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$2.68 at a station I pass on the way to work. Sheesh! They said on the radio that prices traditionally fall after Labor Day. I hope that doesn't mean they are going to rise until then.
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Yep - it jumped another 10 to 20 cents yesterday while I was at work.
So last night I went to the Farmer's Co-op to get gas. They traditionally don't raise their prices until they actually get their next "load" of fuel for their tanks -- whereas the convenience stores raise prices on futures, not on the cost of what they currently have underground. So I paid $2.50 (bad enough) while all the stations were running $2.60 and up.
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I used to have a reel mower (picked up at a garage sale), but trying to mow even a tiny patch of lawn in Phoenix in the summer with a reel mower was unbearable, so my husband gave me an electric one for Christmas. I love my electric lawnmower!
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I got one at Lowe's this past spring. They had two different models to choose from, so there isn't a whole lot of selection, but they are available. Mine cost somewhere in the $90 range.
I shudder to think how long it would take to do 15 acres with any kind of a push mower, powered or not. When I was a kid I had to mow 3.5 acres with an old motorized push mower (the type that doesn't provide any motive power of its own), and it always took *forever*.
I don't think that we'll have a 70s style oil shortage though; the problem right now doesn't seem to be supply. As long as people are willing to continue paying what they're paying, the oil companies are going to be happy to make sure that gas stations have plenty of supply (in the relatively near term--I'm not talking about the availability of gas in, say, 20 years or anything).
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I have an electric mower. I'll buy you one, Farmgirl, if you can come up with a practical way to haul around a 15 acre-long extension cord. Posts: 6394 | Registered: Dec 1999
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What I'd *like* to get is a mower that is powered by fermenting grass clippings. I read about someone developing one of those a few years back, but nothing seems to have come of it.
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I love our electric mower. We have an electric (Cordless!!!!) weed whacker/edger too, which seriously cuts yard work time in half, and it's fun too. Automatically feeds the line too.
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I'm watching the CBS news at the moment - and they just showed a BP station somewhere within the Chicago city limits selling regular for $2.95 a gallon!!!!
(edited to add city for those who don't know where i am)
$2.37 April 04 $2.49 August 09 $2.56 August 14 $2.76 August 15 $2.66 August 21 $2.59 August 23 $2.62 August 27 $2.66 August 28 $2.79 August 29 $2.89 August 30
Nice.
All taken from the same Mobil station.
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There isn't much gas to be had around here. Most stations are completely sold out due to the massive evacuation in the area. I'm trying to limit my driving - I've only got about half a tank left. Most stations that still have gas only have premium or ultra or whatever the highest brand is called. That's selling on average for about $2.70 a gallon. Prices haven't changed dramatically since the hurricane struck, it's just availability that makes buying gas difficult.
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I filled up this morning for $2.53 for regular. At lunch it was $2.57. I'm going to check it on the way home from work too. (mays landing, NJ)
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Gas jumped 27 cents here in KC since Katrina. Sunday, I could have paid 2.59. Today, I paid $2.83, after a 3 cent discount at Hyvee. I'm expecting it to pass $3 this week or next.
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Yeah, I expect it to pass $3 dollars a gallon here over the weekend as well. But I also expect it to fall 30 cents in the next month.
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2.65/gallon in Boston Metro (Somerville) ---
When honeymooning in Victoria, BC, the price was 1.01/liter!
-Bok
EDIT: Of course, at ~45 MPG, and only ~120 miles into my 12 gallon tank, with my commute I won't be filling up for another 2-3 weeks... By which point gas will be at 3.12 or something. Sheesh.
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Gas here went up .08 a gallon on Monday to $3.19.
I filled up yesterday in anticipation of what will happen next.
I sat down with my girls last night and had them figure out our gas mileage, based on the latest fill up. Then we figured at the current price of gas, we pay about 13 cents for every mile driven, so at $3.20 a gallon, I pay about $4 a day to get to work and home. We talked about some things we could do to cut back in other areas to ease the burden a bit.
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Well, today the same gas station(Mays Landing, NJ) is $2.70. Up 17 cents from just yesterday morning when I filled up.
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It's been hovering around CDN$1/L here recently. That's US$3.18/gal. In the eastern part of Canada it's up as far as CDN$1.20/L in some places, which is US$3.82/gal.
(These calculations are based on today's exchange rate.)
Added: I live in an area that is also home to two refineries. Gas is cheap here compared to other parts of Canada.
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Gas prices have gone up here since yesterday morning. The biggest example was a place that was at 2.59 on my way into work yesterday and 2.79 on my way home. I was able to fill up yesterday for 2.63 (I saw 2 other stations also at 2.63 on my way home). I didn't pass those same stations on my way into work today, but I would suspect they've jumped up to the 2.70ish range (since thats about what everything else was).
There have been reports of shortages at a few (independent) gas stations in the Phoenix area.
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I got gas last night for $2.46 a gallon. The first gas station I went to was out of the cheapest grade of gas, however, so I had to go to a second station to get it at that price.
This morning it is $3.09
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$2.80, going down to bay area which is normally 15-25 cents more than Carson City, Nevada. Goody!!!!
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Sharpie just called from Maine (Portland area), saw regular for $3.17. They drove on and found it for $2.66 closer to town, but there were LONG lines -- around the block, regulated with orange cones.
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I just heard from a coworker who went out for lunch that it's $2.99 here. I passed a gas station on the way to work this morning and it was $2.79. So that's a 20 cent jump in a couple of hours.
I live about an hour away from Atlanta, Georgia.
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I didn't have time to stop on my way to work this morning. I saw it was $2.87. When I went at lunch the same station was $2.92. I guess I should have just been late to work this morning. This is in Camarillo, CA.
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Well, that's only 5 cents difference, Mama Squirrel, so you probably only would have saved 60 cents or so (assuming you weren't wanting to fuel up some gas guzzling SUV with a mammoth gas tank or something). I'd probably pay 60 cents not to feel stressed out about getting to work late, myself.
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Looks like North Carolina's having some issues. Here in Greensboro the gas supply is drying up left and right. I've heard reports of $3.50 a gallon and higher (as of about 7 p.m.) and police officers at most gas stations.
Apparently, two of the pipelines for gas supplying our state are down for the near future. The report from the governor's office said as much as 90 percent of our resupply is gone. Gone.
Whew, strange days indeed.
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