Gas $1.96

[GDSOB]

Originally posted by lendaddy
Why is Bush doing this? He only has a couple of years more to make himself and his oil buddies rich. Oh man I bet they're not happy with him right now. I think Bush should just set the price at $2.25 and call it good.

Where do you guys think Bush should set the price?

I think the incumbents want it as low as possible by the mid term election.

[masraum]

The Chevron closest to my house is running 2.18, the Kroger (grocery store) the other direction is 2.15. I always get the Chevron. Luckily that's the cheapest around too.

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

[legion]

Originally posted by LubeMaster77
$2.37 - AND WE MAKE IT HERE!

It's more expensive when it's fresh.

[lendaddy]

Originally posted by GDSOB
I think the incumbents want it as low as possible by the mid term election.

Interesting, yes I see that. Keep the Republican house so that THEY can set prices higher after the election. Fair enough.

[Aurel]

I paid $2.49 today in NJ. I don`t get it: NJ used to be one of the cheapest places to buy gas, and now it seems to have some of the highest prices??

Aurel

[Aurel]

Maybe punishment for electing Dem. governor Corzine?

Aurel

[SlowToady]

$2.05 here in Lexington for regular. From what I hear, still about $3.15 for regular back home. (Back home == Northern suburbs of Chicago.) I was so excited when I got here, I started jumping up and down yelling in the gas station parking lot.

When I was car shopping, I almost bought a Mustang GT but the gas would have been too expensive. Now gas is cheap and I'm driving a 109HP (flywheel) VW Golf.

[nostatic]

hmm, 91 is still over $3/gal here, although maybe I just hit the wrong station yesterday. It was the first time I've bought gas in over a month.

[JeremyD]

2.36 in Florida and I was happy about that...

[onlycafe]

here in central new york the price of 93 octane has just slipped back down below $3.00 @gallon. regular is around $2.79.

[GDSOB]

Spoke too soon. Just went out to lunch and now is 2.24...

[jrdavid68]

Lowest I saw yesterday was:

2.67 - 87 Octane
2.79 - 89 Octane
2.99 - 91 Octane

Usually the spread is .20 not .32 and of course most of my vehicles take 91 Octane.

[hardflex]

saw a 2.14 here Lewisville at the QT

Did anybody read the Consumer Reports article on Ethanol Gas. I browsed thru it and it made many good points. most interesting to me, they pointed out that all gas is the same going into the tanker trucks, then the additives are added to the tanker to make it different (chevron adds techroline for example) So in other words, buy the cheapest gas you can get with the octane you need cause it's all the same. Any comments on that?

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Diesel is still over 3 bucks here in a lot of places. I think the 91 grade at the station down the street was $2.89 this morning but I wasn't really paying that close of attention.

[cegerer]

Who exactly does Bush call to set gas prices anyway? Does he call each oil company individually? Is OPEC in on the call too? I actually know someone (who seems to be a reasonably intelligent person otherwise and graduated from the public school system ....) who believes these calls are made.

All I need to know is when that sonnofb!tch Bush is going to 'make the call' to the diesel producers!

[rick-l]

Originally posted by svandamme
it's 1,5 Euro here


per liter.

Is this how it works?

1 US gallon = 3.7854118 litres
1 Euro = 1.2697 U.S. dollars

3.78 * 1.27 = $4.80

I don't feel that bad for you guys. The propaganda i've heard was gas in Europe was $6 per gallon. $3.20 per gallon was not a severe issue here.

[JeremyD]

Still as low as it's going makes me think a little little manipulation is taking place.

[speeder]

WTF is up w/ diesel?? Seriously, the only explanation that makes sense is the incredible amount that the DOD is buying for jet fuel and trucks/tanks/what-not in the ME. That would be extra over the *everyday normal amount* that the world burns w/o any wars of choice going on.

There is also the switch-over to ULSD, which is schit fuel, BTW. Less BTUs. There should be consumer legislation in DC that no new regulations on road fuels can be enacted that reduce the BTUs of the fuel. It burns cleaner, but of course the country and each user will burn more of it, negating some of the clean air benefit while fisting the consumer. And big oil will sell more of it. For a higher price. ****ers.

And Ha ha ha to the GOP wit displayed here; no, Bush does not "call the oil companies" and set the price. He simply mangles foreign policy, disrupting and destabilising the ME, and oil goes through the roof. And the US taxpayer gets fisted coming and going, putting fuel in the family car and in the AF jets and army tanks. All at double the price of a couple years ago. It's what you'd just call a "happy coincidence", the way that Halliburton, big oil and defense contractors have made out on this. Nothing to get upset about.

[cegerer]

I would seriously doubt the military even puts a dent in worldwide distillate fuel (diesel, jet fuel, home heating). In any case, it's a completely different market from gasoline and usage tends to be more consistent and predictable. If you want somebody to blame? Guess who? The CHINESE. Demand/prices are way up due to their booming economy and Euro refineries are selling all they can to China, limiting the amount available for import to the US. It's all supply and demand. Luckily, with the mileage I get with my diesel I don't really care. But the truckers and farmers gotta be livid about now.

[speeder]

Curt, Check out this article:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fuel15sep15,1,2455842.story

(Might require registration to the LA Times).

An excerpt:

Tally in the gas hogs in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere — fighter jets, bombers and cargo planes — and you can understand why the American taxpayer got a $5-billion fuel bill last year for the Air Force alone.

The Pentagon's initiative is drawing significant interest from U.S. airlines that have been hammered by steep oil prices. Jet fuel jumped from an average of 75 cents a gallon in 2001 to $2.01 last year....