Gas Prices what are they where you live, work and play?

[TurboOne]

Bill, sounds like San Diego, we have added just 20 miles of new freeway in last 15 years. For this big city. Crazy.

Tim

[Anonymous]

89p a litre = $6 a gallon give or take. I find it hard to believe its much cheaper in Switzerland?

Funny that these prices have not made much impact to the introduction of SUV's in UK aka 'Chelsea Tractors'.

I just filled up at $2.25 for 91 (which does not translate as the octane is measured differently UK to US - sort of like 94 ish/4 Star)

All the major manufacturers selling in the US make more economical vehicles, they do not sell them here because nobody would buy them. Have yet to see Ford advertising the Ka or Fiesta here.

And size? Well my parents carted us around in a Ford Anglia, could park that it the back of my wife's truck.

All I see is vehicles getting bigger. Current price levels will make litlle change, well except a lot of hot air.

[grandpopswalt]

Not so sure about all that Boiler. I just read that a leading stock trading firm is projecting oil to peak at about $105 USD very soon. That translates to about $4.00 a gallon for gasoline. I think that is certainly going to make a dent in SUV sales. And it will probably bring on a round of inflation as the cost of everything goes up because of increased energy costs. I hope they're wrong, but I don't think so.

Walt

[TurboOne]

They showed today on the news a new gas made out of vegtable oil. Saying more choices need to be made available. Gas hit $2.45 inland, $ 2.60 at the beaches. Premium is closing in on $3.00 but not quite there yet.

Tim

[Anonymous]

I was interested in looking at a hybrid car, but the Toyota Highlander hybrid is $5000 above a regular Highlander!!!!! That's a lot of gas!

[underworld]

TurboOne I think what you saw is what is called biodiesel. It is diesel fuel made from vegetable or animal oil stocks. A diesel can also be run off of waste vegetable oil or animal oil stocks
www.veggievan.org
www.biodiesel.com
www.greasel.com
No problem so long as you own a diesel.....I do!!!!! Nice thing about biodiesel is that you can make it yourself.....no real special, fancy, or expensive equipment......no science background.....if you can follow simple safety precautions....you can make it! Biodiesel has been available in Europe and some other parts of the world for years now.....it is just starting to get in to US markets. Just some more info big oil doesn't want you to know about. Biodiesel is made through transesterification of the oil stocks with just one nasty by product.........glycerin! Which can be used to make wonderful soap. Yep, actual soap......not the crap that they sell us in stores today that they call soap.....which is actually detergent.....great for washing your car.....but not yourself. Around WWII the oil rendering industry realized that they could make a lot more off of their glycerin from the explosives manufacturers than from the soap manufacturers. That's also why you keep seeing ads for "soap" (detergent) bars with "added moisturizers" like aloe or vitamin E or something like that......because detergent has the nasty ability to dry out your skin. All pollutants are reduced by using Biodiesel compared to petroleum based diesel fuel with the exception of elevated levels of N2O. There are technologies developed to reduce the N20. There are some people....mostly at home experimenters....... woking on further "cracking" of BioDiesel to refine a lighter, less viscous, more volatile fuel as a replacement for gasoline. This will likely take very high temperatures and pressures similar to cracking crude oil into gasoline. Think of the boost to the economy that this would be. We could take all of the farmers in the country that are now being paid to NOT farm and they could now be raising vegetable oil stocks (canola etc...) also it can be made, and is made from oil derived from algae....now there is something that is easy to grow! I've been using home made biodiesel as a supplement for almost 2 1/2 years now. I'd be making more but I live in an apartment .

underworld

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[underworld]

Oh yeah....and gas here is down to $2.17!!!!! [:p]

underworld

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[underworld]

BTW, did you know that when the diesel engine was invented it was designed to run on straight peanut oil?????

underworld

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[Capt Bob Johnson]

Fatboys like me better watch out or you guys will be harpooning us on the streets, rendering us, and using us to run your cars. Guess I'd best get on a diet!

[TurboOne]

Capt. Bob, [4:-)] if you see a hummer stop, you better run. [:D][:D]

Underworld, awesome links, and good info. Didn't know that. Haven't seen any biodiesel for sale anywhere around here, just on the tv, but it looked pretty cool.

$2.50 today at most stations., cheap gas is climbing 2 cents a day now. It is up to $2.40 today. Premium is $2.75-$2.90.

Can't wait til CA has its first supply line break, gas will climb 50 cents in 1 day then.

Tim

[vsmith]

$2. 39 yesterday, $42 to fill the beast from almost empty. Metrorail's looking pretty tempting of late.

[Anonymous]

VSMITH
I have an 83 diesel motor home i saw diesel this morning for 2.47 down the road it was 2.37 their will not be to much camping in the mountains this year. and i hold 60 gallons of diesel. ben[:(][:(]

[underworld]

TurboOne You will probably only see biodiesel in your area sold as B20. That's 20% bio with 80% petroluem diesel. I don't know how many stations sell diesel in your area.....about 1/3 of all stations around here (NW Ohio) sell diesel and only one sells B20. In Detroit just about an hour north, there are a few more.

Capt Bob Johnson You only have to worry about us diesel drivers!!!!! [:p]

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[Capt Bob Johnson]

One of the cheaper stations in my area jumped from $1.94 yesterday to $2.14 today

[TurboOne]

Isn't it amazing how gas goes down a penny at a time, but climbs in dimes or more ???

Tim

[TurboOne]

New prices cheap gas $2.45 name brand $2.55-$2.59 wow a dime in one day.

Tim

[Anonymous]

gee i don't know how people buy new cars or trucks 30.000 40.000 i can buy 20.000 gal's of gas at 2.00 a gal!

[TurboOne]

Gas went up another 6 cents today. Gotta love it.

Tim

[Anonymous]

tim
maybe only 10.000 gals.

[TurboOne]

Gas went up another 4 cents today, $2.52 a gallon where I live $2.60 in main parts of San Diego.

Tim

[vsmith]

I remember back in the 70's during the then oil embargo, some enterprizing people hijacked at gunpoint a fully loaded gas tanker delivery truck, it disappeared, and was never found. Wonder how long before we start hearing stories like this again?

[underworld]

vsmith Or I would be concerned about someone tapping in to a gasoline pipeline. I don't know about the rest of the country but they do exist in Michigan for sure. I used to go to a station in Napoleon, Michigan that always was .15 or .20 cheaper than other stations. One time when I was there I asked how they could be so much cheaper and the manager told me that they were a pipeline station....they draw their supply right from a gasoline pipeline.....no truck transportation costs. Then I think the company got greedy and started charging the same as everybody else.

underworld

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[Capt Bob Johnson]

Don't forget to buy a locking gas cap to frustrate the siphoners!

Around Philly, that didn't stop them, they just took an icepick, punched a hole in your tank and let it drain into a tub and poured it into a can. Big pain in the posterior portion when you were the one they chose to drain!

[Anonymous]

I was a local Gas station that sells Cam 2 racing gas that is 110 octane and is leaded for use in race cars and older classic cars $ 4.00 a US gallon!
I wonder if local motor sports will take a hit in attendence this year?

Locally regular 87 octane is back down from $ 2.29 a week ago to & 1.97 today.

[argilla01]

Here in Belguim we pay for regular € 1.20 / liter ( there are 5 liters in 1 US gallon)
tot ale is : 5 x 1.20 = 6 € per gallon . Abouth 5.80 dollars / gallon
Any questions so far ????

[underworld]

carpenter matt The 110 octane stuff has been well over $3.00 per gallon for a long time. They haven't been hit with quite as big of a percentage as us.


WoooooooHoooooooo!!!!!! Saw gas for $1.99 today!!!!![:p]

underworld

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[TurboOne]

We stabalized at $2.49 for about 4 days. It climbed yersterday to $2.55. I wish it was under $2.00

Tim

[red p]

here in northern IN its about 2.17

[underworld]

Haven't seen it but somebody just told me about $1.98!!! Goin' down!!!!![:p]

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[Kiwi Down Under]

Goin' down?, here in New Zealand its $nz1.30 a litre, thats $5.85 gallon., and your complaing ???????? The only advantage is that being a small country we can drive ( provided we catch a ferry between the 2 major islands) to one end to the other on 3 or 4 tanks of petrol.


Tony