The Gasoline Blues

[sheldonm]

...$1.99-$2.03 here in Indy....as low as $1.79 in some outlying areas. I was in Chicago this weekend...suburbs....$2.79...in the city..$3.45.

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[BruceH]

...$1.99-$2.03 here in Indy....as low as $1.79 in some outlying areas. I was in Chicago this weekend...suburbs....$2.79...in the city..$3.45.

m

Yeah, the oil companies really like to screw the cities.

[BruceH]

What do you want to bet that, after the election, no matter WHO wins, the price of gas will start going up again?

[Chuck Nessa]

The futures speculators have dropped out an the developing nations have stalled. It will go up again.

[sheldonm]

...$1.99-$2.03 here in Indy....as low as $1.79 in some outlying areas. I was in Chicago this weekend...suburbs....$2.79...in the city..$3.45.

m

Yeah, the oil companies really like to screw the cities.

...while not Chicago; Indy is a city....of about 1000000 people...but downtown Chicago is always about $0.75 per gallon higher than the burbs.

[AndrewHill]

$1.76!

[Jazzmoose]

I had a feeling it was getting pretty low somewhere when I saw $2.23 today in town. Must be, what, $ .79 in New Jersey?

[Niko]

I had a feeling it was getting pretty low somewhere when I saw $2.23 today in town. Must be, what, $ .79 in New Jersey?

if it's a monopoly you should be glad they reduce the price at all when it goes down elsewhere

[Big Al]

Dippin' into the $1.70's around here. Gonna enjoy this while it lasts and hope it never gets as high as $4 ever again!

[BruceH]

Dippin' into the $1.70's around here. Gonna enjoy this while it lasts and hope it never gets as high as $4 ever again!

Oh, it will, you can count on that.

[AllenLowe]

well, this new gas situation is leading to a lot of special promotions - the other day I went into my local station and there was no price posted; the guy said "if you can guess the price you can have sex for free." So I guessed and he said, "sorry," and I left. I was driving by the place a few days later with my wife - I said "those guys are offering sex if you can guess the right price, but I think the whole contest is fixed." "Oh no, I don't think so," she said. "I won three times last week."

Edited November 18, 2008 by AllenLowe

[AndrewHill]

$1.72!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

well, this new gas situation is leading to a lot of special promotions - the other day I went into my local station and there was no price posted; the guy said "if you can guess the price you can have sex for free." So I guessed and he said, "sorry," and I left. I was driving by the place a few days later with my wife - I said "those guys are offering sex if you can guess the right price, but I think the whole contest is fixed." "Oh no, I don't think so," she said. "I won three times last week."

MG

[7/4]

I had a feeling it was getting pretty low somewhere when I saw $2.23 today in town. Must be, what, $ .79 in New Jersey?

buck 80.

[Ted O'Reilly]

Well, let's see what a Toronto equivalent would be...

At a discount gas retailer, C$0.78.9/liter. At an exchange rate today of 1.255 that's 98.9 a liter.

A liter is .9463 US quart, so let's say 4 liters is a US gallon, (close enough) making it 4 X $0.989 or about $3.96 a gallon.

And Canada is your biggest supplier of petroleum, but you pay HALF what we do! (In Toronto, at least --probably cheaper elsewhere).

[BruceH]

Well, let's see what a Toronto equivalent would be...

At a discount gas retailer, C$0.78.9/liter. At an exchange rate today of 1.255 that's 98.9 a liter.

A liter is .9463 US quart, so let's say 4 liters is a US gallon, (close enough) making it 4 X $0.989 or about $3.96 a gallon.

Youch!!!! That just don't seem right.

[BruceH]

BTW, a couple days ago I went back and read the first page of this thread, dated March 30th, 2005. People are now saying how damn cheap gas has gotten when it's gone down to where it was then! And in March 2005 people were screaming that it was up to $2.20! Of course, it actually makes sense that gas seems cheap now after spiking up to 4 bucks-plus for a while. And it seems like it went down awfully fast in the last few months...historically fast.

Still...ironic, eh?

[Chas]

Well, let's see what a Toronto equivalent would be...

At a discount gas retailer, C$0.78.9/liter. At an exchange rate today of 1.255 that's 98.9 a liter.

A liter is .9463 US quart, so let's say 4 liters is a US gallon, (close enough) making it 4 X $0.989 or about $3.96 a gallon.

Youch!!!! That just don't seem right.

That's because it isn't .

C$0.78.9/liter is not US$0.98.9/liter , it's US$0.63/liter at today's exchange rate . So that's roughly US$2.50 a gallon .

[Hardbopjazz]

I never thought I would see gas prices this low again in my lifetime. Can we dip below the $1 mark here in the US? This was at CAMARILLO, Calif.

Edited December 8, 2008 by Hardbopjazz

[Tim McG]

I never thought I would see gas prices this low again in my lifetime. Can we dip below the $1 mark here in the US? This was at CAMARILLO, Calif.

Don't get used to it, Hardbopjazz.

When the oil greedheads decide to gouge us agian...they will.

[BERIGAN]

Remember all the "experts" that said we would never see gas prices south of $4.00 again??? Remember all the times in previous price spikes where they said it would go up $4.00, and it didn't??? Experts don't know shit most of the time. But they still get to call themselves experts.

I saw $1.50 yesterday, it brought a tear to me eye.

[sidewinder]

When the oil greedheads decide to gouge us agian...they will.

For sure !

[Jim Alfredson]

Makes you want to put a 500 gallon tank in your garage, doesn't it?

[Hardbopjazz]

Makes you want to put a 500 gallon tank in your garage, doesn't it?

I have.

[Jim Alfredson]

I tell you what... just a few months ago it was costing me $125 to fill my big conversion van. This weekend I filled the tank (36 gallons) for around $40. Damn.