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Author Topic: Gas Prices in your area Oscar Neundorfer Master Film Handler Posts: 275 From: Senoia, GA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-02-2004 06:20 AM                        $1.569 per gallon for mid grade this morning in Snellville, GA which is east of Atlanta, GA about 15 miles. Typically, Georgia gas prices seem to be lower than elsewhere. Not sure why, but I'm not complaining! On any given day in my area, I have seen it vary as much as 10 to 15 cents per gallon between stations, even within the same brand. One of my pet peeves is the use of the $.009 on gas prices. Why not just say $1.57 instead of $1.569. Must be a marketing ploy to make unthinking people believe they are getting a great deal or something. I am 53 years old, and I remember when gas was 15 to 18 cents per gallon. My Grandfather owned a gas station, and he was always complaining when the oil companies wanted him to up the price a bit.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-02-2004 11:53 AM                     Regular is at 1.69 per gallon at ARCO, up to 2.02 per gallon for premium at other stores. It is said that we can expect regular gasoline go up to 2.50 per gallon by summertime. Some think it might even go as high as 3 bucks a gallon in some areas. I guess I am going to re-join the ranks of a "biker" again. Driving a cage is just getting too darn expensive.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-02-2004 01:46 PM                     Gas costs about $3.20 per gallon here in The Bahamas. B$1.00 = US$1.00  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 03-02-2004 02:34 PM                     About $1.69 in central Ohio right now, but it depends on the day. For some reason, the magic day here is Thursday. Almost all gas price increases come on Thursday. They usually stay the same Friday, Saturday and Sunday, then drop a dime or two on Monday. Thursday, it starts all over again. No one has ever been able to determine why Thursday, but Thursday AM you can see the people in front of the stations with their poles changing the prices!  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 03-02-2004 03:01 PM                        Hawaii's gas prices here on the island of Oahu is about $2.18 per gallon for premium and about a dime less for each of the two lower grades. What makes Hawaii's gas prices the highest in the country is the state and county tax. Honolulu county tax (Oahu) is 16.5 per gallon. Maui's tax is 18 cents a gallon. Kauai is 13 cents a gallon and the tax in Hawaii county (Big Island) right now is 8.8 cents per gallon but it's mayor, Harry Kim wants to increase it by six cents to improve roads and bus service. On top of the county tax is the state's share and it is 16 cents a gallon. Because of the high price of gas, I have been using Honolulu's excellent public transportation system during the past two years if I only have to go to my color lab to drop off work or to one of our malls in Honolulu to see a movie. The only time I use my car is when it is work related. My average gas bill a month is about $115.00. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-02-2004 03:48 PM                        quote: What makes Hawaii's gas prices the highest in the country is the state and county tax. You have my sympathy. We have the highest petrol/gas prices in the developed world by a significant margin (though some other European Union countries run us pretty close). They're heading towards $7 a gallon, some 82% of which is tax. It's taking all the self-control I can muster not to start making political remarks about that... The following currency conversions are all courtesy of www.xe.com . In a typical week I spend around $50 on petrol covering 300 miles commuting by car (three days a week), and a further $27 by train (the other two). The only reason I don't commute by train all week is that if you leave before 9.30am, $13.50ish for a return journey becomes $42 (compared to $17 in petrol costs for each return journey by car), and I can only juggle things in order to do a couple of hours at home before heading in on two days. So much for these taxes being in aid of the environment... oops, sorry, getting political. If the only tax on petrol was the same sales tax (we call it Value Added Tax, or VAT) as is charged on all other goods and services, my weekly petrol bill would be around $10. The other $40 is fuel duty, which goes straight to the government. OK, by British standards I am very unusual in living 48 miles from my place of work, but thanks to fuel duty I reckon that about half my income goes to the tax man, all told.  |  IP: Logged Ian Price Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1714 From: Denver, CO Registered: Jun 99 posted 03-02-2004 04:04 PM                     Last Year I spent $2,225 on gas. This works out to about $185 per month. So I use about 100 gallons of gas per month. I get about 20-miles per gallon for fuel economy. Which means I drive about 2,000 miles per month. Or about 24,000 miles per year. I live 35-miles from work and drive it about 6-days per week. I'm thinking about buying a new car. I'd like one that got at least 35-miles per gallon. I could save $1,000 per year on gas, but at the expense of $3,600 in new car payments. So a new car would still be $2,600 per year more expensive than what I am driving today. I moved 35-miles farther from work for a couple of reasons. One is that the air is clean and it is near a lake in which I like to swim. The other reason is that the houses were about $50,000 less expensive than in the town where I work. So I am spending about $3,500 per year on my car without making car payments. How long can I do this before negating the $50,000 price advantage on my house?  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 03-02-2004 04:24 PM                     quote: I am spending about $3,500 per year on my car without making car payments. How long can I do this before negating the $50,000 price advantage on my house? First of all, do you attribute 100% of your car expenses to your home/work commute? How much of that could you eliminate by moving closer to work? How long do you expect your current car will last?  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-02-2004 04:49 PM                     I think its $1.79 in Manitowoc WI right now...well, it was yesterday.  |  IP: Logged Kyle McEachern Expert Film Handler Posts: 165 From: San Francisco, CA Registered: Feb 2004 posted 03-02-2004 05:01 PM                 I filled up about 3 days ago in Sacramento, CA for $2.099/gal, I believe - for regular...was the cheapest one I could find.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 03-02-2004 05:54 PM                     On Monday, most service stations here were selling gas at $1.52. Now, one day later, the price for regular is $1.69. Forecasts say prices could spike significantly higher by summertime. My commute to work is only around 6 miles. With the prospect of $2 per gallon prices, the investment in a decent bicycle is looking more and more attractive.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-02-2004 07:29 PM                        $2.30 USD / gallon here. Boo hoo. Even at about $3000+ a year, fuel costs fall behind nearly all of my major expenses, including food.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 03-02-2004 07:40 PM                  Yeah, those damn Nachos have really gone up in price, huh Daryl? >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 03-02-2004 08:44 PM                    I commute primarily by rail unless I need to go somewhere directly after work and it's in the same direction. Train station is about a 4 minute drive from home and then about a 6 minute walk when I get downtown. Parking at the suburban station costs $1/day and the monthly commuter train ticket for my zone costs $110.70. If I drive it's about 33-35 miles one way and parking costs $13.00 though this rises to $16 after 10:00AM and I've paid as much as $19 if I stay to work an evening show. That's a park district (government) owned parking garage. The private one next door starts at something like $23 for an ordinary workday. Oh yeah...my train is electric, 1500 VDC.  |  IP: Logged Gary Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 200 From: Neptune NJ USA Registered: Nov 2003 posted 03-03-2004 02:33 PM                     Got gas this morning at $1.54.9 a gallon for regular. The prices in Central NJ went up about a nickel last week. NJ is usually pretty cheap, comparatively speaking of course. We DON'T have self-service and we're still cheaper. And we do have the big refineries here in the northeast and southwest parts of the state. Depending upon the company, gas today was from $1.54.9 where I got it today (Citgo) and $1.79.9 at an Exxon. Don't know about today, but I traveled to Alabama for a funeral last September and I noticed Tennessee seemed to be about 10c or more cheaper than NJ at most all of the stations.  |  IP: Logged

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