What's the price of gas where you live?
Quote: rxwineQuote:looked under my truck, and it’s literally gas just pouring out the bottom,” said Malala, 31. “It’s pouring out like crazy. I was freaking out.”
It turned out he had been a target of a newly popular way to steal gas: just drilling a hole. All the thief would have required was a few minutes alone with a handheld electric drill and a gas can - or even some milk jugs. Malala was left with a perfectly round hole in his tank and a nearly $3,000 repair bill. His truck was in the shop for about a week.
This sort of drilling-and-draining thievery appears to be increasingly common as the war with Iran has pushed gasoline prices to their highest level in four years, and as older - and less-destructive - methods of stealing fuel have gotten harder to pull off.
Doesn’t sound too safe to do either.
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Most of the guys I know who actually destructively drain fuel tanks use a different technique. (There are faster, safer techniques for creating a hole.)
$4.99 gas, $6.55 diesel, about an hour ago, at that spot I mentioned a few weeks ago.
Quote: DieterQuote: rxwineQuote:looked under my truck, and it’s literally gas just pouring out the bottom,” said Malala, 31. “It’s pouring out like crazy. I was freaking out.”
It turned out he had been a target of a newly popular way to steal gas: just drilling a hole. All the thief would have required was a few minutes alone with a handheld electric drill and a gas can - or even some milk jugs. Malala was left with a perfectly round hole in his tank and a nearly $3,000 repair bill. His truck was in the shop for about a week.
This sort of drilling-and-draining thievery appears to be increasingly common as the war with Iran has pushed gasoline prices to their highest level in four years, and as older - and less-destructive - methods of stealing fuel have gotten harder to pull off.
Doesn’t sound too safe to do either.
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Most of the guys I know who actually destructively drain fuel tanks use a different technique. (There are faster, safer techniques for creating a hole.)
$4.99 gas, $6.55 diesel, about an hour ago, at that spot I mentioned a few weeks ago.
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Where do you live, if I may ask? That's about a buck more than here in MA.
Quote: GenoDRPhQuote: DieterQuote: rxwineQuote:looked under my truck, and it’s literally gas just pouring out the bottom,” said Malala, 31. “It’s pouring out like crazy. I was freaking out.”
It turned out he had been a target of a newly popular way to steal gas: just drilling a hole. All the thief would have required was a few minutes alone with a handheld electric drill and a gas can - or even some milk jugs. Malala was left with a perfectly round hole in his tank and a nearly $3,000 repair bill. His truck was in the shop for about a week.
This sort of drilling-and-draining thievery appears to be increasingly common as the war with Iran has pushed gasoline prices to their highest level in four years, and as older - and less-destructive - methods of stealing fuel have gotten harder to pull off.
Doesn’t sound too safe to do either.
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Most of the guys I know who actually destructively drain fuel tanks use a different technique. (There are faster, safer techniques for creating a hole.)
$4.99 gas, $6.55 diesel, about an hour ago, at that spot I mentioned a few weeks ago.
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Where do you live, if I may ask? That's about a buck more than here in MA.
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Where I live is misleading.
The observed price is in Washington (state).
My premium 93 has risen 10 cents a few times to $5.30/gallon. I'm considering switching to a Mobil station 7 miles away to get their Top Tier fuel and save on carbon deposits. There's a temporary lull in their price rise and it's at $5.08/gallon.
E-15 gas is supposed to be hitting the market this week. I don't know if that just applies to 88 octane, or if it affects just 88 & 87, or if it affects all grades of gas. Older cars and lawnmowers, etc. should not use that gas. The ethanol can ruin the rubber inside among other things.
Quote: ChumpChangeAs gas goes above $6/gallon for regular, I'm seeing posts of 10 or 20 cent per gallon surcharges for using a credit card.
My premium 93 has risen 10 cents a few times to $5.30/gallon. I'm considering switching to a Mobil station 7 miles away to get their Top Tier fuel and save on carbon deposits. There's a temporary lull in their price rise and it's at $5.08/gallon.
E-15 gas is supposed to be hitting the market this week. I don't know if that just applies to 88 octane, or if it affects just 88 & 87, or if it affects all grades of gas. Older cars and lawnmowers, etc. should not use that gas. The ethanol can ruin the rubber inside among other things.
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Ethanol is not going to ruin rubber. Or maybe it does, I don't know, a lot of girls claim they got knocked up while they were drunk.
The problem with ethanol is in engines that sit unused for a while, because the ethanol absorbs moisture from the air and promotes corrosion in the fuel system. It's a very serious problem in marine engines, which are always surrounded by water and typically go a week or a season between uses. Marinas can sell ethanol-free gas but in a lot of places there is not much of a market for it and thus no distributors for it, and all the boats in those markets have corrosion. Bad news, because an engine failure at sea is a danger to life somewhere between that of an engine failure on the road and one in the air. Lawnmowers and such also can sit with their fuel for long periods and have the same problem.
Quote: ChumpChangeAs gas goes above $6/gallon for regular, I'm seeing posts of 10 or 20 cent per gallon surcharges for using a credit card.
My premium 93 has risen 10 cents a few times to $5.30/gallon. I'm considering switching to a Mobil station 7 miles away to get their Top Tier fuel and save on carbon deposits. There's a temporary lull in their price rise and it's at $5.08/gallon.
E-15 gas is supposed to be hitting the market this week. I don't know if that just applies to 88 octane, or if it affects just 88 & 87, or if it affects all grades of gas. Older cars and lawnmowers, etc. should not use that gas. The ethanol can ruin the rubber inside among other things.
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I never really had a problem running E10 blends in small engines.
The last tank of the season should probably be E0, and possibly also treated with a fuel stabilizer.
Quote: EvenBobWhen I was a kid in the 50's my dad always bought used Cadillacs and he would pull up to the pump and tell the guy fill er up with Ethel. This made no sense to me because Ethel was a character on I Love Lucy and why was the gas named after her. I started asking people and nobody knew why it was called that, All anybody knew is that's what you call premium gas. Turns out it was invented in the 1920s and it was called Ethel because it contained a lead-based anti-knock additive called tetraethyl lead. The Ethyl Corporation was created in 1924 to market it. They used a reddish dye to distinguish "Ethyl" gasoline from regular gas. I distinctly remember the reddish gasoline that was supposed to make your car run so much better. It was always more expensive than regular gas.
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Nice pic! Can you spot the anachronism? This one is a little tricky.
Quote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: EvenBobWhen I was a kid in the 50's my dad always bought used Cadillacs and he would pull up to the pump and tell the guy fill er up with Ethel. This made no sense to me because Ethel was a character on I Love Lucy and why was the gas named after her. I started asking people and nobody knew why it was called that, All anybody knew is that's what you call premium gas. Turns out it was invented in the 1920s and it was called Ethel because it contained a lead-based anti-knock additive called tetraethyl lead. The Ethyl Corporation was created in 1924 to market it. They used a reddish dye to distinguish "Ethyl" gasoline from regular gas. I distinctly remember the reddish gasoline that was supposed to make your car run so much better. It was always more expensive than regular gas.
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Nice pic! Can you spot the anachronism? This one is a little tricky.This price would have been in the 1940s not the 1950s, and there is an object in the picture that wasn't used until the mid 1950s.
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Of course, I spotted immediately when I posted the picture. Gas was 12 cents a gallon in the 1930s and that pump is much later than that. And of course the sign itself is totally modern . I just wanted a picture of the price difference.
Quote: EvenBobQuote: AutomaticMonkeyQuote: EvenBobWhen I was a kid in the 50's my dad always bought used Cadillacs and he would pull up to the pump and tell the guy fill er up with Ethel. This made no sense to me because Ethel was a character on I Love Lucy and why was the gas named after her. I started asking people and nobody knew why it was called that, All anybody knew is that's what you call premium gas. Turns out it was invented in the 1920s and it was called Ethel because it contained a lead-based anti-knock additive called tetraethyl lead. The Ethyl Corporation was created in 1924 to market it. They used a reddish dye to distinguish "Ethyl" gasoline from regular gas. I distinctly remember the reddish gasoline that was supposed to make your car run so much better. It was always more expensive than regular gas.
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Nice pic! Can you spot the anachronism? This one is a little tricky.This price would have been in the 1940s not the 1950s, and there is an object in the picture that wasn't used until the mid 1950s.
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Of course, I spotted immediately when I posted the picture. Gas was 12 cents a gallon in the 1930s and that pump is much later than that. And of course the sign itself is totally modern . I just wanted a picture of the price difference.
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One thing more than that- that steel connector in the inside corner of the roof is a Simpson Strong-Tie, a hurricane tie to be specific. And they were not made until the mid-1950s.
