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Finally Gas Below $3
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$2.99 at Wawa in Cheltenham. Funny thing is, my parents record every prices and such every time they fill up to get MPG (or something like that). My mom's car is about to turn 10, and the prices in the very beginning are like $0.90 a gallon. I wish it could be like that again.
saw $3.01 around here yesterday, but nothing actually under 3 yet. I've never seen it under a dollar, but it was $1.02 when I got my first car in 2001.
Heck, I remember when it was .99 a gallon for regular and that was when I graduated high school in 92. If you think about it that is not that long ago. At least I like to think so.
gotcha. its amazing how much taxes the city adds, but its understandable at times too.
I have to use supreme in my car and for the first time in a loooooong time my fillup was under $50.
Actually I wouldn't mind paying $8 per gallon as long as US would have such a highly developed public transportation system as Western Europe or Japan. And besides, most of that $8 per gallon price is EU taxes but at least you get something out of it.
Deflation. It's a normal when the market tanks.
Enjoy it while it lasts... if we hit a spiral all the money in the world won't buy a loaf of bread.
This reaction, "gas is only 3 bucks!" is the short-sightedness we Americans are always so guilty of.
Hang on to your hats.
I filled up a couple days ago for $3.37 at an Arco in Riverside, near Central Ave and the 91 freeway.
The cheapest I've ever seen gas prices was around 85¢ in the winter of 2001.
Come on cheap gas!!
The cheapest I've ever seen gas prices was around 85¢ in the winter of 2001.
Come on cheap gas!!
Wow, I would have loved to have that!
I've had my license since 1995, and the cheapest I ever saw was $.99 in Salt Lake City.
Generally I was paying around $1.05-$1.10 when I got my license. It was great when my dad would let me use his gas card every now and then.
Why do you have to use supreme? I always thought that a car that couldn't use regular just used premium and supreme was just a scam to get more money. Are there really cars that don't run without super expensive supreme gas?
some cars require it as with motorcycles due to the compression ratios
you dont want the fuel to prematurely ignite due to pressure hence why they have higher octanes
now it is a waste of money if your car is designed to run on unleaded yet you put premium in it thinking its better...its not
The last I checked a couple of days ago it was around $3.45 for regular. If it dropped back to the $1.50 or lower a gallon days I would have to get a 4 wheel drive 3/4 ton 80's Suburban with a 454.
I say go ahead and build massive public transportation systems here but pay for it with the ticket prices for the actual users. Don't make those who do not use or need it pay for it. The other problem with building mass public transportation here is that we have a vast land area with a low population density compared to Europe. The UK is about the size of Oregon with 1/5 the population of the US or 640 people per square mile in the UK compared to 80 in the US. Though in major cities it makes sense and the do have public transportation.
Land area and population data from the following links
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/ctyareal.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108355.html
. The flaw here being if you are driving your car everywhere paying $8 a gallon. Then you are not using the public transportation systems thus you are being unwillingly forced to pay for something of no use to you. And what about people that work on site and have to transport equipment they are already hurt by current prices and many would be ruined at $8 per gallon. Hiking your prices will not work either since your customers also have less money and would not be willing to pay higher prices to offset your costs.
I say go ahead and build massive public transportation systems here but pay for it with the ticket prices for the actual users. Don't make those who do not use or need it pay for it. The other problem with building mass public transportation here is that we have a vast land area with a low population density compared to Europe. The UK is about the size of Oregon with 1/5 the population of the US or 640 people per square mile in the UK compared to 80 in the US. Though in major cities it makes sense and the do have public transportation.
Land area and population data from the following links
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/ctyareal.htm
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108355.html
I'm totally sick of this ignorant US argument. For a start there are very few places in Europe which can truly attest to having "highly developed" public transportation systems. Those which can are mainly urban areas.
At least where I live we've had petrol at around $8 per gallon for some considerable time and the alternatives for my commute are to either go in my car or take a train which costs £16.00 per day. That's the part you guys always forget - the supposedly "developed" public transportation networks aren't necessarily economical compared to going by car, even when the petrol price is high.
It makes me so frustrated to hear Americans complaining about $3 petrol when there are places in the world paying more than double for their fuel. Yes, I know that most of our price is tax but currently no political parties in the United Kingdom stand for an outright reduction in fuel taxes and duties.
I just wish that rather than complaining about your low prices you guys would actually do something about it and buy some economical cars. It shocks me when I watch US car programmes which say that a 2 litre engine is "small". I just don't get why you all need such giant engines and giant cars when your roads are so straight and flat. Surely it should be us in Europe with our ageing, winding roads who require the bigger engines?
Population and population density is really irrelevant when we are talking about day-to-day stuff, velocityg4. I'd only be willing to travel so far each day to get to work (say an hour) and so would most others whether they live in the US, France or Czech Republic. It makes no sense to say that because your country is bigger you require more fuel unless you're a cross country lorry driver or something.
We complain about $3 gas because more often than not we're driving 2 hours round-trip to work everyday. It's a bigger country (as you pointed out).
But yes, we're amazingly wasteful, given the types of vehicles we drive. I've never been able to afford a gas guzzler myself.
$3.09 in downtown Annapolis, MD, FWIW.
It's also because people drive so damn fast on the freeways. I usually try to stay in the right lane and drive 65, but if I ever find myself in the fast lane, I usually go 70-75 just to keep up with traffic but there are still people tailing me and zooming by me as if I was a little old lady driving in the fast lane.
alot of americans complain because it is a significant portion of their income, and consumption patterns are completely different in the US. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/09/business/20080609_GAS_GRAPHIC.html?#tab1
It's also because people drive so damn fast on the freeways. I usually try to stay in the right lane and drive 65, but if I ever find myself in the fast lane, I usually go 70-75 just to keep up with traffic but there are still people tailing me and zooming by me as if I was a little old lady driving in the fast lane.
What the hell? I went to the UK during spring break, and I could NOT believe how FAST they drive over there on the highways! 100+ MPH, I **** you not.
People who drive at speeds like this are very much in the minority here but there seems to be a couple of new cultures emerging. The first is "the speed limit should be 80mph" folks who drive at 80 (the limit is 70). The second are the eco-brigade who drive REALLY slowly in the inside lane. It's incredibly dangerous I feel and I've seen some morons who are driving so slowly that lorries limited to 56mph are forced to overtake them.
I moved to New Zealand last year from the UK and it was a bit of a shock when I went from a country with lots of motorways and a speed limit of 70MPH (although most traffic moves at about 80) to one where the speed limit is 100KPH (62MPH) on all big (i.e. not dirt tracks) roads including the couple of motorways in Auckland (and *NOWHERE* else). Anyway, after a year 100KPH feels plenty fast enough and it does wonders for your fuel economy. Still, petrol is expensive here but not as much as in the UK but even so, I bought a little scooter and commute on that because it is quicker and uses about 1/5th of the fuel of my car.
cheap
well I'm enjoying $2.78 gas down here in San Antonio. if you guys would like some cheap gas, send me a 55 gallon drum and about $150 plus shipping and handling and i'll get that sucker filled for ya. but yeah i certainly hope it keeps going down, i feel bad about you so-californians, where everyone and their mother has like 2 or 3 cars at their disposal. and nice ones too.
well I'm enjoying $2.78 gas down here in San Antonio. if you guys would like some cheap gas, send me a 55 gallon drum and about $150 plus shipping and handling and i'll get that sucker filled for ya. but yeah i certainly hope it keeps going down, i feel bad about you so-californians, where everyone and their mother has like 2 or 3 cars at their disposal. and nice ones too.
As a slight aside, do the prices you're quoting here in the US include taxes? If not, how much does that add? Here in the UK, Petrol (Gas) is still around £1.10 per litre but that includes all taxes.
It really bugs me that companies ramp up prices immediately the cost of crude goes up but don't drop them as it falls
It really bugs me that companies ramp up prices immediately the cost of crude goes up but don't drop them as it falls
Notice how gas prices aren't half, though. At $77 a barrel, gas SHOULD be around $2.50 or so (with overhead from refining, etc.), but it's not because we're getting soaked by the petrol companies and the local stations who don't want to drop it because they're now making a lot of money (notice how FAST they RAISE it when oil goes up, though).
You'd think with all this Wall Street crap, something would change, but it just never seems to until a revolution inevitably comes. People never seem to learn from history. I'm afraid it's eventually going to be 1789 all over again. It's what happens when wealth distribution becomes so uneven with so few hoarding so much of it.