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Posted: Aug 29, 2006 - 3:59pm

$2.97, after a ten-cent Safeway "reckless spender" discount.

Posted: Aug 29, 2006 - 3:01pm

Yesterday in Round Rock Texas $2.78/gal.

Posted: Aug 29, 2006 - 3:01pm

$2.75--St.Paul, MN

Posted: Aug 29, 2006 - 2:52pm

$2.38 per gallon

today......

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 11:06pm

emeraldrose63 wrote:

Well, it has been predicted time and time again that the world will end that way.

And as the sea gives up its dead we rise to look around,
Ahab's children shine, fretworked souls repairing to astound.
~ S.A.M. Tanner ~

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 11:06pm

$3.03/gallon.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 11:03pm

$3.259 at a Shell station in Chiloquin, OR. Thank FSM for the 34 mpg we're getting!

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 10:19pm

$1.39.9/gal.

A local supermarket also owns gas stations and they give "fuelperk" discounts for spending $ at the grocery store: 10 cents off for every $50 spent. So I buy $50 gift cards and get the dime off, then spend the gift card on groceries to get another dime off. Plus I buy the things they want me to buy and get 3-5 cents for each product (like a nickle off for each Tombstone pizza purchased). I also take two 5 gallon cans and fill them up with my tank (30 gal. max) then top off the car's tank with that. I spend about $80 a month on gas that way.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 6:38pm

Drachenadler wrote:

This will be the last price everyone pays for oil.

What an irony that plays out, potentially engulfing every
fiber of reason in the flames of nucular immolation,
while the possession of the proceeds
of oil revenue is locked in the bank accounts of
of the perpetuators of energy dependence.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 5:05pm

Drachenadler wrote:

She got junk in her trunk enuff fo' us all, brutha:

where is mass murder when ya need it.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 5:01pm

RichardPrins wrote:

Keep some spares in the trunk!

"where are my Virgins?"

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 4:56pm

Keep some spares in the trunk!

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 1:06pm

katzendogs wrote:

No research, but i have spoken with yer mom! (click here)

Since when???

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 1:01pm

emeraldrose63 wrote:

My Mom told me it came about in the depression, when they had some sort of coin or something that was a tenth of a cent. I was young when she explained it to me, so I may be off.. But I think it's something like that.. if anyone has researched, let us know.

No research, but i have spoken with yer mom! (click here)

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 12:57pm

oldslabsides wrote:

can someone please explain to point of the 9 tenths of a cent thing?

My Mom told me it came about in the depression, when they had some sort of coin or something that was a tenth of a cent. I was young when she explained it to me, so I may be off.. But I think it's something like that.. if anyone has researched, let us know.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 12:50pm

oldslabsides wrote:

can someone please explain to point of the 9 tenths of a cent thing?

I think that at 9/tenths's it rolls over to 1 gal, ending that $2.(whatever)price.It then begins the process of "starting" the count (at $2. whatever@ 1/10th)for the next gallon and so forth.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 11:59am

The price has been lowered about 1.5 ct (per liter) over here.
Apparently this was the 3rd time this week that the price was lowered.

Posted: Aug 12, 2006 - 10:02am

USD$2.82 in the 'hood in Austin, TX (right next door to where Dionysius works).

Posted: Aug 11, 2006 - 9:35pm

zevon wrote:

It's not turbo charged it's super charged, big difference.

I've run premium since 1992 when I bought my first new car. When you opened the fuel door it said "Don't use anything under 94 Octane". The higher the octane the more combustible the gas, which means that you don't get all kinds of shit deposits in your engine because it burns more completely. Car also runs better, engine lasts longer and you don't get spark knock.
Anyway, try finding 94 octane today... Highest I ever see is 92. So basically we're not only getting the gas price shoved straight up our collective keesters, we're also not getting as good a product as we were 15 years ago.

sahhhhreee...

It's freaking soooopah charged.

It's still a Buick.

Posted: Aug 11, 2006 - 9:30pm

zipper wrote:

That's because he puts premium in his turbo-charged vehicle. On Wednesday, I put regular in my 5-speed Hyundai at the 76 carwash for $3.095/gallon. Filled up my dead empty tank, got the car detailed and bought lunch, plus a magazine, for $58 plus tip.

You just gotta know where to go.

It's not turbo charged it's super charged, big difference.

I've run premium since 1992 when I bought my first new car. When you opened the fuel door it said "Don't use anything under 94 Octane". The higher the octane the more combustible the gas, which means that you don't get all kinds of shit deposits in your engine because it burns more completely. Car also runs better, engine lasts longer and you don't get spark knock.
Anyway, try finding 94 octane today... Highest I ever see is 92. So basically we're not only getting the gas price shoved straight up our collective keesters, we're also not getting as good a product as we were 15 years ago.