CAD 1.35/L (USD 5.03 / US gallon). Diesel: CAD 1.40/L (USD 5.22/US gallon). Eep.
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
It was $4.39 yesterday over here.
Diesel around my neighborhood seems to be holding steady between $5.05 and $5.15 for the last week or so.
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.
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.
It had drifted down to $3.95 for a couple of days, back up to $3.99 now.
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.
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?
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.
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’.
3.99 for regular almost everywhere I was today.
You have a 30-gallon tank?!?
It was up to CAD 1.34 / L again. Now it’s down to CAD 1.318/L (USD 4.883 / US gallon)
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.
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.
Holy flurking schnitt! The expensive station (BPG at 19th Ave and Junipero Serra) went from $4.49 to $4.69 for regular!!!
Joe