I paid $3.19 per gallon yesterday... a bargain compared to today's $3.81!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nothing. I don't have a car.
Posted by MLLASH on :
Public transporation prices (along with everything ELSE) are sure to skyrocket, too, so hang in there 'til then!
I paid $2.74 a couple days ago, and now its $3.29. Outrageous.
I'm trying to figure out what to do to make up the diffference. Smoking will be the first thing to go, followed by comic books. From there, it's webTV and home phone. But I'll hang on to my cable and weekend boozehounding for as long as possible...
Dark days are upon us, I fear.
[ September 02, 2005, 01:22 PM: Message edited by: MLLASH ]
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
The oil market is overbought. There will be relief within the next several weeks.
I was just watching the financial report, the technical analysis guy broke it down and all the the signals, (Stochastics MACD, etc) suggest a pull back soon.
But 20$ a barrel oil not anytime soon, if ever again.
Posted by Caliente on :
*sigh* I don't wanna talk about it. ><
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
Well I admit I thought I was in Europe today when the price was 1.33$C per litre or 4.27$US per gallon converted for you Yankees.
Still the spread between the prices between the two countries hasn't been this close since we socialized medicine. If Bush keeps this up, I'm sure the Canadian Dollar will be above par for the first time in a generation too.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I do hope the relief comes, but when it does, by then I've a feeling we may see prices drop from $4-$5 a gallon down to the "relief" of $3-$3.50 a gallon.
I'd still be unable to justify most of my frivolous doings-- including, ultimately, cable and even one night per weekend of going out.
I live too far from work to bicycle and don't know anyone in midtown I could carpool with. So right now gas is a mandatory evil for me, because I like my apartment and have to be able to get to work to pay for it.
At this point, it's simply matter of when I let fall the axe on everything else. It's very depressing. Posted by Kid Prime on :
Did you move?
Posted by Cobalt Kid on :
Driving to and from work for even just one day means I use a quarter of a gas tank. Posted by Spellbinder on :
I stopped to fill up tonight. The price for regular was $3.19. However, they were out of both regular and super, so they let me fill up with premium, but only charged me regular price. The next 4 gas stations I passed were $3.69 for the cheapest stuff.
Outrageous!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I get about 275 to 300 miles a tank which is about a week's worth of driving to work for me. And that's only if I go from home to work, no extra stops or trips to the store. Or like this week, having to drive another 20 miles to get downtown for meetings. When I filled up Tuesday it cost me $40 for a tank at, IIRC, $2.65 for premium (I know for a fact I get better mileage with premium over regular). Today it was $3.15 for the premium.
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
There is a secondary reason for the rapid fluctuations that we see these days compared to say even 10 or 15 years ago.
The corporate sphere is totally infatuated with the concept of JIT (Just in time) delivery and production. Back in the old days inventory stores of raw materials, finished goods and production slack capacity, were larger these acted as both a buffer in case of supply disruption and a hedge against short term price shocks.
But as these things go there's been a huge management fad over the past decade or so now on IT systems for Supply Chain Management. The dumb dumbs of the boardroom and wall street equate SCM with JIT for some reason. SCM is really about selecting the optimal amount of slack for your industry not using a system that works for Walmart, Toyota or Dell.
The corporate world is off its rocker when they lean surplus refining capacity and inventories for oil products down to where it is now. It makes sense for JIT produce Camrys and Dells. However goods that are essential in an emergency, theres absolutely gotta be slack in the system. I'm telling you if there was ever a big supply shock in the winter there's a chance people could freeze to death waiting for heating oil.
Posted by MLLASH on :
quote:Originally posted by Kid Prime: Did you move?
No; still on North Parkway near Rhodes College in Midtown. Work is on the same street as the old Adam's Mark Hotel, near Germantown.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
$1.37Cdn a litre ($4.93 US a gallon I think). I don't see people driving a whole lot less - many don't have a choice - long commutes, no public transportation.
Oil may be "technically" overbought (although I've also seen calls for a near-term upside of $83/barrel), I doubt we'll see the consumer price of gasoline come down much. Here it has gone down some days by 2-4 cents, only to keep rising. One step back, 10 steps forward.
This has got to be one of the greatest rip-offs going now. The govts in Canada and US are doing nothing to promote conservation (nothing serious - the one ton challenge is a joke) or develop alternative sources. I think Europe is ahead of us on this score - maybe because they've been paying high prices for fuel for years.
Posted by Tamper Lad on :
Why conservation in Europe? Well taxes on energy, but the root is the Oil companies in Europe do not enjoy the same political influence that they do here. Many were nationalized early and brought under heel. They will never heel in the US, heck down there its a case of the government kowtowing to the energy interests.
Even up here FC, it's not gonna happen. We nationalized and denationalized Petro Canada. (I add we stupidly bought at the highest price possible and sold when the oil market was at it's lowest. Thanks.) Our oilmen will never be brought to heel either. 25 years after the National Energy Policy, they still call the Petro Canada building in Calgary Trudeau's finger. We're at least blessed that the industry haven't made us fight a war.
So FC I'll meet you at Trudeau's Finger in my Lincoln Navigator. Good times for all, I promise. Cowboy hats, steaks and Square dancing into the night.
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
Great! I'll be there if I can hitchike a ride with some Albertan energy industry lawyer getting out of Halifax now that the offshore is kaput. Those wonderful guys who helped us sell the natural gas to New England for a pittance. Still, as the End of Suburbia film makers pointed out, nobody wants to stop the party. So save me a seat at the buffet...
Posted by SharkLad on :
$4.07 a gallon
Sad to say I don't even think twice about it anymore...
What are prices like in everyone else's neck of the woods?
[ August 08, 2011, 09:23 AM: Message edited by: SharkLad ]
Posted by Dave Hackett on :
$1.27 a litre
Posted by MLLASH Siegel on :
$3.55/gallon
Posted by future king on :
$1.25 a litre .... at least it went down a bit from last week!
Posted by Legion Tracker on :
$3.49/gallon
Posted by future king on :
I haven't been out today but I heard the price went up to $1.27 again. Posted by Dave Hackett on :
The regulator here is set to drop the maximum price by almost 6 cents a litre tonight. Just going to coast on fumes until then.
Posted by dedman on :
$1.19 a litre here
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
$3.46/gallon
Posted by future king on :
It's up to $1.28 again today!
Posted by SharkLad on :
$3.99/gallon
Posted by Jerry on :
$3.29 a gallon here. We're supposedly the cheapest in the nation.
Posted by future king on :
It was $1.28 again yesterday.
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
$3.31 here in SC.
Posted by future king on :
Well I sure hope it went back down today. I have to fill up an almost empty tank plus fill two portables for my lawn mower as well!
Posted by Dev - Em on :
.99 for a bean burrito at Taco Bell. What! I gots gas now!!!
Posted by future king on :
quote:Originally posted by Dev - Em: .99 for a bean burrito at Taco Bell. What! I gots gas now!!!
Posted by Fat Cramer on :
$1.33 a litre - that's $5.11 a gallon - the same price when West Texas Crude was $150/barrel, and now it's in the 80s. What a rip off.
Posted by Maltshop von Sockhop on :
$3.39/ gallon.
Posted by future king on :
$1.29 a Litre ... it came down a few points after the long weekend.
Posted by Dave Hackett on :
1.289 here, up a cent from last night (after I held off filling up because local media projected it would go down). Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I use my Kroger supermarket card at Shell and get a ten cent per gallon discount. Yesterday I paid $3.299.
Posted by future king on :
I hear it's going up to $1.31 at some point today! Posted by Dev - Em on :
$3.89 / gallon
Posted by future king on :
$1.30 today, all day!!
Posted by superboymddjr on :
$4.00 per gallon! costed me $48 dollars filling up the gas. sigh. Posted by future king on :
Ridiculous isn't it??
Posted by Dev - Em on :
Someone must of sneezed in the Middle East.
Posted by future king on :
Hey, yesterday it was only $1.22! Maybe it's finally slowing down. (yeah, right)
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
$3.29 - which perversely seems cheap these days.
Posted by future king on :
Still holding strong at $1.22 around here! Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
I'm paying about Php5000 in gas per month, which translates to about $120. ugh. welcome to the working world...
Posted by future king on :
Hey today it was $1.20!!! My goodness, I haven't seen it this low in a LONG time! Posted by SharkLad on :
$3.75/gallon
Posted by Dev - Em on :
3.55/gallon
Posted by rickshaw1 on :
four tums, two rolaids, and a bottle of milky magnazha.
Posted by future king on :
It was at $1.21 today, so I had to fill up. You never know.... it could go up crazy mad tomorrow!!
Posted by Dev - Em on :
FK is a wildman!!!
Posted by future king on :
Sadly Dev is right .... fluctuating gas prices make me wild and crazy nowadays! Posted by Dev - Em on :
$3.38/gallon
Posted by LASHbrain on :
$2.75/gallon, thanks to Kroger gas points and the Schnuck's next door to be being purchased by them.
Posted by Dev - Em on :
quote:Originally posted by LASHbrain: $2.75/gallon, thanks to Kroger gas points and the Schnuck's next door to be being purchased by them.
What exactly is a Schnuck's?
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
$3.11. Been that way for awhile. As long as it stays that way, I'll be moderately less dissatisfied.
Posted by LASHbrain on :
A grocery store based out of St. Louis, I believe. No longer in Memphis.
Posted by future king on :
$1.21 ... same as the other day. At least it's cosistant(ly expensive!!!!!).
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