holy crap gas prices very close to $3 a gallon here in socal

[Eli]

Originally posted by: vegetation

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: DingDingDao
Socal - Pasadena - filled up this morning at $2.95 for supreme at Mobil.

I'll never understand why anyone would willingly pay 20 cents more per gallon for "premium".

Just hand over your whole paycheck to the Oil Barons and get it over with.

It's called a knock sensor. Try putting 87 octane in a luxury car and see what happens.

Usually nothing will happen unless the car is an old POS. Premium gas requirement from the factory is almost always a marketing gimmick. The factory just lowers the timing so even the lowest octane gas wont cause a ping.

What in the flippin' flying fsck are you guys talking about?

Marketing gimmick?

Never understand why someone would buy premium over regular? Are you people seriously that retarded?

 

[paulney]

Diesel is at 3.06 in Bay Area.
Fun times for all those monster GMC SUV owners.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: vegetation

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: DingDingDao
Socal - Pasadena - filled up this morning at $2.95 for supreme at Mobil.

I'll never understand why anyone would willingly pay 20 cents more per gallon for "premium".

Just hand over your whole paycheck to the Oil Barons and get it over with.

It's called a knock sensor. Try putting 87 octane in a luxury car and see what happens.

Usually nothing will happen unless the car is an old POS. Premium gas requirement from the factory is almost always a marketing gimmick. The factory just lowers the timing so even the lowest octane gas wont cause a ping.

this level of ignorance is astounding. I use 89oct myself becuase @ 2.30 a gal it actually saves me money because I get an extra 3-4mpg and because my dakota knocks when using 87oct.

Most luxury and sport cars (I'm talking corvettes, vipers, and better) are actually required to have 92oct. or higher (and syntheitc oils) in most cases because they are perfomance tuned to run on high octane fuel (it's a necessity for high compression/performance engines).

 

[Colt45]

Originally posted by: DingDingDao

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: DingDingDao
Socal - Pasadena - filled up this morning at $2.95 for supreme at Mobil.

I'll never understand why anyone would willingly pay 20 cents more per gallon for "premium".

Just hand over your whole paycheck to the Oil Barons and get it over with.

It's called a knock sensor. Try putting 87 octane in a luxury car and see what happens.

Thats what the knock sensor is for. when you put 87 in, knock sensor detects slight knock, ECU retards timing. done and done. slight loss of power.

on my car i think the difference between 87 and 91 is 4hp.. i remember seeing a graph somewhere once..

Doesn't really matter until the boost kicks in on my car though.. compression ratio is 7,8:1

 

[NickelTitanium]

fill her up

 

[Pabster]

Get used to it.

Diesel is the real killer right now. $3.06 a gallon? Damn, now wonder the "fuel surcharge" is showing up more and more...

 

[MrMaster]

I just saw another 10 cent boost this morning around here. 2.59

 

[CtK]

$2.569 Amoco/BP Premium
Miami, FL

 

[montanafan]

Originally posted by: rh71
Bastards - I'm not complaining because it's expensive.. I'm complaining because they're making it expensive to pad their bottom line... record profits for oil companies... bastards.

And they just got even more handed to them on a silver platter by Bush's energy bill.

 

[PingSpike]

A limited commodity with increasing demand is going up in price? Holy sh|tballs!

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
damn damn.... this sucks!!

$4.5 per gallon... being in Romania sucks 🙁

 

[oboeguy]

Drive less? Suppose you drive 90 miles per day on average (IMO way too bleeping much) and get 30mpg (if you get less, well, that's your problem). That's three gallons per day, or 1000 per year (roughly). a $1 increase per gallon, fixed over the course of a year costs you an extra $1000. That's real money, sure, but I'd think that in many cases things could be done to deal with that (for example, driving 90 miles a day 365 day a year to a job where you're paying $1000 extra a year to get there seems silly if you can't afford it).

All you rural drive-too-much Bushie voters, what do you have to say now? Bwuahahaha!!!

I love being a bike commuter. And yes, I would still find a way to bike commute if I lived or worked outside of NYC. Oh, wait, I've already done that... for multiple jobs / places I've lived. 😀

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: Safeway
It's $2.239 here in Dallas. But some places in other parts of town have it at $2.499.

I remember going to Europe and seeing gas that was $5 American for a liter.

I don't think so. Germany has gas price at about 1.1 Euro per liter, this would be some $5 per US gallon. I don't know about UK, as their gallon is bigger than the american gallon 😀
For the same price as in Germany (1.1 Euro per liter), in UK price would be some $5.6 per (UK) gallon.
I don't think there are places with more expensive gas than that

 

[Calin]

Originally posted by: jfall
blah, it's around $3.70 in Canada

99.9/liter

Move near southern border, and every time you need to fill up, cross the border, fill up, cross the border again.

 

[daveymark]

its around $2.80 here

 

[tommigsr]

just paid 2.99 yesterday 🙁

 

[upsciLLion]

I paid $2.96 for regular this morning. *emo tear*