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Posted by chad thomas on Monday, August 7, 2006 4:25 PM
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I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high. Angry [:(!]

On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked. 

Chula?  What state?

I think he is talking about here in Chula Vista, Ca. Just south of San Diego.

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Posted by vsmith on Monday, August 7, 2006 4:42 PM
 JOdom wrote:

 upchuck wrote:
I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high. Angry [:(!]

On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked. 

 

 
Nawthun Vuhjinya? isnt that just outside New Dehli? Stop at Vrajmohan's 7/11, got the best takeout chicken vindaloo in the region

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Posted by SALfan on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 11:14 AM
 vsmith wrote:
 JOdom wrote:

 upchuck wrote:
I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high. Angry [:(!]

On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked. 

 

 
Nawthun Vuhjinya? isnt that just outside New Dehli? Stop at Vrajmohan's 7/11, got the best takeout chicken vindaloo in the region

Should have used the standard spelling - Northern Virginia.  I grew up "way down yonder in the land o' cotton", and was spelling phonetically to liven things up a little.

Although given today's realities you really can't tell the difference between NoVA and New Delhi . . . or Islamabad . . . or Seoul . . . or Mexico City.  I'll guarantee you can get very good chicken vindaloo here, if you know where to go.

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Posted by caboose63 on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:09 PM
BP Petroleum just had to shut down the pipeline in prudehoe bay alaska a couple of days ago to several leaks in 22 miles of transition pipeline. this means 8% of us olil production will be idled for anywhere from one month to 8 months. regular unleaded could go as high as 4 or 5 dollars
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Posted by Joe the Photog on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:27 PM

While I would expect gas prices to goo higher, I don't know where you're hearing 4 or 5 bucks due just to this Alaskan pipeline closure. Most "experts" I have heard on the news predict ten cents tops.

$2.81 in Lancaster, SC near the Lancaster and Chester Railway station.

 

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Posted by spbed on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 12:31 PM

Here is the latest

 

http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-08T163120Z_01_SP179724_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-OIL-UPDATE-8.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna

 

 chad thomas wrote:
Just curious what gas prices are like around the country (and world) these days. Here in San Diego we peeked at $3.40 a couple weeks back but it has slowly dropped to $3.19.

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Posted by Modelcar on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 2:20 PM

Morning paper indicated our government will make up the difference for us from the Strategic Government Oil Reserve...while the problem is handled in Alaska....So why all the price increases...???

So far minimal here....2.99 to 2.89

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Posted by Gluefinger on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 6:35 PM
$3.19 everywhere in Kenosha, $3.25 or so south of the border.
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Posted by espee on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 7:06 PM

In central Colorado, went from 3.09 to 3.14 for regular unleaded. Diesel jumped to 3.33. Of course the resort areas are higher. It's too bad the oil companies get away with this.

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Posted by Modelcar on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 8:55 PM

....Now this evening I heard on the media of help from Saudia Arabia and Mexico will step up and help our government with the Alaskan shortage....So what's all the big deal of right away price increases....Guess that's easy to answer.  They won't miss an opportunity to add to those great profits.

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Posted by Pathfinder on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 11:16 PM
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I'll never understand why they're so high here, but hey, at least we get it back. It's currently $1.08/L at my local gas station....


Filled up in Quesnel today (day after long weekend).  $1.179/l

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Posted by tatans on Friday, August 11, 2006 6:58 PM
$3.00/ gal. this will be the lowest you will ever see gas and next month when it is $3.75/gal. will be the lowest it will ever be again, then when it is $7.00/gal.,  like it is in the rest of the world, you can say I wish it was $3.00/gal. Try buying a house ! ! ! Today it is$1.24 per litre and soon to be rising.--Say just how did those oil companies manage to make billions of dollars at $6.00 per barrel ? ? ?
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Posted by ndbprr on Friday, August 11, 2006 7:24 PM
$2.98 a gallon at a Shell and Speedway in Ottawa Illinois on the morning of 8/11.  Put every drop in it would hold.
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Posted by Gluefinger on Friday, August 11, 2006 7:35 PM
One of the big reasons costs are so high are government taxes; you'd think they'd reduce them because they're getting such a higher dollar amount now, but I don't believe this has really happened anywhere yet.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 11, 2006 8:47 PM

Hey Chad,

I am down under in Australia.

Would you believe we paid A$1.327 -4c discount voucher .

THAT IS PER LITRE!!!!!

There is 4.5 litres per US gallon(aprox.)

SO 4.5*1.327=5.9715 OR A$5.97 per gallon.

THe exchange rate is A$1= .7666 US

OrUS$ 4.576 per gallon, this is about average but some times up to around A$1.42/litre

Hope this helps your world prices.

Cheers for your post to as it helps us realise we are all sufferring with high fuel prices to some extent

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Posted by solzrules on Friday, August 11, 2006 8:49 PM
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Hey Chad,

I am down under in Australia.

Would you believe we paid A$1.327 -4c discount voucher .

THAT IS PER LITRE!!!!!

There is 4.5 litres per US gallon(aprox.)

SO 4.5*1.327=5.9715 OR A$5.97 per gallon.

THe exchange rate is A$1= .7666 US

OrUS$ 4.576 per gallon, this is about average but some times up to around A$1.42/litre

Hope this helps your world prices.

Cheers for your post to as it helps us realise we are all sufferring with high fuel prices to some extent

Garry0281  

YIKES!!!!  I hope they hurry up with the hybrid 4 x 4 pickup truck! 

You think this is bad? Just wait until inflation kicks in.....
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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, August 11, 2006 9:32 PM

....Gentlemen....You can not compare gasoline prices here in the USA to European or even Austrailan prices as the tax structure is totally different....They pay for much different services than we do here...It's apples and oranges.

Price just as I came by one of the stations I deal with within this past hour was $2.84 / gal. Plenty high...In fact they are getting us to the point now when it dips below the 3 dollar mark, we feel wow.... we're getting a bargin.  Brain washing.

Yes, and to the comment of a post above of 6 dollar crude...and the oil companies making a good profit...I'll relate to remembering crude prices / bbl in the 3 dollar plus margin and we all know oil co's used to make plenty of money.

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Posted by BR60103 on Friday, August 11, 2006 10:55 PM
Toronto area prices have dropped in the last 2 days from about 1.07/l to .97/l (with variations).  What gives?

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Posted by wjstix on Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:05 AM

 Gluefinger wrote:
One of the big reasons costs are so high are government taxes; you'd think they'd reduce them because they're getting such a higher dollar amount now, but I don't believe this has really happened anywhere yet.

Actually one of the problems the US faces is that it's gasoline tax is so remarkably LOW compared to the rest of the world. As gas prices continue to rise (as they will - we're reaching peak production right about now, meaning that we've used about half the world's petroleum, and what is left is going to be deeper / more remote / harder to refine etc. than what we've already used was) places like Europe that used high gas taxes to create an excellent infrastructure of mass transit - especially rail - to fall back on will be doing OK. In the US in many areas we're going to see major problems in the years to come. As one European diplomat once said, 'all America's problems could be solved with a fifty cent a gallon tax on gasoline' !!

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Posted by Chris30 on Saturday, August 12, 2006 12:57 AM

Let me just say this... I've started counting the minutes Wink [;)] that I have to work each day just to pay for the gas that it takes to get me to and from my 34 mile daily round-trip commute. Gas is @$3.30 a stinkin gallon (and rising) from those oil companies that cry poor and then post record profits (surprise!!). My truck gets @20 miles to the gallon... $5.61 a day, $22.44 a week (I usually only work four days in the summer(14 weeks-hint))... Grand total=$ 1,380 a year in gas just to get to and from work. That's great! (<--note the sarcasm-->) I have to work just to get there and back.

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Posted by rvos1979 on Saturday, August 12, 2006 1:30 AM
 wjstix wrote:

 Gluefinger wrote:
One of the big reasons costs are so high are government taxes; you'd think they'd reduce them because they're getting such a higher dollar amount now, but I don't believe this has really happened anywhere yet.

Actually one of the problems the US faces is that it's gasoline tax is so remarkably LOW compared to the rest of the world. As gas prices continue to rise (as they will - we're reaching peak production right about now, meaning that we've used about half the world's petroleum, and what is left is going to be deeper / more remote / harder to refine etc. than what we've already used was) places like Europe that used high gas taxes to create an excellent infrastructure of mass transit - especially rail - to fall back on will be doing OK. In the US in many areas we're going to see major problems in the years to come. As one European diplomat once said, 'all America's problems could be solved with a fifty cent a gallon tax on gasoline' !!

Pretty interesting, also gets more interesting when one sits down and breaks down where the money goes.  On average, about 23% of the cost of gas goes for federal and state taxes.

Of note around here, Wisconsin Governor Doyle has repealed the minimum markup law for gasoline with ethanol added to it, causing prices at certain stations to drop sharply.  At the time the story hit the papers, Badger State Ethanol's gas pumps in Monroe Wisconsin were selling E10 gas for about $2.80/gal, and E85 was seling for about $2.13/gal.  It should be noted that the gas pumps are only several hundred yards from the ethanol plant itself, and BSE has a blender's permit to make it's own E10 and E85.

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Posted by spbed on Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:18 AM

Paid $2.89 for regular yesterday in Austin TX

 

 chad thomas wrote:
Just curious what gas prices are like around the country (and world) these days. Here in San Diego we peeked at $3.40 a couple weeks back but it has slowly dropped to $3.19.

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Posted by Modelcar on Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:20 AM
....Adding 50 cents of tax to gasoline would be dissipated out in various directions especially into politicians pet projects or slipped into a budget somewhere to "balance" and a very minimum getting to where the original intent was hence doing little or nothing.  And of course we'd have the lower and mid income scale of folks being hurt even more by the added cost....

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Posted by eolafan on Saturday, August 12, 2006 8:52 AM
Paid $3.13/gallon for regular here in Aurora yesterday, which I noted was about ten cents a gallon lower than was being charged up in Hartford, WI the same day...go figure!
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Posted by broncoman on Saturday, August 12, 2006 9:54 AM
Wow that's pretty scary that CA isn't the highest for gas.  Paid 3.05 in Sacramento area yesterday.

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Posted by Rick the Railroader on Thursday, August 17, 2006 3:55 PM

Well let's see in Kentucky in the 100mile area I go to alot I've seen gasoline as high as $3.19and as low as $2.71 a gallon but around London/Corbin, Ky usally around $ 2.80 a gallon. Doesn't that sound like someone's price gouging to you.

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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, August 17, 2006 4:23 PM
...........Muncie, In: 2.79    Noted crude was down around 70 dollars a bbl today so it should be dropping some....I will check a bit later in town this evening for the latest price.

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Posted by n012944 on Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:32 PM

In the northwest burbs of Chicago I paid $3.19 today, it has gone down a couple of pennies the last couple of days.

 

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Posted by eolafan on Thursday, August 17, 2006 7:45 PM

 eolafan wrote:
Paid $3.13/gallon for regular here in Aurora yesterday, which I noted was about ten cents a gallon lower than was being charged up in Hartford, WI the same day...go figure!

Update one week later and I am back in Hartford, WI and the price I paid today here was $3.13, about ten cents less than it was here a week ago today.

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Posted by Gluefinger on Thursday, August 17, 2006 8:00 PM
Almost very station is $3.09 except for one I found at $2.99.

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