Filled my tank up today. Gas is $2.89 for unleaded. It still costs me close to $40 to fill the tank up. I'm thinking I should park the Escape while my husband is in Brazil and drive his Ford Focus instead.
Currently $2.99 everywhere in town. Seems no station wants to be the first to hit $3 again.
Glad I drive less than 5,000 miles a year these days. I just hate what the tight correlation between economic prospects and the price of oil is going to do to prevent a significant economic recovery. Every little bit of good news is met with speculators bidding up the price of oil and further jeopardizing a fragile attempt at recovery.
Sounds like a winner; maybe the need to drive the Escape has passed? I've forgotten how old your kids are and how many people have to fit in one vehicle.Originally Posted by ASB65
My Albuquerque daughter has two children, one 6 and one 10. My California daughter has one 6 and one 3. When baby seats were required all around, they drove the gas hogs. Now Sarah and the family only drive it - and it's a hybrid van - on long road trips, since their hobby is camping and his is bicycle racing and they're taking the entire family plus equipment; in town, she drives the Prius or the Subaru. He rides his bicycle to work because he's a physical fitness fiend.
Carol and Chris have to commute from Pacifica to UCMC-SF, since public transportation from Pacifica is hideously spotty; he has a minibug and she has a Honda Civic. Their in-laws have a big vehicle, which helps when the entire clan is aboard including them and me.
I have a four-seat Honda Civic. I used to have a 2-seat CRX that got great mileage, but I couldn't give rides to friends. These days, though, I more often carpool with someone who has better night vision, and chip in with books, magazines, and food. (Their choice. I've offered to put in for gas.)
So - times do change and so do car needs.
Just my $0.o2
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
P.S. Ziggy - I think we all realize gas prices have nowhere else to go but up, in the long run. Likewise food and other commodity prices. I'm trying to drive on that assumption, though in a sprawling Southwestern city it's not that easy.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
I know we should probably downside. It is handy though when I'm constantly hauling sporting equipment and lawn chairs to games and practices. I mainly drive it around town. (And in my town, around town isn't all that far.) I usually have to fill up about every 3 weeks or so. But if I have to go Dallas, I do trade cars with husband when he is home. I can fill the Focus up for about half of what it takes to fill up the SUV.
We did think about taking it Corpus Christi last summer. (An 8 hour drive for us), but decided against it because of all the luggage and stuff we were taking. The SUV's are double edge sword. They are nice for long trips because you have more room, but they certainly aren't cost effective on gas.
Can I call it, or what?
Filled up today at $3.51/gal. Over 40 bucks to top off a 12-gallon tank.
And the dollar isn't going anywhere but further down anytime soon.
"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
There is something that I've been thinking about but haven't posted about until now and that is the negitive impact that the sudden revolutionary atmosphere in the middle east would have on oil prices.
Specifically, the price of the political uncertainty of the middle eastern oil fields has reached the gas pumps in western South Carolina. Just a week ago it was still possible to get regular unleaded for just under three dollars a gallon here.
On monday the price rose to over the three dollar a gallon mark and as of today 3.25 is the going rate.
The price of gas has risen about 15 cents a gallon around here overnight. I just finished topping off my tank at the one local station that is still at 3.099 a gallon. I know that cheaper gas will return, but only after the next global economic crash.
The pseudo recovery is over. The price spikes will continue. The next economic crash is coming. When it hits is just a matter of time.
Last edited by herbal tee; 02-24-2011 at 03:40 PM.
Here in Chicago its $3.69 a gallon.
I have no explanation for this, but the sign on the gas street across the street reads $2.15. Usually gas in Texas is a little bit cheaper here because the all the oil and refineries we have, but it's 75 cents cheaper here than it was a few weeks ago.
Have you bought gas there? Maybe the sign is wrong.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
No, but I'm thinking I should stop by there and fill my tank when I go get my son from school in a few minutes. I'm almost empty anyway. So I'll let you know.
Edit: Yep, the sign was wrong. It was $3.15. But here is something else that was interesting. Half of the gas pumps were out of gas. That is highly unusual. I've never seen before at this particular gas station. I guess everyone is filling up now before the price of gas gets even higher.
Last edited by ASB65; 02-24-2011 at 05:20 PM.
For more on this topic please read my post on the "Feel-Good Economics" thread I just started today. Can't we now see through a lot of the BS? Would love to hear your thoughts on what would happen if we reach the point where at least a quarter of the public can no longer afford to drive their cars. And it could happen sooner than we think. And in most areas outside the large central cities such as New York and Chicago there are really no alternatives in place. And so far we have refused to provide for them.
$3.299 in Albuquerque, up $0.20 from a few days ago.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
After several weeks at $3.099 and $3.119, the two stations I drive past on my commute have jumped to $3.179 and $3.259.
"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
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Wow. cheap, cheap gas there. We're at $3.619 on the peninsula.
"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
$3.45 in Aventura (Miami) today.
jadams
"Can it be believed that the democracy that has overthrown the feudal system and vanquished kings will retreat before tradesmen and capitalists?" Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
For crap's sake. This morning I saw it's up another nudge. $3.649 now.
"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
-Yesterday [4 MAR 2011], at $3.399/gallon.
Same here as of yesterday, and climbing fast as far as I can tell.
$3.799 out here.
A cartoon to lighten the mood.
"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
With the way gas prices have risen so rapidly, I can picture in newspapers today captions of folks asking themselves "Whey can't we give up gasoline for Lent?" Can you imagine the crash if a significant amount of folks actually were to do that?
$3.879 for super here in Vancouver...up from $3.579 two weeks ago. Bet we see $5.00 before spring's done.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Lucky Kevin. I just filled up with regular at $3.899. Super out here at the end of the world has been over 4 for a week or so now (and diesel hasn't seen the south side of 4 since the new year).
"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
3.49 @ home
3.79 @ work
I got it at 3.19 with my discount card.
~Chas'88
"There have always been people who say: "The war will be over someday." I say there's no guarantee the war will ever be over. Naturally a brief intermission is conceivable. Maybe the war needs a breather, a war can even break its neck, so to speak. But the kings and emperors, not to mention the pope, will always come to its help in adversity. ON the whole, I'd say this war has very little to worry about, it'll live to a ripe old age."
Geez. I saw over-4 diesel for the first time only this afternoon.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
