Chevron
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04-16-2007 | 12:35 PM
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Hot, Nasty, Bad ass speed
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Chevron
Thought this was a little odd. Drove past a Chevron the other day and saw that 91 was $4.00 and the Shell and 76 right next to it were only $3.65 for 91. I've never seen an almost $.40 difference between gas stations that were right next to each other.
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04-16-2007 | 12:40 PM
jjtgiants
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From: Dublin, CA
that is a little weird, but the $4.00 gallon of gas is not far off. The oil companies will get us used to $3.40-3.60 a gallon for a few months and then it will go up a little....we'll get used to it again and then it will be $4.00 while Chevron will post another record year or profit. Before long it's going to be cheaper for me to put 95 octane VP race fuel in my car.
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04-16-2007 | 01:27 PM
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the chevron in my area regularly sells gas for 30 or 40 more cents a gallon than the arco across the street. it's cause chevron thinks their gas is better or something.
#7
04-16-2007 | 02:42 PM
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About the topic of different prices between stations, I saw about $0.15 cent difference between 2 BP stations maybe a mile apart the other day. Sometimes the differences have to do with when the station got their last tanker full of gas. If crude oil goes up, the price we see will go up. If they had to pay more for the crude, we are gonna pay more for the gas.
Scott
#8
04-16-2007 | 03:15 PM
jjtgiants
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From: Dublin, CA
Anyway, my car runs SOOOOO much better when I mix it with 100 octane, but it's damn expensive..
Also, I think Tangerine has some serious stock in oil cause everytime we bitch about gas he tells us to STFU and pay or don't drive. ha ha ha ha.
#9
04-16-2007 | 03:58 PM
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i just filled my honda civic beater with 85 , cost me 20 bucks.
Ill get 300 miles out of that.
i guess california is just loaded with a bunch of overpaying suckers
#10
04-16-2007 | 04:03 PM
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No one should complain about how high gas is in the first place, no matter where you live. Either pay what the stations are selling it for or don't drive. Complaining about it isn't gonna make it any cheaper so if you want to drive your car, you'll pay it.
Scott
Scott
OBEY LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN.
TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IS WRONG. BIG BROTHER IS YOUR FRIEND
Sorry, but i gotta disagree. Opposition should always be voiced.
Sit Down, Shut up, and Do what yer told?
Hey, dunno about you but a lot of us live in america, where it is our right and our civil responsibility to disagree and challange things that dont seem right.
#11
04-16-2007 | 04:16 PM
jjtgiants
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From: Dublin, CA
Yeah. so everyone shut up and be good little consumers and fork all yer cash over to the oil companys! Cause they deserve it! Dont question it! Just do it! Be good mindless little slaves..err... consumers....
OBEY LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN.
TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IS WRONG. BIG BROTHER IS YOUR FRIEND
Sorry, but i gotta disagree. Opposition should always be voiced.
Sit Down, Shut up, and Do what yer told?
Hey, dunno about you but a lot of us live in america, where it is our right and our civil responsibility to disagree and challange things that dont seem right.
OBEY LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN.
TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IS WRONG. BIG BROTHER IS YOUR FRIEND
Sorry, but i gotta disagree. Opposition should always be voiced.
Sit Down, Shut up, and Do what yer told?
Hey, dunno about you but a lot of us live in america, where it is our right and our civil responsibility to disagree and challange things that dont seem right.
Codiddy---we also have to remember the state has a gas tax of 9 cents per gallon, and I'm not sure if the Feds charge us a gas tax or not..... so the real cost of gas might be $3.00 a gallon, but by time you take a 10 cent tax here and a 3 cent tax there it makes it more expensive. I just never understood how we can have oil refineries right in our backyard and still pay an arm and leg
#12
04-16-2007 | 05:08 PM
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Yeah I was bitching about the prices being high Tangerine. I was just stating that it was odd seeing a $.40 price difference from 1 station to the next. I've seen like $.05 or before, but $.40 is freakin ridiculous. yeah we bitch about gas prices, but we have reasons for bitching. When the prices per barrel were going down, the price per gallon was still going up. Thats f#cked up. Just so the oil companies can make a few extra billion.
#14
04-16-2007 | 05:56 PM
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Well I'm just saying, bitching on a Mustang forum where it is mostly about headswapping, camming, supercharging, hooking up nitrous etc (all things that are gonna make your car a guzzler) is not the place for it. If you want to go complain to your congressman then fine, but bitching here isn't gonna make the prices lower. The only way the prices are gonna come down is if we quit buying the stuff. Things seem to be heading in the "going green" direction so I don't think the government is going to actually do a whole lot for us who want guzzle the gas and enlarge the ozone with our offroad pipes. I mean, for the gas companies, it is about supply and demand. When demand goes up, price goes up-basic economics. How is it any different than any other product on the market?
Scott
Scott
#16
04-16-2007 | 10:32 PM
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lol I have never heard of or seen 85 anywhere.
91 is close to 3.80 here in SD b/c of all the rich La Jolla peeps
#17
04-16-2007 | 10:33 PM
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Yeah. so everyone shut up and be good little consumers and fork all yer cash over to the oil companys! Cause they deserve it! Dont question it! Just do it! Be good mindless little slaves..err... consumers....
OBEY LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN.
TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IS WRONG. BIG BROTHER IS YOUR FRIEND
Sorry, but i gotta disagree. Opposition should always be voiced.
Sit Down, Shut up, and Do what yer told?
Hey, dunno about you but a lot of us live in america, where it is our right and our civil responsibility to disagree and challange things that dont seem right.
OBEY LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN.
TO QUESTION AUTHORITY IS WRONG. BIG BROTHER IS YOUR FRIEND
Sorry, but i gotta disagree. Opposition should always be voiced.
Sit Down, Shut up, and Do what yer told?
Hey, dunno about you but a lot of us live in america, where it is our right and our civil responsibility to disagree and challange things that dont seem right.
ps we can thank hollywood for that.
#18
04-17-2007 | 01:16 PM
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I gotta be honest tho, im glad i got the 35mpg honda beater tho. My mustang needs 91.
HEY EVERYONE WHO BITCHES ABOUT 91. THINK OF THIS.
Lets say Regular = 3.50
Then midgrade will be around 3.60
and premium will be around 3.70.
with a 15 gallon tank, the difference to fill is....
Regular = 52.50 per tank
Midgrade = 54.00 per tank
Premium = 55.50 per tank.
the oc's have always gone up about 10 cents per grade.
so if yer bitching about the price of gas, fine, keep bitching, everyone should be bitching about price of gas while the oil companys break record profits.
but if yer bitching about paying for PREMIUM over Regular, then shuttup. It is only a 3-4 dollar difference per TANK.
So JJTGIANTS, dont you DARE Sell your mach to save 3 bucks a tank. You will always regret it.
Cash out some stock or save up a little, spend 1000 and get yerself a commuter. It will keep the mach newer, save you a TON in gas money. I filled my honda the other day, from E to F and it cost me 22 bucks. Ill get about 300 miles out of it.
Tell ya what, i appreciate my mustang 1000 times more now that i have the commuter.
#19
04-17-2007 | 03:08 PM
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I've never complained about putting 91 in my car because I realized your only spending a few bucks more. The whole reason I started this thread because I thought it was odd that one gas station would be $.40 more than the next. To me thats a huge difference and I've never seen it like that before. $.10 fine, but $.40, come on. Whats next a $1.00 difference between each grade.
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04-17-2007 | 03:28 PM
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I've never complained about putting 91 in my car because I realized your only spending a few bucks more. The whole reason I started this thread because I thought it was odd that one gas station would be $.40 more than the next. To me thats a huge difference and I've never seen it like that before. $.10 fine, but $.40, come on. Whats next a $1.00 difference between each grade.
there is a texaco near my parents house that has a small mom&pops gas station that is usually 6-7cents a gallon lower. Thats about as big of a difference as i have seen from neighboring gas stations.
lol
#21
04-17-2007 | 07:26 PM
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Could be worse, you could have a diesel big rig that gets 5.4 mpg. $3.10 a gallon today in Knoxville and it took 165 gallons. $511.50 just to run 891 miles. I will do that tomorrow and a few hours on Thursday so.....every two days $500+.
Oh wait....I don't have to pay for fuel in the truck.
Oh wait....I don't have to pay for fuel in the truck.
