I know gas prices have been droping for a little while, but when I saw gas for less than $2 a gallon this morning my jaw hit the floor.
I can fill up my tank for $20 again, it’s a freakin thanksgiving miracle!
The pessimist in me is saying that this is just another indicator that the worlds economy is going down the tubs so fast that it is leaving a sonic boom in it’s wake, but right now I am still groovin’ on $2 gas so I can’t care to much. I never thought that I could get so excited by looking at a simple price sign.
Here in the Texas panhandle, you can find gas for as little as $1.51. I’m loving it, because spending $100+ on gas every week was seriously impacting our finances.
I saw it at $1.97 in a couple of places about a week ago. Funnily enough, just blocks away I saw it at $2.27. I wonder how much business those folks did.
Seriously though, that is impressive. It wasn’t that long ago that gas hit $2 for the first time and people started to go nuts, but after a summer of $4+ gas, this really is sweet.
I had heard that Buffalo has some of the cheepest gas in the country right now, anyone up that way want to say how much you are paying for a gallon up that way? Less than Texas?
It was $1.80 this morning around here and according to the BIL about $1.60 in central Il.
The pessimist in me says that we’re gonna take a roaring screwing once the markets come back.
We have a local gas station/grocery store chain where you can get money off gas (per gallon) as you accumulate points on your grocery store card. Right now the card I share with my folks has $1.20 off per gallon.
So I’m sending dad up to the gas station tonight with his car and his 2 5-gallon gas containers to fill up for $.49/gal
Should be adjusted for inflation to the, what? Early 2003 prices? I was working at a gas station back then and I think that the prices were high at 1.70 or something by the time I left. Again, this is 2003 dollars. They have weird back to the fifties days at McDonalds and such here and there where they sell the meal for like 30 cents… as a promotional tool. Think about it with that type of thing in mind. (not that they’re doing it for promotional means, but rather that inflation DOES exist… Always bothers me when someone older says "When I was your age gas was 20 cents a gallon!! Yeah… But you only made 40 cents an hour.)
I filled up at $1.71 the other day, and have seen it as low as $1.65, although I’m sure that station is even lower now (it’s a bit off my normal beaten path). Since it recently took over $40 to fill the tank, it was lovely to fill it for $22. And it was on fumes.
1.95 across from my house this week. I filled up our car at Arco (cash only, they don’t take credit cards. I didn’t know that before), paid $25 and got back $4 in change when I was done. A lot better then the $45-50 it was running very recently.
