Hot damn. My station rose another 5 cents to $3.19 in one day. All the local stations I've seen today are at least $3.09.Originally Posted by Zarathustra
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Hot damn. My station rose another 5 cents to $3.19 in one day. All the local stations I've seen today are at least $3.09.
Americans have had enough of glitz and roar . . Foreboding has deepened, and spiritual currents have darkened . . .
THE FOURTH TURNING IS AT HAND.
See T4T, p. 253.
I shan't comment. :wink:I am no expert, but I'll hazard a guess.
1) Gas stations buy gas from their distributer each day. The price that the distributer charges changes daily, so the gas station thus adjusts his price.
2) Gas is cheaper in locations where the rent that the gas station owner must pay for his station is cheaper.
Any comments from people who know more than me?
FWIW: This is only the fifth time the word shant has been used in a post on T4T. Besides Virgil those who have used it are: Bob Butler, Roadbldr, Mary Fitzmas, and Opie. I dont use shant at all. If I had used it down at the Toledo Y in the 1950s the other boys would have kicked the crap out of me.
Croakmore
Are you sure it was me? I don't believe I've ever used 'shan't' either spoken or in print... though it's possible I may have heard someone else (Jenny?) use it and mindless parroted the word back out!FWIW: This is only the fifth time the word shant has been used in a post on T4T. Besides Virgil those who have used it are: Bob Butler, Roadbldr, Mary Fitzmas, and Opie. I dont use shant at all. If I had used it down at the Toledo Y in the 1950s the other boys would have kicked the crap out of me.
Croakmore
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Premium is still, amazingly, holding steady at $2.999 at my neighborhood filling station. However several others around Vancouver are inching over the $3 mark... and at the most expensive station in town (off I-5 at Mill Plain Boulevard) it's up to $3.219.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
The Language Used, the Company Kept
If I had gone to a Y {NTTIAWWT} (where resided the likes of Mr. Truman Capote) during the High I might have run into similar difficulties with the local fellows. :wink:... I dont use shant at all. If I had used it down at the Toledo Y in the 1950s the other boys would have kicked the crap out of me.
Croakmore
Up four cents to $2.93 in the People's Republic of Cambridge...
Bear in mind that my corner store is, from what I can tell, close to the local floor in terms of price. I've seen $2.98 and $3.05 quoted in places closer to high-speed thoroughfares. Mass. Ave. is a major thoroughfare, but a decidedly low-speed and local one.
'81, 30/70 X/Millie, trying to live in both Red and Blue America... "Catfish 'n Cod"
OK, the neighborhood 76 finally ticked over the mark to $3.059. The price of gas in Vancouver now exceeds its post-Katrina high. And we haven't even reached Memorial Day yet.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Eight and a half days later, it's $2.899-$2.999.
"My generation, we were the generation that was going to change the world: somehow we were going to make it a little less lonely, a little less hungry, a little more just place. But it seems that when that promise slipped through our hands we didnīt replace it with nothing but lost faith."
Bruce Springsteen, 1987
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Well dip me in mustard and call me a hot dog!Hot damn. My station rose another 5 cents to $3.19 in one day. All the local stations I've seen today are at least $3.09.
Three days later the corner station jumps 10 cents to $3.29. I sh*t you not.
Americans have had enough of glitz and roar . . Foreboding has deepened, and spiritual currents have darkened . . .
THE FOURTH TURNING IS AT HAND.
See T4T, p. 253.
It's only 2.89 here. Although the 10mpg 20gal tanked Durango is getting low. (yikes!), I keep waiting hoping for a dip. Even the Corolla is almost 30$ a tank.
Unsolicited advice: Fill her up today!
Americans have had enough of glitz and roar . . Foreboding has deepened, and spiritual currents have darkened . . .
THE FOURTH TURNING IS AT HAND.
See T4T, p. 253.
Funny thing is I'm the bike riding oil-guy at work. none of em knew what to think when I bought that thing. One guy even accused me of not being a democrat (remember where I work!). All I could think of was that for taking the kids one mile to school and back twice a day, these things were sure going at fire sale prices.
Buying a new prius for that might get me the moral high ground, but at the cost of tremendous financial stupidity.
Prices have remained stable since the last time I mentioned them.
Good thing I take the bus 90% of the time at the moment.
Right-Wing liberal, slow progressive, and other contradictions straddling both the past and future, but out of touch with the present . . .
"We also know there are known unknowns.
That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know." - Donald Rumsfeld
Maybe it's time to dump the Durango... while you still can! I'm having a vision of 1979 Cadillacs rusting on dealers' new car lots and selling for less than Honda Civics.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Well, it's close to the end of its useful life, and I don't drive much. 130k miles, and I drive the kids to school 1 mile away. Even to go bike riding in the next town, is only 15 miles round trip. That's why it was an ok purchase.
However, if my geographic situation were to change, then yes I do need to unlad it.
I drive about 20 miles a week at 16 mpg (Ford F250-V6 engine) $3.50 to $3.75 a week.
It's still rising in my neck of the woods. The cheap Hess gas station is offering regular unleaded for $3.07 now.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
Average prices down to $2.80 in Austin.
Right-Wing liberal, slow progressive, and other contradictions straddling both the past and future, but out of touch with the present . . .
"We also know there are known unknowns.
That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know." - Donald Rumsfeld
It was down to $2.89 for a couple of days here, but it jumped to $3.05 this morning.
.. and overnight...
... the price of premium gasoline jumped from $3.059 to $3.179!
I would say things are... shall we say... looking up.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
And $3.30/gallon for regular here today! Yikes!
No matter how small, every feline is a masterpiece.
-- Leonardo da Vinci
Goodness! Where is "here"?
Leave No Child Behind - Teach Evolution.
My guess (I might be wrong) is California.
Or Washington DC.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
