Gas Prices
June 24th, 2012 at 2:45:33 PM
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I filled up yesterday for $3.079 per gallon. Can't remember the last time it was that close to $3.00. What are your recent gas prices and how long do you think this dip in prices will last? I'm betting we'll be back up to $3.50/gallon here by mid August when the kids go back to school.
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June 24th, 2012 at 3:08:53 PM
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Where the heck is gas 3.07? Its 3.59 in MI.
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June 24th, 2012 at 3:14:36 PM
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Earlier in the thread, Buzz and I had the cheapest gas in the country. Now, we're among the most expensive. Looking at the heat map on gasbuddy.com, it looks like much of the country has gas prices near $3.00.
Edit: it was an old thread
Edit: it was an old thread
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June 24th, 2012 at 4:34:55 PM
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Quote: EvenBobWhere the heck is gas 3.07? Its 3.59 in MI.
I hear ya Bob. Just got back from visiting family in the upstate SC where I filled up for 2.91, while it's still 3.50 here in NVa.
While I can afford it, I feel for those where the $50 difference makes it hard to balance the family budget...
-B
June 24th, 2012 at 5:33:13 PM
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$2.99 in Missouri yesterday.
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June 24th, 2012 at 7:07:18 PM
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$3.4999 seems to be the normal here in W PA. I expect it to fall more soon.
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June 24th, 2012 at 7:19:11 PM
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$3.79 here in the Chicago Burbs, probably still above $4.00 in the city.
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June 24th, 2012 at 7:46:00 PM
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Eastern Ohio, $3.39.
I will take it.
I will take it.
https://wizardofvegas.com/forum/off-topic/gripes/11182-pet-peeves/120/#post815219
June 24th, 2012 at 8:14:18 PM
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Geez, we're still at $4.15+ range in California, but that should not be a surprise.
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June 24th, 2012 at 8:27:28 PM
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The price of crude has been plummeting since May 1st, but pump prices have been slow to reflect it. Right now there is a big disconnect in price with the Southeast around $2.90/gallon and other places still close to $4.00/gallon. California, Alaska, and Hawaii will always been high. I think prices will continue to fall, probably settling around $3.00 nationally, and then going back up.
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June 25th, 2012 at 7:23:48 AM
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Whenever prices go down, there is some sort of lag, to make up for all money they lost when the price went up. Oil right now is about $78/bbl, which at 42 gallons/bbl is roughly $1.85/gallon of oil, then it needs to be refined, and where I live there are between 60 and 65 cents of tax per gallon of gasoline. As long as this price holds, you will see gas below $3/gallon virtually nationwide.
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June 25th, 2012 at 8:49:10 AM
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Quote: teddysThe price of crude has been plummeting since May 1st, but pump prices have been slow to reflect it. Right now there is a big disconnect in price with the Southeast around $2.90/gallon and other places still close to $4.00/gallon. California, Alaska, and Hawaii will always been high. I think prices will continue to fall, probably settling around $3.00 nationally, and then going back up.
It takes time for the price to drop. While the wildcatter can sell at for spot at the wellhead, everyone else from the refiner to the tank farm to the single station owner cannot simply cut the retail price as they have their purchase cost to make back. Some small chains hedge by buying spot contracts they never reeem so a gain on the market offsets a loss at the station tanks and vice-versa.
Though I do like the old joke, "In a gas shortage the driller, refiner, and station owner all say they are not making all kinds of money from it. It must be the guy who cleans the bathrooms who is getting rich off of it?"
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June 25th, 2012 at 8:49:35 AM
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Premium at $3.99 in So Cal over the weekend.....Reg Unleaded at $3.79
June 25th, 2012 at 9:21:42 AM
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Quote: MikeVGeez, we're still at $4.15+ range in California, but that should not be a surprise.
Ouch. Where in CA? I filled up at only $3.59 a gallon in Southern California yesterday. (Regular)
http://www.californiagasprices.com/ARCO_Gas_Stations/index.aspx
June 25th, 2012 at 9:36:55 AM
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Quote: EdCollinsOuch. Where in CA? I filled up at only $3.59 a gallon in Southern California yesterday. (Regular)
http://www.californiagasprices.com/ARCO_Gas_Stations/index.aspx
I live on the peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using your link, I checked the Chevron station in Belmont where my family usually stops for gas. It is at $4.04.
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June 25th, 2012 at 10:06:40 AM
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$3:74 cheapest non brand name unleaded her in Grand junction.
Earlier in the thread, Buzz and I had the cheapest gas in the country. Now, we're among the most expensive. Looking at the heat map on gasbuddy.com, it looks like much of the country has gas prices near $3.00.
Edit: it was an old thread
Crystal math, can you see the gas pumps in Denver thru the smoke from the forest fires ??
Earlier in the thread, Buzz and I had the cheapest gas in the country. Now, we're among the most expensive. Looking at the heat map on gasbuddy.com, it looks like much of the country has gas prices near $3.00.
Edit: it was an old thread
Crystal math, can you see the gas pumps in Denver thru the smoke from the forest fires ??
June 25th, 2012 at 10:39:03 AM
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Quote: buzzpaff
Crystal math, can you see the gas pumps in Denver thru the smoke from the forest fires ??
I haven't smelled smoke for at least a few days now, or I've gotten used to it.
I heart Crystal Math.
June 25th, 2012 at 2:13:06 PM
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In Norway we was close to $3 at most, but now its dropped to 2.40-2.50)
btw, we pay per litre not gallon
June 25th, 2012 at 2:16:04 PM
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How many miles can you drive in Norway before you are out of Norway ?
June 25th, 2012 at 2:55:01 PM
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From Oslo its ~60 miles to Sweden.
From "far south" to "far north/east" in Norways its abot 2000 miles
From "far south" to "far north/east" in Norways its abot 2000 miles
June 25th, 2012 at 3:27:35 PM
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BRB Looking for the world globe I bought at yard sale
June 25th, 2012 at 4:40:19 PM
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Quote: TorghattenIn Norway we was close to $3 at most, but now its dropped to 2.40-2.50)
See, when we read statistics about Norway, they are usually very good. The GDP per capita is is 17% higher than the USA on a PPP basis.
But if you look at other statistics, there is only 1 car for every 2 people. The average age of a car in USA is 10.8 years as of July 1, 2011, but we have a lot more than 1 car per 2 people. Also most countries that are heavy producers of oil have a subsidized gasoline rate (see below). It looks like Norway's gasoline price is the same as France.
While the public transport is better than America, there is still only 40 miles of high speed rail.
You would think that gasoline would be cheaper and automobiles more widspread.
Population Norway 4.707 million (US Census Bureau, International Division)
Quote: Statistics NorwayAt the end of 2011, Norwegian private cars were 10.5 years old on average. For vans, the average age was 7.7 years.
A total of 2.78 million cars were registered in Norway at the end of 2011. Of this, 2.37 million were private cars and almost 411 000 were vans.
For many years Volkswagen has had most private cars in Norway, with Toyota in second place. At the end of 2011, Volkswagen’s share of the total stock of passenger cars constituted 13.9 per cent, compared with Toyota’s 12.4 per cent. For vans, the share was 20.6 and 18.9 per cent respectively
31 March 2011 Comparative gasoline price in dollars and per gallon
USA $3.61 per gallon
Canada $5.56
Turkey $9.96
France $8.29
Japan $6.62
Brazil $5.98
Australia $5.41
India $5.03
China $4.54
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Iran $1.44
Saudi Arabia $0.61
Venezuela $0.08
June 25th, 2012 at 4:48:35 PM
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In OHIO, 3.24 tonight and I saw 3.19
over the weekend on my way to Cedar
Point.
over the weekend on my way to Cedar
Point.
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There's dust in all their hearts
They just want to steal us all and take us all apart
June 25th, 2012 at 6:23:43 PM
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Last weekend, Gas was 139.9c per litre. It's now 100.9c at the cheapest place on my way home... with a queue round the block. I though I'd seen the last of buck-a-litre gas here.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
June 25th, 2012 at 10:25:00 PM
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Quote: thecesspitLast weekend, Gas was 139.9c per litre. It's now 100.9c at the cheapest place on my way home... with a queue round the block. I though I'd seen the last of buck-a-litre gas here.
I didn't know "buck" was acceptable slang now. I always thought it was "quid". You do know that "queue" is a technical term in America.
June 25th, 2012 at 11:00:20 PM
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Quote: pacomartinI didn't know "buck" was acceptable slang now. I always thought it was "quid". You do know that "queue" is a technical term in America.
I live in Canada, though I am British... so it's a buck, not a quid. :) A quid is slang for one pound sterling, as I am sure you know...
Oops, not a queue... a line of traffic. Oddly, at end of my road I could look one way and see gas at 129.9c, and the other and see 100.9c. This amazes me only because for the longest time here, you NEVER saw two gas stations differ by more than a cent.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
June 25th, 2012 at 11:34:15 PM
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Quote: thecesspitThis amazes me only because for the longest time here, you NEVER saw two gas stations differ by more than a cent.
I don't understand that either. I've never seen a 30% difference unless it is some kind of weird promotion.
I don't know how the price of Canadian gas is set. I would assume that it is much cheaper in Alberta, but there may be government price controls.
In the USA, it tends to be very high in Hawaii, and also in places like San Diego.
Americans use queue only if discussing mathematics or computer programming.
The British seem particularly adept at queueing. I once saw a queue at Gatwick of at least 200 people right down the middle of a concourse, that was just held together with politeness (no walls or ropes). A middle aged British woman in an outrageous display of civility was working her way up the queue asking each person in turn if she could please go ahead of them since she was going to miss her flight. I wanted to shake her. "Just go to the front of the line and tell that person you are about to miss your flight. Who asks permission of every single person in a line that is hundreds of yards long? Would you just stop and take your chances on missing your flight if a single person says 'no'?"
June 26th, 2012 at 6:53:39 AM
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Quote: thecesspitLast weekend, Gas was 139.9c per litre.
Do you figure "litres" are more expensive than regular "liters"? ;)
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August 2nd, 2012 at 5:27:14 PM
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WTF? I got gas on Sun and it ws 3.41, I just went
by the same station and its 3.95?
Is this Bush's fault? Thats what Obama would say..
by the same station and its 3.95?
Is this Bush's fault? Thats what Obama would say..
"It's not called gambling if the math is on your side."
August 2nd, 2012 at 7:58:15 PM
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In two weeks or less $3.59 to $3.99 in CT.
Some people need to reimagine their thinking.
August 13th, 2012 at 2:44:15 PM
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Over $4 here in MI again. We all know its Bush's fault,
dang him.
dang him.
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August 13th, 2012 at 2:53:22 PM
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Dang that Bush to heck!
I know I'm not the only driver to Vegas from SoCal who barely fills up the needed gas to get there. Very proud of myself for coasting into Vegas with the yellow gas light on for about 20 miles. Gas was 50 cents cheaper per gallon in Nevada than some of my local gas stations.
I know I'm not the only driver to Vegas from SoCal who barely fills up the needed gas to get there. Very proud of myself for coasting into Vegas with the yellow gas light on for about 20 miles. Gas was 50 cents cheaper per gallon in Nevada than some of my local gas stations.
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