So whats eveyone paying for gas these days? Here in Calgary its about $105.9 a liter or dam near $3.90 a gallon or so! Isn't it getting crazy. Funny thing is...here in Alberta we are considered an oil and gas super power, apparently we have the second largest oil reserves in the world with tha tar sands and yet as Canadians we pay so much for fuel:confused: I believe our fuel taxes are somewhere near 40% added to the price...freakin government!
here in tioga pa tioga counthy it rates from 2.89 a gallon to 2.95 a gallon depending on where you go.
In Branso MO I'm paying 2.79/Gal It is still way to much I think.
In Grand Forks, ND it ranges between 2.87-3.10. Wish it would go back down to .99 a gal.
Daniel
Paid $3.19/gal this morning for premium for the '83. *shrug*
The Middle East is becoming more of a mess and last I heard, crude was trading at almost $80/barrel....so what do you expect?
back in the late 80s early 90s i seem to remember prices for a barrel of oil around 18 bucks! and gas prices were a third of what they are now! now it would cost me around $90 to fill the bird, the chev truck that just got wrote off has a 128 liter tank...thats freakin near $140.00 to fill.
Lol, when I used to live out at Grand Forks AFB gas was still $1.50.
Out here in Cheyenne we are paying about $2.83, but that is going to go up next week with all the tourists coming into town for Frontier Days. It usually jumps about $.25-.30 for that week and a half, then it settles back down.
I heard last week on the news that Cheyenne had the lowest prices in the country, though Im not sure thats true anymore.
As far as those tar sands and oil shales up in Canada, I think that pumping the oil from them is profitable at something like $30 a barrel, and its already over double that. If Canada were to just start flooding the market with their oil at even $40 a barrel, OPEC would have to drop their prices a lot to keep us buying their oil.
But Im not an economic buttstuffyst, I just can tell you how to build a rig to pump the oil. :D
Its quite different than pumping oil from the ground with the oil sands as there are no rigs required just heavy equipment to haul the sand to the refinery and the refinery process to seperate the oil from the sand. Its the weirdest thing...we have had to build towers in that area before and the oil is literally oozing out of the ground in some areas. We have to work that area in the winter months usually because of this fact...very messy and of course there is muskeg from hell up there. I have a pic from my pipeline days in the 80s of a CAT 270 track hoe buried up to the hand controls after being parked on the muskeg rather than the rip-rap log pad that was built for the equipment to park during the night,needless to say that 3/4 of that hoe is still in the ground as it could not be taken out(welder removed the arm and the top of the cab and the company got rid of it like NOW and we were all told shhhhh!. If the environmental folks only knew yikes. The pic is non digital but i will try and scan the pic and post it.
$3.10 a gal for 87 octane.
Put $10 in the tempo and got 1/8 of a tank it would cost me $80 to fill the thing. I remember when I started driving it would be $15 to fill the little 12 gal tank in my LeBaron.
Were at about 2.75 a gallon. It can get down to 2.70 some places. Oh well. I will keep buying it so I am doing it to myself.
I paid 3.75 for premium here in southern california
87 octane: $3.25
89 octane: $3.34
93 octane: $3.48
It hurts! At least my work commute is only 12 miles each way.
Today I put 75bucks in my bronco didn’t even fill the 33 gallon tank paid 3.19 for 87 best price I found commuting around long island today at rt.112 and LIE E/B service road Exxon. Every where else is 3.20’s & 3.30’s.
What really sucks is my commute to my real job is 76 miles round trip at lease I have a four banger for that (91 Nissan) but still 25-28 MPG is 3gallons that’s 10 bucks just to go to work, not including the tunnel which I try not to take its 4 buck one way. If the bridge is screwed up and I have to take the tunnel both ways now its at 18 bucks.
It's at 116.2/liter here ($4.42CDN/US gal, or $3.88USD/gal). I filled the Volvo today: $75. In a frickin' 5-cyl.
They are doing so weird/stupid things around here as far as prices go. They'll jack up premium by a lot to save a penny or two for the people using regular....so you'll see prices like 3.17 for regular and then 3.40-3.50 for premium! I just had to buy a supercharged car didn't I? OH well....another thing that ticks me off is that all this stuff happening in the middle east is affecting prices because of, as CNN put it "psychological distress". So why are we paying more here if there aren't any rigs or pumping station being blow up? Whatever...I'll keep paying for it as long as I'm still able to pay for my car, my apartment, insurance, and my tools....and the occasional Cougar parts. ;)
Last I heard, news about a month ago in Kuwait gas is about .82 cents a gallon. And they still drive little cars
If gas was 82 cents a gallon here id have duel carbs on my bronco w/a 460 in it and not a care in the world.
Oh wait gas was around 1.00 a few years ago good thing I didn’t do that.
Here in West Lafayette, IN it is 2.81 at this one store for both 87 and 89 octane which is kinda cool...but that was yesterday so probably at least 2.90s or 3s now
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/
I'm moving to Venezuela whos with me.
I'm not sure what gas is around here, havnt been to the gas station in over a week, i've got 1/8th of a tank left, I can last a couple more days :D
Gas has been around $3.25-ish for 93 here. Prices like that make me wish I didn't live 35 miles outside town!
Not me. You'd have to give up a lot of your 'freedoms' that you enjoy in this country if you moved there. Not worth the trade-off if you ask me.
I don't look at gas prices. I need gasoline. I have to drive. I have to pay for it.
Do. Not. Care.
2.89 for reg here, but I was in Hobbs, NM yesterday and saw gas for 2.56....wtf? That was at different stations too. Let's see...get a tanker truck....fill it up.......haul azz back across the state line.......sell it for a nickel less than anyone else.......make a killing......probably get tossed in jail......last part ruins the whole scheme.....DAMMITT!
I just read an article yesterday that predicted oil would be over $100/barrel by the end of this year.
So everyone strap in. We're being taken for a ride. All the while, Achmed in his palace in Kuwait is bathing in 93 octane.
If thats the case screw playing the stock market. Im buying barrels of oil to sell later.
Here in rural Manitoba its $1.049 Canadian per liter, to the south its $2.89 per gallon USD, and to the east it $1.14 per liter CDN. I know these prices are rediclusly high, but (gasp) somehow I think we are all getting used to the high prices. What I mean is I still drive the same amount I always did, use my boat more then ever, and still hit the trails on my ATV. But when I write off fuel expences at the end of the year (I'm a contractor) its very shocking.
I think the oil companies are wanting us to get used to high prices. Remember when a buck a liter was unthinkable? Now it's the norm across Canada. I think it'll be a long, LONG time (probably never) before the price goes below a buck again...
87- 2.99
89- 3.19
92-93- (.20cent hike) 3.39
And of course, my baby likes the 3.39/gal 20 bucks today got me 5.5gal.
Gas is cheap in Venezuela because they have one of the largest oil reserves in the world. 2/3 of all oil used by the U.S. during WWII came from Venezuela.
The downside to moving to Venezuela would be the py pay wages. That is IF you could even find a job. They have a huge unemployment rate.
You know it, man. I'm dreading having to fill up the t-bird for CJ for the first time in over a year. I can't even remember if the timing is advanced, but I'mma put 93 in just to be safe. Ugh...
Well, I only pump sunoco Ultra 94 into my bird so i'm constantly paying atleast 1.18 a litre... But like Ifixyawata said "I gotta drive so I don't care"... besides when your car drives like a toy you've gotta be ready to pay to play... :D
Here's the part that's gonna kill me.... my t-bird has a big 22 gallon tank, I think. My neon, which I've been driving exclusively for the past year, has only a 12 gallon tank. Take, also, into account that I'll have to pay about .20 more per gallon. I think the sticker shock will knock me over.
You know what’s real funny when I started driving and gas was less than a dollar a gallon I remember guys paying 3.50 or 5.00 a gallon for CAM2 and I was like man that’s expensive, and they would complain how they wish there car was built for pump gas. Well that’s what where paying now, and CAM2 is between 10 and 12 dollars a gallon depending where you get it.Sucks to be them now