$2.09 is a good deal for regular here in San Francisco.

kikahead beat me to it.... too freaking much! I have to use premium $2.29! And going up every day.

$1.83 to over $2.00 in Hamptons, NY

Cheapest price for regular by me is $1.64, averages around $1.70 Hard to believe that on New Year's Eve of 2001 we could get it for $.89.9!!! Ah well, dems were da days...

Oh, forgot to give you location for above prices - New Joisey, of course!!!

I was in Virginia this past weekend and was fortunate to find regular gas for $1.59. I filled up yesterday and paided &1.69 for regular here in Hunterdon County (New Jersey). Way, way too much!

Yikes! Thought we had it bad at $1.49 in SC...

Boston - north suburbs cheapest is about $1.80. Just returned from San Diego a week ago and paid over $2. It is likely more now.

average $1.53 here in Oklahoma for regular.

Go Sooners!!!

$1.81 in the Windy City--ticked me off since is was $1.60 last week...

$2.05 for 87 Octane Shell in San Jose this morning.

$2.059 for regular at a Valero station in Long Beach CA. Then saw $2.139 at a Shell station in Marina del Rey (on the way to my office). Ouch...!!

Eastern shore of Maryland. Discount gas- $ 1.59. Brand name gas- $ 1.65.

I just filled up for lunch and got a lot of gas for free.
Went to Fuddrucker's and had the 2/3# burger with jalapeno cheese, onions, salsa with a side of fries with a "tad" of said cheese and addtl jalapenos.
Atkins who?

Oh....gas for the car?
Nevermind.

The Livermore, CA Coscto gas went from $1.90 to $2.06 in one weeks time!

Utahtea

$1.699 here in the husker state

$1.49 at Sam's Club in New Orleans

$1.79 at the Exxon, the BP, the Shell and the Texaco here in NE AL

$2.09 for regular in San Diego

Here on the Mendocino coast the price of gas when I filled up an hour ago was $2.35 a gallon for regualr - so all of you should consider yourselves lucky!

The high price of gas, however, is not discouraging our annual invasion of Labor Day tourists - they were lined up around the block.

paid $0.829 today!!!!!!! unfortunately I live in Ontario Canada and that is per liter. converting : 1 US gallon = 3.785 liters =$3.14 Canadian per US gallon = $2.27 US (approx) at todays exchange rate

Averages about $1.77/9 here in Southeast Florida

Travis, don't feel bad. In Vancouver the price just dropped 2.5 cents a litre to 89.4 cents!!! That's probably the highest price in North America for regular gas.

Here in the Twin Cities the price jumped 25 cents in one day last week, from $1.55 to $1.80! It stayed at about $1.83 until a couple of days ago, when it has dropped to about $1.75.

$1.59 here in Houston, but any of these prices are still historically very cheap, not sure what the big deal is. Will amount to a few hundred extra $ for gas this year versus $1.00 a gallon. Curious to know how many of the complainers use premium, get less than 20 mpg, have in-vehicle DVD, navigation, tires that need replacement at 12000 miles...

memphis...$1.59..eom

You all should consider yourself lucky. I live in Phoenix and with the last few weeks we had, I'd have killed for $1.80 a gallon. Try paying $3.95 and being glad to find gas available.

Thank goodness it's back to the low $2's.

Oh and by the way that $3.95 is for regular gas. We didn't even have premium gas. I was glad that I didn't end up at stations that were charging $5 and $6 a gallon. It's a strange situation when the gas prices go up by several cents while you are waiting in line.

I guess it's all in how you look at it.

I hope everyone has a nice Labor Day Weekend. Drive safe.

$1.83 in Seattle. Glad I drive a small car. Next car will be a hybrid for sure (much rather spend the money on travel!)

Today it's $2.18 for the lowest gas available (87) at Union 76. For those of you drving from SF to LA... I'm in Pismo Beach.

Hey everybody -- I just took delivery of my new Honda Civic Hybrid TODAY! If it gets anywhere near the 50mpg they say, I can drive from SF to LA without stopping (except for a bathroom break)!

Maui, Hawaii
$2.35 for regular in all but one station saw this morning........one Chevron station posting $2.37

ttt

Right around $2 bucks a gallon - in Milwaukee. I think it's even higher this weekend due to the holiday AND the 100th anniversary of Harley-Davidson. Hundreds of thousands of Harleys in town - totally insane!!

$1.64 in Wharton Texas but i think i'll drive to New Orleans and fill up for the cheaper prices.

1.87 East of Cleveland Ohio
BP

Driving around today in the Boston area, I saw regular gas for a low of $1.73 in Dorchester and a high of $1.97 in Milton.

It's $1.59 in the Orlando NON-TOURIST areas and as much as $1.80 where the tourists are.

As forecast the gas prices are starting to drop as the weekend progresses - at least here in Western Canada. All indications are that this was just a 'make hay while the sun shines' enterprise of the gas companies. By this time next week or even by Tuesday the prices should be back to early August rates.

It's $1.60 for the most part on I-81 between Winchester and Harrisonburg, VA. Some stations in Harrisonburg have it for $1.559.

Marilyn - You've got class, lady!

I'm looking at the new 2004 models, and they should be out soon. Will have to have dealer install the sunroof still though. Let me know what you think of your new ride! I'm a current 4-Runner and Rav-4 owner.

Happy, Low Cost, Enviro Friendly, Trails,
Paul

$1.52 generic outside Raleigh NC; $1.69 in downtown Chapel Hill, NC -- everywhere in between in Durham, Cary.

I cant wait to get to the 'tourist areas' of Florida next week when we arrive from Scotland and pick up an 8-seater mini-van.

Over here, our gallon is approx 1/5th larger than in the US.

We are paying $5.04-$5.15 per gallon, and the Scottish Highlands and Islands see prices of $6.

Bring on the Florida prices !!

Brian - who'll be tankin' up the gas and not caring about mpg for 14 days in the Sunshine State.

$1.61 a gallon Chevron ORLANDO, FL

Zurich, Swizterland and we pay US$4.50 a gallon. We also have the best public transportation in the world.

Thanks, Paul! I encouraged my DH to get rid of his 4-Runner. I told him the villagers were on their way with lit torches (not too far from truth since we live in the SF area). He got a Subaru Outback and LOVES it.

Let me correct my mileage boasting: Apparently I can drive from here to MEXICO on one tank of gas (650 miles!).

Does anyone know why gas is always SOOO much higher in the SF area than elsewhere?

Sachse, Texas... NE of Dallas.
8/30 - 1.46 a gallon at Sam's Club (members price)

So wipe off those tears. Here in Denmark we pay 8.50 kroner per liter,
that is 4,65 us dollars per gallon. This is one of the reasons why we love to go on roadtrips in the states every summer.
By the way, we also has some crazy taxes for buying cars. What would you say to 180% for a new car?
A volkswagen Jetta with a 1.6 liter engine is about 37000 dollars.

(clutching heart and wallet....)

Southeast Kansas: $1.67/gal.

Here in Montgomery County, MD it's up to about $1.85.

I live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. This weekend gas had jumped to 77.5 a litre. That is approximately $3.10 a US gallon

In Los Angeles last week, the cheapest I could find in Western LA for 89 was $2.23 and I ended up paying $2.39 near the airport to fill up the rental car yesterday. What a pleasure to return to Naples, Florida and fill up my car at $1.67.

Has the price started to drop now that the week-end is almost over?

Sure enough, checked my local station this afternoon and the price of gas has dropped from 1.89 to 1.81.

Hasn't gone down here yet (CT)--$2.13/gal for premium. In Ogunquit ME over the weekend, $1.97 premium.

$1.39 - $1.49 at QT in Atlanta area
elisha

Gas price -- $1.69 per gallon in central Kansas. I thought that was outrageous until reading some of the other posts...

It happened again today. The price dropped to 1.75 from 1.89 on Monday.

1.49 right now in Laurel, MD @ 7-11

!!!!!Greenville, SC - BJ's Warehouse Club member price - Drum roll please....$1.34......

$2.65 in Trencin (Slovakia)
But
the beer is cheap
But
you use up several tanksful getting there

Just thought this old thread was interesting.
Current price in San Diego $2.51 regular

Sacramento CA.
$2.40 cheapest in town.....

All I can say is thank God for mineral rights....and natural gas.....

Two gas stations just outside town had a price war today...gas got down to $1.88 throughout the day. People were driving miles out of town to grab a tank at low prices!

$2.29 is about the cheapest in West Palm Beach. I can't believe the prices we were complaining about when this thread started.

Filled on the way to work this morning -- $2.099. Fortunately, the chain we use has 5 cents off/gal coupons that I find on a local Web site. And for each 8 gallons, they give a sticker worth 18+ cents (8 stickers = $1.50 off). Those two discounts make a difference.

On my way into work this morning (North GA) I noticed gas prices were $2.06-$2.09. The station I use was 2.08!

Boston area today avg. $2.20-$2.25

Right now 5-6-05 7:30am regular is $2.70 in Eureka Ca.

GP

I paid $2.249 for 93 OCT in Laredo, TX on 24 April.
I have to convert from liters to gallons and pesos to USDs, but I paid about $2.60 for 92 OCT Pemex Premium last Friday in SMdA.
M

I just spent $42.00 to fill up my 99 Infinitym I-30....WOW!!!!!!!!! that is the most ever!

NannyJan

$2.53 for regular unleaded in Orange County, Ca. yesterday. Cost me $36.00 to fill up my Mazda MPV minivan...need to get a smaller car ver soon!

Stop whinging ( joke)it's about $6.80 per gallon here in the UK. It cost me about $90 to fill up my Audi A3.

Western Massachusetts - between $2.08 and $2.28 per gallon...5/6/05

2.06 - 2.08 in Glen Burnie, Maryland, the cheapest I've seen this week. The best gas prices in MD!

Mid- Michigan is $2.23 for regular. Was surprised to see my old post to the top this morning. It is interesting to compare.

It was $2.35 a gallon in SW suburban Chicagoland for regular. I can get it for as little as $2.07 but my older Saturn only likes the Mobile and had a fuel injector replaced last year with cheaper gas.

About $3.30 for a US gallon size here in Ontario Canada.

It was $2.56 a gallon last I checked, here in Reno,Nevada.
What is it on Maui? Anyone??

Lori

$2.25 Orlando (glad I started working from home)

Nobody's mentioned Chicago yet....I paid $2.45/gallon this week.

When the VW Jetta tanks (which will likely be soon because it's nearly paid for),I'm going for a hybrid, too. Although a friend of mine just purchased a Ford Escape and said she was disappointed in the gas mileage the first week she got it...

Does anyone here have a hybrid? What kind of mileage are you getting?

This morning here in Las Vegas the station by my house (one of the cheapest) was $2.32 for regular unleaded; the average price around town is about $2.45. Yikes. Am heading for California this weekend so I'll be sure to fill up at the cheap place by the house and pray for comparable prices in So Cal. to get home on.

$2.60/gallon Bellevue WA; $2.80/gallon Premium. (Near Seattle)

I filled up my car today. In the Tulsa area it is $2.01.

This morning at Costco outside of Portland, OR it was $2.39. The regular stations around us are about $2.45 or so.

Arco in Redwood City, CA was $2.53 yesterday for regular unleaded.

Ouch. My sympathies to our west coast friends. In southern Minnesota the price is $1.95 to $1.97.

as of 5/10 2.09 in metro detroit, but it's the insurance that really kills here

$2.58 for regular unleaded in Irvine, California (Orange County). It's actually come down a little-last several weeks it was running around $2.65. There are a few stations in the $2.45 range-just never see them when I am ready to fill up!

whoaa... i never gasoline price will go that high.. sigh, what's happening to the globe.. hope to hear from you guys... wizenhill_rein
@yahoo.com

it is scary...I just began working from home and am amazed at the amount of money saved just from gas.

Reno, Nevada Last night 5/10... $2.46
Whooo Hooo, it's come down a dime, in a week!

Here on Kaua`i, Chevron for regular:
$2.67 in Kapa`a
$2.71 in Princeville

It's one of the categories in what we call "the price of paradise"!

The price of gas is the embarrasment you get when other people smell it.

Thought it would be fun to top this old thread. Oh to find gas for ONLY $1.89. In Mid-Michigan it is up to $2.65 this week-end.

Wow! You guys in the US don't know how good life is. I just paid 98.9c a litre at last fillup in Ontario and it's 99.9/litre in most places here. At 4.4 litres/gallon, that makes it over $4.00/gallon here. But that's CAD, which would put it at just over $3.00/gallon USD. If the math is wrong - someone please correct me.

I'd better start looking at dates when I open these...I was ready to move when I saw the first posts...then caught the dates!
This morning at our local Murphy/WalMart about 20 miles east of Ft. Myers gas was $2.51, and it was close to that in Ft. Myers yesterday.

When I filled up yesterday, it was $2.67 here in San Diego.

saharabee, I believe it takes 3.79 liters to make a gallon. But your math comes out close enough. Something more like $3.16 US per gallon according to today's exchange rates. (By the way, it is no longer .75 for a Canadian/US exchange rate.

2.79 wailua shell, 2.50 pmrf. can get $.04/gal off every tuesday in hanamaulu shell if you're patient. not sure what the price is up near otsukas warehouse, usually within a 3 to 4 cents from kapaa.

I live in Austin, TX and I filled up this morning for $2.40/gallon. That's with a $.06/gallon discount coupon, so the real price was $2.46. That's an all-time high for me, in the US anyway. I keep reminding myself of the $6.00/gallon I was paying while traveling in the UK a couple of months ago. We are still lucky here in the US.

Rochester NY $2.539 for regular

Patrick,

Sorry - I was using the UK gallon of 40 oz (ours) not the US gallon of 32 oz so you are right. As for the exchange rate - that was 5 minutes ago - LOL!

Anyway, it all just seems so arbitrary. Point in fact. Seven years ago when I was in Newfoundland for my folks 50th wedding anniversary, gas was about 45 cents a litre here in Ontario and about 82 cents a litre there. Now it's close to 1.00 here and just over 1.00 there. So how the heck does the price per barrel of crude explain the difference? Double the price then - close to the same now? Maybe I need to go back to school and get my MBA. No wait, I can't do that and pay for gas too!

I paid $2.74 a gallon on Friday in Huntington Beach, CA. Some places in San Diego are close to $3.00 a gallon.

Recently returned from a 3.5 week cross country road trip (trip report coming soon!). The most we payed for gas was $3.19 in Lee Vining, CA (just outside of Yosemite). Gas did account for a major part of our travel budget this year but it was still worth every cent!
But on average, it was around $2.50.

At COSTCO in Azusa CA 2.579

ARCO in Arcadia CA, 2.669

Just went on a little road trip:

Barstow, CA: $2.83 gal
Las Vegas, NV: $2.63 gal
St. George, UT: $2.39 gal

As the Four Yorkshiremen in the Monty Python sketch kept repeating -"Looxury! Sheer looxury!" Here in Canberra I've just paid AU$1.139 per litre, which works out at US$3.22 per US gallon. I think...

In a few years' time we'll all be looking back on this and sighing "Those were the days". The upside is that sales of large SUVs here have at last started to slide. One day it may even be safe to drive into the local supermarket car park just after school finishing time.

$2.49 in Iowa this afternoon.

Just look it up if you find prices interesting:

http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/gdu/gasdiesel.asp

http://www.fuelcostcalculator.com/

NeilOz - I know I'm not the only other person here that's a fan of the Four Yorkshiremen. "We lived in a paper sack in the middle of the road..."

Right on, TripleSecDelay. "And you tell the yoong people that nowadays - and they won't believe you!"

My wife has hair-raising stories of growing up in a family of 10 children but objects when I label her the Fifth Yorkshireman.

$2.74 in Medford, Oregon for regular unleaded.

Or go directly to a national source:

www.flyingj.com (truck stops in all states but Wisconsin)

I paid $2.34.9 in Des Moines IA this morning and $2.59.9 in Omaha NE this evening for the same grade, looks like it went up .10 just today, because it was $2.49.9 in Omaha yesterday.

p.s.

Oh yes, I know darn well how lucky we are to have cheap gas in the USA, folks everywhere else in the world pay a lot more than we do, some almost double.

What gets me is that nobody I know is cutting back on the driving, they are cutting back on frivilous stuff like eating out and buying home electronics.

$2.65 today for 87 oct. For Sale signs in the Avalanches, Escalades and Suburbans. TG my new Camry gets 33 miles to a gallon. (I traded in a Park Ave).

Ranges from $2.39 to $2.65 within a 7-mile radius. What FROSTS me is that the stations up the price on the day that new prices per barrel are announced, even though they bought the gas they have weeks ago if not months ago. Some of that oil is not even on the ships yet! Windfalls for the whole food chain right up until the final consumer. No incentive to anyone but us to develop alternative fuels or fuel-efficient cars -- do you know what the waiting time for a Prius is now?

When Bush starts paying for his own gasoline there might be an incentive!

My German friend told me gas is around $8.00 a gallon there and a lot of that price is taxes! Geesh, we have it easy.

The Boston Globe reported that gas prices have topped $3.00 on Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard.

I saw $3.09 for premium yesterday in Santa Cruz, CA, all other grades were 10 cents less than the the one above. It's making a difference in my driving for sure. I'm trying to run at least 3 errands in the same direction when I leave the house.
It drives me nuts too the gas stations up the price as soon as a barrel of oil closes higher. When it closed at $66 a barrel I told my kids that I better fill up before the weekend. By that night my corner station had already raised it 10 cents!

Not exactly sure; I haven't been to a gas station for a couple of hours. It was $ 2.63 at an Exxon on Leesburg Pike near Falls Church, VA this morning.

Converting from liters to US gallons and MXP to USD, I paid $2.68 for 92 octane premium two weeks ago in central Mexico.
M

HKP, I'm frosted with you. I'm sure the prices won't drop as fast when/if prices per barrel go down.

This time last week $2.269 for 87 octane. Today $2.579 (about an hour ago, $2.559 around 7:30 a.m.)

$2.89 in central chicago where I live, with these prices I'm quite thankful I don't have a car.

Live in Canada. Price today is $1.04 per litre. 3.78 litres equal a gallon. So basically it costs 4 bucks a gallon.

sorry forgot to mention Mississauga, Ontario Area. (Close to Toronto)

You know what's really frightening? These huge jumps will extend to home heating oil this winter and here in the GWN (Great White North) where we have what seems like 11 months of winter, this is going to be a huge problem for marginal families this winter.

While pumping yesterday in Atlanta, went from $2.39 to $2.49 for regular between gallon number 5 and gallon number 6. No kidding. This morning, it was $2.59 at the same station. Topped off in North Augusta (SC) today at $2.37 and was grateful.

B/

$2.65 for basic unleaded here in northern California.

About £.90/litre where I live in wales. it's about $90USD to fill the tank of my tank (volvo wagon). and i drive at least 50 miles a day with no reliable timely public transport to my job.

Wow, fairfax! Talk about an expensive commute!

Today it went up to $2.77 here in mid-Michigan. And that's after it jumped from $2.45 to $2.55 just last Friday! Where will it end?

Around here, it's a matter of how much it was this morning compared to this afternoon. A couple of gas stations just aren't posting the price anymore.

Y'know, all the Europeans who keep reminding us how "lucky" we are because they pay so much more are kind of missing the point. It may be true that historically what we have paid may have been artificially low and didn't represent the cost to us ecologically and politically, but on the other hand you really have to look at who's getting the money. And in the current situation, ask who's getting the windfall, as well as who's getting a body-blow from the steep and sudden increase: Truckers, cabbies, and... ta dah ... airlines. Watch this space. If the price of oil levels out within the expected range, travel is going to be an entirely different thing.

Three hours ago, $3.15 at the Chevron located at El Camino Real @ Burlingame Ave, Burlingame, CA. This was the cheapest stuff - I was running on fumes and could have (undoubtedly?) found cheaper within the area.

And our President signed the recent Energy Bill before him without flinching. No need for vehicle fuel usage betterment? No need for alternative fuel research? Hell, no!

Plenty of room for tax breaks/incentives to help big oil companies keep making record profits while disregarding the environment though? Hell, yes!

If ever there existed a time to open our eyes to the collusive pricing of gasoline --- now is the time.

Actually, it was the first time I posted this notion... but it bears repeating.

viamar noted above that Premium Gasoline was/is $3.09 per gallon AND the other grades were the traditional 10 cents less, each.

Ask yourself why the pricing of the three grades is almost always in 10 or 12 cent steps. Why are all brands of gasoline priced in a similarly disproportionate manner?

People like the triplicate of choice and generally, people like items in threes.
Small, Medium, Large.
First Class, Business, Coach.
Home, Office, Cellular.
PSA, TWA, KLM.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
NBC, CBS, ABC.
Red, Yellow, Blue.

It goes on...
Porthos, Aramis, Athos.
Father, Son, Holy Ghost.
Larry, Curly, Moe.
Three Little Pigs.
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria.
Three Blind Mice.
Gold, Frankincense, Myrrh.

When gas was 1.09, 1.19, 1.29.
Which did you buy?

If gas is now 3.09, 2.99, 2.89,
which do you buy?

I'd still buy the Premium grade because my car demands it. Says so in the owner's manual. Otherwise, we get knocking and pinging.

What about me? I remember 39cents per gallon, although I wasn't driving.

I always get regular, always. Saturn is almost 9 years old now.

I don't know what it's like in other parts of the country but hybred ( or is it hybrid?) are in huge demand here, here being Northern California. It used to be a year wait for a Prius but now it's only a 2 week wait, although it's probably more like 3 weeks. I just saw 5 of them on a 3 mile trip on the freeway. For the new Highlander and Lexus hybreds the wait is 2 YEARS! People are waiting 2 years for these cars AND paying $5,000 to $10,000 over MSRP for them. This tells me that these cars are in very high demand. Now why do the automobile makers keep making the same kind of cars over
and over? Why aren't more hybreds available when there seems to be such a market for them?

Thank you Katrina! Gas went up to 2.99 in mid-Michigan this afternoon.

Up $.20 since yesterday. Regular now in central New Jersey $2.75.

Filled up yesterday for $2.67 and today it is $2.97 -- central Wisconsin.

3.18 on the corner of Division and Damen in Chicago. Apparently, according to the AAA survey, we've some of the highest prices in the country, oh joy.

I filled up with bargain (?) gas last week @ $2.78/gallon. It cost $33 to fill a volvo sedan!!

Super $3.09 - Westchester, NY (suburbs NYC).

Here in Minnesota we have a gasoline at most gas stations called E-85. It is made from corn at refineries in the upper mid west, combined with traditional gas, sells for about 30 cents cheaper per gallon and gives the same MPG. Most new cars are certified to run on it. The future of America rests in the heartland.

It was $2.57 for the cheapest at Costco outside of Portland, OR yesterday. I am headed to Seattle on Friday and am dreading the cost!

Not sure if it's the crisis on the Gulf, but our truck driver just called and told us that the station where we fuel our vehicles is advising a 16 cent increase tomorrow.

I drive quite a bit. If I can do without, say, one expensive dinner per month, I can absorb the add'l cost of the petrol I burn here in the states. I also donate a sum of money each year to a charity. I can still donate that amount w/o any change in my household budget.

In Los Angeles, the cheapest price for regular gas today was $2.75 a gallon.

Premium is going for $2.80 in West Palm Beach, FL.

In central Minnesota, the cheap stuff is $2.799 Tuesday night, up from $2.519 Tuesday morning. Guess when I filled up my car? Hrumph.

In San Antonio yesterday I paid 2.54 a gal for the nozzle in the middle--89 octane I believe.

I paid $2.85 for regular yesterday in a northern Detroit suburb. The station a little further down the road was at $2.99.

Monday 8/29 was $2.499, Wednesday 8/31 is $2.799 in the upper midwest. Still glad I drive on Honda Civic!

I live in the Detroit area. I filled up yesterday morning for $2.58 a gallon. This morning gas is $2.99!

Now with Hurricane Katrina I saw gas in Downtown Detroit this morning at 3.09, most places were still 2.89 however.

I heard they are releasing some oil reserves to keep the gas prices from climbing too high. I'm so glad my husband and I carpool to work and own a civic. The higher gas prices can totally change a household budget. I think I"m going to look into one of those smart cars!

New York City - I paid $2.67 a gallon (on Long Island) on Saturday. The new is reporting that gas in NJ (always the cheapest in the area) is now over $3 a gallon.

Here in Belgium we pay 5,7 $ per US gallon of regular gas. The regular gas here is 95 RON. Arent you lucky!!!!!!Paul

Gas in Flint, MI (actuallt Grand Blanc, MI which is near Flint) is up to $2.99. Even higher in the metro Detroit area. Ugh.

Gas in Kansas City reached $3.09 this morning and the news reported they estimate the gas to top off at $4.00 within the next month.

$2.54 in Charlotte yesterday but they were out !! I expect it to go up today.

Average of $7 a gallon in the UK.

For those of you in the UK, is it true that taxes make up a big part, approx. 75%, of the price you pay?

It is true that about 75% of the price we pay at the pump goes into the Governments pocket.

I paid just under $2.60 yesterday, but I have heard some places here in NC have already hit $3.00. I just saw a report that said an expert with the oil industry expects prices to reach at least $4.00. I know people in other countries pay even more than we do, but we have one of the largest countries in the world in size, and things are really spread out here. That's the difference. I didn't worry about it too much when prices got to $2, but it is hard not to feel this when you drive 80 miles a day back and forth to work, and your wife drives 50.

~ $3 for premium in San Diego, CA. Just the ga

Accidentally hit the wrong button; incomplete message was sent.

I was going to type " Just the monthly gas cost is enough for a car payment. Combine this expense w/ our gas and electric bill in SD, it equals a Mercedes E320 monhtly payment!

I am in Southern Michigan and our gas went to $2.99 a gallon last night. I don't know where in mid-Michigan gas is $1.89 a gallon. Haven't seen that in awhile.

St. Louis metro area, reg. unleaded was $2.69 on the way in this morning, and I'm sure it will be higher on the way out tonight.
Thank goodness for the Mini Cooper and a short commute!

$2.71 here in Central New York

I got gas yesterday just west of Boston, for $2.51, and the same station I went by this morning it had jumped to $2.99!

Oh for the days when $1.89 seemed high. That was only 2 short years ago.

The lowest price for unleaded is at our local Arco station (I live near Sacramento, CA): $2.84/gallon. Premium is $3.03.

$ 3.20 per gallon yesterday evening in Milwaukee, WI area

Just paid $2.59 at a Mobil station in Oviedo Fl.

Tennessee has outrageous sales tax, so here it's between $3.00 in rural areas and close to $4.00 in urban areas!!! And that's for regular. Yes, that's per gallon.

Watching local 5 pm news. Now $ 3.30 per gallon is a bargain, dealers are sold out. Tomorrow the prices are going to be $ 3.50 for regular unleaded in Milwaukee, WI.

The highest reported gas price here is currently 3.69 for regular unleaded, the average for the places by me is now 3.50.

Yesterday evening - $2.74
This morning - $3.19
Now - $3.55

In northern Michigan

Since there were 181 responses when I signed on, I didn't read them all, so I apologize if this is duplicate info, but here in Las Vegas the prices are through the roof - $2.83 is about average as of my drive to work this morning. Who knows how much they've gone up since 6:30 this morning ...

What gas? My nearest stations have no gas!!!!

In Santa Cruz CA, this morning $3.05, this afternoon $3.29. Sunday it was $2.73

At 7:45 p.m., I paid $2.86 in North Charleston, SC. At 3:30 p.m., it was $2.45 at the same station. Thought coming back 4 hours later, I'd be okay at the cheaper price but was I ever wrong!

Northern New Jersey, in the shadow of the oil refineries, prices this evening
Regular: $2.69
Plus : $2.79
Premium: $2.89

HOWEVER- WE DON'T EVER HAVE TO PUMP IT OURSELVES!!!!!!!!!!!!

In metro Atlanta, all there is is self-serve gas. The average price is now up to $3.00, not $4.99 (at least not yet!). My boyfriend said that gas stations are price gouging and driving up prices for no reason. There is a bit of a gas shortage, but I guess the gas stations see this as another opportunity to make some extra bucks.

Its up to $3.00 a gallon in NC.There is also a limit to how much you can get..because our state is low.Some stations are out already.

Today, at Sheetz the price of regular is $2.69! They ususally have the best price in PA.

This evening super is now $3.29 - up 20 cents from this morning.

Premium is $3.09 at the BP in Wilmington, DE and $2.99 at the Wawa in Chadds Ford, PA. I am getting old-I remember when I could fill my little Acura up for $14.00...

Old? What's an Acura? I remember when I could fill up the Ford Fairlane with $5 and have change left over for a malt AND onion rings. Borrowing the family car for a date, I'd splurge and put in a dollar's worth.

Tonight in Portland Oregon, a full tank of premium was $3.00 a gallon..$40. for our car.
And we did not have to pump it either

In NJ, next to the Lincoln Tunnel it was $2.69. We have it pretty good, I gather. Needless to say, all the cars heading back into the city were lining up to get the cheap NJ gas! But there weren't crazy lines or anything--it was just a little crowded in the lot.

Up another 20¢ since I posted yesterday morning -- now at $2.999.

$2.79(regular) August 31 N. Myrtle Beach and even higher in other stations. Sure the price has risen today. Wondering how it will affect our Labor day weekend? Will it keep the tourist from traveling

In Charlotte, (where the Governor has instilled wide-spread panic) we are currently being gouged for $3.69/gal. for Premium. (as of last night).

Paid $3.10 US for gas last night in Omaha, NE USA. It cost over $50 to fill up my Jeep Grand Cherokee...OUCH! What ever made me think I needed an SUV???

Last night on the evening news they broke it to us that some staions in Las Vegas are now charging over $3.00 a gallon - for regular unleaded. The stations on the corner by my house in the northwest part of town were $2.79 and $2.83 for regular unleaded this morning.

This morning in upstate (Adirondacks) NY gas was $3.59/$3.69/$3.99

But we're safe and dry and have a place to live...

3.19 this morning in Reno. They were out of regular...lines till 10:00 last night but sold me premiun at the 3.19 price. I don't get the panic, at least in our neck of the woods. I'm sure that there are other stations where it runs more and I'm also sure that it is going to go up more.

$3.09 here in Ohio. Just came back from the other side of St. Louis and it was pretty much the same all the way back via interstate routes with some spots being higher, although I saw none for less. When I began my trip approx. a week ago, it was approx. $2.69 in most places.

Downtown Chicago... paid $3.69 yesterday for premium.... reg. is about $3.49 I'm assuming.

Hayward, California
Gas went up 40 cents yesterday.
Now we are over $3. I couldn't look today, I was just too afraid it was like $3.99 or something.

Just paid $3.09 in Naples for the middle grade -- there was no cheap grade which was supposed to be 2.99. But after sitting in line for 20 minutes to get it, I guess I was lucky. The other two stations between there and my house are now closed -- out of gas.

$2.79/gal in Sunnyvale, CA (SF Bay area) this afternoon. My lifetime high/gallon.

Wow---can't believe that our teensy little middle Georgia town has the worst price gougers---we were paying $2.69 and over per gallon before the hurricane. Now it's around $3.50 per gallon (or was last nght) for premium.

You know that the gas currently in the pumps is already paid for, or at least the price has already been contracted. It burns me up that unscrupulous operators can do this. I'm getting a Segway!

Last Saturday in Little Rock,AR, we paid 2.49 when I traded my Chevy Tahoe, which was getting less than the sticker on MPG in town and the highway. Not great when you love to travel! Got a great deal on the Tahoe. Today, gas in Hot Springs is 3.12. I filled up my new Toyota Avalon XLS and went puttering down the road, getting 23 in town. Kinda wondering if my timing wasn't near perfect with price of gas going up like it is.

$2.99 in Dana Pt., Ca. (regular unleaded)

Tables have turned. I have never before known gas to be cheaper in California than Florida!!

Just filled up this afternoon at my regular Safeway at $3.04. Couldn't see the Arco sign across the street but tonight I went by and noticed it was only $2.82 there. Geez I could have saved $5.00. Now who would say something like "it was ONLY $2.82"? HOw crazy is this?

Doing the math.

Here in Alberta I paid $1.02 a litre Canadian which is x3.8 =$3.86 CND gallon x approx 1,25 for US exchange = between U.S.$4.50 and $5 a gallon. We pay 7 cents a dollar for extra tax so I guess that could subtract 35 cents a gallon. Still so much that I'm thinking next car will be some sort of hybrid. I'm sure my next fill will be over $7.00 a gallon

Scuse me Everitt but you did the math wrong. The Canadian Dollar is worth $.84US not $1.25US. Therefore converted to USD, $3.86 CAD becomes about $3.13USD per US Gallon. Still pretty bad but not quite the same as the $4.50+ you were talking about.

On my way to work today (Thursday), I saw that gas was $2.95 at a station I don't usually go to (an Exxon station), whereas the previous day it was $3.03 at what is usually a cheaper station. So after work I went to the $2.95 station, but it had gone up to $3.09. I went to the cheaper station, where gas was now $3.20, so I went back to the Exxon station. All this is in Rockville, MD. Not only is the gas changing prices once or twice a day, but the cheaper stations are now not necessarily cheaper.

It's hard to believe we bought gas less than a month ago for $2.21 a gallon in West Valley, Utah. That was a dime or two cheaper than in SLC where we were staying.

GaryA,
Thank you. I did that math over and over on my calculator knowing I didn't believe it but not understanding what I was doing wrong. I do actually feel better.

Still think I'll be buying a hybrid or maybe a bike!

I posted on Tuesday night from Central Minnesota at $2.799. Today, it's $3.139.

Tomorrow, who knows?

TO xianthippe:

You make an interesting observation about the price at the usual cheaper stations versus the name brand places.

I've also noticed a reversal whereby my Exxon station is now cheaper than the usual off-brand places. I thought this was strange, then heard on some radio station that there's a reason for this. It seems the off-brand places buy what's left over at the last minute, and since that has now become the most expensive gas, they're forced to charge more.

Of course this whole pricing system is nonsense, since I saw one station raise its rates three times in one day. No way did they receive three new deliveries that day, so there's no logical reason to be raising the prices until they start pumping the more expensive stuff.

3.16 for Regular in Richmond VA and that was 2.49 last week.
I will not be surprised if I go out today and it is higher.

In the 'burbs south of Pittsburgh, PA gas was $2.59 at the beginning of the week. Last night it was $3.19. I'm sure it's going to be higher tonight on my way home from work.

One station in Fort Myers was $3.09 for regular and $3.19 for premium.

$3.10 regular unleaded, northern N.J.

Went from $3.25 yesterday morning to $3.55 back to $3.39 last night in Petoskey, Michigan.

London UK: $6.80. Now stop moaning and get smaller cars!

Last evening in SoCal $2.91 at the cheap(?) station.

I filled my car 2 days ago here in Frederick, MD: $269.9. It's also close to $3 at other gas stations. Haven't checked prices today.

Monica

that should read: $2.69!

David West,
Excellent point about the price of gas in the UK. We've just been lucky for a long time.

Mind you, I still think the gas companies use every & any excuse to jack the prices up. And they don't care about disasters or anything like that.

3.19/ gal in Lynchburg, VA.

Humm... here in Atlanta gas is around 3.00 for regular... I just paid $3.19.

There's a run on the Speedway in town. They DROPPED the price to $2.99 in the last 2 hours.

monica, thanks for making me change my underwear!

I live in a small town in Southern Indiana. Earlier this week I filled up for $2.55 a gallon for regular unleaded. Later that day it went to $2.99 and by the next day it was $3.19. This morning when I left for a work I went by a station that had raised to $3.49. I stopped at the next station that was still $3.19 and filled up. When I left work this evening some stations were $3.19, but others had come down to $2.99.

Raising and lowering the same gas in their tanks during the same day tells me we are getting ripped off.

My husband told me tonight that Premium was $4.09 in Scarsdale, NY. Yikes.

A few days ago I paid $1.04 a litre in Toronto. Today it's up to $1.33 a litre which converts to about $4.24 US a gallon. And $1.33 was GOOD. Many stations were charging much more.

I haven't filled up the gas tank the last few days...have been afraid to see what our cost of gas is. Wonder how long a quarter of a tank will last? Well, guess what I have to do in the next few days?

$2.84 in Pahoa, Hawaii

In NC, there have been fist fights in a few towns when it appears there won't be enough to go around. We get 90% of our gas from the 2 pipelines that aren't operating a full capacity yet. Now, tell me what we didn't learn at Pearl Harbor regarding where our supplies come from-duh-use multiple sources? Never mind that it's been what - 20+ years since new refineries were built. I saw the price at a local Exxon go from $2.99 at 2pm (9-1-05), to $3.09 at 4 pm, $3.29 on Fri morning, and back down to $2.99 Fri night. Wonder if it has anything to do with a local newspaper article Fri afternoon that the county commissioners stated we're being gouged? Hmmmmm.

I believe it has been thirty years since a new oil refinery has been built in the US.

$2.83 for regular unleaded at the cheap station here in Seattle, WA. Don't know about all of you, but my next car is going to be a hybrid. Would much rather spend my $ on gelatos in Italy and flamenco in Spain!

Let me get this straight: You're running out of petrol? Crikey! Surely the New Orleans refineries weren't THAT vital?

I thought the President had released your emergency supply?

Here in central Maine, I paid $2.99 a gallon yesterday and they were changing the sign when I left. The gas station across the street was at $3.09.

The Port of New Orleans is the fourth busiest in the world. The Port of South Louisiana (20 miles upriver from N.O.) is the busiest in the world.
28% of the country's petroleum needs go through those two ports.
Several major oil refineries in the New Orleans metro are shut down or operating at reduced capacity. Mnay drilling platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are damaged and shut down.
The SPR release is a drop in the bucket. Gasoline prices will rise higher before they settle down.
In oil-rich Louisiana, there were long gas lines yesterday and the price was approaching 3$ a gallon.

I filled up here yesterday and paid the equivelant of USD3.69 a US gallon. Oh, here is, Canberra, Australia.

Costco in Portland yesterday was $2.67, which I thought was pretty good considering what I keep hearing. Went to Seattle from there and the cheapest I saw was $2.85 locally, but I filled up for much less on the military base. On the way back to Portland I saw signs for $3.07, bu that was at exits that are basically gas and fast food stops.

Baltimore, Md this am $3.49/gal regular grade.

Seattle, WA $3.49 regular unleaded at an independent full-service station

Just this morning I paid $3/gallon. When I posted to this thread on 8/14 I had paid $2.40/gallon. I shudder to think what it will cost a couple of weeks from now....

Sorry, I forgot to tell you where I live. I'm in a state of sticker shock after filling up this morning. I live in Austin, TX.

I just scrolled up a bit to see Platzman's response to David West. Very well put, Platzman. I work in the oil and gas industry. Until now, I don't think the rest of the world, or even the rest of the US, realized just how important NO is to the oil industry.

Up 47 cents in just one week. $3 in central Minnesota.

I live in Northwest Indiana (just outside Chicago) and gas was $3.36 for regular and $3.56 for premium this morning.

$3.59 for 87 in Reston VA. I was grumbling two days ago when I paid $2.79! Where did I put that bike?

I paid $2.79/gal at the local Costco ( I'm in Southern CA) last night and now that I see what everyone else is paying guess I got a bargain.

#3.09/gallon for regular unleaded this am in the SF Bay area.

I think Maine is topping you all...Portland, ME was $3.67 yesterday. On Main Street in Kennebunk it's $3.49.

Keep that in mind for those fall foliage trips! I paid $2.59 five days ago...

It was $3.05 today in Pinnacle, NC.


Kind of wonder how those guys in NASCAR can afford to operate...........

$2.79/$2.89/$2.99 in central Alabama. A few gas stations have no regular, and I saw one with no gas at all. I'm trying not to look.

Today it is $3.19 for regular.

here in MSP I filled my tank at 3.09(93 oc) regular is going for 2.79.

$2.99 in SE AL, at the stations that actually HAVE gas! Most don't!

Belle

$3.39 for regular on Long Island today, $3.59 in Manhattan.

I don't know how the hell I found this, but today in Honolulu I found a station that had regular unleaded for "only" $2.88/gallon. And no line!

I understand people are waiting 3 hours in line at Costco just to save $1.17. This little station will be my best kept secret.

Well here in Naples I was at Costco the other day and their gas was 5 cents higher than what I paid at the Hess station. Normally here, I find it about a penny or two less than Hess. Costco isn't that big of a deal here for gas.

Most stations here seem to be holding the past couple days at $3.09 to 3.29 for the three grades.

Pittsburgh: $3.19 in my neighborhood, and 3.18 at Sam's Club.

$3.05 in Grover Beach, CA!

$2.99 for regular today in central Alabama. Ugh.

$2.99 to fill up? Blimey, over here in the UK the cost is about $6.50-6.90 Must be about the same in Europe generally. Rapidly growing economies like China and India are becoming oil hungry like the west-so the long term reality is- more people chasing less and less resources, means higher prices.

Here in Adams, MA gas is around $3.23- $3.35.

... holding at just over $3 ... lol, when do the investigations begin. BTW, lets all monitor the oil company financial reports ... predicting record profits. The Ferrari is in the garage until prices recede. Bummer.

Thanks for the laugh, RnRForever. I supposed you're stuck taking the Rolls out this week while the Ferrari is garaged.

San Diego 2.93, 3.03, 3.13

Can't beleive we aren't the highest anymore. And glad we won't need any heating oil out here in Southern California this winter.

We were surprised to find gas cheaper in Manhattan (super $3.59) than in the Westchester suburbs (3.79 - ugh)! There is definitely price gouging going on, especially when the gas tax is higher in the city than in the burbs.

I wonder how long it will take for cab fares to increase?

Baton Rouge, LA -- $2.55 for regular. Gasoline prices aren't our big problem right now. Pray for our city!

Williamsport Pennsylvania:

$3.39 regular - $3.79 super

Decided to top this post since the price of gas here in mid-Michigan briefly dropped below $2.00 yesterday. It's amazing what time will do! Of course prices are now back to about $2.15 for the holiday driving.

Suzie

Just for a little reality check for you lucky people in the US, I moved back to Hong Kong from Switzerland in July. Gas in Switzerland and most of Europe is about $6 a gallon, here in Hong Kong it is almost $7. Please don't complain about $2 a gallon. Of course in Switzerland and Hong Kong they have an excellent public transportation system (and dirt cheap in Hong KOng to boot) so you don't need a car so much, perhaps something you all can think about??!!

$6-7 per gallon? That's because of the tax.

Yes, EXACTLY, the tax is used to pay for public transport, so people don't have to use cars so much, so they don't have to use so much gas, so they don't have to send their young people to the Middle East to defend questionable undemocratic regimes like Saudia Arabia, it's all a circle. . . .

$1.95 in Central Minn.

Amazing what some congressional hearings on record oil-company profits can do, isn't it?

$2.09 in southeast Minnesota.

Cicerone, great reasoning for Europe where distances are so slight. And semi-economic for people who live in cities.
Not all people live in cities, and my European relatives can't afford to go on drive vacations, period. Some haven't seen anything beyond the next few train stations. Your method works for people who live in cities and make good incomes there.

It would have to be $28 a gallon to build enough trains to distance workability in USA continent and in some areas mar/ruin landscape for food/animal purposes. I hear this kind of argument all the time- and it isn't economically feasible over the USA continent. We have DISTANCE- your food comes from DISTANCE. 40 times the trains would never get your food to you.
That's what you don't "get".

What we need is a non-fossil fuel energy source, and not all kinds of rhetoric that doesn't live with economic or physical reality.

$1.39 in northern Minnesota. I must be kidding? Many of us use ethenol, known as E-85, the future of America. We grow the corn and refine it in plants which are owned by local co-ops. the money stays here and makes us less dependent on foriegn oil and the war we are fighting to secure it.

Around 2.48 and we're still charging up our electric car since last week. Sheesh! No wonder we drive the 8.1Litre Suburban so frequently. You press the pedal and it GOES!!

Pis

I use premium. Paid $2.15 today at Getty in NJ.

$1.95 here in lower AL

Belle

My friend coming home from IN yesterday hit $1.94 off I-80 in IN near Portage.

I love when an old post comes to the top like this. Very interesting to see how crazy the prices have been over the years.

$1.99 in Northern NJ, just outside of NYC.

Regular was down to $1.79 last week, but now it's back up to $1.91 in Southern NJ.

To think when this thread started in 2003 people were complaining when it was under $2.

I paid $2.25 today in Oshkosh, WI. We haven't dipped below $2 for at least a year.

Well said StephCar. I was thrilled to pay "only" 1.94 over Thanksgiving in Toledo. Now in mid-Michigan it is again at 2.25. Oh for the good old days?!

We paid $2.13 in Venice, Florida yesterday. Wondering what it will be in central NJ when we visit next week.

Back up to $2.25 in Williamsport PA.

$2.24 for unleaded, but I'm not too concerned about it now. YEAH!!! We did it! We just bought a Hybrid!

It's time for an update since the price went to 2.89 yesterday in mid-Michigan. Of course, it has already dropped down to 2.79 today.

Still pretty high in Dallas--$2.79 in McKinney (suburb).

On a Wednesday...just filled up at $2.48 just before a jump to ten cents higher here in Springfield, MO.
ozarksbill

$2.95, up from the $2.85 it was last week.

And where might that be?

It's interesting to see the changes since the original post! I would LOVE $1.89 gas now.

Here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, we're hovering around $2.80 now.

With the recent strengthening of the USD, I paid $2.67 a US gal for 92 oct premium yesterday.
Pemex now takes CCs and I get a 3% gas rebate.
M (SMdA, Gto, MX)

When I posted 8/15/05 I grumbled about the jump from 2.269 to 2.579. After some ups and downs it was 2.579 last week, this morning it was 2.799. Monday I paid 2.659 while most places were 2.70 and up. All prices are for 87 octane.

During the Katrina shortages the most I paid was 2.999, but prices did go to around 3.30 ish.

Budman, if you question is directed to me... the central Sierra Nevada in California.

And, that is the price for regular... travel_addict, I'm with you. I remember complaining bitterly about the price of gas, not so long ago. Now I'd love to have those prices back!!!

$2.99 for 87 in Miami, Florida
93 over $3.00

In Mountainside, NJ (near EWR) 2.53 reg / 2.63 mid / 2.73 premium at BP across the highway from my office.

$2.78/gallon regular in Old Saybrook, CT (shoreline)

This is why I bring this thread to the top every so often. Sure does make you nostalgic.

In San Diego, yesterday at Costco $2.77 for regular. At my local Mobil, $2.89 for regular.

I just got gas this morning from Chevron in West Palm Beach. It was $2.99/gallon for regular, $3.09 for the middle grade, and $3.19 for premium.

Virginia checking in here....I filled up my tiny 350Z yesterday with premium and it was $40! Ouch......Can't remember the price/gallon....$2 something or other!

At ARCO $2859 (cheapest??? around) but they add $.45 for using a Debit card which is the only non-cash they will take.

SoCal.

This thread is good to bring up again. When I last posted in Dec. I was complaining about $2.25 and how we hadn't seen below $2 in ages. Now, a few months later, I can't remember the last time it was below $2.50--probably last Dec when I posted! Now it is $2.82/gallon. This thread reminds me that we are all accepting the high price of gas as status quo. And to think...just 2 years ago it was still less than $2 but it made headlines.

Oh, I live in Oshkosh, WI.

I can't believe it, but we paid $2.89 last weekend!

$2.94 this morning. Was $2.85 yesterday. It will probably $3.00 by this weekend. Westchester County, NY

$2.70ish/gallon in southwest Virginia

$2.78 today in suburb of Chicago. Last wweek we visited friends in Mason City, Iowa and there it was $2.69.

I paid $2.59 yesterday in North Phoenix.

I paid $2.89 today for 87 octane in Los Angeles, but I saw a gas station charging $3.09 for 87 octane. When will this madness end!

In middle Georgia, $2.79 per gallon. And it won't end as long as we are in thrall to energy--we "need" it and they have it.

I would surely love to see all vehicles retrofitted to run on cooking oil. It's done fairly regularly out west, and if you hit a sympathetic restaurant you can fill your tank up for free! And once we're free of our dependence upon foreign oil, we can let the oilkeepers go back to what they do best---war amongst themselves.

I just returned from 2 weeks in China and, after seeing the recent exponential growth in new cars, trucks, and "city" wealth with the continued expected growth there (and India as well), it's probably delusional to expect a fall in retail energy prices.
However, if Mexico would allow foreign investment in Pemex, the improved infrastructure would produce lots more crude and natural gas - the latter sorely needed here - which would help the US supply.
I'm long on energy and would jump on a restructured Pemex.
M

Here in Belgium we pay 5,4 $ per us gallon. 95 oct.gas(regular in Europe)and it's still going up.Paul

Just paid $3.05 per gallon in Grover Beach, CA.

Yikes!

$2.899 at ARCO (=BP) plus $.45 for Debit card.

2.799 at COSTCO..

Pasadena,CA Area

Just put in ten bucks worth here in Seattle, but that will last me for WEEKS...WE JUST GOT A HYBRID!!! ($2.83 a gallon)

$2.85 in my part pf Florida.

http://www.orlandogasprices.com/Price_By_County.aspx?state=FL

Today I was checking as I drove around. A couple places in Naples still had the cheapest regular for 2.98 or 2.99, but most have passed the $3 mark for all octanes.

Here in Canberra, Australia, the price has hit AU$1.40/litre (regular u/l), which I make US$3.95 per US gallon.

enjoylife, I suspect the madness is only just beginning - new oil reserves will be increasingly expensive to tap and as mikemo points out China's growth rate is staggering - even a casual visit is a massive eye-opener. By 2030 they'll have more cars than the US. Then there's India.

An Australian/UK company wants to land Australian liquefied natural gas in the US, but it seems plans are on hold due to resident protests in California (and possibly large long-term contracts with China executed by the same company).

I read that a trial of LNG-fuelled trucks run by an Australian state government has been successful so far. I'm less convinced of the economics of ethanol, which seems to amount to another farm subsidy.

It all sounds like a good case for greater investment in public transport.

It's at $2.99 here and rising near Chicago.

I do believe that a non-fossil fuel power source will successfully be developed in the next 10 years. But I am disappointed at the real figures on the corn product fuels, they are much worse than I perceived from the present marketing

Public transportation is frankly fairly impossible for at least 75% of the people I know and speak to each day. We live and travel to work all over and for distances greater than 15 miles, and not "to" one or two central work cities/locations. A train or bus system that I could use, for instance, would not be $$$ sustainable. You need sufficient numbers going to/from exactly the same places. We've tried car pooling and this has also bottomed out for the same reason. Our schedules and job locations change too frequently for group use.

It would be great if most of us could work closer to home. And this is also difficult over time with changing job and housing markets.

We bought a hybrid; can't even recalled the last time we filled it up and when we do is never more than $25. I see those Moms driving to the supermarkets on those huge SUV's and have to wonder where have their brains gone....

We have a relatively small car (MB C-230) and a baby on the way. It is amazing to me how many times we have heard, "So, when are you trading in your car for an SUV? How in the world are you going to fit the baby and all the baby gear in that car?" I just figure that we'll get by just like the Europeans do - I mean, they have kids and "small" cars as well and get by just fine!

Anyway, I still feel for folks who have to drive long distances every day (we usually take public transportation as we work in NYC). Sometimes work is just far away and you have no choice. I saw on the TV news that people are pawning jewelry and snowblowers to fill up their tanks. A gas station attendant also told me that someone asked for 50 cents worth of gas - which won't get you much more than fumes anymore! Sad to say things look like they'll get worse before they get better.

Filled up my tank (Honda CR-V) with 87 octane in east Long Beach. $3.039 a gallon. Good thing my baby SUV gets good mileage (22 city/26 highway)!

Things don't seem to have changed much since the this thread was first posted. Here in southeastern Minnesota it is about $2.79.

Last week it jumped to $3.15 in one day, from the $2.95 it was. We drive a SUV, 4WD, so it is really hurting us. We have the 4WD because of our winter driving conditions, but wish it were a smaller vehicle!

Paid $3.09 yeseterday in Lake Elsinore, Riverside County east of LA. The station across the street was $3.11. I was driving to LA and saw a few stations even higher than what I paid.

Orlando area, $2.89 last night...

<<I see those Moms driving to the supermarkets on those huge SUV's and have to wonder where have their brains gone....>>

Some of us brainless moms use our SUVs for winter driving conditions, weekend camping and skiing trips. Oh, and sometimes we need to go to the grocery store.

$2.75 in the Denver metro area.

Paid $3.29 for regular here in San Diego.

And, by the way, I drive a minivan because it seats seven, and I frequently have my friends' kids in the car along with my own. I don't think you can get four carseats into a hybrid or any other car that I know of.

Have a great weekend!

$70 for 3/4 tank today here in Toronto.

Up to $3.19 today, from the $3.15 it was yesterday. Not as bad as poor San Diego at $3.29. Absolutely had to go shopping today. Hadn't been since Christmas, and the warmer weather brings the need for new shoes and other miscellaneous stuff. The nearest mall is 70 miles away. Ouch. Even the grocery is 20 miles. I live in a very rural area.

$3 for premium here in Central Jersey (which is 100% full service! )... I'm smiling @ the service, not the price!

I think people are going to start rebelling soon - enough is enough!

$3.32 gallon regular in Hilo, Hawaii

wtm003~ us Alaska moms also use our SUV's for dangerous winter driving, AND for the fact that the height helps avoid some horrible accidents with moose. The trucks and utility vehicles can still get totaled, but people can walk away.
Conversely, many smaller cars, fuel efficient or not, don't do so well when the thousand plus lbs. of animal comes through the windshield.
So we needn't feel guilty when someone uses the term "brainless", because all conditions in the 50 states are not the same.
I live a few miles from our nearest grocery store up here, and plan my errands accordingly, to save time and money

Here in San Jose area, CA we're at 3.05. We drive a Prius which helps. Although, it wouldn't be good to tang;e with a moose with our car! I can understand having an SUV or a truck in Alaska.

I just drove from Seattle to Montana yesterday. In Seattle, with Safeway card, I paid $2.89. In NW Montana, I paid $2.49 without a discount

<<I see those Moms driving to the supermarkets on those huge SUV's and have to wonder where have their brains gone....>>

Some of us brainless moms use our SUVs for winter driving conditions, weekend camping and skiing trips. Oh, and sometimes we need to go to the grocery store..

I thought the same thing in Florida, so the winter driving conditions were not an issue. There are rarely reasons (IMO) for a family to have a Hummer. . no one needs that many groceries lol..

Gas in Portland Oregon (downtown) this week is around $3.20.

In Fargo ND $2.45 for E-85
$2.85 for old fashion gas.

JJ5,
Amen: I'm always amazed that folks beat up the majors, but taxpayer-supported special interests (the corn lobby, etc.) and inefficiency get a free pass.
Typically, someone else's tax dollars, lol.
M
M

I get gas at Costco..Usually about .15 cheaper a gallon than elsewhere,but right now it's as much as .30 cheaper.
I am STUCK in a sport utility,as I'm on payment 14 of 63..listened to the now ex fiance and traded my car in for the stupid thing.Though "Toyotas run forever", I'd gladly get out of it in a hearbeat and back into a little 4cyl if I wouldn't lose my shirt on the trade in. My current commute is 108 miles a day,and w/o transfer to closer location,I'm already at almost 300/mo in gas and rising fast.

Anybody know how to get out of this car ...legally??

klr6773....

Total it! It worked for my ex in laws on every car they ever owned. Of course, they weren't totalling them on purpose, but it got them out of the car.

Hmmm total it! And then have an accident on your driving record that will increase your insurance premium.
Oh, btw, that is considered insurance fraud, good luck with that problem.

351 posts of petrol costs...this takes the record for the most boring thread i've ever seen on this board!

yep, this is a boring thread.. but I like it better than the thread that I seem to have gotten caught in calling all people getting married for advice. That one I've had enough of. For the thread count.. Gas is totally hurt me here in Southern Marin averaging around $3.10. I'm for it, if it makes people pause and consider their consumption for a a moment. I say that, even as it pinches those bucks I'd rather be spending on wine or almost anything else for that matter!

$3.08 thir morning near Sacramento, CA. Ouch!

$2.88/gallon at QT in McDonough,GA...I now carpool 3 days a week!

If you want a good laugh, go back to the first post, complaining of $1.89 gas back in '03. Oh, how I wish gas was 1.89 now. We'll certainly be around $4 a gal in Chicago this summer, at least briefly. We're already over $3 in some places now and we're still using the winter gas blend and the summer driving season hasn't started yet.

I wish...I so wish....gas were 1.89 for regular.

Here, in SF, gas is around 2.97 to 3.05 I believe for regular.

You can be at one gas station and pay 2.89 or 2.97 for regular gas and RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET gas is 3.15 of 3.20 a gallon. Sigh.

And if you have to use an ATM, the stations can charge you 35-45 cents extra for the transaction....sigh.

$4 today at one station in Santa Barbara

mikemo, The tax payer is not being forced to spend $300 billion to send young men to die in corn fields to secure an energy supply. A better solution and a better future is arriving very quickly. Over one hundred additional ethanol refineries are being built this year in addition to the nearly 300 built in the past few years. Oil refineries have not been built in the US in many years and none are planned. Yet another reason the price of gas is so high.

Ethanol plants are going to eliminate the need for subsidies, build the Midwest (hence America), give the profits to Americans and save America from the middle east and their influence over us. Yes Canada is our main source of imported oil but we do not have to pander to them either. That is why they have been trashing America's ethanol program in the past few years.

E-85 (gas from corn) is not available in all parts of the country yet and may be more expensive than regular gas but in the upper Midwest it is already 40 cents cheaper per gallon. American's jaws will drop when they go to their gas station of choice and see the huge price difference for E-85 on the sign. That's about $8.00 cheaper per fill-up.

..... but is there going to be enough corn.

It will also be a long while before the majority of the vehicles will be able to burn E85. E10 is about all that the vast majority of todays cars can handle at present.

When they had the gas crunch of the 70's they came out with the E10, the prolonged use would destroy the fuel systems of the cars of that day. Its going to be a long time before we as a country will get out of the mess we are in. High prices are here to stay.

RedRock, you made a very good point. American auto makers are getting more competitive now and are pushing E-85 compatible vehicles. I believe it is a great selling point and I hope that their promotional TV ads will focus less on fake looking corn fields and more on American independence and our own renewable resources.

reading about your high gas prices is quite funny.

I live in Denmark.Prices here are 10,40 D KRper litre. which is about 1,72$ A litre which is about 0,22 Gallon..

Forgot part of RedRocks question about enough corn. Supply is always determined by demand. Farms will produce more corn acreage as the demand grows and American farming is the most efficient of any in the world.

What I really hate of late is the price bouncing. The other day it went from 2.79 to 2.95 to 2.83 in about 36 hours.

jorr

Of course supply and demand will take care of the situation, one of these days.

At present there are not enough places geared up to make the stuff for the E10 and E85. This will take time. Right now the stuff is being imported since we cannot make enough on our own. Even if American AG got busy and produced the required amount, which is doubtful, there is nothing we could do with it. Don't get me wrong, I am all for it. It will just take time. Aditionally the price of E85 has risen along with the price of gas. It is no longer the bargian it was. Even if you have a a vehicle that can use it. A good number of the places that dispense the E85 are located on government facilities and are available to the general public.

$4.19 for regular in Brooklyn today.

Took a drive on the NY State Thruway today and traffic seemed to be down about 30 percent. Made for a very nice drive.

Maybe when regular hits $5 per gallon, the roads around here will be fun to drive again.

After much reading about the science of it and also talking to engineers I know, jorr- corn is most probably not going to be the answer at all.

It's just not cost effective. Nor is it clean enough either. And it does have a lobby that is getting a lot of free passes on the tax payer dollar as well.

It's barely a stop gap and we need a different kind of fuel. It will come with innovation as a sustainable market develops. That market will be all those forced out of present gas driving by high costs. It will happen. And you don't get things like that by legislating or rationing either.

It will come out of the private sector and from/of a need- all the best inventions and progressions of human history have. These have not been initiated by governments of the past, but have risen out of economic need and markets.

More and more of us are going to change jobs and locations to jobs too- with the process. Europeans just don't often "get" the distances here make comparisons to their systems apples and oranges.

RedRock, just this morning I drove by five gas stations along a two mile stretch of the I-94 corridor and looked at their prices. Two of them sell E85. At the top of the signs, E85 @ $2.47, next is regular @ $2.87. These gas stations are not "government facilities", they are large corporate stations which hundreds of vehicles use each day in their cross country driving. Distribution may be a problem on the east and west coast but that will change.

There is not enough E85 produced yet as you say, but a major change like this will take place over the next few years until enough ethanol refineries are built. Henry Ford could not keep up at first either.

$3.03 yesterday at Arco in inland north county San Diego.

Henry did a fine job.

I live in the state of Florida and I was wondering if the E85 was available in my local area since I am interested in a one of the new FFV. The answer to my question was no. Only two places listed that it is available. Both are government facilities with no public access. It is not sold in the entire New England area, nor in AL, AR and LA. I saw somewhere that out of the 180+K gas stations in the country less than a 1000 offered E85, and some of those are not open to the public. A couple of years? I would hope so, but I am sure it will take much longer.

http://www.e85fuel.com/database/search.php

Very interesting debate on the corn thing. Driving through Iowa last summer, I commented to my husband that nobody should be hungry when you look forever and all you see is corn..maybe instead of food it could be fuel.
I drive a civic hybrid, so I am happily doing my part. I got an email calling for a boycott of Mobil/Exxon, just buy at other stations, it was a long explanation, but I think a sound one, so I'm passing that along. Power to the People!

$2.89 a gal, yesterday in Northern NJ (Paramus).

Here's an interesting question, to me anyway.

How many bushels (or tons or whatever) of corn will it take to replace each X % of 100% fossil motor vehicle fuel?

And given average yields per acre how many acres will have to be converted to "fuel corn", to produce that number of bushels and how much energy (and water for irrigation) will be needed to produce that corn, and what will be substituted away from to find the acreage to produce that corn?

Its way more complicated than just having a bunch of farmers in Kansas selling their corn to the fuel manufacturers.

I have looked everywhere and cannot find these numbers.

Boycotting Exxon/Mobil stations only hurts the station owner. Exxon does not own them. Yes, they sell Exxon gas but so do convenience stores, etc. Please reconsider boycotting someone who is probably a local businessman in your town.

BDE

I believe your calculations are erroneous.

If the average price of regular gas in Denmark is 10.40 Danish Krone per litre or US$1.77 (1DK=US$0.17) then the price of a US gallon of gas is $1.77 x 3.8= $6.73 not 0,22. (there are 3.8 litre per US gallon)

In Montreal the price of regular unleaded is CDN$1.143/litre or about US$3.83 per US gallon

cheapest gas when i filled up today was $2.92 regular at a citgo in richmond va

$3.26 tonite at the corner station here near San Jose. And I use Premium!

Last night I paid $2.899 for reg. Premium was $3.179. This was on my way to Bloomsburg, the only town in PA.

Yes, I find the US prices hilarious also, as well as the griping -- and the fact that no one complains about the lack of public transportation. Here is Hong Kong it is almost US$7 a gallon, but a least we don't have to pump it ourselves (God bless New Jersey too) and they do clean you windshield while you are filling out the loan applications to fill the tank....

$3.05 for regular here on Long Island.

Doesn't anyone remember who owns the major oil companies like Exxon? Shareholders. Me, you, your parents, TIAA-CREF, the largest pension holding company in the world, etc. "Power to the people"---sheesh.

And--does everyone remember that a significant portion of the price of gas is TAXES????

Spokaneman, "just having a bunch of farmers in Kansas selling their corn to the fuel manufacturers" is very ignorant of you to state. Farmers from the Canadian boader to the Mexican boarder are investing in over one hundred ethanol refineries which will come on line this year alone and add to the hundreds of ethanol refineries which are already producing ehtanol. They don't pull a wagon to some Exxon/Mobile refinery and ask for a hand out. They're investing in America's future and your future.

I have an "interesting question" for you as well. How much American soldiers' blood per gallon is in oil from Iraq now and in the future? If anyone thinks that the war in Iraq has nothing to do with oil supply they are living in a bubble.

Jorr - I think you're going way overboard about Spokaneman's question. As a different poster said: "Very interesting debate on the corn thing. Driving through Iowa last summer, I commented to my husband that nobody should be hungry when you look forever and all you see is corn..maybe instead of food it could be fuel." My question is: if all that corn is turned into fuel, what replaces the corn in our diet (and corn in livestock diets, as well)?

The point I think Spokaneman was trying to make (or the question he's asking) is that in order for corn/ethanol to be a major fuel in this country, how much acreage needs to be devoted to corn for ethanol, and what affect will that have on everything else?

Anyone with an agriculture background knows that there is a lot of land that is not suitable for corn production. Some of it is too hilly (soil erosion is a major problem), some of it is not fertile (would require major inputs of fertilizer), some of it doesn't get enough rain (requiring irrigation), etc. So, I think it's fair to say it's not as simple as just planting more corn and building more plants, because it simply won't be able to meet the demand unless we all stop eating corn, stop eating animals that eat corn, and are willing to pay the environmental price of converting unsuitable land into cornfields.

TheWeasel, the fact is that there is so much corn produced in America that the price per bushel is very low. There is so much corn, wheat, and soy beans efficiently produced by farmers that they need price supports just to stay afloat in some cases. The market for their products are saturated. Governors in MN, ND, SD, and others desperately seek buyers from other countries. Thousands of tons of farm product have sat in open-air piles waiting to be sold. Much of it rots before a buyer or market can be found. I have seen mountains of corn and sugar beats rotting away. Its because of over production and a lack of consumption. Forget irrigation and the like. There is a huge overflow of American farm products. This is the fact which Joe from suburbia and Jack in D.C. does not understand.

I understand that US farmers growing corn and other crops for ethanol do in fact receive substantial government handouts.

US taxes on gasoline are low by world standards, which of course is why gas is relatively cheap. I notice though that US prices have increased quite sharply - when we last visited, 10 years ago, it was about half what we then paid in Australia. Now it's more like 75%.

We may just have to get used to the novel prospect of doing without some of the things we've grown up taking for granted, and learning the difference between wants and needs.

Spent $45 on gas today, with 2 different fill-ups. First was $3.05 for premium, but at a generic, no-name place in Trenton (NJ). Later on, I topped it off with some Exxon, also at $3.05, but 45 minutes east of my house, at the Jersey shore. Was glad to find that price, because other places were as much as $3.25 a gallon.

I think it was $3.24 here in San Jose, south of San Francisco.

so sad to look back at the beginning of this thread... i paid $3.08 yesterday -- north scottsdale, AZ. awful.

Kihei, Maui is $3.62 for regular. Yikes!!

$2.00 litre in sydney aust.

Good morning!

Im not sure if this link has already been posted but it allegedly tells you where to find the cheapest gas in your area:

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStations.aspx?m=1&l=1&zip=19317&x=20&y=4

Here is another place to find gas prices.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

$3.14 premium Newport RI. - yikes!

Question:
I was told recently that I can switch from the rec. premium that I've been using for my 5 yr. old vehicle to regular octane - have any of you done this? I have a half tank now of premium - should I mix the reg. with the premium or wait and start with reg. on an empty tank.
Thanks;
Sherry

$3.13 regular---San Francisco

"$2.00 litre in sydney aust."

- No way. Only up to abour AU$1.40 (US$1.05) so far.

just paid over $45 for the first time to fill up tank north of boston for 10 year old volvo wagon. there is already discussion on national public radio about gas rising to $6 per gallon this summer. i told my kids to get ready to walk or bike everywhere for years to come.
what most people aren't aware of is that the war in iraq and the pending attacks by u.s. that will start other wars with the 'axis of evil' countries namely iran, all has to do with oil in a way most people don't suspect. here it is: the world's oil is always sold in US dollars, it's been this way since the end of WWII. iraq was the first country that threatened to open it's own bourse to trade oil in euros. they were about to do it when bush declared war and attacked to prevent the bourse from ever opening. iraq and north korea both just opened markets that trade oil in euros last month. now we're hearing bush say he want to attack iran. when 3 countries began to talk about selling oil in euros, a few years ago, they were labeled by the bush gov't as the axis of evil. if oil stops trading in us dollars, there will no longer be a guaranteed market for us dollars in the world, meaning no more easy ways to finance the enormous and still growing us debt load. it will indeed change our world, and americans most specifically will suffer dramatic life style changes/culture shock in ways that haven't been seen since the great depression. sounds dramatic, but it's a likely scenario if you put the pieces together. the us gov't does not talk about this, but other countries do, especially in their newspapers.
i am sure it will start imperceptibly, like with gas prices rising to unfathomable highs and staying there for years. but when you can't finance your debt, you go banakrupt all the way around. IMO, it does sound like a one-way ticket to disaster. i'd wager that u.s. auto makers feel stupid now. i feel such angst over our pathetic government officials.

personally, i need a new car, and normally by used cars for financial reasons. where will i find a used hybrid or alternative fueled car? someone mentioned california. i live in newburport, ma. this is quite the dilemma. rhetorically, how does one do grocery shopping for a family with a bicycle?

sorry to carry on. corwin

corwin,
Don't be sorry for carrying on...it's good to know there are people out there that are passionate and still care.

Prices have hit $3 here in Seattle too and I have to admit, I feel a bit smug with my hybrid when I fill up for $20 and know I won't be needing gas for weeks while the person next to me with the SUV is already over $40 and will undoubtedly be back at the station soon. Of course it's more than that...I truly believe what JFK said...if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

Corwin, but as far as used hybrids--IMO you're really better off with a new one as they've "worked out the kinks" more--I have friends with the older ones, and while they're happy they got one, there were some kinks. Plus you get the full warranty new.

We shouldn't be complaining about rising gas prices. To understand why, I strongly recommend the article below by the economics editor of the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald, Ross Gittins. Gittins is one of those old-fashioned economists who balances belief in the virtues of a free market with a healthy scepticism and a social conscience, and I'd back him to write an "economics for dummies" book any day.

This is not ground-breaking stuff, but I think it should resonate with Americans, as we're facing very similar issues, and the problem isn't going to go away until our governments adopt a planning horizon further out than next week's opinion poll (or at very best, the next election).

www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/smile-pain-at-the-pump-has-payoffs/2006/05/02/1146335730803.html

I saw a news story this morning about a gas price war on the east coast where people were waiting in line for as long as seven hours to buy regular gas for $2.34.

Yesterday I filled my tank at an I-94 interchange for $2.39 per gallon without waiting in line. Its E85. The pumps selling regular were $2.79.

I live in beautiful Corn Country. Eat your hearts out bicoastals. Its not just fly-over country anymore and we hold your future!

We are on the Pa/Ohio border and $2.89 is the lowest we can seem to find. Using the Advantage Card and have Get go close by helps. They give you a little bit of a dicount for $'s spent on your groceries @ Giant Eagle for shopping there. I have a family of 4, plus a big dog so the $ is spent really easy anyway. My discount for gas is up to $2.80 And we drive out SUV as little as we can REALLY!!!!!

corwin, you're so right.

I paid $3.22 for regular in San Diego this morning.

gas prices fluctuating wildly now on northshore of boston. over $3 two days ago, down to $2.79 yesterday, back up again today. i think i would've waiting in line for gas below $2.50. we're in a cozy community, so when i see a line it's because the friendly owner has told people what time and day of the week the price is going to go up. everyone rushes in to fill-up before that happens.
artlover, if yor're still around, what kind of hybrid do you own? my ibook is down so i was off line until i realized i could sit in my son's room at the old desk top -- i tend to forget about it since it's about 10 years old just like my car!

i tried the link mentioned in neil_oz's but couldn't get to it -- that's when the ibook operating system crashed. i don't know if it was the a viral url or not (certainly no offense to neil_oz, it's just that's when my os10 bit the dust, so maybe it's not a safe site?).

anyone else check it out? can you summarize it for me?

corwin

Sorry, corwin, I can't explain that - I just tried the URL with no probs and I can't imagine that the site is unsafe (the SMH is a major daily serving a city of 4m people and the site is heavily patronised).

I recommended the article because it nicley clarifies the issues posters here are talking about. Gittins argues that the economist's solution, allowing prices to rise in response to demand rather than tinker through the tax system, will be beneficial in the longer term:

"...in a market system, a rise in the price of such a commodity prompts a change in behaviour. It increases supply by encouraging exploration for new sources, makes formerly uneconomic oilfields profitable and encourages the development of substitute fuels. At the same time, it reduces demand by encouraging consumers to use petrol more economically and search for cheaper substitutes. Put this reduction in demand together with the increase in supply and you see that a rise in prices should lead to a fall in prices.

"So allowing retail petrol prices to move in response to market forces is the best way to minimise the long-term rise in prices likely to come from the developing world's increasing demand for oil."

In Australia at any rate, higher gas prices are now impacting on car-buying habits and there's even been a modest increase in bus and train use.

Further, in view of the dire effect on the environment tax levels should be higher, not lower. (Australia has the 3rd-lowest tax among OECD countries, the US, which uses 25% of the world's oil, by far the lowest.)

Finally he flays Australia's state governments for relentlessly building bigger roads at the expense of improving public transport. "...this pointless struggle to accommodate motoring won't be able to continue. It fits neither with our need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nor with the likely inexorable rise in the cost of private motoring."

And there's a health bonus for commuters from using public transport.

"Research into happiness shows that the aspect of people's daily lives they least enjoy is commuting - with the journey to work a little worse than the journey home.

"And much research by psychologists shows that people find driving through heavy commuter traffic particularly stressful. It's so bad, people never get used to it. In extreme cases it can cause gastrointestinal problems, headaches and anxiety. Elevated blood pressure is common."

I should explain that while many Americans have a somewhat bucolic image of Australia, our conditions are little different from America's. In fact we're considerably more urbanised than the US.

Sorry for the long post. To get right back on topic, it just cost me AU$80 (US$60) to fill my Camry.

BTW, corwin, I think your 'axis of evil' analysis is spot-on, and I'm disgusted that my own government played yes-man in regard to the Iraq adventure.

I sympathise with the need to ditch the Volvo, but the price of oil would have to really balloon to justify the price of a hybrid car, here at any rate. Maybe if you wait a while you could pick up a 1-2-year old Prius at a good saving?

Gas jumped 30 cents today to put it at $2.95. Can't wait for Memorial Day when the big "go north" season starts.

I'll be filling again on Friday with Pemex 92 Octane premium which was about $2.67 US a US Gallon last time.
Also, I posted the US press' comments last week on the FF now deleated thread:
Ethanol $2.75 a US gal - a $1.00 a gal profit and $0.51 (Taxpayer subsidy).
The Administration late last week proposed eliminating the $0.54 tariff and 2.5% Ad Valorum tax on cheap Brazilian, et.al. Ethanol imports, and ADM and Pacific Ethanol and others went nuts as their stocks fell 7-8% in one day.
These Ethanol guys and their corn sponsors in the US Senate and Congress make the oil industry execs look like Santa Claus.
M (SMdA, Gto.)

Pittsburgh, PA, USA Area: $2.98

$3.24 in Redmond, Washington this afternoon. Up from $3.19 yesterday...

$3.35 regular in San Diego

Does anyone believe we will see $5 this summer?

If so, there will be rioting in the streets. I looked back at the very first post---$1.89 a gallon in Michigan in the summer of 2003. That seems so long ago and far away . . .

i do believe gas will go to $6 in the boston - maine corridor. there's much talk about it here. lots of folks driving quite a distance three or four towns away to pay lowest prices at "best choice." it keeps nearby irving and cumberland farms competitive, but only on that one street in that one town.
corwin

$2.65 about 2 miles from my house!

Think of the Californian guy who drives a round-trip 360 miles (that would be 580 km) to work EVERY DAY. I caught the end of a BBC radio interview with him a couple of weeks ago. Missed where he lives, but he works at Cisco, which I assume would be in the Bay Area, and likes to be at his desk at 7:30 am.

Rioting in the streets? Maybe it will be more a case of the "boiling frog principle"? I did once read though that the price of gas has proven to be a pretty reliable indicator to the survival prospects of the incumbent government.

Anyway, this is getting pesonal. We're planning a lengthy driving visit to the US and Canada this year and my dreams of ridiculously cheap gas are evaporating. The only consolation is that the exchange rate is looking better.

Boiling frog principle? Neil, whatever do you mean???

Austin; where DO you live?

down to $2.79 today in Woodstock,VA
(I-81)

Now up to $3.49 in my area.

I think maybe the guy Neil is talking about lives somewhere around Mariposa and commutes to San Jose, if my memory serves me (which, often, it doesn't...). I saw something about it on the news a while back. He said living near Yosemite makes the commute worthwhile, but I wonder just how much time he gets to enjoy the beauty of the area!

Neil_oz,
Pemex gas and the cost of living here are way less than the US and Canada and the summer weather in the central mountains is wonderful.
M (SMdA, Gto.)

Sorry, kswl, that was a bit cryptic. There's a (gruesome) theory that if you were to put a frog as a cold-blooded animal in a pan of cold water and very gradually raise the temperature, the frog won't know what's happening until its system at some point just shuts down. I haven't expressed that too well, but I've heard the phrase used to describe a situation in which damage is inflicted by small degrees.

mikemo, that would be Mexico?

Neil_Oz,
Claro, mi amigo.
We are in the virtual geographic center of MX at 6800 ft (2072 meters).
Mom and dad had a house on the Chester River on the Eastern shore of Maryland, USA for many years.
The three dozen legal, in season blue claw crabs we caught each day we placed in large pots and gradually steamed. The children screamed, but the crabs were delicious.
M

Today on Cape Cod I saw $3.03 to $3.09 for regular within a one mile radius. There is concern how this will affect tourism this summer.

Thank you for clarifying that, Neil. Poor frog. Poor us! When that consumer confidence index finally starts the big slide south, people will realize that the water has gotten very, very hot.

It's dropped in Chicagoland burbs by me. It's about $2.94-2.99 per gal. now.

I do not think it will get to $6, nor even $5. As it goes up, there are more and more substances and methods that become profitable in comparison. And they will be developed. And change will occur. And it could happen faster than people realize. That's how the supply and demand free enterprise works. With each cent it goes up there are that many more people who are included in the "possibles" group. It may be good for it to go up.

I've read and read about ethanol and I don't think it is going to be the big answer myself.

Doesn't matter what the price of gas is ... it's hard getting anyplace in NH with over 600 roads closed due to flooding. Some towns are closed to emergency traffic only.

I lived in the NE USA for 30 years (well, not New England), but the draught/flood stuff is getting my attention.
The USD has gained greatly v. the MXN (peso) so gas is still about $2.64 for premium and about $2.20 for reg.
Hope all are safe and well.
M (TA SMdA, Gto.)
M

We really need to move away from oil dependency and I think the long term solution is hydrogen. The sooner we develop the industry, the sooner we are free and the sooner the middle east can go back to herding camels.

MX has lots of oil and natural gas, but needs some serious international investment. Mexico could ship many more barrels to the EUA (US) and become self sufficient in NG with the major's USDs.
With all of Latin American heading leftward, that's not going to happen without some serious "intervention", lol.
M

I've been reading the comments here, and I just wanted to give Neil_Oz a big YES! for his remarks that expensive gas is a GOOD thing. I hope it goes to $5 soon and stays there.

Most of the panaceas being proposed -- ethanol, hybrids, hydrogen -- either take more (sometimes FAR more) energy to produce than they save (ethanol, hydrogen) or simply don't give the hyped results (most hybrid drivers don't get very good mileage, as it requires a dedicated special technique).

The real answer is to use less of the stuff. You can do that by driving less, or by driving smaller vehicles. If every driver of a huge SUV in the US -- not all of them, just the jumbo Hummer/Escalade/Expedition size -- traded down for a more fuel-efficient car the US could very nearly stop buying gas from terrorists like the Saudi Arabian oil sheiks. And if people started driving really small cars, like the SmartCar, we could practically eliminate the need for imports at all.

The better half of US oil usage is wastefulness caused by bad habits formed when gas was cheap, almost free in fact. $3 gas today is, adjusting for inflation, less than we were paying at the height of the "gas crisis" in 1981, or 1918 for that matter.

If the government wanted to do something serious about the problem, they'd tax SUVs $10,000 each and give the money to buyers of 40+ MPG cars.

Let's hear it for $6 gas!

I am now the least popular person on Fodor's Forums, I'll bet!

As for the war in Iraq, we could have continued to buy all we wanted from Saddam Hussein at a bargain price if we had wanted to. We were buying it before as fast as they could pump it out. The war, whatever it's other faults, was certainly NOT about oil.

It costs the average American farmer a dollar a bushel more to produce corn than the market price. The government makes up the difference. Farms all across America are being converted from other crops to corn because of the guaranteed support, grow all you want and we'll buy it.

Most of this corn goes into animal feed or High Fructose Corn Syrup, not ethanol. HFCS is in virtually every processed food product in the supermarket.

With the intensive use of petroleum-based fertilizer in corn growing (not to mention the environmental devastation of irrigation), ethanol ends up using quite a bit more oil to produce than it saves in the gas tank. Ethanol is a price support system for the Midwest, not an energy policy. Notice what state the presidential primary is first held in? Iowa. Corn country.

To my sorrow gas here in Walnut Creek Ca. was $3.35.9 for regular for the 3rd fillup in a row.

fnarf99,
I totally agree with your conclusions, but your numbers are a bit off those I researched two weeks ago:
Fuel ethanol is/was $2.75 a gal with a $1.00 gal profit. $0.51 (US taxpayer subsidy) per gallon. ADM, Pacific Ethanol, the corn lobby and many others are protected from cheaper imported fuel ethanol from Brazil and others by a $0.54/ gallon tariff and additional 2.4% ad valorum tax imposed by the same folks in the US Senate and Congress on the corn lobby payroll who went nuts when the administration proposed eliminating the import tariffs two weeks ago.
These folks make the oil industry execs look like Santa Claus.
M

How refreshing to finally read some posts that demonstrate a basic understanding of economics, the supply and demand system, and initiation of product or process.

fnarf99 & Mikemo, kudos.

I heard Bush was going to require all stations to sell gas by the pint. Won't those prices look good when you drive by the station.

Finally went to Pemex this AM:
Reg (87 US octane) is $2.24 and Premium (92 US octane) is $2.65 (both US per US gallon after the conversions from liters and recently weak peso).
M

Just wondering what will happen to prices with the first big summer holiday weekend near. Right now the price is 2.75 in mid-Michigan.

We're at 3.24 in San Jose, CA. We are going on a trip Mem day weekend. About 850 miles round trip. Fortunately, we have a Prius.

Around 3.31 cents in San Francisco at a cheap gas station....

$3.41 for regular in Nantucket, but I just bought gas for the first time since April 3 since the island is only 13 miles long!

I just bought mid-grade for 2.72 in Minneapolis.

There must be a regional distribution issue because the West coast is going up up and ours in Midwest is going down. We are down another 2 or 4 cents almost every week now near Chicago.

$3.35 here in southern Sonoma county CA.
The price of my kitchen remodeling is looking better and better !

R5

$2.75 in Atlanta

I live next to a gas station that is selling the stuff for $3.25 a gallon (in Chicago).

Just paid $3.58 at a self serve Chevron station here in the Sacramento Valley.

We just made the trip from FL to the upper midwest, the lowest was $2.57 in GA and NC. The highest along the interstate was $3.09. Overall gas was more expensive in WV and OH. Gas seems to be a little cheaper in the smaller towns away from the interstate, especially the ones that have a Murphy Gas Station attached to the local Wal Mart. I am sure this site has been given before but here goes again.

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

2.67 here Michigan 6/14/06

It's actually going down here in Las Vegas - I saw one for $2.91 yesterday afternoon, but there are many in the $2.97 - $2.93 ballpark. Who would have ever thought that we'd think $2.95 a gallon was cheap?!?!?

Of course this is for the unleaded regular - I can't imagine paying anymore than I absolutely have to in order to put mid-grade or - godforbid - premium in the tank. Thank goodness I have a Saturn and THEY told me regular unleaded is just fine. Whew.

One of my local grocery chains also has gas stations, and they surprised me with an $8.00 gas coupon to use there when I made a $50.00 food purchase. It surprised me. It was at Jewel Foods.

I have a 10 year old Saturn.

About two miles apart I saw one Chevron station with regular unleaded at $2.939 and another Chevron at $2.589

What is that all about??? I didn't realize the individual owners had so much latitude in pricing.

$3.39 for regular at a Mobil in Oceanside, CA (north of San Diego).

Just wanted to be poster no. 455

The recent strength of the USD v. the MXN peso helps here: I paid $2.605 US for 92 octane Pemex premium this AM.
I have a 5 year old WRX and the turbo requires premium.
M

It's $2.62 here in Oklahoma City for regular unleaded. If you are a member at Sam's, you can save about 5 cents per gallon.

And according to a new report today CA has the highest gas prices, especially in N CA inspite of all our oil refineries. Bummer, lol!

Just paid $2.80 for reg tonight, in Bloomsburg PA.

$3.49 in Hilo, Hawaii. Down from a high of $3.65 2 weeks ago. $3.27 at Costco in Kona (not worth the 200 mile roundtrip from Hilo)

$2.99 in Nashua NH

Last week on Kauai it was $3.55-$3.58. Today in northwest Phoenix it is $2.93.

as of today in middle Ga $2.81, between Atlanta and Macon.

San Jose, CA I noticed 3.05 to 3.12. North of San Francisco in Marin, I noticed $2.97. Which surprises me because the gas is usually higher up there.

Sunnyvale (near San Jose) CA, the price is 3.09 - 3.21. Agree with previous poster. Price is usually higher in San Francisco.

Last week I paid $3.15 for reg in San Francisco. Yesterday I saw it for _ONLY_ $3.12 and I thought that I could have saved 35¢ over last weeks purchase. Is that nuts or what?

If one more person tells me that it has been over $3.00 in Europe for years, I'll kill um.

Of course we are willing, not that we have a choice, to pay more for things while traveling, especially since we know in advance.

There was an article in the SF Chronicle yesterday that gas is 12¢ a gallon in the Venzuela - the same price as a banana. The governments subsidizes gas, sharing the profits with the people..... listening Dubya??????

Nina

Tonight I paid $2.83, in Portland, Oregon. I almost feel almost giddy, it's dropped so much! (sad to realize how low my expectations have dropped, as well!)

Yesterday, I paid $2.99 for regular in Pico Rivera, California.

$3.19 Los Angeles

Here's a depressing thought. We drive a Toyota Camry, good gas mileage. For the most part, it's used just for short hops around town. When I filled the tank the other day, I realized that we are now paying per month what it cost us for a 3000 plus mile vacation three or four years ago.

$2.49 - Upstate SC

Just got my oil and filter changed for $8.75.
Unfortunately a WRX, so I had to supply the 5-40 synthetic oil and Subaru filter.
Subaru, when are you coming to MX?
M

gas just came down a little to $2.69 a gallon.

in NC

Price jumped this morning to 2.99 in mid-Michigan. Must be getting ready for the holiday!

Jumped again to $3.09 this morning, just in time for the holiday week-end.

Upheaval in the Middle East means it's time to raise gas prices. In mid-Michigan it jumped $.15 to $3.19.

I heard on the news today that San Diego has the highest gas prices in the country. Gas was $3.17 the other day in San Diego, inland.

Weird..while alot of areas seem to be on the rise, yesterday,gas at Costco in Hillsboro,OR went down to 2.71 (regular) after sitting at 2.75 for several weeks.

Hmm. I bought gas yesterday at Costco in Naples, Florida. Regular was 2.91, which was exactly one cent cheaper than Hess and 2 cents cheaper than 7-11. Big deal. Today I see the Hess price went up to 2.95. I wonder if Costco's went up too?

I heard on the news this morning that today or tomorrow the oil companies are reporting their earnings. Apparently the highest ever. And we need to find other reasons to blame the high prices besides the profits of the oil companies?

Don't blame the oil companies. My mutual funds are doing just fine.

It's a supply & demand issue (ECON 101), and no one wants to face up to that reality.

We haven't had a new refinery built in over 25-30 years. It affects supply. Who are we to blame?

We can't explore for off-shore oil/natural gas. Who are we to blame?

We can't drill in the Arctic tundra in ANWR. That legislation was vetoed 10 years ago. Who are we to blame?

We can't drill or explore for oil/natural gas in the U.S. It wasn't economical when oil was $30-$40 a barrel, but at $50-$60 a barrel it is economical, but still we can't explore/drill for oil/natural gas. Who are we to blame?

Experts say there's enough oil/natural gas in the United States alone to last us for another 100 years or more. It used to be cheaper to buy it from abroad, but now it's time to become energy independent.

Near Bend, OR (Sunriver) it was $3.14 this morning.

Hmmm, man may have tapped into something. Perhaps Anheuser-Busch can siphon off some of the "less tastey, more filling" brew into my local station-say BP for example, consistent with recent retro-car design trends (e.g. model T or A), I've heard these first "cars" could run on alcohol from the getgo.

It is pumping for $3.49 at the Shell station 2 blocks from my house.

Johnny.........we cannot afford to waste a valuable resource like alcohol for such a trivial thing as putting it in our gas tanks.

i want biodiesel!
and the resurrection of the RAV electrics!
ok..don't everyone attack me at once, now.
; o )

$2.75 in a SW suburb of Portland today!

Ditto, Budman.

$3.29 per gallon this morning, AFTER I found my usual Mobil station closed. So I went to BP. About 1/3 of the area SW suburban Chicagoland stations are closing around me???

Gas City, Shell and some others are selling E-85 for $2.99 per gallon.

Griffin, Ga. (an hour south of Atlanta): $3.039 average price

OUCH!

Budman...you rock!

$3.49 in Grover Beach , CA

I find it interesting that way back when regular was selling for under $2/gal the spread between regular and premium was about 7/10 cents/gal. Now that regular is way over $3/gal the spread is still 7/10 cents. Go figure!

$3.22 in the High Desert of CA today...

this thread started in 2003... the wonders of gas inflation...

in Norwalk/Cerritos area, i've seen $3.29/gallon!

With the recent weakening of the USD following the national elections, I paid $2.72 for 92 Octane yesterday.
M

Today, driving from Ft. Myers to Naples, Florida, I noticed that all the big discounters like CircleK, Hess Express, etc. had regular for around $3.05, but the usually more expensive places like Mobil and Shell both had it for $2.98 -- Go figure.

In northern Minnesota $2.96. $3.05 by the freeway.

ExxonMobil Sucks.

jorr,
Not if one has 21.7M shares, lol
M

Saturday 7/29 - Kapa`a (Kaua`i), Hawai`i
$3.55/gal unleaded (Chevron or Shell)

ExxonMobil Sucks? What?

Capitalism at its best. Profits are up, employment up, stockholders happy, the economy flourshing, and U.S. unenployment at an all-time low.

How about GM sucks? Layoffs, profits down, stockholders sucking hind tit, yada, yada, yada.

You want socialism and distribution of wealth, move to Canada.

Gas prices are tied to supply/demand. You can blame the left-wing environmental wackos for your $3.00 a gallon gas.

ECON 101.

$2.95 average, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

$3.009 here in Cortez Colorado [ 10 miles from Mesa Verde NP} and $3.129 in nearby Durango CO. Prices seem to go up here in summer {more tourists?}
Debi

I saw it for 3.59 at a gas station yesterday making me again happy I don't have to buy it. I'm wondering how long it is going to take for it to hit $4.00.

Here in Portland, Oregon it's currently at $2.83 a gallon for regular.

Budman, your right wing logic always amazes me on every issue. And no, I am not name calling you like you often do to me.

A woman in Los Angeles who makes house calls to sick poor people uses her own money to buy gas. She can no longer pay for all the gas she needs each day so she collects recyclables to pay for about 1.5 gallons of gas per day. Even with the extra gas money she is still unable to see all of her patients because of the high gas prices. Now some of her patients suffer when she can not come. They suffer while she is collecting recyclable garbage to pay the gas prices at what may be an Exxon station.

Meanwhile in Houston ExxonMobile luxuriates in the highest quartly profits in US history which the woman in Los Angeles may have contributed to.

ExxonMobile sucks and most Americans are disgusted with this corporation.

joor, I never personally name called you, just used generalities -- but I see from your response, the shoe must fit.

That women you refer to should blame her congressman/senator/political representative. When has CA had a new power plant, oil exploration, or drilling for oil. 30 years, maybe? They can only blame their blackouts on themselves.

Exxon Mobile is in the business to make money. Most of their profits are reinvested back into the company for among other things, alternative fuel sources, and to their shareholders. It creates jobs!!! By the way, they do not control the cost of a barrel of oil -- it's the commodities market. You need to go back to the root cause.

I just love it when people complain that others are "making too much money." Let's penalize them with an excess profits tax.

Bottom line, my logic is not right wing or left wing, just pure logic & fact -- ECON 101 -- Supply & Demand.

Budman, the woman should blame her congressman/senator/political representative for allowing huge profit gains at the expense of all Americans in every sector. I totally agree with who should get the blame. Unfortunetly many political leaders have been purchased by high roller corporations who put money in their pockets.

Electric plants? They are powered mostly by coal if its fossil fuel. What does that have to do with the price of oil, ExxonMobile and the woman in LA? I never heard of drilling for coal off-shore in California.

Most of ExxonMobile's profits do Not go into R&D.

Yes I took "econ 101" (micro-economics 1101 and macro-economics 1101 at the University of Minnesota. I scored a 3.5 and a 4.0) and I know all about supply and demand thank you. I run my own buisiness for God's sake. I also know about laws which were enacted many years ago to stop excess profits and control over American consumers. One that comes to mind is the monopoly laws created because of Standard Oil. We need to follow the same principles with new laws again.

Electric plants are run by coal, oil or natural gas.

oops...meant to say fossil fuel electric plants.

There are of course hydroelectric, wind power, solar, and nuclear.

Amazing discussion as 1/3rd of the Mexican federal revenues are generated by Pemex.
The company is so weak that it needs serious international investment to even continue; maintain infrastructure, and eventually provide for our own natural gas needs, but the politicians refuse to allow the serious international folks to "play".
Mexico's worst decision - like Bolivia's and Venezuela's.
I'm keeping my XOM shares.
M (SMdA, Gto.)

mikmo, back when I lived in texas I heard many times that the Mexican people could have a much higher standard of living because of its vast oil wealth and that the reason it remains poor is because of the oil profits going to the very few rich, and the poor remain poor bacause it doesn't get to them. Also that the difference between rich and poor in Mexico is more prominant than anywhere in the western hemisphere (as in not much of a middle class).

I don't know how much of this is true. Since you live there what do you think?

In Tigard, OR (Portland suburb) it was $2.74 at several stations today. They all had lines though!

Wow. 30 cents cheaper than here and in Oregon they even pump it for you!

I agree with budman's opinions about hawaii and living comfortably...and I'll leave it at that.
aloha and mahalo.
It's the fact that environmental cost issues are so lacking in this thread that amazes me. I know..it's not a thread about that..just seems that some hippy (aside from me and marginally jorr) would just be all over it. maybe the eds are working hard to keep the thread on topic...probly..They are pros!
I, for one, am investing in ethanol.
..not perfect...but might be profitable enough eventually to actually catch on and be a win/win
ecologically and economically..though I'm not too sure about what the polluting effect that mass refinement of this fuel source would be..

To tie this into a travel item..check out ww.biobeetle.com. Now that's my kind of alooha..except there is only one fueling station on Maui. sigh..

errr uhh.. make that link www.bio-beetle.com

Cental Florida in the Daytona Beach area....$2.95-$3.15 per gallon.

Prices are bouncing again in mid-Michigan. It was $2.96, then $3.15 and settled at $3.09.

3.49/ LINY

I love the first two post to this one -

$1.89 and $2.09 for a gal of gas.

I long for the good old days - 2003!

Here in San Diego I paid $3.51 per gal for Supreme. Why do we pay the highest gas prices in all the land??? or does it just feel like it?

We're on a trip this weekend to visit family and paid $2.78 at Sam's Club in Louisiana. They said it had just dropped about 15 cents a gallon there.

SE Alabama: $2.74 today, but some places had it another dime higher.

$2.83 is the lowest I've seen it in Atlanta over the last week.

In mid-Michigan this week it has dropped to $2.78. Much better than the $1.20 PER LITER I paid last week in northern Ontario.

$2.92 at our nearest Costco, in Santa Clara CA.

Two days ago we paid 2.949 per gallon and 20 miles up the road we saw gas 2.999 per gallon, These were the prices charged at two separate Go Marts.

Actually Chicago had the highest gas prices in the entire USA continental for 3 weeks running. Which was a first. We have all kinds of additives added by law and extra tax. But the ride back from MI last night was really "funny" looking at the gas prices.

They started at about a $2.99 in Southwest MI for the highest price station, and then when we hit IN they were down to an average of about $2.78. By the IL side border towns they were $3.29 or higher. In Chicago, higher than that.

I am not complaining at all. I'm looking at cars right now and I'm going to test drive a Prius. But regardless of what I end up buying- I wish they would find another cleaner non-fossil fuel substitute anyway. One that is cheaper, cleaner (less bulk) and more economic than corn, and one that will drive a workforce/industry at home. It will only come with higher gas prices, and it will come.

Guess where Ken filled up?

$2.89 in Northern NJ (near NYC), but what's up with those Russion owned LUKOIL (took over Mobil) gas stations charging almost .10 more than regular gas chains?!?!?! Do they really think Americans are going to pay .10 more for a "foreign" owned gas company?!?!?

Yes, and they closed about 10 different Mobils near me, as well. Probably didn't want the added IL ingredients and tax added problems. Didn't understand why, haven't read up. Russian owned now, huh! Well, I wondered on above posts what was going on with all the Mobil closings.

We are down to $3.09 as of this morning at most in the area, including Shell, Citgo, and Philips 66. BP is higher.

The Mobil stations near us have been closing for a short period of time, rehabbing, and then re-opening.

That is- I hope they will all return to service! The one closest to my house did not change its exterior to reflect a change to Lukoil- was it just a buy-out, or will the stations be changing to reflect the purchase?

All the Mobil stations in my area are now LUKOILS, including many of the service areas located on the Garden State Parkway in NJ. Not sure what the future of LUKOILS will be here in USA, but I think Mobil is history.

Wow that is interesting. I wonder how long it will be before they change the signs, etc. to reflect the change to Lukoil. After having the stations closed for about 1-2 weeks for the OTHER renovations, it would seem like a bad business plan to close AGAIN to change the signs.

If memory serves, Russian Lukoil signs are red- are they the same in the US?

$2.87 in upstate New York

It's down to $2.68 in mid Michigan. I'm just waiting to see what will happen with the long week-end coming up.

We live in Ontario Canada and today our gas prices fell to 90cents/litre which equals $3.06 U.S. per gallon (approx). We do live in a border town so many people cross the border just for gas

Local Mobil station in NYC closed, remodeled pumps and reopened again as Mobil @ $2.99 (87)

Seems Lukoil is outa Luk

$2.59 for regular in Cincinnati, OH!

We had the highest in the USA two weeks ago and now they are saying on the radio that it will be closer to $2.00 than to $3.00 per gallon by Thanksgiving.

And it is falling very fast this week- stations are changing their signs with each pass I've made since Monday.