Gas prces are up again! You may thank Hurricane Gustav while you're being screwed by the gas pump!

Originally Posted by sean '90

Gas prces are up again! You may thank Hurricane Gustav while you're being screwed by the gas pump!

Yup those fucking pigs who run the oil company's like to screw us over! Gas should be like $2 a gallon enough with the China as booming bullshit. It shouldn't cause gas prices to go from like $1 to $3.69 a gallon.

Originally Posted by Dave 89

Yup those fucking pigs who run the oil company's like to screw us over! Gas should be like $2 a gallon enough with the China as booming bullshit. It shouldn't cause gas prices to go from like $1 to $3.69 a gallon.

But what are you really trying to say?

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

But what are you really trying to say?

That oil companys are a bunch of fucking pigs who find ANY excuse to fucking raise prices.

Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon.

Originally Posted by Dave 89

Yup those fucking pigs who run the oil company's like to screw us over! Gas should be like $2 a gallon enough with the China as booming bullshit. It shouldn't cause gas prices to go from like $1 to $3.69 a gallon.

-Then stop buying it. Oil companies only make money when you BUY it.

Originally Posted by jamesdglick

Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon.



-Then stop buying it. Oil companies only make money when you BUY it.

Right. Same with electricity, heat, water, and groceries.

Originally Posted by jamesdglick

Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon.



-Then stop buying it. Oil companies only make money when you BUY it.

Thing is I need to buy oil sadly, to do things like get to work, school, friends partys, and so on.

Originally Posted by The Grey Badger

Right. Same with electricity, heat, water, and groceries...

-On one of the X'er threads, I thought you said you were working on becoming self-reliant. Tsk, Tsk. Backsliding so soon?

Originally Posted by Dave 89

Thing is I need to buy oil sadly, to do things like get to work, school, friends partys, and so on.

-Dude. Sounds like you're living for your car.

Since I'll bet that you're the kind of guy who complains that we don't use enough solar or hydrogen powered cars, this is the perfect opportunity for you to transform words into DEEDS, and buy a hydrogen or electric car...

Or, you could buy (and use) a bike, like this guy:

Originally Posted by Pink Splice

http://wallysdoghouse.blogspot.com/2008/07/giant-leap-for-wallys-health-and.html

Just bought a bike, vastly increasing my range and payload (huge saddlebags).

...you can screw over Big Oil, strike a blow for energy independence, and save money in the bargain!

[QUOTE=jamesdglick;245721]-On one of the X'er threads, I thought you said you were working on becoming self-reliant. Tsk, Tsk. Backsliding so soon?

Nope. Over 65, poor muscle tone, live in the Southwest, lots of places you can only reach by car out here, ditto if you're hauling heavy loads - I walk and take the bus when I can. Not always feasible.

Originally Posted by jamesdglick

Shell in Clarksville, TN just started selling regular again: $3.999/gallon...

-Now at $3.799.

Gas in my neck of the woods has been running at about $3.65 a gallon. However, I drove to Cherry Hill, NJ for the weekend (to see Prem Rawat -- see my sig line below) and had the foresight to need to tank up there. I filled up paying $3.219 a gallon -- full service.

New Jersey is a nice place to buy gas.

While the hurricanes never bumped up the prices here, they did stall what had been a downward trend for a few weeks where it pretty much sat at the same price. In the past week or two they have been declining again. At my neighborhood QuikTrip station, gas is currently $3.29 and falling (it was $3.35 a few days ago). However, I've been getting gas at an Arco station a mile away, where it is super cheap if you pay in cash (they add a CC surcharge), and currently at that station, gas is $3.21.

For comparison, the most I ever paid for gas was in the middle of June in Prescott, WI, at a BP for I believe $4.16 or something like that, because my fuel light came on and I had no choice. Most people, apparently, did, because once gas broke $4 demand plummeted and the local gas stations were back under $4 for the remainder of the summer (usually about $3.97) even as oil increased into July. So, at least in that part of the country, $4 is the tipping point.

It's funny, at about the same time when gas broke $4 for a week, suddenly a lot more people were going the speed limit on the freeway as opposed to 5-10 over, and the buses got a lot more full.

Fascinating. This morning when I filled up with gas, I saw that the station was offering a 5-cent discount per gallon if you paid cash (I didn't have enough cash on me at the time or I would have considered it).

When was the last time you saw stations offering discounts for cash versus credit? And has anyone else seen this yet?

Edit: Just re-read Alex's post more carefully and saw that it is happening in other places.

Originally Posted by Child of Socrates

Fascinating. This morning when I filled up with gas, I saw that the station was offering a 5-cent discount per gallon if you paid cash (I didn't have enough cash on me at the time or I would have considered it).

When was the last time you saw stations offering discounts for cash versus credit? And has anyone else seen this yet?

Edit: Just re-read Alex's post more carefully and saw that it is happening in other places.

I've seen it in my neck of the woods (just south of Our Nation's Capitol).

Originally Posted by jamesdglick

Shell in Clarksville, TN just started [24 SEP] selling regular again: $3.999/gallon...

-Now at $3.699/gallon (higher than it was 2 months ago)...

Originally Posted by AlexMnWi

...However, I've been getting gas at an Arco station a mile away, where it is super cheap if you pay in cash (they add a CC surcharge...

&

Originally Posted by Child of Socrates

Fascinating. This morning when I filled up with gas, I saw that the station was offering a 5-cent discount per gallon if you paid cash (I didn't have enough cash on me at the time or I would have considered it).

When was the last time you saw stations offering discounts for cash versus credit? And has anyone else seen this yet?...

-I can't remember where or when, but I've seen cash discounts for gas (and other things) before. I like the idea.

Originally Posted by AlexMnWi

...It's funny, at about the same time when gas broke $4 for a week, suddenly a lot more people were going the speed limit on the freeway as opposed to 5-10 over, and the buses got a lot more full.

-When you pay more for something, you're less likely to waste it (or buy it to begin with). Duh.

The price of gas around here is dropping as fast as the Dow, at $3.459/559/659.

Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59

The price of gas around here is dropping as fast as the Dow, at $3.459/559/659.

Lowest here (today) for regular was $2.999. Mid-grade and premium are still universally high ($3.50/$3.60 territory.)

Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59

The price of gas around here is dropping as fast as the Dow, at $3.459/559/659.

The Peak Oil set's term for what is going on is "demand destruction" -- the credit crunch and ensuring economic turmoil is reducing demand for gas.

We're down to $2.999 (cash).

Originally Posted by The Wonkette

The Peak Oil set's term for what is going on is "demand destruction" -- the credit crunch and ensuring economic turmoil is reducing demand for gas.

It also reminds me of the deflation which was one of the features of the last Great Depression.

I paid $3.59 where I live a couple days ago, which in comparison to a lot of other posts on this thread, still sounds high, but considering how just a few months ago I paid something like $4.65 a gallon at one point, so it's all good in my opinion! I also that know it's even cheaper where Im moving to in a few weeks

Yesterday I filled my Tacoma with 16.16 gallons of gas.
The price was 94.00 and change

That prices out at * 5.87 * per gallon

That is not a typo. Oct. 10,08. 5.87 per gallon

P.S. There is only one station available to us here. ( I live on a island with one town, one gas station, no land bridge)

Originally Posted by Max

Yesterday I filled my Tacoma with 16.16 gallons of gas.
The price was 94.00 and change

That prices out at * 5.87 * per gallon

That is not a typo. Oct. 10,08. 5.87 per gallon

P.S. There is only one station available to us here. ( I live on a island with one town, one gas station, no land bridge)

I betcha the Aussies who post here pay more than you.

Originally Posted by jamesdglick

Shell in Clarksville, TN just started [24 SEP] selling regular again: $3.999/gallon...

-Now at $3.289/gallon (lower than it's been since I started looking in June)...

Originally Posted by stab1969

...considering how just a few months ago I paid something like $4.65 a gallon at one point, so it's all good in my opinion! I also that know it's even cheaper where Im moving to in a few weeks

-Where were you?

Originally Posted by Max

...That prices out at * 5.87 * per gallon

That is not a typo. Oct. 10,08. 5.87 per gallon

P.S. There is only one station available to us here. ( I live on a island with one town, one gas station, no land bridge)

-Good God, where ARE you?

Originally Posted by jamesdglick

-Good God, where ARE you?

Max now lives in Catalina Island, west of Los Angeles. My ex, who grew up in San Diego, would sometimes go out there -- it's about an hour ferry ride from LA.

Indeed, I would not be at all surprised if my current BF, who lived 13 years in the LA area, has also been there.