Gas Prices (Part 2)

[Burtonboarder950]

This doesn't pertain only to our coupes, but i'm sure everyone is interested anyway. I thought it would be interesting to make a poll about how much everyone pays per gallon in USD. Hold in the tears guys, we'll make it through this!

[mcheddadi]

1,50$/L = 5.7$/G

[LongBeachCoupe]

lol are you serious burton? Everyone is in the $4 bucket except a handful of people in $3 in texas apparently, and touching $5 in cali.

[spockrock]

lol are you serious burton? Everyone is in the $4 bucket except a handful of people in $3 in texas apparently, and touching $5 in cali.

cali and the 5 canadians lol

[08altima35]

dallas,tx - 87 octane is still barely under $4.00, but if you live close you can drive thru the border to mexico and grad $3.00 dollar a gallon gas. i've never done it, but seen some sh*t on cnn where some die hards swore by cheap mexican petro.

[180sxgirl]

yah me too.us canucks have beeing getting the shaft on gas prices way longer than you guys!! I can barely remember when gas was the equivalent of less than $4/g... At least ours has been climbing slowly up and up rather than a massive jump.. I can get it at $1.28/L in my little community (we have the lowest prices in the city I believe) so I feel fortunate.... that would be about $5.12/G... (mostly around $1.34 everywhere else in the city)and I kid you not, I am a 10 minute drive from a frickin refinery, you can see the flame from it from the street... the gas comes from our province!! $#@#ing government taxing the bejesus out of it

[Hussain]

i'd totally do that if i lived near the border. go there with like 30 gas cans and fill them all up lol but ya, this survey is waaaaaaay off lol everyone except the people in canada are in the $4 range like LBC said

[LongBeachCoupe]

mexican gas ftw? lol

[jdshift]

Gas prices suck thats the bottomline, I see no change anytime soon if ever.........but just keep in mind it could be alot worse. Adjust to it.

[marcelo929]

i'd totally do that if i lived near the border. go there with like 30 gas cans and fill them all up lol but ya, this survey is waaaaaaay off lol everyone except the people in canada are in the $4 range like LBC said

I'll confess and say ive crossed the border near me ( 5 minutes) and filled up my tank once..... or twiceee

[Burtonboarder950]

is it illegal to

I'll confess and say ive crossed the border near me ( 5 minutes) and filled up my tank once..... or twiceee

I understand its illegal resell gas after getting it from across the border...but is it smuggling if you just fill up across the border? that would be madd stupid....and you see, seeing that everyone has similar prices, i learned something from my poll.....that im a dumbas$

[Burtonboarder950]

how about we let this one drop...makes me feel stupid every second i look at it =//

[marcelo929]

hmmm i wouldn't know but I drive half of the time in Mexico and half of the time in the US, helping my dad at work in Mexico and I live in the US so I dont know how you would consider that

[spockrock]

yah me too.us canucks have beeing getting the shaft on gas prices way longer than you guys!! I can barely remember when gas was the equivalent of less than $4/g... At least ours has been climbing slowly up and up rather than a massive jump.. I can get it at $1.28/L in my little community (we have the lowest prices in the city I believe) so I feel fortunate.... that would be about $5.12/G... (mostly around $1.34 everywhere else in the city)and I kid you not, I am a 10 minute drive from a frickin refinery, you can see the flame from it from the street... the gas comes from our province!! $#@#ing government taxing the bejesus out of it

Its not the government, yes we all see the stickers the gas stations put on the pumps claiming they make 1% profits. The truth of the matter is one the price of gas is inflated, during each step of production. What oil companies do is drill and extract, then ship, then refine, several times, ship, and then sell to the consume, but in each step they sell the product within the company using subsidiary companies. So shell drilling sells the product to shell refining, which then and then to Shell, and they sell it at that 1% markup. But the markups are passed back to the consumer, so when they tell you that 50% of gas prices is taxes and 49% on the cost of gas, in reality they inflate their costs which is passed back on to the consumer. The other problem is if you compare the US to Canada they have 10x as many people and probably 10x as many cars. They have a higher demand in the US. The problem isn't the government its oil companies making record breaking profits because as long as we keep buying they keep raising their prices.

When long weekends roll around you see the gas prices increase due to the holiday, but oil production does not slow down in Saudi Arabia due to a holiday in Canada. Its because the oil companies know long weekends people drive, and if they drive they have to fill up, its a great time to bump the prices up 10 cents a liter. You could argue that the taxes are high but Gas along with Alcohol are sin taxes, we do not really need them and the taxes pay for road maintenance. But yes I understand why should you pay for stuff that is manufactured in Alberta?

[adidas2go]

Haha, it has absolutely nothing to do with the price of gas if you have a refinery in your town or not. This isn't the old country where you buy your milk from cletis at the trading post that he got from a cow on his farm. Oil is going to be pumped out of the ground and then put into a giant "pot" persay. Its not produced in a local town, for a local town. If that were the case, California would very little fuel and a$$ loads of vegetable/fruits

BTW- $5.10 for gas here

[itsjustbusiness]

venezuela = 14 cents!

[Anthony29115]

Regular $3.85

[CoupeSlate]

87 octane is $3.80 here i fill up at $4.18 with 92 octance

[uh-oh_8_coupe]

nice pad

[marcelo929]

hey CoupeSlate I see your from McAllen. Im from Mission hope your enjoying your coupe as much as I am (sorry for the thread jack)

[D-Roll]

Here in Tampa I pay $4.22 a gal. for 93

[altimacoupelvr]

ya'll are really making me miss south texas everytime ya'll talk about it.....i was born in corpus christi and lived when i graduated from high school in austin.......i miss it!!!!!

anyways, we are paying 3.79 here on base but off is another story closer to 4 the last time i saw it!!!

[js08coupe]

$3.93 per gallon down from $3.95 here in Southern NJ.

[rjdmmfl1]

venezuela = 14 cents!

yeah, I posted that on the other thread, but in contrast, EVERYTHING else there is expensive. Gas may be cheap, but the majority of folks there can't afford the car to put the cheap gas in! My lab PI and one of the scientists in my lab are from venezuela... they have no love for that dictator (Chavez)

[quick_shift]

93 is $4.30 here

[LongBeachCoupe]

Your parents have a really cool looking house, makes for a business card style picture!

[maxentropy]

Your parents have a really cool looking house, makes for a business card style picture!

It's just a rancher with a HUGE awning...

[Stumpjumper]

3.91 for gas here in GA

[opekone_1988]

And that is why my friend i decided to go with a 2.5L.. I knew prices were bound to go up.. up...up and up!!.. we're paying here in SD around $4.60 usd

[CoupeSlate]

yeah i love driving it. there are still only a few here so i get a lot of looks

Your parents have a really cool looking house, makes for a business card style picture!

haha thanks. its a great place for parties