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Thought this would be interesting.

Here in San Jose, the average cost for unleaded regular self serve is $3.409.

:surprise0785::surprise0785::surprise0785:
 
Shucks! We're hovering just under $3... $3.85 to 3.95 this week.
 
At the moment (6 April 2007), our prices start at $2.99/gallon with an average of $3.09/gallon. I heard that ours is supposed to go up to $3.19 in the next couple of days.

Dave :rip_1:
 
Left MI, it was $2.98. Got here and it WAS just a touch cheaper ($2.94). However, I can get it at Sam's for about $2.84 and at the WalMart Superstore right around the corner for $2.79. Liz
 
Now the CHEAP gas is $3.509 ish. I saw one station with Regular Self Serve for $3.649. The full serve price for Regular was over $4.00 per gallon.
 
Ours is about 2.79 at the moment, heaven only knows what it will be in the days to come....

Kelly
 
well stock up for your lawnmower etc, it is only going higher atm. :(

We are currently at an average of $3.19, but the same company 2 miles away is charging $3.25.

Love to know how that is not price gauging - the same delivery tanker probably served both locations.....
 
Not sure I should really reply to this one!!!

we are currently satnding at £1.03.9 per litre! which i think works out at about $1.99 a litre so that would be approx $8.95 a gallon!!

Any chance of someone sinking a secret pipeline from then to me?? PLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE :thumbsup:
 
Oh Julie. That is really sad. But please remember, we really can not buy a car with the great milage yours get. And if we did, it would be swamped by all the huge, gas guzzeling SUV's. SB said the bulk of your prices are for highway tax. (which doesn't seem to trickle down to having good roads)

At least your prices are pretty stable. Meaning you can budget the expense. Here, it can change 20-30 cents a day! Imagine all those folks that filled up in the morning paying an extra $3-4 a tankful, only to see the lower price on the way home? To me it's baloney! We are being held hostage by the big oil companies who are showing huge profits but not reinvesting to increase supply.
I wonder if we can set up a "cyber pipeline"?
 
Julie, I can't imagine paying that much for gas. I bet I'd stay home more than I do now!

While in Germany, I was figuring what the price was from marks to dollars. I told the guy there that it worked out to be about the same. He asked me if we sold it by the liter. Oops! It made me appreciate our prices a little better.

However, I agree with BD that we're being held hostage. And I agree with the price gouging!

I got an email, one of those forward as much as possible kind, that talked about boycotting a certain gas company in the U.S. for just one day and they would lower their prices. Logically, I think that it would work. On the other hand, it wouldn't work because everyone wouldn't do it.

Has anyone else seen that email? Do you think it would work?

Dave :surprise0785:
 
I've seen it and others like it. I don't believe it'll work. Honestly, when they have a "gas out" I normally ain't buyin' that day anyway. If you think about it, don't buy today, you're still gonna need it tomorrow.

I'm tired of the "global warming, greenhouse gas" thing. I figure that's what's holding back the building of refineries and bringing wells online. Shucks, here in Mich. there are wells capped everywhere and they have been tearing down refineries. Until the EPA relaxes some of the clean-air act, we won't see production increases anytime soon. So, it's holding us hostage until building new facilities becomes profitable.
 
Dave~ said:

Has anyone else seen that email? Do you think it would work?

Dave :surprise0785:
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I didn't see the email, but neither do I think it would work. In Europe the UK among other countries was crippled by protesters in 2000 who blocked off refineries for days causing gas stations all over the country to close. Did it solve the problem? No - so a one day avoidance will have little impact (imo).
Link to article
 
May 15 is the next "one day boycott date", but nothings going to change until we learn to cut down gas usage the other 364 days a year.
The gas companies are gouging us because they CAN!!

There was an article in the paper yesterday about gas prices being at an "all time high" and they listed Michigan cities and their highest prices. According to the paper, the highest price was in Lansing, $3.22 and Muskegon, the closest city to us was at $3.12. Ummmm, apparently the reporters didn't investigate Kazoo or Whitehall/Montague as we were at $3.25, too! (down to $3.18 yesterday but weekend is approaching, it'll jump back up)

Yup, Julie, in Europe gas IS high! When we went to Denmark in 2000, gas was abut $5 gallon.

Sure wish US would jump on the "little car bandwagon" as little cars are easier to drive anyways (I loved my omnis, saturn and cavalier!) It makes me angry everytime I think of a friend who has a 7 seat minivan and ONE child (who is in college!) ! Folks like her are the reason gas is so high here.

But Europe also has many of its communities set up where everything is within walking distance, much smarter city planning than the US has, and also has a much better public transportation system. In US, trains are thought of as obsolete cargo haulers. Our local train tracks got turned into bike paths. Stoopid US thinking, as I'd much rather take a bus or especially a train than drive!

AnotherLiz
 
blim said:
But Europe also has many of its communities set up where everything is within walking distance, much smarter city planning than the US has, and also has a much better public transportation system. In US, trains are thought of as obsolete cargo haulers. Our local train tracks got turned into bike paths. Stoopid US thinking, as I'd much rather take a bus or especially a train than drive!
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A'Liz, you're so right there. While working in Germany, I took the train to work everyday (die Wuppertaler Schwebebahn, the train that hangs from the rails). Or, if I didn't walk, I took the electric buses. Upon occassion, I would drive, but the gas prices made it more convenient to NOT drive.

blim said:
Sure wish US would jump on the "little car bandwagon" as little cars are easier to drive anyways (I loved my omnis, saturn and cavalier!) It makes me angry everytime I think of a friend who has a 7 seat minivan and ONE child (who is in college!) ! Folks like her are the reason gas is so high here.
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Oh oh! :y4tsearch: I have a van, but I use it like a truck since I removed the very back bench seat after my sons graduated and I wasn't hauling around a HS basketball team. It does get 23 mpg, which is not too bad. And it's paid for, so I can't get rid of it. LoL!

I had a Ford Festiva that got between 45 and 50 mpg everytime. I had it for a year. That's also the car that I had a wreck in and I now consider it a death trap. So I have a real problem with little cars, like my son's Kia. I'm a coward when it comes to little cars!

Speaking of gas mileage, it's now claimed to be an urban legend, but there's a carburetor system that is supposed to add a great fuel efficiency to any car. I say that it's claimed to be a legend because a mechanic friend of mine went to a seminar about building it. Since he had a shop, we (actually he did most the work) built this pre-heater system for the gas with smaller jets for the carburetor for my truck that went from 22 mpg to 50 mpg. So the legend as it's written in most places is definitely a legend because of the way the story is told. However, there are lots of things to help get that better gas mileage that people just won't do.

I wish the US would do more to allow bicycles or mini-bikes or ATVs the usage for some roads. I know they couldn't go on Interstates, nor would I want to use one there. But my Mule would be great to go back and forth to the grocery store and things close like that.

The gas saga continues....

So what do you think about:
  • The legend?
  • Using bikes/mini-things?
Dave :y4tsearch:
 
Q1 - :)

Q2 ;-p

There was a device ported in the UK called a Filter King. It simply plugged in between the fuel pump and the carb. I have to say on my dads Ford Executive Auto we did see an increase in fuel milage from 16 to 20. What it seemed to do was equalise the pressure a bit between the accelerator so you got a bit less fuel, but maintained the same performance ie didn't waste fuel.

The US will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to engine sizes used in Europe (for instance), but I suspect the increasing price of oil will cause that within 10 years.

Oh, hang on, we have E45 fuels based on corn etc, they are cheaper.....

Anyone thought what the price of bbq'ing a corn cob will be once the oil companies own all of the production land rights?

The oil companies have bought out the patents to most alternative fuel engines, they sit on them - duh - I wonder why.....
 
Dave, you use your van the way a van is supposed to be used!! A kid/cargo hauler, so you're completely exempt from my "van/suv fury" :Coopwink: Like Bozodog's van, hauling a Dane requires more than a simple car!!

And I can't blame you for feeling the way you do about small cars! I don't know much about your accident except for it was a bad one. Did you hit another car or a tree/or-something?

Brit, the corn thing worries me, too. I see groceries going sky high as farmers will be supplying oil companies rather than families as they'll likely make more money.

And of course, in our area at least, many fields have been sold to developers for "executive homes", so there isn't the abundance of good land left anymore :rip_1:

AnotherLiz
 
That's also the car that I had a wreck in and I now consider it a death trap. So I have a real problem with little cars, like my son's Kia. I'm a coward when it comes to little cars!
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I'm not real fond of little cars either. Had a Toyota Corona ages ago and someone in front of me stopped too quick. Her tail lights weren't working so I didn't realize she had stopped til it was danged near too late. Hit her with the left front bumper which peeled down the side of mine, along with the seat coming loose. Hit my head on the steering wheel. Got a Mustang after that, a FOUR cylinder! I wasn't after the power...just the LONG hood.

My last small car was a Ford (Oh drat, can't remember the make but it was small and no longer made). Anyway, I was sideswiped in a gravel hauler while driving that one.

My current vehicle is a Buick Rendezvous that is 2 and a half years old, we bought it in Jan 2005, and I JUST turned 18,000 miles on that one. That includes four LONG trips. One to Cleveland Clinic, two to my daddy's and my in-laws while living in MI and then moving here where I am glad I had a decent size vehicle since I doubt everything would have fit otherwise. Esp 4 cats. :Coopwink:

MOST of the time, I do my running around via the internet not the vehicle. Liz
 
MOST of the time, I do my running around via the internet not the vehicle. Liz

Good for you Liz!!!

I must admit, I liked my little 1.1 ltr Ford Fiesta in the UK, great mileage and I could do 70mph no problem on the motorways. It wouldn't however work as a carrier for the great dane, boxer and mutt.....so guess we are stuck with the van.
 
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