Joined: Sep 16, 2004 Posts: 4452 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 7:47 am Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
Gas stations have got to be losing money selling gasoline. Its still $3.99 here. These are all Kwik Trip stores in my area. I filled up last night thinking today was the big jump. _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 2472 Location: South of Atlanta
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:50 am Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
I wonder if there is not some sort of "pressure" to let it stay where it is through Sunday night? I'm going to be in hoarding mode so i can get about 15-20 gallons for my new scooter coming next week. I always write the price I buy at on the plastic jugs for fun.
My guess is they want to get though the 4th weekend then all hell is going to break loose.
Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 4381 Location: Minneapolis, MN
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
AirlinePilot wrote:
I wonder if there is not some sort of "pressure" to let it stay where it is through Sunday night? I'm going to be in hoarding mode so i can get about 15-20 gallons for my new scooter coming next week. I always write the price I buy at on the plastic jugs for fun.
My guess is they want to get though the 4th weekend then all hell is going to break loose.
Joined: Sep 08, 2005 Posts: 750 Location: Atlanta, GA
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:47 am Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
ReducedToZero wrote:
!!!!$$$!!!
we're at 4.79 in San Luis Obispo, CA...
#%@!
I bet you'd be in favor of a price equalization law in the US, huh?
Until we're enlightened enough to do that, you might want to move to someplace a bit cheaper. I, for one, would like to know where that extra dollar of profit is going... _________________ Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide...
...and the meek shall inherit the Earth!
Joined: Jun 02, 2008 Posts: 375 Location: Midwest City, Oklahoma
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
Most of the cheapo stations here in Midwest City OK. are at $3.76 for regular. They are the stations that have the stickers proclaiming "Up to 10% ethanol". All the top line stations, Shell, Texaco, Volero are around $3.89. This was yesterday, the last time I was out. Who knows if it has goine up today???
But I use 93 octane in my vehicles. My truck because it pings on 87 and 89. My motorcycle because it had a sticker on the tank stating "minimum octane 91". 93 at Sinclair (there is only one station in all of Oklahoma City that has 93) goes for $4.29. _________________ "Better give me a lotta lumps, a whole lotta lumps!" Pete Puma, circa 1952
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5905 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
The cost of filling up, for some, passes $100:
An S.U.V. with a 30-gallon tank would cost $123 to fill up at Saturday’s average price.
Quote:
At $100 for Tank of Gas, Some Choke on ‘Fill It’
By CHRISTOPHER MAAG
Published: July 6, 2008
With gasoline prices high and rising, a new financial milestone has arrived: the $100 tank of gas.
Bryan Carisone, a heating and air-conditioning contractor in Raritan, N.J., “absolutely loves” his new GMC Denali XL, an extra-large sport utility vehicle with televisions built into the leather seats. But in June, one week after he bought it, he pulled into a station on a near-empty tank and watched the total climb higher and higher — to $109.
“It just about killed me,” Mr. Carisone said.
For decades, the $100 barrel stood as a hypothetical outlier in doom-and-gloom conversations about future oil prices. And nobody could even imagine an American family paying $100 to fill the tank.
But the future is here. Oil passed $100 a barrel in January and now seems headed toward $150 a barrel. Gasoline prices surpassed $4 a gallon on June 8, stalled for a while, and have been rising again in recent days, setting a record Saturday.
NY Times _________________ It's already over, now it's just a matter of adjusting.
Joined: Apr 16, 2008 Posts: 120 Location: Western PA, USA
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:23 pm Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
Quote:
Families that were accustomed to the convenience of sport utility vehicles are having to cut back as well. Colleen Hammond of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, loves packing her three kids and all their soccer gear into her 2000 GMC Yukon XL. But she hates paying $160 to fill the 38.5-gallon tank. Last month, she parked the Yukon in her driveway and borrowed her friend’s Toyota Land Cruiser.
“I don’t know if it gets better gas mileage, but I like her car because it costs $100 to fill it,” said Ms. Hammond, 40. “I think $100 for a tank of gas is cheap now.”
This lady must be dumb as a door nob to assume that because it costs only $100 to fill the car, it must be better and cheaper, not realizing that the car that she borrowed probably doesn't hold as many gallons.
Quote:
Mark R. Price, founder of the Illiana Hummer Club in the Chicago area, owns three Hummer H1s, which get about eight miles per gallon. “A lot of our members won’t travel 70 miles just to support a parade anymore,” Mr. Price said. “People wait for something a little closer.”
Ok, this just bugs me. If you can afford such a pricey car, you can definately afford the gas. Or is that what America has become for these bozos;living beyond their means. That good old credit crash that is happening should solve that problem quick.
Joined: Oct 25, 2004 Posts: 1331 Location: Stalag 13
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:38 pm Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
Forney2008 wrote:
Ok, this just bugs me. If you can afford such a pricey car, you can definately afford the gas. Or is that what America has become for these bozos;living beyond their means. That good old credit crash that is happening should solve that problem quick.
I don't want to go off topic in this thread, but I will say this: Most Americans have been surviving on borrowed money for quite a while now (bank loans, credit cards, home equity atm-style mortgages, etc). Just because they drive a nice car or live in a big house doesn't mean they can afford it. Chances are, they can't. _________________ Now why didn't I think of that?
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Joined: Sep 16, 2004 Posts: 4452 Location: Southwest WI
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2008 8:53 pm Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
Gasoline still stuck at $3.99... Hasn't budged for weeks now. Thought it would have jumped a week ago. _________________ "Oil is going up because we use too much oil, and the capacity to replace reserves is dwindling"
-President Bush 11/07/07
Posted: Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:15 am Post subject: Re: Another Gasoline Record
frankthetank wrote:
Gasoline still stuck at $3.99... Hasn't budged for weeks now. Thought it would have jumped a week ago.
The quiet before the storm. Gas has more solidly hit 14 SEK/liter here in Sweden. Many go on vacation on monday, so the gas companies scramble to make a buck (sarcasm).
14 SEK/liter would be about $8.90 a US gallon. Still cheap. _________________ "We cut the earth until it bleeds, rain ashes from the sky
Just to make a light that no one can see"
-- VNV Nation - Carbon
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