All I have to say is welcome Ricerchik02. Soon the rest of yall will know how her and I feel.

 

This is what I paid this morning when I got off work. 4.16 a gal!

 

I paid 32bucks yesterday going up very slowly hopefully it will go down some like it has here . Up and down just wish it would not go up and stay down. Oh yeah its 3.78 now a gallen.

 

Again, it's $3.95 a gallon here for 87 octane. The 89 octane is $3.79... cheaper. It's like that everywhere in Iowa, because of the state tax breaks for the Ethanol that's in it because of all the ethanol plants in Iowa. The 87 is pure refined fossil-fuel, as well as the 91-93 premium grades. But the 89 is always the cheapest here because it has 10% ethanol in it. Well, most stock or mild-stock Neon 2.0L prefer the 87, except for the R/T of course. You can't buy 89 here without ethanol in it... at least nowhere that I found. The 89 burns crappier in my car, I usually get 30-50 miles to a tank less if I try running it. The 87 gives me the best "power" and mileage by far... so for me, the pure 87 @ $3.95 is still a bargain over the cheaper, ethanol-crap-laced 89 is. The 87 actually has more BTU's per volume than the ethanol-laced 89 does anyway.

 

Am I the only one who uses 89 for there ride and never have a problem with that grade . My sxt gets like 35 in town and 40 in highway and I only have to fill up once a week.

 

That Egas is only good for these newer cars. Older cars burn that crap up faster than regular gas. Airwolf everyone is having to fill up once or twice a week because the quality of the gas is less. Our cars are using and burning it faster. Plus some gas stations are stretching there gas by adding water. So everybody at least fills up once a week. Airwolf were both around the same age. I remember when gas was .99 cents a gal. Do you remember that? I used to drive the tank dry then fill her up cheap. Now I try to drive less and the sad part is I love to drive.

 

I can remember when gas was around a dollar....and I'm not that old. Gas here is now 4.09 from what I've seen, but it really depends on what side of town you're on. I'm glad my car gets good gas mileage.....otherwise I'd probably be parking it about now and riding a bicycle.

 

Hell I'm only 27 and I remember $1-a-gal gas too... I even remember when I was a little kid, I'd go with my dad to the gas station and I remember $0.89-a-gal product. The sad part is our government sucks when it comes to dealing with these price problems. Now, on average over $1.10 of each gallon of unleaded gas you buy is TAX. $0.20 to $0.60 state tax depending on which state you live in, and another $0.65 on average per gallon that is federal tax that the oil companies are forced to pay the government.

Do the math...our dollar value is pretty bad right now, and these oil-producing countries know that we can't live without the stuff, and they know that it cripples our economy at the same time... so they make oil$135 a barrel right now. 1 barrel = 53-55 gallons (we'll assume it's a FULL 55 gallons). So $135/55 gallons = $2.455 per gallon of CRUDE OIL. Add the $1.00 avg for tax slapped on top of all of that, and u'r up to $3.45 a gallon just for crude oil, not even refined yet! ... If you charge $4.00 a gallon for it, that leaves the oil companies with a $0.55 margin to work with to ship it, refine it (energy costs + employees), add additives (small $), ship it to gas stations (diesel fuel + other semi-truck costs + driver), run the gas stations (lights, employees, etc), and then when it's all said and done there is about $0.01 leftover for profit... that's about what the oil companies are getting these days for a gallon of gas by the time you've paid for it at the pump... 1 penny profit. If you ask me, that's a really narrow margin. That also means that if someone fills up their tank with 20 gallons, and drives off without paying, that's a big problem... 20 gallons @ $4 a gallon, minus the one-penny-profit per gallon, = $3.99 per gallon, or $79.80 for 20 gallons to break even.Sothey would have to sell7980 gallons of gas (@ $0.01 profit per gallon) after that just to break even after that one drive-off.

It doesn't help that our government just penalizes the oil companies for everything, which just hurts our pocketbook more. We can't even drill our own oil in our own country or on our shores either. We let Cuba, Russia, and Venezuala build oil rigs in the gulf off of our coastline, but we can't build our own and lower our own prices way down... ya know cause it might **** off a polar bear... maybe one of these days someone in our government who actually has to pay for their own gas at the pump will wake up and smell reality. Then again, I doubt it.

 

Well my supervisor said we could be paying $5 by summer. I remember when they said we'll be paying $4 by summer. Check out this story I found on Yahoo. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080526/...markets_oil_dc
There attacking the pipelines.

 

4.24 in my town now