Gas Prices

[Randy]

Went to fill up the MDX today expecting to see a mild decrease in gas prices due to the recent drop in oil. Near my house, a station that had gas for $3.89/gal on Tuesday (was $3.99 last Friday) now has it for $3.67!!!!!!

Cheapest fill-up I had in a while

Admin...feel free to move to NEPRT....tried to enter it there, but, it said I wasn't permitted.

 

[Jaycen]

Went to fill up the MDX today expecting to see a mild decrease in gas prices due to the recent drop in oil. Near my house, a station that had gas for $3.89/gal on Tuesday (was $3.99 last Friday) now has it for $3.67!!!!!!
Cheapest fill-up I had in a while

Admin...feel free to move to NEPRT....tried to enter it there, but, it said I wasn't permitted.

We just finally came down to under 4 bucks in Massachusetts.....I think I saw 3.89 at the local cumberlands last night on my way home, it was 4.07 friday when I filled up on my way to work.

 

[FJRBluesman]

In SoCal we're dreaming it'll soon be under $4. I'm in Reno NV, for the weekend, and it's about $3.95 in the Carson City area, when I left SoCal it was about $4.19 at some places. It's coming down, but not fast ebough...

 

[YukonG]

$3.30 yesterday in Oklahoma City.

Sure is cheap...

 

[pegdragger]

I just checked prices here in Albany and they have dropped quite a bit. A week ago, $4.19 was the price for regular around here. I just checked Albany Gas Prices and some of the clifton Park shops are down to $3.96 or so. Even saw one at $3.83. That is quite the drop! I'll take it.

 

[Loki]

It is a sad day when we are all talking excitedly about how GREAT it is that we are paying just under $4 a gallon. I remember doing a cost-benefit analysis of getting a Honda Civic for the wife vs a Hybrid for her travel (she puts about 24-30K miles/year, and we live in BFE) back in early 2006, and figuring a "worse case scenario" of gas at $3 a gallon (which means all you folks not in CA would be paying like $2.60).

It really makes me wonder if this is all part of some plan. Tell someone something is $5, then say, but hey, we dropped it to $4 for you. Maybe that will make them forget they were paying $3 a year ago. A 33% increase in an expense is still a very serious one, and, at least where I am at, the grocery stores have used it as a handy excuse to raise prices 10-20% across the board.

Just my 2c

 

[Rob]

As for the Stores raiseing price some of that is due to the cost of fuel. I own a trucking company and I haul for S Ca to where ever and back. The higher the cost of fuel the more I charge to haul the load. They call it a Fuel Surcharge and it is based on the Nation Fuel index as found here.

https://tonto.eia.doe.gov/dnav/pet/pet_pri_...pte_cpgal_w.htm

Gets really bad when you think that diesel is a byproduct of making gas. That is why it used to be so much cheaper than gas. Now so much diesel is used in the US that they can do a supply and demand thing and justify charging $.50 a gal more than Hi Grade gas for it. But it didn't keep me from buying a New F 250 with the PSD last month instead a Toyota. And it really didn't have anything to do with buying American or anything either.

 

[MojaveFJR]

Think they hit the threshold of American pockets.

One thing the GF and I have noticed lately is there are a lot less people on the roads, in the stores and other places. Makes it nice for us, shorter lines, less crowded and the like.

Hope people keep car pooling and thinking twice about their weekend commutes. Only way we are going to stick it to the oil companies is by using their products as little as possible. Of course they can always turn down production to meet demand.

We saw that oil spill in LA last week. We both think its a conspiracy of the oil companies to raise prices.

 

[Ignacio]

Admin...feel free to move to NEPRT....tried to enter it there, but, it said I wasn't permitted.

One should aspire to start a thread that doesn't get moved to NEPRT.

We saw that oil spill in LA last week. We both think its a conspiracy of the oil companies to raise prices.

And THAT would be the reason these types of threads are frowned on. They almost always devolve into divisive crap. :angry:

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