Gas prices
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Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Mt. Shasta California
We're in the middle of a family vacation out in California.
We've seen some pretty varied gas prices let me tell you.
In the SoCal area it was in the $3.79 range as was it in the San Fran area. Although some individual stations are higher and some lower...that is about the average there.
When we got to Yosemite it was $4.79 per gallon of 87 octane...we thought that was bad until yesterday when we were traveling thru Death Valley and came upon this!!!
Thankfully I planned ahead at both of those places and had plenty of fuel in the car and didn't have to pay those gouging prices!
Then we crossed just into Nevada (we're in Vegas now) and we were pleasantly surprised by
And a few miles later we actually saw $3.21 per gallon for 87!...I guess Nevada has lower taxes or something?...don't know.
Figured I'd share some topic related photos of the fuel prices we've seen on this trip.
Per gasbuddy.com it looks like fuel in Fort Wayne is running right around $3.79 per gallon for 87 octane...
Joe.
We've seen some pretty varied gas prices let me tell you.
In the SoCal area it was in the $3.79 range as was it in the San Fran area. Although some individual stations are higher and some lower...that is about the average there.
When we got to Yosemite it was $4.79 per gallon of 87 octane...we thought that was bad until yesterday when we were traveling thru Death Valley and came upon this!!!
Thankfully I planned ahead at both of those places and had plenty of fuel in the car and didn't have to pay those gouging prices!
Then we crossed just into Nevada (we're in Vegas now) and we were pleasantly surprised by
And a few miles later we actually saw $3.21 per gallon for 87!...I guess Nevada has lower taxes or something?...don't know.
Figured I'd share some topic related photos of the fuel prices we've seen on this trip.
Per gasbuddy.com it looks like fuel in Fort Wayne is running right around $3.79 per gallon for 87 octane...
Joe.
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Personally I feel it is all GREED and lack of regulations and a very STRONG and POWERFUL and WEALTHY lobby network of our congress...
I mean look at the poor dairy farmers...all those years ago they didn't have the $$$ to FIGHT regulation on a gallon of milk...but a gallon of fuel has no regulation and the SOB oil companies can use whatever reason they want to DECOUPLE the price at the pump from the RAW material price?
Look at 2008...the first time the at the pump price hit $4/gallon for 87...the barrel price was ~$145...fast forward a few Obama years...the barrel price has been at $100 or LESS yet the at the pump price has been very near $4/gallon for 87 and OVER that for diesel...the barrel price is roughly 70% of what it was in 2008 yet the at pump price has reamained at near $4...funny how it is nearing election time and the at pump price is beginning to drop...I'm not complaining...but I find it interesting...and confusing that Obama made such a BIG DEAL about the at pump price in 2008 stating that Bush and Chenney were tied to BIG OIL...well Obama...what's your excuse for the raw materials being 70% of what they were in '08 yet the at pump price has hovered around or above what it was in '08 for the LAST 4 YEARS?!?!?!
I mean look at the poor dairy farmers...all those years ago they didn't have the $$$ to FIGHT regulation on a gallon of milk...but a gallon of fuel has no regulation and the SOB oil companies can use whatever reason they want to DECOUPLE the price at the pump from the RAW material price?
Look at 2008...the first time the at the pump price hit $4/gallon for 87...the barrel price was ~$145...fast forward a few Obama years...the barrel price has been at $100 or LESS yet the at the pump price has been very near $4/gallon for 87 and OVER that for diesel...the barrel price is roughly 70% of what it was in 2008 yet the at pump price has reamained at near $4...funny how it is nearing election time and the at pump price is beginning to drop...I'm not complaining...but I find it interesting...and confusing that Obama made such a BIG DEAL about the at pump price in 2008 stating that Bush and Chenney were tied to BIG OIL...well Obama...what's your excuse for the raw materials being 70% of what they were in '08 yet the at pump price has hovered around or above what it was in '08 for the LAST 4 YEARS?!?!?!
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Post Fiend
Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Mt. Shasta California
Personally I feel it is all GREED and lack of regulations and a very STRONG and POWERFUL and WEALTHY lobby network of our congress...
I mean look at the poor dairy farmers...all those years ago they didn't have the $$$ to FIGHT regulation on a gallon of milk...but a gallon of fuel has no regulation and the SOB oil companies can use whatever reason they want to DECOUPLE the price at the pump from the RAW material price?
Look at 2008...the first time the at the pump price hit $4/gallon for 87...the barrel price was ~$145...fast forward a few Obama years...the barrel price has been at $100 or LESS yet the at the pump price has been very near $4/gallon for 87 and OVER that for diesel...the barrel price is roughly 70% of what it was in 2008 yet the at pump price has reamained at near $4...funny how it is nearing election time and the at pump price is beginning to drop...I'm not complaining...but I find it interesting...and confusing that Obama made such a BIG DEAL about the at pump price in 2008 stating that Bush and Chenney were tied to BIG OIL...well Obama...what's your excuse for the raw materials being 70% of what they were in '08 yet the at pump price has hovered around or above what it was in '08 for the LAST 4 YEARS?!?!?!
I mean look at the poor dairy farmers...all those years ago they didn't have the $$$ to FIGHT regulation on a gallon of milk...but a gallon of fuel has no regulation and the SOB oil companies can use whatever reason they want to DECOUPLE the price at the pump from the RAW material price?
Look at 2008...the first time the at the pump price hit $4/gallon for 87...the barrel price was ~$145...fast forward a few Obama years...the barrel price has been at $100 or LESS yet the at the pump price has been very near $4/gallon for 87 and OVER that for diesel...the barrel price is roughly 70% of what it was in 2008 yet the at pump price has reamained at near $4...funny how it is nearing election time and the at pump price is beginning to drop...I'm not complaining...but I find it interesting...and confusing that Obama made such a BIG DEAL about the at pump price in 2008 stating that Bush and Chenney were tied to BIG OIL...well Obama...what's your excuse for the raw materials being 70% of what they were in '08 yet the at pump price has hovered around or above what it was in '08 for the LAST 4 YEARS?!?!?!
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From: Mt. Shasta California
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You say that like its a good thing? 
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$3.29 for NO ETHANOL
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$3.19 for reg
$3.29 for NO ETHANOL
$3.59 for diesel
Still getting WVO for FREE!