Gas Prices Redux

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

Finally below $2.00 in Buffalo! I saw gas for $1.96 at BJ's (the equivalent of Sam's Club or CostCo). It sure is nice to fill up for less than $40ish now.

TMB

[OldsRecording]

The other day I filled up my Explorer at Stop & Shop for $1.37/ gallon. Cost $25 and change. Just about cried.

[Ken Herrick]

I'm with envy. It currently costs me $1.36 per liter which with the conversion from $Aus to $US comes to $4.35 / US gal. That is for 91 octane unleaded. Even my 1.8L 1992 toyota Hilux utility is getting to be expensive to run.

One would be tempted to convert to LP,(about $3000 but not worthwhile on my old ute) especially if the price and availability were right. We have a great supply of it here and sell it to the Chinese and Indians for $0.03/L yet to buy it to use in a car it is generally $0.69/L and not available in vast areas.

To use LP for cooking, heating etc. the price is $135 for a 100 Lb bottle plus $35 rent /bottle/yr. and is not available by line to the door except in cities. Funny how it is "not economicaly viable to build a decent distribution network, but a collection network and hundreds of mile of pipelines to sell it cheap to the Chinese is a financial bonanza!

Following along from some of Bloke's comments, I have no heating in my house, which is not insulated either, so when it gets below freezing at night and only 40 to 50 in the day I just add a layer of clothing. No air conditioning either as electricity costs me 22 cents per KWH and is going up by 13.6% on July 1 so it gets a bit warm when it gets past the 100 mark.

Admittedly it is an older house in a rural area (12miles to town of 3500 or 25 to town of 110,000) which means some extra costs - but my "cheap" rent of $135 per week would be double that in either of those places. Being "retired" on a limited income is great fun. Oh yes, grocery prices are about 50-100% higher than what they would be at Kroger in Peoria.
Just to help things along our best food producing land is getting raped by coal miners and gas drillers which will mean importing more food at greater costs.

[TexTuba]

What is your lowest (non-KROGER / non-Sam's Club) pump price for 87 octane (with 10% alcohol) right now?

$2.53 in SATX

[Tubaryan12]

I paid $2.43 last week at Speedway. No discounts

[Chadtuba]

$2.60 here in eastern/rural ND

[SRanney]

The cost per gallon of 85.5 has been $2.79 for several months in and around Bozeman, MT. I haven't looked at the cost of other octane levels recently.

Steven

[UDELBR]

The equivalent of $6.98 per gallon. And the lowest octane available is 95.

[tbn.al]

Kroger in Marietta Ga 87 at $2.39.9 yesterday with a Kroger card discount.

[Dylan King]

$2.59 for 87 octane today in Charlotte, University area.

[Ace]

$3.08 today in Berkeley, CA

[tubbba]

Chevron goes for ...

2.88.9 / 2.98.9 / 3.08.9 for Regular / Plus / Super

in Wilsonville (south of Portland, OR). This is one of the more "reasonable"-priced stations in the area.