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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: T0J0 on September 11, 2006, 03:05:03 PM
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Just paid $2.28 a gallon...Last week I paid 2.79
Come on $40 a barrel....
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I paid.. 2.89 for 89 yesterday.. I haven't seen any changes!:mad:
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$2.79 - $2.89 here for regular.
(Milwaukee - WI)
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Originally posted by T0J0
Come on $40 a barrel....
That is not gonna happen im afraid.
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last couple weeks near my house in Bastrop county, gas dropped from $2.89 - 2.92ish down to $2.45 - 2.54. However in Austin just 20 miles away I'm still seeing $2.69 to 2.56. Before gas prices got all wacky it used to be just the opposite
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2.38 for 89 in Dallas
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2.29 outside of detroit
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Originally posted by T0J0
Just paid $2.28 a gallon...Last week I paid 2.79
Come on $40 a barrel....
We are so easily trained.. $2.28/gallon is "plummeting" prices. hehe When it's $1.00/gallon, I will be a bit more excited.
I can't wait until someone invents the "Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor" that will do the whole "garbage to Gigawatts" thingy. Of course, I will probably be LONG gone by the time anything that cool happens!!
Terror
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Originally posted by Airscrew
last couple weeks near my house in Bastrop county, gas dropped from $2.89 - 2.92ish down to $2.45 - 2.54. However in Austin just 20 miles away I'm still seeing $2.69 to 2.56. Before gas prices got all wacky it used to be just the opposite
Didn't realise ya lived that close to Austin.
Round Rock about the same.
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$2.33 in Houston @ relatively high priced gas stations. Seen as low as $2.25 so far.
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Originally posted by RedTop
Didn't realise ya lived that close to Austin.
Round Rock about the same.
Yep, Cedar Creek covers a large area from about Travis - Bastrop County line east towards Bastrop and south to Caldwell County line. I live just a couple of miles from Caldwell county line. it Takes me about 45 minutes from my house to Pflugerville. My parents live there and Shoulman. Edbert is closer to Round Rock. We were talking at the con about getting together one of these weekends and getting some wings and beers.
Indy, gas is usually cheaper in Austin than Houston, not by much, few pennies maybe. San Antonio is usally cheaper than Austin. Maybe the prices fall in reverse. Houston comes down then Austin, then San Antonio.
Maybe by next week gas will be down to $2.25 here.
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Gas here in Charleston, IL (small town, college town) gas is 2.43. Up north at home in Homewood its in the 3's.
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$2.09 for 87 in Huber Heights, Ohio
May not have to sell the vette after all :aok
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I changed the prices today at work. Down to 2.84 from 2.88
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Around $2.20 a gallon here in southwest VA.
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pfft after elections it will going right back up but, enyoy it while it lasts
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$2.78 5 miles away in Parker, 2.86 here in Aurora.
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I still remember 82 cents per gallon, Rockford IL, end of 1998.
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still about $3.29 in Hawaii, with av gas about $5.50
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I blame boosh. It's killing my oil stocks and making the honda civic I just purchased last week look like the wimp move of the year! I should have gotten that BEEMER dagnabit!
Stupid supply and demand making everything hard *mumble mumble*
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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!! Found a station in Houston with $2.14 for 87 oct.
Eagl, how's that civic? I've been looking at a commuter car for my whopping 1 mile drive to work. I'm serious...what do you think of it?
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Well, the wifey is actually the one who's driven the civic, and I won't get a chance to drive it for another month or so since the car is in Dallas and I'm in Korea. Plus the wife managed to drive the car a whole 20 ft before somehow managing to stick a nail through the sidewall of a front tire, so the car has been parked with a flat tire since we bought it. It has a new tire now but sheesh... women :)
Anyhow, the civic seems to be a winner on almost all fronts. The "car guy" in me hates honda for really stupid anti-car-guy marketing decisions. For example, there are no engine or performance options for the sedan, and you can't get 4-wheel disc brakes until you go for the top of the line EX model, which has about a $4000 price premium and a moonroof we didn't really want. Compare that to the Mazda 3, where even the base model has 4 wheel disc brakes and the 4 door sedan is fairly peppy, and the marketing and options for the civic are downright insulting. It's like they're saying "if you care about options like brakes, go the hell away, buy something else".
That said, the car itself pretty much leads it's class. The dealers won't even consider making deals because they are just flying off the lot as they arrive. 40 no-kidding mpg on the freeway helps a lot. Plus the car does have 140hp which doesn't exactly suck, and the rest of the standard features are pretty much what you'd expect from a refreshed design new car. It's not a tiny econobox and the styling takes just a little after the accord, and I think that's an intentional styling cue to distinguish the civic from Honda's new teeny tiny cars.
I think we'll be happy with the civic because it's designed to do exactly what we want it to do - putt around town efficiently but more comfortably than a sub-compact, and still be a nice enough car to be comfortable on road trips. The folding rear seats and other travel features sort of make the deal there (even the BMW 3 series doesn't have standard folding rear seatbacks... duh!).
I was seriously looking into the Mazda 3, but it has 4 things going against it. First, the wifey didn't like it as much as the civic. Second, it gets worse gas mileage than the civic. Third, the styling cues for the upscale package makes the car look like a middle age boi-racer nightmare... Leather seats are an option but they're BLACK with RED seat and back inserts! Ugliest damn seats I've EVER seen except for this one WRX I saw this one time at band camp. And Fourth, the wifey didn't like it as much as the civic ;) Seriously, the fourth problem is that the mazda 3 design looks pretty much like the civic did before the design refresh, and that means right off the lot it looks like a used car compared to the civic. Yea you can get more HP than the civic, but the extra 10 or 20 hp comes at a cost of around 20% lower fuel efficiency. Bad tradeoff there IMHO.
My wife did like the toyota corolla a lot, but the interior dimensions flat-out suck for any male american taller than 5 ft 6 inches. The pedals are too close to the seat so in order to have a comfortable foot position, you have to literally lean forward off of the seatback to reach the steering wheel. Consumer reports has complained about this with the corolla for over a decade now, and the corolla I drove a couple of years ago was a shining example of this problem. I couldn't drive the car for more than an hour without getting either calf leg cramps or upper back muscle spasms. Terrible ergonomics for most American men.
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Originally posted by FUNKED1
I still remember 82 cents per gallon, Rockford IL, end of 1998.
If you wanna go down memory lane I remember back around 70 I used to mow grass and when I was low on cash I would just walk around picking up pennies here and there till I had the .15 I needed for a gallon of gas.
Then of course later in the 70s we had Carter and all that changed.
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Originally posted by RedDg
May not have to sell the vette after all :aok
Doesnt it say in the manual "Premium only" for the LS1
J/K i know there really isnt much difference, but on a weekend drive thru southern Wi. i filled with prem for 2.87 per gallon.
mtndog
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In my case it's a 350 V8, but still gets premium gas. Which is now $2.33 :cool:
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Originally posted by Mightytboy
If you wanna go down memory lane I remember back around 70 I used to mow grass and when I was low on cash I would just walk around picking up pennies here and there till I had the .15 I needed for a gallon of gas.
Then of course later in the 70s we had Carter and all that changed.
I remember 19 cents a gallon. It was in '73 when OPEC cut back on supplies forcing the prices up. Been going up ever since. Seems to me that even if the US could supply all of it's own oil the price would still be regulated by the foreign market, at least without government intervention/interference.
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Originally posted by Mightytboy
If you wanna go down memory lane I remember back around 70 I used to mow grass and when I was low on cash I would just walk around picking up pennies here and there till I had the .15 I needed for a gallon of gas.
Then of course later in the 70s we had Carter and all that changed.
ahh the memories. 1977, my 1975 Vega, gas was .48 cents a gallon and I got paid about $1.35 an hour for my part time job at a Winn's department store. I could fill up on about $5.00.
Mightyboy, in 71 or 72 if I needed gas money for the lawnmower I would just find coke bottles and return them. if that didnt work then I would use my allowance, .75 cents and get gas. Then go cut grass, I got $1.50 to 3.00 depending on the size of the yard. Then take that money and go to the base PX and buy models for .75 to .85 cents.
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I bought gas for 19 to 21 cents per gallon in 69 and 70. A $5.00 used to last me an entire, to include a tank of gas, a quart of oil with a bit left over. I remember being REALLY pissed off when it jumped to 50 cents.
Then again I was buying diesel for $1.35 in 04 and it's still listed at $3.24 here in Missoula MT. today. Did I mention I'm pissed........
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We filled up the 500 gallon tank on the back of the truck for the John Deeres, was about $150, that seems like 1971... Pop bottle returns bought the lawn mower gas and a soda...
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I remember in '86 my senior year it actually fell down to around 60 cents a gallon. And if I remember correctly there was a time when it was in the mid-50's. Which was good because my '65 GTO drank gas like water.
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$6.60 per US gallon of cheap crap 95oct.... London UK.
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$2.19 per gallon as of last night in St Louis Mo. Hahahah, funny how we were all upset about 2.19 per gallon a cupple years ago. Now i' cant wait to fill up my car:D
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adjusted for inflation... when we get back to $2 a gallon we will be about the same condition as we were in when gas was fifty cents a gallon.
lazs
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Shaddup Lazs, nobody wants any common sense, reasonable discussion, or realistic comparisions around here. I heard once that gas was a nickle a gallon, and damnit it's boosh's fault we're paying more than that now!