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Title: buck 81
Post by: RotBaron on January 13, 2015, 04:16:13 AM
$ 1.81 a gallon at the pump/Quick Trip - 7th St and Butler.

How long, I can't remember, someone said 6 or 7 yrs, it feels more like 16-20yrs to me. In the '90's I could drive a Bronco 351/5.8 V8 ,1000 miles, Denver to Phx, much cheaper than a plane flight.

There is an old station that closed that I drive by regularly. It's prices sign is left and it's fenced off, the sign reads $1.89 for 89octante...I thought we'd never see that again.

Drill baby drill!
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: pipz on January 13, 2015, 05:34:18 AM
Huzzah!
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: MiloMorai on January 13, 2015, 05:53:25 AM
What is a octante?
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: RotBaron on January 13, 2015, 07:59:43 AM
What is a octante?

exactly   :rofl
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Nefarious on January 13, 2015, 08:56:18 AM
Drill baby drill!

Drilling here is slowing down. No new wells are being built. The plummeting price of oil and natural gas is making the process unprofitable in the US.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Rondar on January 13, 2015, 09:29:50 AM
Wonder if the earthquakes will slow down in Oklahoma and Kansas now?
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: mbailey on January 13, 2015, 09:43:27 AM
Still over 2.40 here in Pa, thanks to some infrastructure taxes put on gas that were just passed this year

Oh well.....guess it's better than our bridges falling down (and in all honesty it seems like they are doing a lot of work on our infrastructure ATM. )
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Karnak on January 13, 2015, 09:53:05 AM
Filled my 4Runner for $1.569/gallon in Cedar Park, TX yesterday.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Slate on January 13, 2015, 10:42:00 AM
Drilling here is slowing down. No new wells are being built. The plummeting price of oil and natural gas is making the process unprofitable in the US.

  It has been speculated that middle east suppliers would drop price to make fracking too expensive then jack up the price when those companies dissolved.   :noid
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: NatCigg on January 13, 2015, 11:13:13 AM
I remember complaining about 1.90 gas around the iraq war invasion. so 01-03, by 06 i remember paying over 4$, not that the two were related.  :bolt:
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: RotBaron on January 13, 2015, 02:28:44 PM
Drilling here is slowing down. No new wells are being built. The plummeting price of oil and natural gas is making the process unprofitable in the US.

Petroleum atm is slowing some in production with S America and M East continuing to produce, as they have few other commodities worth as much export wise...Natural gas, price holding strong, energy co.'s involved in both, doing just fine.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: PR3D4TOR on January 13, 2015, 05:21:02 PM
What is a octante?

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Oktant.jpg/1024px-Oktant.jpg)
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: chaser on January 14, 2015, 08:30:36 PM
Filled up my Jeep yesterday for $1.79 and got it full for under $30 for the first time ever. Used to cost over $60 to put a full tank from empty.

Of course today the price dropped again just cause I filled up last night  :noid
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Hetzer7 on January 15, 2015, 09:34:07 AM

Drill baby drill!


(http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/10288450/3/stock-photo-10288450-saudi-arabian-businessman-smiling-and-giving-two-thumbs-up-weari.jpg)
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Karnak on January 15, 2015, 10:01:44 AM
Still $1.569/gallon when I filled my Corolla this morning.  $16 and change for a full tank of gas.  4Runner was under $30 for the full tank.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 15, 2015, 02:28:43 PM
Still $1.569/gallon when I filled my Corolla this morning.  $16 and change for a full tank of gas.  4Runner was under $30 for the full tank.

So you're a Toyota guy I guess? :D
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: noman on January 15, 2015, 04:13:31 PM
Saw gas in Tomball Texas on the news last night $1.49 a gallon.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: ozrocker on January 15, 2015, 04:37:49 PM
Oil will continue to drop in price. Of course with OPEC keeping prices down,
it'll give reasons for states to increase gas taxes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/alwaleed-oil-never-going-back-to-100-2015-1



                                                                                                                            :cheers:Oz
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Karnak on January 15, 2015, 07:56:48 PM
So you're a Toyota guy I guess? :D
Only auto company that hasn't screwed me with a bad product so far.  Haven't given Honda, Subaru or Kia a shot yet.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: flight17 on January 15, 2015, 08:01:55 PM
Still over 2.40 here in Pa, thanks to some infrastructure taxes put on gas that were just passed this year

Oh well.....guess it's better than our bridges falling down (and in all honesty it seems like they are doing a lot of work on our infrastructure ATM. )
moved from Pittsburgh to Philly a week and a half ago...

 It was 2.67 on the west side and 2.20-2.30 over here. It's already down to 2.17 since I have gotten here and has dropped .04 in last two days.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: RotBaron on January 16, 2015, 06:27:37 AM
Saw it at $ 1.73 in a good part of town, ironically continuing on through a bad part it was as high as $ 1.99; must be more to that.
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 16, 2015, 09:29:20 AM
Only auto company that hasn't screwed me with a bad product so far.  Haven't given Honda, Subaru or Kia a shot yet.

Very durable cars but I don't like driving them (anymore). My first two cars were Toyotas - and they withstood an unimaginable amount of beating. Everything from burnouts with the puny 1.3 liter engine to 4 wheel slides and handbrake turns on tarmac. And the only service I gave them was to add oil when the black goo on the stick started dropping lol.

My first Toyota was pre owned by an old farmer. When I bought it it had a top speed of 90km/h (53mph). It just didn't go any faster pedal to the metal. By the time I had driven it 2 months the car did already 160km/h to the clock on a new driver 80 limit. :D
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: Slate on January 16, 2015, 10:42:48 AM
   I had an 86 Toyota Corolla and a Front End Loader rolled down a hill where I was parked at work (park brake failed) and smashed the left rear trunk and quarter panel. Drove it another year after I cut out the damage and welded in parts from a junk yard then sold it.

    Nothing bad to say about Toyota except the "silent recalls".  :noid
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: PR3D4TOR on January 16, 2015, 11:02:56 AM
I find Toyotas to be long on reliability/durability, but a bit short on quality. Cheap plastics and quick-fix solutions. I owned a 2nd gen 4-runner back in the '90s. The shoulder sash guide of the rear seat belts were mounted by bolting them through the roof. The bolt heads were literally protruding out of the top of the car. I kid you not. Durable? Sure, but pretty it was not.

Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 16, 2015, 12:14:26 PM
I find Toyotas to be long on reliability/durability, but a bit short on quality. Cheap plastics and quick-fix solutions. I owned a 2nd gen 4-runner back in the '90s. The shoulder sash guide of the rear seat belts were mounted by bolting them through the roof. The bolt heads were literally protruding out of the top of the car. I kid you not. Durable? Sure, but pretty it was not.



Who remembers the Top Gear Toyota Hilux they tried to destroy by crashing it, smashing it with a wrecking ball, dropping it from a crane, sinking it in a lake, burning it and it still started after some quick service?

(http://blog.toyota.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hilux_invincible_a.jpg)
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: PR3D4TOR on January 16, 2015, 03:28:20 PM
Isn't that what all Hilux' look like?
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: RotBaron on January 16, 2015, 03:45:42 PM
I find Toyotas to be long on reliability/durability, but a bit short on quality. Cheap plastics and quick-fix solutions. I owned a 2nd gen 4-runner back in the '90s. The shoulder sash guide of the rear seat belts were mounted by bolting them through the roof. The bolt heads were literally protruding out of the top of the car. I kid you not. Durable? Sure, but pretty it was not.



Family has/had 6; 2RAVs, 2Camrys, 1 4Runr, 1Tacoma. Seat belts in some way and their retrieve all have had issues. Small complaint for nothing else, except one thing on the first Camry, engine oil seals; blue smoke...
Title: Re: buck 81
Post by: flight17 on January 16, 2015, 06:42:02 PM
Dropped another .05 cents today