Gas prices

[Roger/Sacramento]

Let us hear from your part of the world.

[Talkwrench]

WE are getting close to $1 [AUD] a litre here in Perth, Western Australia. But its a joke as not long ago the barrel price was well over $100 pretty sure it was more like $110. and our cost was around the $1.50 a litre mark .Now the barrel price is well under $50. so we should have been around the 80c a litre mark. Fuel company's rise by the next day if prices go up , if they come down pfft! they do what they want. Our ACCC [anti corruption]here is a toothless tiger.

[Brian]

NZ $1.61.9 here in Masterton, NZ, for 91 octane.

[kiwitony]

Talkwrench its the same here in NZ goes up fast comes down slow.

[BILL WZOREK]

Western Mass. $ 204.09 ( just went down ) $ 202.9

[Granny]

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We are paying 1.26 AUD here in Sale Victoria in down under

[dwaynec]

I just paid $1.79 per gallon for 87 octane here in eastern Iowa

[flatford8]

1.99 in Southern Maine, USA....MARK

[funrunr]

$1.89 this morning in Ann Arbor, MI. USA

[Elmo Rodge]

$1799 in
central Utah. Wayno

[Tom Walker]

In the UK we paying around £1.05/liter. I've done a rough calculation on today's tourist exchange rates and converted all your figures into $US per gallon US.

Lets say in the US that you pay $1.90. Auzzies pay $5.76, Kiwis pay $4.74, Brits pay $6. Oh what a privilege it is to live in the most expensive, damp, freezing little island on this planet.

Just for fun(!!!!!###**!!) if your car does 20mpg, and you drive 12,000 miles a year, in the UK the fuel would cost you $3600. The same fuel in the US would cost you $960.

No wonder Prof Henry enjoys his road trips.... just don't try doing them over here!

[lenmissy]

76 cents per litre Manitoba Canada.

[don-wi]

Osceola Wisconsin 2.04

[BILL WZOREK]

Originally Posted by Tom Walker

In the UK we paying around £1.05/liter. I've done a rough calculation on today's tourist exchange rates and converted all your figures into $US per gallon US.

Lets say in the US that you pay $1.90. Auzzies pay $5.76, Kiwis pay $4.74, Brits pay $6. Oh what a privilege it is to live in the most expensive, damp, freezing little island on this planet.

Just for fun(!!!!!###**!!) if your car does 20mpg, and you drive 12,000 miles a year, in the UK the fuel would cost you $3600. The same fuel in the US would cost you $960.

No wonder Prof Henry enjoys his road trips.... just don't try doing them over here!

How much of your price is TAXES ??/ that part you can't blame the gas Company's for !!

[klicker]

$1.93 at Costco $1.99 most places, Portland OR

[JSeery]

It has been around $1.75/gallon in Kansas, starting to move up a little. We have what are called QT stores that offer a discount for buying drinks and sandwiches and such. A week ago I filled up for $1.34/gallon with the discounts.

[old Tom]

I read that in 1960 gas was .30 a gal in today's prices that would equal $2,60 per gal. I paid $2.77 yesterday so we are getting close.

[1931 flamingo]

1,999 gal in central Connecticut. And we have some of the highest gas taxes in the country.
Paul

[Ralph Moore]

About $2.75 average I would say. Still way over what the lower 48 pays. Sad part is we have all the oil, and a refinery in North Pole.

[JSeery]

Everyone complains about gas prices, but when I was in high school gas was between $.30 to $.40/gallon and the cars I drove averaged around 8 to 10 mpg. Everything else is around 10x the 1950-60 cost, so that would be $3.00 to $4.00/gallon and my current car averages 30+ mpg. So, gas would have to get to say the $9 to $12/gallon to be similar cost per mile! Seems strange because I never thought anything about the gas I went through then.

[Ross F-1]

Lowest I've seen here is $1.479, average is more like $1.699. I saw diesel at $2.399, too. Helps to have oil wells and refineries an hour away.

And the food store where I also get gas has rewards points, so last fill-up was actually at $1.399... 10-gallon limit

[gmc1941]

$1.95 in Florida, but just vacationing for several weeks. I really don't think this is going to last with the government empower

[19Fordy]

$2.19 for regular in Coral springs, FL. It's cheaper in counties with a lower tax.

[Old Henry]

$1.69

[TJ]

On the "left coast" in the bay area we are seeing $2.45 a gallon at Chevron. I think Costco is $2.37

[green50]

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$189.9 here in North Georgia. Check out GasBuddy.com for gas prices across the country.

[johnh7]

Roger, you don't say what prices are in Sacto? (do you remember Captain Sacto?) Here in Orland it is about $2.27 for regular.

[outlaw]

$2.53 a gallon in Eagle River today. Bill

[shoe box Jack]

$4.50 a gallon here in Ontario. Was over $6.00 last summer. Jack

[amodel25]

Has been $1.64 - $1.67 here for a couple of weeks. All of a sudden yesterday several stations jumped to $1.89......no idea why.

[32phil]

$2.11 9....in Port St. Snoozy, (Lucie) Florida

[barnfind]

1.89 for Ecrap 87 gas - real gas is about 2.79 when you can find it.

[Mark Slight]

$2.25 a gal. for 87 yesterday 1-20-15 in Northern California, regular gas station.

Mark

[JM 35 Sedan]

Right about $2.00 here now in our downtown, one red light town, of Rising Sun, Maryland. If these prices remain through the summer of 2015, our several planned road trips for this year will be much less costly .

[chap52]

$1.67 in Tucson.
I remember growing up in Los Angeles in the 6o's gas was always $.26 and if you filled up (10 gal min) you got a free drinking glass, dish or box of laundry detergent. The occasional "Gas War" between two rival stations got the price down to $.19 a gal.

[castiron]

We pay 6 dollars a gal here in Sweden,they just lowered the price.

[raceron1120]

Just filled up here in the metro Detroit MI area, $1.76. Lowest I remember paying was '68 or '69, 26.9 cents a gallon. It was prolly less earlier but I got my license in '66 and it ran about 30 cents at that time. Gas wars would bring it down a few pennies.

[Old Redneck]

Here in the rip-off state of Pennsylvania we are at 2.35 and the new Gov. wants to add 10 cents more tax to make everyone happy I guess. Then I heard the Federal is going to get more tax also.

[deuce lover]

Yesterday at Safeway in Hilo,HI $2.95 cash.I remember paying 17.9 cents a gallon during the mid '60's gas wars in CA.It was a Powerine station on Lakewood Blvd in Downey across from the Ford Plant.

[mrtexas]

Originally Posted by Talkwrench

WE are getting close to $1 [AUD] a litre here in Perth, Western Australia. But its a joke as not long ago the barrel price was well over $100 pretty sure it was more like $110. and our cost was around the $1.50 a litre mark .Now the barrel price is well under $50. so we should have been around the 80c a litre mark. Fuel company's rise by the next day if prices go up , if they come down pfft! they do what they want. Our ACCC [anti corruption]here is a toothless tiger.

Well with your gas taxes at 60%+ of the purchase price cutting the price of the gasoline commodity part wouldn't change the total very much . As usual the real profiteer is the government which makes more by far the world over than oil companies. BTW worked for XOM for 32 years.

Lowest I saw it was as a kid in the 60s at Tenneco stations in central Florida for 23.9ct/gallon. $1.50 to fill up a 6 gallon boat motor tank. I remember thinking 59ct a gallon was robbery during the first Arab boycott in the 70s. My 1980 VW diesel burned 99ct a gallon. That was the high point for gasoline $$ for me as when I retired in 20101 I was making 6x what I was in 1980.

[trainguy]

Originally Posted by Tom Walker

In the UK we paying around £1.05/liter. I've done a rough calculation on today's tourist exchange rates and converted all your figures into $US per gallon US.

Lets say in the US that you pay $1.90. Auzzies pay $5.76, Kiwis pay $4.74, Brits pay $6. Oh what a privilege it is to live in the most expensive, damp, freezing little island on this planet.

Just for fun(!!!!!###**!!) if your car does 20mpg, and you drive 12,000 miles a year, in the UK the fuel would cost you $3600. The same fuel in the US would cost you $960.

No wonder Prof Henry enjoys his road trips.... just don't try doing them over here!

The last time I was in England (about 4 years ago) even with the high fuel prices the motor ways were bumper to bumper.like us yanks you Brits really love your cars!Phil

[shoe box Jack]

Here in Ontario to-day the price per gal. is $4.50, last summer it was $6.00. Jack

[VeryTangled]

Hi Everyone, In the DC suburbs I paid $2.09.9 yesterday. Using a discount I got from the grocery store it down to $179.9, unbelievable! Only bad part, I was putting fuel in the wife's car!

Here's a place I've successfully used to find cheap gas: http://tools.automotive.com/gas-prices/ Especially helpful when on the road.

I'm 55 years old, and remember $0.33/gal or so when I used to fill up the mini-bike in the late '60's. Cigs were also the same price.

[Buford]

Hi, from south central New Mexico...around here there are stations selling 87 octane gas for $1.73 per...

[V12Bill]

Just saw $1.73.9 this AM. in NJ. Filled up 10 days ago for $1.95.9. Prices seem to still be going down

[Royal Ryser]

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It's those "terrible" taxes that build and maintain our highways. I don't know about your roads, but here in CO we need lots of repairs.

[Drbrown]

About 2.25 for 87 octane at competitive stations in mid-eastern NY State. VT NH usually 0.20 less due to their lower state gas taxes. MA has generally been about same as NYS.

In HS around 1957 one could get name-brand for 0.25. Amico (long gone) white gas was most expensive. Many name brands incl Shell long gone from eastern NYS.

Drilling of new wells down significantly; lots of hard hats on the closet hooks. But they're still pumping and we still get tremendously long and hazardous CNR (Canadian Nation Railway) tank-car-trains coming through our cities and across our state from Balkins and Canada, all heading down along the Hudson River to NYC and NJ for refining and export. It ain't staying here !! Might as well run the pipe line direct to China.

[Talkwrench]

Yes MrTexas your right the government [all] has their fingers right in it. NOW just after I posted I heard on the news that BP where putting their prices up by 14c might have even been 17c overnight, but point is they raised the price the next day by a whopping amount when fuel prices come down here they delay and it only seems to come down in 2c lots over weeks Pfft! its a very sad joke..

[Rocketsled]

During the summer of 1969 our Texaco station sold Fire Chief gasoline for 29 9/10,
and Sky Chief for 31 9/10 cents per gallon.
We sold Havoline 10W-30 oil for .$75 per quart at the pumps.
In 1961/1962 Texaco switched from 5 quart oil cans to 4 quart size for oil
changes, in addition to the 1 quart cans. They also replaced our beautiful
round 'Banjo' sign with a new logo, revolving hexagon monstrosity in 1962.
SRB

[BlueSunoco]

$1.97 around the Illinois Quad Cities.

$1.79 around Peoria area and about $1.75 in Iowa (Ia has less tax than us)

CEO of Shell was on news Wed. said 'Don't be comfortable with these prices. It will go to over $5.00/gallon in six months time and not come back down.' I suspect that is what they(oil companies) WANT to happen but Fox Business News says prices should stay down here at least until Fall of 2015, probably into 2016. They said the Bakken oil reserve in the Dakotas are soon going to make the U.S. the world's largest oil producer.

The Germans and Japanese are still working hard on electric and hydrogen powered cars. Good to have competition with oil.

[1937pickup]

Price in Minnesota, twin cities, is $1.99 per gallon. Some one mentioned gas taxes going to roads, here in Minnesota a good part of money raised with fuel taxes goes to public transportation subsidies.

[Ross F-1]

Originally Posted by Royal Ryser

It's those "terrible" taxes that build and maintain our highways. I don't know about your roads, but here in CO we need lots of repairs.

Very true! A dime a gallon increase would create a lot of jobs and give us highways that don't knock your teeth out. Who'd notice a dime a gallon?

[47 flatbed]

1.68 reg fuel here in northeast Ohio.

[cmbrucew]

$2.41 a gallon for 86 octane. 3 or 4 refineries within thirty miles, and surrounded by oil wells. Go figure.
Bruce

[3quarter32]

It was 1.62 here in Tulsa area, but has increased today to 1.75.
Lee

[mrtexas]

Originally Posted by Ross F-1

Very true! A dime a gallon increase would create a lot of jobs and give us highways that don't knock your teeth out. Who'd notice a dime a gallon?

That might be OK if that is what they used the money for. Too much goes to bike paths, city buses, and stupid commuter trains like those in Houston and other liberal bastions.

[mrtexas]

Originally Posted by BlueSunoco

$1.97 around the Illinois Quad Cities.

$1.79 around Peoria area and about $1.75 in Iowa (Ia has less tax than us)

CEO of Shell was on news Wed. said 'Don't be comfortable with these prices. It will go to over $5.00/gallon in six months time and not come back down.' I suspect that is what they(oil companies) WANT to happen but Fox Business News says prices should stay down here at least until Fall of 2015, probably into 2016. They said the Bakken oil reserve in the Dakotas are soon going to make the U.S. the world's largest oil producer.

The Germans and Japanese are still working hard on electric and hydrogen powered cars. Good to have competition with oil.

I can assure you that oil companies don't want low prices. You think they want low prices? Dream on that they can somehow manipulate anything.

[Tom Walker]

Originally Posted by Royal Ryser

It's those "terrible" taxes that build and maintain our highways. I don't know about your roads, but here in CO we need lots of repairs.

Our roads are pretty bad, especially in rural areas. Last year, vehicle fuel duty raised £25 billion. Road tax (annual levied on each vehicle) raised £6 billion. Gov't spent £7.5 billion on road construction and repairs.

[mercman from oz]

Price of Petrol in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is $1.029 per Litre at the Gas Station around the corner for Unleaded 91.

[mercman from oz]

Price of Petrol in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia is $1.029 per Litre at the Gas Station around the corner for Unleaded 91.
The attached picture was taken in 2013. From there, the price went up to $1.69 a Litre. Todays prices are very much appreciated, but how long will they last?

[Cecil/WV]

I hear that car lots are over stocked with economy cars now because with the lower prices, people want bigger cars. How stupid can one be to think it will stay low. I saw this in the 70's when gas went up and was "scarce" friends were trading in their guzzlers for small cars and again in a year or two, they were back in large cars again. I just stick with my F 150 through it all. I feel much safer that way.

[corvette8n]

Back in 1969 I remember selling Quakerstate motor oil for .39qt it was our loss leader to get people into the store. The lowest price I gas I ever put in my car was 19.9 cents a gallon on sale in 1967.

[BlueSunoco]

Originally Posted by mrtexas

That might be OK if that is what they used the money for. Too much goes to bike paths, city buses, and stupid commuter trains like those in Houston and other liberal bastions.

Same in the People's Republic of Illinois. Most tax money they keep sucking out of us goes to try to finance the giant pension fund (which today's paper says is $111 billion in the hole) that the legislators created for themselves. The money never makes it to where it's supposed to go to.

Some clown in the E.U. recently stated that the U.S. needs to increase the gasoline tax a dollar a gallon. Like that would 'solve' anything, only would let gov-mint spend more on themselves and the low lifes who won't work

Cecil/WV had the best response #61!! Can't go wrong with that idea!

[trainguy]

$2.27 is eastern Pa.I read in the newspaper the Pa. Has the highest gas tax in the USA and not expect lower than $2.00 gas.Even $2.27 is better than $3.40 we paid not to long ago.Phil

[KGS]

Here in Nort Joisey the local citgo is $1.77 and the Shell is $1.85.
I bet it'll go back up by the time driving season arrives...

[David J]

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Any posters on this thread working in the oil industry in the US ? Reading the responses I would guess not . I for one do not think OPEC has slashed prices so we can have cheaper gas for our old Fords . Did actually see a blurp on the internet where the side effects of this on US oil production were finally being noticed . Not pretty and it is a simple fact of life that they can recover crude much cheaper than we can so their break even point is much lower than ours . Do the math on that = crippling some and bankrupting others in the industry here with low prices .

[rust runner]

$1.97 in bushnell, fl. this afternoon

[Rocketsled]

Our friends the Saudis, by holding their cards, expect the that more costly methods of recovering oil in North America will fold-up. Then they can raise the limit with impunity!

[chap52]

Couldn't be a ploy to put the whoa to the Keystone Pipeline could it?
Sure give them another dime...then watch the price go back up and the roads not touched. Maybe they could use the money to create a website for consumer input.
Ya ever feel like your just a pawn on the chessboard of life?

[32phil]

$2.079 @ Sam's Club, Port St. Lucie, Florida last night...
down from $2.219 when I got here on 1-12

[jim1920]

$2.37 on the central Oregon coast

[flatjack9]

$1.89.9 here in Oshkosh.

[49r]

Here's another angle on the numbers: In Wellington New Zealand a couple of months ago we were paying upwards of $2.20 a litre x 4 (USA gallon) = $8.80 NZ per gallon. Divide this by the exchange rate (0.75) = $11.73 US per gallon. At the moment fuel has dropped to around $1.70 per litre = $6.80 NZ or $9.10 US per gallon. We think it's still Christmas ...

[VeryTangled]

Hi Everyone; OUCH, us Yanks will cry bloody murder when it gets to $10 per gallon.

[JeffB2]

Originally Posted by Tom Walker

Our roads are pretty bad, especially in rural areas. Last year, vehicle fuel duty raised £25 billion. Road tax (annual levied on each vehicle) raised £6 billion. Gov't spent £7.5 billion on road construction and repairs.

Bet you could lower the prices if you all fired the Royals who "live high on the hog" as we Yanks say.

[JeffB2]

Originally Posted by chap52

Couldn't be a ploy to put the whoa to the Keystone Pipeline could it?
Sure give them another dime...then watch the price go back up and the roads not touched. Maybe they could use the money to create a website for consumer input.
Ya ever feel like your just a pawn on the chessboard of life?

Since I have stocks in the Bakkan Oil I get reports on oil news,the Keystone is not going to help us here in the U.S.A. it will be Canadian Oil headed down that pipeline built primarily by Canadian workers and after it is built about 75 total employees to maintain it,the end result is it will be loaded on tankers and exported.

[big job]

what goes around, comes around. Prepare to put on your seat belt..........

[48fordnut]

I'm enjoying 1.76 gal in mid ga.

[TonyM]

The Saudi angle is real. But no one wants to hear it.

[32phil]

The Japanese manipulated the TV market years ago. At one time Japanese TVs were selling in the stores for LESS than the U.S. Companies could make them. Eventually the U.S. companies died. Once they were gone they were gone. Then the Japanese raised the prices. Oil is a little different..... the U.S. has more reserves than the Saudis and you can turn "off" the well. To turn it back on (once the price comes back up) is not as simple as just throwing a switch, but it can be done.... Once the TV makers closed up.... the tools, people, skills etc. were gone forever. Enjoy the low prices while you can. Hopefully the grip on the U.S. oil market by OPEC will never be as strong as it once was.

[41panelmark]

$1.73 to $1.79 Here in the front range of Colorado

[JM 35 Sedan]

Originally Posted by JM 35 Sedan

Right about $2.00 here now in our downtown, one red light town, of Rising Sun, Maryland. If these prices remain through the summer of 2015, our several planned road trips for this year will be much less costly .

We are now at $1.95/gallon for regular/87 octane.

[johnh7]

Originally Posted by johnh7

Roger, you don't say what prices are in Sacto? (do you remember Captain Sacto?) Here in Orland it is about $2.27 for regular.

It has dropped another few cents here. Arco is $2.15 and Shell $2.23 for regular. I hope it keeps up, but I won't hold my breath!

[moasew]

Should move to Prince Edward Island Canada.88c /litre but I totally agree the gas should be still a lot less. 60c a litre in my opinion.

[gnolnor]

On the central coast of CA, in Buellton, we are paying
$2.279 per gallon for 87 octane. That is half what we
paid 6 to 8 months ago!

[Willit Stop]

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It looks like we pay the most here behind the redwood curtain.I paid $2.74 for middle grade yesterday......Did I win anything?

[2935ford]

not to worry folks......it's on it's way back up..........

[johnh7]

Originally Posted by 2935ford

not to worry folks......it's on it's way back up..........

Aww, there you go, and just when I was starting to feel all warm and fuzzy about it! hahahahaha

[stangblue]

.82 cents a liter for reg. in Pureto Rico 3.78... liters= 1 gal.

[gundoca]

Just filled up at Sam's for $1.55 here in Lubbock. Not a good time to be a rough neck....

[63tango]

$2.19 at Arco in Concord, CA. Not as good as most of the US but our gas taxes are high here.

[Bill Pine]

2.35 up state NY , its always higher up in the Mts !!

[deuce lover]

$2.59 at Costco in Kona,HI

[Gumpy]

Costco price today per gal in northern calif $2.37

[Old Redneck]

Fuel is high here for diesel I paid $3.25 yesterday I filled the motor Home up and put it in the garage.

[Gumpy]

I can remember paying 29.9 per gallon at terrible herbst (sp)? in high school 1969...

[tiger.1000]

Just in case you need reminding it's $US10.00 a gallon here in the UK !

[waterboychuck]

I paid $1.73 the other day but noticed that the price is now $1.79. Going up better fill up while you can.

[johnh7]

Gas is has gone up 30 cents per gallon here. looks like it will be back to "normal" soon.

[Fibber Mcgee]

$2.09 today but it went up $.17 in one afternoon last week. I knew it was to good to last.

[estout81]

I hope it goes up as my cars don't like cheap gas!

[Chris]

Two weeks ago I paid 1.50 on the WA/ID border. Same place is 1.69 today