Filled up for $1.78/gallon

[unklekraker]

Originally Posted by MNBoxster

Hi,

$2.14/gal. for 92 octane here in Mpls. yesterday - of course, my Boxster is in hibernation - figures... But, $1.98 for 87 octane which my Passport uses

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

$1.98 for 87...OMG our 87 here are $2.55 per gal. unless you go to USA Gas or World Gas or Arco, we pay $2.15 per gal. or Costco for $2.25 (87) or $2.60 (91) per gallon

[Brucelee]

CA is special, and to think, the nerds here want to INCREASE our gas tax each year.

Thanks loads!!!!!!!!!!

[jmabasa]

I don't get it! Why is gas so much more expensive here in CA?!

[jeffsquire]

Originally Posted by jmabasa

I don't get it! Why is gas so much more expensive here in CA?!

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Simply put: because you guys are crazy out there.

PS. great picture.

[Paul]

Originally Posted by jmabasa

I don't get it! Why is gas so much more expensive here in CA?!

Don't you guys get paid twice as much as the rest of us????

[Perfectlap]

^ disturbing sig

anyhoo...doesn't matter you'll be paying $3+ a gallon by this time next year.
$4-5 a gallon in two years.

The cost of a gallon of gas is rising quicker than the cost of living and rising quicker than the average worker gets in wage increases.

[MNBoxster]

Hi,

Well, everything is relative. It's just that Gasoline prices impact the psyche more than many other things because it represents a loss of freedom - the freedom to go where and when one wants.

Many other everyday items cost waay more than gasoline, some ridiculously, and inexplicably so, but don't spark the reaction fuel prices do. Some examples:

• Mobil1 - $24/gal
  
  Whole Milk - $3.80/gal.
  
  Listerene - $9/gal.
  
  Bottled Water - $8.72/gal.
  
  Starbuck's - $64/gal.
  
  Orange Juice - $4.89/gal. (and rising)
  
  Diet Snapple - $10.32/gal.
  
  Soft Drinks - $7.04/gal.
  
  Pepto Bismol - $123.20/gal.

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

[Perfectlap]

I can do without nearly all of those things...but the engine oil which I only need once a year.

gas is something that you really don't have a choice about. You may save a few bucks by going to different gas stations but if the lowest price to fill your tank is nearly twice what it was two years ago. You are a paying. Or you are a staying home, or taking public transportation (if it shows up, waited 2 hours today).
Everbody else can switch from Starbucks to cheapo instant brand, from listerine to generic supermarket brand, from bottled water to tap water, and make tremendous savings yet still be able to go one with their lives without skipping a beat. Can't do that with unleaded.

[Brucelee]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

I can do without nearly all of those things...but the engine oil which I only need once a year.

gas is something that you really don't have a choice about. You may save a few bucks by going to different gas stations but if the lowest price to fill your tank is nearly twice what it was two years ago. You are a paying. Or you are a staying home, or taking public transportation (if it shows up, waited 2 hours today).
Everbody else can switch from Starbucks to cheapo instant brand, from listerine to generic supermarket brand, from bottled water to tap water, and make tremendous savings yet still be able to go one with their lives without skipping a beat. Can't do that with unleaded.

I just changed cars and improved my mileage per gallon by 50%. Also switched from premium to regular gas, save another .20 per gallon.

In the long run, everyone has alternatives. It is the use of these alternative that has resulted in the drop in demand for oil and the drop in oil prices to under $50 per barrel. Simple economic behavior.

BTW-I will take any bet you want on that gas price you pointed to. Lastly of course, the historic price increases on gas has actually been moderate on a percentage basis. Adjusted for inflation, it has NOT been a large issue for many many years. It appears that the last year was a blip. Of course, you do have to strip out the taxes on gas to see the REAL cost, which in some states is nearly .40 per gallon. So, in the example above, the real cost of gas is likley about $1.40 per gallon. Not bad I think!

We shall see.

Next time, read the article and respond with facts, not hype!

[Perfectlap]

question, when crude was last $50 a drum two years ago, how much was a gallon of unleaded? Now that its back to $50 why is unleaded still a dollar more per gallon than it was two years ago?
Are we going to see a a dollar drop in the price of a gallon of 93?

[MNBoxster]

Originally Posted by Brucelee

...In the long run, everyone has alternatives. It is the use of these alternative that has resulted in the drop in demand for oil and the drop in oil prices to under $50 per barrel. Simple economic behavior... in the example above, the real cost of gas is likley about $1.40 per gallon. Not bad I think!...Next time, read the article and respond with facts, not hype!

Hi,

I agree with what you say and found the article to be very credible and informative.

Gasoline, even at it's recent high was still a very good bargain given cost/mi. or Therms/gal. compared to many other possible fuels. We're just so used to paying a historically low price for it, that the new realities are stinging a lot of people.

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

[jeffsquire]

Originally Posted by MNBoxster

Hi,

Well, everything is relative. It's just that Gasoline prices impact the psyche more than many other things because it represents a loss of freedom - the freedom to go where and when one wants.

Many other everyday items cost waay more than gasoline, some ridiculously, and inexplicably so, but don't spark the reaction fuel prices do. Some examples:

• Mobil1 - $24/gal
  
  Whole Milk - $3.80/gal.
  
  Listerene - $9/gal.
  
  Bottled Water - $8.72/gal.
  
  Starbuck's - $64/gal.
  
  Orange Juice - $4.89/gal. (and rising)
  
  Diet Snapple - $10.32/gal.
  
  Soft Drinks - $7.04/gal.
  
  Pepto Bismol - $123.20/gal.

Happy Motoring!... Jim'99

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Alas don't forget Perrier or other high end water bottles. $10 a gallon. Much more depending on when and where you buy it. Even at Walmart bottled water runs about $3.00 for a 12 pack of half liter bottles. WATER, mind you. Water!! The planet's most plentify resource.

[Allen K. Littlefield]

Ah yes Bruce, the Global Warming (caused by American capitalisim of course) story. A computor model shows that greenhouse gasses caused by US mainly, have made the planet warm up and will soon kill us all. I will bet I could make a computer model that would prove a pig is a steam engine but that wouldn't make it so. G.W. is a THEORY. A cursory course in geology will reveal that the plant has cooled and warmed over the centuries, plates have shifted, mountains have risen and fallen, well you get the picture. The ice was one mile thick over here in the Hudson Valley and the debris it deposited created Long Island. All this without evil characters like Wallmart, Exxon, Wall Street and Enron. How could this be? Maybe the activety of the sun had something to do with it? Nah, doesn't fit the political agenda of the Progressive marxists who hunger for control. This anti american trash is pushed in our high schools and colleges but not everybody is buying it.

Enough of my soapbox, just might be able to get my gas guzzleing taxed 986 out for a spin as the sun is shining and I may need to pick up a few cigars (OH NO not Cigars!!). I may even start installing my nice new center caps. We will see.

986geezer

[Brucelee]

As usual, the science of "global warming" is more complex and less dramatic than the popular press or politicials can handle.

http://www.junkscience.com/Greenhouse/