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Not bad but could be better. :rolleyes: Around my area (NE Denver) prices vary from mid $2.90's up to $3.20.

I stick with Exxon gas because of the known quality of their product. The price at the station near me fluctuates roughly 10cents every couple weeks but usually settles just below $3.

I think the highest price was around $4.49 somewhere back in the 90's. That ticked me off because I was working and drove a lot more. Since I retired a full tank (27gal) gets me just over a month of driving.

As far as you folks in California....Sorry! Can't help you.
 
coltle6920 said:
Not bad but could be better. :rolleyes: Around my area (NE Denver) prices vary from mid $2.90's up to $3.20.

I stick with Exxon gas because of the known quality of their product. The price at the station near me fluctuates roughly 10cents every couple weeks but usually settles just below $3.

I think the highest price was around $4.49 somewhere back in the 90's. That ticked me off because I was working and drove a lot more. Since I retired a full tank (27gal) gets me just over a month of driving.

As far as you folks in California....Sorry! Can't help you.
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I would be very happy only to pay that much.

I'm a shareholder of Exxon stock:D, keep up the good work!
 
Stopped at the Chevron station in Colfax, CA a few weeks back, on the way to the Reno show.

$6.45 a gallon

Waited until I got to Reno.
 
Remember.......Oil IS NOT a fossil fuel........No animal DNA has ever been in it. It's continuously formed in the upper magma crust of the earth........There is lots and will always be lots of it.

Iffen oil was made from dead animals we would have run out 100 years ago................THINK about it.......
 
Southern NV is in the "diesel is cheaper than regular" twilight zone. Liking that.
 
Last tie i filled it was bout $3.40/gal. It fluctuates slightly for the holidays/weekends.
 
Six months ago, it hovered around $3-3.10. Now it's fluctuating from $3.40-3.65, sometimes in one week. The gas stations near the range I belong to are usually $0.10-15 cents cheaper, and they are 20+ miles further away from the major distribution center than the gas station two blocks from my home. Prices don't have to do with reality. All of the stations in my in-town area are close to interstate exits, so they are automatically higher priced.
 
I have to run "high test in my car. Currently it's running $4.49 per a gallon. Thank goodness I only have to fill up once a month, but that still runs close to $60..00 each fill up. As with several others here I have some Exon stock which has done quite well over the last year i just wish they had stations in my local area.
 
I have been using Shell exclusively for several years. Right now the price is in the $3.50 range for regular.

Premium is a full dollar per gallon more!
 
Like post #4, I really don’t know what I pay, but I think it’s around $3.80, once a month maybe. I use grocery store gas and by the time I’m due I’ll have maybe 20-30 cents off per gallon. I try not to worry about the things I can’t control. I CAN control how fast I pump. Angel (my dog) will attract “people” to the car and we talk pets, etc. Never in a hurry. Retirement is a God send and I’m never in a hurry. One attendant will usually come out and talk. She lives fairly close so we have a common road destruction problem we can bit complain about that. I’m a real social butterfly! Beer, gas, and beef are all necessities that I can’t control so I don’t dwell on them. I AM glad I don’t use diesel though. Down over the hill from me is one of those places that fills up the 18 wheel tankers to deliver wherever. Funny, they all have different brands on the side of the trucks but come from the same place.
 
Lowest locally today was $2.869 from Sams Club. Other stations range as high as $3.299. I don't trust Sams Club's generic gas. Not that long ago they had to repair several vehicles damaged by their gas. I try to stick with Texaco or Chevron. A bit more, but I know it's good.
 
In My 100 acre wood area, regular 87 is $3.20 to $3.55 with 93 octane going for
$4.05 to $4.20. Of course my new truck uses 93 octane.
 
Having to deal with higher fuel costs still has to be better than going without. At least you know where you stand.

The 70's had to be the worst times for most of us. If you were lucky enough to find a gas station that had gas there were long lines. Then there were the odd and even days. People switched license plates so they could get gas when needed.

The station I frequented back then tried to be fair to everyone by imposing a $5 limit on each vehicle. Doesn't sound like much but when gas only went for 30cents per gallon it wasn't bad. The station never ran out out of gas. Always had my repairs done at this place. When done with whatever the mechanic pulled my car out to the pumps and filled it up. It paid to patronize them. They weren't there to just pump gas.

Same goes for all these minimarts out there. You might just find lower prices where there's just as much business inside as at the pumps.
 
Mike said:
Remember.......Oil IS NOT a fossil fuel........No animal DNA has ever been in it. It's continuously formed in the upper magma crust of the earth........There is lots and will always be lots of it.

Iffen oil was made from dead animals we would have run out 100 years ago................THINK about it.......
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Oil is from dead phytoplankton

How is petroleum formed? - Norwegianpetroleum.no.
 
old bear said:
I have to run "high test in my car. Currently it's running $4.49 per a gallon. Thank goodness I only have to fill up once a month, but that still runs close to $60..00 each fill up. As with several others here I have some Exon stock which has done quite well over the last year i just wish they had stations in my local area.
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At our local Town Pump premium is $0.60 more. Ethanol free is $1.00 more. At the Helena Costco ethanol free premium runs $0.30 more. Someone is making buck, and as an Exxon shareholder it isn't me.
 
coltle6920 said:
I stick with Exxon gas because of the known quality of their product.
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My dad drove a tanker for Esso and then Exxon for many years. He came home and told us countless customers told him that very same thing, which is not true.

The problem with that is that Exxon would buy gasoline for different wholesalers every day depending on spot price for that day.

So, he goes to Dundalk tank farm and this morning Exxon buys product from Tenneco and tomorrow Chevron..The next day they may buy from themselves and the next day from Chevron.

In other words, gasoline is basically gasoline.
 
TX-Dennis said:
Lowest locally today was $2.869 from Sams Club. Other stations range as high as $3.299. I don't trust Sams Club's generic gas. Not that long ago they had to repair several vehicles damaged by their gas. I try to stick with Texaco or Chevron. A bit more, but I know it's good.
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Bad gas happens to every brand and is often a fault with the gas station storage and delivery rather than the actual fuel. Sam's gas doesn't come from Charlie's Cheapo Reprocessed Gas store. They contracted with major suppliers.

As for Texaco, it was the one brand of gas my '64 GTO refused to run on in high school. Haven't bought it since.

Prices in my area are roughly around $3.59. I say roughly because prices can vary 20 cents a gallon from county to county,
 
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SMSgt said:
Bad gas happens to every brand and is often a fault with the gas station storage and delivery rather than the actual fuel. Sam's gas doesn't come from Charlie's Cheapo Reprocessed Gas store. They contracted with major suppliers.

As for Texaco, it was the one brand of gas my '64 GTO refused to run on in high school. Haven't bought it since.

Prices in my area are roughly around $3.59. I say roughly because prices can vary 20 cents a gallon from county to county,
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Living out in the boonies we pay more. If at all possible we try to get gas when going into a more populated area.


There is a gas station not too far from a couple of big launch sights so many boaters stop there to get gas. They would rather tow the boat with low gas for the weight advantage and fill up close to the lake.

Its a big lake so we get big fast boats. Most boaters want and get none E gas. Its a decent amount of money spent to put in about a 100+ gallons of close to $5 a gallon. Course its much cheaper to get it there than in the water. Getting it at a marina another $1.40 a gallon over land price will be a normal charge.

The land gas station normally gets their tanks filled up every good weather Friday or Sat night.
 
Just returned to TN from a trip north. Gas in IL ranged from maybe $3.40 to $3.80 outside of the big cities so it was nice to get home and see prices around $3.00. Never thought we'd get to the point of celebrating $3.00 gas but here we are. Our roadmobile is a 2020 Ford Expedition which is great for all of our stuff and a 90 pound puppy, and surprisingly during our 1600 mile journey it averaged just under 21 mpg. Actually pretty happy with that.
 
I don't know how oil came to be/comes to be. I do know that there is quite a bit left, and that my quadrennial vote would affect the price, if I lived in a swing state. I am also very suspicious of alternative energy sources, especially for automobiles, although I do suspect that there are some.

I base my unwarranted assumption of moral superiority on my views of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, not on any assumption of knowledge of the complexities of energy production or the design of the universe.

YMMV.
 
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