Gas prices

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Gas prices

July 18, 2006, 12:35:27 PM

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!

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Reply #1 – July 18, 2006, 12:41:48 PM

here in tioga pa tioga counthy it rates from 2.89 a gallon to 2.95 a gallon depending on where you go.

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Reply #2 – July 18, 2006, 12:46:18 PM

In Branso MO I'm paying 2.79/Gal It is still way to much I think.

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Reply #3 – July 18, 2006, 12:55:43 PM

In Grand Forks, ND it ranges between 2.87-3.10. Wish it would go back down to .99 a gal.

Daniel

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Reply #4 – July 18, 2006, 12:57:26 PM

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?

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Reply #5 – July 18, 2006, 01:08:10 PM

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.

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Reply #6 – July 18, 2006, 01:09:43 PM

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In Grand Forks, ND it ranges between 2.87-3.10. Wish it would go back down to .99 a gal.

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

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Reply #7 – July 18, 2006, 01:29:43 PM

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.

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Reply #8 – July 18, 2006, 02:32:26 PM

$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.

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Reply #9 – July 18, 2006, 02:40:14 PM

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.

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Reply #10 – July 18, 2006, 03:05:11 PM

I paid 3.75 for premium here in southern california

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Reply #11 – July 18, 2006, 07:04:47 PM

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.

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Reply #12 – July 18, 2006, 07:24:01 PM

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.

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Reply #13 – July 18, 2006, 08:10:18 PM

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.

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Reply #14 – July 18, 2006, 08:11:50 PM

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.