Dropped a day to $2.90 and then up to $3.00 (well, $2.99.9, but you know what I mean)
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Dropped a day to $2.90 and then up to $3.00 (well, $2.99.9, but you know what I mean)
Our prices have held steady for the past two weeks.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
For the last two days, 90% of the Twin Cities' stations have gone over $3.00 (3.05 and 3.09 are quite common). The national average released Monday was $3.02.
I think you are at the national low. It's cheap here, but not that cheap.Originally Posted by Alchemist's Angel '85
Marx: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Lennon: You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
... and still holding!
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
In Bham the price inched up from $2.85 to $2.91 over the last week and a half.... and still holding!
Leave No Child Behind - Teach Evolution.
I paid $3.139 this morning.In Bham the price inched up from $2.85 to $2.91 over the last week and a half.... and still holding!
It's up to about $3.05/$3.07 here in Arlington/Alexandria, Virginia.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
It's a bit higher up here. One thing I'm noticiing is that stations are trying to keep regular at a reasonable price while letting plus and premium go through the roof. Case in point, yesterday I saw a station with prices at $3.099/$3.379/$3.559. (That same station today has regular at $3.129.)
"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 didn´t replace it with nothing but lost faith."
Bruce Springsteen, 1987
http://brucebase.wikispaces.com/1987...+YORK+CITY,+NY
We're down a smidgeon this week to $2.85/2.95/3.05.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
My local station has been at $3.15 to $3.19 for many weeks now.
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.
We've suddenly jumped to $2.999/3.099/3.199 this week. Still, going into Labor Day weekend it's a lot better than I feared we'd be by now.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Hey all!
For fun comparison, I see the price for (Euro)98 octane at 20.00r/L = US$2.80/gal in my new neck of the woods.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
Gas Prices Dropping
Hey Justin! How did the move go?
Prices have been dropping here on almost a daily basis. It's down to $2.799 at one station. The peak this summer was around $3.25, IIRC.
So maybe i should get the Mustang V8 convertible after all. Who cares if it only gets 17 city/ 25 hwy? That's still better than your typical SUV. And if prices continue to drop for now, and don't get up to $5 per gallon until 2015, maybe I'll be sorry then I didn't.
Then again, there is the whole global warming thing... I'd be closer to part of the problem than of the solution. But if we're all doomed anyway no matter what i do... what the f*ck? May as well party like it's...
1969.
Last edited by Roadbldr '59; 08-30-2006 at 10:55 PM.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Ninety-eight octane? Awesome! What sort of cars do they drive in St. Pete?
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
But remember, as Virgil pointed out, the European measurement method gives a higher octane result. I think 98 here is equivalent to 88 or 90 in the States
All sorts. I've got a Lada Sputnik (4-door, hatchback) rented until our cars from the US arrive. Parked outside the office where I'm working, I can see a Lexus SUV, a Zhiguli something-or-other, a Renault something-or-other small, a Dodge Grand Caravan, and two Skoda something-or-others.What sort of cars do they drive in St. Pete?
It's been a bit exciting getting used to the layout of the stick shift over here. Reverse is all the way to the LEFT and forward, and the natural position of the stick is between 3rd and 4th, meaning that, afraid of overshooting first and hitting R, I find myself taking off from stoplights in 3rd far too frequently.
The layout of my BMW 5-speed is the same as your Sputnik... except the "snap" that one feels when one enters a new gear is far stronger getting into reverse, and getting into R requires substantially more effort than 1st. When I first bought my car it was a pain, but after a day I got used to it.
Do they drive on the right side of the road, or the wrong side? :lol:
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
It took me more like four days, but there you have it. It'll be really fun getting back into my Escort (also manual, but American-style) once it arrives at the end of September.
Yes.Do they drive on the right side of the road, or the wrong side? :lol:
Sometimes.
I fear that, after a couple years of this, I may no longer be particularly safe on American roads...
Back to earlier times ... for a while
Yesterday, I filled-up at $2.319 ... for Premium.
Marx: Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Lennon: You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.
Yeah. I was down in Fredericksburg with Roadbldr '59 yesterday playing (saw a bit of the old city, then a winery 30 miles away) and was tempted to fill up at $2.35 (regular). But I didn't.Yesterday, I filled-up at $2.319 ... for Premium.Oh well.
Gas in the DC area is much more expensive; around $2.75-$2.90 a gallon for regular.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
$3.13 9/10 at the station I check; others nearby range from $2.91 9/10 to $3.35 9/10 (all for regular unleaded)
Dammit! We're still sitting right where we were before, at ~$2.80/gal. You would think that a net oil exporting country would fare better than this...
what's up with this?
Utah gas prices fail to fall
Driving's cheaper almost anywhere else in U.S.
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4328536
For most of the year the Utah/Idaho had the cheapest gas in the country because we were "near the pipelines...we had our own refineries..ya da ya da ya da. Not now.
Earlier in the spring when our community "hosted" the biggest four -wheel-drive convention ("safari")on the planet, our gas prices were amazingly low. The event is sponsored and promoted by the off-road vehicle industry. Those Hummers need that cheap gas.
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt
Back out here, gas is $2.89/2.99/3.09Yeah. I was down in Fredericksburg with Roadbldr '59 yesterday playing (saw a bit of the old city, then a winery 30 miles away) and was tempted to fill up at $2.35 (regular). But I didn't.
Gas in the DC area is much more expensive; around $2.75-$2.90 a gallon for regular.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
