels would help when that's not the case.
Sure bio-fuels can't replace current petroleum products but things like more bio-diesel would be a good thing. Things like bio-diesel are easy to produce and can be made from any number of things, such as various forms of waste which is a major benefit to it.
Just because ethanol is a bad choice is no reason to knock all alternative fuels.
Let's blow more billions of our tax money on stupid shit like this. If the private sector wants to do it, that is fine with me.
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Let's blow more billions of our tax money on stupid shit like this. If the private sector wants to do it, that is fine with me.
It's far from the worst thing it could be spent on, at least is has some promise of help unlike investing in most "green" technologies. Also, nowhere in my post do I say that people should be taxed for stuff like it, I was only commenting on how the article was more or less painting a entire category of things the same way.
If any tax money anywhere is spent on fuel is should be to drill for more oil, because it's far more useful now then anything else.
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It's far from the worst thing it could be spent on, at least is has some promise of help unlike investing in most "green" technologies. Also, nowhere in my post do I say that people should be taxed for stuff like it, I was only commenting on how the article was more or less painting a entire category of things the same way.
If any tax money anywhere is spent on fuel is should be to drill for more oil, because it's far more useful now then anything else.
Here are the facts regarding green energy and bio fuels. Not one can stand on it's own with out federal funding and subsidies. Wind and solar will double or triple the cost of electricity. The electricity derived from windmills off the coast of MA is a prime example of the exorbitant cost that citizens of that state will pay.
Natural gas is the solution to our energy problems. All of these other greenie ideas are not cost efficient. It is a shame that liberals and Env. nuts hate drilling for oil and natural gas. Natural gas is clean burning, cheap and we have tons of it which could make us energy independent on foreign oil in 10 years.
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Yesterday, gas was still $3.87 & $3.97. Today? $4.07 and $4.17, a 20 cent jump in one day. WTF?
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Still averaging out to about 25-30 cents a month rise. As much as I bitched about $4/gal, back in 2008 it was only a very limited spike. This is MUCH worse than then.
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Still averaging out to about 25-30 cents a month rise. As much as I bitched about $4/gal, back in 2008 it was only a very limited spike. This is MUCH worse than then.
And it is unlikely to drop anytime soon. We will see $5.00 a gallon as an average before the end of the year IMO.
Just like that asshole in the WH wanted.
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And it is unlikely to drop anytime soon. We will see $5.00 a gallon as an average before the end of the year IMO.
Just like that asshole in the WH wanted.
Fine--and if they do keep going up, and don't come down substantially by early 2012 (under $3.00 nationally), Obumbles will have sealed his fate.
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Fine--and if they do keep going up, and don't come down substantially by early 2012 (under $3.00 nationally), Obumbles will have sealed his fate.
I think that Barry's lazy enough to be quite okay with that. I have the very real impression that he's being pushed into the reelection campaign. He'd be perfectly fine with a single term, because after that, he can talk to Soros all he wants on his Crackberry without worrying about nuisances like records and audit trails.
And let's not forget his other passions, besides narcissism and inability to make a coherent decision -- golf.
But I digress. Back to gas prices.
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Fair enough--and God knows he'll make enough money spewing to the fawning masses on the Rubber Chicken Circuit, as well as any books he writes (and let's not forget the 8-figure advance for it) will leave him set for life.
Not like he'll have to WORK for a living or anything remotely resembling it, so $7-10/gal gas won't be a concern to him.
$3.943/gal national average today. Up from $3.619/gal a month ago, and $2.885/gal a year ago. NH average is $3.887/gal, although it's damn near impossible to find anything under $3.939, and we'll be posting the magical "4... 9/10" any day now.
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Regular here is 1.44/L or 5.44/G
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$3.967/gal nationally, $3.917/gal in NH.
I paid over $4 for the first time since 2008. Half tank "top off" cost me $40.
**** you, Obama. Just **** you.
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4.19 for the 89 grade here in MA.
How wonderful is that, huh?!? :banghead: :banghead:
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Rental car gas prices hit more than $9 a gallon (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-05-03-rental-car-gas-hits-9-a-gallon_n.htm)
A USA TODAY survey of auto rental gas prices at 13 big airports on April 25 found Hertz was charging $9.29 a gallon at all 13. Dollar and Thrifty were charging $8.99 a gallon at two.
At $9.29 a gallon, Hertz customers renting a Ford Club Wagon, which has a 35-gallon fuel tank, would owe Hertz $325.15 for gas if they returned the wagon with a nearly empty tank and hadn't prepaid for the gas.
Renters who pay ahead of time for a tank of gas from Hertz or another car rental company, though, may find the per-gallon price cheaper than at many local gas stations.
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Barack Hussein 0bama, Mm, Mm, mm ...
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$65 fillup yesterday....$3.67.9 per gallon for 87 reg.
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I'm filling up every third day now (twice weekly) because I can't fill up my tank anymore without hitting the $75 limit on cards.
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I'm filling up every third day now (twice weekly) because I can't fill up my tank anymore without hitting the $75 limit on cards.
Ouch. That sucks. I imagine that limit will be raised before gas prices lower.
I fill up for over 40 now. Not much over, but over just the same.
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Ouch. That sucks. I imagine that limit will be raised before gas prices lower.
I fill up for over 40 now. Not much over, but over just the same.
Gas hit $4 a gallon for mid-grade at our local Shell station, $3.859 otherwise.
I cringe later on this week when I fill up the Sienna AND two gas cans (5 gallons and 2 gallons, respectively). Probably a total of 25 gallons. That's gonna leave a mark. :banghead:
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$3.982/gal national average this morning. Expect $4 by Friday.
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$3.982/gal national average this morning. Expect $4 by Friday.
Rather odd considering that the price of crude dropped more than $2 per bbl. yesterday.
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Gas hit $4 a gallon for mid-grade at our local Shell station, $3.859 otherwise.
I cringe later on this week when I fill up the Sienna AND two gas cans (5 gallons and 2 gallons, respectively). Probably a total of 25 gallons. That's gonna leave a mark. :banghead:
Yeah, I gave 4.09 for mid-grade. I have two 10 cent off fillups available to me at two different gas stations. Wasn't near either when I needed gas. Piss Poor Planning on my part. Lesson learned.
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19.778 Gallons of Premium @ $4.359/Gal.....=$86.21
I need to go inside to pay for gas now because the stupid limitations at the pay at the pump.
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Report: Rental car fuel tops $9/gallon in U.S. (Autoblog) (http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/04/rental-car-gas-tops-9-gallon-in-u-s/)
Ouch.
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$34 to fill up today @ $4.03/gal. However, the station is now offering a 5 cent/gal. discount for paying in cash.
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Costs me $60 to fill up every other day.
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Costs me $60 to fill up every other day.
Holy crap! What kind of car do you drive? How much do you drive??
Damn!
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Its a 2001 Chev S-10 v6 pu. Its about 1+ hour drive to work and about the same back home everyday. Depending if I can get away from the rush hour.
I think gas is about 3.93/- 3.98 gal here for regular. Seems to be changing about every other day too.
"Full of Hope and Change,
with an empty tank.
NoBama 2012 or bust!"
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I paid $3.77 a gallon for premium today. It would have been $4.17, but my Smith's reward card gave me .40 cents off per gallon.
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Its a 2001 Chev S-10 v6 pu. Its about 1+ hour drive to work and about the same back home everyday. Depending if I can get away from the rush hour.
I think gas is about 3.93/- 3.98 gal here for regular. Seems to be changing about every other day too.
"Full of Hope and Change,
with an empty tank.
NoBama 2012 or bust!"
Man o Pete. That is crazy. I can't gripe that much, 45 minutes, both way at max speed of 35 mph. I am still at a weekly fill-up, thank the Lord.
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Holy crap! What kind of car do you drive? How much do you drive??
Damn!
It's not necessarily what, but how much. I drive nearly 90 miles each day. In a Jeep that gets barely 20-21 mpg. I can get 4 days to/from work before I'm on fumes.
Typically a fillup from that point is 17-18 gallons, meaning $70-75 to fill up every four days.
In other news--GOOD NEWS PEOPLE!!! The price of gas is going down! 0.1 cents per gallon! Woot!!!!
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The price of oil has dropped more than $14 per bbl. just this week, but the price of gas has continued to rise. Must be issues in the distro system again, or in refining, or whatever else.
That cost is not trickling down to the end user, that's for sure.
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The price of oil has dropped more than $14 per bbl. just this week, but the price of gas has continued to rise. Must be issues in the distro system again, or in refining, or whatever else.
That cost is not trickling down to the end user, that's for sure.
Unfortunately, I don't think this dip is a very long-lasting one either.
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Obama's Scandalous War Against Domestic Oil (http://www.creators.com/conservative/david-limbaugh/obama-s-scandalous-war-against-domestic-oil.html)
Do you remember the terrible things the left was saying about President George W. Bush when gas prices soared under his watch? Yet President Obama, whose policies and actions are actually contributing to rocketing gas prices today, gets the usual mainstream media pass.
Is it that the liberal media exempt Obama from accountability because they're on his team in general? Is it because they think he's blameless in the equation even though they sprang to the unfounded conclusion that Bush was culpable? Or could it be that they aren't critical because they share his bias against conventional energy >>>
During Bush's term, gas prices went down 9 percent, adjusted for inflation. Yet, preposterously, he was excoriated for allegedly colluding with "big oil" to drive up prices. When prices spiked later in his term, he took proactive steps to increase our supply and reduce prices, and they worked. But Obama has taken action to impede conventional energy sources and shove us into alternative ones. Even so, liberals ignore any possible causal links.
Obama told us he would bankrupt the coal industry. He's pushing high-speed rail down our throats despite the lack of public demand for it and our inability to finance it. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said the administration intended to coerce us out of our cars. Energy Secretary Steven Chu said, "Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe."
In view of exploding gas prices, why aren't these statements seen as scandalous? Where are the calls for investigations?
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Republicans control the House and could push through much of their agenda in the Senate if they stuck together. And since the immaculation of Stinky, gas prices have doubled. So where are the congressional investigations into this Regimes culpability?
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Well, it didn't help Bush at all to have been associated with oil as part of his background. He was excoriated, in part, due to that relationship.
AFAIK, Barry doesn't have that relationship with ANY energy -- oil, coal, nuke.
He just wants to tax the shit out of all of it to make the all-powerful government even more powerful.
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$4.51 today, and rising..........
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Everyone is worried about gas....I'm worried about diesel fuel. Most work in this country gets done with diesel fuel....and that will really hit everyone in the wallet.
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While in the city today...(On my crap PDA)
About 5.17/G
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Everyone is worried about gas....I'm worried about diesel fuel. Most work in this country gets done with diesel fuel....and that will really hit everyone in the wallet.
This.
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I'm watching ABC News tonight. George Step-on-my-nose-a-lot was about to wet his panties to announance gas was down a whole penny overnight..."it's great news for the economy".
Should I laugh my ass off at the stupid S.O.B. or reach into the TV and choke the hell out of him?
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I'm watching ABC News tonight. George Step-on-my-nose-a-lot was about to wet his panties to announance gas was down a whole penny overnight..."it's great news for the economy".
Should I laugh my ass off at the stupid S.O.B. or reach into the TV and choke the hell out of him?
Yes. :rotf:
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Vitter slams Obama over drilling comments (http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/677-e2-wire/159759-vitter-slams-obama-over-drilling-comments)
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) slammed President Obama Friday for saying that increased drilling will not solve the country's energy woes.
“It’s absurd that the president keeps simultaneously claiming there’s nothing he can do right now to fight these rising prices at the pump, while pushing retread arguments from the Jimmy Carter era,†Vitter said in a statement Friday.
Vitter, a staunch advocate of increased drilling, called on the Interior Department to issue more permits for offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.
"Unless they do, I’m afraid gas prices will continue to rise, our dependence on unpredictable foreign sources of energy will increase and jobs in Louisiana’s energy industry will continue to disappear overseas," Vitter said.
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So disagreeing with Stinky is slamming him now? King Stinky and the Democrat Party with their anti-oil, anti-energy policies are destroying this country by design. Onshore oil shale can be developed in 2 years. Many wells that have been denied re-permitting could be back on line within 6 months. Drilling would create a cascading flood of tax-paying non-government jobs, keep more of our wealth at home, reduce our reliance on an increasingly unstable Middle East, and stabilize affordable gasoline prices and the Stink Bomb knows it!
Most elected republicans know this too. But the GOP leadership is stubbornly in lock step with the Stink master on far too many issues which creates an impassible bottleneck. Therein lies the problem. We must vote this "leadership" out!
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The province stepped in and lowered the price of diesel and it now ranges from 0.99$ to 1.23$. :o
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http://www.cnbc.com/id/42928363
Don't click on the link if you don't like bad news.
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The province stepped in and lowered the price of diesel and it now ranges from 0.99$ to 1.23$. :o
Hope you like fuel lines, there's gonna be a shortage
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Hope you like fuel lines, there's gonna be a shortage
Yup. Thats what govt price controls always do.
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http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/GASOLINE_TAX_MAP_MAY2011.pdf
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http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/GASOLINE_TAX_MAP_MAY2011.pdf
Well, well, well, Liberal states in general have higher gas taxes. I wonder why that is?
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Illinois set up its gas tax differently than most other states.
The tax is NOT per gallon; it's on the PRICE of a gallon at the pumps. That can be a vast difference. Higher gas prices = more tax dollars for our crooked politicians to piss away.
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Illinois set up its gas tax differently than most other states.
The tax is NOT per gallon; it's on the PRICE of a gallon at the pumps. That can be a vast difference. Higher gas prices = more tax dollars for our crooked politicians to piss away.
West Virginia does both. Flat tax on each gallon and a percentage tax, at the wholesale level, of the current price. :banghead: :banghead:
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Nonetheless, WV is in the 40s on the map; Illinois is 69.
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But we have Blue Boy, AKA govenator Lunch.
House passes cut to gas tax
Reduction unlikely to clear the Senate
By Matthew Spolar / Monitor staff
April 28, 2011
..The full House passed a 5-cent cut to the state's gasoline tax yesterday, but the governor said he's not worried about the fast-tracked Republican proposal, because its prospects of clearing the Senate appear dim.
In a 208-98 vote, lawmakers passed a bill to cut the tax, which has not changed since 1991, from 18 cents per gallon to 13 cents per gallon for the next two months. The vote came just one day after the bill, introduced last week by House Speaker William O'Brien and Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt, sailed out of the House Finance Committee.
{snip}
http://www.concordmonitor.com/article/253876/house-passes-cut-to-gas-tax?CSAuthResp=%3Asession%3ACSUserId%7CCSGroupId%3Aapproved%3AC2LrYMFgYeeUmDA11ajgwA%3D%3D&CSUserId=94&CSGroupId=1
Sparky, could you use an extra nickle a gallon reduction?
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http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/GASOLINE_TAX_MAP_MAY2011.pdf
Janice did you see the Diesel price chart on the same site?
http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/DIESEL_TAX_MAP_MAY2011.pdf
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Janice did you see the Diesel price chart on the same site?
http://www.api.org/statistics/fueltaxes/upload/DIESEL_TAX_MAP_MAY2011.pdf
Yes. It should be criminal.
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The news media should make up their mind. A week or so ago they were saying we'd have $5 a gallon gas by summer. Today I heard a TV reporter say gas should be down by as much as 50 cent a gallon by summer.
A couple or three of years back Mr. Bush just mentioned drilling off shore and a short time later I was paying $1.65 a gallon. Gas is up over $2 from that now and I'm supposed to get excited about it might fall off 50 cent a gallon by summer.
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But we have Blue Boy, AKA govenator Lunch.
Sparky, could you use an extra nickle a gallon reduction?
Multiply that by about 40 and you know I could.
I love WaPo and CNN touting, "Relief is on the way!!! Gas will drop all the way to $3.50!!!"
Jesus, it's as if Obumbles has his hand suffed up Wolf Blitzer's ass and pulling the strings, only it ain't nearly as funny.
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The news media should make up their mind. A week or so ago they were saying we'd have $5 a gallon gas by summer. Today I heard a TV reporter say gas should be down by as much as 50 cent a gallon by summer.
A couple or three of years back Mr. Bush just mentioned drilling off shore and a short time later I was paying $1.65 a gallon. Gas is up over $2 from that now and I'm supposed to get excited about it might fall off 50 cent a gallon by summer.
It's almost as if we're going to be told the chocolate ration increased from 30 to 25 grams this week
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It's almost as if we're going to be told the chocolate ration increased from 30 to 25 grams this week
:cheersmate:
h5
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It's almost as if we're going to be told the chocolate ration increased from 30 to 25 grams this week
Hi5
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It's almost as if we're going to be told the chocolate ration increased from 30 to 25 grams this week
...and they're going to increase the amount of sawdust in the bread next week too.
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Our regular gas dropped two whole pennies.
What should I do with the savings?
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The lowest I've seen gais is $3.74. I paid $3.97ea for five gallons, enough to get to me to the cheap(er) gas station on the way to work tomorrow and through Friday (I hope).
I'm glad my car only holds 12 gallons.
My jalopy seems to cut out if it gets too low on fuel. I may need a new fuel pump.
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Our regular gas dropped two whole pennies.
What should I do with the savings?
Donate it to whoever is running against Barack Obama.
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So much for that drop the WaPo promised us:
http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
Up 2 cents since yesterday. Virtually unchanged from last week, and up 19 cents from a month ago.
Oh, and up $2.15/gal since 1/20/09.
http://74.84.198.233/gas-prices-energy-oil/2011/05/09/gas-prices-to-fall-50-cents-by-summer/
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Our gas dropped another two pennies. We are sure going to be rich soon. ::)
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All this 2 cent, 3 cent, bullshit is asinine. When QE2 ends, as our dollar have been devalued, those idiots will be faced with two choices, initiate QE3, which devalues the dollar even more, or do nothing, which will cause societal breakdown because we can't afford just about ANYTHING. The reason our gas has gone up has NOTHING to do with supply and demand.
People, start looking at the BIG picture. I had a co-worker, an idiot...which is harsh because we're good friends, tell me he'll vote for Obama again based on how the DOW is doing. Really? The damn reason it's doing so well now is ALL hollow. It's the government pumping cash into the economy. He's a smart guy, an SME on a certain system, but he doesn't realize why the DOW is performing well? How about why gold is also performing well, when they generally oppose each other? Hell, BOTH are going up. Are Americans THIS stupid? Seriously?
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Sadly, yes they are. As long as they have their American Idol and Perky Katie tells them to remain calm and that all is well, they won't question it.
What Americans need is a swift kick in the dink. Keep package sizes the same and raise the prices to reflect what's really going on. Show them that inflation isn't down the road, it's ALREADY HERE. That their 401(k) might be recovering now, but that paper gain won't mean shit when it takes a wheelbarrow full of dollars to buy a loaf of bread.
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Still at least $4.59 around here.
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Ouch.
Gas has gone up again. It was $3.64 a couple weeks ago... now it is $3.79 and up.
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Gas and Diesel have all gone way down for us. The average prices are...
Regular 1.32/L or 4.93/G
Premium 1.38/L or 5.21/G
Diesel 1.21/L or 4.57/G
However the cheapest diesel in the province is 1.11/L or 4.19/G.
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Ouch.
Gas has gone up again. It was $3.64 a couple weeks ago... now it is $3.79 and up.
It's been dropping here for about a week.....hit a high of $3.82, and I filled up this morning at Valero for $3.67.
doc
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Obama announces steps to speed US oil production (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_OBAMA?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=)
Facing continued public unhappiness over gas prices, President Barack Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska.
Obama said Saturday that the measures "make good sense" and will help reduce U.S. consumption of imported oil in the long term. But he acknowledged anew that they won't help to immediately bring down gasoline prices topping $4 a gallon in many parts of the country.
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The master of smoke and mirrors strikes again. Extend leases, but do nothing about the Permitorium that prevents actually drilling on the leased areas. Yup, thats the ticket Mr Stinky.
Heres a novel idea. How about just giving the green light and letting the marketplace thrive instead of excoriating it? Of course, we can all count on the kneepad media trying their best Lewinsky on him to make Stinky look like anything, but the incompetent marxist community organizer that he is, in preparation for the upcoming 2012 elections.
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The EPA just recently caused Shell to back out of drilling in Alaska. More feel good lies from ObeyWon.
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And the average price is now all the way down to $3.97/gal this morning.
Oh, joy! What ever will I do with all this newfound money I've saved! For joy! FOR JOY!!!!
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And the average price is now all the way down to $3.97/gal this morning.
Oh, joy! What ever will I do with all this newfound money I've saved! For joy! FOR JOY!!!!
Buy a slice of bread.
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Buy a slice of bread.
Me-Shell says it is verboten--too many carbs. She has decreed, "Let them eat rice cakes!" But I hear lobster is very tasty. She says so.
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Buy a slice of bread.
Better get in line. :wink:
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Just gased up my truck - in Indiana, for $4.02/gallon. My favorite station in Illinois was at $4.45/gallon, and I refused to pay that much.
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Obama’s latest fake plan for more drilling (http://washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/2011/05/obama-s-latest-fake-plan-more-drilling)
First he promised to open up the Atlantic to exploration. Then he reneged. Then he said he’d lift his oil moratorium in the Gulf. Production has only decreased since.
Yesterday Obama again played Lucy to the American energy consumer’s Charlie Brown. This time he is promising to direct “the Department of Interior to conduct annual lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve, while respecting sensitive areas, and to speed up the evaluation of oil and gas resources in the mid and south Atlantic.â€
Sounds like more oil production from Alaska and the Atlantic is just around the corner, right? Wrong. The National Petroleum Reserve is right next door to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). There is nothing less “sensitive†about the land in the National Petroleum Reserve than there is about the land in ANWR. Will Obama ever allow actually drilling on ANWR? No. The exact same is true of the National Petroleum reserve. No new oil will ever be produced from the National Petroleum Reserve while Obama is still president.
Same with drilling in the Atlantic. Here all Obama has promised is to speed up the evaluation. If he follows through on this promise, all that means is we’ll get an ultimate ‘no’ quicker.
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Hussein The Destroyer aka, King Stinky (the anointed one) aka, Barry "The Liar" Sotero aka, Zippy the doublespeaker-in-chief can be summed up, but not limited to a few descriptors when he speaks, to wit:
misleads
distorts reality
pretends to communicate
makes the bad seem good
avoids or shifts responsibility
makes the negative appear positive
creates a false verbal map of the world
limits, conceals, corrupts, and prevents thought
makes the unpleasant appear attractive or tolerable
creates incongruity between reality and what is said or not said
and on and on and on ...
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Let's see, the imposter first says no drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, now, he wants U.S. drilling after most of all those oil rigs have moved to other Countries?
What's it going to be dumbo? Nothing but lies, lies and more lies. A communist community organizer.
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We ran some errands today. The nearby gas station was $3.63/gal. , two other stations were $3.99. Less than two hours later when we came home, the local station had jacked its price up to $3.99. Holiday weekend price jacking. :banghead:
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We ran some errands today. The nearby gas station was $3.63/gal. , two other stations were $3.99. Less than two hours later when we came home, the local station had jacked its price up to $3.99. Holiday weekend price jacking. :banghead:
I talked to a friend at lunchtime who is visiting downstate Illinois and he said the exact same thing. :banghead:
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Ouch. The Raceway here is down five cents to $3.59 this week.
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I'd love to see it. NONE of the gas stations where I live have come down more than a nickel. Some have yet to drop their prices. I'm still paying between $3.89-3.96/gal.
National average still at $3.813/gal, NH average at $3.858/gal. 17 cents. Big friggin whoop.
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I'd love to see it. NONE of the gas stations where I live have come down more than a nickel. Some have yet to drop their prices. I'm still paying between $3.89-3.96/gal.
National average still at $3.813/gal, NH average at $3.858/gal. 17 cents. Big friggin whoop.
I noticed ours went down 2 cents since I filled up on Monday. Fortunately, I don't have to drive anywhere this weekend.
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It's still at least $4.14 around here.
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I gassed up Sunday and it had dropped a dime to $3.95 for prem.
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I sit (or stand) :lmao: corrected.
Price around here ranges all the way up to $4.55, not the $4.15 stated earlier.
And EVERY station goes up at the same time. No price fixing, though. And none of that rumored high price for a holiday weekend, either. ::) :whatever:
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I know this topic has not been posted in for a while but...
I'm just curious what gas prices are doing in the US right now. Are they still going up? Did they go down? or have they stayed mostly the same?
Up here almost nothing has changed, so I'm just wondering.
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It was down to $3.22/9 a gallon a couple of weeks ago. Now, it's back up to $3.48/9 today.
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Well....here in Missouri, we have typically the lowest gas prices around. There are a few reasons for that. First, we are located on most of the major pipelines from the refineries headed for the northern and eastern cities (transportation costs are therefore minimal), and second, our state gas taxes are among the lowest.
Two weeks ago I filled up at $3.19........it's now at $3.69. Over a 10% increase in two weeks.
Not a peep out of the media however.......if a Republican was in the WH, that would be all we would hear.
doc
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I'm glad that my area isn't alone. We were down to $3.55, but a couple of days ago it jumped to $3.74.
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Last Sunday: $3.57/gal.
Yesterday: $3.81/gal.
Thanks, assholes!
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Last Sunday: $3.57/gal.
Yesterday: $3.81/gal.
Thanks, assholes!
What's 24 cent to you evil rich people? It's only $4.80 on a 20 gallon fillup for my pickup truck. That's only about enough for a hamburger and a drink at McDonalds.
McDonalds has "Happy Meals" and Obama has "Skip a Meal".
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Thursday: $4.11.
Yesterday: $3.69.
At EVERY station, all at the same time. No collusion, though.
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National average: $3.707/gal. I'm paying $3.679-$3.759, depending on where I fill up.
Hopey-changey, hopey-changey.
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$3.76 and $3.86 here. Illinois seems to be near the top in gas prices.
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$3.76 and $3.86 here. Illinois seems to be near the top in gas prices.
Illinois is at the top for gas prices. Just cross the border into any one of the neighboring states, and the gas price falls immediately.
Damn, I hate this state. My wife will retire in November, but who the hell would buy our home so we can get the hell out of here?
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National average: $3.707/gal. I'm paying $3.679-$3.759, depending on where I fill up.
Hopey-changey, hopey-changey.
$3.55 here this morning, and I have ONE question.....why isn't the media howling about it like they did when it was this high during the last administration???
It was all we heard, day after day, it was the lead story......now, nothing.......
doc
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$3.55 here this morning, and I have ONE question.....why isn't the media howling about it like they did when it was this high during the last administration???
It was all we heard, day after day, it was the lead story......now, nothing.......
doc
That's a rhetorical question, right? :whistling:
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The last I heard this past week week it was $3.23 in Tucson.
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5.06/G Regular
4.73/G Diesel
We're actually having some fuel shortages (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/07/30/ns-cobequid-pass-toll-station.html) in different parts of NS right now so I can only imagine it'll go up.
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5.06/G Regular
4.73/G Diesel
We're actually having some fuel shortages (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2011/07/30/ns-cobequid-pass-toll-station.html) in different parts of NS right now so I can only imagine it'll go up.
Diesel in Bar Harbor today one place I looked was $3.99. Rgas was about $3.77 IIRC. Many rigs with Ontario plates; one I saw probably goes north of $250K American, nice diesel pusher.
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After a couple of weeks of hovering around the $3.65/3.70 range, gas prices climbing again. This time blamed on Irene shutting down refineries.
If we're lucky we'll be looking at $3.50/gal for heating oil early this winter, climbing to $4/gal by February. FML.
And if you look at the trend, we've been above $3.50/gal for regular unleaded for almost six months now with no sign of dropping. In 2008, gas prices were above $3.50/gal for less than five months, on their way to a national average of $1.80/gal on 1/20/09.
Welcome to the Obamanation.
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Yes, we saw a run up of 20 cents in 5 days. I put it down to the Laborday holiday.
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Yes, we saw a run up of 20 cents in 5 days. I put it down to the Laborday holiday.
I can remember when they used to bump the price a dime or so on the Wednesday before the long weekend, now they ramp it up gradually over a couple of weeks.
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National average this morning $3.58. Pretty much unchanged from last month, but up and down in between...(mostly up.)
$3.598 average in NH. Generic gas in Seabrook as low as $3.419, but most places still around $3.60-3.65.
We've now gone seven months with average price over $3/gal with no end in sight. Under Bush, it lasted less than five months in 2008.
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It was $3.48 in Wisconsin last weekend and $3.90 around here. Indiana was $3.55. Of course, Illinois has some of the highest gas taxes in the country, and they vary daily by county and city.
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It was $3.48 in Wisconsin last weekend and $3.90 around here. Indiana was $3.55. Of course, Illinois has some of the highest gas taxes in the country, and they vary daily by county and city.
I had the misfortune of driving through Illinois (I-64, I-57, and I-24) this past weekend roundtrip and I make it a point to purchase NOTHING in your state. No gas, no drinks, no snacks, no nothing.
Most of my disaffection has to do with the silly attitude IL has with concealed carry laws. I gotta do stupid things with my carry gun to be compliant. :whatever:
On the other hand, I don't mind leaving a deposit of one type or another. :-)
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$2.99 here in MO.
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$2.99 here in MO.
Was $2.99 here yesterday.....it's the world wide slow down that has brought the price down, not anything Obama or the government has done...but I'm sure they will take the credit for it.
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$3.59 in Illinois. I cannot remember when it was less than $3.00.
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National average according to AAA this morning: $3.455/gal.
Best state: MO at $3.182/gal.
Worst state: Hawaii at $4.242/gal, on the mainland it's CA at $3.865/gal.
NH: $3.504/gal, but most of the places at home are $3.55-3.60, while work (Seabrook) is as low as $3.32. Go figure.
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It was $3.49 here yesterday.
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Was $2.99 here yesterday.....it's the world wide slow down that has brought the price down, not anything Obama or the government has done...but I'm sure they will take the credit for it.
Last weekend, I saw it at $2.929 at a station north of Columbia on U.S. 63 (in Missouri). It went back up to $3.09 later that day, though.
I'd agree that the economic engine is slowing down and is accounting for the price drop -- certainly not anything Dipshit Barry is doing.
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$3.22 here. And that's a "bargain". I paid $3.44 in another part of town.
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Up a little....$3.03/9 Monday when I bought gas.
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Down to $3.08 at one station here. I was surprised to see it that low.
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Mrs. E filled up in Columbia, MO for $2.999 today.
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$2.98 for me, but I buy mid grade, which is 3.04.
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$3.49 here on the roof of Nebraska, the 15% ethanol stuff.
$3.59 for the 100% pure gasoline, which is what I buy.
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$3.39 for ethanol blend and 10 cents more for the good stuff.
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Both straight gasoline and E10 are $3.09 here today........
I'm not certain, but the big drop this past week could be due to the fact that we went off of "summer blend" ??
doc
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Meh, $3.67 reg unlead
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Down to $3.08 at one station here. I was surprised to see it that low.
Down 3 cents to $3.05 today. Bush's fault.
I think Doc is right. So why is the winter blend cheaper than the gasoline they sell in the summer?
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Well, it was $2.96/9 this morning when I looked.
The prices I've posted are the cheapest in town for the 87 octane 10% stuff.
There aren't but 2 places in the whole county that sell 100% gasoline.
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Both "blends" vary from area to area, depending on the EPA.
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Well, it was $2.96/9 this morning when I looked.
The prices I've posted are the cheapest in town for the 87 octane 10% stuff.
There aren't but 2 places in the whole county that sell 100% gasoline.
Not true. Various locations in Wisconsin, all away from major urban centers, sell pure gasoline.
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Not true. Various locations in Wisconsin, all away from major urban centers, sell pure gasoline.
Not in my county.
The dirty old men's coffee club had a big fuss one morning about this question. Sooooooo....we all piled in a 4-door pickup and drove around checking the pumps at 4:30 in the morning. :rotf: All had the 10% stickers on there pumps except the 2 stores I mentioned.
BTW: There was a damn good looking young lady dressed to kill came in the store this morning at 5:00 am..... :naughty: That mouthy bunch of old men got so quiet you hear a pin drop. :rotf: We ain't never seen anything looking that good that early in the morning... :lmao:
I have a photographic memory. Problem is, it only takes certain kinds of pictures. That young lady is now in my mental photo album. :lmao:
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Topped off my tanks today.
$1.549 per litre for a total cost of $219.80.
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Down 3 cents to $3.05 today. Bush's fault.
I think Doc is right. So why is the winter blend cheaper than the gasoline they sell in the summer?
I'm not really knowledgeable in this area......but my best guess would be that when outside ambient temperatures are lower, engines operate much more efficiently and produce fewer pollutants because the atmosphere is denser therefore increasing volumetric efficiency, specifically reducing NOX and CO.
In summer, additional additives are added to gasoline to compensate for a less dense and more humid intake air content........therefore increasing the cost to produce.
doc
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Topped off my tanks today.
$1.549 per litre for a total cost of $219.80.
Damn. That just plain HURTS.
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Damn. That just plain HURTS.
Well yeah.....but after the conversion he bought slightly less than forty gallons of gas, must be filling up two saddle tanks on a large pickup truck.
The Aus $ is worth slightly more than the US $, but he's paying the equivalent of $5.71/gal......damn pricey, I hope he doesn't have to fill that beast up very often......
doc
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Well yeah.....but after the conversion he bought slightly less than forty gallons of gas, must be filling up two saddle tanks on a large pickup truck.
The Aus $ is worth slightly more than the US $, but he's paying the equivalent of $5.71/gal......damn pricey, I hope he doesn't have to fill that beast up very often......
doc
He did say "tanks" so I assumed just what you'd said, Doc. Even still, to pony up that much money on a fill-up of any size (unless it's your in-ground tank that holds 1,000 gallons) hurts like hell.
I wonder how often he's got to fill up like that......
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He did say "tanks" so I assumed just what you'd said, Doc. Even still, to pony up that much money on a fill-up of any size (unless it's your in-ground tank that holds 1,000 gallons) hurts like hell.
I wonder how often he's got to fill up like that......
I'm actually surprised that it is that low in Australia, when compared to Eurpoean countries......of course most of that price is taxes. $5.70 compared to nearly $4.00 here in some places where taxes are high isn't all that large a difference.
If I remember correctly LC lives in a really rural area in Queensland.......I envision similiar to rural Montana, where it's a 100 mile trip to the supermarket......
doc
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I'm not really knowledgeable in this area......but my best guess would be that when outside ambient temperatures are lower, engines operate much more efficiently and produce fewer pollutants because the atmosphere is denser therefore increasing volumetric efficiency, specifically reducing NOX and CO.
In summer, additional additives are added to gasoline to compensate for a less dense and more humid intake air content........therefore increasing the cost to produce.
doc
The computers that control combustion in today's vehicles supposedly aren't affected by such things.
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The computers that control combustion in today's vehicles supposedly aren't affected by such things.
Actually, the engine computer system can only control two parameters.......fuel mixture.....and ignition timing (at any given throttle setting, determined by the driver). Neither of these effect volumetric effeciency to any great extent, or the output of pollutants, vis-a-vis outside air temperature. Modern engines do not have any means of preheating or cooling the intake air which is fed to the throttle body and ultimately the combustion chamber.
The colder the intake air is, the more efficiently the engine runs, and the more horsepower it will generate....which is why, if you ever hang around a dragstrip, you'll see the pit crews packing ice bags on their vehicles intake manifolds before a run.
Most of the major automakers have/are experimenting with systems to accomplish this function (using the vehicles' air conditioning system) in an attempt to eliminate the expensive catalytic converters, but so far (to my knowledge) nobody's made it work yet.
doc
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I live in a regional city - circa 150K people that is pretty much at the "end of the road". There's nothing in the way of towns with more than 10K people north or west of us for hundreds and hundreds of miles. We pay a little more for fuels than in the major metro areas but not dramatically so. Most I've paid for fuel was about $2.50 / L - in a very remote place.
I usually fill up once a month or thereabouts - but this next week will involve some fairly long miles and filling up twice at remote locations where diesel will be a good 20-50c per litre more before arriving back in town and having to refuel again.
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I live in a regional city - circa 150K people that is pretty much at the "end of the road". There's nothing in the way of towns with more than 10K people north or west of us for hundreds and hundreds of miles. We pay a little more for fuels than in the major metro areas but not dramatically so. Most I've paid for fuel was about $2.50 / L - in a very remote place.
I usually fill up once a month or thereabouts - but this next week will involve some fairly long miles and filling up twice at remote locations where diesel will be a good 20-50c per litre more before arriving back in town and having to refuel again.
Interesting how you use the term "miles". Do you/most Aussies express distance in miles versus kilometers? I'm reasonably sure you're on the metric system -- I think the U.S. is pretty much the last great holdout on that measuring standard. Jimmuh Carter tried to shove it down our throats and he got a boot in the ass for his trouble. :-)
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Interesting how you use the term "miles". Do you/most Aussies express distance in miles versus kilometers? I'm reasonably sure you're on the metric system -- I think the U.S. is pretty much the last great holdout on that measuring standard. Jimmuh Carter tried to shove it down our throats and he got a boot in the ass for his trouble. :-)
I'm fairly conversant with both systems of measurement - and can if required use them both. In day-to-day life fluid measurements, any large distances, mass and temperature are always metric. Smaller distances I'll use whichever is more convenient at the time.
The expression "do a lot of miles / some long miles" is a holdout from the pre-decimalisation days. It shows more the company I keep than any personal preference in which system to use.
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Meh, gas and diesel up in NS have changed very, very little.
Today the prices were 4.80/G (1.26/L) for regular and 4.87/G (1.29/L) for diesel.
About 60$ to fill the car at the moment.
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HOLY COW!!!!!!! I've been throwing out tax records from way back again.
If I were still in the grading business, my fuel bill for 3 pieces of equip for 3 days now would equal my fuel bill for 3 pieces of equipment for the entire year of 1973.
Damn. I'm glad I quit 10 years ago.
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HOLY COW!!!!!!! I've been throwing out tax records from way back again.
If I were still in the grading business, my fuel bill for 3 pieces of equip for 3 days now would equal my fuel bill for 3 pieces of equipment for the entire year of 1973.
Damn. I'm glad I quit 10 years ago.
Filled the MH today with diesel @ $3.799 . I stayed local this year and did three or four trips burning about 66 gallons ($250.00 OR about the cost of a couple nights at a decent flea free, bed bug free motel). And I don't have to board the beagle which is not cheap and I know who cleans the toilets. :-)
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Yup--as long as you're not on the I-95 corridor, name brand gas is getting down to the $3.30/gal range, but still 10-15 cents higher right off the Interstates/turnpikes.
Did a day trip yesterday. Damned flatlanders.
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States where drivers pay the least for gasoline (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808634/ns/business-oil_and_energy/)
Gas prices are falling. In fact, they’ve declined to lows not seen in months. Concerns of yet another global recession have caused oil prices to drop, and with them, gas prices. In the U.S., prices of regular unleaded gasoline have fallen more than 50 cents per gallon since May, when the cost hovered near $4.00. Still, gas prices vary widely between states — from $4.24 a gallon in Hawaii to $3.13 in Missouri, according to AAA. >>>
The Tax Foundation reports that some states, including California and New York, have gas tax rates of nearly 50 cents per gallon. Other states, including South Carolina and Oklahoma, have a tax of less than 20 cents. while there are some exceptions, notably Indiana, most of the states with low gas tax rates also have low gas prices.
The presence of refineries within the state also appears to have a significant impact on gas prices. Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana are home to the vast majority of the nation’s fuel processing plants, and prices are notably lower in these states, possibly due to lower transportation costs. >>>
10. Georgia
9. Kentucky
8. Indiana
7. Oklahoma
6. Louisiana
5. Texas
4. Tennessee
3. Ohio
2. South Carolina
1. Missouri - In some areas of the state, such as Perryville, gas prices are as low as $2.77 per gallon.
Amazing how supply, trans, regulations and taxes affects gas prices. Who knew? /s
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Back up to $3.30 from a low of $3.02-$3.06 the other week and $3.15-$3.25 last week, and it looks like the price may continue rising for a little while longer.
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States where drivers pay the least for gasoline (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44808634/ns/business-oil_and_energy/)
Amazing how supply, trans, regulations and taxes affects gas prices. Who knew? /s
Not necessarily. Illinois has refineries close to Chicago, and Indiana is home to a huge AMOCO refinery, also close to Chicago. While Chicago and the surrounding area have the highest prices in the state, the entire state's prices are still higher than neighboring states, generally speaking.
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Yup--up as much as 20 cents/gal again.
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Yup--up as much as 20 cents/gal again.
Gone up almost 30 cents here in S.C..
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Gone up almost 30 cents here in S.C..
Same here in Texas.
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10-24-2011 Regular at BJ's Wholsale Club in Portsmouth, NH $ 3.32
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Up again to $3.44.
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$3.49 for non-ethanol blend and $.10 cheaper for ethanol blend.
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$3.49 for non-ethanol blend and $.10 cheaper for ethanol blend.
Nothing but blends here. :mad:
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I found two stations that sell no-ethanol gas. I didn't check, but I think they're about 20-30 cents higher.
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Leaving the ethanol out costs more than putting it in.
Yeppers!
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Leaving the ethanol out costs more than putting it in.
Yeppers!
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I remember when leaded gas was still available that unleaded gas was more expensive even though lead had to be added to the gas.
We used to have three grades of gas for awhile 10% ethanol and regular, which are the same octane and premium which was a slightly higher octane. Now there is just the ethanol blend and regular.
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Here in KC, the price for unleaded regular just dropped to $2.99/gal. First time I've seen it below 3 bucks in ages, which is confusing, since spot market crude is up the last week or so.
doc
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Here in KC, the price for unleaded regular just dropped to $2.99/gal. First time I've seen it below 3 bucks in ages, which is confusing, since spot market crude is up the last week or so.
doc
Saw the same thing this am, in Dallas.
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Saw the same thing this am, in Dallas.
It would be nice if it stayed that way down there, as we are thinking about meeting our kids in Houston for Christmas, and our 400 hp, 4x4 SUV isn't exactly friendly to a tank of gas......it does far better on the highway than I expected, but a Pirus it ain't.......
doc
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It would be nice if it stayed that way down there, as we are thinking about meeting our kids in Houston for Christmas, and our 400 hp, 4x4 SUV isn't exactly friendly to a tank of gas......it does far better on the highway than I expected, but a Pirus it ain't.......
doc
I will do what I can to keep it that way for ya. :-) Can't promise much though.
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Prices were below $3.10 out by the airport. The rest of town is slightly higher.
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I just filled up today for $3.36/gal. Amazingly enough it has been at that price for a week or so and there was no pre-holiday price jump.
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$3.23 at the local discount club for 87 Octane w/ 10% corn squeezings.
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I filled up this past Saturday in Columbia, MO for $2.999.
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I filled up this past Saturday in Columbia, MO for $2.999.
What's diesel out your way?
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$3.41 for prem. in big B.R.
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What's diesel out your way?
I'm being told $3.89 right now.
Mrs. E told me at lunch 87 octane is now $2.959 in Columbia, MO.
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I'm being told $3.89 right now.
Mrs. E told me at lunch 87 octane is now $2.959 in Columbia, MO.
Wow, quite a spread. $0.94
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$2.99 to $3.09 here
I have that gasbuddy app on my iphone and it's pretty frickin cool.
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$3.54 in the state of obamaland.
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$3.54 in the state of obamaland.
I'm sorry. The shame you must be feeling has got to be overwhelming.
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$3.54 in the state of obamaland.
18 cents more than downstate. Chicago land taxes at work.
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18 cents more than downstate. Chicago land taxes at work.
Earlier this week I gassed up in Indiana at $3.22/gallon.
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For the last week or ten days the price here has been boucing from $2.99/9 to $3.12/9....y'all know which days I've been getting gas don't you? :-)
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$2.96 this morning :panic:
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For the last week or ten days the price here has been boucing from $2.99/9 to $3.12/9....y'all know which days I've been getting gas don't you? :-)
Probably just like me. You buy gas and the next day the price drops. :banghead:
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Probably just like me. You buy gas and the next day the price drops. :banghead:
Global warming is fix'n to drop a ton of snow and ice on me...gas was $2.98/9 when I bought it a few minutes ago.
Back in 1958 while daddy owned a country store we once sold regular gas for 11.9 cent a gallon for a couple of days. The usual gas wars back then dropped the price of gas from 24.9 to around 18.9 give or take a penny. I know because I had to change the pumps, the road sign and pump the gas.
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Global warming is fix'n to drop a ton of snow and ice on me...gas was $2.98/9 when I bought it a few minutes ago.
Back in 1958 while daddy owned a country store we once sold regular gas for 11.9 cent a gallon for a couple of days. The usual gas wars back then dropped the price of gas from 24.9 to around 18.9 give or take a penny. I know because I had to change the pumps, the road sign and pump the gas.
I remember those days when gas was two bits a gallon. Also bagged groceries at the A & P for 35 cents an hour as a teenager.
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I remember those days when gas was two bits a gallon. Also bagged groceries at the A & P for 35 cents an hour as a teenager.
Some of the younger folks here on CC might not know what "two bits" is.... :whistling:
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Some of the younger folks here on CC might not know what "two bits" is.... :whistling:
I have heard of lady bits but not two bits :whistling:
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I have heard of lady bits but not two bits :whistling:
http://jerricousher.hubpages.com/hub/Where-did-the-term-two-bits-come-from
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Two bits, four bits, 6 bits, a dollar...
Not all that complicated - IF a person has heard that little saying.
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Two bits, four bits, 6 bits, a dollar...
Not all that complicated - IF a person has heard that little saying.
Just one little problem with that scenario, CG. You're old. They ain't. :rotf:
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Just one little problem with that scenario, CG. You're old. They ain't. :rotf:
I always wondered why we didn't have a coin worth a bit.
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Two bits, four bits, 6 bits, a dollar...
Not all that complicated - IF a person has heard that little saying.
Every graduate of the University of Florida has heard it...
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Just one little problem with that scenario, CG. You're old. They ain't. :rotf:
Hmmmm. Seems like that's the pot calling the kettle black. :lmao:
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Hmmmm. Seems like that's the pot calling the kettle black. :lmao:
Well, I'm beyond 50, but not by a lot. :whistling:
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Well, I'm beyond 50, but not by a lot. :whistling:
Uh-huh. :mental:
I be yond 50 too. :panic:
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Uh-huh. :mental:
I be yond 50 too. :panic:
Uh-huh. You're beyond 60, and pushing on the door marked "70". :-)
Like I said -- you're old. :rotf:
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Uh-huh. You're beyond 60, and pushing on the door marked "70". :-)
Like I said -- you're old. :rotf:
Yep. I am older than the stuff UNDER the dirt! :-)
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Some of the younger folks here on CC might not know what "two bits" is.... :whistling:
Sounds like an older Austrailian type of monetary. Perhaps the equivalent of the British guinea
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Sounds like an older Austrailian type of monetary. Perhaps the equivalent of the British guinea
I know it mostly from watching old westerns. two bits was 25 cents. I have heard loose women called two bit whores.
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Gas steady or slowly declining, but diesel (and as a result, heating oil) is friggin ridiculous.
Unleaded is going for $3.299 this morning, but diesel is in the $3.90 range, with heating oil (basically diesel sans tax) is $3.50-3.60/gallon. If it's that high this early in the season, we're ****ed come March/April.
And I'm going to need at least two fillups.
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We use kerosene sometimes and it's up to $3.99/gal.
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Gas steady or slowly declining, but diesel (and as a result, heating oil) is friggin ridiculous.
Unleaded is going for $3.299 this morning, but diesel is in the $3.90 range, with heating oil (basically diesel sans tax) is $3.50-3.60/gallon. If it's that high this early in the season, we're ****ed come March/April.
And I'm going to need at least two fillups.
Remembering some of the pics you have posted in the past, you have a good sized house. Do you have central heating or forced hot air?
I imagine when you lived by yourself, you just closed the door to the rooms you weren't using..
Now that you have a family with you, more rooms will be used and therefore heated...
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I know it mostly from watching old westerns. two bits was 25 cents. I have heard loose women called two bit whores.
And politicians.
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Remembering some of the pics you have posted in the past, you have a good sized house. Do you have central heating or forced hot air?
I imagine when you lived by yourself, you just closed the door to the rooms you weren't using..
Now that you have a family with you, more rooms will be used and therefore heated...
Oil burner/hot water. Two zones, upstairs and down. So even "closing off the other rooms" does pretty much nothing since the whole floor is maintained at the same temperature.
Owing to the VERY warm weather we've had over the past six weeks, we haven't used that much oil, only about 1/4 tank since October. However, I'm not going to BS myself into thinking this is holding out forever. God will smack me down with a great big, "**** you" and some -20 mornings in the not-so-distant future. That's when we'll REALLY find out how much we'll be going through.
As it is right now, however, I won't need a fill until after New Year's, if the weather doesn't turn to total crap.
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$3.59 for non-ethanol blend and $3.49 for ethanol blend today. It jumped about 20 cents in the last week.
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$3.59 for non-ethanol blend and $3.49 for ethanol blend today. It jumped about 20 cents in the last week.
Yep. I was just getting used to sub-$3 gas. Now it's $3.15 out at the airport.
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Yep. I was just getting used to sub-$3 gas. Now it's $3.15 out at the airport.
Two weeks ago it was 3.09. Yesterday it was 3.27. I had .50 off a gallon, so I got some mid-grade for 2.94.
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$3.09 on Saturday, $3.19 on Sunday, $3.29 on Monday (today).
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Price jumps just don't seem to make the news like they did a few years ago for some reason.
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Price jumps just don't seem to make the news like they did a few years ago for some reason.
Wonder why............?
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Up 25 cent here in just 3 days and not a single whimper from the news media.
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Up 25 cent here in just 3 days and not a single whimper from the news media.
yep from $2.92 to $3.25 in less than a month here
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Up 25 cent here in just 3 days and not a single whimper from the news media.
On Jan 4, price here on post was $3.18/gal. Yesterday, it was at $3.35. There were all sorts of news stories on New Year's Eve about gas going up 8 cents 1 Jan because of tax increases, but an increase of twice that amount goes unmentioned. It's almost like they don't want to draw attention to it...
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$3.22 here on Saturday; Monday it was $3.49, today it's $3.69.
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yep from $2.92 to $3.25 in less than a month here
Pretty much the same here in Middle TN. I use premium because my Luxury Euro car requires it or it gets kinda bitchy at me. And I think maybe end of November I was paying $3.24 for 93 Octane Premium.
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Got down to $3.18 at one point. Now back up to $3.35. Thanks, Barry!
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$3.00 even here in KC today, and has been dropping for a week.
We just returned from a trip around the south covering over half a dozen states, the price was $2.95 to $3.05 pretty much everywhere EXCEPT Tennessee, when we were returning and had to cut across the southwestern corner of the state (so we didn't stop for gas), but as soon as we hit the Missouri bootheel, it was back to $2.99
doc
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damn TN, Al Gore had something to do with this I just know it!
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$3.55 this morning at the corner station. It was down to $3.37 last week.
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Went in to town this morning and holy crap! Fuel went up nearly 10 cents a liter last night so now we'll have to deal with that for the next week. Next week I image it'll either go up or stay the same...
1.31/L 4.95/G Regular
1.40/L 5.29/G Diesel
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$2.99 at Costco this morning. $3.19 across the street at Kroger. (TN)
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$3.60 yesterday.
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$3.66 today.
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We're creeping back up again. It was $3.45 yesterday. The prices will probably be $3.50 when I head into work on Tuesday.
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$3.69 and $3.54 today. WTF? There has always been 10 cents difference between the ethanol and non-ethanol blends, but now the ethanol blend is 15 cents cheaper? I thought the ethanol subsidies ended on January 1st. Should that cause prices to rise not go down?
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There has always been 10 cents difference between the ethanol and non-ethanol blends, but now the ethanol blend is 15 cents cheaper? I thought the ethanol subsidies ended on January 1st. Should that cause prices to rise not go down?
Now think about it. Is there ANY logic to ANYTHING anymore?
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$3.69 and $3.54 today. WTF? There has always been 10 cents difference between the ethanol and non-ethanol blends, but now the ethanol blend is 15 cents cheaper? I thought the ethanol subsidies ended on January 1st. Should that cause prices to rise not go down?
I'm totally guessing here, but might that be because existing stocks of ethanol produced before the subsidies ended haven't been exhausted yet?
Oh, and $3.399 this morning. Getting a fill of heating oil if/when the guy ever shows up. $3.599. First fill of the season. Gonna be at least 200 gallons.
FML.
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Filled up today at $3.60 for non ethanol and the E-Blend is $3.45. Surprisingly, that is above the $3.39 national average. :sarcasm: Illinois taxes suck.
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Filled up at Sam's this morning for $2.99.......most other stations are at $3.02.
doc
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Yesterday my Racetrack was 3.17, today, 3.29. Wow.
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filled up at Shell today and used my 10cents off a gallon discount so I got it for 3.13 a gallon. I am sure it's cheaper at Costco but it was 5am
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Regular was 3.17 this morning in Mid TN. Wish I used regular....
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Regular was 3.17 this morning in Mid TN. Wish I used regular....
Youz in TN too? :hyper: I am in the armpit of TN
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Youz in TN too? :hyper: I am in the armpit of TN
Yep, Nashville area. Was born were you are at. :)
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Yep, Nashville area. Was born were you are at. :)
THIS VERY CUBICLE? :o
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THIS VERY CUBICLE? :o
:rimshot::
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I hope they changed out the chairs and carpet. :lmao:
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I want to play hookie so bad. MUST NOT USE VACATION........................
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I want to play hookie so bad. MUST NOT USE VACATION........................
You and me both... I might would have called in today but I am short on sick time...
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You and me both... I might would have called in today but I am short on sick time...
I have both but I am trying to really be a good girl this year and not just use it to use it. I would take of 1-2 hrs here and there to go shopping or fishing or just go home. It added up to where I had nothing at all.
Plus if I don't use over 6 hrs of sick time in 3 months I get a bonus day (8 hrs pto) to do with as I see fit. Add that to my bday off paid and I can get an extra 5 days a year.
I plan on taking off 2 whole weeks around Christmas!!!!!!! :hyper: :hyper: :hyper: I think I want to go to Gatlinburg and stay.
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Back above $3.50/gallon here at most stations. Even the discount ones are $3.45-3.48.
Thanks, Barry. Already way ahead of Gasbuddy.com's 2012 forecast.
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Monday we were at 3.23. Today we are at 3.35. Woo!
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$3.51 and $3.36, still the 15 cent difference.
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Last Friday it was $3.11; today it's $3.65. WTF?
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I paid $3.71 a gallon (premium) this morning.
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$3.30-something this afternoon. I forget exactly how much.
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$3.60 in Ocala Fla. yesterday. For regular.
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Yep, $3.60 for the non ethanol and $3.45 for the ethanol blend.
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Yep, $3.60 for the non ethanol and $3.45 for the ethanol blend.
How far south of obamaland is the non-blended available? I know in Kankakee it is not.
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How far south of obamaland is the non-blended available? I know in Kankakee it is not.
It's available in Decatur and most of the surrounding towns in central Illinois.
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3.31....... someone is watching this thread....I feel Obama is a mole here :panic:
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3.37 this am.
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I saw on the news, that the average national price is $3.48, but that prices could go up as much as 60 cents by summer. Of course they are blaming it on middle east tensions, not President
Bush Obama.
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It's available in Decatur and most of the surrounding towns in central Illinois.
Thanks. I think. :-)
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I saw on the news, that the average national price is $3.48, but that prices could go up as much as 60 cents by summer. Of course they are blaming it on middle east tensions, not President Bush Obama.
And just foments the tensions in the Middle East? Who supports the muzzie terrorists who create any shortages?
I will not say his name, but his initials are Barry Obama.
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I saw on the news, that the average national price is $3.48, but that prices could go up as much as 60 cents by summer. Of course they are blaming it on middle east tensions, not President Bush Obama.
Try again. 75 cents higher by MAY, and if the Iranians start getting froggy, bet on $5/gal by then.
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As I said in another thread, if gas gets that high, Obama doesn't stand a chance of being reelected. His refusal to allow for more exploration in the US, coupled with the Keystone XL pipeline refusal, will doom him.
I saw this on Drudge, from ABC:
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/gas-prices-spike-60-cents/story?id=15519576
Gas prices to spike 60 cents or more by May
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Yup. I've long held the opinion that a president can get blow jobs in the Oval Office, can lie, cheat and steal, can take endless vacations and even trash the country over and over again in his speeches, but if the price of gas goes beyond $4 a gallon, that president might as well bend over and grab his ankles because he'll take it right up the ass.
At some point in the game, his anti-business, anti-capitalist policies are going to catch up with him.
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Yup. I've long held the opinion that a president can get blow jobs in the Oval Office, can lie, cheat and steal, can take endless vacations and even trash the country over and over again in his speeches, but if the price of gas goes beyond $4 a gallon, that president might as well bend over and grab his ankles because he'll take it right up the ass.
At some point in the game, his anti-business, anti-capitalist policies are going to catch up with him.
That might be true if the president is a republican and the MSM is constantly blaming him for it. When the president is a DemonRat and the MSM is silent, I'm not so sure.
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$3.62 yesterday for ethanol 87 , 3.89 for ethanol free 89 grade here in eastern NC
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We were at $3.47 a gallon in the morning and then up to $3.54 in the afternoon on Thursday. Yesterday, it was back to $3.47 a gallon. I'll have to check what it is today while we're out.
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Constant excuses from owebumaManiaMedia, when they castigated GWB for the exact same thing. There appears to be a pattern forming here.
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Yup. I've long held the opinion that a president can get blow jobs in the Oval Office, can lie, cheat and steal, can take endless vacations and even trash the country over and over again in his speeches, but if the price of gas goes beyond $4 a gallon, that president might as well bend over and grab his ankles because he'll take it right up the ass.
At some point in the game, his anti-business, anti-capitalist policies are going to catch up with him.
And yet the MSM is claiming his approval is INCREASING.
This after I saw gas going for $3.67 yesterday. Oh, and they're bringing back the cash/credit price differences. Had it for a while, then it mostly disappeared, now making a comeback.
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http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-gas-prices-20120214,0,2776477.story?track=rss
Whee.
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http://www.mcall.com/business/mc-gas-prices-20120214,0,2776477.story?track=rss
Whee.
But Obama gets no blame. Not even for some of the new regulations that are affecting refineries, or the lack of drilling or a new pipeline.
I seem to recall that when prices had spiked under President Bush, and he announced new plans for more drilling, prices almost immediately dropped.
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Is a brotha gonna have to buy another scooter?
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$3.37 hereabouts.
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Is a brotha gonna have to buy another scooter?
He won't get laid I tell ya!!!! :old:
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I seem to recall that when prices had spiked under President Bush, and he announced new plans for more drilling, prices almost immediately dropped.
Unfortunately for Barry, he can't play that card with his record of not just impeding drilling, but actively defying a federal court order to reopen drilling in the Gulf. Good job of backing himself into a corner...
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$3.37 hereabouts.
Sudden jump to $3.57.
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Anybody with a smartphone, I highly suggest the Gas Buddy app.
Saves my butt on a regular basis, especially when Scoobs and I drove to NYC. Had I not stopped in MA on I-84, we would have gotten NAILED buying gas in CT.
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Anybody with a smartphone, I highly suggest the Gas Buddy app.
Saves my butt on a regular basis, especially when Scoobs and I drove to NYC. Had I not stopped in MA on I-84, we would have gotten NAILED buying gas in CT.
I got that. It's great. I update it all the time. I had some crappy service at one gas station by the cashier and I marked that their gas was $3.99 when everyone else was just $3.20 :-) **** with me
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$3.60 a gallon here. ::)
Thanks Obama
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$3.60 a gallon here. ::)
Thanks Obama
Just wait. It'll go higher. A lot higher.
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What ticks me off the most about gas prices is that when they rise, they go up by 5 cents or so at one time....when they fall, they only go down a penny at a time. :mad:
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What ticks me off the most about gas prices is that when they rise, they go up by 5 cents or so at one time....when they fall, they only go down a penny at a time. :mad:
They will also go up from hour to hour.
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I've seen retail Jet Fuel at 8$.
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$3.359 here in north-central Mizz-uhr-ah.
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$3.359 here in north-central Mizz-uhr-ah.
Damn.....it spiked up to $3.29 here a week or so ago (it had been about $3.09), and has been steadily dropping.....filled up yesterday for $3.21.
doc
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Monday through yesterday was 3.49, at the station I monitor, which isn't on a highway or byway. Today it is 3.44. Close to my work, on the highway it is 3.57.
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$3.75 for prem. and I live 10 miles from the second largest refinery in the US. I should not bitch cause when the price goes up my oil royalty checks go up.
We could easily have $5 gas prices if the M.E. erupts
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$3.52 this morning for regular. :censored:
Some woman was trying to fill a beach ball with gasoline from the pump.
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$3.52 this morning for regular. :censored:
Some woman was trying to fill a beach ball with gasoline from the pump.
Liberal terrorist?
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$3.75 for prem. and I live 10 miles from the second largest refinery in the US. I should not bitch cause when the price goes up my oil royalty checks go up.
We could easily have $5 gas prices if the M.E. erupts
It won't take that to occur. It will happen due to normal corporate greed (like every year) and the stupid EPA special gas blends required for various regions.
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Liberal terrorist?
Illiterate airhead
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Jumped up to $3.39 this morning, up $0.18 from yesterday, glad I filled up.......
doc
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$3.70 for reg. @ Wal-Mart today.....
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Monday- 3.49, yesterday 3.44, today 3.43.
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Jumped up to $3.39 this morning, up $0.18 from yesterday, glad I filled up.......
doc
It was still $3.359 this afternoon, even at the Shell station. I filled up, so I might dodge the coming price hike for another week or so.
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Jumped from $3.67 last week to $3.89 this morning.
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I remember about a week or two ago that Saudia Arabia said it wouldn't let oil go over $100 a barrel and now Drudge says they are cutting output? :???:
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It had dropped to $3.52 here on Saturday.
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$3.49 this morning.
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$3.599 locally this morning. And pundits are calling for $4.50 (or higher) by Memorial Day.
Time to start carpooling.
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$3.599 locally this morning. And pundits are calling for $4.50 (or higher) by Memorial Day.
Time to start carpooling.
And time to revisit the whole "Going to Danvers Corporate" one day a week as well. Unless they want to start giving me a gas allowance.
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Costco has it for $3.25 here and everywhere even across the street at Kroger is $3.49 and above. I <3 Costco.
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Oh for the good old days, when gas was less than a quarter, off road fuel was 15 cent and democrat voters actually worked.
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Oh for the good old days, when gas was less than a quarter, off road fuel was 15 cent and democrat voters actually worked.
When was this mythical time when democrats actually worked?? I remember gas under a quarter and bought kerosene for our trailer at $.14/9 when first married but that working democrats thing has me stumped.
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Whoa Nelly! 3.41 last night when I filled up with a frequent customer discount of .40 cents off, so 3.01. Today, 3.59.
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When was this mythical time when democrats actually worked?? I remember gas under a quarter and bought kerosene for our trailer at $.14/9 when first married but that working democrats thing has me stumped.
It was before the war......the war on poverty, that is.
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We are hovering right around $3.60 a gallon for regular.
I heard LA is hitting $4.93 a gallon already.
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Whoa Nelly! 3.41 last night when I filled up with a frequent customer discount of .40 cents off, so 3.01. Today, 3.59.
Obamam is supposed to explain to us tomorrow about the gas. Think the previous admin will be brought up?
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Obamam is supposed to explain to us tomorrow about the gas. Think the previous admin will be brought up?
I'd say let's play a drinking game over it, but even Dead Ted wouldn't be able to chug that much booze.
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If you want to know how to fix America's gas, and economic woes, do the opposite of what owebuma says. owebuma has made every economic step into a complete misstep.
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Pray for me....I'm fix'n to go fill up my pickup truck. :-)
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Pray for me....I'm fix'n to go fill up my pickup truck. :-)
It's worse for me, going to fill up the car and buy a carton of cigarettes.
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$3.60/gal today. $30 for gas and $53 for cigarettes.
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$3.60/gal today. $30 for gas and $53 for cigarettes.
$3.39/9/gal.....$49 for gas and $31.09 for cigarettes....just ruined a $100 bill.
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A hundred dollar bill used to be real money. It seems to me it's like a $10.00 bill from my high school days.
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A hundred dollar bill used to be real money. It seems to me it's like a $10.00 bill from my high school days.
There is something scary about that statement but I am not sure just what, the fact of a kid having ten bucks in hs or that it is now only worth one thenth what it was whenever that was.
Of course gas was around a quarter a gallon or less when I was in hs so maybe that is where I am having the difficulty understanding why a kid would need that kind of dough in hs. I could drive all week on a two dollar bill. :-) 'Course I did have Fiat which got great mileage when being pushed. :rotf:
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It's worse for me, going to fill up the car and buy a carton of cigarettes.
:hammer: :hammer: :hammer:
You need to quit! I used to smoke last date was 8/2007 and I feel so good and the $$ I save is phenominal! Stop drop and roll dude! :hyper:
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Or at least try vaping.
$3.87 this morning. Is anybody going to listen to lord DUmbass tonight? I can't bear it. It'll just be "tax the oil companies 100% on their huge profits!!!!"
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Or at least try vaping.
$3.87 this morning. Is anybody going to listen to lord DUmbass tonight? I can't bear it. It'll just be "tax the oil companies 100% on their huge profits!!!!"
I make it a point to listen to that ****stick as little as humanly possible -- even though I'm not really listening to him, I'm listening to TOTUS.
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I'm not usually the one filling the gas tanks, but in the last week I've been out when they were close to empty, and being the wonderful sweet companion/mother that I am...I put gas in their cars...a whole bunch! $75 in the Tahoe and $55 in the Grand Cherokee...and that didn't fill up either one! :bawl: :bawl: :bawl:
I'm checking the gas gauge before I use their cars again!!!! :thatsright:
Last night at work, I spoke with a woman from upstate NY near Lake Ontario. She heats her house with oil and she just went off about the politicians and the fact that Obama isn't drilling here. She's hoping for a "change" come November. I really wanted to ask if she had voted for Obama. :whistling:
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O'reilly said the gas crunch is making people sick of owebuma. What took them so long ?
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Or at least try vaping.
$3.87 this morning. Is anybody going to listen to lord DUmbass tonight? I can't bear it. It'll just be "tax the oil companies 100% on their huge profits!!!!"
Or maybe not ... > http://www.cbs12.com/articles/cigarette-4738846-smoking-mouth.html
Not what I want happening in my mouth thank you very much.
This has been a very light year for heating here in the North East. But do not mistake that to mean it has been cheap. I was just by a local fuel oil distributor who was displaying the following: $ 3.68 /gal for heating oil. ( No. 2 Dyed I assume )
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$3.35 around here at 9:30 this morning. Now its $3.85. A $0.50 rise in less than 4 hours? WTF?
Twenty miles south of here I filled up this morning for $3.45.
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I just ordered a topoff of my oil tank. $3.599. Up 45 cents from my last fillup less than six weeks ago, and almost a dollar since my first fill in November.
Filled my diesel tank last summer as I knew the "Bummer" was out to **** us farmers. I paid $2.25. Glad I bought it when I did! It's damn near $3 now, and that's for Farm Diesel! It's without 28¢ hwy taxes that the gubmint is so generous to not make us pay! We still have to pay the feds though! Pricks!
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Filled my diesel tank last summer as I knew the "Bummer" was out to **** us farmers. I paid $2.25. Glad I bought it when I did! It's damn near $3 now, and that's for Farm Diesel! It's without 28¢ hwy taxes that the gubmint is so generous to not make us pay! We still have to pay the feds though! Pricks!
Dunno about now, but didn't you used to get the Fed tax back by filing a "farm use" statement with your 1040?
I seem to remember that from when I had to do the farm taxes......I also remember getting a refund of taxes paid on aviation fuel by filing a similiar "non-highway use" form.
doc
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Dunno about now, but didn't you used to get the Fed tax back by filing a "farm use" statement with your 1040?
I seem to remember that from when I had to do the farm taxes......I also remember getting a refund of taxes paid on aviation fuel by filing a similiar "non-highway use" form.
doc
Only a portion nowadays. They say we still use the hwy system in order to get our goods to market and recieve products so we need to pay for the use and convenience. The state of Idaho hasn't followed suit it yet, but if I were in Kalifornica I'd bet it would be a different story.
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Or maybe not ... > http://www.cbs12.com/articles/cigarette-4738846-smoking-mouth.html
Not what I want happening in my mouth thank you very much.
This has been a very light year for heating here in the North East. But do not mistake that to mean it has been cheap. I was just by a local fuel oil distributor who was displaying the following: $ 3.68 /gal for heating oil. ( No. 2 Dyed I assume )
I paid $3.699 for my first fill. Over $700. Going to have to get at least one more fill before the winter is over.
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jumped from 3.25 to 3.44 at Costco within 2 days :thatsright:
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News this morning said it jumped .03 overnight.
The Five is talking about how much gas there is in reserve.... :o
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I paid $3.699 for my first fill. Over $700. Going to have to get at least one more fill before the winter is over.
I am down to my last four hundred pounds of pellets and will probably have to have another fill as well. I figure about 150 gallons for the rest of the year which includes heat and hot water.
Then there is the diesel for the MH :whistling: 90 gallon tank which cost 3.79 per last fall which was up almost exactly a buck from the fall before.
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$3.59 yesterday afternoon and this evening after work it was $3.84. Coincidentally , Obama talked about NOT drilling and raising taxes on the oil companies yesterday. Effin' moron.
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It went from $3.69 this morning to $3.73 on my way home from work. Which means premium is $3.93. I'll be paying $70 a tank next time I fill up. ::)
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Mine went down a few pennies. Always does before the weekend, and goes up on Tuesday. 3.45.
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We're almost set to break the record of most expensive prices we've ever seen here. The record was 1.466/L or 5.54/G for regular.
Regular is 1.397/L, 5.28/G
Diesel is 1.397/L, 5.28/G
Fuel is usually cheaper here this time of year, but we've seen it increase for the last 8 (or 9 I forget) weeks every time it's reset. I'm fully expecting 6.00/G fuel by summer.
Crazy.
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$3.69 this morning (Saturday), the 85% gasoline.
Regular gasoline $3.79.
It went up 30 cents in two days.
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I am down to my last four hundred pounds of pellets and will probably have to have another fill as well. I figure about 150 gallons for the rest of the year which includes heat and hot water.
Then there is the diesel for the MH :whistling: 90 gallon tank which cost 3.79 per last fall which was up almost exactly a buck from the fall before.
We're planning on a short in-state vacation this summer. Now consider that a tank of gas at $4.50 a gallon is going to run close to $85-90 for a tank, and that going from here to, say, Pittsburg and back, the usual running around, etc., will be 2-3 tanks, so we're looking at AT LEAST $250 on gas.
TO STAY IN THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Explain this one to me, someone. Anyone. Please.
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O'reilly said the gas crunch is making people sick of owebuma. What took them so long ?
Yet he seems to be doing everything he can to shift the blame from the president and blame the oil companies with just out right distortion of the oil companies.
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It was $3.85 today in Falmouth... My mum is beyond bullshit!!! Anyway she is flying down to Florida for three weeks...so at least she won't see the snow!!!
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Seen this on facebook: Obama, Pelosie and Reid blamed high gas prices on W in 2007 & 2008. Now is different though and they claim the President is powerless when it comes to oil and gas prices...
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I don't know what is going on but gas stations here are cutting you off at $50 bucks. Can't even fill up in one transaction :???:
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I don't know what is going on but gas stations here are cutting you off at $50 bucks. Can't even fill up in one transaction :???:
They did that last time gas prices went sky high. Some places were cutting people off at $65.
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They did that last time gas prices went sky high. Some places were cutting people off at $65.
I wonder how Peggy Joseph is handling this calamity.
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They did that last time gas prices went sky high. Some places were cutting people off at $65.
but why? I can just hang the pump up then redo the transaction again :???:
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The limit is probably set through psychological data of folks who routinely blow their gasket when having to pony up insane amounts of money to fill their gas tanks.
It's a defensive measure. :argh:
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I used to have an old Chevy pickup with dual tanks. I only filled up both of them once. After looking at the price, I never did that a second time.
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I used to have an old Chevy pickup with dual tanks. I only filled up both of them once. After looking at the price, I never did that a second time.
Pitty the over the road guy who probably has a couple 100 gal tanks, gets around 6 mpg, and has to buy diesel which is about $4.00/gal here in NH. ($800 to fill up for the math challenged)
I have run into limited pumps for diesel too. When I first started driving the MH I didn't realize some stations had diesel nozzles for cars. It can take forever to pump seventy five gallons (roughly three quarters of a tank for me) with a mini-me nozzle not to mention the auto shutoff feature. My theory on the reason was credit limit authorization per transaction as I said when I pump seventy five gallons at four bucks per that gets to be $300 per. I also learned that if I stay around 1875 RPM I get pretty good mileage ( all things considered +- 10 mpg ) but go over that and it drops off sharply.
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but why? I can just hang the pump up then redo the transaction again :???:
I wish they had done that after Katrina. We had these fools in pick up trucks filling up 3&4 55 gal drums. That just drives the price up due to supply and demand.
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I wish they had done that after Katrina. We had these fools in pick up trucks filling up 3&4 55 gal drums. That just drives the price up due to supply and demand.
What's this ? Fools live in a coastal city 20 feet below sea level prone to hurricanes ? Not buying it.
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Gas went up another five cents since 7:45am.
::)
Looking forward to paying over $70 for my next tank of gas. Oh joy.
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Pitty the over the road guy who probably has a couple 100 gal tanks, gets around 6 mpg, and has to buy diesel which is about $4.00/gal here in NH. ($800 to fill up for the math challenged)
I have run into limited pumps for diesel too. When I first started driving the MH I didn't realize some stations had diesel nozzles for cars. It can take forever to pump seventy five gallons (roughly three quarters of a tank for me) with a mini-me nozzle not to mention the auto shutoff feature. My theory on the reason was credit limit authorization per transaction as I said when I pump seventy five gallons at four bucks per that gets to be $300 per. I also learned that if I stay around 1875 RPM I get pretty good mileage ( all things considered +- 10 mpg ) but go over that and it drops off sharply.
zeit--those big rigs routinely hold 300 gallons. And I've seen diesel going for $4.20 already.
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Pitty the over the road guy who probably has a couple 100 gal tanks, gets around 6 mpg, and has to buy diesel which is about $4.00/gal here in NH. ($800 to fill up for the math challenged)
I feel for the little guy that uses off road fuel for grading/farming...around $3.39 here.
I used to use 1,000+ gallons a day....GOD I'm glad I'm retired.
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I turned on my ecochallenge feature on my gps unit today. Usually I speed but it keeps me in line since it show little red, yellow, and green leaves. Saves me gas to slow down.....oh and inflate my tires :p
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I turned on my ecochallenge feature on my gps unit today. Usually I speed but it keeps me in line since it show little red, yellow, and green leaves. Saves me gas to slow down.....oh and inflate my tires :p
Just don't use to much Obama hot air.
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I don't know what is going on but gas stations here are cutting you off at $50 bucks. Can't even fill up in one transaction :???:
I don't know if they still do or not, but credit cards, particularly AmEx used to have a limit of $50 that could be charged at the pump. It was to protect the cardholder - probably even moreso AmEx - against stolen cards. I can remember when AmEx used to automatically charge your account $35 or $50 when getting gas, until the actual charge came in. I only know this, because they charged mine and I couldn't figure out why they charged that amount when I was never putting that much gas in at one time. I called them and they gave me the above answer. That was when I stopped charging gas on my AmEx. :censored:
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$4.14 a gallon. The silence from the MSM, other than blaming the "speculators", is deafening.
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Shit like that is why I got rid of my AMEX, period.
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Shit like that is why I got rid of my AMEX, period.
I never got around to getting one. My Dad had an Amex gold. I was impressed with that in high school. Now, not so much.
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I never got around to getting one. My Dad had an Amex gold. I was impressed with that in high school. Now, not so much.
I had an AMEX when I was working at Rheem, but when I left there I cancelled the card.
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With Amex, I was under the impression that all charges incrued during the individual cycle had to be paid off by the end of said cycle... In that case Amex is protecting their own ass from people charging $200.00 for one gas tank load..
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I turned on my ecochallenge feature on my gps unit today. Usually I speed but it keeps me in line since it show little red, yellow, and green leaves. Saves me gas to slow down.....oh and inflate my tires :p
I noticed doing the speed limit (*gasp!*) is a great way to save gas. On some of my longer commutes, I would drive normally one week and drive the speed limit the next. All other things being constant, doing the posted speed limit is the most fuel-efficient.
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I noticed doing the speed limit (*gasp!*) is a great way to save gas. On some of my longer commutes, I would drive normally one week and drive the speed limit the next. All other things being constant, doing the posted speed limit is the most fuel-efficient.
Don't forget to inflate those tires!!! :wink:
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I need new tires period. The ones on there now are like lumpy wads of Play-Doh.
I wonder if I should get whitewalls (http://hooniverse.com/2012/02/28/hooniverse-asks-what-modern-car-would-look-awesome-with-whitewalls/).
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I noticed doing the speed limit (*gasp!*) is a great way to save gas. On some of my longer commutes, I would drive normally one week and drive the speed limit the next. All other things being constant, doing the posted speed limit is the most fuel-efficient.
Same here. I put the instant fuel feature on my screen and I average about 22-26 MPG on my way to work on that device. I'm hoping by the end of the week my average MPG will be 18-20 MPG now instead of the 15-16 MPG I've been getting with my old driving behaviors.
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I was getting 20-23mpg with the last Camry I had (2.5/auto). Now it seems like I have to fight to get 20mpg with the 2.2/5-speed. The smaller engine just doesn't have enough power to get through into traffic on the way home.
The smaller engine has twice the mileage of the other car. That might be why, but I haven't looked into it. I'm still getting a CEL on the current car.
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Same here. I put the instant fuel feature on my screen and I average about 22-26 MPG on my way to work on that device. I'm hoping by the end of the week my average MPG will be 18-20 MPG now instead of the 15-16 MPG I've been getting with my old driving behaviors.
Have that feature on mine, and I pay much more attention to my driving style than I did before.
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$3.47/9 here yesterday at the cheapest place in town.
I've been down, in bed mostly, with a hurt back for the last 10 days and it hurts to drive....sure has saved me a lot of gas...and cigarettes... :-)
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$3.90 hereabouts today.
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$4/gal for regular, $3.85/gal for ethanol blend.
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MAN! can you just imagine what the news would be like if we had a sitting Republican President right now ::)
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MAN! can you just imagine what the news would be like if we had a sitting Republican President right now ::)
Somehow, it's still Bush's fault.
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$3.699 this morning. Diesel is going for around $4.10, give or take, meaning heating oil is around $3.79.
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$3.699 this morning. Diesel is going for around $4.10, give or take, meaning heating oil is around $3.79.
3.59
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Not $4.00 yet. But it's $3.99.9. Does that count? :mad:
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Not $4.00 yet. But it's $3.99.9. Does that count? :mad:
Works for me. Especially since we don't have coins worth a tenth of a penny.
$3.399 here in north-central MO.
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Works for me. Especially since we don't have coins worth a tenth of a penny.
$3.399 here in north-central MO.
I don't pay the $4.00 per gallon. I go to another less expensive station or to Indiana.
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What's this ? Fools live in a coastal city 20 feet below sea level prone to hurricanes ? Not buying it.
I live in Baton Rouge not New Orleans.
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I gassed up this morning at $3.85/gallon. Other places hereabouts are at or near $3.99.
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I live in Baton Rouge RED STICK, not New Orleans.
FIFY. You're in America now, we speak English here.
Oh, I really gotta get out of here. I hate Friday afternoons.
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FIFY. You're in America now, we speak English here.
Oh, I really gotta get out of here. I hate Friday afternoons.
I wuz gonna make the same suggestion, Sparks! Red Stick! :-)
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$4.19 this morning. Still silence from the MSM.
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FIFY. You're in America now, we speak English here.
Oh, I really gotta get out of here. I hate Friday afternoons.
Some people would not know what I was talking about if I said Red Stick or the Crescent City. Just like I mentioned that gas was 2 bits when I started driving.
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Leveled off, even dropped two cents here in So Cal, at $4.23.
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Some people would not know what I was talking about if I said Red Stick or the Crescent City. Just like I mentioned that gas was 2 bits when I started driving.
"Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everyone for ConservativeCave, stand up and holler!!"
Then Gina, BEG, and Trav, in their best cheerleader moves, do the splits!
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"Two bits, four bits, six bits, a dollar! Everyone for ConservativeCave, stand up and holler!!"
Then Gina, BEG, and Trav, in their best cheerleader moves, do the splits!
I really liked that "bit".
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$4.14 for regular, $3.99 for E+ the ethanol blend.
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$4.14 for regular, $3.99 for E+ the ethanol blend.
Are you serious? Did you have tornadoes rip through your area? That's quite a bit higher than us for regular. It was $3.81 a gallon for regular when I left work yesterday.
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Are you serious? Did you have tornadoes rip through your area? That's quite a bit higher than us for regular. It was $3.81 a gallon for regular when I left work yesterday.
All the nasty weather was south of us. This was close to a 20 cent jump in the last couple of days. Several other stations were a few pennies lower, but this is the local one.
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All the nasty weather was south of us. This was close to a 20 cent jump in the last couple of days. Several other stations were a few pennies lower, but this is the local one.
AND - it's in Illinois, the land of graft, greed and nepotism.
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$4.93 a gallon in West LA. That's for regular; hi-test (premium for you youngsters) is $5.33. They jump in 20-cent increments between regular-midgrade-premium, not 10-cent increments.
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$4.10 this morning. WTF?
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$3.47 a gallon for 3 days in a row...Obama has stopped inflation[DU/mode]
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3.59 at the beginning of the week, finished up at 3.55.
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Gas had dropped for a few days to $4.09 but today is back to $4.13.
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Friday: 3.55, same pumps today, 3.67. Duuuuuuuuude.
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$4.10 here (in the major stations).
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Hope for some change!
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Hope for some change!
Yes we canny hopey for some changey. Now chant after me, owe...bum...a. Repeat in trancelike state.
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I am going to have to get a 2nd job to afford the gas prices...ugga!!!!
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Just saw gas go up at the Sunoco in Seabrook to $3.759/gal, and Diesel is $4.359/gal. Granted, they're on the high side, but not by that much. Gas Buddy app is getting one hell of a workout.
Oh, and lots of stations are now going back to the extra 5-10 cents per gallon if you use credit versus cash/debit.
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$3.599 here in north-central Mizz-uhr-ah.
It's gone up 10 cents in less than a week.
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Just saw gas go up at the Sunoco in Seabrook to $3.759/gal, and Diesel is $4.359/gal. Granted, they're on the high side, but not by that much. Gas Buddy app is getting one hell of a workout.
Oh, and lots of stations are now going back to the extra 5-10 cents per gallon if you use credit versus cash/debit.
What is the Gas buddy app??
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What is the Gas buddy app??
Got a smart phone?
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Got a smart phone?
I just need to sign up
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Got a smart phone?
I was able to get it on my straight talk phone.Thankyou so much!!!
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I got gas in the Tahoe about an hour and a half ago and I didn't look to see what it was a gallon..I was needing chocolate too much as it was.. :( (my stress level is about at max :panic: )
All I know is I put in $45 and it was just barely past half a tank.
MF'er Obama. :censored:
Oh...and the reason I didn't put more in? I was using a debit card and it cut me off at that much. :???: It must be all they(Pilot) are allowing anyone to put on a debit card, I know it had nothing to do with the balance in my checking account.
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I got gas in the Tahoe about an hour and a half ago and I didn't look to see what it was a gallon..I was needing chocolate too much as it was.. :( (my stress level is about at max :panic: )
All I know is I put in $45 and it was just barely past half a tank.
MF'er Obama. :censored:
No no no...
It's the evil oil companies. Not Obama. Just ask him. He will tell ya.
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Regular jumped another two cents from morning to evening. We are now at $3.90 for regular... ::)
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Just paid $4.55/gal for a diesel grade in Shawnee Oklahoma. KSNL.
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Heating oil at $3.80/gal here, and I don't know if I can afford to fill the tank at the end of the season...and I don't know if I can afford NOT to fill the tank at the end of the season.
FML. About the only good thing I can say is that this winter was so mild we may get away with using "only" 400 or so gallons. God help us when heating oil pushes $5/gal and we have a ball-shrinking cold winter (think -20 and the like.)
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Friday: 3.55, same pumps today, 3.67. Duuuuuuuuude.
3.67 on Monday, 3.78 at the same pump today. 23 cents up from Friday. Sheesh!
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Heating oil at $3.80/gal here, and I don't know if I can afford to fill the tank at the end of the season...and I don't know if I can afford NOT to fill the tank at the end of the season.
FML. About the only good thing I can say is that this winter was so mild we may get away with using "only" 400 or so gallons. God help us when heating oil pushes $5/gal and we have a ball-shrinking cold winter (think -20 and the like.)
Are you saying petroleum prices effect more than just gasoline and diesel ? Shazam, here are the headlines screaming "Obama Freezes Senior Citizens"? :yawn:
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Heating oil at $3.80/gal here, and I don't know if I can afford to fill the tank at the end of the season...and I don't know if I can afford NOT to fill the tank at the end of the season.
FML. About the only good thing I can say is that this winter was so mild we may get away with using "only" 400 or so gallons. God help us when heating oil pushes $5/gal and we have a ball-shrinking cold winter (think -20 and the like.)
Heating oil used so far this year....49 gallons just before Christmas and 87 gallons on Febuary 28....been fairly warm since then so maybe 30 gallons will fill the tank at the end of heating season.
High 50's last night and 81 right now at 2 pm.
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Went up 10 cents per gal on prem. in the last couple of days. Repubs should hang those high prices around Obama and the Democrats necks in the upcoming election. Those jerks wants high gas prices.
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Obama is going to tap the stetegic oil reserves....typical democrat move just before getting run out of office. Carter did it, Clinton did it, now it's Obama's turn.
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Obama is going to tap the stetegic oil reserves....typical democrat move just before getting run out of office. Carter did it, Clinton did it, now it's Obama's turn.
I think that around August-October, Obama will start doing things like okaying drilling permits and maybe even the Keystone pipeline.
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I think that around August-October, Obama will start doing things like okaying drilling permits and maybe even the Keystone pipeline.
Still be too late. By that time the price won't have come down much, and people remembering how their vacations or other plans were ruined by $4.50-5.00/gal gas is still going to be fresh in their minds.
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Still be too late. By that time the price won't have come down much, and people remembering how their vacations or other plans were ruined by $4.50-5.00/gal gas is still going to be fresh in their minds.
Obama will have a bunch of surprises for us in the coming months. Not going to do him any good cause gas prices and unemployment will still be high. Obama is going to get creamed in Nov.
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Obama is going to tap the stetegic oil reserves....typical democrat move just before getting run out of office. Carter did it, Clinton did it, now it's Obama's turn.
Bush 43 did it too.
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$4.29 for regular unleaded here. $3.89 in Indiana about 50 miles.
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A buddy of mine just moved to Silver Springs, MD, from here. She posted a pic of 4.69 regular at an Exxon, and said it was over 5.00 in DC. How can it be that we aren't hearing about that somewhere???
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Heating oil at $3.80/gal here, and I don't know if I can afford to fill the tank at the end of the season...and I don't know if I can afford NOT to fill the tank at the end of the season.
FML. About the only good thing I can say is that this winter was so mild we may get away with using "only" 400 or so gallons. God help us when heating oil pushes $5/gal and we have a ball-shrinking cold winter (think -20 and the like.)
Have you looked into supplementing heating? like pellets or a wood stove? It seems when heating oil goes up, all the other heating options go up too.
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$4.13 (for premium) at my favorite fill up station this morning. I'll need gas by the end of next week. I'm thinking the price will be around $4.22 a gallon by then.
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How do they expect people to live, get around, feed their familes etc???
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How do they expect people to live, get around, feed their familes etc???
Foodstamps and unemployment. Those are what drive the economy according to DemonRats.
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How do they expect people to live, get around, feed their familes etc???
They don't care. I am very thankful I live eight miles from work. The thing that's really hurting us is our grocery budget again. The coupons just aren't good anymore. The sales ads are so-so, but there are no good coupons for match ups. Every time we get groceries, the bill inches up more & more. It really sucks. And I know it's going to get worse as the diesel prices climb.
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They don't care. I am very thankful I live eight miles from work. The thing that's really hurting us is our grocery budget again. The coupons just aren't good anymore. The sales ads are so-so, but there are no good coupons for match ups. Every time we get groceries, the bill inches up more & more. It really sucks. And I know it's going to get worse as the diesel prices climb.
Yet fuel and food aren't included in the governments inflation figures. They aren't include in the BLM statistics that we use for contract negotiations either.
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3.76 yesterday, 3.85 today.
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Varying anywhere from $3.67 to $3.83 this morning.
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Fox News is reporting that Reuters has said that the US and Britain have reached an agreement to release oil from their Strategic Oil Reserves. However, Fox later reported that the White House is denying the report.
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Fox News is reporting that Reuters has said that the US and Britain have reached an agreement to release oil from their Strategic Oil Reserves. However, Fox later reported that the White House is denying the report.
Another ally thrown under the bus, and I think we know which bus.
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Obama claims there is no "silver bullet" to lowering gas prices. Can he explain why oil prices immediately dropped when Reuters first broke their story?
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Obama claims there is no "silver bullet" to lowering gas prices. Can he explain why oil prices immediately dropped when Reuters first broke their story?
TPOUS Obama, the gift that keeps on gettin it wrong. Let see there is no silver bullet but he is releasing oil as a silver bullet. This is 3D Chess at its best. :lol:
And for my sighting of signs today:
Diesel today Maine $4.43 NH $4.15 Heating oil NH $3.65 (I had to take a run over to Maine today)
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TPOUS Obama, the gift that keeps on gettin it wrong. Let see there is no silver bullet but he is releasing oil as a silver bullet. This is 3D Chess at its best. :lol:
And for my sighting of signs today:
Diesel today Maine $4.43 NH $4.15 Heating oil NH $3.65 (I had to take a run over to Maine today)
3 democrats challenged a republican to a chess game. The democrats took the first move. Then the republican made his first move and the democrats in unison jumped up and began to protest. They called the Republican a cheater and said the game was unfair. They demanded rule changes to "level the playing field". When the democrats were asked exactly what their complaint with the republican player was, they explained, "He actually knows how to play the game."
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3 democrats challenged a republican to a chess game. The democrats took the first move. Then the republican made his first move and the democrats in unison jumped up and began to protest. They called the Republican a cheater and said the game was unfair. They demanded rule changes to "level the playing field". When the democrats were asked exactly what their complaint with the republican player was, they explained, "He actually knows how to play the game."
H5
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3 democrats challenged a republican to a chess game. The democrats took the first move. Then the republican made his first move and the democrats in unison jumped up and began to protest. They called the Republican a cheater and said the game was unfair. They demanded rule changes to "level the playing field". When the democrats were asked exactly what their complaint with the republican player was, they explained, "He actually knows how to play the game."
Best one I heard today. ^5 And it is true.
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Under the ebil Boosh regime, I could get a round-trip ticket to Raleigh to visit my family for $150. Now, that's what a one-way ticket costs and that's Delta, not Soutwest.
Thanks, Barry. You're the best. :bird:
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Obama claims there is no "silver bullet" to lowering gas prices. Can he explain why oil prices immediately dropped when Reuters first broke their story?
Heh...
That's good stuff.
Do you think that if he just made a false threat to approve Keystone it would move the needle.
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Heh...
That's good stuff.
Do you think that if he just made a false threat to approve Keystone it would move the needle.
That and obeying a court decision to allow drilling in the Gulf surely would have a physiological effect and prices would go down.
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That and obeying a court decision to allow drilling in the Gulf surely would have a physiological effect and prices would go down.
Bbbbut so would his stock with his base on the oh so green left wing. :mental:
The difference between Maine and New Hampshire? Maine has suffed under a liberal democrat form of government for the last twenty years with the following result: Cost of a half gallon of milk in Maine $2.33 price at same store chain in New Hampshire $1.78. NH, no sales or income tax. Maine has both.
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$4.19/gal for non-ethanol. :censored:
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We have no choice--it's always got ethanol in it here.
Average price fairly steady, but still creeping up slowly at around $3.75/gal. I'm expecting a jump this week, next week at the latest.
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We have no choice--it's always got ethanol in it here.
Average price fairly steady, but still creeping up slowly at around $3.75/gal. I'm expecting a jump this week, next week at the latest.
We have the 10% ethanol blend, which had been 15 cents cheaper than the non-ethanol, but this morning the blended was 20 cents cheaper. $4.19 versus $3.99.
I thought the subsidies for ethanol didn't get renewed?
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I thought the subsidies for ethanol didn't get renewed?
Like that would matter?
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$3.51/9 here this morning.
I'll gladly pay $5 a gallon for a short time if it meant Obama being defeated.
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3.62 this morning :bawl:
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Like that would matter?
Ethanol has been a massive disaster, just like every time the libs try to artificially affect green industries.
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Ethanol has been a massive disaster, just like every time the libs try to artificially affect green industries.
True. With the increased production of corn to make that crap, farmers have switched from other grain crops to the more profitability of growing more corn. This has led to the reduction and supply causing prices to increase leading to disastrous consequences. Those that live in 3rd world countries spend 50 per cent or more on food to exist and widespread starvation exist because of this stupidity. We can thank Democrats and Republicans for one of the dumbest things that this government has ever done. Even Al Gore says ethanol was a terrible idea.
I did not even mention that corn requires more fertilizer and water than other grain crops. Fertilizer prices have shot up thru the roof. Another concern is that the growing of corn year after year without cross rotating/planting will ruin the soil and eventually nothing will grown there because of high PH levels of certain elements.
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True. With the increased production of corn to make that crap, farmers have switched from other grain crops to the more profitability of growing more corn. This has led to the reduction and supply causing prices to increase leading to disastrous consequences. Those that live in 3rd world countries spend 50 per cent or more on food to exist and widespread starvation exist because of this stupidity. We can thank Democrats and Republicans for one of the dumbest things that this government has ever done. Even Al Gore says ethanol was a terrible idea.
I did not even mention that corn requires more fertilizer and water than other grain crops. Fertilizer prices have shot up thru the roof. Another concern is that the growing of corn year after year without cross rotating/planting will ruin the soil and eventually nothing will grown there because of high PH levels of certain elements.
Illuminating, but again, I chalk it up to the libs and them never considering the law of unintended consequences.
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4.15 a gallon here in the Magical Mitten! :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :bawl: :bawl: :bawl: :argh: :argh: :argh: :argh: :mad:
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Tuesday we were at 3.78, and today we are at 3.89. Daaaaaaaaaaang.
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Gas dropped from $3.71 to $3.52 in the last two weeks.
It was $3.94 and up in Raleigh last week. It probably still is.
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Got gas at Kroger's on Sunday for $3.63 because I had Kroger points and got .03 off each gallon.
Went to Exxon this morning, and it was $3.79!!! I paid cash, so none of that was even credit/debit card fee. :(
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3.80 here.
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$4.65 here.
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Well, I will probably fill up this afternoon.....right after swinging by CVS/WALGREEN/WAL-MART and buying a large tube of KY-jelly.
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Well, I will probably fill up this afternoon.....right after swinging by CVS/WALGREEN/WAL-MART and buying a large tube of KY-jelly.
Okay, that lasat part was TMI!!!
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Okay, that lasat part was TMI!!!
Hey, just trying to make the screwing as painless as possible.
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(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j191/lc_efa/public/2012-03-29215753-1.jpg)
Bitch , Bitch , Bitch.
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$3.94 a gal for reg, in central Florida
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$4.49 around here, but on some errands this morning I gassed up at $4.09 in Peotone, IL.
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Filled up this morning for $3.59......down $0.05 overnight.
doc
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$4.09 for reg. and $4.29 for non-ethanol today.
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Just filled up....$3.59/9....I can remember when $3.59 would have been a fillup.
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Just filled up....$3.59/9....I can remember when $3.59 would have been a fillup.
So do I......but you could also buy a postage stamp for $.03 at the same time, a St. Louis Cardinals Sunday double-header would cost you a quarter, and you got a streetcar pass for free along with it.......
doc
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$3.99 today, almost had a heart attack!!! :o :o
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3.69 and I had to fill up my new van.. 20.5 gallons :bawl:
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Gas dropped 2 cents over night at the local station.
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Good thing I'm holding off on buying the new truck for a bit. Filled up the Jeep today and that alone was $65.
The F-150's have a 36 gallon tank. $4/gal X 36 gallons = $Holyshit.
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I put $66 in the Jaguar this morning.
The GTO ate $71 this morning.
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Avgas $5.45/gal at KRKR
$6.65/gal at KFSM
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Gas Price Hypocrisy
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKdScVerrBU&feature=related[/youtube]
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I'm guessing he doesn't have to worry about filling his tank or paying his mortgage.
Meanwhile, most of the rest of us are getting up an hour early to carpool and not getting home until 12-14 hours later. God help us if one of the kids gets sick or hurt and we need to head home or to school during the day.
$3.90 here now. Even the "cheap" stuff is running $3.85. I'm still seeing $4.25 by Memorial Day.
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$3.64/9 this Easter morning in S.C. for the cheap 10% alcohol blend.
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$4.27 here, but I fueled up today in Kenosha, WI, for $3.93.
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It's 3.75 here now :panic:
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This thread needs a smiley with a syphoning hose... :-) ...sometimes called a Georgia credit card.
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$3.79 unless it went up again over night... :mad:
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Regular gas went from $3.99 yesterday to $4.05 this morning.
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I HATE OBAMA
and
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Half the refining capacity on the populous US east coast is set to disappear. Sunoco has pulled the plug on two refineries already and warns that another in Philadelphia will close in July if no buyer steps forward. ConocoPhillips is trying to sell a refinery in Pennsylvania, idle since last year. On May 1, it will spin off its refining business. More than 3m barrels of daily refinery capacity have closed in western countries, since the financial crisis, says the International Energy Agency, the west’s oil watchdog. Emerging economies have meanwhile added 4.2m b/d in capacity, with another 1.8m b/d coming this year. “It’s really a tale of two markets,†says Toril Bosoni, IEA senior oil analyst. “You have very contrasting pictures for economic growth and demand, and refining is reflecting what’s going on elsewhere.â€
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Don't forget Valero is also trying to sell off their refineries, if they haven't already.
The reason? They're money-losers.
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I try to avoid Falmouth, Maine which is $4.00 and a bit, compared to Scarborough which is $3.80.
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I'm guessing he doesn't have to worry about filling his tank or paying his mortgage.
Meanwhile, most of the rest of us are getting up an hour early to carpool and not getting home until 12-14 hours later. God help us if one of the kids gets sick or hurt and we need to head home or to school during the day.
$3.90 here now. Even the "cheap" stuff is running $3.85. I'm still seeing $4.25 by Memorial Day.
Nicely done reference to Peggy Joseph. The poster person for owebuma's last campaign.
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$3.39.9 in Columbia, MO
This is not good. When gas prices come down -- dramatically as they have over the past couple of weeks -- the Magic Negro begins to look good to a lot of sheeple.
:popcorn:
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It was $3.35.9 when I filled up yesterday....it's $3.32.9 today...in S.C..
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$3.48 this morning but some places are still selling for $3.71 and up.
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Still $3.93 here.
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Down to $3.24 here this morning.......
doc
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Steady at $4.20 for about a week.
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Down to $3.49 here this afternoon. That's over .30 less than 3-4 weeks ago.
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I doubt it'll decrease in Illinois. Illinois taxes gasoline by the COST PER GALLON, not on each individual gallon. BIG difference!
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Down by about a dime from the peak, but still hovering over $3.75 in a lot of spots.
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Down by about a dime from the peak, but still hovering over $3.75 in a lot of spots.
$3.59 at BJ's just a few hours back.
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Gas jumped up three cents today.
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Gas and fuel need to get down to around $2.25 to $2.35 to be inline with where it should be compared to other items/goods.
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Unrelated to gasoline so much, but in talking to my propane dealer (we heat in the winter with propane), price has gone down from $1.99 per gallon last year to the current price of $1.74.
I need to contract to buy 1,000 gallons. Last year we went through 800 gallons.
I think about the carbon footprint we're leaving and I just swooooooooon. :-)
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Unrelated to gasoline so much, but in talking to my propane dealer (we heat in the winter with propane), price has gone down from $1.99 per gallon last year to the current price of $1.74.
I need to contract to buy 1,000 gallons. Last year we went through 800 gallons.
I think about the carbon footprint we're leaving and I just swooooooooon. :-)
Will the footprint be as big as a wookieyeti footprint ?
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Will the footprint be as big as a wookieyeti footprint ?
There is not much on this planet bigger than a wookieyeti footprint, other than a wookieyeti's assprint.
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There is not much on this planet bigger than a wookieyeti footprint, other than a wookieyeti's assprint.
You forgot the wookieyeti's ego and vacation budget.
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You forgot the wookieyeti's ego and vacation budget.
:thatsright:
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For the past 3 weeks the price has bounced around the $3.75 to $3.80 range. I noticed this evening that it had jumped to $3.95.
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We are averaging around $3.90 for regular.
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I actually saw regular for 3.25 today. I don't expect it to last.
I put premium in the MG today but it was only five gallons.
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$3.64 at the Gibbs in Rye, NH
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$3.35.9 in Columbia, MO.
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Paid $3.569 at BJ's Friday.
Still think I'm paying at least $1/gallon more than I should. AT LEAST.
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$3.43 here on Friday.
Probably won't last with summer vacation time coming. :(
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$3.17/9 when I filled up Wednesday....$3.14/9 this morning.
Obama is doing a wonderful job... :whatever:...economy get a little worse and they'll be giving gas away for free... :whatever:
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Meanwhile the zombies for owebuma chant "O bum a", and "mmm mmm mmm Barak Hussein owebuma".
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Diesel in Greenland, NH 6/25/2012 $3.66 / gal
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(http://www.kdhnews.com/images/story/67364_gasoline1.jpg)
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Pi here for regular unleaded.
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$3.49.9 in Kansas City yesterday.
$3.17.9 in Boonville, MO (about 100 miles from KC) the same day.
WTF?
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Just filled up....$2.94/9 for the cheapest grade with 10% corn fed rat piss in it.
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$3.03 here but my car takes premium, so it's about $3.40.
Good thing that car has a small tank.
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Gas jumped 16 cents overnight. It was $3.39 fir the cheap stuff on Saturday and today it was $3.55, the premium is $3.75.
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Gas jumped 16 cents overnight. It was $3.39 fir the cheap stuff on Saturday and today it was $3.55, the premium is $3.75.
Filled up at noon today $2.99/9...that's up 15 cent over the other day.
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It's up 10 cents or more around here.
Thought Obama fixed the gas prices.....
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It's gone up 8cents over the weekend.... here we go again :panic:
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Now down to $3.47 (reg) this morning. I hope it continues.
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Now down to $3.47 (reg) this morning. I hope it continues.
I'm paying that much for premium. Ouch.
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Gas went up $.30 cents over the past two weeks here. I guess the drop was just a teaser.
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$3.31 for prem. in Baton Rouge. We just can not catch a break with that obumed out idiot in office.
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A lot of the price is direct and indirect taxes. Given how fickle the average voter seems to be, I entertain "evil" thoughts like hoping it gets significantly higher between now and the election. Sadly, that may help us remove Obama more than winning hearts and minds to the conservative side.
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Price range of $3.05 - $3.09/gal For regular and $3.29 - $3.39 for Premium. Prices have dropped a few cents lately.
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Gas prices here in Denton have gone up 23 cents in the last two weeks, from $3.06 to $3.29.
My bank account loves that.
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Was $3.35 yesterday morning, and $3.49 that afternoon.
Oh, ****in joy.
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A lot of the price is direct and indirect taxes. Given how fickle the average voter seems to be, I entertain "evil" thoughts like hoping it gets significantly higher between now and the election. Sadly, that may help us remove Obama more than winning hearts and minds to the conservative side.
I like your thinking. When Romney takes office, the price would drop drastically with a good energy policy.
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$3.79 (again).
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It went up .10 cents yesterday here in Happy Valley. It is now $3.49.
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Todays local gas prices are a range of $3.14 - $3.39/gal for regular and $3.27 - $3.78 for premium. Reg went up about .10/gal from a week ago Premium stayed the same on the bottom end but went up .40/gal on the top end. the major difference is the price spread around town. Usually only a couple pennies a gal spread.
A reasonable energy policy would stabilize prices but the upswing for now is summertime travel increase which increases demand.
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A reasonable energy policy would stabilize prices but the upswing for now is summertime travel increase which increases demand.
The upswing is also because of gas company greed. Not the local dealers, but the big petroleum bloc.
Every station raises the price at the exact same time. Now who says there's no collusion among the companies?
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The upswing is also because of gas company greed. Not the local dealers, but the big petroleum bloc.
Every station raises the price at the exact same time. Now who says there's no collusion among the companies?
I dunno what's going on but something is in the wind. Normally there is usually a couple pennies difference in prices here ,I've never in 20 yrs seen a .25 difference in price.
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Gas jumped up to $3.62 in the past couple of days.
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The cheap gas was $3.04/9 when I filled up yesterday. Up 20 cent from a couple of weeks ago.
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Yup...paid $3.329/gal on vacation two weeks ago. Paid $3.559/gal this morning.
Ordered a tank of oil before THAT starts going back up.
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Yup...paid $3.329/gal on vacation two weeks ago. Paid $3.559/gal this morning.
Ordered a tank of oil before THAT starts going back up.
Stopped in Northwood for diesel at $3.55/9. I only could take 20 gallons but hey it was ten cents more on the coast and two bucks is two bucks when your going right by. :whistling:
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Another price jump to $3.89 for the good stuff.
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$3.85 today. In Indiana. $3.99 and up in the Communist Republic of Illinois.
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$3.489/gal at the local Cumby's, but that's gonna go up FAST. Usually the price at work versus home is a good indication of where prices are headed--and prices at work are in the $3.559-3.599 range, unless you get the no-name stuff and then you might save a penny or two.
BJ's is about the cheapest I've seen at $3.469, but the lines are INSANE.
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$3.489/gal at the local Cumby's, but that's gonna go up FAST. Usually the price at work versus home is a good indication of where prices are headed--and prices at work are in the $3.559-3.599 range, unless you get the no-name stuff and then you might save a penny or two.
BJ's is about the cheapest I've seen at $3.469, but the lines are INSANE.
I ran up and back to Vt on a tank of $3.55 diesel from Northwood, when I went by on the way home it was $3.71! And I wasn't there all that long. I will have to see what it is today at Fliteline and Travel Port ( usually more expensive).
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$3.18/9 yesterday. Filled up pickup, got some for weedeater and lawnmower and all I had left was lunch money from a $100 bill.....if I ate lite.
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WTF???? $4.05 and $3.85 today.
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$3.49.9 in Columbia, MO today.
Slightly cheaper further north, but that won't last. Blew through two $20 bills in getting half a tank. :bird:
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WTF? Made a quick trip to the local station for cigarettes, and checked the prices. $4.21 and $4.01.
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Went up 14 cents between Monday and Sunday afternoons in the N. Dallas area. Awesome...
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It went up .10 cents overnight here. It is now $3.69.
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Whoa.
A twenty-cent jump overnight, from $3.47 to $3.67.
Just like that.
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It's been at $3.53 for a few days. However, I expect the Richmond fire to jack that up.
http://www.scpr.org/blogs/economy/2012/08/07/9317/q-chevron-richmond-refinery-fire-and-higher-gas-pr/
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$3.41 - $3.59 for regular. $3.61 - $3.75 Premium. $3.59 - $3.72 for Diesel . Have never seen a price spread like that in town, never. Avg about 15 cents a gal cheaper than 25 miles down the road.
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$3.09 for regular on the 4th of July. Now, it's 3.47. 38 cents increase in just over 30 days
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I'd love to see $7 per gallon gas prices....
in early November for just a few days, a week tops.
If that doesn't put the proverbial nail in Barry's coffin, I'm not sure what else would.
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I'd love to see $7 per gallon gas prices....
in early November for just a few days, a week tops.
If that doesn't put the proverbial nail in Barry's coffin, I'm not sure what else would.
I'd bee willing to put up with that from now until November 7th.
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I'd bee willing to put up with that from now until November 7th.
Maybe that's owebuma's going away planned present to the insignificant American people.
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I'd love to see $7 per gallon gas prices....
in early November for just a few days, a week tops.
If that doesn't put the proverbial nail in Barry's coffin, I'm not sure what else would.
You'll be close to getting your wish. The refinery fire in CA, coupled with rising crude prices and fall shutdowns, meaning the average gas price will hit $4/gal by September (again.)
Couple that with over 8 percent unemployment and you can stick a fork in the Obamanation.
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Jumped from $3.60 to $4.29 overnight.
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Jumped from $3.60 to $4.29 overnight.
Ouch.
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Ouch.
That ouch should go directly to owebuma's re election campaign.
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I'd love to see $7 per gallon gas prices....
in early November for just a few days, a week tops.
If that doesn't put the proverbial nail in Barry's coffin, I'm not sure what else would.
I would like to see it jump up to 5 or 6 bucks a gal from now to the convention so that more emphasis would be on drilling on federal land and waters.
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I would like to see it jump up to 5 or 6 bucks a gal from now to the convention so that more emphasis would be on drilling on federal land and waters.
Would that be Bush's fault ?
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Would that be Bush's fault ?
He gets for everything. So, why not.
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$3.699 at the Sunoco on Route 1 in Seabrook. $3.589 at BJ's, which is about as cheap as it gets.
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$3.59.9 in Columbia, MO. Prices shot up 40 cents in 3 weeks. :o
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Jumped from $3.60 to $4.29 overnight.
Holy :censored:
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Yesterday it plummeted to $4.17.
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Reported to be $5 a gal in West Covina this morning.
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Reported to be $5 a gal in West Covina this morning.
There's ONE in West Covina charging $4.79/gal, but it's an outlier. Most are in the $4.10-4.20 range, with some as low as $3.90. Still way too high, but nowhere near $5/gal.
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I have to buy 93 octane for the MG. Thank God it only has a ten gallon tank.
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$4.16 in Indiana this morning, where it's cheaper than in oblamoland.
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Gasbuddy.com is still the best app.
And some Chicago area places are approaching $4.30-4.40/gallon.
Hopey changey, kids!
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Bottom range for Regular & Premium has risen a couple pennies in the last few days while top range remained the same. Diesel fuel has gone up 7 cents/gal.
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Fuel prices are still fairly stable here.
5.14/G Regular
5.44/G HT
4.87/G Diesel
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Filled up the truck this morning, bought a cartoon of cheap cigarettes, a cup of plain coffee and I ain't even got baloney sandwich money left from a $100 bill.
Gas $3.28/9 for the cheapest grade.
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$3.43 today, I paid $3.52 on Saturday.
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Filled up the truck this morning, bought a cartoon of cheap cigarettes, a cup of plain coffee and I ain't even got baloney sandwich money left from a $100 bill.
Gas $3.28/9 for the cheapest grade.
Look at the bright side--had I got the F-150 I was looking at earlier this year, it would have taken TWO of those $100 bills to fill up, since they have a 36-gallon tank.
Oh, and a carton of smokes up here goes for $55.
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Look at the bright side--had I got the F-150 I was looking at earlier this year, it would have taken TWO of those $100 bills to fill up, since they have a 36-gallon tank.
Oh, and a carton of smokes up here goes for $55.
I'll ship you a truck load and we'll split the profit.
Might have a little problem under cutting the muslims though.
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Down to $3.99 and $3.79 for the two grades.
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what do you guys think of this response for saving us from choking gas prices?
cross posted from my blog: thehackreport.blogspot.com
Guess what guys? I have a proposed solution!! Lets re-start the oil production and extraction industry off our shores, lets kick-start oil and gas extraction across the nation! Why are we not drilling for oil in Alaska? That hippie argument about some musk-ox migration trails has just about run its course. More importantly, why is our president so anti-energy? There are so many jobs out there just waiting....
Can we please consider drilling for oil in Anwar? Can we at least open the discussion about getting rid of harmful and pointless regulations over offshore drilling? Accidents happen, processes are improved. We need jobs!
Nobody seems to realize that this would create hundreds of thousands, if not millions of high-paying private sector jobs, lower gas prices, and increase our national security! Its a 3-fer, a tripply whammy!
If we completely get rid of (Obama's) moritoriums over offshore drilling, start drilling in Alaska (carefully!) and open up the gas fracking and extraction industry nation-wide (again, focus on safety and environmental concern) we will SOAR out of recession! Not only will we gain millions of high-paying jobs, but landowners will benefit from natural gas extraction revenues, and EVERY SINGE PERSON will see a significant gain in their real income, due to the fall in gas prices!
There are very few negatives compared to the benefits to this in the slightest! As long as we ensure that these operations are conducted with utmost environmental caution (It will be so crazilly profitable, these oil companies will be able to afford many redundant safeguards), this is as close to a victimless, perfect, solution to all our problems.
I think this needs to be opened for discussion. This is how to stimulate an economy, not government spending
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3.43 on Tuesday, 3.59 today. Wowza.
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$4.08 today.
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The price is up to $3.79 here in Happy Valley.
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^Dump owebuma, and consider it done.
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$4.09 for the higher today, up from $3.93 yesterday. WTF? It will drop a few pennies over the next coupe of days, maybe.
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Just came from the store $3.38/9 for the cheapest...that's up 50 cent from about a month ago.
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$3.55 for regular here. Last time I looked, I was paying $3.40 for premium and under $3.20 for regular. What happened?
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$3.55 for regular here. Last time I looked, I was paying $3.40 for premium and under $3.20 for regular. What happened?
Obama.
I was right, gas dropped 4 cents from yesterday.
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Steady for the last week, around $3.65-3.70 depending on town/station.
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TODAY:
$3.599 at Loves in Hinton, OK.
$3.359 at Shell in Tucumcari, NM.
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$3.65 for regular...
My low fuel light just came on today and premium is $3.87 a gallon. I should fill up tomorrow before it goes higher.
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$3.65 for regular...
My low fuel light just came on today and premium is $3.87 a gallon. I should fill up tomorrow before it goes higher.
I need to fill up also.
I have to visit your city Monday & Wednesday. I feel bad for those that commute. $$$$
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Obama has no energy policy. He does not know whether to shit or go blind. :loser:
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Watch for it to go up more this week.
Isaac is heading straight for the oil platforms if this morning's newest course holds true. Heard on the news late last night, that the platforms are all being evac'd.
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Running about $4.09, but my gas mileage has take a 20% hit. They say it is the fall formula.
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$3.48 in Tucson.
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Filled up the car and bought a carton of cigarettes for a total of $101.00 . Premium- $3.99/gal. and regular - $3.79/gal. Pretty sure the prices will go up Thursday or Friday with the 3 day weekend coming up.
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$3.50/9 just a few minutes ago.....62 cent increase in about a month.
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Filled up the car and bought a carton of cigarettes for a total of $101.00 . Premium- $3.99/gal. and regular - $3.79/gal. Pretty sure the prices will go up Thursday or Friday with the 3 day weekend coming up.
As predicted, the price jumped 10cents/gal. for both grades. It will drop a few pennies on Sunday, Monday or Tuesday.
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3.99!! It made me wanna puke!! :rant:
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$3.67 today in Tucson.
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3.99!! It made me wanna puke!! :rant:
Well, quit sniffing the fumes..... :-)
You know, if prices get much higher, they'll probably start charging for the fumes.
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Well, quit sniffing the fumes..... :-)
You know, if prices get much higher, they'll probably start charging for the fumes.
My wife emailed me yesterday. $4.02 at home. Chicago and Illinois are about the highest in the country.
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My wife emailed me yesterday. $4.02 at home. Chicago and Illinois are about the highest in the country.
My town of 70K+ in central Illinois usually has higher prices than the small towns out in the county. That's the opposite of the way it used to be.
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3.64 today in Dallas. Boo.
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Rapidly approaching $3.75 in the Seacoast region.
I mentioned earlier I filled my oil tank at $3.199/gal a couple of months ago. Heating oil price is now 40 cents higher than it was then; IOW, I would have paid an extra $80 to fill up had I done it today.
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Rapidly approaching $3.75 in the Seacoast region.
I mentioned earlier I filled my oil tank at $3.199/gal a couple of months ago. Heating oil price is now 40 cents higher than it was then; IOW, I would have paid an extra $80 to fill up had I done it today.
What a smart man!
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Reg has been "stuck" at $3.99 for a couple of weeks now. :rant:
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I'm afraid to look.
The last time I checked some days ago, it was $3.71, and that was for the 85% real gasoline, 15% ethanol.
Which means at the time, real gasoline, which I use, was a dime higher, $3.81.
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Reg has been "stuck" at $3.99 for a couple of weeks now. :rant:
I filled up my MG yesterday.
It cost me $20
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I filled up my MG yesterday.
It cost me $20
Sittin' at 3/4 of a tank prior to fillup, eh? :-)
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Rapidly approaching $3.75 in the Seacoast region.
I mentioned earlier I filled my oil tank at $3.199/gal a couple of months ago. Heating oil price is now 40 cents higher than it was then; IOW, I would have paid an extra $80 to fill up had I done it today.
Like playing the futures and options market at this point. I have to fill the MH. Diesel ( fuel oil plus road tax ) was $4.09 when I went by Flight Line today up four cents from yesterday. :mad:
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$3.51 today in Lafayette La. Ethanol blend.
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$3.51 today in Lafayette La. Ethanol blend.
Laissez le bon temps rouler!
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Laissez le bon temps rouler!
Does Obama speak Louisianaian?
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Laissez le bon temps rouler!
I passed a pump close to Mena that listed $4.04/gal
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It is $3.89 here in Happy Valley. The libs won't care until Romney is sworn in.
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It is $3.89 here in Happy Valley. The libs won't care until Romney is sworn in.
At which point he'll approve the Keystone pipeline, lift the moratorium on drilling, and approve any other oil projects that O has blocked or een sitting on and gas prices will drop at least $1.50/gallon within 2 months.
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At which point he'll approve the Keystone pipeline, lift the moratorium on drilling, and approve any other oil projects that O has blocked or een sitting on and gas prices will drop at least $1.50/gallon within 2 months.
...and the economy will start to recover.
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Most of the places went up to the $3.85-3.90 range here over the weekend. Supposedly due to Hurricane Isaac.
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$4.01/gallon with a car wash, $4.15/gallon without.
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And now we're pushing the "magical" $4 barrier.
What are the libruls gonna do when the highest gas prices EVER are going to be pinned on Obama less than eight weeks out from the election?
(http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101229043821/headhuntershorrorhouse/images/3/3d/Exploding_head.gif)
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But,but,but........it's Bush's fault,don't ya know?
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From $4.04 yesterday to $4.15 today.
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$4 for regular outside of Philly.
Funny thing, the media does not seem interested in gas prices during this administration. When Bush was in office it was a daily news story. Hmmmmm
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We're approaching an ominous mark here.
Today, in both town and the big city, the most-common price seems to be $3.97, and that's for the cheaper 15% ethanol blend. As I buy only pure gasoline, it's probably already $4.07 then, for my vehicle.
I could be wrong, but I don't think it's ever hit $4 a gallon in Nebraska before, anywhere.
Funny thing, the media does not seem interested in gas prices during this administration. When Bush was in office it was a daily news story. Hmmmmm.
Doesn't matter any more; everybody buys gasoline, everybody knows how much it costs.
They don't need the news media to point it out.
Too bad for Barack Milhous.
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Gas pegged at $3.759 in north-central Missouri.
I don't think I've ever seen it that high here -- even in 2008 when it spiked at WTF!?!?!?
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http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
Prepare to buy a new monitor.
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http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
Prepare to buy a new monitor.
(http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/images/AAAHeatMap.jpeg)
That map looks a lot like an inverse colored map of polling data.
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$4.159/gallon.
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It hit $3.99 here in Happy Valley. This is the highest it's ever been in my area.
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http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
Prepare to buy a new monitor.
Hey Sparky,did you noticed that NH is on the lower side? Yeah us!
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I am at 3.52 right now.
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Back up to $3.58/9 this morning.
If I vote for Obama, will he fill up my tank every week?
I think the answer is, "If you're riding the prison bus."
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I haven't seen prices under $3.80 in months.
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$3.699 in north-central Missouri, except in some places it's $3.759.
Cost me $71 to fill my tank yesterday. :bs:
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Reg $3.61 - $3.65/gal. Prem $3.92 - $3.99/gal. Diesel $3.84 - $4.09/gal
Prices on regular steady and prem & diesel inching upwards
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$4.09 for premium, $3.89 for regular.
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So far, just by random chance and luck, I've avoided the $4.00-per-gallon threshhold, but I doubt the luck's going to hold much longer.
Regular gasoline (no ethanol) went over the $4.00 mark last week, $4.01 (the ethanol blend a dime a gallon cheaper, but I don't use that), but it just so happened that at the time any particular motor vehicle I was using (which could be one of several, none of them mine), the price had dipped down, temporarily, to $3.99 or $3.97 per gallon (and then went back up shortly thereafter).
So I'm still a virgin when it comes to paying four bucks for a gallon, but quite obviously the time's a-comin'.
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It has been over $4.00 in Maine, so i have been filling up in NH
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$4.90 for regular today in Pohnpei FSM.
edit specificity
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Who?
I paid $25 to fill up my MG last week. I still got half a tank.
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Who?
I paid $25 to fill up my MG last week. I still got half a tank.
Me. read it and weep, $4.90/gal for regular.
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Me. read it and weep, $4.90/gal for regular.
I think LC's got everybody beat. I think he's paying the equivalent of $9 a gallon, converted into Aussie currency.
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^Ouch.
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It dropped a bit, the past couple of days.
Now down to $3.87 for the ethanol blend, $3.97 for the pure gasoline, which I use.
<<still escaping paying $4.00 per gallon, but it's inevitable.
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Down to $3.95. It had been hovering at $3.99 for a month or more. I guess Dear Leader is be benevolent.
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$4.19 in Illinois, $3.49 in Indiana.
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$4.19 in Illinois, $3.49 in Indiana.
Ours dropped down here. $4.04 for premium.
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We paid $3.44 tonight at Sam's. M paid $3.56 yesterday at Pilot in the next county over.
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I paid $3.89 for eight gallons of premium at Thornton's.
It should last me about a week.
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$3.80-3.90 depending on town and brand (generic versus "label" gas.)
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I paid $4 a gallon yesterday. Couldn't even get a half tank of gas for $30.
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Paid $4.09 for prem. in Baton Rouge. Warning light came on so I stopped at the first station. Paid about 10 cents per gal more than the next station I passed.
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We have entered an era where buying gas is like playing the futures and options market.
Bought regular gas for the tractor / blower on 9/21 for $3.92 at a high volume station just off I95 (Flight line)
Bought regular gas for the G6 on 9/24 for $3.79 at BJ's ( Club / Discount outlet usually $.10 per gal less)
It cost fifty one dollars to fill the G6.
I can hardly wait to go get diesel (I top the MH up for winter and need about fifty gallons).
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$3.48/9 this morning ...down a dime from a week or so ago...WHOOPEE ain't Obama great.
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$3.99 in the south suburbs.
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$3.36 at Costco
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$3.99 in the south suburbs.
Heh, it dropped to $3.95 for premium and $3.75 for the cheapest grade.
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Heh, it dropped to $3.95 for premium and $3.75 for the cheapest grade.
The prices I post are always for regular grade.
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$3.53 for regular, $3.75 for premium at Thornton's yesterday.
My eight-gallon tank lasts about a week if I don't do a lot of unnecessary driving.
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I just got back from a quick dash into town this morning (Saturday morning, Octdober 20).
Gasoline prices at all three places plummeted overnight, to $3.54 a gallon, down a whooping 15 cents from yesterday.
One wonders what's up with that.
On the flip side of the coin, diesel prices skyrocketed the past week, to $4.33 per gallon.
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$3.59/gallon today.
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It averages between $4.10-$4.15 a gallon depending where we go to fill up.
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Dropped to $3.54 since I last posted today.
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Dropped to $3.54 since I last posted today.
Where do you live? Even our regular is $3.86-$3.88 a gallon and goes up daily.
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#We're about 30 miles south of blammoville. It'd be cheaper in Indiana.
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Still hanging out around the $3.70-3.75 mark.
Thanks, Barry. Heating oil for my next fill at this rate is going to be about $3.60-3.70/gal around Christmas, meaning there's $700-plus that could have gone for the kids.
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Still hanging out around the $3.70-3.75 mark.
Thanks, Barry. Heating oil for my next fill at this rate is going to be about $3.60-3.70/gal around Christmas, meaning there's $700-plus that could have gone for the kids.
and don't forget it's all Bush's fault!!
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My wife went to Charleston, IL, to visit a grand-daughter yesterday.
Gasoline was $3.33/gallon, and at one place it was $3.16/gallon.
Geez........
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I filled up at Sam's Club today... $3.90 for premium. Still way too much money, but at least it wasn't $4.15 a gallon.
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My wife went to Charleston, IL, to visit a grand-daughter yesterday.
Gasoline was $3.33/gallon, and at one place it was $3.16/gallon.
Geez........
WTF? That ain't too far from here and the cheapest I've seen lately was $3.78.
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WTF? That ain't too far from here and the cheapest I've seen lately was $3.78.
There's no rhyme or reason. Tonight it was $3.29 when I got gas in Indiana at a BP. Now it's $3.54 around here. :???:
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There's no rhyme or reason. Tonight it was $3.29 when I got gas in Indiana at a BP. Now it's $3.54 around here. :???:
Kind of makes me wonder, are Obama supporters that own stations deliberately losing money to lower the prices?
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Well it is supply and demand, especially on Sundays, when everyone, is rushing to get gas in their car for the week.
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Well it is supply and demand, especially on Sundays, when everyone, is rushing to get gas in their car for the week.
People do that? I just go whenever my fuel light is on.
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People do that? I just go whenever my fuel light is on.
:-)
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People do that? I just go whenever my fuel light is on.
H5!!!! At last, I found someone else who waits for the fuel light to come on before getting gas!! :cheersmate:
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H5!!!! At last, I found someone else who waits for the fuel light to come on before getting gas!! :cheersmate:
This might not be the best plan when it come to the life of one's in tank electric fuel pump (cavitation). It can become accute when going around sharp curves with very low fuel. You don't want to have to replace in tank fuel pumps, it can get expesive.
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Kind of makes me wonder, are Obama supporters that own stations deliberately losing money to lower the prices?
Not in my town. This is a very conservative part of oh and I filled up for 3.21 on Friday. Went to 3.16. Now sitting at 3.23.
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This might not be the best plan when it come to the life of one's in tank electric fuel pump (cavitation). It can become accute when going around sharp curves with very low fuel. You don't want to have to replace in tank fuel pumps, it can get expesive.
Good point, also in the north country, when it gets excessively cold, going down too low(lfuel light comes on)causes condensation in the fuel line, which is not good, and could ultimately hurt the engine. It doesnt have to be full, but at least to the half mark.
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Well it is supply and demand, especially on Sundays, when everyone, is rushing to get gas in their car for the week.
Interesting.
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$3.69 and $3.49 for the two grades here now.
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3.16 a gal for reg unleaded this am. Add a dime for each step up in grade
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$3.16????
$3.96. :mad:
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Yep in in a swing state. Obama must be flooding the gates in desperation lol
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$.3.05/9 and $2.99/9 in the north end of county.
Thank you Mr. Obama for driving the economy into the ground so gas prices fall.
BTW: I still haven't gotten my gastank filled free by you.
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3.43. Shot up as sandy approached.
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Just topped off for 3.29 at SAMs club
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Just topped off for 3.29 at SAMs club
I paid $3.19 at Sam's on Wednesday.
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$3.53 and $3.33 here.
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Still $3.559 this morning here. Just about double what it was in November 2008. Nuff said.
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$4.25 down the street from here
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Interesting....diesel fuel prices....the stuff heavy industry runs on hasn't fallen....at least not here.
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Interesting....diesel fuel prices....the stuff heavy industry runs on hasn't fallen....at least not here.
And it likely won't. Stocks are going to drop as the season goes on because of heating oil demands. All the more reason I'm glad I topped off my tank in July when the price was "only" $3.199 a gallon here. It's now $3.60-3.70 gallon, depending on where you get it. I'm figuring about $3.75 on my first fill after Christmas, and close to $4.00-4.10/gallon on the second fillup around the end of February.
If we're lucky, when I top off after the season (I usually have the furnace guy do the annual maintenance in April or so and do final fill then) it'll have dropped to about $3.75 again by next spring, otherwise I'll just wait until mid-summer to do my fill.
At 180-200 gallons a fillup, that comes out to 550-600 gallons for the winter, or about $2200-2500, give or take.
Yeah, I'm loving this shit. NOT.
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$3.29 per gallon here on the roof of Nebraska, but diesel's gone through the roof, about $4.00 per gallon.
That ain't good.
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$3.29 per gallon here on the roof of Nebraska, but diesel's gone through the roof, about $4.00 per gallon.
That ain't good.
No, it isn't, considering that goods and products are transported primarily using diesel-powered trucks, etc. And as the stocks drop over the winter, it's only going to get worse.
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$3.17 for regular at Thornton's while the price of diesel is $3.84 at the same station.
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Is it coincidental that prices have been going down since Obama implied high prices mean a good economy?
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Is it coincidental that prices have been going down since Obama implied high prices mean a good economy?
I attribute it more to the switch over to less-expensive winter blended fuels.
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$3.95 for premium today. The gasoline has been dropping a couple of cents every day. I link it to the election coming up. Too bad it's not dropping fast enough though. The regular fuel is $3.72 a gallon. Too much money.
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Saw $3.08 on my way home from work tonight.
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I saw $3.119 in Columbia, MO this past Saturday.
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I filled up on $2.96 gas this weekend using 10cent off from Kroger per gallon. Original price was $3.06
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$3.58 in town today.
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Topped off my pickup this morning....$2.98/9....wouldn't want to run out while doing my "after election riot shopping".
I figure prices will necessarily skyrocket Wednesday morning.
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3.59 up from 3.19 yesterday....own it dumbasses :lmao: :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
I knew what was coming so I filled up yesterday morning with my fuel perks no less :-)
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$3.53 and $3.33 here.
$3.65 and $3.45.
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Around here there is now a fifty cent divergence between gas and diesel. Not good for the grocery bill. (diesel is 4.05 gas was 3.53)
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Around here there is now a fifty cent divergence between gas and diesel. Not good for the grocery bill. (diesel is 4.05 gas was 3.53)
Obama voters buy & use gas.....Romney voters buy & use diesel fuel.......think about it.
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Regular gas is about $3.15-$3.20 here. Deisel costs more than premium gas, about $3.75.
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$3.68 here, $3.55 in Indiana.
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Obama voters buy & use gas.....Romney voters buy & use diesel fuel.......think about it.
Well yeah but the truck that delivers the brie and biscuts burns diesel. So up goes the cost of chow. I was just calculating a trip to NC Outer Banks at which is 800 mi at 8 mpg so about 800 bucks for diesell round trip. It is iffy at this point. My be another staycation year for me.
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Obama voters buy & use gas.....Romney voters buy & use diesel fuel.......think about it.
I use both...and lots of both.
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Today's misery: gas $3.25 -3.35 diesel $3.97 -4.13
Heating oil $3.33- 3.79
Life is good in Obama's Amerika.
New Hampshire ~ Live Freeze and Die
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Today's misery: gas $3.25 -3.35 diesel $3.97 -4.13
Heating oil $3.33- 3.79
Life is good in Obama's Amerika.
New Hampshire ~ Live Freeze and Die
I long for the outrageously high $2/gal gas we had under President Bush. I think $3 gas is going to be the new and accepted norm.
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2.90 In my area.
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$3.39 around here. Drive 6 miles and it's about $3.00 in Indiana.
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Gas jumped 30 cents since yesterday. $3.29 for unleaded, and $3.49 for premium.
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It jumped $0.30/gallon overnight, $0.54 the night before.
WTF? $3.76/gallon?
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$3.45 avg Philly
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$3.18 up sate S.C. at the cheap places.
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Paid $3.50 for premium in Perdido Key FL Gave my Infiniti hardtop convertible a maiden voyage.
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Got 100 gallons of heating oil last week...$3.719/gal. Gas has jumped 25 cents since the start of the year.
It's going to be glorious, comrades--GLORIOUS!!!!
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It is up 20 cents the last two days. Peeking over $4 a gallon in SoCal.
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Got 100 gallons of heating oil last week...$3.719/gal. Gas has jumped 25 cents since the start of the year.
It's going to be glorious, comrades--GLORIOUS!!!!
Same price I paid for it as of last week. I've used a 104 gallon so far this winter....not bad. Thank you global warming.
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It jumped $0.30/gallon overnight, $0.54 the night before.
WTF? $3.76/gallon?
This morning it's $3.65. And it's the same at every damned gas station for 60 miles around here. But there is no price fixing...
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Same price I paid for it as of last week. I've used a 104 gallon so far this winter....not bad. Thank you global warming.
We've burned through a 275-gallon tank so far. Minus however much "space" they leave. I'm guessing including the stuff we've used since last week, about 250 gallons.
And we've still got close to 3 months to go before we won't need the furnace. Oy.
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The X-wife, like Obama, liked it hot in the house, and like Obama, someone else was paying the bill, me. We used to go through 500+ gallons a winter back then.
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The X-wife, like Obama, liked it hot in the house, and like Obama, someone else was paying the bill, me. We used to go through 500+ gallons a winter back then.
I have programmable thermostats upstairs and down, and let me tell you, I USE THEM. Down to 55 at night, kick the heat on upstairs for an hour or two in the morning, then back down to 55-60. Same with downstairs, but keep the heat at about 65 during the day (people here) and 68-70 in the evenings.
And we've STILL gone through 250 gallons in 4 months, give or take. For this area, that's pretty damned good. I know folks who go through 800-1000 gallons every winter,plus run their water heaters off oil burners.
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We've burned through a 275-gallon tank so far. Minus however much "space" they leave. I'm guessing including the stuff we've used since last week, about 250 gallons.
And we've still got close to 3 months to go before we won't need the furnace. Oy.
I had a new furnace installed last fall and the tank topped up at that time. Since 10/1/2012 I have gone through 220 gallons of fuel and a half ton of pellets. I heat my hot water off the furnace and use the pellet stove during the day to keep the main floor warm.
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Last year I used only 91 gallons of fuel oil because I have a high efficiency heat pump, but my heat pump quit at the end of january. I'm afraid to see a fuel delivery. :thatsright:
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Premium is $4.04/gal and regular is $3.74. I don't get it. The price difference between the two grades has went from 20 cents to 30 cents in the past six months.
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I probably won't have to buy gas until next weekend... we'll see what the price is.
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I haven't heard about today, but as of yesterday the price ros every day for 10 (I think) days.
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32 days of higher gas prices comes at tough time
http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/17/news/economy/gas-prices/
Price of Gallon of Gas Up 96% Under Obama
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/price-gallon-gas-96-under-obama
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Prem. gas is $3.75 per gal. in big B.R.
So much for that idiot in the W.H. lowering the price.
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Prem. gas is $3.75 per gal. in big B.R.
So much for that idiot in the W.H. lowering the price.
Just like your health insurance....It's down 3,000%.
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I had a new furnace installed last fall and the tank topped up at that time. Since 10/1/2012 I have gone through 220 gallons of fuel and a half ton of pellets. I heat my hot water off the furnace and use the pellet stove during the day to keep the main floor warm.
Well, let's see now:
Since about 10/1 (or thereabouts) we've gone through one tank (minus the tippy top and whatever little was left). Added that 100 gallons, and now just under 1/4 tank again, so let's call it roughly 300 gallons, plus about 1/3 cord of wood just for, "Ooooh, pretty!" and keeping the living room warm some nights/weekends.
Meaning I'm going to HAVE to get another 100 gallons before the season is over, because I'm sure as hell not going to top off the tank with the prices we've got now at the end of the season while stocks are at their lowest. Local place has it going for $3.799, so there's another $380, plus the fill-up come spring going to be another $700-750...oh, yeah...and the furnace inspection, there's another $150...
Meanwhile, gas is now above $3.70/gallon, will easily hit $4 by Easter. Thanks, Obammy!
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Regular was $3.75 when I left for work at 4:30am. It was $3.79 at the same gas station at 5:15pm. That's the pattern here for the last couple of weeks.
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Regular was $3.75 when I left for work at 4:30am. It was $3.79 at the same gas station at 5:15pm. That's the pattern here for the last couple of weeks.
The pattern here seems to be a big jump of 10 to 20 cents followed by a couple of 1-2 cent drops followed by a another jump.
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The pattern here seems to be a big jump of 10 to 20 cents followed by a couple of 1-2 cent drops followed by a another jump.
Same here. We went from 3.85 on Saturday to 3.99 on Sunday for premium. It's backed off a cent, but I expect another 15 cent jump by Friday.
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I just paid $4.09 a gallon, regular gasoline, no ethanol stuff in it.
I understand prices around here went up 20 cents on Tuesday, 20 cents on Wednesday, and there's another price increase tomorrow, but I didn't hear how much.
What's anybody else paying? Any sudden spurts in prices?
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Gas prices dropped a couple weeks ago and then rose again. They've leveled off to about $3.25 when I filled up earlier this week.
There is a non-ethanol Valero a few miles from here. I'm going to fill up the MG there as soon as I get it back on the road.
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Prices have shot up from $3.239 to $3.699, a $0.46 increase in two weeks.
North-central Mizz-uhr-ah
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Prices have shot up from $3.239 to $3.699, a $0.46 increase in two weeks.
North-central Mizz-uhr-ah
$3.48 up to $3.75 in a week here in central IA.
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$3.48 up to $3.75 in a week here in central IA.
It was $3.48 here yesterday morning, then it went up midday, then up midday again today, so we're at $3.84 now.
(SW MO)
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$3.79 for regular, 30 cents more for premium.
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$3.79 for regular, 30 cents more for premium.
Any explanation as to the quick rise in prices? ???
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$4.20/gallon of regular here.
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Paid $3.13/9 yesterday for the cheapest.
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Up the street at a Mobil it's 4.19
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They're all the same price here. No collusion, though. ::)
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Any explanation as to the quick rise in prices? ???
I don't know . For some strange reason high gas prices aren't newsworthy anymore.
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$3.40-3.50 depending on the town in NH. But funny how they're all within that 10 cent range, depending on if you're going to BJ's/Sam's Club, the cheapo gas, or the name brand stuff.
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$4.20/gallon of regular here.
That's what it is here in Nebraska this morning; up 20 cents from yesterday.
These past couple of days are the first time it's gone into $4 anywhere in Nebraska; it's never been this high.
I guess 0bama'll take care of it, though.
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It jumped 13 cents last night from 3.84 to 3.97 here.
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Up another 7 cents per gallon overnight from $3.699 to $3.769.
Oddly enough, it's slightly cheaper ($3.749) in Bloomington, IL -- land of the moonbats -- than it is in north-central Mizz-uhr-ah. (I'm attending a tuba/euph conference here in Bloomington.)
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$4.39/gal in WA state - prices always go up around Memorial Day, and with Obama as POTUS, they go up generally.
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This thread makes me feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. The Thornton's down the street has been at $3.14 for at least a week or more.
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This thread makes me feel like I'm living in the Twilight Zone. The Thornton's down the street has been at $3.14 for at least a week or more.
Almost makes me want to drive down there to buy gas. :-)
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$3.85 for regular, 30 cents more fro premium. I expect a 10-20 cent jump by Friday.
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$3.85 for regular, 30 cents more fro premium. I expect a 10-20 cent jump by Friday.
Been holding steady at $3.89 for the cheapest stuff here for about several days.
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Got back from the beach at Perdido Key FL a couple of days ago and prem. was $3.51
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$4.26/gallon here.
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I'm just gonna leave this here. :whistling:
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U.S. Average Regular Gas Price Crude Oil Futures
$3.62 $96.02
RegularMidgradePremiumDiesel
Station Map Updated Price
Citgo
3400 Chicago Rd @Steger Rd
Steger, IL 60475
19 hours ago $4.17
update
Shell
500 W 34th St @Kings Rd
Steger, IL 60475
yesterday $4.28
update
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I hope not.
Our regular gas is $3.19 a gallon and premium is $3.40/gallon.
$3.99 for regular here
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We'll get gas today in Manteno. I think.... (Going down to Kankakee.)
U.S. Average Regular Gas Price Crude Oil Futures
$3.62 $96.71
Manteno, IL Regular Gas Price
Average: $3.98 Lowest: $3.96 Highest: $4
RegularMidgradePremiumDiesel
Station Map Updated Price
Shell
29 S Locust St @Division St
Manteno, IL 60950
yesterday $3.96
update
Shell
244 N Locust St
Manteno, IL 60950
20 hours ago $3.97
update
BP
9051 US-45 Division St
Manteno, IL 60950
yesterday $3.97
update
Phillips 66
113 N Cypress
Manteno, IL 60950
yesterday $3.98
update
BP
101 Southcreek Dr @DI-57 x322
Manteno, IL 60950
20 hours ago $4.00
update
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M just got gas at Sam's about an hour ago for $3.13.
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Up a dime a gallon in the last week. Local places are at least $3.479 now.
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Up a dime a gallon in the last week. Local places are at least $3.479 now
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You're breaking my heart.
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I am waiting for Obummer to raise the Fed. excise tax on fuel. He wants prices to be in the mid 4 to 5 dollar range to encourage people to buy those electric cars.
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I guess I spoke too soon. The station down the street (a different one) is advertising regular @ $3.34.
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Reg. has been holding steady at $3.79 for about 2 months now......
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Down to 3.92 here! :yahoo: ::)
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Up 10 cent over night....I knew I should have filled up last night....I could have filled up and had a beer for the same money with change.
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Here is a GasBuddy.com map of the US. Of course northern MN is in the highest range. I paid $4.29 the other day. :thatsright:
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
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Here is a GasBuddy.com map of the US. Of course northern MN is in the highest range. I paid $4.29 the other day. :thatsright:
http://gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
WHOAAAAA......blue states are mostly red and red states are mostly green.
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WHOAAAAA......blue states are mostly red and red states are mostly green.
SC is looking pretty good right now.
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I love my truck, but I don't love the cost of filling it up.
Topped off the tank last night (had about 1/4 or so.) 90 bucks to fill it up. A tank'll last me a week or so, if I don't do too much running around town this weekend.
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Now $3.85.
I was told by somebody who hauls fuel for the area that there was some sort of shortage up in MN that caused our prices around here to spike, as a portion of our supply was diverted to MN.
Judging from the colors on the Gasbuddy map, MN gas is really costly at the moment.
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Regular jumped to $3.97 yesterday, almost a 30 cent jump.
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It's been from $3.95 to $4.35 around here.
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We are now at $3.66 here.
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$3.19 here
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Ours has been "frozen" at $3.79 for a few weeks.
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Jumped to $4.40 overnight.
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Jumped to $4.40 overnight.
You saw the numbers jumping? :panic:
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You saw the numbers jumping? :panic:
Damned near. It goes up so fast, at EVERY station at the same time, that you can almost see the numbers jumping.
There's no greed or collusion, though.....
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Damned near. It goes up so fast, at EVERY station at the same time, that you can almost see the numbers jumping.
There's no greed or collusion, though.....
Great thought. Now if only it could be proven and added to the list of owebuma scandals currently swirling.
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Went on vacation less than two weeks ago...$3.40/gal.
Came back Saturday...$3.60/gal.
Coming home from work today...$3.66/gal.
Yay, you ignorant sumbitches. Thanks for no pipeline, no drilling here, no shit.
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Went on vacation less than two weeks ago...$3.40/gal.
Came back Saturday...$3.60/gal.
Coming home from work today...$3.66/gal.
Yay, you ignorant sumbitches. Thanks for no pipeline, no drilling here, no shit.
Paid $3.29 on Saturday. Up to $3.49 now. And who do I blame? (Rhetoric question) ;D
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Paid $3.29 on Saturday. Up to $3.49 now. And who do I blame? (Rhetoric question) ;D
I was reading a freight industry magazine, and they had mentioned that since 2009, diesel fuel costs have went up 61%. They also mentioned that fuel was 25% of the operating cost of a truck in 2009, and it is now 37% of the operating costs.
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I was reading a freight industry magazine, and they had mentioned that since 2009, diesel fuel costs have went up 61%. They also mentioned that fuel was 25% of the operating cost of a truck in 2009, and it is now 37% of the operating costs.
I kinda knew that in my accounting brain... or at least part of that equation. Seems like an awfully tough margin.
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Went up $.25 here last week. Don't know what it's done in the last couple of days.
Sam's and Costco still the cheapest places to get gas.... fortunately Sam's is only a few miles away.
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Spent a shitload of money in driving from mid-Missouri all the way to Bah Hahbah, Maine; and then back again via Detroit.
I've got the receipts, but I'm afraid to look at them.
FML.
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$3.04/9 last Saturday morning early.....$3.26/9 Midday Tuesday.
Thanks oh great leader of Skittlesland.
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Spent a shitload of money in driving from mid-Missouri all the way to Bah Hahbah, Maine; and then back again via Detroit.
I've got the receipts, but I'm afraid to look at them.
FML.
I think you are on to something, don't look. I can hardly wait to see where diesel is down Maine and in Nova Scotia .... Oh my 1.33 per liter in NS (or if I got it right about 5.00 per US gallon). $3.93 per gallon in Houlton, Me. Guess I will be spending most my vacay cash with "big oil". I will enjoy the view but the lobster and clam feast? Oh well.
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Zeit--I'm thinking a prebuy of heating oil this year might not be such a bad deal after all, especially at $3.29 or 3.39, depending on where you go.
Oh, and gas went up another 4 cents yesterday. $3.70.9/gal. Thanks, Obammy!
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Gas has jumped about 40 cents in the past week to $3.79 for regular.
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Zeit--I'm thinking a prebuy of heating oil this year might not be such a bad deal after all, especially at $3.29 or 3.39, depending on where you go.
Oh, and gas went up another 4 cents yesterday. $3.70.9/gal. Thanks, Obammy!
Been with the same people a quarter century so they treat me right on pre buy. Last year they replaced the boiler with one about 1/3 the size (same output), high efficiency. Steam. I love it. Also went with a new double bottom tank to replace the old one which was original equipment from when the house was changed from coal in the 1950's. The house was built before WW2 so it had coal before conversion to oil. That furnace was probably huge by today's standards.
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M got gas today... said it was $3.08 at Sam's. 10 cents up since Saturday... he said everyone else has gone up 10-20 cents since the weekend. :(
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I paid $3.49 for regular. It was 20 cents cheaper last week.
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$4.12 yesterday. $4.26 for diesel.
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Gas is $3.89 today. :???: :???: :???: :???: :???: :???: :???: :???: :???: :???:
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$4.19/gallon in Tumwater, WA yesterday . . .
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M went over to Sam's earlier this afternoon to get gas, and every pump had several cars waiting in line... so he left.
The local quick shop has it for $3.38 today... well, it was at 10:30 this morning when I saw it. It could have changed since...
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I drove by the gas station today and it jumped way up to 1.40/l or something like 5.29/G. It's not been this high in several months. Diesel is about 10 cents less.
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I got gas for $3.69 today. Other stations around here are $3.89.
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Steady at 3.59 most places here.
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Still hanging around at $3.70 here. That means a full tank of gas will run me "only" $130.
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I've become trained to consider 1/2 a tank as empty. So I gas up then, still paying the same in the end but not in such big chunks of cash all at once.
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I've become trained to consider 1/2 a tank as empty. So I gas up then, still paying the same in the end but not in such big chunks of cash all at once.
Yeah, isn't it crazy how you can rationalize that? I do the same thing.
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I've become trained to consider 1/2 a tank as empty. So I gas up then, still paying the same in the end but not in such big chunks of cash all at once.
M is using the same logic. He said gas went up at Sam's to $3.05... it was $2.98 on Sat.
Could be worse. BFF and I went to Greensboro NC on Sat. Gas was almost $4 at the gas station near where we went, so we found a Sam's. It was $3.55.
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Yeah, isn't it crazy how you can rationalize that? I do the same thing.
I never said that I wasn't crazy! I am crazed by the situation in my country, though.
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Still sitting at $3.69 (reg) at the corner ARCO.
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$3.47 for the last few days but around here it could jump 25¢ a gal in a heartbeat. This is a far cry from the 25¢ a gal when I first started buying gas
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"Stable" at $3.61, but when we went to Carson City, NV (weekend before last), it was $3.49.
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$3.11/9 and holding here.
No alcohol regular is $3.49/9....I buy it for the chainsaws, weed eater and lawn mowers..
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$3.11/9 and holding here.
No alcohol regular is $3.49/9....I buy it for the chainsaws, weed eater and lawn mowers..
No alcohol is not available here.
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No alcohol is not available here.
There is only 3 places in the whole county here that sell no alcohol gas.
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There is only 3 places in the whole county here that sell no alcohol gas.
You can get it in some places in Wisconsin.
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You are talking about ethanol, correct?
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You are talking about ethanol, correct?
Yes. Ethanol is an alcohol.
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The dummy in the W.H. wants high gas prices. He is hell bound in getting us into another war and meddling in other countries business.
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It jumped 20 cents overnight here. $3.59 for regular.
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The dummy in the W.H. wants high gas prices. He is hell bound in getting us into another war and meddling in other countries business.
And to make us drive cars using grass clippings.
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And to make us drive cars using grass clippings.
Speaking of that.
Obama may revive $25 billion auto loan program
Washington— U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says the Obama administration is considering reviving the moribund $25 billion auto loan program by revising lending criteria and seeking a new round of loan requests.
Created by Congress in 2007, the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program hasn’t made a new loan since March 2011 and came under scrutiny after two of five companies that received loans halted production. The auto loan program was created to spur the production of more fuel-efficient vehicles in the United States.
“We are looking at what a new (loan) solicitation might look like. That’s an ongoing discussion,†Moniz said in a Detroit News telephone interview on Monday from New Jersey, where he was traveling to a speech. “We are actively looking at what might be an effective new (request for proposals).â€http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130827/AUTO01/308270037/Obama-may-revive-25-billion-auto-loan-program
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It jumped 20 cents overnight here. $3.59 for regular.
$3.95 here. I'm surprised it's not $4.50
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Obama sets a new record.
By now every driver knows the drill: The price of gasoline ratchets up, there's an outcry among motorists who feel gouged at the pump and then things settle down as the higher price becomes the new normal.
Well, AAA has come up with a sobering statistic: the average price of gasoline will surpass $3 per gallon Tuesday for the 1,000th consecutive day. That's never happened before, the motoring organization says.
In case you're wondering, the current streak began on Dec. 23, 2010. Today, the national average for a gallon of regular is $3.52, according to AAA's daily price tracking service. That's a nickel a gallon less than the average so far this year. And unless there's another recession, AAA forecasts that a price floor of $3 a gallon is basically here to stay.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101039695#_gus
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Not where I live. 3.99 to 4.13.
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Gas dropped from 3.44 down to 3.32 here.
Still not low enough, but tolerable.
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Gas dropped from 3.44 down to 3.32 here.
Still not low enough, but tolerable.
Over $2/gal and the media never dropped the story when President Bush was in office, but now with Obama we are getting complacent with gas in the low $3 range?
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Over $2/gal and the media never dropped the story when President Bush was in office, but now with Obama we are getting complacent with gas in the low $3 range?
Same thing with trumpeting combat deaths in Iraq.
Relentlessly hammering that stat, day in, day out.
You don't hear a lot about combat deaths in A-stan. Business as usual... :whatever:
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Same thing with trumpeting combat deaths in Iraq.
Relentlessly hammering that stat, day in, day out.
You don't hear a lot about combat deaths in A-stan. Business as usual... :whatever:
The difference is palpable and tangible. The owebumaManiaMedia is so corrupt, cynical and hypocritical. So in the tank for libs and especially rodeowebuma. On the subject, I saw an article yesterday that gas prices have set a record for the amount of time they have been more than $3 a gallon. Did the lamestream driveby media pick up the story ?
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The difference is palpable and tangible. The owebumaManiaMedia is so corrupt, cynical and hypocritical. So in the tank for libs and especially rodeowebuma. On the subject, I saw an articla yesterday that gas prices have set a record for the amount of time they have been more than $3 a gallon. Did the lamestream driveby media pick up the story ?
Yep, saw the same thing.
For the first time in history, the price of gasoline has been more than $3 per gallon for 1,000 consecutive days.
Driveby lamestream media coverage? No, they were too busy falling over their collective puds to broadcast lies about Alexis and his "assault rifle." :whatever:
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Something weird happened in Nebraska--I think it's specific to Nebraska--beginning the first of the month.
It used to be that pure gasoline cost ten cents--always ten cents--more than gasoline that's 10% ethanol.
Now suddenly there's a universal twenty-cent spread, currently $3.39 versus $3.19.
The adulterated gasoline is still 10% ethanol.
But whereas pure gasoline was 87 octane and the other stuff 89 octane, now they're both 87.
There was something about this in the newspapers a couple of weeks ago, but I forgot to read it, and employees of places where I purchase gasoline can't explain it either.
Are they messing with gasoline anywhere else?
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Dunno, Frank, but I will say that gas prices have dropped significantly in the past month or so. Right now, in north-central Missouri, a gallon of 87 octane "unadulterated" goes for $2.959.
I've heard it said that the reason for this, and perhaps that extends over to the availability of 87 vice 89 octane up in NE, is the refineries are switching over to winter blend gasoline. It's ostensibly easier to refine than summer blend.
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Well, blow me over with a feather; I got off my ass and nadined it.
From the Kansas City, Missouri, Star
Nebraska drivers may notice gas pump price changes
LINCOLN, Neb. — The options Nebraska drivers find at the gas pump are changing because of a shift in the fuel supply.
Nebraskans have been used to the mid-level 89-octane fuel with ethanol being the cheapest option. Now the regular 87-octane fuel will generally be cheaper.
The change is happening because oil companies have switched what fuel they pump into terminals in Lincoln, Omaha and Doniphan. Instead of bringing in 87-octane fuel, the oil companies are delivering 84-octane fuel.
Drivers elsewhere have likely already seen similar changes at their gas stations, but oil companies are just now making the switch in the Midwest. So gas stations in the region will be deciding over the next few months which gasoline blends to carry and what prices to charge.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension educator John Hay said either ethanol or premium gas is mixed with the lower octane fuel to make the 87- and 89-octane fuels offered at the pump.
"This sub-octane fuel needs to be blended with other fuel types to make it the 87-octane level or above we need at the pump," Hay said. "So basically, 87 with ethanol replaced the 89 with ethanol, and our low-cost option at the pump is now 87 with ethanol."
Hay said most cars will run fine on 87-octane fuel, but drivers should check their owner's manuals to be sure.
"To take advantage of higher octanes, you need a car with higher compressions, such as a high-performance sports car," Hay said.
And using 87-octane fuel shouldn't have any effect on gas mileage.
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/06/4535874/neb-drivers-may-notice-gas-pump.html
<<<uses pure gasoline only, because mechanic told me to.
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Regular with ethanol is down to $3.08/gal. That's the lowest in some time.
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I thought that a 10% mixture of ethanol would lower mpg. Wish I could buy gas without the Ethanol.
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I don't know when it happened, but gas is up 31 cents to $3.39/gal.
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I don't know when it happened, but gas is up 31 cents to $3.39/gal.
Where I buy gas is up 5 cent to $2.99/9 for the corn syrup diluted regular.
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2.93 here in my neck of the woods right now.
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$3.59 Philly area. BJ's $3.25.
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Cheapest around here is about $3.12 at Thorntons.
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Reg has been steady at $3.63 for a couple of weeks now.
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Looks like we had a jump to 3.09 overnight last night.
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I thought that a 10% mixture of ethanol would lower mpg. Wish I could buy gas without the Ethanol.
I don't know what the difference is specifically, but winter blend up here results in a SIGNIFICANTLY lower gas mileage than does summer blend.
Between April-October, I've been getting nearly 21 mpg on the truck. And since the first of the month, I've been lucky to get 19.
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We've plunged below the $3/gallon barrier! ($2.99)
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We dropped to $3.21.
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$2.98 here, dropped a few cents overnight.
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Most places are between $3.25-3.35 on the NH side, although I've seen as low as $3.18.
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$2.969 in Columbia, MO.
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I saw several places below $2.90 in one section of town today.
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I saw several places below $2.90 in one section of town today.
Yeah, Wally World (Murphy's) today (which features 10% ethanol) was going for 2.909 in north-central MO.
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We've plunged below the $3/gallon barrier! ($2.99)
Same here over the weekend. I almost forgot who was President. :whatever:
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One hour ago it was $2.96/9 for the spiked regular here.
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We've dropped below 2.80 at every station around here that I have seen. Most of them are somewhere between 2.73 and 2.79. I wonder how long we'll be like this before we get the shaft.
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Down to $3.07 here. I think that is the lowest it's been since this thread started 2 1/2 years ago. We never did see the $5/gal that the article suggested.
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We hit $2.98 in some places last week. Some have stayed at that price, some have creeped back up. I noticed the BP up the street is back to $3.08.
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Was 2.97 Friday morning then jumped to $3.10 wee early morning hours Monday. I hate gas stations. They make most car dealerships look honest.
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After staying at $3.05 for several weeks, the price has dropped to $2.98, a new low.
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It depends upon what grade of gasoline one buys, though.
<<<buys only pure gasoline, no ethanol.
<<<paid $3.22 a gallon this morning; the blended stuff's $2.93.
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$2.93/9 here but it was $2.81/9 at Sam's Club Saturday 30 miles away....no, I'm not driving there to save 12 cents a gallon.
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$2.93/9 here but it was $2.81/9 at Sam's Club Saturday 30 miles away....no, I'm not driving there to save 12 cents a gallon.
Pretty much the same here -- but Sam's is around the corner.
Wait, you get 12 cents a gallon off? I get a freaking nickel! It makes it just a little over $3/gal for premium which is all I put in my car.
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Well, heck, I ain't driving anywhere until the weather improves here in northern MN. My newest car doesn't like snow so much, I recently found out.
I'm retired, so don't have to go anywhere anyway. :tongue:
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Gas took big jump. It was $2.97 yesterday and was $3.29 today.
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Gas took big jump. It was $2.97 yesterday and was $3.29 today.
It just might be slow catching us here, but recently (2 days ago) a price drop from $2.829 to $2.789.
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It's still 2.99 to 3.09 in my town.
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It's still 2.99 to 3.09 in my town.
Right before our Christmas storm, prices went up here from $2.82 to $2.99 in less than a day.
Damn President Bush!!! :lmao:
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$2.95 to $3.19 jump in a day in E MO.
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$3.65 here in MA.
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$3.65 here in MA.
Ouch.
I paid $3.24 in Las Vegas Friday.
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Ouch.
I paid $3.24 in Las Vegas Friday.
Any Leviathan sightings ? That story has legs.
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lowest I have seen, is $3.33, on Gosling RD in Portsmouth.
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It just might be slow catching us here, but recently (2 days ago) a price drop from $2.829 to $2.789.
The darned government gets their pound of flesh one way or the other. Florida doesn't levy a state income tax nor have the annual personal property tax and no tax on food, but they tax the heck out of gas. When we were in Missouri over Thanksgiving, we were amazed to see gas at under $3.00 a gallon. Sure enough, the minute we hit Florida, it was about $3.50 a gallon. Right now it's at $3.27 a gallon at Costco.
Good thing that we don't drive much and have a Ford hybrid now. I'm not crazy about the car, but it is satisfying to not have to buy premium gas and to use less gas, hence giving less money to the government. We average about 40 mpg.
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The darned government gets their pound of flesh one way or the other. Florida doesn't levy a state income tax nor have the annual personal property tax and no tax on food, but they tax the heck out of gas. When we were in Missouri over Thanksgiving, we were amazed to see gas at under $3.00 a gallon. Sure enough, the minute we hit Florida, it was about $3.50 a gallon. Right now it's at $3.27 a gallon at Costco.
We drive from SW MO to the panhandle of Florida about once or twice a year.
There for a few years, gas in Pensacola was the cheapest of the entire trip.
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We drive from SW MO to the panhandle of Florida about once or twice a year.
There for a few years, gas in Pensacola was the cheapest of the entire trip.
It's probably cheaper in the panhandle than around Sarasota. Our gas here is more expensive than north near Tampa or south near Ft Myers. It's probably all the libtard politicians who moved here from the east coast of Florida. NY state is emptying out and they're all moving here to dodge the taxes. Problem is they're bringing their libtard, big tax ideas with them.
Gas in St Louis was relatively cheap, ditto SE Missouri. We usually take the route to STL through Atlanta and get caught in too much traffic. The route through the hills (or mountains whatever your viewpoint) might get dicey in the winter, so we took the route through the panhandle and Alabama, Miss. this time. It's a bit longer but we thought safer around Thanksgiving.
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It's probably cheaper in the panhandle than around Sarasota. Our gas here is more expensive than north near Tampa or south near Ft Myers. It's probably all the libtard politicians who moved here from the east coast of Florida. NY state is emptying out and they're all moving here to dodge the taxes. Problem is they're bringing their libtard, big tax ideas with them.
Gas in St Louis was relatively cheap, ditto SE Missouri. We usually take the route to STL through Atlanta and get caught in too much traffic. The route through the hills (or mountains whatever your viewpoint) might get dicey in the winter, so we took the route through the panhandle and Alabama, Miss. this time. It's a bit longer but we thought safer around Thanksgiving.
That's the way it happens every where the northern carpetbeggars go.
Only about 10% of the northern invaders are conservative but I have to give those credit....they're the mostest, bestest, most active conservatives we have around here. We need to cull the invading species.
PS: For the spelling Nazis....I canz spill carpetbagger.
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That's the way it happens every where the northern carpetbeggars go.
Only about 10% of the northern invaders are conservative but I have to give those credit....they're the mostest, bestest, most active conservatives we have around here. We need to cull the invading species.
PS: For the spelling Nazis....I canz spill carpetbagger.
I'm sure that I'm considered a northern invader here, but Missouri was always a border state way back in the civil war times (hey, not that old but read history).
Some of the folks that I consider true northerners here in Florida are the nicest folks I've ever met. When we moved here and both had health issues, the neighbors were way more helpful than my STL neighbors ever were (and I lived in St Louis most of my life, a native).
But there are some really obnoxious northern libs here. I'm at the point with some of the super libtards where I volunteer that I just totally ignore them, rarely even say hello. They're so superior acting and so steadfast in their Obama loving, worshipping ideas that it's no use giving them the satisfaction of trying to put conservatives down. The technique has worked with one of them. He doesn't smirk anymore. Or if he does, I don't notice it as I simply don't bother. It's taken me a long time to figure that one out. :-)
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Gas is on the rise again, $3.45/gal for regular ethanol blend and $3.75/gal for premium ethanol blend.
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Yup--up 20 cents in the last two weeks. Time to get another fill on the oil tank before it hits $4/gal.
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$3.07/9 this morning.....should have bought yesterday, I could have saved 40 cent on the fillup.
Have the democrats figured out a way to tax a savings on early gas purchases before the price goes up? ....or are they working on it?
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$3.07/9 this morning.....should have bought yesterday, I could have saved 40 cent on the fillup.
Have the democrats figured out a way to tax a savings on early gas purchases before the price goes up? ....or are they working on it?
I've noticed that prices have been fluctuating very frequently around these parts. Last week, it dropped back down to $3.05. Yesterday morning, it was $3.15, and rose to $3.32 by the night-time drive.
Weird.
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$3.07/9 this morning.....should have bought yesterday, I could have saved 40 cent on the fillup.
Have the democrats figured out a way to tax a savings on early gas purchases before the price goes up? ....or are they working on it?
Their plan is just to keep the prices high and always increasing. If that doesn't work, some of them want to raise the tax on gas.
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202 gallons of oil. $800. On top of the $750 for the first fill, and the extra 100-150 gallons I'm going to have to put in to finish up the winter.
**** you, Obama. Just **** you.
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Their plan is just to keep the prices high and always increasing. If that doesn't work, some of them want to raise the tax on gas.
Doubling or tripling the federal tax on gasoline has always been an objective of Democrats/Liberals. If the Democrats ever gain a majority in both houses and the Presidency, it will happen.
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202 gallons of oil. $800. On top of the $750 for the first fill, and the extra 100-150 gallons I'm going to have to put in to finish up the winter.
**** you, Obama. Just **** you.
Seen the price of diesel? It is way out of sync with gas pricing. I have never seen the divergence this bad.
This has been a pretty rough winter all around, the one two punch is not over yet. All the plowing and sanding will stretch the local budgets and they still have to contend pot holes come spring. Taxes will be going up. :popcorn:
ETA: I was just out to grab some pellets and noticed the price of diesel at the Sunoco at the 95 exit. $4.19
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Seen the price of diesel? It is way out of sync with gas pricing. I have never seen the divergence this bad.
This has been a pretty rough winter all around, the one two punch is not over yet. All the plowing and sanding will stretch the local budgets and they still have to contend pot holes come spring. Taxes will be going up. :popcorn:
ETA: I was just out to grab some pellets and noticed the price of diesel at the Sunoco at the 95 exit. $4.19
The difference between regular unleaded and diesel is currently about 80-90 cents per gallon. I know it's worse in winter with demand for diesel (aka heating oil) at its highest and stocks getting low, But the last time I saw it anywhere near this bad was (drum roll please) 2008. We know how that turned out.
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The difference between regular unleaded and diesel is currently about 80-90 cents per gallon. I know it's worse in winter with demand for diesel (aka heating oil) at its highest and stocks getting low, But the last time I saw it anywhere near this bad was (drum roll please) 2008. We know how that turned out.
Not like they use diesel to transport food or anything like that, right? Did you see that they are also requiring low sulfur on the costal shipping fleet? I can hardly wait for the NE liberals to end up freezing in the dark while starving to death. Fitting end I would say.
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Not like they use diesel to transport food or anything like that, right? Did you see that they are also requiring low sulfur on the costal shipping fleet? I can hardly wait for the NE liberals to end up freezing in the dark while starving to death. Fitting end I would say.
Seeing that already. Give it a few more months and you'll be seeing some REAL sticker shock.
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Been sawing and splitting wood for next winter for the last 2 weeks....my log splitter died on me....18 yr old son is to sore to move right now :lmao:
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What's the basic difference between kerosene, heating oil and diesel fuel? Kerosene is $4.59/gal.
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What's the basic difference between kerosene, heating oil and diesel fuel? Kerosene is $4.59/gal.
Carbon molecules or something like that.
http://toad.net/~jsmeenen/fuel.html
The difference beween Diesel Fuel and kerosene
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The differences between Kerosene, jet fuel, #1 Fuel oil, #2 Fuel oil, heavier fuel oils, gasoline, etc. are the types of hydrocarbon chains that are separated and concentrated during refining and additives. For example gasoline has an octane rating which compares the gasoline blend with the performance of pure
octane hydrocarbon with eight carbon atoms. Diesel has a septane rating, please note that septane has seven carbon atoms in its chain. Octane rating is how hard it is to ignite and septane rating how easy it is to ignite.
What this all means is that the heavier fuels have longer hydrocarbon chains, higher BTU content, are thicker and are more tolerant of contamination (also they are allowed to contain more sulfur).
K-1 Kerosene, #1 diesel, and jet fuel (JP4) are closely related to each other. #1 and JP4 have higher allowable sulfur than K-1 (kerosene is also called coal oil by old timers). Since #1 is a shorter hydrocarbon blend it has better solvent properties than #2. (We used to clean out our armored vehicle engine compartments with diesel fuel in the Army, also gasoline used to be sold as petroleum naphtha as a cleaning solvent before it became a motor fuel.) It also has a lower gel point, which means that it takes a colder temperature to turn it to a molasses like thickness. Because these fuels are blends they don't
freeze like water, they act more like Jell-O slowly getting thicker until they set. This is why in cold climates it is suggested that #2 be blended with kerosene to keep it from gelling to soon. (Mercedes suggests using up to 30% gasoline in very cold climates).
In the US fuel oils are blended according to climate and location and there are also additives that control gel point, contamination (like water), change the flash point, to identify different uses (dyes) etc.
There is no real benefit to using kerosene /#1 over #2 unless you need to because of cold temperatures or you just want to clean out your system. If you switch to #1 please change your fuel filter to avoid clogging from any gunk removed. As it has been pointed out #2 has the higher heat (BTU) content.
All of this is good to know as in a pinch you can use diesel (or kerosene) in your furnace as a correspondent in Florida recently did during a cold spell when he couldn't get a delivery of fuel oil right away. (Conversely you can use fuel oil in your diesel car but the Feds don't like that as it is not taxed as
motor fuel, Several times I have put motor oil in diesel engines when I have run out of fuel.) Personally I would use whatever is cheapest for that area, temperature range and manufacturers recommendation. This means #2 for the most part.
I hope this helps more than confuses.
Richmond
I had to Nad... :-)
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Carbon molecules or something like that.
http://toad.net/~jsmeenen/fuel.html
I had to Nad... :-)
I seem to recall that diesel was considerably cheaper than gas back in the 70's.
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Yes, hydrocarbon length and branching that is anti-Markovnikov stability laws takes precise reaction conditions to synthesize.
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Yes, hydrocarbon length and branching that is anti-Markovnikov stability laws takes precise reaction conditions to synthesize.
werd :p
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werd :p
:rofl: :hi5:
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Sorry if you learned something..
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For years I kept a receipt for 2'000 gallons of diesel fuel I bought in October of 1973.....cost 15.9 cent a gallon. The last cheap fuel I bought.
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Yes, hydrocarbon length and branching that is anti-Markovnikov stability laws takes precise reaction conditions to synthesize.
I hope once I take chemistry this fall, I'll understand this...
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I hope once I take chemistry this fall, I'll understand this...
Intro-level organic chemistry is where you'd learn that.
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Intro-level organic chemistry is where you'd learn that.
I'll be doing 2 semesters of general and 2 semesters of organic, so yeah, at some point I will.
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I'll be doing 2 semesters of general and 2 semesters of organic, so yeah, at some point I will.
Study, study, study early..it will pay off later..esp. the first semester organic where your brain will be swimming with memorizing reaction trends and electron flow.
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Broke $4.00 a gallon this morning. Its went up very fast this last week, about 40 cents in five days.
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I know right? gas is going up everyday :hammer:
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Up 30 cent here in the last 2 weeks. The democrats will find a way to lower it just before the election in November.....or give their voters some Obamagas for free....hey, they got a free phone or 5 didn't they.
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And I am sure we will hear what a struggle it was, against the evil oil companies.
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Sitting here in central IL this week, I see $3.70-3.80 is the norm.
WTF, over?
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If the Democraps and Obummer had their way, they would add more taxes on each gallon; they want 5 and 6 dollar prices so that the electric death traps like the Volt and Prius will sell.
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Sitting here in central IL this week, I see $3.70-3.80 is the norm.
WTF, over?
Welcome to my world.
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Been stuck on $3.49 for a week here. Just waiting for it to hit $4.00 by summer.
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Been stuck on $3.49 for a week here. Just waiting for it to hit $4.00 by summer.
We're actually at $3.53 for regular, and $3.83 for premium.
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Been stuck on $3.49 for a week here. Just waiting for it to hit $4.00 by summer.
I paid $3.459 two days ago here in north-central Mizz-ur-ah. Prices are going up faster than a pimp's cut on his hookers. :-)
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Regular was $3.39/9 15 minutes ago in S.C......up 35 cents in 2 weeks. And for the lawn mower/chainsaw/weedeater regular no alcohol was $3.59/9.
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I left for Denver two weeks ago it was $3.38. I get home last night it's $3.53. And going up daily.
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$3.55 in town. I paid $3.43 an hour south of here and thought I got off cheap.
I don't do a lot of driving (other than going to BFE and back to work on my car where it's parked), but this is ridiculous.
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I still don't see how owebuma got elected with gas prices so high. It was hitting the white guilt white shame voters right in their pocketbook. Usually that's enough for them to swallow their guilt and shame.
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$3.75 for regular here. That was on Thursday, it might have jumped on Friday for the long weekend.
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I have to buy gas today... bummer. Increase in prices is mostly the fault of that idiot in the W.H.
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I traveled to Dayton, OH over the weekend. I was surprised to see the highest prices in Indiana ($3.979), not in the People's Republik of Illinois ($3.879). At home it's $3.269.
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I haven't looked lately, but have prices jumped recently? The mess in Iraq seems like a perfect excuse for prices to go up.
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I haven't looked lately, but have prices jumped recently? The mess in Iraq seems like a perfect excuse for prices to go up.
Actually, at least here, it down a nickel or so......$3.26/9 at 5 am. this morning. I put up the time because the gas delivery truck usually comes around 8 am. and that's when the price changes one way or the other.
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Actually, at least here, it down a nickel or so......$3.26/9 at 5 am. this morning. I put up the time because the gas delivery truck usually comes around 8 am. and that's when the price changes one way or the other.
an the winner is;
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101752227
Iraq violence slingshots Brent, WTI to highest levels of 2014
Javier E. David
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The 3 stations I went by this afternoon were all at $3.75 for regular and $4.05 for premium.
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The 3 stations I went by this afternoon were all at $3.75 for regular and $4.05 for premium.
With the price of diesel today at @ $3.85 I might be able to afford to drive past the city limits.
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In RI on Friday regular unleaded was $3.85/gal. Same day in NH, I topped off at $3.60/gal.
Live free or die, bitches.
Oh wait--they just voted to jack up the gas taxes here by 12 cents. And Maggie the libtard is salivating at all that cash rolling in. FML.
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Gas has dropped to $3.55/gal here but I keep hearing on the news how prices are going to go up because of Iraq. They've been falling for the past few weeks here. :mental:
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Gas has dropped to $3.55/gal here but I keep hearing on the news how prices are going to go up because of Iraq. They've been falling for the past few weeks here. :mental:
Well, if the media can't drive the prices up that way, they will resort to "there is a gas shortage". Everyone will rush out to top off their tanks and fill up a few cans and there will be........a gas shortage.
Just think of the millions of gallons of storage space in half filled cars, trucks, tractors, equipment.....enough that, if everyone buys at once, you will have a shortage.
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Well, if the media can't drive the prices up that way, they will resort to "there is a gas shortage". Everyone will rush out to top off their tanks and fill up a few cans and there will be........a gas shortage.
Just think of the millions of gallons of storage space in half filled cars, trucks, tractors, equipment.....enough that, if everyone buys at once, you will have a shortage.
And now this . . .
U.S. Seen as Biggest Oil Producer After Overtaking Saudi Arabia
By Grant Smith Jul 4, 2014 11:56 AM ET 535 Comments Email Print
The U.S. will remain the world’s biggest oil producer this year after overtaking Saudi Arabia and Russia as extraction of energy from shale rock spurs the nation’s economic recovery, Bank of America Corp. said.
U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas, surpassed all other countries this year with daily output exceeding 11 million barrels in the first quarter, the bank said in a report today. The country became the world’s largest natural gas producer in 2010. The International Energy Agency said in June that the U.S. was the biggest producer of oil and natural gas liquids.
“The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil,†Francisco Blanch, the bank’s head of commodities research, said by phone from New York. “The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn’t have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable.â€
Oil extraction is soaring at shale formations in Texas and North Dakota as companies split rocks using high-pressure liquid, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The surge in supply combined with restrictions on exporting crude is curbing the price of West Texas Intermediate, America’s oil benchmark. The U.S., the world’s largest oil consumer, still imported an average of 7.5 million barrels a day of crude in April, according to the Department of Energy’s statistical arm.
The rest is here: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-04/u-s-seen-as-biggest-oil-producer-after-overtaking-saudi.html
Things that make you go "Hmmm . . . . " :confused: Thing is, there's been no new refinery construction in the US in some 35 years.
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It was $3.63 at the Irving on rt 1 in Portsmouth. $49.77 to fill up the Silver Hawk.....YIKES :rant:
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It was down to $3.52/gal here. Something isn't right. Normally we have had higher prices than the national average, but since the city made some talk about adding a new sales tax in the city and possibly county, the prices have been under the average.
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It's ranging between $3.67 and $3.55 in Sarasota.
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On the other corner of the country, $3.99/gal in the Olympia, WA area last Thursday. Thanks, DUmmies!!!
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On the other corner of the country, $3.99/gal in the Olympia, WA area last Thursday. Thanks, DUmmies!!!
I hear ya.... ARCO 4.03 and Mobil 4.29 here in CA.
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It's about $3.45-$3.60 for regular in the Music City. I got lucky and bought my last tank for 25 cents off because I spent that much more on groceries for the month. It was never this high during the last administration, at least not regularly.
Where's the media?
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Looked the sign this morning where I buy my gas.....$3.22/9 for regular.
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Looked the sign this morning where I buy my gas.....$3.22/9 for regular.
Those prices are unheard of in Florida, at least on the gulf coast Sarasota is higher than Tampa or further south, like Ft Myers. There are a lot of libtards in this area who believe in taxing and spending. Sad.
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It's down again to $3.42 for regular.
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$4.59 for non-ethanol premium (93) at the local Valero. Good thing I only need eight gallons.
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$3.10/9 this morning for watered down(10% alcohol) regular.
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3.67 this morning at the ARCO. Better than it was last week, nearly 4.00.
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We've been hovering right around $3.58 at the Sam's Club (Flying J) station in town for most of a month now.
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$3.52/gal at the Cobble Pond Farms outlet, about 3/4 mile away.
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$3.04/9 two days ago for the cheapest grade gas when I filled up.
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CPF went down two cents to $3.50, a few hours after I had put 8-9 gallons into my RAV. :argh:
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It's pretty much $3.25 a gallon around here, for the 90% gasoline, 10% ethanol blend.
And $3.54 a gallon for the gasoline I buy, 100% pure gasoline.
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It's after Labor Day. Pretty soon, they'll switch over to the less-expensive winter blends... prices will probably drop somewhat.
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It went down to $3.06 in Columbia, MO last week, but then inched back up to $3.09. Where I live it's $3.12 for the ethanol shit.
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About $3.39 at the neighborhood stations in Sarasota. Our taxes are high, even for Florida. We were in the Clearwater Fl area, north of here, a week ago and the gas was $3.08 a gallon and probably is lower now.
More than the winter blends being cheaper, I think these price decreases in the fall every 2 years has more to do with politics--Obama trying to bail out his stooges. His motto "Whatever it takes".
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Prices here jumped last Thursday before the long weekend. Regular went from $3.23 to $3.54 in a day. WTF?
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Reg has been holding steady at $3.45 for a week or more now.
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$2.52/9......at the rate it's been falling by election day it should be $2 :-)
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Down to $3.11 and probably still going down, all the while the local Libturds are trying to put through anti-fracking legislation in a county with nothing to frack. :thatsright:
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Down to $3.11 and probably still going down, all the while the local Libturds are trying to put through anti-fracking legislation in a county with nothing to frack. :thatsright:
The beauty of all this is that the Russians and Venezuelans are having kittens over the slumping prices. Double plus good. :-)
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$2.52/9......at the rate it's been falling by election day it should be $2 :-)
Ours dropped to $2.89 about a week ago, now went back up to $2.99.
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Gas has been on a slow roller coaster here. It had dropped slowly to $2.82, then jumped overnight to $3.19 last week. It's went down a few pennies to $3.09 as of yesterday.
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$2.779 here in north-central MO.
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$3.09 for the ethanol-laced (90% real gasoline) and $3.22 for the pure gasoline, which I use.
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$2.779 here in north-central MO.
2.80-ish around here. I did notice Sam's was below 2.75, but I didn't see by how much.
I haven't seen anyone over 2.99 for a few days now, even the guys right off of the interstate.
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You know, I've always wondered why gasoline prices are expressed in tenths of a cent.
"Q--Why do gasoline prices end in nine-tenths of a cent?
A--I could not find anyone able to provide a definitive answer, but there were several speculations.
One is that it came into being as a result of the taxes, both state and federal, that caused prices to end in fractions. Seems unlikely.
Another idea is that the price goes back to a time when a penny was actually worth something so for every ten gallons a person purchased, they kind of got one free. Nah, it doesn't add up.
The most plausible reason is simply a marketing tactic. It is the same reason a steak is $19.95 or a car is $32,995. Psychologically, it looks and sounds cheaper."
^^^more at http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=327038
With gasoline prices still near record highs for the Memorial Day weekend -- the traditional start of the summer vacation season -- every penny counts as U.S. drivers try to find the best deal at the pump.
But without knowing it, or maybe even caring, drivers are paying service stations a little extra every time they fill up. Why? The odd way U.S. gasoline is priced -- to the 9/10ths of a cent -- provides the oil industry with millions of dollars in extra profit each month.
When the sign at a service station advertises regular gasoline for sale at $3.89-9/10 a gallon, most drivers focus on the first three digits in the price and think the cost is $3.89 a gallon. Drivers actually pay $3.90.
They don't have a choice. For decades U.S. gasoline has been sold at a price that ends with 9/10ths of a cent, with retailers rounding up the cost of a gallon to the next penny.
"Most people don't see that 9/10ths. Psychologically, it's a marketing ploy," said John Townsend, spokesman for the AAA mid-Atlantic region.
Service stations know that ending the advertised price for gasoline with 9/10ths makes drivers feel they are paying less for fuel, he said.
^^^from 2011; more at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/26/us-usa-gasoline-pricing-idUSTRE74P5EQ20110526
The use of fractional prices goes back to at least seventy or eighty years back. In 1914, a Texaco service station's gas price was 14.5 cent per gallon. But 9/10 cent fraction pricing came during the 'great depression' of 1930s. The great depression decimated the demand for gasoline. More than 2.6 million cars and trucks were taken off the road, and the consumption of gasoline was down a billion gallons per year in both 1932 and 1933. Gas stations fought to service. Production at the time was running far above demand and the market quickly went into a serious oversupply situation.
It was at that time that premiums such as candy, cigarettes, ashtrays, dolls and countless other giveaway items made their appearance at service stations. In such a competitive climate the gasoline marketers of the day were attracted to the concept of fractional pricing. Incidentally mechanical gasoline pumps with provision to set fractional price made their appearance at service stations around same time.
^^^more at https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080227193752AATmzWC
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9/10's fractional pricing is .....duh Joooooos. :-)
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Gas dropped a few more pennies again, $2.99. I think when I have to fill up again next month, I'm going to try and stop the pump at 1.00 gallons.
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2.80-ish around here. I did notice Sam's was below 2.75, but I didn't see by how much.
I haven't seen anyone over 2.99 for a few days now, even the guys right off of the interstate.
It's up to $2.829 now. The party's over.
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Been stuck at $2.53/9 here for a few days. I guess that's as low as it will go. Probably start rising again Wednesday morning.
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$2.59/gal in Tumwater, WA last Sunday. Strange how the price of gas bottomed out right before Election Day.
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$2.59/gal in Tumwater, WA last Sunday. Strange how the price of gas bottomed out right before Election Day.
Happened last election, too. Funny thing--NOT.
We got gas this week in the Clearwater, Fl area at Costco for $2.71 a gallon. We're so used to it being in the 3's that we catch ourselves saying $3.71. Hope we don't go back to those bad old days.
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I know it's not really relevant to anyone on here since it's not America, but fuel prices have dropped a lot here and are crazy cheap right now. When I filled up last month it's was in the 1.30 range and it's dropped over 20 cents. It looks like it might actually hit 1$/litre at some point soon.
I don't think I've seen it this low in 5 or 6 years to be honest.
http://i.imgur.com/xMKFFvr.jpg
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That's not exactly cheap. :p
Gas is under $2.50/gallon here, about $2.36 in this neighborhood.
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That's not exactly cheap. :p
When you're used to paying over 5$/gallon anything under 5 seems great :p
I mean that's almost a dollar less in a single month.
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I know it's not really relevant to anyone on here since it's not America, but fuel prices have dropped a lot here and are crazy cheap right now. When I filled up last month it's was in the 1.30 range and it's dropped over 20 cents. It looks like it might actually hit 1$/litre at some point soon.
I don't think I've seen it this low in 5 or 6 years to be honest.
http://i.imgur.com/xMKFFvr.jpg
Where is here?
It's gotten low for America too. The prices are killing the Russian economy. :-)
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Where is here?
Prince Edward Island. It's too bad we can't set our location in our profiles anymore.
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Prince Edward Island. It's too bad we can't set our location in our profiles anymore.
Check your profile. You should have a location option available now.
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Gas has dropped to $2.17 here. I don't think our Kroger has gas.
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Dropped to $2.19 here this morning.
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$2.17/9 here too.....and there's not even a pending election.
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Was that a special promotion, Chris, or is that the going price around there?
We're sitting at 1.92-1.96 range around here.
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I got an extra dollar off. It's selling for $1.99 and I and have over 1000 fuel points after buying a bunch of gift cards.
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I got an extra dollar off. It's selling for $1.99 and I and have over 1000 fuel points after buying a bunch of gift cards.
Oh, that makes more sense.
Kroger (Dillon's) is pulling out of my town. :(
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It was $2.19 at the local Kroger.
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It was $2.19 at the local Kroger.
Out here in Utah, my local Sam's Club has it for $2.10, or $2.08, depending on which one you go to.
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Gassed up at Dillon's this afternoon. $1.83/gal with my 10 cent discount.
Woot!
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Filled up the gas before heading up.to see.my guy. 2.07 at Sam's Club. We were further north las t night and it was 1.95 a gallon. Wow. I have several discounts to use in the near future so.it should be cheaper still. 30 ccents off a gallon at speedway that I'll be using to.fill the tank when I get home and according to gas buddy it's hovering around 2 a gallon.
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And now this . . .
Investors Freak As Saudi Inaction Could Sink Oil To $20 A Barrel. Time To Buy?
Christopher Helman Forbes Staff 1/06/2015 @ 10:06AM 31,439 views
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OPEC is not going to come to the rescue. It is up to American producers to cut oil supplies.
The world freaked out over oil Monday. U.S. crude fell as low as $49.77 a barrel, down about 6%. Brent crude is at $53. This is the lowest price since early 2009, when oil bottomed at $35 less than nine months after hitting a record high of $147.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 331 points Monday. Many reports have blamed oil for the stock market weakness, but that doesn’t really make much sense. All else equal, low oil prices are a boon to economic growth. And besides, considering how high the Dow has risen, 330 points just ain’t what it used to be — merely a 1.8% move. Back in 2008 the Dow suffered 11 days with losses of 4% or more.
Indeed, it’s the pain being borne by energy investors that is dragging down the market. Energy makes up about 10% of the large-cap universe. Yesterday the average energy company was off 4%. Weaker, debt-saddled companies fared far worse. Swift Energy was down 18%, SandRidge Energy fell nearly 13% and Halcon Resources lost 10%.
When a commodity falls 50% in price so quickly, bargain hunters emerge. On Monday a self-described “degenerate gambler†and Forbes staffer asked if now was the time to take a flyer on USO — the United States Oil Fund exchange traded fund that ostensibly tracks oil prices — in expectation of an eventual upturn.
No, I told him. Don’t buy USO. In fact, if I’m going to bet on oil, that ETF is the last thing I’d buy. It makes far more sense to buy shares in the companies that produce it, for the simple reason that a leveraged commodity producer’s earnings modulate with a greater amplitude than the swings in the price of their underlying commodity. In other words, oil company shares tend to be more volatile than oil itself.
The rest is here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherhelman/2015/01/06/investors-freak-as-saudi-inaction-could-sink-oil-to-20-a-barrel-time-to-buy/?partner=yahootix
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Most of the stations around my area are in the 1.70-1.73 range, with a few now dipping into the high 1.60s.
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Most of the stations around my area are in the 1.70-1.73 range, with a few now dipping into the high 1.60s.
Can't beat that.....we just got down to $1.92/9
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$1.73 here today. Too bad these lower gas prices won't be reflected at the grocery stores. I guess we might see a slower increase in store prices, but no decreases.
I had noticed a couple of weeks ago at work that UPS and other delivery companies still have fuel surcharges listed. :hammer:
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$1.73 here today. Too bad these lower gas prices won't be reflected at the grocery stores. I guess we might see a slower increase in store prices, but no decreases.
I had noticed a couple of weeks ago at work that UPS and other delivery companies still have fuel surcharges listed. :hammer:
Diesel fuel hasn't come down as much as gas.
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$1.73 here today. Too bad these lower gas prices won't be reflected at the grocery stores. I guess we might see a slower increase in store prices, but no decreases.
I had noticed a couple of weeks ago at work that UPS and other delivery companies still have fuel surcharges listed. :hammer:
I don't think the fuel surcharges will ever go away. I remember when I first started seeing them on the freight bills at work, and they kicked in when fuel was above a certain dollar amount.
Now they're just in effect at all times.