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  • plektoplekto Member Posts: 3,738
    $3.45/3.55/3.65 here in Pasadena, CA.

    I just spent $55 filling up my car with 15 gallons of gas(it requires premium).

    Side note - the price for premium is about half the percentage over what it was 3-4 years ago. 20 cents higher than $3.45 a gallon is about 6% more. When gas was $1.59/1.69/1.89 a few years back, it was over 15% more.
  • waiwai Member Posts: 325
    Here local gas at De, Shell, $2.99 , $3.09, $3.19.
    Those drivers just like to show off that they are rich and can afford to speed with a gas-guzzler.
  • waiwai Member Posts: 325
    I think your $3.65 is for 91 octane. Here in NE, the difference for 87 & premium (93)is 20 cents, which is about 6.6%.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    After dropping six cents to $2.91, the price of Sunoco regular is back up six cents to $2.97. Silver is $3.07 and "ultra?"93 is $3.17.

    I guess I gotta give back that pack of Juicy Fruit, the two Swedish fish and the Pixe Stix.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    After dropping six cents to $2.91, the price of Sunoco regular is back up six cents to $2.97. Silver is $3.07 and "ultra?"93 is $3.17.

    I guess I gotta give back that pack of Juicy Fruit, the two Swedish fish and the Pixie Stix.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    My local Chevron is holding steady at 3.15. Seattle average is 3.16, up from 2.72 a month ago. That was 1 cent above the national average...today Seattle is 24 cents above. Supply and demand at work I'm sure.
  • smittynycsmittynyc Member Posts: 289
    . . . in my little corner of the northwest Bronx. $3.25/26 for reg at the two BPs, the Mobil, and the Lukoil (which has premium for a staggering $3.65). Sunoco was "only" $3.15 this a.m., but I guarantee it'll match or exceed $3.25 when I get home tonight.

    All of these places had teetered just over $3 for the last ten days. Given that there wasn't much of a retreat from that last nationwide spike, I suspect we'll get pretty close to $4 around Memorial Day, even without a scare put into the market that jacks up prices despite having no real effect on supply (Iranian letter writers, Chavez fireside chat, NOAA hurricane report, Nigerian despots, etc.).
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    ...central VA for 87: $2.79, with usually a 10-cent spread between the grades.

    So there's clearly a huge variance across the US: from about $2.50 (Ohio) to $3.45 (Calif.)

    Glad we were able to take our cross-country trip last December, paying between $2.05 and $2.47 per gallon the whole way.
  • kernickkernick Member Posts: 4,072
    I'm cancelling my cruise leaving from Bayonne, NJ because its going to cost me an extra $15, to drive back and forth. Next thing you know, a beer's going to cost $3! ;)
  • euphoniumeuphonium Member Posts: 3,425
    Our cross-country trip will cost between $3.05 and $3.47 and that will be paid for by our profits in investing in Chevron stock. :)
  • bandemommybandemommy Member Posts: 20
    Well, today, I noticed for the first time prices for regular just went over $3/gallon. The scary part... these stations had gas for 2.89/2.91 yesterday and now everything is over $3.00. Most of these stations had a jump of .12 overnight.

    Our budget can absorb this added expense, but I think I am more frugal than I thought. I am really planning my trips better, ran on our treadmill this morning instead of driving the 10 miles to the gym, and I am trying to slow down on the highway. I drive a Pilot, so not the worst offender on the road, but certainly uses more than it's share of gas.

    Since I am on the road less, I haven't spent money on iced coffees, snacks for the kids or odds and ends at Target etc. Like I said, I know we have the money to continue our lifestyle, but the price is really making me question every trip I make.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    Errrr, beer costs $6 at the baseball games, draft 24 oz? size.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    Wonder if this has anything to do with the sudden jump in price:
    Nigeria Pipeline Explosion

    A tragedy for sure. And another reason to cause futures to go through the roof, raising prices.
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    Yes, I believe the same. I'm thinking the higher prices are affecting everybody, some more than others for sure, but it is having a negative effect.

    Most are keeping up with the image, which is dumb to me :confuse: They are trying to compete with the Jones' - too bad the Jones' are broke too :sick:

    I've been doing pretty well too, keeping in the right lane, doing the limit, smooth starts and the like.

    To stay on topic:
    Regular: $2.83 ~ 2.95
    Mid-grade: $2.89 ~ 3.15
    Premium: $2.95 ~ 3.25
    E85: $2.65 (regular at this station is $2.95)
  • cccompsoncccompson Member Posts: 2,382
    After dropping earlier this week, prices are up and the neighborhood stations are at their highest point this year - $2.999 for regular.
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    6 cents down to $2.89 here in Happy Valley
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Prices steady at my local Chevron, although several stations in Seattle proper are now charging over 3.40. The local average is 3.17, 24 cents above the national average...where it was 2 cents above the average a month ago...
  • carlisimocarlisimo Member Posts: 1,280
    $3.30 is no longer high, it's normal.

    But it's not like gas prices are going to make our rents look low.
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    rest assured that the Seattle prices are true, justified and in line with someone making a large, bountiful profit.

    Are they going to give some of that profit to the starving pygmies? Sounds like Exxon could afford to be giving and generous to somebody for a long, long time and still make a great profit off of us, huh?

    Happy motoring. ;)

    Just feeling gracious to be consuming ghastly.

    2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick

  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    I think the lowest price in San Diego County is $3.31. There is a station selling diesel for $2.96. He may be dumping his old high sulfur diesel before they bring in the ULSD on the first of June.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Regular at my local Sunoco is back up to $2.99. Silver is $3.09, and "ultra?"93 is $3.19 + $4.19 for a bottle of octane booster. It took $19 to fill my girlfriend's LaCrosse at 3/4 tank. At that rate it would be $76 for a full tank for a LaCrosse! Geeze, I wonder what that guy in the Hummer is spending?
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    ...Please tell me you're not using 93 in your girlfriend's LaCrosse AND adding octane booster?

    That ancient 3.8 V6 only needs regular!

    (If I were in the Hummer, I might be laughing.)
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Nah. The LaCrosse is happy on the petroleum equivalent of McDonald's. Only my Cadillac gets the privilege.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Regular at my local Sunoco was $2.99, up from $2.97. Now, it dropped back down to $2.95. Silver down four cents to $3.05 and "ultra?"93 down to $3.15. My friend from NE PA says Regular is ten cents cheaper there at $2.85.
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    Central VA

    Most places are $2.79 for 87. Strangely, offbrand Kangaroo is $2.83. Why pay more for an unknown when you can get Shell, Exxon, or Citgo for less?
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    I filled up at a WaWa in Southern MD for $2.899 per gallon for 87. Back up here though, 87 is back up to $3.099 per gallon for 87 at the Citgo on my way to work.
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    WaWa? WTH is that? Between that and 210's Kanagroo station, what the heck are you guys putting in your vehicles?

    What's next, getting petrol from the local "Woop-D-Doo" or "Thingamajig" :confuse:
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    ...is a chain of convenience stores based in Delaware County, PA. They make excellent hoagies!
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    are a sign that culture is coming to Southern Maryland. Next thing you know, they'll open up a Border's Book store and an Olive Garden!

    WaWa's are usually these really big, massive gas stations, with convenience stores, which are open 24/7, and they're usually the cheapest guy around. Kinda like a Sheetz, I guess.
  • euphoniumeuphonium Member Posts: 3,425
    It isn't the price of gasoline so much as the lack of cash to buy it due to paying for things and services not even invented many years ago. People are eating out more, have cable TV instead of antenna, more than one TV set, Lattes, instead of making your own coffee. Cell phone subscription, more than one 'phone in the home, Country Club membership, two and three vehicles. You get my drift.
    There is economic competition among ourselves to not only keep up with the Jones, but to set a higher standing of living. We are not saving, we are not investing, we are impressing and those impressing items don't leave much cash for gas.
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    I had never heard of Kangaroo until it replaced the former Etna station.

    But a poster here said that Kangaroo is a convenience chain based in the South, so obviously they're moving a little farther north.

    Similarly, Sheetz is a large regional chain based in Altoona, PA.

    The "service stations" as we knew them are rapidly becoming extinct -- now it's gas, food, beer, coffee, cigarettes, etc. Luckily, they've kept the restrooms.
  • waiwai Member Posts: 325
    I will never fill up gas at WaWa or 7-11 chain stores stations. Its like filling unknown substance into your lovely car.
    Local gas station at Shell, Exxon/Mobile, Chevron, Gulf, at Newark Delaware all has the same price $2.99/Gallon for Regular 87, seems there is a price fixing here.
  • iluvmysephia1iluvmysephia1 Member Posts: 7,709
    here's another one for ya: Kum'n'Go. Kum and Go is a Missouri thing for sure but might be in Arkansas and Oklahoma, etc., as well. Large and full of gas( :) ) and offering donuts and junk food of many varieties.

    While in Missouri we bought a commemorative Kum and Go travel coffee mug.

    Ghastly is at $2.78/gal for 87 no-lead here in warm Pocatello, ID today. It's around 80 degrees today and supposedly we'll see lower 80's tomorrow and upper 80's Thursday. My wife and I are planning to take the Sportage 4x4 to Yellowstone Park Thursday. It's only about 125 miles NE of Pocatello. I'll chime in with any interesting news after our visit there. We're told we ought to leave our two Pomeranian pups home because of all the hub-bub they could cause with the wildlife in the Park. Does that ever make sense to me. Especially my youngest Pom, the Seahawks could use him at middle linebacker! I'm not sure he feels pain, if you know what I mean.

    Yes, this is the GrandDaddy of American parks and also my favorite park to visit. Really looking forward to it. :shades:

    2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick

  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    That's a pretty broad statement there.

    But didn't people in the 50s wear finer clothes more often (even at ballgames -- look at old photos), go out bowling, bet on horses, smoke a lot more, and even drink hard liquor more often?

    Besides, what was once a luxury is now a necessity. Like air conditioning, cell phones, computers, and internet service.

    Country clubs -- I don't know; it wouldn't surprise me if membership as a proportion of the population was higher in the 50s than today.
  • tncarmantncarman Member Posts: 82
    I live in the suburbs of Nashville, TN, and yesterday to fill up was $2.71 at the Mapco. And I thought gas here was expensive....
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Today's highest in Seattle is 3.59, with a few over 3.40 and many over 3.30
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    gas up to 3.15x from 3.09x x=9.
    2024 Ford F-150 STX, 2023 Ford Explorer ST, 91 Mustang GT vert
  • saabgirlsaabgirl Member Posts: 184
    On 5/15 filled up at Shell with 87 and paid $3.07.

    Just an observation -- The Stop n Shop station down the street sells generic gas, and folks assume it's the low-price juice, because they give a discount for motorists with a Stop n Shop card. But I've noticed that when the price spikes, discount sellers' prices are often higher than nearby Shell and Mobil stations. Like, f'rinstance yesterday, when the discounters' price was $3.17 for generic 87 grade. I wonder why in some market situations the "name brands" and "discounters" temporarily swap positions?

    Possibly uncharitable editorial observation about the petrol marketplace: SOME customers at discount stations with multiple lanes and a dozen+ pumps act like stressed rats. They can't be counted on to pick a lane and stick with it. Or they can't seem to remember which side of their car the filler is on. Or they have a hard time with automated pumps. I've seen one customer pull the nozzle out with gas still flowing. (She then dropped it under her car and ran away shrieking. Amazing how fast a firetruck got there. You'd have thought it was in line, too.) Or they act as if "Choose Payment Method" is a stumper. Or they fill their tank manually and when they're done sloooowly commence to wash their windshields. I've seen two fights in the past couple months, one between women, either one of which could have passed for Tony Soprano's sister. I'll pay another nickel a gallon just to avoid sharing turf with these rambunctious incompetents. Maybe they're all part of Big Oil's pricing strategy. But jeez, people, can't we all just get along?
  • badnessbadness Member Posts: 242
    Gas IN NJ was $2.81,Westmilford ,North Jersey...
    THanks Mr. Bush!!!!
    what happend to the Oil when we took out Saddman H..
  • waiwai Member Posts: 325
    Gas today at Newark, Delaware is 87 $3.09, 89 $3.19, 93 $3.29.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Sunoco Regular went up to $3.01 yesterday and is now back to $2.95.
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    THanks Mr. Bush!!!!
    what happend to the Oil when we took out Saddman H..


    He's too busy making democracy flower in the Middle East, wiretapping your phone conversations, and avoiding blame for the Katrina/FEMA mess! And cutting taxes to pass the buck to future generations!

    Back on topic, we're still holding steady at $2.79 for 87 at most places in central VA.
  • rorrrorr Member Posts: 3,630
    "And cutting taxes to pass the buck to future generations!"

    Actually, government revenue from both individual and corporate taxes are up substantially. According to data from the Congressional Budget Office, total receipts for the 1st four months of 2005 were at $1.217 trillion. For the 1st four months of 2006, total receipts were at $1.353 trillion. That's a GAIN in revenue of $136 BILLION.

    In just the first 4 months.

    BTW - outlays for Defense spending over the same 4 month period grew from '05 to '06 by $13B. Outlays for SS benefits grew by $17B and outlays for Medicare grew by $18B. Just a few more facts to consider.

    http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/71xx/doc7184/05-2006-MBR.pdf

    Credit an improving economy. Now, how much cutting taxes improved the economy is open to debate. But I can't see cutting taxes as HURTING the economy. The biggest problem (IMO) has been runaway spending, NOT cutting taxes.

    And now, back to our regularly scheduled program....
  • 210delray210delray Member Posts: 4,721
    Well, you left yourself wide open on that one.

    Anyone running a household knows you have to keep income and spending in line.

    And the federal government ain't, big time! Kind of ironic that once what I knew as the party of fiscal responsibility has let things get so far out of line.

    Come to Virginia, where we do it the right way!
  • rorrrorr Member Posts: 3,630
    :confuse:

    All I was responding to was your insinuation that deficits were due to tax cuts. All I was trying to point out was that revenues are UP. The problem (which I noted in my last post and to which you apparently agree) is that spending is out of control. But cutting taxes isn't what led to increased spending.

    Bottom line - deficits are not due to tax cuts (since revenues are actually UP substantially). Deficits are due to increased spending. I'm still waiting (after more than 5 years) for Bush to find a spending bill that he doesn't like. Uh, he IS aware of his veto power, right?
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Let's not spin off into politics.
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    Do you think the coffee or soda machines are connected to the underground tanks :P
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    Thanks everyone for clueing me in on the WaWa's and the Kangaroos.

    We just have the boring regulars here in Chi-town: Shell, BP, Mobil, Jewel
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    Kum'n'Go

    I'm not touching that one (literally) :P
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    Kum'n'Go

    I'm not touching that one (literally)


    I was thinking it the moment I saw it, but I tried to use restraint. And was successful, for awhile. Do they offer full service there? What about lube jobs? :shades:
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