Gas Prices Here

[TwoTankAmin46]

The last 3 times I filled my gas tank I paid 3.0999 in Carmel NY, 3.5999 locally and then about 10 days ago in Delaware at $3.8999 when I was visiting friend for a few days.

Todat I had to pay some of the real estate taxes, do some shopping and pick up the mail at thre PO. Dring in our town to do most of this P passes two gas stations. One had the price for regular gas at $4.5999 and the second had it at $4.8999. I expect to see $5.00+ pretty soon.

3 cheers for our government! If I was a bit younger and it wasn't so cold up there a lot of the year, I would seriously consider moving to Canada.

 

[connorlindeman50 50]

Yes, “price stability” in action The difference of almost a dollar per gallon depending on the place is no longer a fluctuation, but a whole attraction. It’s especially funny how prices rise exactly when you need to drive more: taxes, business, trips — everything adjusts to the maximum in time And, of course, 4.8999 looks almost like a psychological discount, saying “well, it’s not 5.00… yet”.

And about Canada — be careful, because you can come for cheaper gasoline, and stay because of new surprises already there...

Why does your message read like it was written by AI?

 

[GaryE14 12]

We're paying $1.78 a liter in my little corner of Canada, so a little arithmetic... and we didn't even start this.

I'm happy we don't have gas powered aquariums. But I just decided against a run to pick up fish at a hub airport, because airport to airport shipping plus a tank of gas for the trip was just too high.

 

[anewbie]

The bigger problem (if you want to consider such); is that there is beginning to be scarcity on the global market esp jet fuel.

 

[CassCats27 9]

I don't even drive, so I don't pay for gas. Last I saw the other day it was at $1.67 CAD per litre here

My grocery prices have already started to see an increase and having some supply shortages at my work due to it.

So even us lowly Canadian pedestrians are gonna feel it.

 

[Whitecloudminnowguy092]

Here in the southeast (way away from Canada) its a avg 3.79.... best I have seen it is 3.40. Crazy.

 

[Magnum Man54 168]

I run non ethanol premium in my hemi pick-up… over $5.00, for the last 3 tanks, in Minnesota…

 

[TwoTankAmin46]

A long time ago, think early 1970s, I was doing my second tryfor getting my college degree. I was doing it at Trinity College in Hartford. One entrance to the campus was a cross road. There were two corners not having campus related stuff. On one of the other corners was a Friendly's and on the other was a gas station which also sold cigarettes and candy and small snack stuff.

You could buy a packs of cigarettes or a gallon of gas for 35 cents. And then,

During the 1970s gas crises, particularly in 1973–1974 and 1979, the U.S. implemented odd-even rationing to manage long lines at pumps caused by oil embargos. Drivers with license plates ending in an odd number could buy gas on odd-numbered calendar days, while those with even numbers went on even days.

I took the band for which I did sound, managed and got the gigs, to spend the summer in CO. We had to contend with the odd even stuff. I think it was in 74. I was in Saudi Arabia in 1979 and gas was dirt cheap. I could fill up my Datsun sedan for 3 or 4 bucks.

 

[CassCats27 9]

A long time ago, think early 1970s, I was doing my second tryfor getting my college degree. I was doing it at Trinity College in Hartford. One entrance to the campus was a cross road. There were two corners not having campus related stuff. On one of the other corners was a Friendly's and on the other was a gas station which also sold cigarettes and candy and small snack stuff.

You could buy a packs of cigarettes or a gallon of gas for 35 cents. And then,



I took the band for which I did sound, managed and got the gigs, to spend the summer in CO. We had to contend with the odd even stuff. I think it was in 74. I was in Saudi Arabia in 1979 and gas was dirt cheap. I could fill up my Datsun sedan for 3 or 4 bucks.

What'd happen if someone tried to buy gas on the wrong day?
Ive never heard of this being a thing, what an unusual, but fair, method of dealing with that.

 

[GaryE14 12]

There's no use for nostalgia - it's always is out of context. I earned $2.25 an hour, a zebra danio cost 11 cents, BUT, a pair of jeans cost $40, and had to be saved for.

Fuel prices and the reason for them pull us right into politics. So away from the global issues, if I had a windfall, this house would go solar in a heartbeat, even if we're aren't rolling in sunshine here. There's enough. And I love seeing the wind turbines on the ridge - they've come to fit in with what my eyes expect. My car would be electric It would be already except the waiting list for them was too long after the pandemic slowdowns.

This is my second oil crisis, though I wasn't a driver in the 1970s one. I think it was a Saudi minister who said "The stone Age didn't end because we ran out of rocks". I hope we can move on technologically, quickly. And I hope I'll have enough money to keep up!

 

[Ed Pursell33 38]

I lived the era of what TwoTank was explaining, late 70’s… It was strange,, even,odd days and long lines! Anyway, price per gallon this week in my neck of the woods, $4.399 per gallon.
Ed

 

[GaryE14 12]

This is worldwide, in different currencies and measurements. Just a thought, as we post...

The even/odd day thing in the US could be enforced because people filled your tank in those days. You didn't fill your own, or provide free labour to corporations at the grocery store. It was a very different context. The US lineups showed me Americans had only black, white or grey cars. They had no coloured vehicles in the TV images. I saw it with my own eyes.

 

[anewbie]

Around here gas is up around 25% but things might get a *lot* worse not just in price but scarcity.

On the bright side more advance cultures have had meetings and are taking actions to totally move away from oil so maybe by the time this issue is resolved in 1000 years a lot of places will no longer remember what oil is or why it was scarce though of course in backwards usa we will still be using oil because well - that's all our forward thinking can see for the future at least the political portion of usa - after all don't use oil in your car - there is a surcharge of $400 to register it (yearly) where i live.