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ajk112802

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I went to the most reasonable place around here, a Hess Station, and paid $4.01 for regular gas today. www.CNN.com has poll asking if you think gas prices have peaked at $4 a gallon...I voted No, so did a lot of other people. What's the cheapest place/price in your neck of the woods?

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ajk112802 said:
I went to the most reasonable place around here, a Hess Station, and paid $4.01 for regular gas today. www.CNN.com has poll asking if you think gas prices have peaked at $4 a gallon...I voted No, so did a lot of other people. What's the cheapest place/price in your neck of the woods?

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BJ's - $3.99
 
Bucky Badger said:
Are you serious? Where do you live?...
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Near Los Angeles, in the west San Fernando Valley. Everything's more expensive here.

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the cheepest here was at racetrack 3.89 (wonder if it has water in it)
 
I got like 10 bucks yesterday at 3.87 9/10 i think @ Huck's near Paducah.

Question, why the hell is gas 9/10 why dont they just round it up and make it even?
 
Kinda strang here, over the weekend gas and diesel prices went up over 10 cents, i pass by on my way home from work today and there down 10 cents. It's like they raised the prices just because oil spiked friday, rally pisses me off.
 
Gas prices have been crazy up here....

Friday it was $1.31 a litre, Sunday it jumped to $1.41 a litre then on Saturday it fell too $1.38 a litre and now i think its at $1.40 :(
 
Lap3Forever said:
I got like 10 bucks yesterday at 3.87 9/10 i think @ Huck's near Paducah.

Question, why the hell is gas 9/10 why dont they just round it up and make it even?
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Lappy, it's all about pricing. Notice that when people talk about the price of gas, they seldom round it up one more tenth and that is what the purpose is. Look at how many things are advertised at a price the ends in 99 dollars, such as $199, or 11,999. In the first case, they can say it is under $200 and the later under $12,000. While I was living in Iowa, the state legislature enacted a law that made the gas stations to round it up that one tenth. That lasted a while until people began to figure that, for crying out loud, the state government just gave the oil companies a 1/10 of a cent per gallon of gas raise with a stroke of a pen. You see, it doesn't matter what the price of gas it, someone will gripe about it. When I was your age, I was able to fill the car up for well under $5.00. Hell, we used to put a buck's worth of gas in the car and ride around all night.
 
I heard something on the news today that over $5.00 a gallon is predicted by the end of summer. The really bad thing is that because of the insane gas prices, anything that is transported (which is everything) also goes up in price; food, household supplies, textiles, gardening supplies, etc.
It's easy to get sticker-shock at the grocery store. My monthly food costs have gone up at least 25%.
 
I got my license on 4-10-2002. I do not remember how much gas was, but i do know 10-15 bucks would last a while. Now it cost bout that much to go see the g/f and come back home. (70 mile round trip)

I'm not going to blaim Bush for this. I will blaim Clinton for the Alaska thing, He did not want to sign it in, because gas was cheep and it would take 10 years to get the plant online. Ten years later Gas is way up, and still nothing is being done. But the whole damn gov't is to blaim because they are not doing anything about it, and passing more laws making it harder to fix the problem. The chepest i remember seeing gas was .99 cents, and that was in 1999, but im sure i'v seen it cheeper just dont remember.
 
buckaroo said:
Lappy, it's all about pricing. Notice that when people talk about the price of gas, they seldom round it up one more tenth and that is what the purpose is. Look at how many things are advertised at a price the ends in 99 dollars, such as $199, or 11,999. In the first case, they can say it is under $200 and the later under $12,000. While I was living in Iowa, the state legislature enacted a law that made the gas stations to round it up that one tenth. That lasted a while until people began to figure that, for crying out loud, the state government just gave the oil companies a 1/10 of a cent per gallon of gas raise with a stroke of a pen. You see, it doesn't matter what the price of gas it, someone will gripe about it. When I was your age, I was able to fill the car up for well under $5.00. Hell, we used to put a buck's worth of gas in the car and ride around all night.
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While i'm not quite as old as you Buck i do remeber being able to throw $5 in the tank and cruise around most of the night. I remember gas being 29 cents a gallon when i was a kid, cheapest i can recall. Back in 1998 when i moved to Colorado Springs gas was 78cents, i could fill my Suby up for about $8 a week , not bad. When you think about it that is only ten years ago, has demand gone up that significantly, oil disapeared that much,i think not. We are just being taken by the oil companies. The oil reserves are at high levels with the increased demand, how can that be if there is less oil around? This is such a bunch of BS, too bad there is no one or group that can put a hurt into the oil companies and bring the prices down to where they should be in the $50-$70/barrel range. What i am worried about is how people here in the northeast are going to heat their houses this winter when heating oil is almost $5 gallon. Elderly people on fixed incomes will be hurt the most, i don't believe the subsidy programs will cover enough of the people that will be in need.
 
Mopardh9 said:
While i'm not quite as old as you Buck i do remeber being able to throw $5 in the tank and cruise around most of the night. I remember gas being 29 cents a gallon when i was a kid, cheapest i can recall. Back in 1998 when i moved to Colorado Springs gas was 78cents, i could fill my Suby up for about $8 a week , not bad. When you think about it that is only ten years ago, has demand gone up that significantly, oil disapeared that much,i think not. We are just being taken by the oil companies. The oil reserves are at high levels with the increased demand, how can that be if there is less oil around? This is such a bunch of BS, too bad there is no one or group that can put a hurt into the oil companies and bring the prices down to where they should be in the $50-$70/barrel range. What i am worried about is how people here in the northeast are going to heat their houses this winter when heating oil is almost $5 gallon. Elderly people on fixed incomes will be hurt the most, i don't believe the subsidy programs will cover enough of the people that will be in need.
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I agree with you. My Grandmother is 87 years old and heats with gas. It has been taking more than what she draws to buy her gas in the winter. With the increase in price I don't know what we will do about that this winter. Just keep helping her I guess. One of them cases where the RICH GET RICHER AND THE POOR GET POORER I guess.
 
$48.18 to fill my Sunfire up today. 90 oct was 2 cents more, so i went with that. But i just ended up paying like 24 more cents then 87.
 
my sister forwarded me an article about how to get gas prices to go down.does anyone know how to help me post it on here? i think it might work.
 
An SF Bay Area TV station had a live report from a Shell station in Redwood City that is selling regular gas for $4.99, enhanced regular for $5.19, and premium for $5.39. In the hour that I watched there were no takers.
 
In Arlington (i was at college last 2 days), I filled up at a fina (not my favorite place, but nearest i could get to without getting lost..which i still managed to do) for 3.89 but a few valero's i seen from the highway were 3.98.
 
do you think it would get gas to go down if we stopped buying from Exxon Mobile and bought from some small station?
 
The local owned gas station down the road from me is for sale. Even when gas was "cheep" it was still way to expensive there
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A couple of brothers who were classmates of mine in high school just closed their station they have owned for 22 years. The stopped making a profit and were basically forced to get out of the business. So, I wonder what it would take to purchase a bicycle shop these days?
 
Hey folks get used to it! Even if we start drilling, OPEC will cut back on production just to keep the prices up. Sorta like a dog that has been in the hen house...they LIKE what they have done and it ain't gonna stop.
Betsy
 
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