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I just paid $3.24 per gallon for gas. :(

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GodfatherX said:
i was LOL at the concept of people willing to pay more for a gas that 99% of engines dont require and to be perfectly honest see no or very limited performance increase from

i have 2 friends that drive trucks and fill stations for 1 of the largest gas companies in the US, the honest differences in the fuel grades might surprise you not to mention some of the shady practices that go on that essentially eleminate any benefit the higher grade gives you over 87
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Yeah, you were LOLing at me. Problem is, you don't know I own a luxury car. Sure if I WANT I can stick 87 in my tank. The computer will adjust and I won't get any knock. However, I WILL lose some acceleration. I WILL get less MPG. This isn't just some idea, I actually tried it out for 3 tanks in a row. My MPG decreased MORE than the cost of going to premium would override, and my car felt like I was pulling something behind it.

So, back to my question, when did it become cool to dick those of us that DO use premium for good reason? Hey, I bet if they dropped it to premium only being $.10 more expensive, and raised the price of regular, you would see a problem.
 
Meier said:
I thought this would be a 2-year old thread that was being bumped. $3.24 isn't bad these days.
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It's likely to be $4.00 soon. The dollar is falling very quickly right now. If you paid attention to the stock market, it's been gradually going down as a whole, then randomly some days it goes up unanimously at ~5% or 400 points on Dow. We just had one of these earlier this week.

It's completely artificial, and won't last in the long run. These fake rises are when the Federal Reserve is diluting the supply of money to fund bail outs of corporations, write you $600 checks, and magically make interest rates disappear.

It is insanity, and it is killing the dollar. The value of the dollar has gone down 5% in the last month:

http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=NYBOT_dx

Hell, it went down 1.15% today. This is going to destroy our economy. We're not enough of a manufacturing society for this to help us.
 
teh_pwn said:
Gas costs about the same. The dollar just isn't worth as much as it used to be.

http://investmenttools.com/futures/...lar_point___figure_chart__dollar_futures_.htm


Blame Exxon or whatever all you want. The real problem is that the Federal Reserve is using YOUR money by diluting the value of the USD and siphoning cash over to corporate bail outs.
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Yes, the credit crisis, which is the leading cause in destroying the markets the past 6 months, which is causing the Fed to lower interest rates; has everything to do with corporate bailouts.
The Fed lowering the interest rates, is causing the dollar to suffer. However, the Fed can't just sit on the sidelines either and watch the market kill itself. They're stuck in a catch 22. If they lower interest rates, they drive up the cost of oil. If they sit on the sidelines, the economy will shit all over Americans.

EDIT: By the way, we're due for a recession. The market is an efficient market. It becomes inefficient when there's too much speculation. A recession corrects this problem and the market gets back to business.
 
squatingyeti said:
Yes, the credit crisis, which is the leading cause in destroying the markets the past 6 months, which is causing the Fed to lower interest rates; has everything to do with corporate bailouts.
The Fed lowering the interest rates, is causing the dollar to suffer. However, the Fed can't just sit on the sidelines either and watch the market kill itself. They're stuck in a catch 22. If they lower interest rates, they drive up the cost of oil. If they sit on the sidelines, the economy will shit all over Americans.
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It isn't helping the economy. Weaker currency in an information/service based economy dramatically increases the cost of imported goods, gas/energy. It hurts small businesses.

Intervention by the Feds to "help" the economy recover from the .com bubble burst played in part to create the very credit crunch we're talking about.

The idea that you can regulate the economy like the Feds are doing now is utter nonsense and simply doesn't work in the long run.


EDIT: By the way, we're due for a recession. The market is an efficient market. It becomes inefficient when there's too much speculation. A recession corrects this problem and the market gets back to business.
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Then stop diluting my money to bail out businesses that made dumb decisions and let them go out of business. It hurts us in the short-term, but capitalism, competition, and free markets increases economic growth in the long term.
 
bill0527 said:
It doesn't work that way here in the U.S.

The closer you get to major population centers, the more expensive housing gets. In many of our major cities, it is completely unaffordable to the average person.

So... you could always move to the city, but end up spending a helluva lot more in rent or on a mortgage, than you'd spend in gas doing a commute. Plus the fact that standards of living are different in each state and makes it much more difficult to move.
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I live in the US dude. There is nothing stopping you from moving to a different state or city than laziness and excuses.
 
I drive a diesel, so I paid $3.79 a gallon last night. That was the cheapest too. Most places are at 3.89 and I'm in Tennesse. It's not like I'm in California or one of the places that always has higher than normal prices.
 
Nameless said:
These are the end of days. I just put $30 in ymy tank and it didn't even get to half full. I will probably go through all of that by Friday night. And its fucking March!!!! I'm literally scared to see how high it gets once Labor Day weekend kicks off the summer spike in gas prices.
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boo hooo


I Paid 1.47€ / liter this week

that equals

$8.55/gallon

thats $129 for one tank fill of 55 liters

stop whining, pussies :P
 
teh_pwn said:
Gas costs about the same. The dollar just isn't worth as much as it used to be.

http://investmenttools.com/futures/...lar_point___figure_chart__dollar_futures_.htm


Blame Exxon or whatever all you want. The real problem is that the Federal Reserve is using YOUR money by diluting the value of the USD and siphoning cash over to corporate bail outs.
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I was wondering when this tired argument would rear its head in this thread. Go ahead and toss out the adjusted for inflation stuff too, that will make it clearer that gas is as cheap as it always has been...
 
Flo_Evans said:
I live in the US dude. There is nothing stopping you from moving to a different state or city than laziness and excuses.
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If by excuses you mean perfectly valid reasons for why someone with a career, family, kids, house, etc. might now be able to move - sure.
 
Phoenix said:
I was wondering when this tired argument would rear its head in this thread. Go ahead and toss out the adjusted for inflation stuff too, that will make it clearer that gas is as cheap as it always has been...
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no it's not. even adjusted for inflation crude oil has hit an all-time high
 
3.45 here... my wallet hurts so. At least I'm within 10 miles of school, 2 miles from work, and 1 block from the grocery store. I'm in Michigan, btw.
 
SanjuroTsubaki said:
Is this new? I've been paying over $3.20 for about a year or so in Massachusetts.
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California has had gas over $3 for a few years, at least since 2006 on a consistent basis and as early as 2005 as a high. We're ahead of the curve! Or something...
 
Phoenix said:
I was wondering when this tired argument would rear its head in this thread. Go ahead and toss out the adjusted for inflation stuff too, that will make it clearer that gas is as cheap as it always has been...
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That depends on what the definition of inflation is. Many of the indicators would not apply directly to the value of USD.
 
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I'd litterally kill for $3.24 a gallon right now. I had to stomach 3.94 for premium this morning in Culver City, CA. $80 to fill up an Altima....a fucking ALTIMA!!


>:-(
 
Jamesfrom818 said:
At least you guys still get 93 octane gas. 91 is the highest most gas stations go in California unless there's a drag strip nearby
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Agreed, I hate the 91 rats piss. or I can pay 6.45/gallon for 100 octane at the pump in a select few places.
 
tha_devil said:
Still cheap, we are being ripped of in holland :(
Here 1,40 euro a liter, so i guess that about 5 dollar for a gallon?
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It's actually 'officially' 1,53 a liter nationwide when averaged between the various gas companies. And that's a little under $9 a gallon.
 
I just paid 3.99 a gallon in Mountain View, CA ugh. Total cost was $46 and change. Fortunately my car's gas tank isn't too big and gets reasonable mileage at around 29 mpg. But still, practically $4 a gallon sucks. Granted I know I can get gas cheaper, but I was in need and it would be seriously going out of my way at that point to get cheaper gas. Gas is way more expensive in Mountain View and Palo Alto than it is in San Jose.
 
$US5.87 for a gallon last time I filled up. But since I don't do much driving, and have a diesel engine, I usually only have to fill up once every 6 weeks. Mind you, there's 38% government excise and 10% GST in that.
 
The US gov should raise the prices of taxes on gases to pay for the war.

I am a republican and taxes really bother me..but if they do it on something why not on something we use this much....

Thats of course if you don't believe like me they are de-valueing the dollar on purpose to be able to compete with the east.
 
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