Gasoline prices

appnut · May 20, 2018

Paid $2.59 a gallon yesterday. Venezuelan instability will likely cause prices to go higher.

vacerator · May 20, 2018

Still $2.95 here.

New vehicle in the garage as of Thursday evening. Ford Edge SEL 3.5 litre V6.
Only gets 17 city, 26 highway.
We don't drive much. Hubby didn't care for the Escape. He's taller, felt cramped.
It's a lease, via sons A plan. We'll mainly use it for recreational day trips.
Very nice car.

Our '07 Impala is better on gas in the city. Lighter.

Ultramatic · May 20, 2018

It's jumped to $3.05 for regular, the cheapest so far in my neighborhood. I've seen as high as $3.59 so far.

DADoES · May 20, 2018

Up to 2.689 couple days ago. The regional convenience store chain of reference is its own gasoline distributor.

wayupnorth · May 20, 2018

2.85 at Sams and BJs and up to 3.05 in the outskirts now. Diesel is up too but heating oil prices are still around 2.50 as nobody needs it now and watch it jump in September.

askolover · May 20, 2018

My 2001 Bug is my commuter...100 miles each day...has 254,000 miles on it all put on by me...and I only fill up every two weeks. And it doesn't use a drop of gasoline. No matter how high gas or diesel gets, I still come out ahead at 50mpg.

gusherb · May 20, 2018

Looks like gas is $2.94 at the moment. My recent driving has been giving me an average of 30 MPG and I filled up for $2.69 last monday.

vacerator · May 25, 2018

Up to $305.9 now.

Careful what you wish for. v^v^v~v~V~V^V~^V^V~V~V^~^~^~V^~^~^~^~^~^ ~^~^ ~^~^_____________________________________________________________

johnb300m · May 25, 2018

I have to use midgrade, and I use GasBuddy.
GasBuddy was reporting $3.19 two hours prior to when I looked.
When I go to the gas station, the price for 89 jumped in that timeframe up to $3.49.

yogitunes · May 25, 2018

Higher gas prices = time to start shopping for a new truck with a V8!!!

sometimes you have to take the higher price of gas as an advantage...…

and some of us look forward to it.....once you realize what the price increase can do for you...

if the price stays high long enough, people will start trading in their vehicles with a V8/6 engine....getting a very low trade in offer....as small 4-bangers will go up in price.....

on the better side....dealers cant get rid of vehicles with a V8/6....so the price drops drastically....

the prices will drop by November's election.....

askolover · May 26, 2018

And the carmakers will rethink their decision to abandon car production. Been through this before.

Diesel was $2.99 when I filled up 2 days ago. Cost me $36 to fill to the top.

moparwash · May 26, 2018

Here in the Keystone State...

PA has the highest gas tax in the country .70 cents a gallon, so its $3.15 here..in Ohio its usually 30-60 cents a gallon cheaper, so when I make trips to Ohio, I leave here with enough gas to get to the first station there

foraloysius · May 26, 2018

$7.27 today.

Overhere 60% is taxes, so $4.36 per gallon.

tomturbomatic · May 26, 2018

Filled up yesterday for $2.95 a gal. for regular. Most places in Beltsville want 2.99, but in surrounding places off the Route 1 strip, prices are already well over $3.00 a gallon for regular. The surprising thing was the price of Diesel at $3.19. For a long time it was supposed to be cheaper.

vacerator · May 26, 2018

V6 or V8 vs. 4 cylinder trucks;

With the new lighter weight aluminum bodies, the F 150's base engine now is a 3 litre V6, and fuel economy very good. I think it has an eco boost turbo standard.
All wheel or 4 wheel drive adds weight and also reduces fuel economy.
It's relative to cause and effect, but you can always make money with a truck, and if some of the fuel is "still?" tax deductable as a business expense, even better.
I think the mid size Ranger may also be coming back from Ford. GM already brought back the Colorado and Canyon miodels.
Sedans will also come back, but I think most will be all electric, or at least be offered that way.

twintubdexter · May 26, 2018

All 3 vehicles have V 8's

You know you drive very little when 2 of your vehicles need stabilizer added to the tank to keep the gas from going bad. The pickup's OK since it gets a fill-up about every 2 1/2 to 3 months. I guess I'm lucky...being old and retired helps.

gusherb · May 26, 2018

Gas has been running a little over $3 a gallon for the past several days now. I'm sitting just a hair under 3/4 tank, my car is sucking quite a bit more gas than it has been now that the temperatures have gone up into the 80s-90s. Alot of idling with the A/C on thanks to more trains in the area lately.
Running the A/C sucks alot of gas when sitting idle, hardly makes any impact in MPG at highway speeds interestingly enough.

vacerator · May 27, 2018

My other half thinks

these higher prices are because the govt. exited the Iran accord. Thinks it isn't finished climbing higher.
As usual, we're over the preverbial "barrel", because deregulation may also spike prices. As transport costs rise, so will the goods transported via diesel and gasoline.

tomturbomatic · Jun 7, 2018

Gasoline prices have started falling in Beltsville. Regular has dropped 6 centavos a gallon.

DADoES · Jun 7, 2018

$2.699 --> $2.669.

luxflairguy · Jun 7, 2018

Premium @ Sam's Club here in Wilmington $3.10 gallon. $51.00 to fill Ultra!

DADoES · Jun 7, 2018

$2.669 --> $2.649.

vacerator · Jun 8, 2018

$3.20 last I checked Wednesday.

Fed Up!
Not that we need to drive a lot, but many still do.
I've curtailed my morning fishing, even locally, to slow demand.

G7 summit in Quebec City soon. Protests expected. Canada imports lots of Iowa pork. They're not happy about tariff's.

jmm63 · Jun 8, 2018

Just took a road trip to Michigan to visit family and I was surprised at the range in prices. My 18 Chevy Equinox got great gas mileage, 30.5 mpg average. Did the 550 mile one way trip on 1 1/4 tanks of gas. But I paid anywhere from 2.79 here in NJ, (and they pump your gas) , 2.99 in Ohio, and 3.15 in PA on the way back. I also noticed the range in prices at exits along 80 in PA, some as much as .20 cents a gallon.

vacerator · Jun 8, 2018

Thats great fuel economy Jim!

Our son in law has anew Equinox and likes it a lot. The lease is also reasonable.
My step son is a Ford employee, so that's why we got the Edge. It's V6 is more thirsty, and AWD eats up one more mpg.
Hubby really wanted it. He makes the payment, and pays for most of the gas.
It's a really nice car though, roomy, and comfortable seats. He's got to have those, for his back. Any more than an hour or so in a car and he's had enough. We didn't get leather, the Sync 3, or all the extra techy options. Both seats are power though, and the drivers has power side bolsters. The rear seats even recline.
I re did his office last month. He got one of those vari desks so he can alternately sit and stand to work.

petek · Jun 11, 2018

I'm wondering why the US access to Canadian and Mexican oil is never brought up in all this news about NAFTA and Trump etc. If NAFTA goes down the toilet, as I understand it, the US will no longer have the unfettered access to it that they have now

vacerator · Jun 11, 2018

Exactly Petek!

Nor is Trump telling anyone about the Canadian oil the US imports, then exports after mark up. Ontario is Michigan's main trade partner.
Nafta provided for trade parity with Canada. Remember the Auto Pact? One came here, one went there. After the UAW and Canadian auto workers split, they abolished the auto pact.
My neighbor went to Niagra Falls last weekend. She said nothing but rude Canadians. What did she expect in light of tariffs? I've been to restaurants with her and she can be outright rude anyhow. She also adores Trump, so we don't usually talk politics, except we agree some politicians are pretty out of touch. Like Betty DeVoss, and my neighbor works for charter schools.
Now I've never met a rude Canadian, but I can be objective, and rational.
You get more to like you with sugar than with salt.
Our potus is not an expert on trade, or maybe it's another deflection tactic. The Us and Canadian economies have more or less adjusted to global trade. I fear tariffs or policy changes will pout us in reverse, and we had enough of that between 2004 and 2009.
Fact is that the Hawley Smoot 1930 tariff act worsened the depression greatly as well.

tomturbomatic · Jun 13, 2018

Gas Prices Are Dropping Here

I noticed that the WAWA was down to 2.85 for Regular this AM.

vacerator · Jun 14, 2018

I paid $286

yesterday. I drove the 80 mile round trip to the Great lakes veterans memorial cemetery to inter my folks ashes. I set the cruise on 65, A/c on, and the instant fuel economy read out said about 26 m.p.g. At 50 m.ph., went up to 40 m.p.g.
Average is up to 18, mostly city driving. New vehicle only has 500 miles on it.

tomturbomatic · Jun 14, 2018

Penalties If States Don't Allow Offshore Drilling

<!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>
<w:WordDocument>
<w:View>Normal</w:View>
<w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom>
<w:TrackMoves/>
<w:TrackFormatting/>
<w

unctuationKerning/>
<w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/>
<w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>
<w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent>
<w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>
<w

oNotPromoteQF/>
<w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther>
<w:LidThemeAsian>ZH-CN</w:LidThemeAsian>
<w:LidThemeComplexScript>AR-SA</w:LidThemeComplexScript>
<w:Compatibility>
<w:BreakWrappedTables/>
<w:SnapToGridInCell/>
<w:ApplyBreakingRules/>
<w:WrapTextWithPunct/>
<w:UseAsianBreakRules/>
<w

ontGrowAutofit/>
<w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/>
<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
<w

ontFlipMirrorIndents/>
<w:OverrideTableStyleHps/>
</w:Compatibility>
<w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel>
<m:mathPr>
<m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/>
<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
<m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/>
<m:smallFrac m:val="off"/>
<m:dispDef/>
<m:lMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:rMargin m:val="0"/>
<m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/>
<m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/>
<m:intLim m:val="subSup"/>
<m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/>
</m:mathPr></w:WordDocument>
</xml><![endif]-->

-- House Republicans want to impose financial penalties on states that don't approve offshore drilling for oil and natural gas. Dino Grandoni reports: “The draft proposal, which will be discussed at a hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee on Thursday, says that states will be allowed to disapprove of drilling offshore in up to half of the lease blocks off its coast without incurring a penalty.”

Gasoline prices

Help Support AutomaticWasher.org:

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Moderator

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Moderator

Well-known member

Moderator

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Well-known member

Similar threads