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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Natalia Evans on November 20, 2008, 11:14:35 PM
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Enjoy it while it lasts. I know it has gone below $2.00 a gallon in other places and it has finally happened here. :bdaygrn: :party:
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In Sweden petrol/gas also costs $1.99 -- a litre! :grrr:
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$1.98 a gallon just down the street from my house.
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I've heard that petrol is expected to go sub-AUS$1 per litre by Christmas! It's been as high as $1.60 this year, quite a fluctuation.
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I was wrong; the petrol is just about US$ 1.50 a litre here, but that's since the $ has gone up so much in comparison with the SEK.
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Here too :clap:
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Talking about my wife in a post I made on November 5:
I was happpy/braggy about paying two bucks for gasoline, but she just paid $1.84/gallon! (http://www.intensitysquared.com/index.php/topic,6057.msg438745.html#msg438745)
No more complaints about gas prices for a while, it seems.
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We are at $1.67 here. Still not down to what it was before 'W' and Dick came to power. No celebrating here.
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We are at $1.67 here. Still not down to what it was before 'W' and Dick came to power. No celebrating here.
1997 gas was 99 cents a gallon. I don't remember what it was pre-9/11/01.
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We are at $1.67 here. Still not down to what it was before 'W' and Dick came to power. No celebrating here.
1997 gas was 99 cents a gallon. I don't remember what it was pre-9/11/01.
We were fluctuating between $0.95 and $1.25.
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Here's a graph from Zfacts.com, shown in adjusted dollar amounts.
(http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/zFacts-Gasoline-Price.png)
This one is national debt. Quite telling!
(http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/National-Debt-GDP.gif)
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Wow! Reagan, Bush, and W really do suck.
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Wow! Reagan, Bush, and W really do suck.
I was born about the time the arrow point indicates and "from Nixon on" I was fairly aware of politics, so I knew, but to see it in graphic form, with productivity taken into account, has quite an impact.
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Gas prices here are around $1.70 to $1.65.
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I filled my car up today and it only cost me $26.75 but my tank wasn't even down to 1/4 left. I hadn't filled it up since August 25th.
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I filled up for less than $60 first time in a long time
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I paid $1.56 per gallon today to fill up.
Local Marathon shops are offering an additional discount if you have a "discount card" which will save an addditional five cents per gallon below their advertized price, as a regular customer.
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I spent $30.70 in Spokane by filling it up and it was on empty.
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$1.749 :clap:
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$1.03 per litre. $20 - half a tank of petrol. :)
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I spent less than $60 0n a full tank in my truck first time with this truck
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Paid $22.21 for about 12 1/2 gallons @ Costco in Fullerton. $1.76/gal (rounded off) Car tank holds approx. 14 gals.
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My truck hold 35 gallon
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I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
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I go by my trip meter not my gas gauge
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Gas mileage varies I heard. You get less gas mileage in a city but you get it better when you're on the road, no stops.
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Yes, that's pretty basic knowledge for a driver.
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I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
I'd be careful with that assumption SG - I found out the hard way that buses in this area won't allow you on a bus with a petrol can. Fire hazard.
Fuel prices here are better than they were but still high - petrol is down to around £0.89/litre, diesel £1.04/litre.
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The lowest price for regular gasoline I saw on our long drive to school this morning was $1.52/gallon, but the cheapest price here where we live is $1.59/gallon.
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3.28 kronor/litre. It hasn't been that cheap in Sweden since I was 3 years or so. :(
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I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
If you let your car run completely out of gas, you shorten the life of your fuel pump if you have one inside your gas tank.
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning. :-\
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I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
If you let your car run completely out of gas, you shorten the life of your fuel pump if you have one inside your gas tank.
I wonder why?
My parents have done that with their cars a few times. One time my dad coasted into a gas station. It was a fortunate there was a gas station down the road when he ran out and it was hill he was on.
When I was 17 or 18 I had to pick my dad up because their minivan ran out of gas when he was going to town.
There was a time when my dad forgot to tell my mother his car needed to be filled up, so my mother never looked at the gauge and when she realized she was below the big E, we almost ran out and we pulled into a gas station. It was just luck we were close to it or else we would have ran out right after. My dad calls it "Running on fumes."
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning. :-\
I remember at work, a woman there told me she lost her other job because her car stopped running. The piston stopped working so it blew out her engine.
What sucks is, she wasn't allowed to take a bus to work or get a ride. She worked on the highway directing traffic during construction.
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I have had several older Volvos, not status cars, but very reliable if you take good care of them. At least three of them had their engines destroyed, most probably from unleaded petrol. :grrr:
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning. :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
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The lowest price for regular gasoline I saw on our long drive to school this morning was $1.52/gallon, but the cheapest price here where we live is $1.59/gallon.
I rarely go on the interstate these days, but I saw it advertised for $1.56, two days ago - ON THE FUCKING HIGHWAY!!
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The lowest price for regular gasoline I saw on our long drive to school this morning was $1.52/gallon, but the cheapest price here where we live is $1.59/gallon.
I rarely go on the interstate these days, but I saw it advertised for $1.56, two days ago - ON THE FUCKING HIGHWAY!!
This wasn't on the interstate, it was on one of the roads we took to avoid the interstate, because the interstate was a parking lot.
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I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
If you let your car run completely out of gas, you shorten the life of your fuel pump if you have one inside your gas tank.
I wonder why?
If the fuel pump is designed to go into the gas tank, the gasoline in the tank cools the fuel pump. If you let the tank get completely empty then the fuel pump overheats and this shortens its life.
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The lowest price for regular gasoline I saw on our long drive to school this morning was $1.52/gallon, but the cheapest price here where we live is $1.59/gallon.
I rarely go on the interstate these days, but I saw it advertised for $1.56, two days ago - ON THE FUCKING HIGHWAY!!
This wasn't on the interstate, it was on one of the roads we took to avoid the interstate, because the interstate was a parking lot.
Ours was clear that day, but yesterday morning, it was a parking lot as well, due to black ice. Do you use that expression in Colorado? It means ice that has formed overnight that is so pure that it is optically perfect and almost totally invisible. I slipped on black ice going across the parking lot when I got to work. You can't even see black ice when you walk up on it.
I hurt my hip and smashed my other knee on the pavement.
:violin:
I did not have to be involved in that rush hour mess, though, since I am doing "Learnings" for my new job at work these days.
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I filled my car up again in Spokane for $28. something. I was on empty. I usually don't let myself get that low. I don't want to take chances of being stranded. Oh well I was in a city and I can just take a bus to a gas station and buy a can and put gas in it and go back to my car and put some in it and then go to a gas station and fill it up.
If you let your car run completely out of gas, you shorten the life of your fuel pump if you have one inside your gas tank.
I wonder why?
If the fuel pump is designed to go into the gas tank, the gasoline in the tank cools the fuel pump. If you let the tank get completely empty then the fuel pump overheats and this shortens its life.
Don't forget, being a submersible pump, it uses the liquid it pumps as a lubricant during operation. Once the pump runs dry there is no lubrication on the internal parts and dry running a submersible pump kills it quickly!
BTW, this is true of externally mounted, electrical fuel pressure pumps, as well, such as those used in almost all cars, without fuel tank mounted pumps, which have manifold injection systems for engine fuel control.
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In B&J Ruthie's car stops running because her fuel pump gets shot. I wonder how many times did she let her car run out of gas. Oh well it was an old car. Everyone had old cars in the movie. There are no 1990's cars. But you do see a modern jeep in the background in one of the scenes.
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I go by my trip meter not my gas gauge
QFT. Gas gauges are notoriously inefficient. When the light goes on on mine it means (ostensibly) I have about 1/2 gal. left. I hie myself to the nearest station anyway.
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The lowest price for regular gasoline I saw on our long drive to school this morning was $1.52/gallon, but the cheapest price here where we live is $1.59/gallon.
I rarely go on the interstate these days, but I saw it advertised for $1.56, two days ago - ON THE FUCKING HIGHWAY!!
This wasn't on the interstate, it was on one of the roads we took to avoid the interstate, because the interstate was a parking lot.
Ours was clear that day, but yesterday morning, it was a parking lot as well, due to black ice. Do you use that expression in Colorado? It means ice that has formed overnight that is so pure that it is optically perfect and almost totally invisible. I slipped on black ice going across the parking lot when I got to work. You can't even see black ice when you walk up on it.
I hurt my hip and smashed my other knee on the pavement.
:violin:
I did not have to be involved in that rush hour mess, though, since I am doing "Learnings" for my new job at work these days.
Yes, we use the term 'black ice' in Colorado too. I think we also used it in Alabama on the rare occasions when we had freezing weather, so it must be fairly common usage.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2016/is-there-really-such-a-thing-as-black-ice
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I go by my trip meter not my gas gauge
QFT. Gas gauges are notoriously inefficient. When the light goes on on mine it means (ostensibly) I have about 1/2 gal. left. I hie myself to the nearest station anyway.
My truck th light means 5 gallons left
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning. :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
I thought they put catalytic converters on the cars as well so that they can take unleaded petrol instead of leaded.
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning. :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
I thought they put catalytic converters on the cars as well so that they can take unleaded petrol instead of leaded.
They are to burn off the excess hydrocarbons in the exhaust. Lead fuck them up they put other chemicals in gas to help lube the pistons but on older cars it's not as good
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I think the unleaded petrol also shortens the life span of the entire car engine, at least for cars meant to be driven on leaded petrol from the beginning. :-\
It does they make replacement additives that don't contain lead to better lube the pistons
I thought they put catalytic converters on the cars as well so that they can take unleaded petrol instead of leaded.
They need to use unleaded gas in cars with catalytic converters because lead fouls the catalyst in the catalytic converter.
The older cars (models before 1975 in the US) without catalytic converters used gasoline with tetraethyl lead to inexpensively increase the octane rating of the gasoline as well as to help lubricate the pistons. I think I remember my dad telling me that a TEL gasoline additive was available for a short time after the switch. TEL is extremely poisonous, however.
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Thus TEL is brave. Only cowards are pro unleaded. 8)
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I assume you've spent plenty of time inhaling its brave fumes. :headbang2:
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No, I prefer the smell of homemade explosives. :zoinks:
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Thus TEL is brave. Only cowards are pro unleaded. 8)
Nah! You're fucked up. Lead laden exhaust is bad for the environment. Go find a fucking clue.
Report back.
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I actually had chemistry in high school. :zoinks:
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I actually had chemistry in high school. :zoinks:
So you know!
Why would you prefer leaded gasoline, then?
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Because I hate people. 8)
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Because I hate people. 8)
So do I but I don't want to have to wear a reparation to filter out the lead all day it also contaminates the plants near the roads so you should never use them as food
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$1.51
Less than $20 to fill up.
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$1.70 these here today
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$1.67 unless i want to drive a couple of miles and get it for $1.56
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Damned, you speak about the prices that were here more than 20 years ago. And you have gun laws that we had in the 1920s. :-\
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Damned, you speak about the prices that were here more than 20 years ago. And you have gun laws that we had in the 1920s. :-\
Move
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:agreed: I will if I can get a Green Card.
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How hard is it. I am assuming non felonies on your part
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I can always bluff myself the way in in any case. :angel:
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My car is still running on $1.86 gasoline from about three weeks ago, but I did my wife a small favor, while she prepared for work, and filled her car's tank today at $1.49.
WTF!
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Someone told me that there was $1.49 gasoline at one gas station where we live, too!
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Diesel has finally gone back below £1/litre, from a peak of around £1.36 in the summer. :woohoo:
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But diesel isn't as brave as petrol. 8)
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diesel engines are stronger. BRAVE! :P
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But you can't use it for brave Molotov cocktails. 8)
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you can use it for brave tanks though. :laugh:
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Diesel has finally gone back below £1/litre, from a peak of around £1.36 in the summer. :woohoo:
Diesel is relatively expensive (about $2.50/gallon) here compared with the price of gasoline, although it's still cheaper here than it is there.
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It sure it. £1/litre is $6/gallon... :(
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I filled my tank last night @ $1.67 a Gallon. It was double that not long ago.
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But you can't use it for brave Molotov cocktails. 8)
It's fun to put in a spray bottle and spray it on fires though
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But you can't use it for brave Molotov cocktails. 8)
It's fun to put in a spray bottle and spray it on fires though
That's the thing. You have to pressurize diesel and atomize it as you release it into the air to get a nice flame thrower effect.
I once adapted an air compressor hose to a long thin tube and attached an oil can to it, which operated like a venturi powered siphon as the air sprayed. I used it like a WD40 spray can from HELL when I needed to hit some of the areas out of reach when dealing with bus maintenance.
One day I had the "bright idea" to light the spray on fire. Then I tried other things besides oil to spray. A can of diesel worked great.
I am still paying for foolishly expanding my carbon footprint, needlessly.
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So, can anyone tell me why Gasoline prices in the USA are less than half the price from the peaks which occurred four to six months ago?
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My parents say it's the economy. Because our economy is so bad and people aren't going out and doing things because of high gas prices, they lowered them. They weren't getting enough business when they were high. That's what my parents said.
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Apparently the oil price collapsed because China has stopped gulping quite so much, since people are buying less pointless plastic crap from them.
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People here are still trying to conserve though which is good news for me :clap:
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Partly because they don't dare spend anymore than they have to with the economy fucked up.
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$1.61 at the expensive station; likely will be 4 or 5 cents lower where i usually buy it.
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I saw $1.55 today but did not bother stopping. Still had 1/2 tank and things to do.
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Gas here is $1.34 to $1.39.
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It's $1.34 here too - for a litre! >:(
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Gas prices went up for the first time in 86 days. :grrr:
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I've read somewhere that petrol is expected to hit a low of AUS$0.90 a litre by year's end. It's about $0.96 at the moment.
I've also read that OPEC have decided to cut production by ~2million barrels per day so these prices won't last long. Stockpile!
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Seems like it's been about 10 years since gas was this cheap anywhere.
I don't know what to think . . . except that I should stop thinking twice before doing an impulsive road trip.