Gas prices are... um well, wait a minute

[GH85Carrera]

Just filled up the wife's Macan this morning. The corn lobby has gotten enough subsidy that gasohol is 50 cents per gallon cheaper. I still use the real gasoline, no corn for my cars or lawn equipment.

Diesel is $4.49 but at a different pump.

[Sooner or later]

[JackDidley]

Got 93 at Sams for $3.98 yesterday.

[Evans, Marv]

Our gas prices have been down every day for the past 37 days. It's all the way down to $5.39/gal. now. Whoopee.

[porsche tech]

Sam’s in Bluffton this morning…

[gacook]

We're still hovering around $4.00 in AZ

[stevej37]

$3.57 for reg in MI

Congrats to SOL...under $3

[fintstone]

I never thought we would celebrate that gas only went up a dollar a gallon. Especially since it is largely due to siphoning off the nation's strategic oil supplies. I guess our kids/grandkids can pay to replace that (along with the rest of the massive national debt). Of course, if you are in a state where gas tax has been reduced to make the increase in price more politically palatable, the revenue that came in from those taxes will be taken elsewhere (that is a bit less visible).

Let's hope when the reserves run out early next year...that none of our enemies choose to reduce production further (or increase purchases). Saudi Arabia has already announced that they are reducing production.

[stevej37]

I can see it now.
Lines of cars and a guy with a bull-horn calling for the cars.....

"Got the next ten gals going at $9 a gal...who will give me 9 and a half?
Going...going....oh, the 80's Caddy just flashed his lights. We have a winner!! Pull on up.

[astrochex]

$3.219 for regular at a discount big box station.

[VINMAN]

Yesterday's local prices...

[stevej37]

Dropped to $3.34 here....down 23 cents in 10 days.

[RNajarian]

Just filled up at Naval Base Ventura County, $5.49 a gallon for premium. It doesn’t particularly feel like gas prices have dropped all that much.

Thanks Biden/Newsom

[Racerbvd]

Been going back up the last couple days..

[Shaun @ Tru6]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Just filled up the wife's Macan this morning. The corn lobby has gotten enough subsidy that gasohol is 50 cents per gallon cheaper. I still use the real gasoline, no corn for my cars or lawn equipment.

Diesel is $4.49 but at a different pump.

This is interesting. Cheapest 93 here at BP close by is $4.39 and the Cayenne dirt injection likes though I am sure it's 10% ethanol. But how can gas here in the Boston area be only $.30 more expensive than OK? There are plenty of higher priced places but several other very close.

[flatbutt]

BP is $3.79 and Lukoil is $4.29 here locally.

edit: and the head of Lukoil goes out of a window. Hmmm

[Racerbvd]

[JackDidley]

Premium $4.01 this morning at Sams. $3.91 this afternoon.

[stevej37]

Originally Posted by stevej37

Dropped to $3.34 here....down 23 cents in 10 days.

Up 25 cents today to $3.59

[GH85Carrera]

This is a 1972 photo.

I started driving in 1970 in Montgomery, AL in my 1960 VW bug. It had no gas gauge, so I drove until it ran out of gas, flipped the lever to reserve, and had 36 miles to find gas. I never put more that 9.5 gallons in it. Back then gas was 24 cents for full service. During gas wars it would drop to 18 cents per gallon! The attendant pumped the gas, checked the oil, washed the windshield, asked about my family, and handed my a bunch of green stamps for my mom and often had a free tumbler glass as a bonus.

The first time I paid three whole dollars for a full tank of gas I was outraged!

If you run the inflation calculator on 26 cents in 1972 is comes to the equivalent of $1.84 in 2022 dollars.