It's up to $2.83 a gallon here!! How much is it where you live?

Trish

Trish, I payed $2.95 yesterday!

I believe I paid just around $3-3.05 yesterday!!!!! It is often 10-20 cents more in the afternoon than it was in the morning!!! SICK! It's going to be cheaper to just go live on a cruise ship than to drive to work every day....oh wait, that's a GOOD thing!!!! :D

Sorry, I don't mean to make light...it's just that we are basically stuck paying whatever they ask...we have to have gas to go to work etc. It just makes me sick what the oil company executives are making!

I paid 3.14 yesterday :mecry:

Doris

$3.29....but we have a zillion taxes added to our fuel cost - still :(

Good side is that less people are on the road so traffic is lighter! :)

Kathy - if ONLY less people were on the road!!! I would have thought I would see a difference here, but I haven't yet. Maybe when ours gets up a bit more it will start to affect the numbers driving.

$2.49 here

wow Jim..I wish I was there..paid 3.14 here in Palm Desert yesterday..
Jan

Yesterday it was $2.79 and I forgot to look this morning when I was going to the grocery store.

Just paid $3.18 for premium this afternoon! :(

I payed 3.09 for premium yesterday!

Nancy

I paid $3.06 for regular this morning. Most of the places had it for $3.15 I told my daughter this afternoon, not to expect to be driven much.

$3.00 prem here

$3.10 prem. :( here, is there no end in sight???? :( :( :(

Gas spotted on the way home for Premium $3.49 - YIKES. Since people here are so car dependent and trendy, I see them trading in their SUV's for Smart cars (ha ha) Wish I owned a Toyota Prius dealership!

No end in sight for escalating gas prices down OC way, too. We purchase our Premium gas at COSTCO and it's still way too high!

folks you might want to consult your manuals. most cars do not need premium, except for the occasional cleanout. I learned this when my kids dad was selling cars.

Arlene,
I use the middle one usually. Do I probably not even need that??

Wednesday after seeing regular for $2.89 to $2.95 at most stations we finally found our fill-up place at $2.85.

$2.89 here.

Sheri

Do check your owners manual. Unless you have a high compression engine and need premium or mid-octane to prevent knocking, you're fine with regular.

Kim

Just heard on the radio that if your gas is over $3.00 per gallon you should contact the authorities
because there may be price gouging.
Problem is I can't remember who the authorities are.

Thanks Kim (and Arlene)!
I will be a regular gal from now on!! :D
Sheri

We just paid $3.19 for premium....the traffic here has not lessened and the gas station was packed!!!!

Doris

It is $2.89 here for regular in the state of Maryland western part. And it went up 8 cents in one day this past week.

Jan

And the winner is BROOKLYN, according to an e-mail I just saw, where a station is selling gas at $4.59 a gallon. :eek:

Trish

:mecry: :mecry: :mecry:
My regular station's up to $3.55 for premium. While it really won't change our lifestyle any and maybe we'll take fewer less essential trips, I feel terrible for the minimum wage workers. I know a few teens whose parents have taken away driving priviledges

Just checked our local gas station and the price for premium is now $3.29. Our tourist season is over and the prices are still climbing....but it is really nice and quiet here, as the traffic has ended with the departure of the snowbirds. We love it this time of the year when we have the beaches and south beach to ourselves.
:3smile:

Doris

Regular unleaded is around $2.73 here in the Oklahoma City area. Mid grade is about a dime higher, and premium is about a dime higher than that.

This is a good time to get out your owners' manual and check your car's fuel requirements. IT DOES NO GOOD TO USE A HIGHER OCTANE THAN THAT SPECIFIED. Higher octane gasoline actually means that the gas has an ingition RETARDANT so that higher compression engines don't accidentially become deisels! But if your car does not have a high compression engine, and therefore is designated for "regular", use of higher octane mid grade or premium may actually DECREASE performance and fuel efficiency.

I checked mine and discovered that one of our cars is a "flex fuel" vehicle that requires either 91 octane premium OR E85 Ethanol. the E85 is cheaper, but finding it around here is the major problem!

Thanks,
Richard

I paid $3.14 for premium today.

Here is a pretty cool site for comparing prices in your area. Just put in your zip-code.
web page

Betty

What a neat site, Betty! They even had the prices for around my little town!

I always get my gas at Arco but they don't show any of the Arco stations in our area?? (maybe like Travelocity or Expedia don't show Southwest Airlines??)

$3.24 here in the Northern NY Suburbs for premium. IT IS WHAT IT IS.

Yeah, Karen, and I'd say it's right on the money, 'cause the price they say, is the price I paid today!
Marcie, I wonder why your station is not listed.

Betty

Marcie, I've used this site before, you might give it a try. It does include Arco stations (I've noticed the one at Chapman and Raymond is often among the cheapest!). On the left side is a search window where you can select one or more cities.

Orange County Gas Prices

Gas in Fullerton usually seems to be about 10 cents a gallon cheaper than in Tustin or Costa Mesa! I almost always fill up when visiting my parents there.

Dena

We just paid $3.26 for the cheap stuff (87?) here at ARCO. But gee, I guess the good news is, we would have paid $3.59 for premium if we'd have still had our pretty Saab convertible that we had to trade in a couple weeks ago on a cheap Mazda because we have to downsize everything - it's impossible to afford ** A N Y T H I N G ** here in SoCAL - but we knew it was coming. MISSING Southwest FLORIDA right about now - :(

A friend just emailed me this:

A man eats two eggs each morning for breakfast. When he goes to the grocery store he pays .60 cents a dozen. Since a dozen eggs won't last a week he normally buys two dozens at a time.

One day while buying eggs he notices that the price has risen to 72 cents. The next time he buys groceries, eggs are .76 cents a dozen. When asked to explain the price of eggs the store owner says, "the price has gone up and I have to raise my price accordingly".

This store buys 100 dozen eggs a day. I checked around for a better price and all the distributors have raised their prices. The distributors have begun to buy from the huge egg farms. The small egg farms have been driven out of business.

The huge egg farms sells 100,000 dozen eggs a day to distributors. With no competition, they can set the price as they see fit. The distributors then have to raise their prices to the grocery stores. And on and on and on. As the man kept buying eggs the price kept going up. He saw the big egg trucks delivering 100 dozen eggs each day. Nothing changed there.

He checked out the huge egg farms and found they were selling 100,000 dozen eggs to the distributors daily. Nothing had changed but the price of eggs.

Then week before Thanksgiving the price of eggs shot up to $1.00 a dozen. Again he asked the grocery owner why and was told, "cakes and baking for the holiday". The huge egg farmers know there will be a lot of baking going on and more eggs will be used. Hence, the price of eggs goes up. Expect the same thing at Christmas and other times when family cooking, baking, etc.happen.

This pattern continues until the price of eggs is 2.00 a dozen. The man says,"there must be something we can do about the price of eggs".

He starts talking to all the people in his town and they decide to stop buying eggs. This didn't work because everyone needed eggs. Finally, the man suggested only buying what you need.

He ate 2 eggs a day. On the way home from work he would stop at the grocery and buy two eggs. Everyone in town started buying 2 or 3 eggs a day.

The grocery store owner began complaining that he had too many eggs in his cooler. He told the distributor that he didn't need any eggs. Maybe
wouldn't need any all week.

The distributor had eggs piling up at his warehouse. He told the huge egg farms that he didn't have any room for eggs would not need any for at least two weeks.

At the egg farm, the chickens just kept on laying eggs.

To relieve the pressure, the huge egg farm told the distributor that they could buy the eggs at a lower price. The distributor said, " I don't have the room for the %$&^*&% eggs even if they were free".

The distributor told the grocery store owner that he would lower the price of the eggs if the store would start buying again. The grocery store owner said, "I don't have room for more eggs. The customers are only buy 2 or 3 eggs at a time". "Now if you were to drop the price of eggs back down to the original price, the customers would start buying by the dozen again".

The distributors sent that proposal to the huge egg farmers. They liked the price they were getting for their eggs but, them chickens just kept on laying.

Finally, the egg farmers lowered the price of their eggs. But only a few cents. The customers still bought 2 or 3 eggs at a time. They s aid, "when the price of eggs gets down to where it was before, we will start buying by the dozen."

Slowly the price of eggs started dropping. The distributors had to slash their prices to make room for the eggs coming from the egg farmers. The egg farmers cut their prices because the distributors wouldn't buy at a higher price than they were selling eggs for.

Anyway, they had full warehouses and wouldn't need eggs for quite a while.

And them chickens kept on laying.

Eventually, the egg farmers cut their prices because they were throwing away eggs they couldn't sell. The distributors started buying again because the eggs were priced to where the stores could afford to sell them at the lower price.

And the customers starting buying by the dozen again.

Now, transpose this analogy to the gasoline industry.

What if everyone only bought $10.00 worth of gas each time they pulled to the pump. The dealers tanks would stay semi full all the time. The dealers wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the huge tank farms. The tank farms wouldn't have room for the gas coming from the refining plants. And the refining plants wouldn't have room for the oil being off loaded from the huge tankers coming from the Middle East.

Just $10.00 each time you buy gas. Don't fill it up. You may have to stop for gas twice a week but, the price should come down.

Think about it.

As an added note...When I buy $10.00 worth of gas,that leaves my tank a little under half full. The way prices are jumping around, you can buy gas for $2.65 a gallon and then the next morning it can be $2.15. If you have your tank full of $2.65 gas you don't have room for the $2.15 gas. You might not understand the economics of only buying two eggs at a time but, you can't buy cheaper gas if your tank is full of the high priced stuff.

Also, don't buy anything else at the gas station, don't give them any more of your hard earned money than what you spend on gas, until the prices come down..

the sad thing is about this, it the gas station owner leases his station from the big oil company. He makes 1 to 5 cents per gallon of gas - a very meager amount. He pays the salaries, pays for the loss of those eggs he ordered that went bad and because no one bought candy, cigarettes, and milk, he had to close his station. So now he's and his employees are out of work, and you have to drive a lot further to go to the company owned and operated gas station - where the price will go up further 'cause they have to make their quota.

nope. ya only need it once every couple of months to clean out the engine if you find it's running "funny."