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Author Topic: Gas Prices in your area Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 03-03-2004 09:04 PM                     Gas at Arco at 5:00 PM today was $2.279 (regular). fjn  |  IP: Logged Richard Greco Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1180 From: Plant City, FL Registered: Nov 2003 posted 03-03-2004 09:10 PM                     Someone needs to invent a Mr. Fusion like the one on the Time Machine in BTTF 2. Then we could use garbage for fuel and there would be less trash in landfills. BTW, The prices here are 1.63-1.67 for regular.  |  IP: Logged Chris Hipp Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1462 From: Mesquite, Tx (east of Dallas) Registered: Jul 2003 posted 03-03-2004 09:43 PM                     I'll get right on it Richard. Technically you could is anything flammable for fuel, just not with an internal combustion engine.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-03-2004 10:02 PM                     We are probably going to see 3 bucks a gallon, so get used to it. It is going to happen. Be prepared to pay more for everything you buy, including food. If you think the railroads, airline industry and the trucking industry is not going to pass the costs of fuel to the wholesalers and retailers, you're nuts! It is already happening. Heating oil for next winter will also be sky high, probably almost at par with Diesel fuel which will prevent the truckers from burning that stuff in their rigs. They already have. Why do you think Diesel fuel is dyed? (Green for on-road and red for off-road use). If you think about it, heating oil is not dyed (as far as I know in some areas.) So, that leaves it "wide open" for dishonesty in the trucking industry. They can dye it any color they want to escape fuel taxes. Ever notice how high the price of kerosene is? That stuff burns great in Diesel engines. So does jet fuel. Military issue aviation ground support Diesel powered equipment burn just that - jet engine fuel - no need to carry a separate inventory.  |  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 03-03-2004 10:13 PM                        You didn't just predict inflation, did you.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-03-2004 10:16 PM                     Daryl, I sure did. It is going to be a real mule-hauler from our wallets. So much for economy recovery.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-04-2004 01:38 AM                        quote: We are probably going to see 3 bucks a gallon, so get used to it. What makes you think that the price of oil is likely to go up that much in the short term? Agreed entirely that the price of oil affects the price of everything (all goods and people are moved by burning it, and virtually all services are provided by burning it). But you're suggesting that a virtual doubling of the oil price is imminent. Sure, it's crept up a bit recently; but (in Britain at least) there are no signs that it's about to go up that much. From our perspective, if rises of that order are imminent, we're screwed. The huge personal debt mountain, runaway property price inflation, rising taxes and the strong pound have put the economy on a knife-edge. It's only the relatively low interest rate that is stopping it from going over that edge. I'm sure that a short-term oil price rise of that order would create the inflationary pressure needed to push interest rates up and thereby pull the house of cards down.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-04-2004 06:53 PM                     Leo, it will. It is all over the news. This has been predicted by <ahem> economists. I hope they are wrong, but by the looks of things, it is going to happen.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-05-2004 06:33 AM                        I hope they're wrong, too! No interest rate rise yesterday (the Bank of England makes its decision on the first Thursday of the month), thank goodness. A manufacturing sector which has failed to grow in line with the rest of the economy is thought to be the main reason for keeping rates at 4%. But property prices, personal debt, public sector spending and tax continue to soar, plus the price of oil is creeping up. I can't see any way how we'll avoid a crash before long.  |  IP: Logged Paul G. Thompson The Weenie Man Posts: 4718 From: Mount Vernon WA USA Registered: Nov 2000 posted 03-06-2004 01:58 AM                     Gasoline shot up 7 cents a gallon overnight at the local inconvenience store. I suspect the others will follow suit when they get a new load of gasoline.  |  IP: Logged Gunnar Johansson Expert Film Handler Posts: 181 From: Gothenburg, Sweden Registered: Mar 2003 posted 03-06-2004 08:34 AM                        Swedish prices today are listed below, although I don´t drive a car (not only do I not own one, I don´t have a license), but gas prices is one of the costs that´s a good comparison to other costs, as are the cost of milk and other everyday items. Ranging from 1,22 USD per liter being the most expensive to 0.97 USD per liter which converts to (in US gallons as opposed to British gallon): $4.62 per gallon and $3.67 per gallon.  |  IP: Logged Will Kutler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1506 From: Tucson, AZ, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 03-06-2004 10:05 AM                     Phoenix, AZ area: 87 octane about $2.00/gal; 89 octane about $2.10/gal; 91 octane about$2.20/gal  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 03-06-2004 12:20 PM                        Petrol prices here are around UK£0.77 per litre, which translates as US$1.41. So even Sweden - which has a reputation as being the tax-and-spend welfare state capital of Europe, has cheaper petrol. This government, grrr!  |  IP: Logged Pete Wolla Film Handler Posts: 71 From: Tioga, ND, USA Registered: Jan 2003 posted 03-06-2004 02:58 PM                     $1.749 per gallon regular unleaded and gasahol  |  IP: Logged Rachel Craven Madam Moderator Posts: 2190 From: Pensacola, FL Registered: Dec 2000 posted 03-06-2004 08:49 PM                     Got gas for $1.68 in Burlington, WI (near Racine). In Racine it was about $1.73 average. In Manitowoc its $1.72 right now. In Milwaukee it was $1.76 on the interstate. Sorry, went on a little road trip this week for work...  |  IP: Logged

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