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!
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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.
$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.
...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?
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.
Just thought it might make you feel a little better about your pricing.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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:
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:
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!
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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.
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.
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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.
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 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!
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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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.
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HAD to be a slip up and missed memo on their part :P
Not $2.55?
Today, Wyoming is lowest state, averaging $3.27. If you have a $2.55, WOW !!
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.
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.
Got about $2 back from the grocery coupons.
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?
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:
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.
Just thought it might make you feel a little better about your pricing.
RUG = $3.49 ->$3.51->$3.59
Plus = $3.59 ->$3.61->$3.69
Ultra= $3.69 ->$3.71->$3.79
:mad:
$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.
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.
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:
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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Let's see, 3.9 liters to a US gallon, so gas in Ontario is running around $4.55 a gallon.
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:
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:
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!
Fun stuff but not terribly cheap.
I'll still do it again. it's a pretty lake - though I'll admit that after 5 hours a lot looks the same...
Oh, well.
Sunoco at Rising Sun and Longshore in NE Philly:
RUG = $3.63
Plue = $3.73
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!
Shell
RUG=$4.10
Pug=$4.30
ULSD=$4.30
93 octane is at 4.079.......
'End of Earth 2' and underneath it
'Port Huron 4'.
Paid 3.959 for RUG, cash price was 6 cents less.
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.
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.
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.
Driving to empty is ok with me.
I put a little extra air in the tires for those long trips, too.
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.
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.
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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$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.
Diesel was only $4.29 or something, not a huge gap.
RUG = $3.69
Plus = $3.79
Ultra = $3.89
Nuts!