Whats Fuel Prices In Your Area?

[stonebroke]

Reg 4.09$

Stonebroke

[Kevin_H.]

I bought off road today for 3.59 a gallon.

[maple flats]

$3.999 yesterday for 87 and 4.799 for diesel. I sould have invested in oil stock back when I had some cash. I did buy off road diesel on may 3 @ $3.93 and filled my tank. Now I can't afford the needed armed guard to guard the tank.

[Ironwood]

Road Diesel $4.99 heading to Jersey thsi coming week, #$%^ am I going to be paying out the backside. I am not looking forward to fueling up.  >:(


Ironwood

[Toolman]

Road diesel  $4.99 today  Off-Road $4.35  Unleaded Regular $3.85
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I watched the Senate hearings this week against the big oil companies. These Senators are a joke. They blame everyone for high prices but themselves. These EDITED say they won't approve drilling that we should use alternatives to oil. WHAT ALTERNATIVES??!  They preach to the people that we should get away from foreign oil. How can you get off foreign oil when you won't drill domesticly. I blame stupid, lazy politicians who are bought and paid for by environmental groups. I say drill and get off foreign oil. Give attractive tax credits for those that buy hybrids and fuel efficient vehicles. Have Congress pass laws that oversee these greedy traders that push crude prices up due to speculation. If we become oil independent from middle east, then if a conflict occurs over there it would'nt affect crude prices. Build at least one or two new refineries here also. These politicians are'nt feeling this like we are. Their cars and fuel are paid by tax payers to get to and from work. They are so out of touch with reality. Did you all know Chelsea Clinton is a hedgefund manager that is making millions off high crude prices. Did you you all know Sen. Barbara Boxer was an oil trader before she became a Senator? She made millions on oil. Do you know she still owns large amounts of stock in oil?  There are many of our politicians who own stock in big oil and are scoring big right now. We have too many hipocrits in Congress and they are playing us like a $3.00 fiddle. Check out your local congress and senators records. It's easy, just Google it. Vote these clowns out or put pressure on them with phone calls. This economy will never flourish without affordable oil. That's the bottom line. God help us if we get another Katrina. Prices will be skies the limit.  That's all I have to say about this.

Where the people fear or rely on the government you have tyranny; where the government fears the people, you have liberty.

[okie]

One problem with drilling domestically is that the wells will be owned by major oil companies, Major oil companies sell in a global market, due to greed they will not cut profits to sell domestically cheaper. Did that make any sense? Now if the gov't stepped in and said that they had to sell to us at a cut rate, well then the oil co's cap their wells and continue to sell their overseas oil @ world market value.  If we were the only player in this game our demand would control the price speculation be hanged but other nations are controling the supply demand balance. And if demand goes down globally well good ole oil producers can always cut production to below demand and up the price to make up for profits.Produce less oil, use fewer resources, save on manpower requirements, sell oil produced for record profits......Sounds like a winner.  I would say that it is safe to say that we are properly screwed on oil prices.

[musikwerke]

Heard a new word today - "Staycation" (vs. "Vacation")

[Ron Wenrich]

Let's say we do up our production of homedrilled crude, how will that effect anything other than the short term market?  Can we really depend on oil as being the energy source of the future?  I'm not in the camp that thinks that short term solutions will yield to long term relief. 

What role should government play?  A lot of people are looking for the government to give them relief at the pump.  We could open up the rest of the US to commercial drilling.  We are producing about 40% of our needs.  Is there that much untapped potential to give us long term relief? 

We could remove all road taxes.  That takes away needed money for highway repair.  If it doesn't come from fuel taxes, they'll have to take it from someplace else.  Running deficits haven't proven to be a good deal.

Governments role should be to strengthen the dollar.  That's going to hurt, but that is the only role government should play.  A stronger dollar will lower the price of crude.  We have lost 1/3 of our buying power due to a devaluation of the dollar.  That's the tax that wasn't paid in the past to balance the budget and the cost of borrowing.

Personally, I don't think the future of our energy is in oil or other fossil fuels.  Its part of the puzzle, but not all of it.  It would be better to give incentives to other sources of renewable energy, if any incentives should be given. 

The government stayed away from the credit bubble, the internet bubble, and many other market bubbles that have formed.  It would be really a smart idea to stay away from the oil bubble.  Speculation provides market liquidity.  They make money on the run up, and take a bath when the bubble bursts. 

[SwingOak]

I just got back from a weekend trip to NH. Traffic was the lightest i can ever remember it being on a holiday weekend.

Diesel prices:
Filled the tank in NJ: $4.55
Connecticut: $4.79
Mass: $4.89
NH: $4.69-$4.89, found a Hess station outside Concord NH where I filled up at $4.59. A sign on the pump read: "Due to increased diesel drive-offs, you must pre-pay in cash, or leave a credit card or drivers license with the cashier before filling." Sad...

On the plus side, I think I got decent fuel economy - at least 19 mpg - on the drive up. Full pressure in the tires, and kept the RPM's to 1900 max (68 mph).

[ADAMINMO]

Regular gas ..... $3.85 for the cheap stuff!!! This is a killer. Supposed to go on vacation in 2 weeks ...... May have to do the "Staycation" as mentioned above.

[breederman]

Id take all the 3.85 gas I could get. 3.96 today in Unadilla and tuesday is .03 off day.  was 4.16 above Oneonta yesterday

[tcsmpsi]

Across the road this morning, regular was $3.79 and diesel was $4.68.

One thing's for certain, can't go far on a dollar's worth any more. 

[SwingOak]

The "cheap" station in town was up to $4.79 for diesel this morning. That means it went up an average of $0.06 per day over the weekend. I'm gonna graph my fuel log since January and see if I can come up with a per-day increase average...

I saw diesel as high as $4.93 this morning. If this keeps up it will be cheaper for me to stay home than go to work!!!

[GF]

I saw diesel as high as $4.93 this morning. If this keeps up it will be cheaper for me to stay home than go to work!!!

You can go to work and go broke or stay home and go broke, either way you go broke.

[Radar67]

My brother had a good observation this weekend. Gas prices are not nearly high enough. There are still people traveling up and down the road for pleasure and the big, gas hogs are not parked yet. Far too many big farm trucks and luxury SUVs on the road for pleasure trips.

Before everyone here who drives the big farm trucks attacks me, I can understand the need to drive them for business, but not the trip to Wal-Mart and such.

[Greg]

Unleaded spiked up to $3.99 here last week, now it has backed off slightly to $3.92 or so.

Here is SW Ohio,

Greg

[Warbird]

If prices stay this high (or higher, God forbid) into the winter, there will be a lot of hurtin' folks up here in Alaska.  I've heard rumors of $6 or $7 a gallon for heating oil.  If it comes to that, I'm shutting down my boiler and we'll survive.  We were burning right at 200 gallons of heating oil per month, during the real cold months (that was just to heat the crawlspace and the shop).  At $7/gallon, that'd be around $1,400/month.  No way I can afford that.

*sigh*  Might be time to pull the water softener back into the house and throw an old barrel stove in the shop.

[DouginUtah]

I went to the library this morning to download AVG 8.0 (46 MB--4 hours on my dial-up. It took 6 minutes there.)

On the way home I stopped at the (only) local ethanol station and checked on the price of E85. It is $3.82/gal.

I noticed a guy filling up his Chrysler Sebring FlexFuel car. I went over and talked to him. I noticed that it had US Government plates on it.

"Are you required to use this?"
"Yep, word came down that if we have close access to E85 we must use it."

He seemed as excited about using E85 as I am.  :(

I went to www.fueleconomy.gov and found that the Sebring gets (city) 19 mpg on gas and 13 mpg on E85. If my math is correct, using E85 at $3.82 is equal to paying $5.61 for gas.

Unleaded regular gas is $3.62 at AAFES on Hill AFB or $3.72 at Maverik.

Our highly efficient green government at work.




(Is there a need anymore to say unlead when you say regular?  :D )

[GF]

DougInUtah,
    Sounds like typical politics,  sounds good but costs more money.

[sharp edge]

Doug
How much does it cost to get a pair of lungs fixed? ethanol really burns clean compared to reg. gas. I see in the chain saw thread they still like leaded gas. :

Car co. are calling alternater, generaters-- so maybe some day reg. gas is E-85, we can jump over unlead. 8)

sharp E

[musikwerke]

There is already talk that in our lifetime (for most of us anyway) Maine will become unaffordable as a year 'round place for the working man to live.  And one of the people saying this a former Governor. 

[Furby]

I saw diesel as high as $4.93 this morning. If this keeps up it will be cheaper for me to stay home than go to work!!!

I just PAID $4.93 for a tank of diesel here in PA.
Good thing it was on the company card. ;)  :-\ :-\ :-\

[pappy19]

One problem with drilling domestically is that the wells will be owned by major oil companies, Major oil companies sell in a global market, due to greed they will not cut profits to sell domestically cheaper. Did that make any sense? Now if the gov't stepped in and said that they had to sell to us at a cut rate, well then the oil co's cap their wells and continue to sell their overseas oil @ world market value.  If we were the only player in this game our demand would control the price speculation be hanged but other nations are controling the supply demand balance. And if demand goes down globally well good ole oil producers can always cut production to below demand and up the price to make up for profits.Produce less oil, use fewer resources, save on manpower requirements, sell oil produced for record profits......Sounds like a winner.  I would say that it is safe to say that we are properly screwed on oil prices.

Sorry, I can't go along with your theory. If you look at the Bakken and Barnett oil plays, in a few years, if Congress doesn't screw it up, oil prices will fall with the added supply. Not to mention the Canadian and Mexican plays, it's just like the housing market....supply and demand. Once these new oil finds come into the market along with ANWAR and off shore drillings, the market for oil products will fall. How far is another question. No different than timber or lumber products. Look at plywood prices from 10 years ago and now. How about corn and grain? As soon as the farmers start over producing, the prices will go down. That's the way life is.

[Toolman]

Read good article on Bakken oil field. contains 500 billion barrels of light sweet crude. Biggest find ever. Way bigger than Saudis 150 Billion barrel field. Based on USG report , we can be off Saudi oil now!!  What in the hell is going on. They are now able to tap into this. All the government has to do is give go ahead. Just the announcement alone would cause crude prices to tumble and the Saudis to get real nervous. Something real strange going on here.

[Roxie]

What's happening to diesel prices?  Check out this article from February of this year.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1151397820080211

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