Gas Prices

[Jesda]

That's why I have two of almost every body part.

[Jookmasta]

$3.80 for premium here down south..........not fun

[Gold Digger]

You all can bite me with your cheap gas. You guys piss and moan about $4is a gallon...try paying what I have to pay.

151 yen per litre here in Yashio.


3.7 litres makes one gallon. So, one gallon of gas is 558.7 yen.

At the current exchange rate, according to XE.com, pay this...


558.70 JPY = $6.78404 USD


I hear it's even more expensive in Europe.
Yeah...stop whining.

[ProudNissanFreak]

About $10/gal in the UK last week :O

[nissangirl74]

Another side effect I have noticed is the rising cost in groceries. Price of diesel goes up = price of food goes up. I have noticed this parallel trend for years. Milk went up almost 75 cents per gallon, bread went up about 50 cents per loaf, and lots of produce items have gone up tremendously (fresh zucchini went from 1.29 each to 3.49 each). As of today, the Circle K has the cheapest fuel price in Surprise. $3.39/gallon for 87, increasing in 10 cent increments for the higher grades. Diesel is $3.99.

[driverdriver]

Another side effect I have noticed is the rising cost in groceries. Price of diesel goes up = price of food goes up. I have noticed this parallel trend for years. Milk went up almost 75 cents per gallon, bread went up about 50 cents per loaf, and lots of produce items have gone up tremendously (fresh zucchini went from 1.29 each to 3.49 each). As of today, the Circle K has the cheapest fuel price in Surprise. $3.39/gallon for 87, increasing in 10 cent increments for the higher grades. Diesel is $3.99.

I had this conversation with my farmer friends/neighbours (I live in a agriculture belt) today. The growers are forced to pass on their rising energy costs to wholesaler/transport who pass on their costs to the supermarkets who pass on their costs to the consumer. The hardest hit are those who don't live near argicultural belts. Its an unfortunate byproduct of the times we're in. Do they have "locavore" food initiatives in the US (i.e. grow local. eat local)? Those programs we're kickstarted up her in 2005 after Hurricane Katerina. For the most part they've kept grocery prices down. Around we I live, they're are lots of year around "green or grow" houses for fruits and vegetables. Quality is excellent and prices are low, especially if you buy directly from the farm.

[nissangirl74]

We have local farmer's markets, Sprouts is a popular one, but their prices have risen along with the grocery chains. Many produce items are grown right here in the valley, and yet the prices continue to increase with everything else.

[ProudNissanFreak]

We have a Red Barn closeby and the prices for fruits and veggies were so cheap, but have risen with the price of gas, despite them being grown locally. Haven't been out of the house this weekend - tomorrow's gas prices will be a not so nice surprise, I imagine.

[nissangirl74]

I think I'm gonna start driving the Roadster to school. It gets fantastic gas mileage, much better than any of our modern cars.

[Dattebayo]

Someone should sell gas in bulk by letting people pay a year in advance at a set cost per gallon.

I think shell or somebody has a deal something like that already on their gas card...

[1995nissan200sxlvr]

cheapest I've found here is $3.39 for regular. Thats 50 bucks to fill up my car. I used to fill up this car for $35.

around where i live its the same price and yea it would take like 45 to fill up my car. and the previous owner said that when gas wasnt so high he could fill it up for a little over twenty! and if they reach 5 dollars a gallon im riding a bus horse or moped i aint payin that much.

[nissangirl74]

if they reach 5 dollars a gallon im riding a bus horse or moped i aint payin that much.

Don't have that option, just have to DD the ones that are cheap on gas. Makes me wish that AZ had a greater public transportation system.

[audtatious]

I don't have a choice either as most of my customers are at least 110 miles away. I get reimbursed for mileage so from that aspect it's not so bad.

[hannibal]

Commodity prices have been steadily climbing in the past year but everything has taken off in the last six months. Oil is actually one of the last to skyrocket.

Sugar and cotton have more than doubled since mid 2008. Most metals are well past their 2008 highs. But the biggest impact to consumers is food prices. Beef is 40% higher than its 2008 peak.

I just started a job at Dept of Energy. There is so much going on that affects crude prices. We watched prices rise after the rumor of a strike at Suez Canal. The strike hadnt even been confirmed and futures will trading higher. Many believe its the speculation that causes crazy rises of crude prices. OPEC (aka Saudi Arabia) says it wont increase output simply to restrain prices, but they have been producing above their quota since the end of 2010, well before the North Africa/SW Asia political crises. They have recognized that $130/barrel oil is not good for business. I'm sure they can figure an elasticity of demand and isolate the point where further price increases lead to decreased revenue.

The most popular answer: blame China!

[95zenki man]

Just got over $4 a gallon for 93 down here In NC. From what i hear around, we are looking at over $5 by the start of summer.

[cbt240sx]

$3.45 and climbing in Little Rock. I'm about to go Indonesian on a mofo and get a Scooter of some sort.....fml

Get ready for RAMEN!!!!!

[AZ89two4Tsx]

Gas prices will start to go down if we REALLY take some action. If there is a unified effort to get the politicians/oil compaines to quit working together keeping us dependent on foreign oil, things can change.

Everything from not drilling on our soil, to buying out alternative energy programs, to buying up patents to new inventions that would take away from getting off oil/gasoline. Everything is so screwed up in this system. If we got off of foreign oil, places in the Middle East would dry up and become what they used to be before being fed our money. THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES.

/random rant. All this stuff is much easier said than done unfortunately.

[nissangirl74]

It's media-induced panic. There IS NO OIL SHORTAGE. The only crisis is the one being concocted by the press.

[nevertheless]

$3.45 for 89 in Nebraska

[Encryptshun]

It's media-induced panic. There IS NO OIL SHORTAGE. The only crisis is the one being concocted by the press.

Or another way to look at it might be:

1) There is a finite supply of oil
2) Demand potential is infinite

Any finite number divided by an infinite number is a mathematical limit that trends to zero.

Therefore, shortage.

[asoomal]

4.099 in Blaine.

Still cheaper then up here in Surrey, 15 min drive north of Blaine.

[Dittoz7]

Got kinda exited when I saw the 3.25 gas sign today. Got closer it turned out to be E85. -__-
Still 3.45 89 ain't to bad...

[nissangirl74]

I paid $3.31 today, thanks to a discount card I have with my grocery store, Frys. WIN

[dasoupdude]

oh dear God.

http://priuschat.com/forums/newbie-foru ... prius.html

[Razi]

Why did you have to trade in the GTR? Lol, what kind of things are you trying to achieve in life? Monkhood?

Paid a little over $4 a gallon today for premium at Chevron.
Still won't make me remove my turbo though.

[el_blacky06]

Gas prices don't stop rising. I'm at 4.19 premium, the nearest gas station from home

[Ozzie]

Gas is cheap in the US.
(Everytime there is a thread about gas prices, I have all of you beat)
I'm up around $6 a gallon.
Nearly $90 to fill up. (But I'm not complaining, it was up near $8 a gallon a couple years ago)

Move to Lybia where it's around $0.48 a gallon.

[Dittoz7]

[quote="dasoupdude"]oh dear God.

http://priuschat.com/forums/newbie-foru ... prius.html[/quote

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Hopefully prices on GTR's fall enough for me to have one in the not so distant future. So one not to long ago selling for like 60k.

[dasoupdude]

Hopefully prices on GTR's fall enough for me to have one in the not so distant future. So one not to long ago selling for like 60k.

Yeah, i want a 2012 after i exit pharm school. The price of the 09's are dropping like flies.

[MinisterofDOOM]

oh dear God.

http://priuschat.com/forums/newbie-foru ... prius.html

The stupid part there is that it's NOT the fuel economy that's saving him money, it's the new non-astronomical car payment(s!) and non-enthusiast operating costs. The guy could have saved money getting a Mustang or a G8 or a Charger SRT8 too, but he went with a Prius.

This tells us two things:
1: He's a moron.
2: He buys cars based on image, not real world benefits. He wants to LOOK frugal more than he wants to BE frugal.

Those two things, combined with his comment about getting married soon, tells us the key third thing:
He's whipped.

Also, how the Hell do you end up with a $350/mo payment on a base model Colorado?!