gas prices

[Liss]

Just wondering what everyone's paying across the continent. I paid 3.05 today in Riverside, CA, and spotted a sign for 3.09 in Hollywood on Sunday.

[squirrels2nuts]

1.09
...
per litre.

[Marshall]

I paid 2.85 per gallon yesterday in Georgia.

:(

[johnny]

1.09
...
per litre.i think i heard on the radio this morning that prices were closing in on 110 cents/litre here in toronto. sucks for people who drive, i guess.

[raublekick]

about 2.90

i realized today that i go through about 10 gallons per week, which is about 1.3 gallons per day, which is $3 per day to go to school.

i got gas a few days ago and it stopped at $19.50, and i was pretty happy, but then i realized that it stopped too early and was only about 2/3 full.

[thecreeper]

2.81 today at a wawa. everywhere else was at least 2.90.

[GT2000]

mid 2.90s, at most pumps for regular, seen low 3s at some stations.

[Optimus Funk]

Puffy Shirt with ties - 65.00
Eye patch - 8.00
Fake parrot - 12.50
Stealing gas while dressed like a pirate.....Priceless

Oh and I doubt I need to mention it but 0.00 per gallon

[squirrels2nuts]

ya i bought a siphon for $3. maybe ill use it sometime.

[Jesse]

It's around the 3 dollar mark in Maine.

[GT2000]

My friend has a siphon...I too might be using it, especially with the gas shortages.

[Liss]

3.11!!

[squirrels2nuts]

who woulda thought a depleting, exploitable, non-renewable resource would escalate in value during a politically funded war for supply, and run by the very same oil tycoons who are jackin' up the prices?

:rolleyes:

[GT2000]

I found regular for 2.89 today, jackpot!

[raublekick]

who woulda thought a depleting, exploitable, non-renewable resource would escalate in value during a politically funded war for supply, and run by the very same oil tycoons who are jackin' up the prices?

:rolleyes:

well no shit. that doesn't mean it sucks any less.

[teensupernothing]

it's between 2.75 and 2.85 most places in jersey. freaking sucks. $42 to fill my tank from empty, and that was just over a week ago when gas was a little bit cheaper. earlier this week i put $30 in and it was like, half a tank, maybe a bit more 16mpg really, really sucks right now.

[Mr Biglesworth]

Good ol' bike.

[heX]

2.85/2.95 is pretty standard around here.

[johnny]

Good ol' bike.i'll say. air fer my tires is free.

[Jesse]

I remember when I got my license, gas was about $1.30/gal.

[raublekick]

gas was still under a buck when i got my license, ah the good old days. if i didn't have to drive so far for everything i'd use my bike all the time.

[squirrels2nuts]

ya, i should steal me another bike soon.

[Mr Biglesworth]

what happened to the last one?

[Liss]

3.17 when i walked by the mobil on the way to school today...3.25 when i walked by going the other way. (!?) i think i'm going to walk to alabama in june, since i won't be able to afford to leave the state of california by then.

[squirrels2nuts]

what happened to the last one?
turns out it belonged to someone i knew. :rolleyes:

[thecreeper]

gas was still under a buck when i got my license, ah the good old days. if i didn't have to drive so far for everything i'd use my bike all the time.
i'm gonna be telling my kids about how i got gas for $0.76 the first time i got gas with my permit, and $0.85 the first time i got gas with my license. shit, 10 bucks got you more than a full tank. then i will hit those horrible god forsaken children.

[teensupernothing]

the cheapest i've ever paid for gas was $2.25... right now the cheapest i can find is around $2.83

[heX]

i remember not buying gas if it was over a buck. that was my rule or thumb back in the day. "over a dollar? keep on drivin."

[Stormy]

Let's just say I'm glad I drive a hybrid.

[Liss]

Yea, when I got my license I was paying about .97...I remember when it hit a dollar I was pissed off.

[Mr Biglesworth]

Let's just say I'm glad I drive a hybrid.

hot. what is it?

[raublekick]

hot. what is it?

yes, yes, do tell! those civic hybrids look pretty sweet. i'm still a little shakey on them, cus i keep reading stuff that debunks the greatness of the hybrid. i want to know how you like yours though.

[Stormy]

Well, it's actually my dad's. But I drive it when I need something temorarily at school. It's a honda civic; real cute, drives smoothly, quietly (mostly when it is in rest briefly, I notice this lapse in background noise). I can drive from Richmond to Charlottesville and back twice on one tank of gas. That's about four hours with one tank, give or take 40 minutes. Plus, on the gas gage, there's also a battery gage, and when you aren't accelerating and are traveling at a good enough speed, it'll start to charge the battery (this is shown by green lines); this makes driving on the interstate a bit like a video game, where the goal is to see how charged I can make the battery.

It also has a nice economy air conditioning feature, where it'll turn the air off when you stop the car at at other times, to help conserve energy. I'm an amateur at gauging how "superior" one car may be from another, but this one drives well, and it saves me costs on gas.

[heX]

sounds pretty sweet. im looking into a hyrbid for my next car. right now i have the next best thing a small 4 cylinder. i only fill up once a week for 17 dollars. mind you thats whith out being bone dry on gas, ive ran out and had to walk too many times.

[thecreeper]

only four hours on one tank? i drove a little about 4.5 hours this weekend to massachusetts and i got 4 hours on one tank too. and my car is pretty shitty with fuel. of course, it cost me 35 to fill it up too.

[squirrels2nuts]

ive never run outta gas before, but i am always on the red line. its kinda like Kramer, pushing Jerrys car to see how far it can go... i can usually get 500km per 50L ... 10km/L. not bad, i suppose, but i should prolly have a Jerry can, yuk yuk... i never fill up the entire 60L now; $10 gets above the red line enough to drive for a few more days of work.
i should try some jetfuel in my shitty '95 cli-taurus because my friend refuels planes at the airport. now that would be an octane boost! wouldnt do much good with my leaking brake lines. ever drive with no brakes? unnerving, to say the least.

[johnny]

only four hours on one tank?it probably has a smaller tank than your car though?


from what i can tell, if yer looking into hybrids, toyotas got the best one: the prius. but even their little toyota echo is awfully good on fuel. i think they renamed the echo recently.. yaris, or something silly like that.

[raublekick]

it probably has a smaller tank than your car though?

i'd guess it has a much, much smaller tank. and hybrids aren't really designed for fast highway travel, because the battery can't sustain high speeds for long distances. but if people support them, maybe we can get them better and better.

[thecreeper]

yeah i figured that, i mean...my car is a piece of shit, so yeah.

jubjub

[Mike]

Yeah, the Toyota Prius is the best Hybrid car available. It's actually a really good car as well ... the first Hybrid car to not be a piece of shit.

THe thing is, if you drive a Hybrid car like any other car, then you're going to get essentially the same gas mileage. If you do only city driving, then you'll get great gas mileage because it'll run on the battery for like 85% of the time and using the breaks will automatically recharge the battery. If you do a lot of highway driving, though, then you won't see any more of a difference than you would in a similarly classed car.

This is the first generation of hybrids that haven't been a scam.

only four hours on one tank? i drove a little about 4.5 hours this weekend to massachusetts and i got 4 hours on one tank too. and my car is pretty shitty with fuel. of course, it cost me 35 to fill it up too.

You came to Massachusetts and you didn't visit me.......

Well, I probably wouldn't have let you into my apartment anyway.

[thecreeper]

You came to Massachusetts and you didn't visit me.......

Well, I probably wouldn't have let you into my apartment anyway.


i was pretty sure i left you a message on IM and to get back to me a week or so back...i was in cambridge with some shizz message board people. i dunno how close you are to that, but i will likely go back sometime in the future. eating at the super 88 market and border's texmex was some of the best food i've had in ages.

[Stormy]

If you do a lot of highway driving, though, then you won't see any more of a difference than you would in a similarly classed car.
I used to drive a normal honda accord, and didn't get nearly as dependable mileage as I do with the hybrid. And hybrids are good for highway driving at the recommended speed of 65, but not 70-75, at which I've been travelling recently.

I should have clarified that I don't necessarily need to refill after two two-way trips (keep in mind that I'm not including all the driving I do in Richmond/Charlottesville in the 4-5 hour amount of time), it's just easier to refill at one of my destinations than somewhere along I64 in the Virginian country.

[testtubebaby]

"Price Of Gas"

I've been driving, a mid sized car,
I never hurt anyone
Is that a fact?
The price of gas keeps on rising
Nothing comes for free
Make like a stone, make like a plant
I can tell you, how this ends

We're going to win this
With spades and truncheons, guns and trowels
That is how the war will be won
Just swat the fly
Taking care of cars and bodies
Nothing ever comes for me
The ghosts are here, red white and blue

I can tell you how this ends
We're going to win this

[GT2000]

Yeah, gas prices are killin..so damn glad my car sits in the garage for most of the week, ever since we started taking our work vans home everynight, I've saved a ton on gas...which, i'm glad i don't have to pay the bill for the gas in those vans, i fill up every two days, $40 each time, and the new fords cost 2x as much for the same amount of time...