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One of the very few places in the country where diesel is cheaper right now....most places, diesel is still 8-15 cents higher.
What an irony - the only place diesel is cheaper is a place where you cannot buy a TDI new...... :shades:
December of 2005 when we drove the new Sprinter RV from Colorado the price of diesel in Phoenix was below regular. I filled at a Love's station in Chandler right on the highway. It was $2.21 per gallon. When I got to San Diego diesel was $2.69. Not far off from this year. It is creeping up as we get used to the higher prices. Check the dates on those cheaper prices. What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours.
http://home.fueltracker.com/home.html
I know Atlantic Richfiekd got bought up whole and thought the Arco name was gone. Obviously not.
La Mesa diesel $2.75
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And what REALLY confounds me was seeing people at all three places filling up at the same time!
ARCO (BP) stations do not take credit cards. Only ATM with a surcharge for using it. I pay cash to avoid any extra charges.
I think they were still the old Atlantic Richfield when they went to the no credit cards deal.
I always think BP made a mistake with their Amoco marketing. When they bought up Amoco it was the most "recognized as very good" brand around. So of course they made it disappear except on the pumps. Silly corporates. Kind of the gas equivalent of Nissan dumping the Datsun nameplate. Giving away tons of earned good will.
That's funny about teh stations in Arizona because way back before they pulled out of the east Arco started that cheaper but no credit thing.
Most are charging $3.10 for 87 Octane, $3.20 for 89 Octane & $3.30 for 91 Octane. This is in Lancaster CA.
I did see a few that were a little less and some that were a little more.
One Arco was selling 91 Octane for $3.16, 89 Octane for $3.10 & 87 Octane for $3.00. This was the least expensive 91 Octane that I seen all day. I did see some 87 Octane being sold for around $2.98 per gallon.
On 03-06-07, 4 days ago I paid $3.00 per gallon for 91 Octane. I do not know or have any idea where the news is getting their quotes from we they say the stations are only raising their prices a few penny’s a week. They must get their information from the station owners, as they are way off.
I about lost my bowels when I entered into my hometown of California City CA. The one Station at the end of town had changed his price from the time I left this morning around 10AM from $3.30 for 91 Octane to $3.56 by 6:30PM. That’s a $.26 jump in his price in 8 hours.
We get thousands of people on the weekends from the LA area that come to Calif. City to ride their dirt bikes, ATV, etc. So for the past month the 3 gas stations that we do have raise their price's every weekend.
But this was completely ridiculous and from what I can see truly gouging. When approximately 30 miles a way you could get the same 91 Octane fuel for $.40 less per gallon.
I wish that our government would nail these people to the wall. They talk a good game and say that they will fine the stations that gouge, but I think that it is all talk. I hate to say it, but the Iranians own 99% of the independent stations here in California and probably every where else too. :confuse:
I don't like thinking that way but there it is.
What ???? You mean hotel rooms ? :surprise: I think in the past you told me something about this with your former employer as it was forbidden to use alcohol anytime while you were a employee. I think you said it was in Alaska ?
Well I and the family went to Logan, New Mexico "Ute Lake" (NE' NM) yesterday to stay with my Father in-law. We drove from (home) Dumas, Tx where filled-up his Ford Pick-up at the Phillips 66 station @ $50.00 in Dumas. Gas was $2.45 a gallon. :surprise: We drove to Dalhart, Tx to pick-up a few supply's at my FIL house. We then drove straight to Logan, NM. We later took a trip to Tucumcari, NM to stock-up on grocery's and supply's for the cottage and bass boat. Gas was pretty much $2.42-$2.48 everywhere along our trip. I told my wife this would be the perfect situation to own a Cadillac Escalade ESV as we wouldn't need 2 cars and would have plenty of room.
Rocky
BP has camps they provide housing for their employees in the Arctic oilfields. They have Zero tolerance on drugs and alcohol. They also search your luggage before you leave Anchorage to fly to work.
Taking a grandson to the Wild Animal Park today. What will gas prices be? Maybe regular has peaked at a little over 3 bucks?
I can understand the zero tolerance on drugs, but telling your employee he/she can't enjoy a beer on his hours off the clock I think is to much employer involvement for me.
Where's the Wild Animal Park at gagrice ? I hope you and him had a good time. I assume it's some sort of a zoo but with a more "natural" enviroment ?
My wife and I drove by the local Dalhart, Tx GM dealer on our wat to NM, and in fact both saw a white diamond pearl 2007' Cdillac Escalade. The list is *gulp* $64K and that was without 22's like we'd want. The Escalades are absolutely beautiful and I'd love to own one. I told my wife maybe in the future. I told her lets see what we get on our next union contract and then maybe we could stretch our budget to absorb such a costly vehicle but the price of gas is another expense that needs to be calculated into the cost of ownership. My GM discount would knock-off probably
$7-8K and if GM throws some money on the hood it might be a viable option. Dallas, Tx GM dealers can sometimes whip my GM discounts butt but we will see. I'm going to need to save $12-15K off to make a Escalade work for me with the price of gas going up unless they come out with a good lease rate. Right now the only car company's I see given attractive lease deal's is Ford and BMW. :sick:
Rocky
P.S. let us know what the price of petro costs you? :surprise:
PS
get an older Escalade. I hear the new ones have cheap uncomfortable seats in them.
I think I'll fill up today. Stations last week jumped $.25 in one day almost everyone up to $2.59. Those who don't like roller coasters don't want to live in this area. Gas prices are like the weather. They blow in and blow up.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Today I filled up at $3.20 per gallon, 91 Octane, 21.886 gallons. It cost me $70.00 to fill up today. This was the cheapest fuel around. Everyone else is $.10 to $.26 more per gallon on top of the $3.20.
A few months ago I could fill up for about $50.00. So right now at the price I paid today it is costing me an additional $20.00 or more per tank. I average approximately 7 tanks a month. Try to get a grip on that. And then think about those people who have to drive for a living and how much it is costing them?
And you guys have the nerve to complain about $2.54 per gallon. Can anyone say, BABIES.
And do not get me wrong, I think that $2.54 a gallon is still way to much, but it is a heck of a lot less than $3.56 per gallon.
Wow their still is a place in this country where diesel is cheaper than gasoline ? :surprise:
Rocky
IIRC they forwent those after the hurrican hit to increase production and I don't recall the sky falling because of increased pollution. In your areas was there increased pollution? Another gift from the green folk.
PS. Don't mean to be a whiner but it should be cheaper. I'd be really yelling at $3.00+. I filled up at $2.28 -.10 Kroger discount. Expect more on Wednesday.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Rocky
A couple of days ago I filled up for $70.00. I use super unleaded 91 Octane @ $3.20 per gallon.
Today I seen that it is now costing $3.36 for the same gas
I guess it won't be long and it will cost me $100.00 to fill up my tank again.
We still have a few stations that have been gouging for the past couple of weeks and charging $3.56 a gallon. I hope that their business slows to a crawl and maybe next time we go through this they will remember that it's not nice to rip off your neighbors.
It seems that some people are still pretty lucky and only paying $2.55 and crying about that.
I again have to say that I wish that our government would put a national average on all gas.
Then maybe something might happen when the people who have been paying $.75 or less per gallon than California also have to bear the grunt.
Never.
Ever.
Again.
Pop this thing into auto haiki.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
Will the housing market really crash. Not so sure. It's in an adjustment period. Defaults are up but houses are still being bought and sold. Interest rates are still very, very attrctive. By design.
The war in Iraq shows no signs of letting up.
Ghastly has nothing driving it down by any forces at work here. It will stay up...sure, you say it's up now because of spring break. Watch what happens after spring break. We need ghastly. We will spend on ghastly because we have to.
Do you really think it'll drop to a U.S. average of $2.08/gal for 87 no-lead? I don't. It's staying up boys.
Put on a good Tragically Hip CD and take a drive and relax. Breathe in the fresh air. And don't worry about ghastly prices.
There's nothing you can do about them anyway. I don't want to ride a bike. I want to drive a car. A car I choose. A foreign-made car, either South Korean or Japanese-built. I like driving my car and don't see myself becoming a full-time walker or bike rider anytime soon...basically never.
Oh, the lowest ghastly price here in the high desert...$2.45/gal for 87 no-lead at the Mustang gas station downtown. That was for Friday, March 16th, 2007.
Over.
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However it is not true that it cost more to produce the special blend of fuel than it does to produce it without.
Examples are:
1. They have been adding products to the fuel for environmental concerns as far as I can remember since the 1970ties when it cost $.75 per gallon.
2. Two of my Nephews work at refineries in Northern Calif.1 works the Shell Refineries in Martinez, CA and the other works at the Chevron Refineries in Richmond, CA. Both of these Refineries were shut down at the same time for annual maintenance.
a. Coincidence, I doubt it since they were scheduled several months prior to being shut down.
b. Then of course during the cleaning, x-raying of pipes, etc. of the systems they both had mishaps and an explosion occurred which also resulted in a fire. Not on the same day, but within a couple of weeks of each other.
c. These were Environmental, CAL OSHA and OSHA violations that cause the explosions and fires. No doubt the refineries had back up plans for such mishaps.
d. It appears that there are loopholes that allow the refineries to keep from being fined. When such mishaps occur they get penalty points. When they receive a certain amount of points added up they are fined
e. Prior to their points getting to that number they are allowed to transfer points in between each other and across state boarders.
f. The Eastern Refineries do not have as many mishaps and so they take some of the points from the Western Refineries in order to keep their balances low enough as not to raise a red flag and get penalized.
g. This is true, sad but true. As far as I'm concerned it is unethical and should be illegal for them to do this. But we have politicians that are getting their hands greased by the big oil refineries just for such by-laws.
h. Needless to say, but these mishaps did not add to the down time for either refinery.
3. To top that off in Southern Calif. a few weeks later the Refineries in Taft was also down for maintenance and had a mishap also.
One with any knowledge of environmental laws, CAL OSHA laws, and the FED OSHA laws knows that all of these refineries should have been severally punished. Not so, the news reported the Taft incident, but as far as I know the incidents that happened up in Northern Calif. where both hush, hush.
Is it a coincidence that all 3 refineries are down for normal maintenance during the same period of time just prior to the fuel going up at least $1.50 per gallon?
If this gets anyone upset, angry, pissed off, etc. then you have got my point. If you did not get upset or pissed off after reading this then there is something wrong with the way you think.
I am not optimistic about housing. Too many people paid too much. A cousin of mine got laid off in escrow because it is a dead market right now in SO Ca. She went right to work for an attorney that processes foreclosures. It is getting real bad. Can't say as I feel bad for the flippers that ran the prices up so high.
87 - $2.419 - up 4 cents
89 - $2.519 - up 4 cents
91 - $2.579 - up 4 cents
93 - $2.619 - up 4 cents
diesel - $2.479 - up 2 cents
kcram - Pickups Host
But the house flippers have indeed flipped theirselves over like a turtle on its back. Or like a kid with a big backpack that gets pushed down on his back and can't regain his balance. They'll need help getting back up again.
I just have an economical "feeling" that ghastly will not dip below $2.00/gal for 87 no-lead ever again. I have been wrong before, though. We'll see. It would be nice if it would drop like the Spurs at playoff time.
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
The Sandman
He goes "I always wondered about people that look back at their car when they start walking in to work. Did they forget to put their car in gear and set the parking brake or something?"
I mumbled something not meaningful to him at the time but the reason is is we love our cars. We do.
Look at my nickname..."iluvmysephia1." We don't all love the same cars but most of us regulars here on Edmunds I would say love our cars. We expect it to be out there in our parking lot and we expect it to start right up and take us away.
87 no-lead was $2.59/gal at the Circle K in Willcox, AZ, tonight.
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We paid a low of $2.29 at a Phillips 66 (if I recall correctly) for 85 octane in Hurricane, UT (not our car -- an Alamo rental). The high was exactly one dollar more at $3.29 per for 3 gallons of 87 at a "desperation stop" no-name place in Truxton, AZ on historic Route 66. We took a chance because prices were pushing $3 on I-40 in and around Flagstaff, so we thought "off the beaten path" prices would be lower.
Well, when you're the only gas station in maybe 50 miles, you can charge what you want...but this was enough to get us easily to Kingman.
Yo...Rocky, we saw the Mustang stations for the first time -- seems the deal is they're teamed with Shell or Conoco?
Northwest NM prices were about $2.49/gallon. In Vegas, it's more like $2.70.
Back home in central Virginia, the prices haven't changed, thank goodness! Still $2.32 to $2.34 for 87. Eat your hearts out guys! But it's COLD here, not like the 70s and 80s we enjoyed in the southwest!
And Rocky, just my opinion, take it for what it's worth, you ought to stop dreaming about Escalades, Denalis, and Velites; buy something more practical and cheaper, and save those bucks for your kids' college education funds.
We had a 2007 Pontiac G6 sedan -- a decent car which I'll write more about in another forum. Still prefer my Camrys though. Got a chuckle remembering Fintail once called the G6 the "rental inchworm," presumably because of the "roller coaster" beltline.
That post was one of several that the host deleted on one of the now read-only "GM vs. the world" forums. But I digress...
USA Average Gas Price will never ever be below $2.00 again.
Visited San Fran last week, paid $3.299 in Gorman CA and $3.149 in Indio. Whew !!
Gas will never go below $2.00/gal for 87 no-lead again.
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So the two pessimists agree. I say some place in the US will go under 2 bucks for regular sometime this year. Not CA most likely. They have people here happy when it drops to $2.50 a gallon.
I hope prices stay HIGH because that is good for lowered consumption and more public transportation and the end of gas guzzlers as daily commute vehicles.
I agree that SOMEWHERE in the US of A, at SOME point, at least ONE station will sell gas for $1.99 or lower, at SOME point in the future.
But the USA average price will never, EVER be below $2.00 a gallon again.
I just filled my truck at Costco for $3.03 per gallon. I used 20.66 gallons since Feb 26th.
March 7th, 2004 or thereabouts.... :shades:
Please pay attention to the topic tiles. We simply cannot go into whatever comes to mind in every discussion.
Rocky