Gotta love buying Premium Gas now
04-18-2006, 01:24 PM
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Gotta love buying Premium Gas now
I start a new job next week the doubles my commute distance, and now oil prices are at a record high, and a gallon of 93 octane is now over $3.
Doesn't Kuwait owe us a favor or two???
Doesn't Kuwait owe us a favor or two???
04-18-2006, 02:33 PM
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I love how the price of gas goes up even though the gas that's in the pumps was delivered way before and refined even longer before oil goes up in the markets.
04-18-2006, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by CL6
I love how the price of gas goes up even though the gas that's in the pumps was delivered way before and refined even longer before oil goes up in the markets.
That's awesome. 
I swear I'm gonna sell this car and ride my skateboard.
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04-18-2006, 02:47 PM
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Premium isnt so bad, think of it this way. if premium is running 20 cents higher per gallon than regular, which is often the case around here, and you buy 10 gallons of gas, then your only paying $2.00 more than if you bought regular. since our takes are 16 gallons (i think) we'll pay on average between 2.50 and 4.00 per tank than those buying regular.
04-18-2006, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by honion
I am pretty sure you only need 91...that should save you a few cents per gallon, I know that Sunoco usually carries 91 & 93.
You can only buy 91 oct here in Colorado.
I've nicknamed my car dracura because it sucks gas as much as dracula sucks blood. 
sez no oil for you!
04-18-2006, 03:25 PM
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why do people complain about gas prices? it doesn't do any good. if gas were $10 a gallon you would still pay for it. it's one of those things you can't really do without.
04-18-2006, 03:37 PM
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Originally Posted by o1s
why do people complain about gas prices? it doesn't do any good. if gas were $10 a gallon you would still pay for it. it's one of those things you can't really do without.
a. you are right
b. prices change everyday = annoying
c. what they paid for the oil>>>>you filling up, seems to have no relation=annoying
d. my old car was much more efficient
04-18-2006, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by RTizzo
i just filled up my tank yesterday 3.10 for 91, cost almost 50 to fill it up
I just paid $3.06/gallon for a beautiful fill-up price of ~$47.
I have learned to stop complaining about it...especially when I realized that today (literally), I paid more than twice the cost of filling up the same exact car 5 years ago. So now I resort to crying....
Funny thing is that a couple of weeks ago, it was announced that prices would not get to the record highs that we saw last year.....HA! It's not even May and we're not even getting the summer grade fuels yet but we're already paying just as much as August 2005....
04-19-2006, 07:52 AM
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There are a few places around that are still $2.96 to $2.99. Still sucks....but hey---the gov't is gonna bend us over one way or another....might as well be with this and not something more serious.
04-19-2006, 02:48 PM
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Gov taxes only add about .30 cents per gallon. The problem is OPEC cutting back production and driving the price up. Perfect example of the Economics of supply and demand for you kids in school!
I just figure Kuwait and Saudi would cut us a break and up production since we are "friends". Think I want my '91 CRX Si back...
I just figure Kuwait and Saudi would cut us a break and up production since we are "friends". Think I want my '91 CRX Si back...
04-19-2006, 03:37 PM
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It's not all that bad, just like when gas hit $2, you adjusted to it. Not like we are really hurting that bad because inorder to get the best performance, we need premium. After 10 gallons, we are only paying $2 more.
04-19-2006, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by barbeau82
It's not all that bad, just like when gas hit $2, you adjusted to it. Not like we are really hurting that bad because inorder to get the best performance, we need premium. After 10 gallons, we are only paying $2 more.
In Texas the current tax rate is 38.3 (check here for your state).
So that means that it's costing "us" about $2.70-$2.80 per gallon. NOW, I'd like to see how the books for the oil companies are going to look like at the end of June...I'm sure they'll be on the news stating that they have had another record quarter in profit....DAMN IT I should have invested in the 80's when I was 10....hahahahaha!!!!
04-19-2006, 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by falabarce
True, we will bitch and moan and nothing with happen, but at least we vent about it here!
In Texas the current tax rate is 38.3 (check here for your state).
So that means that it's costing "us" about $2.70-$2.80 per gallon. NOW, I'd like to see how the books for the oil companies are going to look like at the end of June...I'm sure they'll be on the news stating that they have had another record quarter in profit....DAMN IT I should have invested in the 80's when I was 10....hahahahaha!!!!
In Texas the current tax rate is 38.3 (check here for your state).
So that means that it's costing "us" about $2.70-$2.80 per gallon. NOW, I'd like to see how the books for the oil companies are going to look like at the end of June...I'm sure they'll be on the news stating that they have had another record quarter in profit....DAMN IT I should have invested in the 80's when I was 10....hahahahaha!!!!
Oh no doubt about it, Exxon/Mobil has surpassed Walmart in recent profit war. So I ask you where the hell is my Iraqi oil?
After all the tax money we shelled out for this war, it's just not fair. 
04-19-2006, 07:41 PM
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Oh no doubt about it, Exxon/Mobil has surpassed Walmart in recent profit war. So I ask you where the hell is my Iraqi oil? After all the tax money we shelled out for this war, it's just not fair.
After all the tax money we shelled out for this war, it's just not fair.
04-19-2006, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by blk2001tlon19s
supply and demand
04-20-2006, 11:26 PM
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I just filled 'er up this afternoon. $2.89 for Chevron supreme. I went 34 days on 13.1 gallons. I don't get exceptional miles/gallon but I get great gallons/month.
04-21-2006, 12:47 AM
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Originally Posted by erishe69
Gov taxes only add about .30 cents per gallon. The problem is OPEC cutting back production and driving the price up. Perfect example of the Economics of supply and demand for you kids in school!
I just figure Kuwait and Saudi would cut us a break and up production since we are "friends". Think I want my '91 CRX Si back...
I just figure Kuwait and Saudi would cut us a break and up production since we are "friends". Think I want my '91 CRX Si back...
I've said it before and I'll say it again. If gas prices go over double what they are currently, I'm buying a horse.
04-21-2006, 01:27 PM
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04-22-2006, 01:29 AM
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Originally Posted by o1s
that's gouging, i hope they get fined thousands of dollars for that.
As if that's ever going to happen.I had actually heard this morning an article similar to what CLSTS posted about gas being already at $4+ in CA. I've been told to expect at least $4 here in Houston by mid/late summer...
Well, I live in Texas...guess I might as well go ahead and go with what a lot of people STILL think of Texans and start riding a horse. I think hay and water would still be cheaper than gas. Now if only I could figure out a way to mount an A/C on a horse...