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12-10-2014, 03:45 PM | #55 |
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Citgo gas here is 2.77 per gallon located at a suburb of chicago
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12-11-2014, 02:11 AM | #56 | |
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I'm only really envious of one person (a friend, and one of two roommates in a 3 bedroom apartment) , and it's because he had experiences over a 3 year period that no one can ever have again re permanent changes due to war. Between 1988 and 1991 he would work a crazy number of hours for four months at two different jobs (lifeguard..employed by the state...at a state beach in California...and his other job was working as an EMT). He lived very frugally during those 4 months and then traveled very frugally the other 8 months of those years. He concentrated on Asia, Africa, and on remote island nations. He dressed up as a local and found a way to get into Afghanistan. He visited Babylon...and many other places in Iraq. He got pelted by rocks in Nablus after being seen having a conversation with an Israeli soldier..and had to run for cover. Those are the crazy jaunts I recall most easily. I remember, on one of the postcards he sent to me during this period, he indicated that gas in Saudi Arabia (another one of the countries he visited) was the equivalent of 12 cents USD per U.S. Gallon, rather than the 12 cents USD per liter/litre it is today. |
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12-11-2014, 02:56 PM | #57 |
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I filled up a 0.97 /L and saw one gas station selling it for 0.96 /L today. That's the cheapest I have seen it in many, many years.
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12-12-2014, 07:09 AM | #58 | |
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......but while I'm at it ..... Last week (IIRC) I saw a gas price feature on the local news (NYC Metro station). The feature wasn't about NY/NJ area gas prices, it was about a group of gas stations in Oklahoma City (apparently all in the same neighborhood) that had lowered their prices for regular grade gas to $1.99 USD per U.S. gallon. A harbinger of things to come? Last edited by nookandcrannycar; 12-12-2014 at 07:26 AM. |
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12-15-2014, 10:09 AM | #59 |
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Last night, on a Dallas radio station, one of the talk show hosts mentioned that the gas station in downtown Dallas that had lowered it's price for 97 octane to $1.99 (USD per U.S. Gallon), had multiple people at a time just managing the lines for a good portion of the weekend.
I needed gas this morning, and checked Gas Buddy. The 15 cheapest stations in the Houston Metro ranged from $1.95 USD per U.S. Gallon to $2.09 per U.S. Gallon. Only three of those = North of Interstate 10 (the northern half of the Houston Metro), and only one of those in my neck of the woods....a Sam's Club...I'm not a member. I plugged in a local zip code...and the prices were outrageous (cheapest $2.38 9/10), given other locations. Fortunately, Gas Buddy has a 'new' feature (at least new to me ) that includes zip codes close to the one the user searched . This revealed two stations in the same block at $2.17 9/10 USD per U.S. gallon. I stopped at one of those stations. A bit over 40.32 MPG for the tank. Included more city driving than usual. |
12-16-2014, 07:26 AM | #60 |
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$2.34 this am here in SJ.
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12-23-2014, 11:06 AM | #61 |
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$ 1.86 9/10 USD per U.S. Gallon at a Kroger in Cypress, TX last night. This was 4th cheapest in the Houston Metro....3 stations tied for the cheapest at $ 1.83 9/10 USD per U.S. Gallon. MPG for the tank = 41.186570
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12-23-2014, 11:56 AM | #62 |
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Unreal.
$2.25 here this am. The Exxon station I frequent has closed. Its gas price sign stuck on $2.53. I wonder why? Also, I wonder when the bounce back to rising prices will happen?
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12-23-2014, 03:57 PM | #63 | |
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I remember at one point in the last 6 1/2 years the amount my cousin, 7 to 10 miles north of San Francisco, was paying was $1.00-$1.10 or so per gallon more than I was paying here. When will prices rise again? It will be interesting to see how things play out. Heavily influenced by fracking, one has to go back to 1987 to see U.S. net crude oil and petroleum product imports at levels this low. With that, slowing demand in China and Europe, and other factors, the price of Brent crude fell over 25 percent from June to mid November. Saudi Arabia may be trying to retain market share by undercutting American producers. Saudi Arabia may be trying to make fracking unprofitable. If they could accomplish that, some rigs would go offline, supply would be reduced, and there would be room for more Saudi imports in the U.S. market. |
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12-23-2014, 05:39 PM | #64 |
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I never thought I see under $2 a gallon, but it's here.
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12-23-2014, 05:47 PM | #65 | |
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Here it dropped by 20cents.... From 1,60+ to 1,43+ PER LITRE. A gallon is 3,785 litres. Imagine that. Also note that the average salary is 500. Sent from my awesome Xperia Z1 C6903 using Tapatalk.
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12-23-2014, 11:59 PM | #66 |
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I remember thumbing through my 2007 Yaris logbook last summer and noticing that gas was under $2.00 per gallon during part of the last quarter of 2008. Of course that was soon after Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy, and demand was 'cratering'.
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12-24-2014, 01:16 AM | #67 | |
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Re complaining, IMO, one of the roots of some of the ills that fester within American society is a general lack of gratitude. Sometimes this afflicts some of those who should be most grateful, who instead WHINE and COMPLAIN. I am a lifelong San Francisco 49ers AND Oakland Raiders fan. Some people are rabid fans of one, and NOT the other. Stereotypically, Raiders fans are considered more blue collar. Some rabid Raiders fans refer to 49ers fans as the 'WHINE and cheese crowd' (mocking the phrase 'wine and cheese crowd'). |
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12-24-2014, 01:18 AM | #68 |
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$2.099 around here. Exactly $0.10 more than when I first moved here in '05. At that time, gasoline was seeing its initial surge, it was $2.429/g when I left California a week earlier. These are the lowest prices I have seen in a good while.
It won't last. Saudi Arabia is trying to put both American frackers and ISIS black marketeers out of business. I see this lasting a year or so, two at the most. I Am enjoying the sub-six-cents-per-mile while it lasts.
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Living in Camden is like living in the 3rd World in many ways. It a jungle!
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12-24-2014, 11:23 AM | #70 |
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. I remember, in 2006, trying to find a turn that I needed to make in Camden. I stopped at a gas station to ask the clerk about the turn. He had no clue, but I did learn that he had lived there for 10 years. I eventually found the turn. It was very close by....a few blocks away. I remember shaking my head that a guy could live in a neighborhood for 10 years and know so little about the neighborhood.
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12-25-2014, 06:42 AM | #71 |
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When I moved here in the 80s I had an enduro motorcycle which I used to ride in what we call the Pinewoods in South Jersey towards the shore. But I worked in Camden and thought it would be adventurous to ride around the town as there are so many bombed WW2 type neighborhoods. Its a lot closer too. Big mistake! Whereas the downtown area is actually pretty safe the neighborhoods are not. The first red light I came to there were half a dozen young males hanging out there. They looked barely able to control their urge to hit me over the head and take my bike! I got out of there pronto and abandoned my adventure.
However, gangs of like 50 residents are often seen riding their (illegal) dirt bikes around the city, both two and four wheelers. They can ride for miles in wheelie fashion.
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12-25-2014, 08:48 AM | #72 |
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$1.83 on Missouri side, 1.97 on Kansas side. state taxes are the difference
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