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Gas is super cheap right now!

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It is taking a while for gas to fall below $2 in the Northeast. Cheapest I've seen in NH is $2.14 for regular, and its more expensive in Maine.
 
I doubt I'll see below $2.00/gal locally, I filled up Sunday night @ $2.81/gal. 🙁

Why do I still live in this state...
 
T9D said:
That means nothing to me

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1.03 (Canadian dollars / litre) = 3.31280626 U.S. dollars / gal
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Still much higher than here, though there is talk of upping the gas tax while prices are low. Maybe this time they'll be smart enough to link it to inflation.
 
Fingolfin269 said:
Still going down in Middle TN. $1.79/gal. 40 cent hike not found.
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Understandable since you're too stupid to comprehend the word "here".

You're not alone though, assholes from South Carolina and Texas don't understand that word either thanks to No Child Left Behind we have a Nation of idiots.
 
Well I sort of lied. Gas seems to be jumping up to 2.09 around here. At Speedway, if you have the Rewards card, you get the lowest price they advertised that day. This morning they were at 1.55, and I will have to go fill up at that, because all the Speedway stations around me have jumped from 1.55 to 2.09. Shit that's one hell of a jump.
 
destrekor said:
Gas seems to be jumping up to 2.09 around here.

This morning they were at 1.55, and I will have to go fill up at that, because all the Speedway stations around me have jumped from 1.55 to 2.09.

Shit that's one hell of a jump.
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Don't post that in the Liars and Losers Forum formally called P&N

They swear that jump never happened.
 
dmcowen674 said:
Don't post that in the Liars and Losers Forum formally called P&N

They swear that jump never happened.
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I'm sure it didn't happen everywhere. Our region might have had a restricted refinery output. Diesel still seems ridiculous...


Our prices are falling again. Many are around $1.90, some are back down to $1.71.
 
Went as low as $1.79 a few weeks ago. Jumped to $2.19 last week. Fell back to $1.82 this week. Jumped to $2.29 this week (a 25.8% increase), fell back to $2.08 this afternoon.

Can't make up their damn mind, lol! 😛
 
Engineer said:
Went as low as $1.79 a few weeks ago. Jumped to $2.19 last week. Fell back to $1.82 this week. Jumped to $2.29 this week (a 25.8% increase), fell back to $2.08 this afternoon.

Can't make up their damn mind, lol! 😛
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I think they all got together and decided they got bored with the constantly dropping price, so they made a pact to add a variable. I wonder if they have made an algorithm that determines whether the price will be low or high on any particular day? Math geniuses, get to work! 😀
 
destrekor said:
I think they all got together and decided they got bored with the constantly dropping price, so they made a pact to add a variable. I wonder if they have made an algorithm that determines whether the price will be low or high on any particular day? Math geniuses, get to work! 😀
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Parts of the Midwest - KY, Indiana, Oh - have been doing the rockets up - feathers down gas prices for years. Looks like a saw tooth. Typically up $0.30 to $0.50 in one day and then drops a pennies every few days or so until it gets back down or below and then does it again. The big drop in oil prices stopped it for over a month but it's back now.
 
Damn, why the fuck am I driving a hybrid? I NEED a big 'Murican gas guzzling pickup truck!!! Because I'm a real man... with a real penis. A really big penis!
 
JulesMaximus said:
Damn, why the fuck am I driving a hybrid? I NEED a big 'Murican gas guzzling pickup truck!!! Because I'm a real man... with a real penis. A really big penis!
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Dude, your hate of pickups is getting pathological......either that or you really do have penis envy and suspect pickup drivers really do have bigger ones than you do.

In either case, give it a rest. Everyone knows you hate pickups. It really must make your skin crawl when you realize the best selling vehicles in the U.S. are pickups, year after year.
 
dmcowen674 said:
Understandable since you're too stupid to comprehend the word "here".

You're not alone though, assholes from South Carolina and Texas don't understand that word either thanks to No Child Left Behind we have a Nation of idiots.
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I was even more specific than you. 40 cent hike not found... in Middle TN. So what was that about comprehension you were spouting?
 
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It's under $2.30 in parts of Connecticut now. They'll probably need to raise taxes elsewhere to make up for the loss in gas tax revenue.

Or, they could just try to cut spending.... nah. I don't think that the state government even knows how try doing that.
 
Meghan54 said:
It really must make your skin crawl when you realize the best selling vehicles in the U.S. are pickups, year after year.
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It does make mine crawl. But I reckon a fair number of those buys are fleet and other work vehicles. Compared to a lot of the world, there is a lot more hauling and tough-vehicle work in the US.

I think in a lot of the world, work-type vehicles are far more specific, not something Ford produces in large quantity. The typical American pickup is versatile because they can be customized to a large degree as well, to the point that a majority of specific-job vehicles are still one of those 250 or 350-class trucks. A lot of Europe, at least, seems to get by on Sprinters and similar vans, and far more specialized vehicles.

But part of the thing too, is the US is still drastically different than much of the world. Infrastructure here, outside of the few major cities, is spread out and requires a lot of pieces moving long distances, including crews and equipment between multiple job sites. A lot of that work simply cannot be done economically in a Sprinter or similar vehicle.

I do hate seeing the number of people who don't do really any kind of hauling driving around massive vehicles, "because it's safer" - but that will take a while to really beat out of people. I don't argue we all need to move to the slowest hybrids to make ever last drop of fuel last as long as possible, but there is something to be said for striving for a least a little bit better economy.
 
The whole industry is a huge price fixing game.

Here the local stations actually call each other to set the price, so it's even higher than the globally fixed price. Basically it's price fixed twice.

Not complaining that it's low now, but complaining that we paid more all this time and they now decide to bring it this low. When we were paying more it was all pure profit going in the pockets of the big CEOs. Heck, they could probably bring it down even more if they really wanted to. Gas prices are all driven by political agendas. In this case, I think they're trying to sell cheaper than Russia, or something like that. Not really relevant what the specific reason is it just comes to show that the normal prices are all fixed for maximum profit.
 
Red Squirrel said:
The whole industry is a huge price fixing game.

Here the local stations actually call each other to set the price, so it's even higher than the globally fixed price. Basically it's price fixed twice.

Not complaining that it's low now, but complaining that we paid more all this time and they now decide to bring it this low. When we were paying more it was all pure profit going in the pockets of the big CEOs. Heck, they could probably bring it down even more if they really wanted to. Gas prices are all driven by political agendas. In this case, I think they're trying to sell cheaper than Russia, or something like that. Not really relevant what the specific reason is it just comes to show that the normal prices are all fixed for maximum profit.
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You haven't been reading the news huh.
 
Happily filled up at $1.99 the other day. Thought that was pretty cool.

Check 1 off the list of things I expected to happen this year.
 
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