2018 Gas Prices

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Ours just jumped from $2.29 a gallon to $2.49 a gallon. I've tried to find out why but can't.
 
$2.81 here in my little world. Cross the state line in any direction for a big savings. I hate Pennsylvania's fuel prices. If you decide to cross our lovely state, buy yourself a shiny new five gallon gas can and fill it before you cross our borders. Your savings should offset the cost of the can.

For those of you in and around the great state of New Jersey, I've got a fueling question. Apparently NJ has a law that prevents the self fueling of vehicles. There are attendants at all gas stations ready to top off your vehicle. Are you expected to tip these people? It feels very strange to pull into one of the gas stations only to have someone come to your window asking if you want regular or premium. I don't know if that law exists in any other states or not.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
$2.81 here in my little world. Cross the state line in any direction for a big savings. I hate Pennsylvania's fuel prices. If you decide to cross our lovely state, buy yourself a shiny new five gallon gas can and fill it before you cross our borders. Your savings should offset the cost of the can.

For those of you in and around the great state of New Jersey, I've got a fueling question. Apparently NJ has a law that prevents the self fueling of vehicles. There are attendants at all gas stations ready to top off your vehicle. Are you expected to tip these people? It feels very strange to pull into one of the gas stations only to have someone come to your window asking if you want regular or premium. I don't know if that law exists in any other states or not.
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Haven't been through NJ in a long time, didn't know about that law....strange, umm why? Do you have high gas taxes in PA.?
 
Mopardh9 said:
Haven't been through NJ in a long time, didn't know about that law....strange, umm why? Do you have high gas taxes in PA.?
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I'm not sure why they do it in NJ but it's strange to have someone else fill your car when you're used to doing it.

This info is a little dated, 2016, but it'll give you a general idea. Yeah, we bend over every time we fill up here in PA.

State gas taxes vary widely. The highest state gas tax is assessed in Pennsylvania, at 50.4 cents per gallon, with Washington State (44.5 cpg) and New York (42.64 cpg) following closely behind. Alaska drivers pay the lowest rate in the country at 12.25 cents per gallon. These figures do not include the 18.4 cpg federal gas tax.

https://taxfoundation.org/state-gasoline-tax-rates-2016/
 
Here's the most recent info from that same site for 2017. PA had an increase in state taxes of almost 8 cents/gal between 2016 & 2017. I don't know what the increase was going into 2018. The 2018 numbers should be published soon.

This week’s map shows the gas tax rate in each state as of January 1, 2017, using data from the American Petroleum Institute. These taxes can vary widely. The highest state gas tax is assessed in Pennsylvania, at 58.2 cents per gallon, with Washington State (49.4 cpg) and Hawaii (44.39 cpg) following closely behind. Alaska drivers pay the lowest rate in the country at 12.25 cents per gallon. These figures do not include the 18.4 cpg federal gas tax.

https://taxfoundation.org/state-gasoline-tax-rates-2017/
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
I'm not sure why they do it in NJ but it's strange to have someone else fill your car when you're used to doing it.

This info is a little dated, 2016, but it'll give you a general idea. Yeah, we bend over every time we fill up here in PA.

State gas taxes vary widely. The highest state gas tax is assessed in Pennsylvania, at 50.4 cents per gallon, with Washington State (44.5 cpg) and New York (42.64 cpg) following closely behind. Alaska drivers pay the lowest rate in the country at 12.25 cents per gallon. These figures do not include the 18.4 cpg federal gas tax.

https://taxfoundation.org/state-gasoline-tax-rates-2016/
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Damn that's about 20 correction 30 cents higher than Ma., you guys need to get on the horn with your reps and bitch, that's a extremely high tax.
 
Mopardh9 said:
Damn that's about 20 correction 30 cents higher than Ma., you guys need to get on the horn with your reps and bitch, that's a extremely high tax.
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Lot's of voices but little listening. I'm sure you know how that is but that's more of a Podium topic. It's the pure definition of 'highway robbery'.
 
Clutch said:
Just you and Oregon
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I'm in PA. I was in NJ over the weekend. We go there or through there quite a bit for track and field events. I always try to fill up while I'm there before I head home because of the reduced prices compared to PA. It just feels odd as a non resident of that state to have someone perform that task for me.

Many years ago, when I started driving, long before the mini mart type stations on almost every corner, the mom and pop stations all pumped our gas for us. We moved away from that when the mini mart stations started opening up. Now, we pump our gas almost everywhere we stop. There is still the occasional place around my location that will pump it for you but those are the remaining mom & pop stations.

I kinda wondered about the tipping thing. I almost feel like I should be giving this attendant in NJ a $1 or something for the service. I don't know what the norm is and thought someone from NJ could chime in since they deal with this every day.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
For those of you in and around the great state of New Jersey, I've got a fueling question. Apparently NJ has a law that prevents the self fueling of vehicles. There are attendants at all gas stations ready to top off your vehicle. Are you expected to tip these people? It feels very strange to pull into one of the gas stations only to have someone come to your window asking if you want regular or premium. I don't know if that law exists in any other states or not.
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Tipping a filling station attendant is not generally expected in the United States or Canada. ... Tipping is customary only if there are both full-serve and self-serve options at the station and the fuel is priced the same at both.Jun 27, 2015

https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/50167/should-i-tip-at-full-serve-gas-stations
 
kymartin6 said:
Clutch is correct.... my son lives in Portland Oregon and he says it's a law there...... I had never heard of it before.......
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Just talked to my son....... I guess as of Jan. 1 2018........ only the counties with a large population adhere to that..... the rural areas are free to pump their own....... o_O
 
I just flew up to Seattle last December to drive a car I bought back to southern Ca and when I stopped for gas in Oregon the attendant pumped the gas for me...I didn't mind him pumping the gas because it was cold and snowing.:)
 
Having been born and raised in New Jersey and with investments and family living there, here's the deal. New Jersey and Oregon were the only two states that required an attendant to pump gas. Oregon has since repealed that law and New Jersey is the only state where you are not permitted, by state law, to pump your own gas. Tipping is not necessary or, at least is not something anyone I know of, does.

Having lived in North Carolina and now Florida the past twenty years, on a recent visit to "The Garden State", I tried to pump my own gas strictly out of habit but was quickly informed it was a no-no.

While I'm at it, just a wee bit of a knowledge to enlighten those who think New Jersey is another exit on the turnpike. New Jersey is a very diversified state. It is the most heavily populated state in the nation yet has some of the most beautiful and rural countryside anywhere. Its tallest peak, High Point, is 1803 feet above sea level and overlooks the meeting of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York States. It goes from mountains and valleys to some of the best Atlantic Beaches on the east coast and ranges from those beaches to large truck farms in southern counties with cranberry bogs and blueberry patches.

Anyone visiting the state should take the time to look at Sussex (home to a Playboy Club in the seventies), Warren and Hunterdon Counties along the Delaware River and to Cape May on the end tip across the bay from Delaware for beautiful vistas of the Atlantic.
Mountains to seashore, that is New Jersey. The rest, meh, not so much.
Thank you for reading this travelogue from someone who has occasional regrets of the beautiful parts of "The Garden State" although short in duration but filled with many happy memories.
 
Whizzer said:
Having been born and raised in New Jersey and with investments and family living there, here's the deal. New Jersey and Oregon were the only two states that required an attendant to pump gas. Oregon has since repealed that law and New Jersey is the only state where you are not permitted, by state law, to pump your own gas. Tipping is not necessary or, at least is not something anyone I know of, does.

Having lived in North Carolina and now Florida the past twenty years, on a recent visit to "The Garden State", I tried to pump my own gas strictly out of habit but was quickly informed it was a no-no.

While I'm at it, just a wee bit of a knowledge to enlighten those who think New Jersey is another exit on the turnpike. New Jersey is a very diversified state. It is the most heavily populated state in the nation yet has some of the most beautiful and rural countryside anywhere. Its tallest peak, High Point, is 1803 feet above sea level and overlooks the meeting of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York States. It goes from mountains and valleys to some of the best Atlantic Beaches on the east coast and ranges from those beaches to large truck farms in southern counties with cranberry bogs and blueberry patches.

Anyone visiting the state should take the time to look at Sussex (home to a Playboy Club in the seventies), Warren and Hunterdon Counties along the Delaware River and to Cape May on the end tip across the bay from Delaware for beautiful vistas of the Atlantic.
Mountains to seashore, that is New Jersey. The rest, meh, not so much.
Thank you for reading this travelogue from someone who has occasional regrets of the beautiful parts of "The Garden State" although short in duration but filled with many happy memories.
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Our new 'base-camp' when traveling to New York is Parsippany, NJ. It's a fairly close distance for us to go into New Your City or Staten Island from that location. We travel into that area on I80. That area just west of Parsippany, the Delaware Water Gap, separating PA from NJ, is awesome with the ice that is jammed up right now. We stopped there this past weekend. The noise is incredible coming from the ice buildup on the Delaware River.
 
dpkimmel2001 said:
Our new 'base-camp' when traveling to New York is Parsippany, NJ. It's a fairly close distance for us to go into New Your City or Staten Island from that location. We travel into that area on I80. That area just west of Parsippany, the Delaware Water Gap, separating PA from NJ, is awesome with the ice that is jammed up right now. We stopped there this past weekend. The noise is incredible coming from the ice buildup on the Delaware River.
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When you go to the Allamuchy rest area by that exit on I-80, it is designated one of the ten most scenic views of the U.S. length of I-80. My businesses were located in Hackettstown and my childhood home was Sussex Borough. Many of the farms you see in Sussex and Warren Counties are in Farmland Preservation meaning they can never be developed but must always be used in an agricultural pursuit.
 
Here is a view of the Delaware Water Gap taken from Hope Road by Jenny Jump State Park. As the crow flies, it is about ten miles.

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It went up from $2.49 to $2.62 over the weekend.
 
Refinery's 'closed' for maintenance
or
switching over to 'summer' blends
or
Just because we can,,,,,,,,,,

The big hit, 'summer driving season' is right around the corner and will be here soon.
 
Ours went up in increments from $2.29 eight days ago to $2.63 this morning.
 
Gas is $2.85 - $2.95 round my area. $2.39 just across the state line in Ohio.

Diesel is $3.49. $2.99 just across the line.
 
It's gone from $2.19 to $2.51 in the past couple weeks here. Brutal.

And it's not even summer, when gas prices normally go up.
 
Having lived in Michigan I was used to gas prices changing daily, if not multiple times during the day. Since moving to Georgia four years ago it's nice to have consistent prices that change maybe once a week and its usually a penny or two. Been at $2.45 for a couple weeks now.
 
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