Place Your Gas Bets
Posting Guru
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: High Point, NC
Man, I hope not... that 2,200 mile round trip to G'burg will cost me a small fortune. On the other hand, my daily commute is down to only ~6 miles round trip and I do that in our Accord. A tank lasts me 6 weeks 
Post Fiend
Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Chicago and Mt Carroll IL
Consider yourselves lucky, filled my SD here in Chicago (the retail, gas and sin tax capital of the US) at 2.84 a gallon this afternoon. Not yet empty and came in just south of a hundo. Time to take the ranger out of the mothballs. My bet....3.50 a gallon here by the 4th at the low end.
-Ed
-Ed
Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: central Louisiana
already in the $2.29-2.39 range around this area............
first off i want to say i'm sorry. i traded trucks from a V8 to a V10 Ex.......... you know how that goes, i wash my cars it thunderstorms, i trade trucks gas goes up, lol sorry to all my fellow Ex/V10 owners, lol!
on a good note, i drive like grandpa used to, i've averaged 15.7, 15.2, 16.4mpg on the last three fill ups, fill up EVERY friday no matter what, and only lost about 2-3mpg from my old truck.........
oil is up to above $65/barrel, it peaked at $147 last july when gas was REALLLY high........
my bet is $3.50-$3.75 by the 4th if oil keeps slowly trading higher.......... what does the wiener get?? cool points, LOL!
first off i want to say i'm sorry. i traded trucks from a V8 to a V10 Ex.......... you know how that goes, i wash my cars it thunderstorms, i trade trucks gas goes up, lol sorry to all my fellow Ex/V10 owners, lol!
on a good note, i drive like grandpa used to, i've averaged 15.7, 15.2, 16.4mpg on the last three fill ups, fill up EVERY friday no matter what, and only lost about 2-3mpg from my old truck.........
oil is up to above $65/barrel, it peaked at $147 last july when gas was REALLLY high........
my bet is $3.50-$3.75 by the 4th if oil keeps slowly trading higher.......... what does the wiener get?? cool points, LOL!
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Post Fiend
Joined: Mar 2009
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From: Chicago and Mt Carroll IL
The scary thing here is that I was filling up in Rochelle, IL, about 65 miles west of Chicago, at 1.99 a gallon just 2 weeks ago. Regardless of how high the trading punks are futuring our hard earned cash, that just strikes me as too much, too fast. Which then tells me that we're just getting hosed by BigOil yet again. Watch for this and next quarters' earnings when posted. My guess is obscene profits.
-Ed
-Ed
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Joined: Oct 2007
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From: Nova Scotia
I'm with you Blowhole, it's about time diesel was priced accordingly...
With the worldwide recession still in full swing, I can't see any speculative oil increases being sustained as demand continues to drop. We are in a big dead cat bounce right now with the markets that will correct shortly and commodity prices will fall back to a realistic level.
With the worldwide recession still in full swing, I can't see any speculative oil increases being sustained as demand continues to drop. We are in a big dead cat bounce right now with the markets that will correct shortly and commodity prices will fall back to a realistic level.
Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: central Louisiana
i heard on the radio where an "official" ( i can't say R or D. or from what section House or Senate, i missed that part), said that "letting gas prices rise in this fragile economy will just send it into and even faster, and farther downward spiral than it already is"
i don't know about ya'll........... i'm not from Missouri....... but i like their motto.....
"SHOW ME"........... till that happens it's all a bunch of bunch of long winded, blow hard snakes sitting up there.
i don't know about ya'll........... i'm not from Missouri....... but i like their motto.....
"SHOW ME"........... till that happens it's all a bunch of bunch of long winded, blow hard snakes sitting up there.
Cargo Master
Joined: Nov 2008
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From: Summit, MS
It was a pain cause they had the pump limit set to $75 and so I had to do 2 transactions to get it full. Kroger even had a $75 limit on their prepaid Kroger card. I thought that was rediculous.
My Excurson gets 9 or just under (8.7) towing that same load and holds 44 gallons instead of the 37? gallons the 2 tanks on the F-250 held.
I say it will get to $3.009 by July 4th even in my market. (I filled up tonight for $2.149 per gallon.)
Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: central Louisiana
no kidding. but the "ONE" up in the big house don't see it that way......... bankrupt EVERYONE so EVERYONE is dependant on the GOVM'T..........
you can't borrow your way out of dept, or tax yourself into riches..........
i doubt it's hit bottom yet.......... i work in a "paper/wood mill enviroment", mainly the machines that are in the mills.........i'm just preparing for the possibility of the taxation of more of these mills to where they will shut down, thus not needing the equipment, thus not needing people to keep them up........ it's just a matter of time.
you can't borrow your way out of dept, or tax yourself into riches..........
i doubt it's hit bottom yet.......... i work in a "paper/wood mill enviroment", mainly the machines that are in the mills.........i'm just preparing for the possibility of the taxation of more of these mills to where they will shut down, thus not needing the equipment, thus not needing people to keep them up........ it's just a matter of time.