Filled up my truck today.....

[thumper]

112.00!

Filled up at Quick Trip.  QT will only approve 100.00 at the pump so you have to hang up the hose, swipe your card again, and finish the fill up.

[Brad]

Your lucky, around here the pumps only allow $75.  Some times when you hang up the pump and try to swipe the card for a second go round you get the message "see attendant", at that point I just hang up the pump and drive off.  I don't want to make two trips into the store just to top the tank off.

[hubcapsc]

$47.00 to fill up the Mini Cooper today... I remember when it got real bad a couple of years ago,
it took a little over $50.00... we're almost there again...

-Mike

[valkmc]

$19.00 to fill up the C14, WTF

[rrmdeuce]

I put $27.00 in the Valkyrie today. (belly tank)
 
 
 

[R J]

Daughter has been using my Hemi the past 2 months making trips hauling her furniture to the Town hOuse.

She said it cost her $111.+ change to fill the old bad boy up today.   She figured the gas mileage and got 18.2 out of the big Hemi in town on that tank.   Told her to keep that up as 16 was my best.

[GotValk]

I have a 1999 Suburban, I gave up on filling it up the banks won't give me any more loans, so I just run the pump to the limit of $75.00, Oh it has a 44gal tank so at today's price of $3.53 that would come to $155 Big one's

[Black Dog]

Just this evening...  $95 to fill my '03 Suburban...  Damn, can't wait for bike weather 

Black Dog

[fordmano]

Tuesday evening $4.05/99 Diesel 38 gallon tank 13Mpg 60 miles a day(minumum),, OH crap I need a scooter/moped.  Should have my Fat Lady back on the road shortly but I am thinking about something a little less thirsty (32-36Mpg average) than my I/S for commuting.


EDIT: I saw $4.39 for Diesel this evening.

[czuch]

Saw 3.17 at a Chevron riding around with Winemkr Sunday. Average is 3.25 here now.
GOTVALK, I have a 98 Suburban. Same thing with the 44 gallon tank. I get 20 MPG with it and get 750 miles outta a tank. I love that car/truck.
 I have a Shadow fer sale.

[old2soon]

here in the ozarks today-3.39 to 3.43 I put 47.01 in the olds today to fill it. Last time out on the bike 3.35 a gal and $15.31 later i could leave. It'll be a tad more next time. RIDE SAFE.

[Ramjet]

What's the deal?   

$3.35 yesterday;  $3.45 today!! 

[old2soon]

What's the deal?   

$3.35 yesterday;  $3.45 today!! 

Something about the political unrest in the arab states. Iffin i'm wrong-someone else will chime in.

[RoadKill]

I'd pay more per gallon with a smile...if evrything else wasnt so damn expensive! Cost of goods goes up and up regardless of fuel prices and then goes up some more WITH fuel prices. Price of fuel goes up and down but every thing else just goes UP!  

When fuel is cheap and they can charge more for goods and blame it on inflation ,or any number of other things,it means their profit margin is higher. When fuel goes up their margin goes down and they raise prices on goods to maintain that higher % of profit. Every one that touches the goods gets a profit or they would not touch it. More middle men = more jobs... AND HIGHER COST !

[bigfish_Oh]

I went to the grain co. and filled, .20 cheaper than the pump. $123.00  33 gallons

I did notice the pump gave me $100. a while back

[slider]

glad I have a little bicycle with a motor,gets 100 mpg and runs 30   great for around town...It isnt my dragon but saves me money  so I can feed the ole girl more

[Varmintmist]

2 weeks ago (and about .08/gal) I put 107.50 in the F250. I am really hoping that PennDOT sweeps these roads soon.

[Walküre]

At the current price here, would have cost $682 to fill the motorhome...and I could have gone 1200 miles.

As much as I enjoyed having it, it takes this kind of reality check, to remind me of WHY I sold it.

I think I'd go diesel pusher, if I ever got another one.

[fordmano]

In San Jose California, today 3-9-2011

Regular $3.72 - $3.95
Mid Grade $3.89 - $4.01
Premium $3.99 - $4.13
Diesel $3.99 - $4.39

OH MY GARSH,,, this is insane. Other than buying 3 more fuel effieciant cars for the house and 1 bike WHAT THE HELL am I gonna do? I don't think I can drive much less than I do right now, and still keep my job.

We need to take back our white house and our government.

[Walküre]

OH MY GARSH,,, this is insane. Other than buying 3 more fuel effieciant cars for the house and 1 bike WHAT THE HELL am I gonna do? I don't think I can drive much less than I do right now, and still keep my job.

We need to take back our white house and our government.

OH MY GARSH,,, this is insane. I knocked my favorite coffee cup off the counter, and broke it!!!

We need to take back our white house and our government.

Makes the same amount of (non)sense...might as well blame EVERYthing on the current administration.

[old2soon]

At the current price here, would have cost $682 to fill the motorhome...and I could have gone 1200 miles.

As much as I enjoyed having it, it takes this kind of reality check, to remind me of WHY I sold it.

I think I'd go diesel pusher, if I ever got another one.

  When i retired from over the road trucking 2yrs ago i was getting paid .51 cents a mile. If my math is correct-it would be costing you more a mile to operate it than i was PAID.

[Spirited-6]

OH MY GARSH,,, this is insane. Other than buying 3 more fuel effieciant cars for the house and 1 bike WHAT THE HELL am I gonna do? I don't think I can drive much less than I do right now, and still keep my job.



This is part of the "problem" We need to reduce our driving! Many bitch about gas prices and keep on driving and filling / driving and filling. I have reduced my weekly mileage by making a list as to what I need and where to go to get it. Too much work ??? That`s what I thought ! Bitch on and do nothing !!! 

[PhredValk]

As a transit operator I get on any bus in the city for free; yet I put $50 in the Bonneville yesterday. If the system is nuts, maybe we're nuts to go along with it?
Fred.

[bludragon]

$5.15 per US gallon in Quebec today. Just about ready to park the Impala and take public transit

[Serk]

Read somewhere that in London gas is over $10 a gallon now...

Add into that the fact that for the privilege of driving in London you have to pay an extra $13 a day "Congestion Charge"...

If you drive in central London between 7.00 am and 6.00 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) you will have to pay the £8 per day congestion charge.

And people still drive there...

(Granted, a lot less than do elsewhere, but people DO still drive there...)

[thumper]

Unrest in Libya?  Libya is the 17th largest oil producer and is not located on any shipping choke points that affect the transportation of oil.

Then again....there is this....

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/7406899.html

[Valkahuna]

What we have is the perfect storm of big business in the US that is greedy beyond belief, and an administration that has stated that gas prices of $5.00 and over would be good for us in the long run. (Before any of you get your powder wet, I am NOT quoting, only summarizing).

Paid $3.64 9/10 in Titusville Florida the other day for Regular Unleaded. Cheer up! $5.00/Gal is right around the corner since nobody is even raising an eyebrow in our so called government.

[alph]

What we have is the perfect storm of big business in the US that is greedy beyond belief, and an administration that has stated that gas prices of $5.00 and over would be good for us in the long run.

Something interesting occurred to me this evening.  Could it all possibly be a scam?  Tonight I saw a commercial for the chevy volt.  Could it be part of the government faking an uncontrollable increase in fuel prices to promote “their” new ALL ELECTRIC car from Government Motors?

[B]

112.00!

Filled up at Quick Trip.  QT will only approve 100.00 at the pump so you have to hang up the hose, swipe your card again, and finish the fill up.

Ouch! It won't be long and the bankers will be waitin at the door with GASOLINE MORGAGE papers in hand.     

[fordmano]

OH MY GARSH,,, this is insane. Other than buying 3 more fuel effieciant cars for the house and 1 bike WHAT THE HELL am I gonna do? I don't think I can drive much less than I do right now, and still keep my job.

We need to take back our white house and our government.

OH MY GARSH,,, this is insane. I knocked my favorite coffee cup off the counter, and broke it!!!

We need to take back our white house and our government.

Makes the same amount of (non)sense...might as well blame EVERYthing on the current administration.

Umm OK, I guess we don't think at all alike or even in the same galaxy.
I am sorry but I have no clue as to what you knocking your coffee cup off your monitor has to do with any content anyone here has spoke of?  
Just to help clarify what I said (or meant) our current administration whoever you voted for is spineless so far, the American public should never need to put out this level of financial cost (we have paid so much with human lives’, to live the way we want to at a lower dollar cost than the rest of the world) for what the "government" does have some if not total control over. America is the "BIG dog" but we seem to have been neutered somewhere shortly prior to the beginning of the 60's
I know I am not very articulate or extremely educated, so what. My opinion of our government is just that my opinion and I do have the right to voice it. I will stop before I get more bothered (and lest than mature) with your childish taunt there, have a nice day.


P.S. I dont blame EVERYTHING on the current administration just what they can control or help control for a better American lifestyle.

[fordmano]

I do wonder why the price on Diesel is so much higher than other fuels, the entire world runs on Diesel.
The farmer uses Diesel more than any other fuel to accomplish his tasks.
The Truck drivers that deliver our products from farm or factory to train plane or market use Diesel.
The trains use Diesel to run the generators that create the electricity to drive the trains that carry the products to market.
And so on and so on even the ships that bring our good from other lands or take our products to other lands run on what? Diesel. And now what takes less cost to produce and holds the most amount of power per each given volume. Yep Diesel. So why is Diesel higher than Premium gasoline?
If all these people need Diesel they have to pass that cost on to the consumer and then the consumer also pays for it at the pump. We the consumer are taking it up the A$$ “2 at a time”(or wallet) for no good reason.

Yes I made a poor choice when I bought my truck I should not have gotten a truck that had 4:10 gear ratios and maybe I did not need a 4X4 1Ton Dually, but that is what I have and if you do the math even at the current fuel prices it would take me almost 7 years to break even if I bought a hybrid car and traded my truck off for it. So how or why would it make any sense to get a new car and only use regular fuel and get 30+Mpg.

I do have a use for a truck we ride dirt and tow a small trailer We load the bed up with bikes and we load the trailer with bikes, we usually carry 7 or more bikes at a time. We had planned on buying a medium to large 5th wheel toy-hauler well with fuel prices like these I can’t afford the payments on a larger trailer. Then the trailer salesman can’t make a sale and his family then goes hungry and can’t make their payments and end up on GOVERNMENT programs that we that have jobs are paying for.

We are in a downward spiral that looks like it has no end, and why am I rambling on? Because I am pissed off and very frustrated like lots and lots of other working people.
 

[RonW]

They didn't even bother posting the prices for Premium and Plus, which had their space on the same sign just last week.

[..]

Saudi police firing on demonstrators. We are screwed if that escalates.

Buy small commuter style used bikes/scooters whilst you can. Resale will be great.

Gas prices are up 67% since the presidential election.

[RoadKill]

Exactly what is our Gov't supposed to do about it? Should the president just tell OPEC to keep the oil? What if they DO ? ?  Sure seems to be a whole $#it load of demand and some one else has the supply.
When Diesel was $5.00 I paid it,looks like I will again.

[RonW]

Don't be overly hasty blaming OPEC. 40 percent of the oil the US consumes is pumped from domestic wells. Of the remaining 60 percent, only about half of that is from OPEC. For example, Canada is not an OPEC nation. Anyways, crude oil prices are set by some kind of world oil consortium or by whatever name. US oil producers don't necessarily have to up their own prices in step with OPEC, but unfortunately they do.

[RoadKill]

Don't be overly hasty blaming OPEC. 40 percent of the oil the US consumes is pumped from domestic wells. Of the remaining 60 percent, only about half of that is from OPEC. For example, Canada is not an OPEC nation. Anyways, crude oil prices are set by some kind of world oil consortium or by whatever name. US oil producers don't necessarily have to up their own prices in step with OPEC, but unfortunately they do.

So the Gubermint should tell domestic producers that they have to charge less than the rest of the world? I guess that is not so far fetched since they tell them where,how much and when to pump it plus a whole mess of environmental regulations to follow that cost them alot of profit. Wont that only affect 40% of the supply anyhow? Demand will continue to go UP regardless 

[RonW]

Perhaps it'll be patriotic if domestic oil producers hold their crude prices where they are. Obviously, there's no law against being unpatriotic gouging your own countryman. Other countries do it. England gets the bulk of its crude from the North Sea, yet the British pay something like $7 per gal. This current oil crisis, it's fueled by speculation alone. Saudi Arabia has agreed to produce extra crude to offset reduced output in neighboring countries. So there's no lack of supply. Neither an embargo.

"....Exxon Mobil’s profit in the 4th quarter of 2010 was $9.25 billion compared with $6.05 billion in the same period a year ago ..... For 2010, Exxon Mobil made $30.46 billion."

Now, the current oil price hike is on top of last year's record earnings. Would it be too much to ask domestic oil barons to freeze their crude prices? Of course, it would. The cure is for the average citizen to invest in Big Oil stocks to hedge their losses at the gas pump, but unfortunately the average Joe doesn't have the money lying around to spare.

[RoadKill]

Are those number gross profit or NET ? What did they spend to get those profits (I think in %) ?

"but unfortunately the average Joe doesn't have the money lying around to spare."  But 150 a month for cable TV and a 200$ family cell phone plan is money he had "laying around" ?

How much of that 7$ Britain pays is tax?  Tax to the Gov't is gross profit isn't it?  US Gov't had Gross profit in the billions and spent Trillions more for a negative(NET) profit %. Is that what oil companies should be doing too?

[RonW]

Quote from: RoadKill on Today at 05:21:44 PM

Are those number gross profit or NET ? What did they spend to get those profits (I think in %) ?

NET....since it's share distribution.

"Exxon Mobil revenue for 2010 rose to $383 billion from $310 billion the previous year."

"but unfortunately the average Joe doesn't have the money lying around to spare."

But 150 a month for cable TV and a 200$ family cell phone plan is money he had "laying around" ?

And for beer too. I don't drink alcohol, btw.

[valkmc]

As far as I am concerned The Government is already to involved in my life, they need to stay out of the market place. I hear all the time that we pay to much in taxes and the gov should not be involved in healthcare, gun control etc. Let them stay out of the gas market also it will probably be better for us in the long run. We need to all make better choices, cars with better gas mileage, jobs closer to home, public transportation, ride the bike more etc. Gov can't solve all our problems they are to busy solving problems all around the world.....sorry about the rant, I am slightly anti-government lately. (for about the last 10 years)

Filled up the Jeep Wrangler today $57.30, the Valk yesterday $17.10, and the C14 the day before for $19.00. I guess I should be happy. I filled all three for less than $100.00