I live in Newport, RI and I remember riding around the “Ocean Drive”, (in high school) for fun, about 20 times a night. When we would get low on gas, someone else would kick in the 50 cents per gallon, we would go the gas station and put in one more gallon…!
Yesterday it was $3.15 …down from $3.21 last week. Wow!
Jen:knitting:
And on top of all that, to really let you know how old I am, do you remember ‘gas wars’? Stations near each other would have competing prices. When I was in HS, the lowest I remember was 19 cents a gallon.
“Those were the days, my friend,
We thought they’d never end . . .”
Wow, there is a lot of different pricing. Wonder why that is?? It’s not like one place has more drivers than the other and we all have basically the higher end companies, ie. Exxon Mobil and such, so, why is it that one state pays so much more than another??
Mine right now is $3.11
I remember the odd and even license plate days. My mom would sit in a line of about 10 cars to get her chance to get fuel on her days. That was sad. She would always worry about running out.
I don’t worry about it, my recumbent bicycle gets 50 miles to a hamburger. :mrgreen:
Upstate NY seems to be always one of the higest areas in the country. I stopped on my way home tonight and filled up with regular gas, paying $3.51.9 a gallon:waah:
I know this is horrible, but I have no idea how much gas is here in Colorado. I just fill er’ up - don’t even pay attention.
How the heck do you get that far on just one hamburger. I’ve bonked out at 12 miles on a single hamburger. Are you eating at Five Guys or something?:roflhard:
On topic: Gas is $3.36 here today.
Ahhh, the joys of the recumbent and living in a relatively flat state. :mrgreen:
We here in Memphis are $3.06 or at least were yesterday , but you know the dang stuff changes like hourly!
We just took a trip up north through Missouri where it was $3.18 I think and Illinois, where Mayor Daly gets his hunk and it was something like $3.39 around Chicago. Northwest Indiana was $3.27.
That’s nothing. We rented an suv with a little over 7000 miles on it and had a major blowout in a driving rain storm in the middle of the night. The rental company couldn’t get anyone to come out and change it in the rain, we couldn’t because we were on the interstate in the middle of Arkansas and no flashlights! We ended up calling 911 and got a wonderful Blytheville police officer that not only stayed with us shining his light on the suv so Jack could change it, but he HELPED!!! On top of that, the rental car company said we had to replace the tire with what was on the car to the tune of $245 and they weren’t going to reimburse us even though the tire was defective (it peeled off away from the rim all the way around.) If we didn’t replace it, they would charge our credit card to purchase a new tire anyway. We had to fight for 3 days to get them to give us our money back, which we are still waiting to see if they do, so beware folks that the rental companies expect you to pay for the thing unless you take their high priced roadside assistance!!!
Regular self serve is $3.89, diesel is $4.29… We are hurting up here.
You’re paying a fifty cents more in Humboldt County than we are in Salem, OR. Quite a difference.
This whole situation is so out of control. They’re paying farmers to grow corn for ethanol, which takes more money to produce, and wastes water and other resources; yet they won’t start drilling in Alaska. The majority of folks in Alaska want drilling. We’re also not serious about clean coal, or nuclear power.
I guess we [I]do[/I] get the government we vote for.
Here in Knoxville , TN gas is $3.13-3.15/gal. I don’t go to Citgo because it is owned by Hugo Chavez in Venezuala(sp?) and he is an avowed America hater. BP only uses domestic oil and gas so I try to fill up there when ever I can. the Shell station near me is always at least $.5 higher than anywhere else so I try not to ever go there, plus they use foriegn oil.
Just my IMHO
Yes, I totally agree that the US needs to wake up start drilling in Alaska and elsewhere to become energy independent…Republicans in congress have tried to pass legislation to begin drilling in Alaska…Democrats in Congress have voted down recent efforts…We (the US) will not remain strong without producing AND refining our own oil…The sad thing is that all three presidential candidates oppose drilling in Alaska…If you care…email your candidate of choice and let your opinion be known…
Oh… yes… ethonol has been the biggest failure…the production of this “biofuel” (driven by the misconception that it was friendlier to the environment) has produced mass GLOBAL STARVATION!!!
Did you hear McCain wants to temporarily eliminate the Federal gas tax for the summer? That would be a 24 cent reduction on diesel and 18 cent reduction on regular… Yahoo… wouldn’t that be nice!
While that might help a little it’s really only a bandaid for a huge problem. Besides, that tax money is supposed to go towards road and bridge construction and repairs (if they’d stop using it for pet projects that is). It would eventually result in higher taxes in other areas or even more toll roads to pay for those things so it wouldn’t really help in the long run.
Well, at least it is some relief…
The problem is a basic one… supply/demand…China and India are growing like wildfire and that has increased the demand for oil…
Unfortunately, the US Congress has refused to allow us to drill for oil in Alaska , and put up barriers to drill elsewhere, and build refineries…We need to wake up and go get the oil that could provide our country with energy independence…
Prices will never go down unless we find more oil (supply goes up)… or demand goes down (unlikely), so write your congressman about your feelings on the matter, whatever they are…
Since the government consistently refuses to allow drilling, or the building of new refineries (the last was built 25 years ago), I wonder who is buying them off. Is it the gas companies themselves, or is it pressure from other countries so that we have to continue funding their extravagances.
BTW, I’m not cynical :gah:
Here in the UK petrol and diesel range from £1.10-£1.25 per litre (that’s nearly £6 per gallon!) That’s roughly $11.95 per gallon in US dollars by today’s exchange rate.
The prices have just gone up so much over here recently, and over half the price paid is tax. It’s just too much…that’s why one of my friends now runs their car on vegetable oil.
I just paid 3.49 a gallon yesterday in Wisconsin. And rumor has it will go up 10 cents by the end of this week.
There is nothing we can do about it, we need to buy it, but I guess we are more aware of the cost of travels these days. We don’t like it, but we are adjusting. Just alot more home time and cheap entertainment, like knitting.
It is interesting to see the different prices all over.