Are gas prices as bad in the Lower 48?

[EllieTalbot]

Up here in the thawing North we're paying about $4.20-a-freakin' gallon.

What's it like in your neck of the woods?

Aghast in Alaska,
Ellie

 

[pointless]

it's hovering around 4 bucks here in sw michigan. some days it goes up to around $4.09 others it goes down to like $3.92 depending on where you are and the day of the week and whether or not speedway wants to do a price restoration because they're the biggest chain around. well, that's the way it was yesterday. today i wasn't paying any attention.

 

[Super-Surprise]

Prepare to pay $10 to $12 a gallon within a year or two!

 

[clutch1]

I thought you can just break out a shovel and dig it up there?

 

[cfuhrer]

$3.49 in SW Wyoming. Up a buck from six months ago.

It was $3.69 in NE Oregon when we moved, best guess its in the $4.25 range by now.

 

[Bert Notorius]

$3.87 playing in Peoria.

 

[BossMan62]

Im in Hendersonville Tn and I payed $3.72 a gallon today.

 

[MNGuy]

$3.79 today. I expect $5-$6 within two years, if we go to war with Iran, $8-$9.

 

[Peregrinator]

I usually don't notice gas prices. I have to pay them, whatever they are, and I have zero control over them.

 

[Comshaw]

$4.10 here for 87 octane regular. $4.67 for diesel.


Comshaw

 

[cfuhrer]

$3.49 in SW Wyoming. Up a buck from six months ago.

It was $3.69 in NE Oregon when we moved, best guess its in the $4.25 range by now.

I was corrected by my other half. NE OR is sitting at $3.89 - $3.94 depending on the station you purchase from.

 

[warrior queen]

I paid AU$1-89/litre yesterday.
That's around US$7/gallon your side.

But! I was driving the thumping V8 which sucks petrol like a pro on double time.
Damn.... She sounded gooooooood!

 

[Cratchit]

I usually don't notice gas prices. I have to pay them, whatever they are, and I have zero control over them.

wait, so you really have no clue as to how much gas costs in your area, or just not down to the penny?

 

[Aquagal]

$4.57 and 25 minutes from a refinery.

Across the inlet: $6.40

Alaska

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

I just filled up about 4 hours ago and paid $3.97. Phoenix AZ area.

 

[albertaboy]

Up here in the thawing North we're paying about $4.20-a-freakin' gallon.

What's it like in your neck of the woods?

Aghast in Alaska,
Ellie

WE are driving from Palm Springs California back home to Edmonton Alberta.

We paid $4.49/gallon for premium on Palm springs, $4.30 in Nevada and $4.09 in Utah. At home apparently it's about $1.20/litre. 3.6 litres in a US gallon.

 

[SkAoUt]

1.34 per liter (5.02/gallon) on Van Isle B.C. Canaduh.

 

[Peregrinator]

wait, so you really have no clue as to how much gas costs in your area, or just not down to the penny?

Just not to the penny. If I guessed, I give myself a +/- error of a nickel or so. It just doesn't matter; like I said, I just pay it, and I can't change it. I fill up the tank when it gets below a quarter or so. Sometimes it's a buck or so more than other times. I don't really understand people's obsession with it.

 

[warrior queen]

Just not to the penny. If I guessed, I give myself a +/- error of a nickel or so. It just doesn't matter; like I said, I just pay it, and I can't change it. I fill up the tank when it gets below a quarter or so. Sometimes it's a buck or so more than other times. I don't really understand people's obsession with it.

I figure, if I want to drive a guzzling V8, then I have to be ready to pay for the fuel.
I'm with you - I don't sit here agonising over how much it will cost, or if I can drive 7 miles to get it 2c/l cheaper.

 

[Peregrinator]

I figure, if I want to drive a guzzling V8, then I have to be ready to pay for the fuel.
I'm with you - I don't sit here agonising over how much it will cost, or if I can drive 7 miles to get it 2c/l cheaper.

That's a sort of mostly honorable way of thinking. I'd love you more if you drove something efficient, but I already love you a whole lot, so you can spare a little. But yeah; I fill up based on convenient location, not price. When we could get biodiesel at the pump easily in Portland (Vermont has not yet noticed the newfangled horseless carriage, let alone begun discussing other fuels), we drove a little farther to get it. Here it's 20 miles down the highway just to get B20, which I'm not sure isn't cancelled out by the trip to get it. So we just get fuel when we need to, wherever we happen to be. The nickel and dime thing has never struck me as worth my time. I guess some people see it as a sort of indicator, so when the price in their neighborhood goes up a few cents they can curse whoever's in power, as if it were a presidential decree. The other thing is I think we get artificially cheap fuel here anyway; no one factors in a myriad of costs associated with procuring petroleum, like geopolitical interventions and the like. Plus, I have a really hard time believing that an extra five or ten cents a gallon means real hardship for most people. I'm sure there are a few, but it can't possibly be that close to the bone for the vast majority.

 

[warrior queen]

That's a sort of mostly honorable way of thinking. I'd love you more if you drove something efficient, but I already love you a whole lot, so you can spare a little. But yeah; I fill up based on convenient location, not price. When we could get biodiesel at the pump easily in Portland (Vermont has not yet noticed the newfangled horseless carriage, let alone begun discussing other fuels), we drove a little farther to get it. Here it's 20 miles down the highway just to get B20, which I'm not sure isn't cancelled out by the trip to get it. So we just get fuel when we need to, wherever we happen to be. The nickel and dime thing has never struck me as worth my time. I guess some people see it as a sort of indicator, so when the price in their neighborhood goes up a few cents they can curse whoever's in power, as if it were a presidential decree. The other thing is I think we get artificially cheap fuel here anyway; no one factors in a myriad of costs associated with procuring petroleum, like geopolitical interventions and the like. Plus, I have a really hard time believing that an extra five or ten cents a gallon means real hardship for most people. I'm sure there are a few, but it can't possibly be that close to the bone for the vast majority.

I didn't get past the 'I already love you a whole lot'
I shall simply assume you agree, and take another sip of Honey Jim Beam

 

[Sean Renaud]

Just not to the penny. If I guessed, I give myself a +/- error of a nickel or so. It just doesn't matter; like I said, I just pay it, and I can't change it. I fill up the tank when it gets below a quarter or so. Sometimes it's a buck or so more than other times. I don't really understand people's obsession with it.

You're better than me. Since I'm in the same club of I can't control it and I have to pay it I'm only sort of aware of the changes. It could probably change ten or fifteen cents without me even noticing especially now that I only go in once every 9 days or so. It annoys me that it's not three dollars which for whatever reason (probably getting my driver's license in 2005) just makes me think gas is supposed to be three bucks a gallon. Same way I feel kinda odd getting a quality laptop for $700 not a shitty one for $1300.

 

[dirtwrench]

Just filled the F250 yesterday at the local filling station- $3.69 gallon for ethanol 10% blend, $3.79 for regular unleaded.

I know someone will faint, but I buy a LOT of gas and diesel fuel. I do NOT normally look t the price at the pump. I know I will use around 3000 gallon of diesel a year and I try not to pay attention to the volume of gasoline through the barrel at home. (the teenager tends to "borrow" 5-10 gallon of gas at a time for his truck) The diesel I watch the price of when the barrel gets low. When you buy 500 gallon at a time...

 

[CaptainKirk]

The last time I checked (early this morning), it was $3.91 a gallon at my usual station around these parts.

It's a holiday weekend; it may change, it may not. I've got a full tank, so I'm good to go for the week. I gripe about it sometimes, but I'm with the 'What can you do?' crowd. I'm hoping it will get better, but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[lovetoread]

It took me 70 big ones to fill up this week. That sucks the big one.

I only go to stations that have one price for cash or credit. Paying the fee to use credit cards is a part of doing business.

Oh, and the best thing about Jersey is not having to pump my own gas.