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I filled up for 1.99/gallon last week. It was a joy to see it at less than two dollars, finally.
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$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 $3.29 September 01 $2.39 October 23 $2.19 December 28 $2.39 January 05
It never seems to stay in place for very long.
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It's a great idea to keep track of mileage, not only for financial purposes, but for car maintenance purposes. I've got 8 months of mileage data analyzed now.
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Just curious as to how everyone else is doing.
Detroit, Michigan -
2005 $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 $3.29 September 01 $2.39 October 23 $2.19 December 28
2006 $2.39 January 05 $2.19 March 19 $2.49 March 25
Compared to last year, it's not much worse, but that's still not great.
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2.59 in suburban Chicago. I think I saw 2.89 last weekend within city limits. And they're already saying it's going to get higher as weather warms up.
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2005 $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 $3.29 September 01 $2.39 October 23 $2.19 December 28
2006 $2.39 January 05 $2.19 March 19 $2.49 March 25 $2.69 April 10 $2.79 April 11
Reports say it's only going to get worse. The Department of Energy predicts an incrase of a percent and a half in fuel consumption after a zero gain last year.
And it's not even summer yet.
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We're at $2.49 or so here in Portland, OR. It's sad, back at the beginning of March we were down to $1.96. (I hear we have the cheapest gas in the country, which is really bizarre...)
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I was running on fumes a couple days ago, but when I saw gas was at $2.79 I couldn't bring myself to buy a full tank; I stopped at $20, which got me about half a tank.
quote:In the United States, concerns that the country's nuclear program could lead to a confrontation that would disrupt Iran's crude oil supplies have propelled crude oil prices.
Today, crude oil for May delivery rose 24 cents to settle at $68.98 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Crude touched $69.45 a barrel, the highest since Sept. 2.
maui - What's the point of having a gas cap if they raise it whenever the gas prices get high?
The idea behind the gas cap is to keep prices down, I guess. At least the idiot who sponsored the bill (and is still defending it despite it being an unmitigated disaster) seems to think so. In practice, it has led to the highest gas prices in history. The cap is based on an average of mainland prices in three markets (NYC, LA and the gulf coast, I believe). Of course, the wholesalers are not REQUIRED to charge the maximum of the cap, but they always do, and who can blame them, when they have no idea what the cap will do the next week. It's disgusting. Gas prices on Maui have gone up $0.38 in the last month alone.
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I filled up on Friday at the same station as above, and it was 2.69. Today (4 days later) it's 2.73. 14 cents in about as many days.
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Good luck. The Gulf is reaching peak output soon, and then will only drop from there. And Florida won't let anyone drill in their coastal waters.
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Why do the prices go up in the summer? Do they have to compensate for the fact that no one is buying heating oil or something?
I got 10 gal at 2.59 here in New Hampshire this afternoon... I never know if I should fill up because it's the lowest it'll be for a long time or if I should get like, a half tank because the price will drop tomorrow and I'll regret it if I don't. Though, it hasn't gone down since the end of last month so I guess it's all uphill from here.
I can't wait to go to college in the city where I can take public transportation!
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Gas prices go up in the summer because demand skyrockets in the summer when people start driving more.
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breyerchic, I think it was Thursday that I last bought gas, so I'm sure the prices have gone up since then. FWIW it was at the BP at 3rd and Indiana.
I'm seriously considering not driving to work anymore. It's less than two miles from my house, plus the bus runs within a few blocks of both my house and my work, so I could walk one way and bus the other if I don't want to walk both ways in the 90-degree, 90% humidity Indiana summer weather. Lord knows I could use the exercise, hell, I could cancel my gym membership and save some money that way too Posts: 957 | Registered: Aug 2002
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2005 $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 $3.29 September 01 $2.39 October 23 $2.19 December 28
2006 $2.39 January 05 $2.19 March 19 $2.49 March 25 $2.69 April 10 $2.79 April 11 $2.89 April 19
Oil is at an all time high. Get ready to break the $3.00 barrier again.
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Um....I'm in between san diego and la. and the price I'm paying is 3.19 today....but it's been going up everyday.
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2005 $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 $3.29 September 01 $2.39 October 23 $2.19 December 28
2006 $2.39 January 05 $2.19 March 19 $2.49 March 25 $2.69 April 10 $2.79 April 11 $2.89 April 19 $2.99 July 24 $3.09 July 25 $2.99 July 27
Why is it always going up and down in increments of 10 cents? Either way, it'd be nice to see this go down by 50 cents or so. But that looks like wishful thinking at the moment. For some reason, American demand for gas has actually RISEN, despite the high price of gas, and skyrocketing price of oil.
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That isn't too surprising. I don't think you're anywhere near the price threshold beyond which significant numbers of people will alter their driving habits to conserve gasoline. Here, gas has been hovering around CDN$1/L, give or take ten cents (currently equivalent to US$3.33/gal), but despite the fact that gas prices were about CDN$0.60/L around here 3-4 years ago, people aren't changing their driving habits. Instead, they're complaining about gas prices.
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I had thought that $3/gallon would be the point at which people would really change their driving habits; when it first started creeping close to it a lot of my SUV driving coworkers started shopping around for more fuel efficient cars, and when it hit $3 briefly they seemed to have hit their boiling point, so to speak. The price dropped, though, and they cooled off and stopped looking. This time around the idea of paying that much, while still something to complain about, is something that they also have a context for; it isn't an unheard of thing. Because of that, I haven't heard any of them talk seriously about trying to either buy something more fuel efficient or drive less than they had been.
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2.59 four months (almost to the day) ago. 3.29 yesterday at the same station. And in discussing this thread and a similar one in another group, I realized that my prices have basically gone up more than 50% in the two years since I got my car. It had broken the $2.00 mark just before Dad gave the car to me... and in the month or so before I knew I was getting the car, I had made comments about how glad I was that I didn't have to pay that kind of money on a regular basis, just when I borrowed someone else's car for errands that couldn't be done by bicycle.
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$3.20s in Poughkeepsie New York as of about a week ago. 20 minutes west in New Paltz it's 15 cents cheaper. Meanwhile I'm going to go to Stop and Shop next week to buy some fruit and milk, but no way am I driving anywhere else before I have to fill up to get home.
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