Pete_C Posted August 1, 2008 Report Share Posted August 1, 2008 Just great. Prices are dropping, but since it's the beginning of the month I fill 'er up with Premium @ $4.19. Re: Ethanol. We've known for decades that we HAVE to wean ourselves off gasoline, yet when we finally start to do it, people complain 'cause it's expensive. Meh.The premium is $4.04 here3.64, 3.84, 4.04Saw a bunch of stations these days at that price. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 Filled up tonight. Paid $34 for 8.95 gallons of 93. My car averaged 28.3 MPG. It was $3.79 for 93 Octane Premium. 87 Octane Regular was $3.55. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 I realized that my daily paper has for some time been running the list of lowest prices every day. I had pretty much been ignoring it; but it is nice to see it in the paper even if it is just the prices from gasbuddy.http://www.dallasnews.com/gasprices/Looks like many $3.31 -$3.35 .Seems to change daily but be pretty reliable at least as far as the lowest prices are concerned.Only problem is that they do not make it clear which ones are cash only (no credit or debit cards) and that is increasingly common amongst the low price independents. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted August 21, 2008 Report Share Posted August 21, 2008 $3.85 for regular. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
TheTerrorist_75 Posted August 26, 2008 Report Share Posted August 26, 2008 Get ready for oil and natural gas to go up. Looks like Hurricane Gustav is heading right for the middle of the oil fields in the gulf. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bobbynichols Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 $ 3.91 / gallon here at home for low test.As cheap as $3.71 down the hill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted August 27, 2008 Report Share Posted August 27, 2008 $3.89 ... until they use the incoming hurricane as an excuse to jack 'em up again. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bubba Bob Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Went up 40-60 cents today alone! All the stations raised prices 2-4 times. And that's only TODAY! Local news caster is predicting just over $5 in the morning! Jeesh. This is crap. Pure BS! Im sure glad both my vehicles happened to be full... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Don't know what it is now but I think it was $3.89 for 93 Octane last I filled up and I put $32 in and got 30MPG on the previous tank. I'm hopin fresh rubber and a tune up will help with my fuel economy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 It's still under four dollars here, but the news is filled with dire warnings of impending price increases since they shut down all the refineries on the Gulf due to H-Ivan. They said it would increase the prices locally, but we all know how it works, don't we? One of the largest refineries in the country is less than a hundred miles from me, but golly gee, somehow the hurricane will "force" them to raise prices in the MidWest too. They showed a graphic of the Gulf with an icon for each oil well there. Whoa! There sure are a LOT of oil wells in the Gulf! Best wishes for everyone living and working there. I did the math today and prices are STILL not bad, really. I can buy more fuel with an hours pay today than I could when I first started working (30 years ago), so I got NOTHING to complain about. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 I was watching the Post Hurricane Ike flyovers to assess damage to Galveston and the Texas coast and they showed two refineries doing flare offs which means they are firing them back up and getting production under way .Since those were in the hardest hit area, probably the others are getting busy getting back online.The biggest obstacles are probably electrical power (need it to run things) and personnel who left in advance of the storm and are not being allowed back in yet.They ought to suspend futures trading at times like this to keep the speculators from driving up the price. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 3 stations I have been observing have remained at a steady $3.99 for 87 and $4.25 for 93. I'll be needing fuel soon so I hope it goes back down but it's not like I ain't used to payin that much. Really though, if I can afford a $400 LCD Monitor then I can spend a coupla extra dollars on gas if I need it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted September 15, 2008 Report Share Posted September 15, 2008 It's jumped to ~$4.35 for regular here. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted September 16, 2008 Report Share Posted September 16, 2008 Oughta be headed back down soon.Looks like most of the refineries will be back on line by the end of the week with only 2-3% of production taking up to 3 weeks to be restored.I hope the speculators who bid up the price loose their shirts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Only station I looked at today was at $2.99 for 87, $3.09 for 89 and I think they forgot to change the sign for the 93 cause it said $3.39. So Now I probably won't be seeing any $40 fill-ups again soon. Last time, most gas I've ever had to put in and it was $4.09 for Premium, cost me $40.25 for 9.82 gallons. I don't think I'm ever gonna let it run that low again. Although the car actually has an 11.9 gallon tank, only 9.9 is actually read on the gauge. 2 gallon reserve for idiots like me who decide to make a catering delivery in another town (or rather on the other side of said town in the country making it even further), with the needle just barely above E. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 I forget where I saw it (What? Me? Forget?) but that "reserve" thing is strictly an American thing. Apparently the rest of the world would like to know exactly how much fuel is left. No, I don't think it's because we need to idiot-proof cars for an ignorant populice, though I can understand why one might come to that conclusion (and it does help those who cannot fathom the notion of filling up BEFORE you run out). I think it's more because in the U.S. our "average" trip by automobile is SO MUCH longer than other countries. A lot of people elsewhere have no comprehension whatsoever of the distances we travel regularly. Either the other countries are the size of just one of our states, or they tend not to NEED to travel far, or they can't AFFORD to travel as far, or they tend to use trains for longer trips, but here, a fifty mile auto trip is nothing -- a trip to the city or out to the suburbs (or to work, and then back again, every day) -- nothing to us. An auto trip of several hundred miles is a weekend outing. A thousand mile auto trip is a vacation. Traveling so far I bet we NEED the safety of a reserve like few other countries might. Who knows where you'll be when you need gas? Gas stations are far apart in the long stretches of road that cross the country. Makes me wonder if Australia also has a "reserve" built in. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 Actually other countries have the reserve too just not as big. While my Civic has a 2 gallon reserve, some other Euro Civics of the same body style will have a half gallon reserve. But yeah I get ya though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted October 16, 2008 Report Share Posted October 16, 2008 It is as low as $2.59 locally, I paid $2.64 yesterday. Still plenty of scalpers charging well over $3.00 but prices are dropping. So which theory do you believe.1. So many people are out of work and feel the job market is hopeless that consumption has dropped so dramatically that the cost for a barrel of oil is half what it was a couple months ago and the price of gasoline has dropped by a third.(after all, most energy usage in industry and at home is Electricity which comes primarily from coal, natural gas, and nuclear).2. The Oil companies feel Obama will get elected and are reacting to his suggestion of a windfall profits tax to compensate for the high cost and allow a consumer rebate , and his proposal that you use it or lose it in regards to the unexploited drilling leases (he will take them back and resell them to someone who will drill on the already approved sites). They are cutting prices to decrease the risk of consequences.3. The credit crisis means that speculators can not borrow money and buy oil futures for pennies on the dollar to drive up the price and make a profit when they resell them. Restrictions on short selling (if they could pull it off in this market) have further crippled their ability to manipulate the price of oil for their own personal profit. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bozodog Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 I've read it's the demand that has dropped. Schools back in and there is some problems with jobs. I don't think the oil companies give a damn whatever we do. Windfall profit tax? Fine, they'll decrease production and prices will go up. Cancel their leases and the prices will go up. If they gave a squat, instead of pumping cash into lobbying and candidates, they would have worked harder to bring more refineries and nukes on-line. They have us by the short hairs and don't give a damn and they will eat cake until the oil is gone...Speculators that have the fluidity will stay clear until after the election. Those that need credit to buy are scrambling for lives, with the dive in the market. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 The police issued a warning against using Pay at the Pump , especially with debit cards.It seems that there has been a rash of cases where pumps at stations were tampered with after hours and "Skimmers" attached to the card reader / keypad so that thieves can skim the credit card info and pin / zip code info and make clones.They advise all people to go inside to pay and preferably pay cash.Of course it could just be the cops trying to scare people or drive up the number of gas station robberies by increasing the cash on hand; but I doubt that. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted October 17, 2008 Report Share Posted October 17, 2008 I agree the oil companies aren't planning for anything that may occur in the future. One, why should they? They'll just do whatever they have to do to continue making a profit. Two, they're not that smart. I think it's all about Supply & Demand. More supply, less demand. Sure makes all the hand-wringing over off-shore and restricted area drilling seem like a waste of time for now. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Honda_Boy Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Just got gas today. $29 of 93 Octane Shell V-Power. That's 9 gallons. It was $3.19 for 93 Octane and $2.89 for 87 Octane. This fill-up was much nicer than the $40.25 for 9.8 gallons fill up last time. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 It seems to have settled to between $3.25 and $3.50 around here for regular. For now. Isn't this tropical storm season? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pete_C Posted October 18, 2008 Report Share Posted October 18, 2008 Down to $2.49 here at at least two stations. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
JDoors Posted November 10, 2008 Report Share Posted November 10, 2008 $2.19. TWO NINETEEN! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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