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CamEdwards · 08-13-2005, 10:26 PM

Gas at the Burke Shell station is $2.70 tonight. That's a jump of about a dime from yesterday. Are the gas prices in your neighborhood around this range?

Karlifornia · 08-13-2005, 10:37 PM

Here gas is around $2.83 at the shell station

duckman · 08-13-2005, 10:39 PM

Gas is 2.45 at the local convience store.

QuikSand · 08-13-2005, 10:42 PM

We had a bump in the last day or two -- and have noticed that neighboring stations are suddenly out of line with one another, which is unusual. We saw a 20-cent differential at two stations within about two-tenths of a mile. There must have been some odd shock that affected different companies differently -- perhaps a refinery problem?

HomerJSimpson · 08-13-2005, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by CamEdwards

Gas at the Burke Shell station is $2.70 tonight. That's a jump of about a dime from yesterday. Are the gas prices in your neighborhood around this range?

It is jumping like that all over. Right now, I'm trying to cut all unnecessary traveling. If it goes much higher, I don't know what I'm going to do.

MrBug708 · 08-13-2005, 10:52 PM

3.03 in Newport past night

wade moore · 08-13-2005, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by CamEdwards

Gas at the Burke Shell station is $2.70 tonight. That's a jump of about a dime from yesterday. Are the gas prices in your neighborhood around this range?

Been seeing a huge bump down here in Tidewater, VA also...

Joe · 08-13-2005, 11:24 PM

around 2.80 here

QuikSand · 08-13-2005, 11:28 PM

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Originally Posted by HomerJSimpson

It is jumping like that all over. Right now, I'm trying to cut all unnecessary traveling. If it goes much higher, I don't know what I'm going to do.

Do you really do that much driving?

I drive about 35 miles a day in my commute... an extra dime in a gallon of gas translates to maybe 20 cents a day... a dollar a week. I can't imagine having another 150 miles of "leisure" driving every week that I could just cut out, in the name of saving six or eight bucks - usually if I'm driving, it's because the travel has some real value to me, and a few dollars difference isn't likely to alter things much.

gottimd · 08-13-2005, 11:40 PM

2.69 here in the Northwest DC Suburbs

Subby · 08-13-2005, 11:42 PM

I just opsiseed o n m yh fucking gastank

Subby · 08-13-2005, 11:43 PM

thats like fucking grain punch 1.22 a ;litre...m

Subby · 08-13-2005, 11:43 PM

hi i llike opera

Subby · 08-13-2005, 11:43 PM

nashville suskcs

stevew · 08-14-2005, 12:47 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

Do you really do that much driving?

I drive about 35 miles a day in my commute... an extra dime in a gallon of gas translates to maybe 20 cents a day... a dollar a week. I can't imagine having another 150 miles of "leisure" driving every week that I could just cut out, in the name of saving six or eight bucks - usually if I'm driving, it's because the travel has some real value to me, and a few dollars difference isn't likely to alter things much.

I can see Homer's point, at least from my perspective. I'm far from rich, maybe after I pay all the bills this month, set some aside for a rainy day, get groceries, etc, some months i may only Budget about 15 to 20 dollars a week or so for entertainment spending. Beit a trip to the dollar theatre, a picnic, a new DVD, whatever. The 15 or so gallons of gas a week that I tend to use each week were about 25 bucks a year ago, but now its pushing 40 bucks, seriously eating into any free money i may have had.

Stuff like gas going up a ton over the last 2 or 3 months, when you are living on a shoestring, hurts a lot more than the more fortunate people realize. I watch making extra trips, try to combine outings, etc these days. In the whole scheme of things, a dime here, and there is only a dollar, but it keeps adding up, something that my paycheck hasnt.

HomerJSimpson · 08-14-2005, 03:59 AM

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Originally Posted by stevew

I can see Homer's point, at least from my perspective. I'm far from rich, maybe after I pay all the bills this month, set some aside for a rainy day, get groceries, etc, some months i may only Budget about 15 to 20 dollars a week or so for entertainment spending. Beit a trip to the dollar theatre, a picnic, a new DVD, whatever. The 15 or so gallons of gas a week that I tend to use each week were about 25 bucks a year ago, but now its pushing 40 bucks, seriously eating into any free money i may have had.

Stuff like gas going up a ton over the last 2 or 3 months, when you are living on a shoestring, hurts a lot more than the more fortunate people realize. I watch making extra trips, try to combine outings, etc these days. In the whole scheme of things, a dime here, and there is only a dollar, but it keeps adding up, something that my paycheck hasnt.

Yup, that is it. First of all, yes, I drive much more than QS (closer to 65 miles a day). It is not this "dime" it is the "dollar" it has gone up over the last year, and the 1.30 it has gone up over the last two. On top of the sudden jump in everything else that the gas prices has caused. When you are making very little more money now than you did 10 years ago, it really begin to hurt your lifestyle to have a staple rise this much, this fast. My fuel expenses have nearly doubled in a year (and have doubled in two), which means that I have no entertainment budget now. I haven't been to a movie in 2-3 months, I eat out about half as often, and I have limit my game purchases severly. It sucks.

QuikSand · 08-14-2005, 07:45 AM

Sorry guys, it's a mini-rant I often can't control. Didn't mean to slight your situation.

CamEdwards · 08-14-2005, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

Sorry guys, it's a mini-rant I often can't control. Didn't mean to slight your situation.

I understand. I was thinking about this last night. The difference between my last fill-up and my next will probably turn out to be about 3 bucks. That doesn't even make it worth my while to drive around and hunt for cheap gas.

But my fuel costs have increased by about 33% over the past year, and I do feel that. With a daughter going to college next week, added housing prices, and added gas prices, (not to mention two kids that I didn't have a year ago), my paycheck is certainly not going as far as it did.

Ryan S · 08-14-2005, 08:23 AM

$6.60 per US gallon here and rising quickly.

The rising prices have not changed my driving habits at all.

henry296 · 08-14-2005, 08:33 AM

We had a gas station that went up 20 cents from Thursday to Friday and it is over $2.50 here in Baltimore.

duckman · 08-14-2005, 10:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Ryan S

$6.60 per US gallon here and rising quickly.

The rising prices have not changed my driving habits at all.

Is that because you have a large amount of disposable income?

wade moore · 08-14-2005, 10:41 AM

Yeah, this is a big impact on me.. not the change in the last few weeks, but the change in the last two years...

I accepted a job that has me commuting 85 miles round trip.. that means I fill up on gas every 4 days even with my close to 35 mpg... those fillups went from around $15 to about $30 now... over a month, that is about $75 dollars.. while not a TON of money, it's a pretty signficant impact based on my financial situation.... and that's just the 'required' driving for work...

Anyway.. i'm not going broke because of it, but it does impact me...

CamEdwards · 08-14-2005, 10:44 AM

all right, it must have been something with that particular Shell station, because I filled up for $2.52 at a Citgo a mile from my house.

Still about 15 cents a gallon more than my fill-up last week though.

henry296 · 08-14-2005, 11:03 AM

I didn't think that the future prices on crude oil would have such an immediate impact but the last price I remember hearing is about $65 a barrel. That price is about $15 higher than when we had our first discussion about gas prices a couple of months ago.

QuikSand · 08-14-2005, 11:19 AM

Not to belabor the point too much... but since we're into this...

I don't have any greivance with people who see how much gas prices affect them for the travel they have to make -- commuting to work being the obvious case. If these gas price jumps cost you an extra $20 or more per week, I can recognize that being important to a lot of people in many different financial straits.

What I don't get, generally, is the mentality that one needs to cut back on discretionary driving to save on gas costs. That's the part that doesn't click for me. I just can't imagine much of any activity where the amount of gasoline price changes actually makes a meaningful difference in whether the drive is worth it.

I'm going on a driving vacation soon -- will probably log about 1,200 miles. If gas prices just jumped 20 cents, that probably increases my gasoline costs for the entire trip by $12.00. Twelve bucks! And that's for a reasonably long trip! I just can't imagine someone deciding they can't or won't go visit family (or something of that sort) because of an extra twelve bucks. Nor can I imagine someone deciding that they can't drive ten miles each way to a movie, because that one gallon of gas costs him 20 cents more than it would have last week.

But I hear people making these arguments all the time, and I wonder why gas prices are so special in this way? Is it just that the math is too hard, and people really think that expensive gas is costing them five dollars more to drive to the movie house? I don't know...

wade moore · 08-14-2005, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

Not to belabor the point too much... but since we're into this...

I don't have any greivance with people who see how much gas prices affect them for the travel they have to make -- commuting to work being the obvious case. If these gas price jumps cost you an extra $20 or more per week, I can recognize that being important to a lot of people in many different financial straits.

What I don't get, generally, is the mentality that one needs to cut back on discretionary driving to save on gas costs. That's the part that doesn't click for me. I just can't imagine much of any activity where the amount of gasoline price changes actually makes a meaningful difference in whether the drive is worth it.

I'm going on a driving vacation soon -- will probably log about 1,200 miles. If gas prices just jumped 20 cents, that probably increases my gasoline costs for the entire trip by $12.00. Twelve bucks! And that's for a reasonably long trip! I just can't imagine someone deciding they can't or won't go visit family (or something of that sort) because of an extra twelve bucks. Nor can I imagine someone deciding that they can't drive ten miles each way to a movie, because that one gallon of gas costs him 20 cents more than it would have last week.

But I hear people making these arguments all the time, and I wonder why gas prices are so special in this way? Is it just that the math is too hard, and people really think that expensive gas is costing them five dollars more to drive to the movie house? I don't know...

FWIW, I totally agree with this point...

Even with work... it hasn't changed anything as far as how much i drive, but where I spend money elsewhere...

Buccaneer · 08-14-2005, 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by QuikSand

We had a bump in the last day or two -- and have noticed that neighboring stations are suddenly out of line with one another, which is unusual. We saw a 20-cent differential at two stations within about two-tenths of a mile. There must have been some odd shock that affected different companies differently -- perhaps a refinery problem?

That has been the stated attribution of why gas prices are going up. It is not the supply (there's plenty), nor the price of crude but there have been problems in refineries and in certain pipelines. I just don't know where specifically.

Ryan S · 08-14-2005, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by duckman

Is that because you have a large amount of disposable income?

Not a huge amount. I basically agree with Quik's points earlier in the thread.

The price of gasoline in the UK is scandalous, but the price of everything is insane here.

08-13-2005, 10:37 PM	#2
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08-13-2005, 11:43 PM	#13
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08-13-2005, 10:42 PM	#4
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	We had a bump in the last day or two -- and have noticed that neighboring stations are suddenly out of line with one another, which is unusual. We saw a 20-cent differential at two stations within about two-tenths of a mile. There must have been some odd shock that affected different companies differently -- perhaps a refinery problem?

08-13-2005, 10:52 PM	#6
MrBug708 Head Coach Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Whittier	3.03 in Newport past night

08-13-2005, 11:24 PM	#8
Joe Pro Starter Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Minneapolis	around 2.80 here

08-13-2005, 11:43 PM	#14
Subby lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: sans pants	nashville suskcs __________________ Superman was flying around and saw Wonder Woman getting a tan in the nude on her balcony. Superman said I going to hit that real fast. So he flys down toward Wonder Woman to hit it and their is a loud scream. The Invincible Man scream what just hit me in the ass!!!!! I do shit, I take pictures, I write about it: chrisshue.com

08-14-2005, 07:45 AM	#17
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	Sorry guys, it's a mini-rant I often can't control. Didn't mean to slight your situation.

08-14-2005, 08:23 AM	#19
Ryan S Quarterback Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: London, England	$6.60 per US gallon here and rising quickly. The rising prices have not changed my driving habits at all.

08-14-2005, 08:33 AM	#20
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	We had a gas station that went up 20 cents from Thursday to Friday and it is over $2.50 here in Baltimore. __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

08-14-2005, 10:44 AM	#23
CamEdwards Stadium Announcer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Burke, VA	all right, it must have been something with that particular Shell station, because I filled up for $2.52 at a Citgo a mile from my house. Still about 15 cents a gallon more than my fill-up last week though. __________________ I don't want the world. I just want your half.

08-14-2005, 11:03 AM	#24
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	I didn't think that the future prices on crude oil would have such an immediate impact but the last price I remember hearing is about $65 a barrel. That price is about $15 higher than when we had our first discussion about gas prices a couple of months ago. __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

08-14-2005, 11:19 AM	#25
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	Not to belabor the point too much... but since we're into this... I don't have any greivance with people who see how much gas prices affect them for the travel they have to make -- commuting to work being the obvious case. If these gas price jumps cost you an extra $20 or more per week, I can recognize that being important to a lot of people in many different financial straits. What I don't get, generally, is the mentality that one needs to cut back on discretionary driving to save on gas costs. That's the part that doesn't click for me. I just can't imagine much of any activity where the amount of gasoline price changes actually makes a meaningful difference in whether the drive is worth it. I'm going on a driving vacation soon -- will probably log about 1,200 miles. If gas prices just jumped 20 cents, that probably increases my gasoline costs for the entire trip by $12.00. Twelve bucks! And that's for a reasonably long trip! I just can't imagine someone deciding they can't or won't go visit family (or something of that sort) because of an extra twelve bucks. Nor can I imagine someone deciding that they can't drive ten miles each way to a movie, because that one gallon of gas costs him 20 cents more than it would have last week. But I hear people making these arguments all the time, and I wonder why gas prices are so special in this way? Is it just that the math is too hard, and people really think that expensive gas is costing them five dollars more to drive to the movie house? I don't know...

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