Can't keep up on the gas prices.
 

I had to take the oldest daughter to the Social Security office in Canton this morning. When I left here gas was $3.499. When I got to Canton I saw one station at $3.389 and one at $3.439. I was waiting for money to be put in my Pay Pal account, so I could use my debit card to get some gas. Unfortunately it hadn't transferred before I left, so I had to wait. When we got back home I had an e-mail saying the money was in my account, so went out to get gas. Well, by then it had gone up to $3.599. I filled it to the top, because I figure it will only keep rising. I'm just a little miffed that I wasn't able to get it in Canton. I would have saved over $3. Oh well, life goes on.

Nomad

As I recall, the last time oil prices were this high the gas prices got up to perhaps $4 a gallon.

From now on, I will EXPECT gas to be $4 a gallon. I will happily fill my tank at the lowest price, but it will do my nerves good if I just expect gas to be $4 a gallon sometime within the next several weeks.

IF things really begin to spin up in Saudi Arabia tomorrow we'd all better keep our tanks full this weekend because prices may be changing every day after that. IF.

Our gas here today is $3.65 a gallon.

Quite a few weeks back I remember someone talking on the news about gas prices & they were predicting them to be about $4.00 a gallon by the end of March. If I'm correct I believe it was just before all the unrest in the middle east but that's what there blaming the prices on now.

I believe they already planned this price hike no matter what was going to be going on around the world.

They already are changing every day.

3.67 today in NY, they were 3.53 yesterday

UPS now doesnt deliver at least small packages to rural areas anymore, they "hand off" to USPS like DHL does. No idea about bigger packages since UPS handles packages bigger than what the USPS handles.

Mailman today left yellow slip to go get my apple tree at post office, cause he wont take time to actually deliver a package unless it fits in my mailbox. Grrr.... Gas was $3.459, bought 5 gallon to top off tank in pickup. I then go over to friends house to turn on water and water heater as some of their family are coming up for a week. Stop at elderly friends house to chat for couple hours. On way home, gas is $3.499

Gas price wont effect me directly, I drive very little anymore. I can just go to town once every other month instead of once a month, voila gas cost halved. However I am just waiting for continuation of mega inflation in stuff I have to buy. Oops sorry, we have been told from on high that we dont have any inflation, I mean the continued rapid waning of the buying power of the dollar.

I agree. No one can convince me that the price of gas fluctuates that much. It has gone up three times in one day here. We are talking about the price on oil we will not see at the pump for a year while it gets refined and moved through the system. The whole thing is a cash cow for the elite.

It wouldn't be quite so bad if I wasn't driving a ten year old van that gets about 20 mpg. I don't go out a lot but it seems like lately I've had to make the trip to Canton a couple times a week and the one daughter goes to the therapeutic horse farm on Mondays and that takes about three gallons per week. Other than that we never leave the city limits. But with food and gas going up it is sometimes difficult to make ends meet on a fixed income.

Nomad

Just went up to $3.69 here but there are a few odd places where you can get it for $3.59 still.

3.57.9 here from 4.45.9 a couple days ago. The problem is speculators and as long as they are making money they don't care how hard it is for everyone else.

Tell me about it! Yesterday gas was $3.55 here. Now it's $3.65 today.

Yup!

And our diesel DROPPED from 4.23 to 4.19 but its 4.50+ in the towns,our guy is a local and isnt out to gouge,an actual honest businessman/neighbor....how bout that model???

BTW,last time prices this high oil was 140/barrel,now its in the 101-106 range for West Texas crude.

Do I smell a rodent?

Also this...consider he spends 1000 on fuel,and prices are rising wholesale....he has to price it higher than normal to pay for his next load that will possibly cost him more than a 1000.

$3.459 at Costco this morning. I feel for members of my camping club as they have to haul such big rigs. Many won't be doing much camping this season. I will continue to convert my RAV4 to a Japanese sleeping capsule...sure I have to cook and eat on the picnic table at a campground, but at least I can afford to get there. Those that can't sacrifice space, air conditioning, running water, etc. will have to stay home.

Be grateful for the "low" prices you are paying today! It's going to get worse later in the year. Whatever price you are paying today, it might go as high as a dollar more by the summer. Plan for that NOW!

Diesel
2008 price 2011 price

1/02/08 3.47$/gallon 1/06/11 3.59$/gallon
2/21/08 3.75$/gallon 2/23/11 4.01$/gallon
4/08/08 4.08$/gallon 3/02/11 4.16$/gallon
5/12/08 4.68$/gallon 3/11/11 4.31$/gallon
6/25/08 4.93$/gallon
8/??/08 5.08$/gallon

Still going up

Here's the price comparison for 89 plus gasoline, at the same station

1/23/08 3.06$/gallon 1/02/11 3.39$/gallon
2/21/08 3.11$/gallon 2/23/11 3.68$/gallon
3/06/08 3.49$/gallon 3/02/11 3.89$/gallon (premium was 3.99$)
4/01/08 3.70$/gallon 3/11/11 3.95$/gallon (premium was 4.05$)
5/01/08 3.79$/gallon
6/01/08 4.39$/gallon
7/03/08 4.59$/gallon

Somewhat to my surprise my wife asked last night if we should put away another drum of fuel. This isn't like her so now I'm seriously thinking of where I'd keep it.

[[[....I would have saved over $3. ....]]]]

It's not like $3 is worth anything any more, so you didn't really lose much. Also, you got the gas cheaper than what it is going to cost in just a couple of days.

A year ago, $3 would have bought me 2 gallons of milk. Today it won't buy one gallon; I'd have to put some more money in.

$3 will no longer buy a decent loaf of bread. It won't buy a gallon of gas. It won't pay the increase on my sewer bill.

Perhaps that's true, but I'd still rather have that $3 in my pocket. I don't feel quite as poor when I have something in there.

Nomad

Trouble is money I have to live on doesnt automatically add another zero onto the end of it like prices on stuff I have to buy does. Its fine if income and outgo grow equally, its when prices shoot to the moon and income goes and finds a deep hole to jump into that problems arise. I am sure it helps the wealthy a whole lot when govt lends banks unlimited funds at zero percent interest. However in turn the banks arent interested in paying me anything when I try lend them money. 1/5 of 1% interest is not even close to true inflation let alone any kind of income unless you are a multi billionaire. I dont appreciate being the unwilling charity giver to fat cat bankers that pay themselves multi million dollar bonuses.

I sure wish the government people who make all the decisions had to live on what my family and I do. They in all their wisdom said we who are on Social Security didn't need a raise for two years because there is no inflation. Maybe if they counted food and gas prices in the equation we could all get a little more to help us survive. And I still say I'd like my $3. I know I'm living in the past, but I can remember $3 being able to buy a good bit of things. Of course that was back when my father was bringing home a whopping $80 a week and he bought a new car every six years whether he needed it or not. Good times.

Nomad

I will agree with this. We have friends that own one and they tell me that they make very little on fuel.

take care of your pennies, and the dollars will takes care of themselves.

yea but the gas gets the people in whre they can make a killing on items like fountain drinks n coffee and crappy 5.00 sandwiches

I had to drive through Canton again today and gas there is 24 cents a gallon cheaper than it is here in this town. How can it be like that only 12 miles away? It must really cost them to have it trucked that last few miles.

Nomad

Nomad

I live 2 miles north of Louisville on Easton St. on the eastern side of St. route 44 a 1/2 mile down the road.

Gas was 3.59 at the Marathon station at Rt.62 & Rt.44 exit; but gas at B.P. on Rt. 62 was down to 3.35 I think. anymore it's seems to be the luck of the draw as to where you're driving.

Since I've lived here I have seen people complaining in the paper about prices being higher here than anywhere else around. I guess they were mostly right. Oh well, what can you do? People talk of boycotts, but if you have to go someplace you need gas. It's not like I go out joyriding. I rarely go out at all, but when I do it costs me a fair bit. I used to go blocks for all of my medical appointments, but now I go 18 miles to the VA clinic in Canton. It adds up. One of my daughters goes to Pegasus which is 13 miles. Since the wife takes her, comes home, goes back in three hours and then returns home again it adds up too. Wish I could afford a fuel efficient vehicle.

Nomad

Nomad

Sometimes towns will have less expensive gas because there is a large discount chain with a gas station. The chain buys in huge bulk and uses their purchasing power to get a good price. Then they can sell for little profit because their gas station brings customers into their store.

Local stations must keep their prices down in order to compete. They have to make their profit with cigarette sales and lottery tickets and not make anything on the gas.

Gas will be cheaper if her is a Walmart or Costco gas station nearby. If your town doesn't have one of the discount gas stations, then you don''t get discount gas.

Hey, some of us are glad to have that $3. Ever count pennies from the jar to put enough gas in the tank to get to work and home again?:shocked: $3 is $3. $3 will buy a gallen of milk and a loaf of bread here, at least at Aldis it will.

Amen. And the wife says the gas has dropped by 20 cents here in town today. The higher prices were at the Marathon stations and one discount station here. The low price in Canton was at a BP. I'll never figure out what happened between yesterday and today that dropped the price. I think they spin a wheel and whatever comes up is the current price.

Nomad

No, but $3 WOULD pay for some vegetable seeds for you to put into a garden. Or would pay for another box of canning jar lids or a box or two of pectin for canning. Or would be a third the cost of a new box of canning jars.

just sayin......

Agreed! There is still no shortage, just a whole lot of price raising.