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I recently picked up a '76 Grand LeMans, and had to drive it home from Cincinnati. A buddy of mine drove my '00 Intrepid back. The Trep was getting around 25 mpg, but the LeMans was only getting around 15! But then, that was the 70's, not the 60's, and this thing probably weighs as much as some 60's full-sizers!
regular : $2.79 at shell
89 octane is $2.89
91 octane is $2.99
East Bay area/ San Francisco..
Last week, in Hong Kong , it was about 10 HK dollar per liter...which works out to about $5 per gallon
in Taiwan, it was $ NT 28 yuan per liter...which works out to about $4 / gal.
Gas in the suburbs is also 10-15 cents a gallon cheaper (so $2.239 up).
Berkeley, CA:
87 octane from $2.45 (one of the cheap-looking places, and Costco) to $2.75. Sometimes even the cheap places are close to that upper figure though. Looks like things are lightening up.
Gas is still holding here, too. The Citgo on my way to work was $2.259 for 87 this morning, which is actually down a bit from their high of $2.299. The Shell's holding at $2.319, tho.
BTW, you mentioned Leon's junkyard in another topic. It's not too far from me, still in business, but the woods are really starting to close in. I don't think he ever sends cars off to the crusher, so the hulks just sit there rusting away. I bet it would really be hard finding useful parts.
The first time I went down there was in 1978, when my Granddad took me down. At that point Granddad had just bought a '53 DeSoto from his brother inlaw for like $150.00. It had been his BIL's mother's car, and she had a stroke while driving it and hit a parked car. The car was parked and never fixed, and years later when she died, when settling the estate that's how my Granddad got it. I remember we got a hood, driver's fender, bumper, all the grille teeth, and a few other minor pieces for like $85 or $90 bucks! I drove down there myself for the first time in 1992, just for a nostalgia trip, and that old '53 was still there! One thing that was really odd though, is how ingrained that junkyard was in my memory. I actually REMEMBERED a lot of the landscape, and where some of the various cars were located! Sometimes I wish my memory was that good when it came to school work and such back then!
There was still a lot of good stuff in there the last time I was down, but often it would depend on where in the yard it was placed. Some parts of that yard stay pretty dry, some of it's low and swampy, etc. He had a 1962 Pontiac Bonneville hearse that I would have loved to have rescued! It was so far back in the yard though, that It would've taken an act of God to dig it out! He also has (had) at least three '76-77 Pontiac LeManses (2 coupes and a sedan), so I might take a run down there sometime and see if there's anything salvageable off of them, and stock up on spare parts.
BTW, my uncle works down in VA, and he always fills up down there, since gas is so much cheaper. I think he always loads up on cigarettes down there too, when he's not trying to quit smoking. I even remember as a kid, when Granddad would watch me, sometimes he and his BIL would make a run over the Wilson Bridge to stock up on cigs and take me with them. Sometimes if I was lucky, I'd get a model car to put together!
90 minutes later when I drove past the same station, it was at $2.15
This morning it was at $2.19 at the same station.
Two changes in less than 12 hours.
Somebody is spinning a wheel somewhere to determine prices aren't they?
I am sure these are all legitimate market forces...right
What I'm really trying to figure out is how the pricing works. Obviously it's not as simple as the station taking delivery on a load of gas at a price and then selling at the market price. If that wree the case, we'd see more variation from station to station at price since I'd have an short term advantage over competitors gas stations if I had gotten a delivery at a lower price and they didn't. i could undersell them for a period of time. I know the margins aren't all that big on gasoline at the pump, but I would still expect to see price differences at different stations.
But they're pretty much in lock step, and not being a big conspiracy guy, there has to be an explanation beyond "they're out to get us".
Who knows what rpice I'll see this morning since oil dropped over $2/bbl yesterday to go under $50!!
Gas, oh yeah. Last night I think I paid $2.359 for 87 at my local ghetto gas station/currency exchange/crackpipe stand (Diversey/Damen), which didn't seem too bad, considering it was $2.289 in the suburbs (where I thought it was sooo much cheaper).
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I didn't check into the Greyhound pricing, but the train was only $68. Which is less than what it cost in fuel to drive that beast back home! :surprise:
The last two times I have gone to Cincinnati to pick up a car (from Chicago), I have ended up riding down on one of my company's tractor trailers and being dropped off in Covington, KY. It is easier (and cheaper).
Hey Pitman, NJ... home of one of our favorite PSU basketball players, Joe Crispin!
Sure, Dennis Weaver is all for the Toyota Prius and any other freak-show rig that can be produced. I think that the novelty factor is still the over-riding driving force at this juncture. Might as well find our own oil sources and drill until our hearts content and just run our internal-combustion gas and diesel engines to our hearts content.
Oh, 16 million more rigs are introduced to American roads each year. It's already in the works, man!
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Once they de-bug everything and get the technology down so they can mass-produce it they can start planning stations for all of us to re-fuel at, too. Once that's decided on (you should be thinking partisan politics now, with all that that entails!!) they had better come up with a great re-charging system and a fairly-priced replacement battery for those vehicles.
Oh, and draft up the owner's manuals so that non-engineer-types can understand what they must do 100% of the time to run them efficiently, too, please. If you don't have a headache by now keep researching alternative-fuel-sourced vehicles. At the same time do something about soaring medical insurance and social security and job security for America's manufacturing workers.
I know, just take two of those and lay down for a nice nap. It will get even better down the road, man.
Hey, could you please turn up that Drive-By Trucker tune while you're at it?
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$2.10 in Carpenterville, IL.
So, if your competitor gets his gas for $2.00 per gallon and sells it for $2.05, but you paid $2.10 for yours, you can still sell for $2.05. However, in this case, the first guy started selling for less than what he paid, prompting others to follow, and then the law came a'running.
87 - $2.079
89 - $2.179
93 - $2.259
94 - $2.299
diesel - $2.159
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87 $1.999
89 $2.099
93 $2.199
Now Citgo and Exxon in the same area have matched Sheetz.
That be in Marietta Georgia...several stations last night. 87 Octane
($2.00 posted in "rural" West Georgia.
Of course, VA had the dubious distinction of having the lowest cigarette taxes, at least until last year -- all of 2.5 cents a pack!
Georgia has a paradox distinction....
That being there are no oil wells in Georgia and it has lower prices than most oil rich states.
Cigs are still pretty cheap here and tobacco used to be one of the biggest crops. Our governor just signed a public ban on smoking indoors. Now, all the butts that vendors had to clean up in their establishments will end up being strewed all over the sidewalks, streets, and parks. Yech.
Thanks for blurting-out Georgia's low fuel taxes....calling attention to that shall certainly get state government to raise to national averages... :mad:
Meanwhile, in town, regular is still $2.149 at best, compared to Sheetz' $1.999.
So how did conservative Georgia pass an indoor smoking ban? Seems pretty incredible to me. I don't think Virginia is ready for that yet, but there are more and more establishments that are smoke free.