There aren’t too many full service places here, either. The one I mentioned is in a pretty wealthy neighborhood, so maybe they figure there are enough rich old ladies to make it worthwhile. (Oops, used up my daily stereotype allowance, there.)
$1.71 for 87 octane here in North Chicago. A bit more downtown.
I can’t believe congress is concidering repealing one of our gas taxes to reduce the price. If anything, they should be raising that tax to get people away from buying their big, gas guzzling SUV’s, and to start thinking about alternative transportation and fuel.
But, alas, as Coldfire says, “Here we go again”
Nothing is so bad that it can’t get worse.
about 1.59 on LI
but now for the real test,
HOW MUCH IS A BIG MAC WHERE YOU ARE
here it is 3.19
2 for $2 ABQ NM
Chicago West Suburbs:
$1.55-$1.65 for Reg.
$1.61-$1.79 for Premium
$1.75-$1.89 for the Super Duper Ultra Swell stuff
FOX news did a blurb last night about it costing $80.00 to fill the tank on the new Ford Excursion… and it getting at most 15mph. – OPEC’s got it made.
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
It’s in the $1.46-$1.49 range here in the KY/WV/OH tristate area.
And for the TMs in other countries…
Here in the states, I think the problem is not so much the price as it is the sudden increase we’ve experienced. It seemed to jump by something like 30 cents overnight. We’ve had that before, but it usually dropped back down shortly afterwards. Not this time. It seems to have entrenched itself.
Will the “gas out” work. No. (For reasons I’ve ranted about in the other “gas out” thread. Also, the Snopes quote above pretty much covers it.) The short version: Big oil companies can easily ride out a few days of boycott, particularly when there will be a spike in gas sales before and after it.
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Down here in Georgia, it ranges from $1.35 to $1.45 a gallon.
I don’t think a gas out would work either. In fact, a news item today, they were at an auto show, and they were questioning those thinking of buying a new car.(Lucky dogs! THAT is another thread!) Whether the gas prices affected their choices, EIGHTY-FIVE percent of the people said, it didn’t. One really intelligent young man hopped in behind the wheel of a corvette and said,
‘Heck no, I’m looking forward to burning some serious fossil fuels here folks!’
People griped about the prices back in '75-76, but they also did some serious conserving, I’m not sure we’ll see the same thing now. Maybe we are more spoiled??
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I think it would be highest near SF, Calif where the refineries are deciding to blow thing up so they can create a shortage.
What Jophiel said…
So they stopped making so much because it was too cheap?..Still sounds like they’re just trying to get more money…lot’s more money…this isn’t a little increase here.
And don’t those two arguments contradict themsleves?
I don’t know anything about the oil bussiness, what the costs are, how much profit they make, or anything else…I do believe that a $.40 increase in two months is absurd…and seems to me to be price gouging(sp?)
A few days ago VP Al Gore made a speech in Texas, commending the workers at General Dynamics, on the pending $80 billion order for F-16 fighters(ordered by the Gulf States). How are they paying for this? By jacking up the price of oil! So the American people are paying higher prices, so that this fraud (Al Gore) can win in Texas! Clinton is a party to this fraud as well-he’s been secretly encouraging the Arabs to withold production and drive up the price!
They had a story on the news today about how a radio station had a deal going on where if you showed up at this certain gas station, the first 94 customers would get their gas tanks filled free, and any remaining customers for the day would get gas at 94 cents a gallon. I guess there was a huge traffic jam in the area that started before dawn because of the hundred of vehicles waiting in line to get to this gas station. I just wish I remember what state this happened in (I missed the first couple of seconds of the story, so I missed the location)
Anyways, to answer the OP, the el-cheapo 87 grade gasoline goes for $1.59 around here, premium 94 grade is going for about $1.89.
Shadowfox
“The dead have risen, and they’re voting Republican!” - Bart Simpson
I would love to see you make it to MY house without a “gas guzzling SUV”. You would be stuck in a ditch or off in a field in seconds flat. Not all SUV drivers are yuppies- some of us just want to get home safely. 
PS- 1.49 gallon 87 octane
“If I had to live your life, I’d be begging to have someone pop out both my eyes. Just in case I came across a mirror.” - android209 (in the Pit)
Zettecity
Voted “Most Empathetic”- can you believe that?
Unfortunately I’ve got a whole mess of company vehicles on the road every day, and while normal increases in operating expenses are just built-in, this sudden run-up in fuel prices (especially diesel) is starting to hurt.
Fortunately, I have one major oil company on the current commercial client list and two local oil company execs on the current private client list. I expect things will be balancing out quite nicely . . .
Dr. Watson
“Revenge is the best revenge.”
Oh good Lord, let this not turn into another SUV/anti-SUV thread 
Zette, I don’t doubt you need a rugged vehicle to get to your house. Likewise, I’m sure there’s other people out there with legitimate need for a large, heavy built vehicle. But the great majority of SUV owners don’t really need them. We all survived until 1993 taking the kids to Little League in passenger cars and I doubt the world would collapse to do it now. For the amount of fuel the things burn and how efficiently they burn it, I find them extremely hard to justify.
I recently borrowed my mother’s Pathfinder for a while while one of the cars here was in the shop. To be honest, I enjoyed driving it, I enjoyed the space in it and thought it was a nice vehicle to drive. I got to use it in the snow, and appreciated how it handled although I have to say that I was really just playing with the 4WD as opposed to needing it to drive down a suburbian street - even one with a few inches of snow on it. But now that I’m back in my Altima, I feel just as secure (even with the baby) and am really enjoying the fact that I can refuel the car twice a month as opposed to once every 4-5 days with the truck.
As it’s been said before, if you can afford an SUV, you should be able to afford to fill the tank on it. However, it’s partially these gas drinking giants that help drive up prices as OPEC looks over and sees your typical American not only paying $40-$60 to fill their trucks, but doing nothing about it except buying more trucks while giving lip serive to “how high” gas prices are. When 50% of your non-commercial traffic on the US roads is in the form of SUVs and pickups, and the US already burns through more gas per capita than any other nation, I’d say there’s a legitimate gripe to be made against the SUV glut on the roads.
That said, I still will allow you to keep your SUV, Zette, 'cause I want you to be able to get home
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”