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97 cents a litre (Canadian Dollars). I don't really want to do the math to convert to gallons and American. Sorry.
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How about 104.5c per litre (again, CAD)? I guess it's my own fault for living on this rock in the middle of the atlantic. I am so glad I don't own a car.
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Yeesh! I passed one of the places I usually get gas from on my way home today. $2.73!!! I'm glad I still have half a tank, although I wonder if I should wait . . .
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$1.49 (New Zealand, with the NZ`dollar worth $US.70c) a litre. Work it out, somebody stole my calculator, so I can't.
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You know, if everyone would post their location every time they post the latest fluctuation in gas price, it would make the thread more useful.
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Well, don't you all feel better about the fact that one of the Bush Administration's priorities this year was passing a bill that hands several billion dollars in subsidies to oil companies and builds a $900m bridge -- larger than the Golden Gate -- between two Alaskan communities with a total population of 2000 people?
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Tom, I believe that was more than "Bush Administration" that you love to blame. Do you want me to cite how many Democrat congressional people voted for it? Not everything done by the House and Senate, and passed, is "Bush Administration". Wow, you really give him more power than he has.
quote: Do you want me to cite how many Democrat congressional people voted for it?
Too many, sadly. The Democrats are not yet focused enough on not giving Bush anything he wants, no matter how reasonable it seems. j/k
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But Tom, those poor oil companies NEED that money, it's the basics of a free enterprise economy silly.
And I don't blame the Administration directly for the wasted 900m being used for that dumb friggin bridge, but he certainly didn't life a finger to stop it before signing the bill did he? The Democrats and the Republicans also get blame for that. Much of the highway bill was just utter crap.
I don't see why people were arguing that 13 billion dollar energy bill was too much, but a 250 billion dollar highway bill is perfectly alright. If we spent even 50 billion dollars on energy, I don't think we'd have half the problems we have now with shortages and a failing national power grid. And YES, this is one of those problems were funding counts for more than anything else. Funding and time.
Evil...flourishing...good men doing nothing..
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This morning I bought gas for $2.47 a gallon at my local BJs, but the going rate around my area (metro Atlanta) is $2.49.
My son cracked me up yesterday as we passed a gas station. He commented that he remembered the days when we payed $1.39 for gas and complained. Sounds like a gas war veteran already...
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Three days ago, the station near me (an off brand, and the cheapest I've found anywhere near me) was $2.23.
Yesterday when I filled up, that gas station was $2.35.
Today when I drove by, it was $2.41.
This is in central New Jersey, btw.
Now, having just traveled up to Canada and talked with folks from around the world in hostels, it seems a bit unfair to complain. I mean, the rest of the world is paying 150-200% what we are.
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$2.52, but our county also has higher gas taxes than just about anybody else in Fl. Head over the county line and it drops about 5 cents.
Fortunately I don't live near the tourist-heavy areas (like, say, Daytona, where I work), where you can add another 10 cents per gallon. I'm very careful to get my gas near my home.
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Teres and I were talking this morning when we went out for breakfast -- why aren't bicycle stores advertising like crazy?
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quote:Originally posted by Goody Scrivener: I knew I was going to hate it when I saw Farmgirl's post... the cheapest station near my house jumped to 2.47.
(edit to clarify: this station was at 2.33 over the weekend...)
Same station, when we came home last night, was at 2.56.... this is really getting disgusting.
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I paid $2.39 in Richardson, TX before coming home. I think my parents filled up my car here in Kingwood for my return trip and it was $2.29. In the last day or two though, I think it's jumped around here and it may be in the $2.40's. Not sure.
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I've drove the kids around so much this summer that my husband is considering grounding us until school starts. I immediately started to search for the perfect hybrid for our family. At this point I don't care if the kids have to sit two to a seat and share a seat belt.
We'd walk if we didn't live so far from civilization.
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The gas prices near me (Sussex, NJ - northern)have jumped from $2.20 to $2.56 in about a week. I was also in Ridgefield, CT yesterday (near Danbury) and they were about the same there.
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And Mack, we had a minor gas war going here a couple years back between a couple stations. For about a month I could routinely get gas for under a buck... too bad that didn't last. I was still driving the Neon, so that would have been 2000 or so...
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Ah, somehow I thought I had. Well, she did. Several years in Downers Grove, and several in Joliet. Her dad was working at Argonne.
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Gah! It's up to $2.45 here! I just filled up two days ago at $2.25, and I thought that was a lot!
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One of my coworkers reported $2.70 in Dayton, OH, but I haven't confirmed that myself.
Kat, the official word from oil companies is that a confluence of events is driving oil prices to record levels. Take that for what it's worth.
Food prices in my area seem to be going up a little bit, which I'm sure is attributable to higher gas prices. It's especially noticable at Trader Joe's, where the savings aren't nearly as good as they used to be compared to bigger grocery stores.
So, have increasing gas prices caused anybody to drive less? There is a small town I like to visit about 20 miles or so from my house, and there have been several times in the last month or so when I've chosen to do something closer to me rather than driving out there, but that's been about it so far. Well, that and the fact that I briefly considered buying a place in that town earlier this past month and rejected the idea in part because of how much more it would cost me to drive to work every day from there.
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Part of the reason I am moving at the end of August is to be near work so I can drive less. I will still drive a lot, since school will be 30-40 minutes away, but I would be doing that drive anyway, and it's an hour from where I am right now.
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Theaca, yes it is a wonderful area. I'd love to move to Western Springs, in large part so my kids can go to LTHS (I was a 1990 grad myself), but I don't honestly see a way of affording the housing costs to do so. Brookfield (where I grew up) is within reach financially but the town is falling apart, so I don't want to do that. And LaGrange is becoming hit-or-miss. So we'll probably stay where we are, or close enough where we don't have to change schools.
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Yesterday around noon, we passed a Hess station selling gas for $2.45. We made note to fill up the tank on the way back. That afternoon, around 3:30 when we headed back home and to said Hess station along the way, the price had gone to $2.56.
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Goats would be good. You could get a coat of arms featuring a saddled goat, and insist that all family members wear t-shirts or sweatshirts emblazened with it. Everyone would know you as "those crazy goat people".
I realized last night when I was at the grocery store that I hadn't been there for quite some time. I hadn't been doing it intentionally, but I've been making fewer trips to the store than I did when gas was cheaper.
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I'm glad I still have half a tank, although I wonder if I should wait . . .
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Well, she did. Several years in Downers Grove, and several in Joliet. Her dad was working at Argonne.
