« previous next »
Pages: [1] 2   Go Down

Author Topic: Gas prices in your area  (Read 5405 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline SaintLouieWoman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2024
  • Reputation: +500/-6
Gas prices in your area
« on: December 29, 2008, 08:23:31 PM »
Couldn't believe it. SR and I were on the way to Costco, going a different way, and saw a Phillips station with the sign---regular, $1.23.

Can't tell you how quickly we pulled in.

The place closest to me is charging $1.35/gallon and some others are still at $1.49. How times have changed, where I think $1.49 is gouging.  :-)
Logged

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2008, 08:27:30 PM »
Up to $1.79 here in L.A.
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2008, 08:30:31 PM »
I was paying $1.25-1.30 in high school (15 years ago).  That's my watermark for "low" gas prices.  I think it's about $1.49 in the city and probably a quarter cheaper when you get out to Manchester or Tullahoma.  Diesel prices are outrageously low in the Oklahoma/ Kansas/ Nebraska/ South Dakota portion of the midwest.  San Diego has dirt-cheap diesel sellling at $2.11 a gallon, but we can't seem to crack the $2.50 mark.  There's a station that hasn't budged from their $2.75 price, but they probably don't sell much anyway.
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Schadenfreude

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8388
  • Reputation: +475/-78
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #3 on: December 29, 2008, 08:34:47 PM »
I don't remember, but I think it was 1.59 on my way in to work this morning. Crazy times, I might just fire up my Ford Econoline Conversion Van and take a road trip somewhere. Who will have me?  :naughty:
Logged
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.â€

Offline Crazy Horse

  • Army 0 Navy 34
  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5602
  • Reputation: +265/-143
  • Sex, Booze and Bacon Minion
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #4 on: December 29, 2008, 08:42:23 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 29, 2008, 08:34:47 PM
I don't remember, but I think it was 1.59 on my way in to work this morning. Crazy times, I might just fire up my Ford Econoline Conversion Van and take a road trip somewhere. Who will have me?  :naughty:

Is this a serious question................... :hyper:
Logged
Disclaimer
Any views, remarks or statements of other military services or it’s members is covered under the Inter-Service Rivalry Act of 1974

Offline Schadenfreude

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8388
  • Reputation: +475/-78
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #5 on: December 29, 2008, 08:43:33 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on December 29, 2008, 08:42:23 PM
Is this a serious question................... :hyper:

We could sell all our possessions and live out of my van.   :naughty:
Logged
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.â€

Offline Crazy Horse

  • Army 0 Navy 34
  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5602
  • Reputation: +265/-143
  • Sex, Booze and Bacon Minion
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #6 on: December 29, 2008, 08:44:16 PM »
Quote from: Chris on December 29, 2008, 08:30:31 PM
I was paying $1.25-1.30 in high school (15 years ago).  That's my watermark for "low" gas prices.  I think it's about $1.49 in the city and probably a quarter cheaper when you get out to Manchester or Tullahoma.  Diesel prices are outrageously low in the Oklahoma/ Kansas/ Nebraska/ South Dakota portion of the midwest.  San Diego has dirt-cheap diesel sellling at $2.11 a gallon, but we can't seem to crack the $2.50 mark.  There's a station that hasn't budged from their $2.75 price, but they probably don't sell much anyway.

Was $1.46 in Murfreesboro the week after Thanksgiving when I was there for the funeral.

$1.55 here in Eastern NC
Logged
Disclaimer
Any views, remarks or statements of other military services or it’s members is covered under the Inter-Service Rivalry Act of 1974

Offline Crazy Horse

  • Army 0 Navy 34
  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5602
  • Reputation: +265/-143
  • Sex, Booze and Bacon Minion
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #7 on: December 29, 2008, 08:45:15 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 29, 2008, 08:43:33 PM
We could sell all our possessions and live out of my van.   :naughty:

I hope you have more possessions....................I really thought you might really be doing a road trip
Logged
Disclaimer
Any views, remarks or statements of other military services or it’s members is covered under the Inter-Service Rivalry Act of 1974

Offline Schadenfreude

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8388
  • Reputation: +475/-78
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2008, 08:47:21 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on December 29, 2008, 08:45:15 PM
I hope you have more possessions....................I really thought you might really be doing a road trip

I am so low on PTO, it's pathetic. If I go farther than the upper midwest, I need to fly.
Logged
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.â€

Offline Crazy Horse

  • Army 0 Navy 34
  • Topic Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5602
  • Reputation: +265/-143
  • Sex, Booze and Bacon Minion
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2008, 08:49:52 PM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 29, 2008, 08:47:21 PM
I am so low on PTO, it's pathetic. If I go farther than the upper midwest, I need to fly.

Well fly southwest...........I have enough PTO :evillaugh:
Logged
Disclaimer
Any views, remarks or statements of other military services or it’s members is covered under the Inter-Service Rivalry Act of 1974

Offline djones520

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4207
  • Reputation: +181/-146
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #10 on: December 29, 2008, 08:52:40 PM »
$1.49 a gallon right now.

The year before I started driving, 1999, gas was about $.95 a gallon in NW Michigan.  Would be really nice to see it that low again, though I'm not complaining at all about the prices now.
Logged
"Chuck Norris once had sex in an 18 wheeler. Some of his semen dripped onto the engine. We now call that truck Optimus Prime."

Offline Miss Mia

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8052
  • Reputation: +353/-137
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #11 on: December 29, 2008, 08:55:22 PM »
I saw diesel for $2.39/gallon. 
Logged
Stink Eye
"Bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass."

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #12 on: December 29, 2008, 08:56:18 PM »
Quote from: djones520 on December 29, 2008, 08:52:40 PM
$1.49 a gallon right now.

The year before I started driving, 1999, gas was about $.95 a gallon in NW Michigan.  Would be really nice to see it that low again, though I'm not complaining at all about the prices now.

1999 was the huge Clinton oil glut (I'm only calling it that because he was President).  I remember that summer buying gas for 75 cents a gallon.
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #13 on: December 29, 2008, 08:59:18 PM »
Quote from: Miss Mia on December 29, 2008, 08:55:22 PM
I saw diesel for $2.39/gallon. 

That's about average, nationally.  The company I work for is a service provider to OTR and local fleets, so I get bombarded with diesel prices all day long.  Oklahoma and points north are the cheapest.  The lowest I've seen was $2.11 in San Diego.  Offroad diesel is under $2 right now.
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Schadenfreude

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8388
  • Reputation: +475/-78
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #14 on: December 29, 2008, 09:02:07 PM »
Quote from: Crazy Horse on December 29, 2008, 08:49:52 PM
Well fly southwest...........I have enough PTO :evillaugh:

We must behave in this gas thread.  :evillaugh:
Logged
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.â€

Offline Chris

  • Administrator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1476
  • Reputation: +522/-16
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #15 on: December 29, 2008, 09:40:39 PM »
Speaking of PTO (and gas), I think I'm going to take a couple weeks off some time around July or August.  Should have the old two-wheeled turd up and running by then and I want to go somewhere.  Poor thing was covered in ice this morning. :(
Logged
This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #16 on: December 29, 2008, 11:40:51 PM »
1.55 is the lowest in Savannah.
1.35 is the lowest in Atlanta.

It used to be reverse.  :(
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Atomic Lib Smasher

  • Liberal Hunter
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 1844
  • Reputation: +165/-16
  • Just Say Nobama
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #17 on: December 30, 2008, 12:46:26 AM »
$1.69 here for regular in Peoria. Not too bad considering we're one of the top 10 states when it comes to taxing gasoline.
Logged

Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid! - Mark R. Levin

Offline RobJohnson

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8876
  • Reputation: +333/-109
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #18 on: December 30, 2008, 01:42:39 AM »
Quote from: Schadenfreude on December 29, 2008, 08:34:47 PM
I don't remember, but I think it was 1.59 on my way in to work this morning. Crazy times, I might just fire up my Ford Econoline Conversion Van and take a road trip somewhere. Who will have me?  :naughty:

Set up a profile at www.couchsurfing.com and I will approve you for a stay on my sofa.  :-)  Bring the family!

In Vegas, prices have been seen a little below $1.50.

 Where I live, about 40 miles from Vegas, the prices are hanging at about 1.75ish.  Less competition here, but Smith's grocery store, gives you up to a 15 cent discount on gas, so have been paying $1.60.

From less people driving all summer, gas tax revenue is down....streets need repair...yada, yada...



Logged

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #19 on: December 30, 2008, 03:02:10 AM »
$1.34/9 yesterday..........about $1.20 lower than I thought I'd ever see it again.

Look for Nancy and the Big O to tax it up to $2.50 if it stays down.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline SaintLouieWoman

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 2024
  • Reputation: +500/-6
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #20 on: December 30, 2008, 07:49:50 AM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on December 30, 2008, 03:02:10 AM
$1.34/9 yesterday..........about $1.20 lower than I thought I'd ever see it again.

Look for Nancy and the Big O to tax it up to $2.50 if it stays down.

Scary thought, but probably accurate. I guess we'd best enjoy it while it lasts.
Logged

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #21 on: December 30, 2008, 08:12:25 AM »
$1.53 around here yesterday, but I'm waiting for it to go up with some people having another long weekend coming up.
Logged

Offline Chris_

  • Little Lebowski Urban Achiever
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 46845
  • Reputation: +2028/-266
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #22 on: December 30, 2008, 08:22:58 AM »
I paid $1.41 two weeks before Christmas, but it has risen since then and it's running around $1.55 now.  It's the holiday price gouge season.
Logged
If you want to worship an orange pile of garbage with a reckless disregard for everything, get on down to Arbys & try our loaded curly fries.

Offline Miss Mia

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8052
  • Reputation: +353/-137
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #23 on: December 30, 2008, 10:23:35 AM »
I saw a station with diesel at $2.19 then a couple miles down the freeway it was $2.39 at a place. 

Well, thank goodness with a diesel I only fill up every couple of weeks or so.   :-)
Logged
Stink Eye
"Bloodninja: It doesn't get any more serious than a Rhinocerus about to charge your ass."

Offline Hawkgirl

  • Alpha Female
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4291
  • Reputation: +186/-73
Re: Gas prices in your area
« Reply #24 on: December 30, 2008, 10:37:28 AM »
$1.65 in Palm Beach

I want to buy an SUV soon...but I'm afraid the gas prices will rise up again to make me regret it.

Logged
Pages: [1] 2   Go Up
« previous next »