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Author Topic: Gas Prices in your area Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-17-2008 11:07 PM                     Our new service van runs on Natural Gas or Gasoline... Natural Gas here is .875 a gallon so you can guess what I'm running it on. I read somewhere that it's equivelent to 130 octane gasoline but I'm doubting that. I have to say that on Natural Gas it does run so smooth you don't even know it's running... switch it to Gasoline and there's a bit of roughness to the idle. Mark  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-19-2008 09:20 PM                     87 octane here in Lawton was $2.53 per gallon on Friday. On Saturday the price dropped to $2.49. Today, the price dropped down to $2.41 per gallon.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 10-19-2008 11:40 PM                        Still $2.899 here; Montana has a high gas tax (to supplement our lack of a sales tax, I guess) so that could be at least part of the reason. It's dropped about $1.30 in the last 2 months, so I guess there's something good about the "economic meltdown!"  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-20-2008 09:29 AM                     This morning I was surprised to see another price drop. 87 octane gasoline is selling for $2.33 per gallon. Diesel is $3.49 per gallon.  |  IP: Logged Jason Black Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1723 From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 10-20-2008 10:21 PM                        With the continued fall in the price of crude, I'm waiting the price at the pump will fall in line accordingly. Currently at $2.59 here this am. Hope to see it fall and level around $2.25.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-20-2008 10:52 PM                     Hell, I'd like to see the price dip below $2.00 again. I filled up my pickup truck today for about $46. Back in July the cost was close to $80.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-21-2008 02:16 AM                     ...sad, and we're still above 3 bucks - $3.249 .. that's just plain highway robbery to be that high in this state. But, as we've read and heard in the news: Even though fuel prices are going down, is America going to go back to it's gas guzzling days, or have we learned a hard lesson to prepare ourselves in case this falling price of oil is just another "calm before the storm" situation?  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 10-21-2008 02:28 AM                        Driving home from work tonight I noticed the cheapest station in town is down to $3.19. That's down something like 14¢ in the last 2-3 days.  |  IP: Logged Tim Asten Film Handler Posts: 98 From: Brighton, United Kingdom Registered: Nov 2006 posted 10-21-2008 04:51 AM                     Petrol prices are dropping here too due to the recession we are all in. The cheapest I have seen locally was £1 a litre ($6.32 per U.S gallon). I heard that OPEC want to cut oil production to force the prices back up.. Scumbags. Tim.  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-21-2008 10:12 AM                     Another small drop in price here. $2.31 per gallon for 87 octane. Just to put that in perspective, in January of 2003 the price for 87 octane here was $1.32 per gallon. quote: Monte L Fullmer Even though fuel prices are going down, is America going to go back to it's gas guzzling days, or have we learned a hard lesson to prepare ourselves in case this falling price of oil is just another "calm before the storm" situation? I believe the "demand destruction" is permanent. Americans love to drive. But they are no longer in love with gas guzzling vehicles that cost a fortune to keep on the road. GM, Ford and Chrysler being on the brink of ruin confirms that paradigm shift in vehicle preference. Even with fuel costing under $2.50 here, it still adds up to a pretty high cost when it comes to filling up a king cab truck or SUV. These violent market corrections are only now hitting the fuel and commodities markets after laying waste to the housing industry. I'm rooting for similar corrections to drop kick the hell out of the higher education industry and health care industry. Those two industries have seen runaway cost inflation go unabated for nearly 2 decades despite stagnant income growth. Plain, simple math does not equal them being able to continue with that greedy nonsense.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 10-21-2008 11:17 AM                     In addition to Bobby's comment about demand destruction, the increased CAFE standards will also help to ensure we don't go back to the gas guzzling days. Hopefully, with the next administration (whoever it is), some sane energy policy will be developed to help us be less dependent on OPEC.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 10-21-2008 12:45 PM                     And chiming along within this vein - all the times I drive by used car lots, it amazing, yet sad, to see these lots loaded heavilly with trucks and SUV's that you know that will be sitting there for quite the time - to the point that eventually they'll be just given away due to the lack of demand for such items. Then, the ones that do own these vehicles, you can see the grimmace on their faces knowing that their guzzlers have lost tons of value where they will never get out of them what they paid for if they did a trade-in of sorts. Thus, knowing that they're stuck with these vehicles as if chained to them for life. I've always driven 4 cylinder econobox vehicles knowing that some day, like when it was back in the embargo days, these little cars do hold their weight in gold. -Monte -Monte  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 10-22-2008 01:04 AM                     quote: Bobby Henderson Hell, I'd like to see the price dip below $2.00 again. At the current pace in price reduction we could see it below $2.00 here by next week. 87 Octane is down to $2.179 a $.22 drop in less than a week.  |  IP: Logged Lyle Romer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1400 From: Davie, FL, USA Registered: May 2002 posted 10-22-2008 08:22 AM                     quote: Bobby Henderson I'm rooting for similar corrections to drop kick the hell out of the higher education industry and health care industry. Those two industries have seen runaway cost inflation go unabated for nearly 2 decades despite stagnant income growth. Plain, simple math does not equal them being able to continue with that greedy nonsense. The problem with bringing down the cost of either of these two "products" is the politicians. In both cases, politicians talk about making healthcare and college affordable. Unfortunately, they don't mean bring down the cost charged by providers. What they mean is to have the government (i.e. the "rich" people) subsidize healtcare and college for the "middle class". Thus, the "rich" people (who in reality are upper middle class and not rich) get to keep paying the high prices while college proffesors continue to earn 6 figure salaries to teach a couple of hours a day and then do "research".  |  IP: Logged Bobby Henderson "Ask me about Trajan." Posts: 10973 From: Lawton, OK, USA Registered: Apr 2001 posted 10-22-2008 09:43 AM                     Those issues make little difference from the view point of the paying customers. The math situation is unchanged. The general public is getting price gouged to the breaking point. Pretty soon too many people will simply not be able to afford college or health care at all. They will just do without. There is already evidence of this showing up in drug industry sales. Edit: this morning Merck announced it will cut 7200 jobs after net income dropped 28% due to competition from generic drugs. When the customer base collapses those pseudo-socialized, "for profit," "private" industries will fall on their face. In the case of many health care sectors, such as the pharmaceutical industry, the share holders will take a bath. And just like so many investors who took it in the shorts with this housing industry collapse, they can see see this crash coming years in advance too. I guess the name of the game is staying on the gravy train long enough to milk as much profit as possible out of it and then pick the right time to jump off before the gravy train jumps the tracks. Hospitals and universities get by with a tremendous amount of tax dollars, but they still need plenty of paying customers coming in through the doors to maintain positive cash flow. Within the next 10 years both industries are going to find themselves in one hell of a hole regardless of the shenanigans government officials are doing to help them survive. The American public has only so much money to give to these scoundrels. In lighter news, 87 octane gasoline dropped to $2.29 per gallon here in Lawton this morning.  |  IP: Logged

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