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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    $3.619 for 93 octane, with the member discount. Elsewhere I've been seeing prices for 93 in the $3.90+ range, but don't think I've seen $4/gal. Yet.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Saw a weird one today. Was up 20 miles north of here (Toms River, NJ). Prices were running $3.29 - $3.39 except one Shell station that was at $3.73 - and there were people there!
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    I saw regular down around $3.35 about an hour east of Atlanta yesterday...back in SEA it seems to be around $3.75-3.80
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    While most of our stations are at $2.55, one slipped to $2.53 yesterday (maybe they were selling green gas for St Pat's)

    HAD to be a slip up and missed memo on their part :P
  • larsblarsb Member Posts: 8,204
    edited March 2011
    You mean $3.55, right?

    Not $2.55?

    Today, Wyoming is lowest state, averaging $3.27. If you have a $2.55, WOW !!
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    And the lowest price within Wyoming is "only" $3.16 in Natrona County, where Casper is located.

    Our lowest for RUG around here (central VA) is a no-name gas at a car wash at $3.23. The next lowest is at Sam's Club ($3.28), but I am not a member.
  • crazygrrrlcrazygrrrl Member Posts: 85
    You guys are all lucky. I'd love to pay under $3.50 a gallon for regular unleaded.

    I just bought bought gas in Milpitas, CA today and I paid $3.93/gallon for regular (Shell station on Dixon Landing).

    A lot of the gas stations in Oakland are already at $4.00 a gallon (ok, it's actually $3.999 a gallon, but you get the picture). I can see us reaching $5.00 a gallon by the end of summer.

    It makes me glad that I bought a 4-cylinder car 3 years ago.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Up a nickel to $3.69 for regular.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Paid 3.99 for Chevron premium today, supply and demand/free markets/capitalism at work of course.
  • larsblarsb Member Posts: 8,204
    Paid $3.279 in Tucson yesterday - far lower than I could have gotten in Phoenix.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited March 2011
    $3.74 for regular. After it clicked off I managed to pump $50 even in without getting near the top of the filler tube. Biggest bill in a long time to fill up the van. Almost made it a month between fill-ups.

    Got about $2 back from the grocery coupons.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...it jumped 2 cents as of Monday. Sunoco on Rising Sun and Longshore in NE Philly:

    RUG = $3.51
    Plus = $3.61
    Ultra = $3.71

    My wife has the nasty habit of letting her car run almost to empty. She hasn't had to put fuel in it since the accident and was shocked at the $49 fill-up for her 2005 Buick LaCrosse this past Sunday. I wonder how these knuckleheads in those monster SUVs must feel?
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Just got weird...

    Dropped from $3.55 to $3.53 this morning.

    At 3 PM it jumped to $3.59

    It would be nice i it made a LITTLE sense once in a while :sick:
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    We are actually seeing a little downward trend - still around $3.32 but it had topped at about $3.42. Goes up one down one this week.
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • alltorquealltorque Member Posts: 535
    O.K. folks, welcome to the real world...........

    Here in Lincoln, United Kingdom, the following are today's prices - converted for USD and US Gallons.

    Ready ? Sitting down ? Then I'll begin.

    RUG : $8.28

    ULSD : $8.46

    Last week our dear Chancellor of The Exchequer announced that he was reducing fuel costs to help the average family etc etc. At morning opening lots of stations added 6cents per USG to the price. At 6:00 p.m. the Government reduction took place.................6 cents per USG. Status quo. But, on the plus side, he didn't add the 30 cents per USG that the previous Government had proposed. (All prices converted to USD and USG).

    Now he's going to hit the Oil Companies with a "Windfall" tax for making too much profit. Anyone care to guess how that will impact our fuel prices ? Yup, base prices will go up and the Government will get more revenue because this is how our prices break down :

    (Fuel Price + Duty, i.e, tax) + VAT @ 20% a tax on a tax = Pump price. Pretty much the norm in the disUnited States of Europe.

    Fuelling my Volvo S60 D5 with it's 18 USG tank is no pleasure. :cry:

    Just thought it might make you feel a little better about your pricing.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Psychotic Philly Phuel Phees: Sunoco and Rising Sun and Longshore.

    RUG = $3.49 ->$3.51->$3.59
    Plus = $3.59 ->$3.61->$3.69
    Ultra= $3.69 ->$3.71->$3.79

    :mad:
  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    In downtown San Diego you can pay any price you want for RUG from $3.89 to $4.69.
    $3.89 is the rock bottom price in the whole big county. My local Shell station is now at $4.06. I would have to buy at least 50 gallons to justify driving to Costco 13 miles from home to save 17 cents per gallon. Diesel is on average is $4.25.

    With Cocoa prices going up due to the war on the Ivory Coast, I can't even afford to sit home and sip a cup of hot chocolate. :shades:

    So far it has not relieved the traffic around here. People driving like gas was a buck a gallon.
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Up to $3.65 this morning and then $3.69 by mid-day
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    As a US citizen, I am totally ignoring your post. :surprise:
    2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    Just thought it might make you feel a little better about your pricing.

    Having your own Queen and Prince Charles has to be worth at least $4 extra per gallon. :shades:

    PS
    I like your Queen, can't say much for Charles. :blush:
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited April 2011
    The cheapest regular gas around here is now $3.84. One of the ethanol free stations is running $3.99.9 for regular.

    We're heading down to Chattanooga this weekend for a 2,000 mile round trip. At ~24ish mpg, the gas bill will run around $325 or so. Almost $100 more than $3 gas would cost. That's ten catfish dinners :shades:
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    edited April 2011
    If you're taking I-75, wave when you get to the I-75/I-70 Crossroads of America interchange north of Dayton.

    Gas? I always plan a stop at #104 exit in Ohio. Botkins, Highway 219. Currently $3.56 approx at Shell and BP stations at a country exit. Most stations are $3.79.

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  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    My wife hasn't told me which way we're heading south this trip. :-) We may head down the west side of the lake and visit our old stomping grounds in Madison and then go through Illinois. Coming home via my sister's in VA so we may just go to Buffalo and cut across to Port Huron, and miss Ohio entirely. It would be fun to spend a day in Canada paying $1.20 for gas.

    Let's see, 3.9 liters to a US gallon, so gas in Ontario is running around $4.55 a gallon. :)
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    On another topic, some of us are wondering how many miles people around here are driving a year. Ruking1 posted over in the What Would It Take for YOU to buy a diesel car?discussion that he's putting around 20,000 miles a year on his car.

    Seems like a lot to me. We're doing around 11,000 on the van lately and maybe another 5,000 a year on the Outback.

    When gas hits $8 a gallon, we'll revisit the numbers. :sick:
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Saw premium at an ARCO for $4.01 this morning...not a huge difference from top tier.
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    The "up a dime" has been happening here almost daily since last Friday evening:

    I paid $3.70 for petrol then the next evening I saw prices were $3.80.

    Then prices early Monday morning (pre-dawn) were $3.90.

    This morning I saw most were $3.999, i.e. $4.

    I must note that those at $4 this morning were $3.95 yesterday afternoon, so they sneaked a nickel increase in-between. So over the last couple days the prices increased about every 12 hours or so.

    I guess the industry shouldn'tt make those on Fox / Fox Business and others with skin the game look like liars when they're rooting, ah, stating petrol prices would hit $5 by summer.

    Is that the economy I hear crashing... :surprise: :sick:
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Gee, do they still have a ferry across the lake? There have been a couple of attempts at that. Of course the only reason to take it is that you want to do that.

    I almost did it once and the sensible part of me said there was no point. Then several years later I did take it. About a 5 hour trip. Nice little ride but it took off at 6 in the morning which is way too early for me!
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    We'd go west and avoid any lake crossings. But they still do a summer ferry from Milwaukee and some other town a bit north of there over to Michigan. Assuming you're talking about Lake Michigan. Sounds like a fun trip, although 6 am is tough for me too.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Oh, I was talking Lake Michigan all right. I googled it just now. Turns out there are two ferries running. The one we took goes between Ludington and Manitowowc and takes about 5 hours. There's another between Muskegon and Milwaukee that a high speed job and take 2-1/2 hours.

    Fun stuff but not terribly cheap.
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Not cheap but think of the gas you'd save from bypassing Chicago.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Hey, go for it!

    I'll still do it again. it's a pretty lake - though I'll admit that after 5 hours a lot looks the same...
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited April 2011
    Not open until April 29. We'll be a bit west of Chi-Town anyhoo. You should have seen the big lake at sunset last night. Sounded like a freight train with all the breakers crashing over the big ridges of shore ice. Pretty neat being able to walk over there in a few minutes.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    I go to look at the other ferry to get around that April 29 date. It starts running May 16. :sick:

    Oh, well.
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Ye Gods! It's up ANOTHER four cents since Monday! This is a jump of 12 cents in less than a week total!

    Sunoco at Rising Sun and Longshore in NE Philly:

    RUG = $3.63 :(
    Plue = $3.73 :cry:
    Ultra = $3.83 :mad:

    I hope these oil speculators and execs end up a place where they'll be burned by an unquenchable fire fueled by their own petroleum and ill-gotten profits!
  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    Philly has a ways to go yet. You do want to be as good as San Diego, Right? :sick:
    Shell
    RUG=$4.10
    Pug=$4.30
    ULSD=$4.30
  • motorcity6motorcity6 Member Posts: 427
    Shell-mid-grade $3.939, filled up last time, same station, on 3/28, and pricing was $3.739..

    93 octane is at 4.079.......
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited April 2011
    I used to have a tee shirt with a sign on it that read:
    'End of Earth 2' and underneath it
    'Port Huron 4'.
    Paid 3.959 for RUG, cash price was 6 cents less.
    2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited April 2011
    Good range.

    Painful fill-up - $66.70 before the grocery rebate of a buck or two.

    Regular is now $3.89 here for the ethanol laced stuff. So the same as your cash price, Explorerx4. Is this End of Earth 3? :confuse:

    The "pure" gas is holding at $3.99.
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    I don't even know if the non ethanol stuff is sold here in CT.
    Would you get 2.5% better mileage with 'pure' gas?
    If i can, I like to drive until the tank is dry without stopping, when on a road trip.
    2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited April 2011
    Could be, and if I hadn't had the coupons worth 6 or 8 cents off the first 8 gallons, I might have put the "pure" gas in. The price differential here is usually more like 15 or 20 cents.

    And yeah, the light was on when I filled today and that's not unusual for me. I figure I get a tad better gas mileage running the tank down every time. Although on the road, I have to stop every hour anyway. ;)

    After 151,000 miles, running the tank dry most every time doesn't seem to have hurt the fuel pump longevity any. Of course, it's a 20 gallon tank and I never get close to being able to cram 18 gallons in.
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    edited April 2011
    Pit stops and Toll booths kill the best scenario fuel mileage in my Explorer.
    Driving to empty is ok with me.
    I put a little extra air in the tires for those long trips, too.
    2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    lol, was just out in the garage doing that.
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    I like to pick out a kickoff song for my road trips. How about some Kenny G to get the trip off to a nice smooth start? ;)
    2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited April 2011
    I'm more of a tenor sax/Motown/Stax fan.

    Probably NPR, except I think this is fundraising week, so after I hear the news it'll be whatever station I can pick up. Slim pickings. Dodging the deer will keep me occupied for a couple of hours.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Sunoco at Rising Sun and Longshore:

    RUG = $3.63
    Plus= $3.73
    Ultra = $3.83

    I'm keeping ahead of the certain jump that will occur Monday. My wife just topped off her LaCrosse last night and I asked how much it was. I was surprised when it was "only" $40! She has a nasty habit of running the car until it is almost empty. I guess she didn't let it get that low this time.
  • Kirstie_HKirstie_H Administrator Posts: 11,242
    That might inspire me to some world-class road rage!

    We're hovering around $3.60/gallon here in the outskirts of Kansas City, MO. A little higher on the KS side due to taxes.

    I can hardly complain - in the past month, I've done a grand total of 204 miles.

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  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Was going to fill at $3.47 to avoid the next bump last night but didn't get to it. bought this morning at the same place for $3.51! :mad:

    Who wants to buy an 04 Ody?
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited April 2011
    $3.89
    $3.75
    $3.65
    $3.55

    That was regular in the UP, then Illinois, Paducah KY and hit the cheapest here in Chattanooga (although I don't need any more yet). Had another 400+ mile tank. that one got one 25 mpg, all going 5 mph over the speed limit usually.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Just paid $4.17 for Chevron premium.

    Diesel was only $4.29 or something, not a huge gap.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Sunoco at Longshore and Rising Sun in NE Philly:

    RUG = $3.69
    Plus = $3.79
    Ultra = $3.89

    Nuts!
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