# Price watch (gas) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2008, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432 "2008-04-15T12:31:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/161 "2008-06-09T03:52:06Z")
CAD 1.35/L (USD 5.03 / US gallon). Diesel: CAD 1.40/L (USD 5.22/US gallon). Eep. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/162 "2008-06-09T03:54:55Z")
Next to Orlando International Airport: $5.68 (that’s the gougey one, though - it’s the last gas station before the rental car dropoff) Elsewhere in Orlando: $3.96 ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/163 "2008-06-09T03:59:26Z")
It was $4.39 yesterday over here. ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/164 "2008-06-09T15:09:31Z")
Diesel around my neighborhood seems to be holding steady between $5.05 and $5.15 for the last week or so. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/165 "2008-06-09T15:27:06Z")
It’s about $4.04 around the richer parts of Oakland County ( burbs of Detroit). North of us, non-burbia, I nearly drove head first into oncoming traffic when I saw $3.88 a gallon at a Speedway. My fillup was _only_ $125. AND the pump didn’t stop at $65 or some other bullshit number to help prevent drive offs. It stopped at $100. Do you know how much of a thrill that was for me? I never thought I would be excited to pay $3.88 a gallon. ---
**Author:** ![3acresandatruck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/e79b87/32.png) [@3acresandatruck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3acresandatruck)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/166 "2008-06-09T17:03:44Z")
[QUOTE=3acresandatruck] My last purchase was $3.29/gallon on Hwy 21 in southern Jefferson County, Missouri on April 9th. I should be good till mid-May. [/QUOTE] Looks like it lasted a little longer than I expected. Just got home from a fill-up at the same location. Today’s price was $3.89/gallon, $47.99 for the fill-up, a bargain compared to others here. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/167 "2008-06-10T01:02:27Z")
It had drifted down to $3.95 for a couple of days, back up to $3.99 now. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/168 "2008-06-10T11:44:51Z")
My local independent station was down to $3.91/gal Monday morning, Monday afternoon, up to $4.01, now this morning, down to $3.93! How this happens i have no idea. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/169 "2008-06-10T14:15:33Z")
So, over the weekend, AAA reported gas is over $4.00/gal for the first time ever. This morning, I needed to fill up, and when I saw the price at my preferred station was only $3.98/gal - like **Shirley Ujest** said - I felt something bordering on _gratitude_ that it was _only_ $3.98. :mad: They also said on the evening news Sunday night that we’ll see $4.50/gal by July 4th. So, what causes high gas prices? Taxes? Ethanol (used as an additive to reduce polluting emissions)? Greed (oil companies)? All of the above? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/170 "2008-06-10T14:48:43Z")
4.47 at the cheapest place in town this morning. It went up .10 between when I went to work yesterday and when I went home! I’m now beginning to feel, on a gut level, what consumers in the Weimar Republic must have felt like. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/171 "2008-06-10T14:50:42Z")
It’s dropped back to CAD 1.31/L (USD 4.86 / US gallon) this morning. There was a report in the Star that it has been as high as CAD 1.50/L (USD 5.57 / US gallon) in Montréal. However, as I check the Star’s website now, the report says that [crude prices have ‘rebounded’](http://www.thestar.com/News/Canada/article/440245). ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/172 "2008-06-10T15:27:18Z")
3.99 for regular almost everywhere I was today. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2008, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/173 "2008-06-10T15:31:51Z")
[QUOTE=Shirley Ujest] My fillup was _only_ $125. AND the pump didn’t stop at $65 or some other bullshit number to help prevent drive offs. It stopped at $100. Do you know how much of a thrill that was for me? [/QUOTE] You have a 30-gallon tank?!? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/174 "2008-06-11T01:26:26Z")
It was up to CAD 1.34 / L again. Now it’s down to CAD 1.318/L (USD 4.883 / US gallon) ---
**Author:** ![LVgeogeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b19c9b/32.png) [@LVgeogeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVgeogeek)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/175 "2008-06-11T04:59:13Z")
Around Las Vegas the highest price I have seen so far has been $4.23/gal at a 7-11 station. The lowest was at Costco for $4.10/gal. I am down a little over a 1/4 from full. I will probably top my tank off tomorrow so I don’t get sticker shock at the pump. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/176 "2008-06-11T05:24:02Z")
Some people are speculating on $6/gallon prices in the USA by September. :eek: There is talk that a lot of the runup in price is because of commodities speculators. If a few of them take a megabuck bath, maybe (we can only hope) we will see a return to stabile, if higher than we would like, prices at the pump. I bought a locking gas cap on my old truck when gas hit $2.75 a couple of years ago to prevent siphoning theft. Hell, tomorrow, I’m welding that sucker shut. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2008, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432/177 "2008-06-11T06:24:03Z")
Holy flurking schnitt! The expensive station (BPG at 19th Ave and Junipero Serra) went from $4.49 to **$4.69** for regular!!! Joe [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-watch-gas/445432.md?page=8)