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A.J.
10-25-2008, 06:50 AM
$15 to fill up my Ford Explorer the other day. Woo hoo!!

~Katja~
10-25-2008, 06:53 AM
$15 to fill up my Ford Explorer the other day. Woo hoo!!

is it a 5 gallon tank?
a fill up on my car still costs me over 30some bucks

A.J.
10-25-2008, 07:02 AM
It's regulation -- whatever the hell size they are: litres/gallons.

RAAMONE
10-27-2008, 06:14 AM
2.13

is it seriously going to be under 2 dollars soon....nice

OGC
10-27-2008, 06:38 AM
2.13

is it seriously going to be under 2 dollars soon....nice

but how much does heating oil cost now ?

RAAMONE
10-27-2008, 06:41 AM
you know...i was wondering that...my new apt uses heating oil and this is the first time i've had it...how does this affect heating oil...i havnt gotten a bill yet so i have no idea what the price is like

~Katja~
10-27-2008, 06:46 AM
you know...i was wondering that...my new apt uses heating oil and this is the first time i've had it...how does this affect heating oil...i havnt gotten a bill yet so i have no idea what the price is like

good luck with that. I am glad that my house entirely runs on Electric. With energy efficient appliances and all I have been able to keep my monthly bills around 100 bucks a month summer as winter.

Dougie Brootal
10-27-2008, 06:47 AM
2.62 here this morning.

Knowledged_one
10-27-2008, 06:58 AM
I actually cant wait till i have to fill up again

E85 is now down to $1.65

scottinnj
10-27-2008, 08:58 PM
you know...i was wondering that...my new apt uses heating oil and this is the first time i've had it...how does this affect heating oil...i havnt gotten a bill yet so i have no idea what the price is like

Heating Oil is averaging $3.20-3.40 a gallon.


A 500 gallon tank (like I used to have) will cost well over a thousand dollars to fill. Usually your oil supplier will put you on a budget, where you put down about 200 bucks and then pay a set price year round, and you "catch up" in the summer when your boiler is off.

The budget is set on an annual contract, and then the following year, depending on the price, the budget payment goes up or down. Usually up.

PapaBear
10-27-2008, 09:04 PM
It's $2.29 for gas here today. I'm just waiting for the annual hike that always comes around November, that they blame on the increase in the demand for heating oil. When I started delivering in 2002, gas was $1.33.

RAAMONE
11-06-2008, 11:14 AM
1.95

Dougie Brootal
11-06-2008, 11:17 AM
2.39

Aggie
11-07-2008, 10:02 AM
$ 1.99!

I filled up my Expedition for $40!!!!!! At one point it was $70+

IMSlacker
11-07-2008, 10:09 AM
1.99 at the station near my house too. According to the paper, the lowest price in the Houston area is 1.74.

scottinnj
11-07-2008, 07:28 PM
I saw it for $1.93 at a mom and pop station on route 30 in Atco tonight. That's the cash price, and credit was 2.01

Zorro
11-07-2008, 07:44 PM
$2.65 in Queens

tele7
11-07-2008, 07:45 PM
$2.17 at a Gulf in Woodbridge, NJ.

PapaBear
11-07-2008, 07:51 PM
$1.97.

Jughead
11-07-2008, 07:53 PM
1.89 here this evening..I'm Lucky I get gas paid for but my wife is so happy...

cougarjake13
11-08-2008, 09:49 AM
2.13

celery
11-08-2008, 10:17 AM
Why so cheap?

The Ogre
11-08-2008, 04:04 PM
Has anyone explained why folks with diesel engines are still getting assraped on fuel prices? It's running about a buck per gallon over the regular unleaded cost even with the rapid price drops of the last few months. Shit, when I was a kid I remember diesel being the cheap alternative, usually lower in price than unleaded.

TooLowBrow
11-08-2008, 04:08 PM
Has anyone explained why folks with diesel engines are still getting assraped on fuel prices? It's running about a buck per gallon over the regular unleaded cost even with the rapid price drops of the last few months. Shit, when I was a kid I remember diesel being the cheap alternative, usually lower in price than unleaded.

well they have the money for it. all the foods that went up because of 'increased shipping costs' are still expensive, they never went back down

eeroomnhoj
11-08-2008, 04:43 PM
It's 1.99 for me in Virginia. I can't believe it, but I have been convinced that 1.99 per gallon is cheap.

IMSlacker
11-08-2008, 05:05 PM
Has anyone explained why folks with diesel engines are still getting assraped on fuel prices? It's running about a buck per gallon over the regular unleaded cost even with the rapid price drops of the last few months. Shit, when I was a kid I remember diesel being the cheap alternative, usually lower in price than unleaded.

Demand for diesel hasn't dropped as much as demand for gasoline has. Truck drivers can't carpool or take the train to work.

PapaBear
11-08-2008, 08:14 PM
It's 1.99 for me in Virginia. I can't believe it, but I have been convinced that 1.99 per gallon is cheap.
After learning what it's like when gas is high, I'm happy with anything under 2 bucks. There's a grocery chain here that dropped their gas to $1.91 today. They also have a weeklong special. If you buy any 2 of a list of specific items, you'll get 20 cents off per gallon, dropping the price to $1.71.

Syd
11-09-2008, 10:27 AM
Has anyone explained why folks with diesel engines are still getting assraped on fuel prices? It's running about a buck per gallon over the regular unleaded cost even with the rapid price drops of the last few months. Shit, when I was a kid I remember diesel being the cheap alternative, usually lower in price than unleaded.

Diesel fuel is basically heating oil, and heating oil demand is rising for the winter seasons.

OGC
11-09-2008, 10:36 AM
Diesel fuel is basically heating oil, and heating oil demand is rising for the winter seasons.

Can you explain why it cost about $1 more per gallon all summer then ?

scottinnj
11-09-2008, 12:22 PM
$1.95 in Millville NJ Super WaWas on Route 49-cash or credit.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:30 PM
In my opinion, the prices should go right back up if Obama shuts down Bush's drilling plan.
Even if they don't drill, threatening to drill seems to help bring the prices down.
But I'm no expert.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:37 PM
well they have the money for it. all the foods that went up because of 'increased shipping costs' are still expensive, they never went back down

Food prices also went up b/c of ethanol. When you start using corn for fuel it makes it more scarce and thus driving up the price of anything else that uses corn. Unfortunately, corn and high fructose corn syrup is used in just about everything in this country (which is why everyone is fat). Not to mention the effect on dairy products, b/c cows are fed with what? Corn.

Don't forget to thank Al Gore for his part in driving up food prices.

On top of it all, ethanol isn't a clean fuel. It takes more energy to make it than is produced by it. You spend more energy making it than it actually produces.
But I'm no expert.

epo
11-09-2008, 12:39 PM
Don't forget to thank Al Gore for his part in driving up food prices.


Alright....prove this claim.

Jujubees2
11-09-2008, 12:46 PM
In my opinion, the prices should go right back up if Obama shuts down Bush's drilling plan.
Even if they don't drill, threatening to drill seems to help bring the prices down.
But I'm no expert.

You can say that again. First of, there is no drilling plan. Secondly, any drilling started today will not produce oil for years.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:49 PM
You can say that again. First of, there is no drilling plan. Secondly, any drilling started today will not produce oil for years.

But the threat of drilling helps keep prices in check. When they started talking about it, prices came down. Obama wants to shut down the whole idea.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:52 PM
Alright....prove this claim.

Gladly...from wikipedia Ethanol Fuel...I don't expect most people to know this, since the main stream media won't cover it. But I know...I'm just a dumb hayseed.

According to an April 2008 World Bank report, biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75-percent.[141] In 2007, biofuels consumed one third of America's corn (maize) harvest. Filling up one large vehicle fuel tank one time with 100% ethanol uses enough corn to feed one person for a year. Thirty million tons of U.S. corn going to ethanol in 2007 greatly reduces the world's overall supply of grain.[142] However, 31% of the corn put into the process comes out as distiller's grain, or DDGS, which is very high in protein, and is used to feed livestock.[143]
Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production to halt the increasing catastrophe for the poor. He proclaimed that the rising practice of converting food crops into biofuel is "A Crime Against Humanity," saying it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.[144]
The European Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns that “the current push to expand the use of biofuels is creating unsustainable tensions that will disrupt markets without generating significant environmental benefits.”[145]

Drunky McBetidont
11-09-2008, 12:53 PM
$2.12 / gallon here in sunny florida at the sam's club.
rock out with your barack out, bitches!

epo
11-09-2008, 12:55 PM
But the threat of drilling helps keep prices in check. When they started talking about it, prices came down. Obama wants to shut down the whole idea.

How about the fact that since the world economy has weakened, the US Dollar has actually strengthened...even though we really didn't do anything economically to earn it.

If you drill...it has ZERO current effect on the market. If the dollar strengthens, it has IMMEDIATE impact.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:55 PM
And to link Al Gore with ethanol...

http://www.foodandfuelamerica.com/2007/10/al-gore-saved-ethanol.html


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2007

Al Gore Saved The Ethanol
With this week's announcement that former Vice-President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change", we're reminded of the Vice-President's long time support for ethanol. In fact, he even saved it.

Vice-President Al Gore
Third Annual Farm Journal Conference, December 1, 1998
http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/speeches/farmj.html

"I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be."

Indeed, Mr. Vice-President, the better-off our environment will be. Ethanol remains a viable solution for our energy security and for our environment. And that's not an Inconvenient Truth!

epo
11-09-2008, 12:56 PM
Gladly...from wikipedia Ethanol Fuel...I don't expect most people to know this, since the main stream media won't cover it. But I know...I'm just a dumb hayseed.

According to an April 2008 World Bank report, biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75-percent.[141] In 2007, biofuels consumed one third of America's corn (maize) harvest. Filling up one large vehicle fuel tank one time with 100% ethanol uses enough corn to feed one person for a year. Thirty million tons of U.S. corn going to ethanol in 2007 greatly reduces the world's overall supply of grain.[142] However, 31% of the corn put into the process comes out as distiller's grain, or DDGS, which is very high in protein, and is used to feed livestock.[143]
Jean Ziegler, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, called for a five-year moratorium on biofuel production to halt the increasing catastrophe for the poor. He proclaimed that the rising practice of converting food crops into biofuel is "A Crime Against Humanity," saying it is creating food shortages and price jumps that cause millions of poor people to go hungry.[144]
The European Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns that “the current push to expand the use of biofuels is creating unsustainable tensions that will disrupt markets without generating significant environmental benefits.”[145]

And Al Gore has what to do with your Wikipedia book report?

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:56 PM
How about the fact that since the world economy has weakened, the US Dollar has actually strengthened...even though we really didn't do anything economically to earn it.

If you drill...it has ZERO current effect on the market. If the dollar strengthens, it has IMMEDIATE impact.

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm not understanding you and you're understanding me. I guess time will tell.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 12:57 PM
And Al Gore has what to do with your Wikipedia book report?

Please see my other post.


FACE

epo
11-09-2008, 12:58 PM
And to link Al Gore with ethanol...

http://www.foodandfuelamerica.com/2007/10/al-gore-saved-ethanol.html


SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2007

Al Gore Saved The Ethanol
With this week's announcement that former Vice-President Al Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will share the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for "their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change", we're reminded of the Vice-President's long time support for ethanol. In fact, he even saved it.

Vice-President Al Gore
Third Annual Farm Journal Conference, December 1, 1998
http://clinton3.nara.gov/WH/EOP/OVP/speeches/farmj.html

"I was also proud to stand up for the ethanol tax exemption when it was under attack in the Congress -- at one point, supplying a tie-breaking vote in the Senate to save it. The more we can make this home-grown fuel a successful, widely-used product, the better-off our farmers and our environment will be."

Indeed, Mr. Vice-President, the better-off our environment will be. Ethanol remains a viable solution for our energy security and for our environment. And that's not an Inconvenient Truth!

You are quoting a blog, which makes the leap of a 1998 Al Gore speech to a current situation.

Don't you think the conservative world is trying a little to hard to blame Al Gore for things?

epo
11-09-2008, 01:01 PM
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I'm not understanding you and you're understanding me. I guess time will tell.

I'm fully understanding the fact that you believe that threatening to drill in an area...but not having done it yet somehow affects the current oil market. With OPEC threatening to "drill less" in recent weeks to raise prices, this only goes to prove they don't give one single shit about our drilling threats, and in fact don't take them seriously.

To believe this myth is to not understand how the market works.

To look at the strength of the dollar on the world market is something that we can actually track, rather than a mythical threat that nobody takes seriously....except for Fox News.

FezsAssistant
11-09-2008, 01:11 PM
You are quoting a blog, which makes the leap of a 1998 Al Gore speech to a current situation.

Don't you think the conservative world is trying a little to hard to blame Al Gore for things?

The conservative world isn't blaming him. They should be.
By the way, what on the internet isn't considered a blog these days?
I'll keep adding articles until you're convinced. It's common knowledge that Al Gore is linked to ethanol and ethanol raised the price of food. I guess if you're coming from the perspective of 'my team must always win regardless of right or wrong, then you'll never be convinced.

I know, I know, I'm just a hayseed.

He cast a vote in favor of it:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/22/will-media-remember-gores-1994-tie-breaking-vote-mandating-ethanol

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Al_Gore_Jobs.htm
Supports ethanol subsidies & “farm safety net”

Vice President Al Gore maintains that “it’s well known that I’ve always supported ethanol. I have a consistent record of shoring up the farm safety net.” Gore, who as vice president cast a tie-breaking vote in 1994 against a proposal Senator Bill Bradley sponsored to cut tax incentives for ethanol fuel, adds that “I have not ducked when votes for ... agricultural interests were on the floor.”
Source: Sustainable Energy Coalition, media backgrounder #2 Nov 18, 1999

FROM MSNBC...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12743273/
Grist: How about the other big, new contender, ethanol?

Gore: Cellulosic ethanol. Different from corn-based ethanol. I think it is going to be a huge new source of energy, particularly for the transportation sector. You're going to see it all over the place. You're going to see a lot more flex-fuel vehicles. You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process -- that makes the energy balance uniformly positive, so you can regrow it and it does become, in a real sense, renewable. You may also begin to see a new generation of fuel cells that run on cellulosic ethanol, where you can grow your own electricity. I think it's going to play a huge role.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21699
On his presidential campaign trail late in 1999 and in serious need of at least some farm votes, Al Gore boasted to a Midwest audience that it was he who had cast a tie-breaking vote in 1994 against a proposal by New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bill Bradley which would have cut tax incentives for ethanol fuel. “It’s well known that I’ve always supported ethanol. And I have not ducked when votes for … agricultural interests were on the floor.”

I can keep going if you want, but I'm getting tired.

epo
11-09-2008, 01:38 PM
The conservative world isn't blaming him. They should be.
By the way, what on the internet isn't considered a blog these days?
I'll keep adding articles until you're convinced. It's common knowledge that Al Gore is linked to ethanol and ethanol raised the price of food. I guess if you're coming from the perspective of 'my team must always win regardless of right or wrong, then you'll never be convinced.

A. Let me state that I am not in favor of ethanol subsidies. I think they are a waste of resources. My entire point is that blaming Al Gore is pointless and childish.

I know, I know, I'm just a hayseed.

Stop it. That's a childish thing to say.

He cast a vote in favor of it:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/04/22/will-media-remember-gores-1994-tie-breaking-vote-mandating-ethanol

If you want to play the "he voted for it" game, it will do you no good. Just ask retired Senator Bob Dole how he felt about ethanol. (Link) (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D01E5DF1E39F935A25757C0A9609582 60&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=all). Does that make Bob Dole the cause of rising food prices?

http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Al_Gore_Jobs.htm
Supports ethanol subsidies & “farm safety net”

Vice President Al Gore maintains that “it’s well known that I’ve always supported ethanol. I have a consistent record of shoring up the farm safety net.” Gore, who as vice president cast a tie-breaking vote in 1994 against a proposal Senator Bill Bradley sponsored to cut tax incentives for ethanol fuel, adds that “I have not ducked when votes for ... agricultural interests were on the floor.”
Source: Sustainable Energy Coalition, media backgrounder #2 Nov 18, 1999

Yes, in the Year 2000 Al Gore did support ethanol subsidies and the farm safety net, which are two completely different issues. The one at hand is the the ethanol subsidies...which was the prevailing thought at the time...with two end goals:
1. Cleaner energy
2. Reduce dependence on foreign oil.

What are our two goals of energy today? Gore may not have been perfect, but at least he was on to the right goals.

FROM MSNBC...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12743273/
Grist: How about the other big, new contender, ethanol?

Gore: Cellulosic ethanol. Different from corn-based ethanol. I think it is going to be a huge new source of energy, particularly for the transportation sector. You're going to see it all over the place. You're going to see a lot more flex-fuel vehicles. You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process -- that makes the energy balance uniformly positive, so you can regrow it and it does become, in a real sense, renewable. You may also begin to see a new generation of fuel cells that run on cellulosic ethanol, where you can grow your own electricity. I think it's going to play a huge role.

And what is the problem with cellulosic energy? If anything this is showing the scatter-shot illogical reaction to Gore that you have. By this answer in 2006, Gore is showing an evolution in his thoughts about corn-based ethanol.

http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=21699
On his presidential campaign trail late in 1999 and in serious need of at least some farm votes, Al Gore boasted to a Midwest audience that it was he who had cast a tie-breaking vote in 1994 against a proposal by New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bill Bradley which would have cut tax incentives for ethanol fuel. “It’s well known that I’ve always supported ethanol. And I have not ducked when votes for … agricultural interests were on the floor.”

Once again, that was his stance in 1994 and his campaigning in 1999. That viewpoint is different than his view in 2006, that you provided. There are literally hundreds of other politicians of both parties whom have more to do with ethanol subsidies than Gore's tie-breaker in 1994.

I can keep going if you want, but I'm getting tired.

Seriously, there are plenty of people to blame for the current state of fuel and ethanol problems in this nation. But to simply point at Al Gore and scapegoat is childish and stupid.

Syd
11-09-2008, 03:33 PM
Can you explain why it cost about $1 more per gallon all summer then ?

Diesel is more energy-intensive to create. The price of energy had skyrocketed along with oil, so diesel suffered from that too.

OGC
11-09-2008, 03:52 PM
Diesel is more energy-intensive to create. The price of energy had skyrocketed along with oil, so diesel suffered from that too.

After I asked the question I did a little research and found (http://www.edn.com/blog/1470000147/post/560027656.html) that the main reason for the high price of diesel is high world demand, especially in china and europe.

epo
11-09-2008, 04:00 PM
BTW, Al Gore wrote an Op-ed in today's NY Times. The opinion piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp) includes a 5-point plan for tackling climate change...and nowhere does he mention ethanol.

Find somebody else to blame.

OGC
11-09-2008, 04:37 PM
BTW, Al Gore wrote an Op-ed in today's NY Times. The opinion piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp) includes a 5-point plan for tackling climate change...and nowhere does he mention ethanol.

Find somebody else to blame.

Sorry, I'm boycotting the Times because they didn't mention Ron and Fez in and ad. :down:

foodcourtdruide
11-09-2008, 05:37 PM
BTW, Al Gore wrote an Op-ed in today's NY Times. The opinion piece (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/opinion/09gore.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&hp) includes a 5-point plan for tackling climate change...and nowhere does he mention ethanol.

Find somebody else to blame.

wtg epo

drjoek
11-21-2008, 07:58 AM
Just bought gas here in CT 196.9!!!!

RAAMONE
11-21-2008, 08:00 AM
1.79

Dougie Brootal
11-21-2008, 08:02 AM
1.94

OGC
11-21-2008, 08:08 AM
$1.85 the other day.

Aggie
11-21-2008, 08:10 AM
$1.74

I'm scared that this isn't going to last.

JPMNICK
11-21-2008, 08:13 AM
$1.74

I'm scared that this isn't going to last.

stock up now while you can!

RAAMONE
11-21-2008, 08:15 AM
$1.74

I'm scared that this isn't going to last.

just as long as it lasts through winter...i was scared to move into an apartment with heating oil...right now its actually alot cheaper than electric

scottinnj
11-21-2008, 05:41 PM
$1.74

I'm scared that this isn't going to last.

SHHHHHHH! You're gonna roon it!

ahhdurr
11-21-2008, 05:57 PM
Here's a little story: I had cash on me a few days ago and said "$40 regular" and the pump stopped at 28.70 and I was on "E" at the getgo (so to speak).

It was a good day.

You know it can't last though. Anyone have a link to getting one of those water cars?

IamFogHat
11-21-2008, 07:00 PM
Who ever thought you'd think, "It's 1.83, and I'm scared."
Fucking weird times we live in, prepare for the end times. Shirley must be thrilled.

topless_mike
11-21-2008, 07:04 PM
filled up today at 1.49 CASH in clark on westfield ave.
credit was 1.57.

wheeeeeee

Houston
11-21-2008, 07:05 PM
I think I might just go for a long drive to celebrate. And when I say, A long drive. I mean A LONG DRIVE.

sailor
11-21-2008, 07:20 PM
timing worked out great for our trip to boston this weekend.

albo60s
11-23-2008, 07:40 AM
filled up today at 1.49 CASH in clark on westfield ave.
credit was 1.57.

wheeeeeee

When are they going to resume the football glass giveaway to draw people in?
Or how about checking the oil & cleaning the windshield?
Humming "Too Much Monkey Business" by Chuck Berry here.

Fez4PrezN2008
11-23-2008, 07:45 AM
I have started getting car washes again since the price dropped. When it was > $3/gal, I was like f-it, not getting a car wash, but now the gas stations are probably going to make some profit because people freed up to do a little more side stuff like this.

slim jims and bad coffee is where the real money is at.

Jujubees2
11-23-2008, 08:01 AM
Here's a little story: I had cash on me a few days ago and said "$40 regular" and the pump stopped at 28.70 and I was on "E" at the getgo (so to speak).

It was a good day.

You know it can't last though. Anyone have a link to getting one of those water cars?

You mean a car that can run on water? Isn't that a boat?

scottinnj
11-23-2008, 05:18 PM
What gets me mad about this is NJ never had E85, and with the price of gas going down, looks like we never will.

I was sure that when it was over 4 bucks a gallon, someone would have the balls to go up against Corzine and his refinery union buddies. But it didn't happen.

epo
11-23-2008, 05:21 PM
I have started getting car washes again since the price dropped. When it was > $3/gal, I was like f-it, not getting a car wash, but now the gas stations are probably going to make some profit because people freed up to do a little more side stuff like this.

slim jims and bad coffee is where the real money is at.

The irony is that I'll bet the gas stations took a beating with the high prices. Nobody was doing impulse purchases.

scottinnj
11-23-2008, 06:28 PM
The irony is that I'll bet the gas stations took a beating with the high prices. Nobody was doing impulse purchases.

Yeah, I feel bad for the local station owners. They really got hosed, and took a lot of heat whenever the media would show their priceboards on the evening news.

ahhdurr
11-23-2008, 06:49 PM
You mean a car that can run on water? Isn't that a boat?

*groan*:dry:

scottinnj
11-23-2008, 06:56 PM
Here's a little story: I had cash on me a few days ago and said "$40 regular" and the pump stopped at 28.70 and I was on "E" at the getgo (so to speak).

It was a good day.

You know it can't last though. Anyone have a link to getting one of those water cars?

You mean a car that can run on water? Isn't that a boat?

*groan*:dry:

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa320/solicitouslady/xotopia/funnycars/boatcar.jpg

PapaBear
11-23-2008, 07:32 PM
I'm now completely NOT outraged. Gas is now 30 cents more than it was when I started my job 7 years ago. That's not too bad. Who says a bad economy is a bad thing?

ahhdurr
11-23-2008, 08:29 PM
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa320/solicitouslady/xotopia/funnycars/boatcar.jpg

I give up. :happy:

~Katja~
11-23-2008, 08:36 PM
I give up. :happy:

don't
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Freakshow
11-24-2008, 06:15 AM
I think I might just go for a long drive to celebrate. And when I say, A long drive. I mean A LONG DRIVE.

i'm going Minnesota just for the hell of it. Gas is so cheap I might go twice!

KnoxHarrington
11-24-2008, 06:17 AM
The gas station I usually go to went to pre-paid only because of all the scumbags driving off when gas was above $3/gal, so I pull in to get some gas, and I ask for $20 worth. My tank was at about 1/4 at this point.

I go to pump it -- and it only takes a little more than $15 to fill my tank, so I have to walk back in and get my change, which was kinda cool. That had never happened since they went pre-paid.

biggestmexi
11-24-2008, 06:22 AM
1.65 here so far.

Check this out yall folks.

http://mygallons.com/

PapaBear
12-17-2008, 01:11 AM
F*#K!!!
So, OPEC announced possible production cutbacks yesterday.

Why have the prices at the pump gone up 10 cents a gallon in one day? The oil prices haven't gone up yet!!!

Dougie Brootal
12-17-2008, 05:42 AM
F*#K!!!
So, OPEC announced possible production cutbacks yesterday.

Why have the prices at the pump gone up 10 cents a gallon in one day? The oil prices haven't gone up yet!!!





mine went down from 1.61 to 1.59.

Misteriosa
12-17-2008, 05:43 AM
filled up the tank today :faint:

the gas was $1.89

cougarjake13
12-17-2008, 02:59 PM
1.57 per gallon on todays fill up

JerseySean
12-17-2008, 03:46 PM
1.42 here

scottinnj
12-17-2008, 08:38 PM
F*#K!!!
So, OPEC announced possible production cutbacks yesterday.

Why have the prices at the pump gone up 10 cents a gallon in one day? The oil prices haven't gone up yet!!!




You're surprised at this point?

underdog
12-17-2008, 09:03 PM
When I drove to work on Tuesday at 10am, the gas at Cumberland Farms was $1.63. At lunch, it was $1.57. When I drove home at 8pm, it was back to $1.63. When I drove to work on Wednesday at 10am, it was still $1.63. When I drove home, it was $1.58.

This gas station has been changing basically every single minute for the last two months.

cougarjake13
12-18-2008, 05:15 PM
1.42 here

lucky you