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What's your gasoline costing?

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Captante said:
Uber/Grubhub drivers and the like OTOH will benefit.
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They should just be able to pass the cost onto the consumer. Gas should be more expensive: people should be penalized for buying gas guzzling vehicles, and as a society, we've dug ourselves a hole, especially in Connecticut, the suburb state, where we rely on driving way too much. People's behavior and our built communities will never change if we keep gas prices low.

We could be using current high gas prices as rationale for greatly improving public transit in key areas and encouraging people to drive less. Instead, we're doubling down on private automobiles.
 
Meanwhile here we're getting a gas tax INCREASE on april 1st. Oh Canada. That will probably push us to over 2 bucks a litre then it will stay there. Inflation is already bad enough as is, but higher prices drives it up even more. The costs trickle down to the consumer for everything since practically everything you buy was brought in on a truck.
 
Brainonska511 said:
We could be using current high gas prices as rationale for greatly improving public transit in key areas and encouraging people to drive less. Instead, we're doubling down on private automobiles.
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No kidding .... I live immediately outside New Haven and although there is a bus-line within range it doesn't start early enough in the AM or run frequently enough to rely on. (also stupidly 99% of the bus lines DON'T go to the train station but rather the Green like 3/4ths of a mile of sketchy walk away)

Metro North (trains) are decent on the main line which runs up the coast from NYC to Boston but the branch-lines that run directly North/South into Danbury, Waterbury and Hartford are still a joke.

Meanwhile I-95 in Fairfield county is bumper to bumper every single day pretty much from Stamford to Bridgeport. (approx 25 miles)
 
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Gas prices haven't budget up or down here. $4.99 at the only station IN town, $4.75 for the cheaper station on the highway, $4.49+ in the "big city" of Aberdeen.
 
$198.9/litre.

Not budging from there it seems. The .9 changes here and there depending on the station but that's about it. April first we get another tax hike so probably break $2.
 
On an outing the other day I noticed prices going down, probably a 50¢/gal drop... but much less on diesel.

Now, if you really want a pisser...

wlos.com

Applebee's executive says high gas prices are advantageous for lowering employee wages

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Applebee’s corporation is catching heat from cash-strapped Americans after a leaked email appears to show executives were discussing how the recent increase in gas prices could potentially help the company lower employee wages. The leaked email circulating on Reddit's...
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I would boycott this crap food chain, except I already have because it's crap. Next they will be whining that no one wants to work.
 
Tax hike coming April 1st so think I will top up at these prices, maybe even fill a jerry can though that may be pointless as I will have to pay the higher price eventually anyway. Looks like it's not going to get better.

I'm sitting at a bit over half full now. Was trying to ride this out but forgot about the tax hike.
 
MtnMan said:
On an outing the other day I noticed prices going down, probably a 50¢/gal drop... but much less on diesel.

Now, if you really want a pisser...

wlos.com

Applebee's executive says high gas prices are advantageous for lowering employee wages

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Applebee’s corporation is catching heat from cash-strapped Americans after a leaked email appears to show executives were discussing how the recent increase in gas prices could potentially help the company lower employee wages. The leaked email circulating on Reddit's...
wlos.com wlos.com

I would boycott this crap food chain, except I already have because it's crap. Next they will be whining that no one wants to work.
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They've been "Crapplebees" in our house for a couple of decades.
 
$1.886/litre

$111 to top up from about half full. Gas hike coming April 1st so figured I should top up.

Guessing it's going to be over $2 by next week.
 
$3.67 gallon at Sam's Club. My Lexus LX470 gets about 14 mpg. I fill up about 2 times a week because of my daughter. I pickup and drop off my daughter from her college dorm every weekend. It's about 150 miles roundtrip to Athens, GA, from our house and I make the trip twice a week because of her. I bought her a car to drive but she doesn't want to. So I'm my daughter's chauffeur. That's my new job in retirement.
 
K1052 said:
But why?
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Because she wants to spend weekends at home but doesn't want to drive. So I'm her personal driver. My wife and I make a date out of it when we go pickup our daughter every week. The drive is little over 3 hours roundtrip so we just think of it as our weekly roadtrip and have fun with it. I rented really nice luxury apartment for my daughter for her sophomore year so hopefully I won't have to do this as often next school year.
 
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