I just filled up my gas tank @ 2.52!!!hahahahaha ....will probably be the only time i'll fill up @ that price.....

 

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NICE! Was that premium or 87 octane?....I filled up the other day and it was $3.35 for 91 octane! ha ha ha OUCH

 

87...I don't have a tune on my car so I don't bother with premium..

 

Even so $2.52 is a good price man....you need to get a tune! ha ha

 

Yep, regular is 2.55 here.

 

Yep, it's $2.59 here (been dropping 3-4 cents a day). Looks like that pipeline they shut down in Alaska isn't having an effect after all!

Or this could just be a quick drop to get our hopes up, and then BAM! They raise the price to $4.00 real quick! Fockers!

 

I hear that man! They were saying people on the west coast were just going to get blasted by the Alaska pipeline shutting down cause that's where we get most of our oil, but it's been ok so far...don't want to jinx it though

 

I'm sure it's some kind of scheme to stick it to us during labor day!

 

you don't know how correct you actually are. but you are correct in a very real sense.

 

Yep, they will spike it back up, they do this every three months or so just to draw us back in...I paid 2.59 for it on Wed.

 

Historically, fuel prices never go down. They go up. Even short term reductions are just bait to get you to stop thinking about how expensive it is, get back to your regular fuel hungry routines and then they continue with the gradual price hikes.

It's good business practice, and similar to that used by the stereotypical drug dealer....get you hooked, up the price, you adjust and get back to over use, they drop the price a little as demand starts to dip, then just as demand spikes again... up goes the price and it'll stay there. Repeat from step 1 and you have fuel cartels that are no different that cocaine cartels.

There is light in the tunnel though. Every day hydrogen, ethanol, bio-diesel and fuel cell technology gains more foothold in the market and in the minds of the consumer. As hybrids and alternative fuels gain popularity there will be reduced demand from our continental resources like Prudhoe Bay. The upshot to higher oil prices is eventually we will open ANWAR to drilling and have a 2nd pipeline in Alaska which should drop US prices as much as 10%. If California would pull back the moratorium on off-shore drilling we'd have even more oil available in the near term which would soften the US oil cost while we step one more mile ahead of the world and broaden the adoption of E85 and alternative fuels.

Iran is one of the big players in oil export as well as sitting on one of the largest reserves of natural gas in the world and I can't understand why the whole world doesn't come together and build 50 foreign operated and swiss secured nuclear power plants across Iran, stop them using their own oil and gas and allow them to export their black gold en' masse. That would solve lots of problems, not the least of which is their own over dependance on their single exportable commodity.

 

What! Just this morning regular in Sterling Heights is $2.75. Where are you buying gas?

 

quit yer sniveling. This morning 3.09 for 87 octane california cr4p gas and that's not bad around here.

 

its 3.33 for reg 87 here all u bitches shut it

 

wtf its 2.99 for regular here.

 

consider it shut... damn dude. 3.33? What do they get for premium... a leg?

 

 

hmm...other day i filled it up for like 2.74...but like just a day earlier it was 2.95...so they go down...but will go back up

 

What really sucks is I was watching the LLWS* and one of the teams was from the middle east and they were talking about the coach and he said "Wow, $3.00 a gallon for gas, I'm use to paying $0.70 a gallon" WTF!!!!!




*note: Just to get ahead of the "haha, you like watching little boys play baseball" comments....no, I am a coach on my son's t-ball team and we were watching the games!*

 

2.50 for 87 here!!!!! The highest it has been in 3 weeks is 2.54

 

I buy 87 since I'm still stock and the station down the street is 2.49. It's a whole in the wall type place but gas is gas and it's never failed.