After reading the responses to this years convention threads, it promted me to ask the question "what are you paying for gas"?
This brought on by all the references to driving in the discussions.
My local station 1 mile from my house came in at 1.99.9 right after lunch today.
How low can you go?
Price of Gas in Your Area
That sounds about right...
Remember my rant about taxes in Chicago? Between taxes and whatever they do to refine the stuff for this region, our price is at 2.36. I won't complain too much though. Go in the city of Chicago and it's 3.09.
You can go to www.gasbuddy.com and search the lowest prices in your area.
In the city, gas is quite sh**ty
I remember the old days... but I'm way too young to wax nostalgic. Gas in Chicago right now is $2.73 (app.) but I'm happy gas isn't near $5 anymore(right now). I just drive 15 minutes to Skokie and pay 30 cents less a gallon. When I lived in Atlanta back in the late 90s, I remember 75 cents a gallon!!!
ouch...
Hovering just below $3 in San Francisco. I paid 2.34 and thought I was stealing it in Sacramento this weekend. CA tends to be higher since we have a different gas formulation than other states, but it's usually a premium of around 50 cents...not double what you're paying elsewhere. Sigh. At least I usually only need to fill up every 2-3 weeks....
- Andy
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You're on the wrong coast
No refining capacity in San Fran, but you should kick all our asses with wind/solar in another decade or so.
NJ is hovering on either side of the $2 mark.
That Homeschooling Dad
Homeschool Hut
Omaha
1.93 for gas here in Omaha,,,, and I can drive across the river to Iowa and save another 5 cents per gallon. It's not worth a special trip,,, but if I'm going anyway, I'm sure to take the F150 and fill the tank.
Isn't it nice to pay less than 2 bucks a gallon,,,,, didn't think that would happen again to be honest.
Could it be?
The timing of GW being shown the door is a little ironic.
Could OPEC be showing its pleasure with a new face in the white house??
They say the holiday seasons and the vacation months generate higher prices, but right now we're seeing the opposite. They always have a different reason why the price goes up, hurricanes, war, the economy... Right now the economy sucks, we had gulf coast hurricanes and are in an unpopular war yet prices are going down. What gives?
I'm not knocking it one bit!
Rant start
My Dodge 1500 now at least gets driven a little bit.
11 MPG- city, highway, uphill, downhill, into the wind, with the wind, only when I am hauling a maxed out load does it get better MPG and that ain't very often. Rant over...
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My conspiracy theory
The price of gas started going down just as the Gov decided to approve the out shore, and National Parks drilling. It sound like a blackmail from the EXX..MO.. or so.
Just remember that oil is not forever, so if you can, use bicycles, public transportation, small and more efficient cars, walk whatever makes EXX...MO.. unhappy.
Itux
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Here in the ATL
I filled up my truck yesterday for $1.74 / gallon. $40.00 total. I almost wept...
Also makes me want to dig a cistern in my backyard to start hoarding, but I think the city might have a problem with that...
Aye, there's nary an animal alive that can outrun a greased scotsman...
Breaking Even
$2.49 in Newport Beach,California.
The savings I've made on gas, however, in the last few months have now gone to repair the sunroof that my youngest son, Matt (15) broke last night.
While driving in the car with sunroof open last night, Matt grips the edge of the sunroof (as if he's doing a pull-up) to stretch his fingers and arms. Next thing I know I hear a crushing sound followed by a shower of glass. No cuts. No blood. Thank goodness.
The bill? $650. Ouch! That’s a lot of beer and vodka tonics.
The moral of this story.
In addition to saving for your kid’s college education, it might be a good idea to start saving for the unpredictable expenses that you will incur during your child’s teenage years.
Still smiling after all these years!
Conspiracy Theory Follow-up
Gas prices are down due to supply and demand. Yeah politics has a little to do with it but most is based on the state of the economy.
One reason barrel of oil prices are down because factories around the world are using less oil for operations and their products.... people are also driving and traveling less.....etc... Meanwhile, the oil companies have all this oil they produced with nobody to buy it so they have to lower the price to move the inventory.
I wonder why it is okay to attack the oil companies (and people associated with them) and claim that they are gouging the consumers but you never hear anyone complain about how Hollywood and the sports industry gouges consumers.
Who do you think pays for the million dollar salaries that athletes and movie stars demand these days? The fans/people who attend the sporting events and movie theaters.
Has the price of a baseball, basketball, football ticket ever decreased? The price of the beer you buy at the ball game? The price of a hot dog? The price of a souvenir or jersey? No.
Has the price of a movie ticket ever decreased? The price of a soda? The price of popcorn?
No.
Has the price of oil and gas ever decreased? Yes.
I'm happy to pay whatever price for the convenience gas gives me to drive my kids to school, buy my groceries at the store, fly to the at-home dad convention....... And more importantly I remind myself to also think about the thousands of people who work the oil rigs, ships...etc.. and risk their life everyday to improve the quality of my life.
A reality check
It's come down to £1.04 over here (about $1.54). We're happy with that, because over the summer it was over £1.20.
Although I should point out that's for A LITRE. In the States, we would still be paying almost SEVEN DOLLARS a gallon.
God bless Texas.
Down to $2.39 in SF
$2.39 here in San Francisco...I was on fumes last week and filled up for just over $40, not bad considering that the same fill up was $90 at the peak! Of course, I'm not forgetting our 1991 Honda Civic that rarely cost more than $20 to fill up (even at today's prices)...damn, I want that car BACK NOW! Ohh, and the gas mileage...
BritDad - thanks for the reality check! A good reminder from the other side of the pond. Many US citizens don't realize how stupendously (...or stupidly) cheap our gas is.
Andy
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Saw $1.73 yesterday in North Denver
Hogan - ouch on the sunroof! Takes a special kind of creativity to smash a sunroof from INSIDE the car. Teenagers, gotta love 'em.
BritDad - guess we shouldn't complain about the "bad old days" when gas was $4/gallon, huh? Even at $1.54/litre, your still only down to $5.83/gallon if my math is correct. Wow. You must be a whiz with the euros because I don't know how we'd survive if only one of us worked and gas was $7/gallon.
Point taken, I'll shut up now.
Making it look difficult. Living the dream.
Good to see ya man!
Hey Andy Ferg, how's the Bay Area treating you and the family?
Ever get down to Monteray?
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My New Project!
UPDATE
Speculation on demand
Remember the price of oil and gas skyrocketed through the summer due to speculation on the future demand for oil in a tightening market. Then the figures for world wide demand plummeted in August leading the speculators to flee oil just as the fled .com stocks and housing earlier. It is a classic bubble. Unfortunately, the speculation did cause some serious damage to the economy with the drive up in energy policies. That is what is driving down the current prices. Oil futures do not look to the long range out the 10-20 years that any of the oil in new leases could be brought to market.
Now if you want to talk conspiracy you have to look elsewhere. You have to wonder why the Republicans in Congress were so bent on opening up more areas to drilling despite overwhelming evidence that it would not greatly effect supplies. Starting with the dependable position that the Republican party is in the pocket of the oil companies, you have to look to the oil companies needs and what they were doing becomes quite clear. This summer when Exxon Mobile and the other companies reported record profits, their stock started tanking. The reason is that the market looks at their long tern viability and the US oil companies have a real problem because they areas that they have to drill in are drying up very quickly and they do not have sources to make up for it. They do not control the oil in the most important growing oil fields in the world. So they are desperate to have more leases open to them. That is why it is so important to them that they are able to get these leases opened to them.
Down under buck seventy five
Now the question is, how many little bottles of fuel stabilizer would I need to add to, say, a thousand gallons stockpiled in my garage so I can surreptitiously sell it to my neighbors NEXT summer when the price shoots back to $4 a gallon?
Hmmmm. Maybe I should buy some more little red cans.
That Homeschooling Dad
Homeschool Hut
1.03 per gallon!!!!!!
Of coures this was with my Safeway discount which i've never used before. Don't know how many of you shop at safeway and not all have gas stations. we just got a new store with a station. i've always seen the new gas discounts at the bottom of my reciept but i never tried it. so today i went to the new safeway station and typed in my club card number at the pump. i had 8 10 cent discounts and i guess you can use them all at the same time. so at 1.83 per gallon and with my .80 per gallon discount i got gas for 1.03 per gallon. i couldnt believe it. of couse i had a half a tank today but i just wanted to try it out since i drove by. good times.
FYI, not sure if anyone else has already talked about safeway gas here
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