Apparently, I was in a time warp. Filled up this morning on mid at 3.05.
Time to buy a cycle.
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Apparently, I was in a time warp. Filled up this morning on mid at 3.05.
Time to buy a cycle.
In suburban Portland, OR, it is now $2.89.
Along the Oregon Coast and eastern Oregon it is well over $3.00.
Oregonpackfan
i got this email today, talking about why gas prices won't come down!!!
While Exxon made eight billion dollars profit on three months worth's of
production or about 7%, our Federal government made sixteen billion on
the same gas through taxes (just Exxon) without finding, pumping,
shipping, processing and delivery it. We're being screwed but not by oil
companies. .
funny. not funny haha, but funny sad!
There's about .9 cents of profit built into a gallon of gas. Meanwhile, about .50 cents per gallon is there b/c of taxes. Beyond the federal tax, Wisconsin's state tax is especially high.
in miami its up to 3.29
i just think its funny that the oil companies are the ones taking the blame. the minimum markup on gas is 9%. every petrolium company must make 9% on each gal. of gas. it is gov't mandated. if the cost of gas is $1 per gal. the company makes $.09 on that gal. if the cost of gas doubles to $2 per gal. guess what their profit does. yep it doubles. they now make $.18 on that same gal. ththey look like the bad guys since the gov't mandates they must mark up their product nine percent.
guess who is doing the price gouging???? tell me who again needs investigating????
2.49 yesterday
Was just reading this... gosh, anything under $3 a gal now seems "cheap".
gas has been between $3.05-$3.09 for a couple weeks now. It doesn't help though that my vehicle calls for premium unleaded.
I dont look because what do I really need to know? I have to have it to get to work so whateve.
Im sick of gas moving so much so I say lets just raise it to $5 and fix the price for 3 years! im in to that then atleast I can budget out for gas :) Take all the extra money that the state will make on gas and invest the damn money into our economy and such to have government actually MAKE money! that would be a weird concept. Dont give it away invest it...
What kind of high end vehicle are you driving that calls for premium GB?Quote:
Originally Posted by GBMichele
Gas has been consistently between $2.88 and $3.15, most often around $2.92, down here, and I believe Houston has some of the highest gas prices in Texas. I was in Corpus Christi in late May and paid somewhere around $2.50 due to all the refineries in the area. Needless to say, I'm NOT looking forward to my 1,200 mile drive when I move back to Wisconsin from Houston next Saturday.
On a semirelated note, I recall hearing a news story about a half a year ago when I was back home about a certain gas station in the Twin Cities. They offer gasoline as a commodity, meaning, for example, if I bought 100 gallons today at, say, $2.92, I would pay $2.92 for my gas until I went through all 100 gallons, regardless of the current price of gas. They had a person on there who bought about $5,000 worth of gas when it was $0.99/gallon 5 years ago, so he's still paying $0.99 today, while everyone else he knows is paying around $3. Needless to say, I'm jealous.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...072101515.html
Here's the alternative. Give it a year or two. It will come down in price.
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-...6072101579.jpg
I'm STILL waiting for my fuel cell car....I recall BMW was looking to put one out for $50,000 in 2008, but I sincerely doubt Exxon Mobil will allow any sort of reliable fuel cell system on the market, much less allow H2 stations for fueling. Stupid Laws of Thermodynamics making fuel cells so impractical. For now, my '96 Civic still gets better mileage than most cars on the market, but once I get out of grad school, I'm probably going for the diesel Jetta, unless there is a major decrease in the cost/availability of Hybrids.
I hate oil companies. :evil:
$2.76 here.
an '05 Pathfinder. I seriously do get about 2-3 miles per gallon better when I put the premium in. last trip from the northwoods, i was getting 24-25 MPG on the highway. Pretty damn good for an SUV of this size. Before this I had the Xterra, which is smaller and it got horrible gas mileage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Badgepack
cyclone, I know exactly what you're talking about. I heard about it on the news a few months back. Basically, people bought gas at the going rate and have it stored. They go to this gas station to refuel at whatever price they bought it for. As the story below states, some people are still paying 98 cents a gallon for gas because they bought hundreds of dollars worth of gas when it was that cheap....
here is the link .....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12615091/
It's today - about $4.40 Cdn. / US Gallon.
Wow, nice find. I just searched the Twin Cities news stations, I had no idea it made MSNBC.Quote:
Originally Posted by GBMichele
Please send some gas my way - it's at least 3.25+ in SoCal for the cheap stuff.
Keep this in perspective - ask yourself how much a gallon of soda would cost (or replace soda with practically any liquid - including WATER).
I haven't asked my bro-in-law (lives in London) - but its almost twice as much there.
How high would gas have to be before you changed your driving habits dramactically??? Then, and only then, will behavior force change.
i'm thinking it's biodeisel time. Gives farmers jobs, renewable resource. Sounds good to me!
3.25 yesteday. Outrageous!