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Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on April 25, 2005, 08:24 PM:

$88.99 to fill my tank with the cheapest unleaded.

'93 Suburban SHEEEEESH!!!! [Eek!]

Posted by Melvin (Member # 634) on April 25, 2005, 08:50 PM:

$2.09 a gallon here for regular...You either got a big tank or the price is outragious or both

Posted by onecoyote (Member # 129) on April 25, 2005, 09:25 PM:

It's $2.29 for regular and $2.49 for extra in Carrizozo New Mexico. 50 gallons of regular would cost me $114.50, lucky for me I only have a 15 gallon tank and get close to 20 mpg.

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 25, 2005, 09:32 PM:

Cheapest here is $2.47 [Confused]

Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on April 25, 2005, 10:31 PM:

$2.27 at Smith's grocery store and a 5 cent a gallon discount if you have bought $25 worth of groceries in the last 30 days.

Of course, at this altitude regular is only 85 octane.

Jack

Posted by Bryan J (Member # 106) on April 25, 2005, 10:42 PM:

Kinda makes you want to stay home.

http://www.utahgasprices.com/

Posted by Jack Roberts (Member # 13) on April 25, 2005, 11:07 PM:

Those Utah prices look pretty good especially compared to what the Utah prices are at the western border areas.

Jack

Posted by Andy L (Member # 642) on April 26, 2005, 04:01 AM:

Diesel is $2.29 here. My trucks tank isnt overly large, but its $60 every time. Gets old.

Andy

Posted by Tim Behle (Member # 209) on April 26, 2005, 06:11 AM:

Geez Danny, how low do you let that thing get?

I drive a 550 Powerstroke for a work truck, and my record is just a few pennies over $88. That was with $2.49 diesel. I'd forgotten to fill it up before coming home, then got called out to work. By the time I got it to the station, the needle was under the E.

Posted by nd coyote killer (Member # 40) on April 26, 2005, 06:16 AM:

1.99 here for regular but your right it kind of makes you want to stay home

Posted by brad h (Member # 57) on April 26, 2005, 06:19 AM:

There's some stuff in here that that explains some of the prices. CA has stricter fuel policies and refines their own to meet their set standards.

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/gdu/gasdiesel.asp

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2005, 09:05 AM:

Don't get me started on that, Bryan!

Yes, Kalifornia has special additives.

They have reason(s). Lower emissions. Of course, higher cost. Exactly WHY it costs more is unknown. After all, this isn't a small state.

So, the politicians have figured this out, lower emissions, at a higher cost, and reduced gasoline mileage........(huh?)

That's right. They decide that we pay higher prices at the pump for a special blend that REDUCES our average mileage.

The higher the price, per gallon, the more sales tax, added to the state federal and other county taxes.

If I otherwise would use twenty gallons of gas per week, and get twenty miles per gallon, I could travel 400 miles, and produce X number of pollutants.

However, if I pay 30¢ per gallon MORE, I get to reduce my miles traveled to 380 and reduce the emissions to X minus 2%. However, I still have to buy TWENTY-ONE gallons, to travel the 400 miles, so, let me see? That would be: 21 minus 2%, (but) plus 5% for the extra gallon of gas I needed to get to work.

I polute the air with more gallons of gasoline, at substantially higher cost, and wind up buying more gas and poluting more with their special "air quality" California blend.

How does this square with conservation? How does it make any sense, at all? After all, the folks that designed this "solution" were not rocket scientists.

Well, my numbers are just off the top of my head, so don't quote me. I don't know anything, except the cost of this stuff is rediculous. I think the main motive is to get us into mass transportation, as in wonderful New York City. The fact that mass transit does not exist in southern California is beside the point. Maybe "ride sharing" will work?

The good news is, look for these "improvements" to come to your state, before too long.

Good hunting. LB

Posted by robins (Member # 410) on April 26, 2005, 09:48 AM:

Ive got a 96 suburban with a 42 gallon take. It ridiculaous trying to fill it. I stop and get gas when ever i see that it is cheap so that i dont have to buy when it expensive. But these proces are outragous.

Posted by keekee (Member # 465) on April 26, 2005, 03:49 PM:

2.29 in ohio and 2.12 in Ky

Cost me 40 bucks to Turkey hunt just in gas last weekend!

Brent

Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on April 26, 2005, 04:03 PM:

Loco, you need to shop around a little. $2.07 in Broomfield. Even less in Longmont.

Posted by Doggitter (Member # 489) on April 26, 2005, 05:15 PM:

Leonard, what gets me is the way they at least used to not give any emissions break on a better /per mileage basis. If I drive a 460 1 ton and you a Metro, we still have to pass with the same emissions. Well, that didn't come out right but you know what I mean? A Metro could be spewing raw fuel and still beat the Ford for emissions because of how ;itt;e it actually uses. Did they change that pitfall or is it still a crock?

Posted by Locohead (Member # 15) on April 26, 2005, 06:31 PM:

LOL NASA

For those of you that don't know Colorado, NASA wants me to drive 30 - 40 miles North to get cheaper gas! LOL [Wink]

(jest joshin' "T" squared)

Tim,
You're right man, I let it get pretty low. I had to sell off some coins to help out my cash flow this month. I have to come up with money for 3 payrolls this month. I didn't have but $3 left in my account when I hawked the coins. The good news is, I have all kinds of money in receivables, nothing in my pocket though. [Smile]

Posted by varmit hunter (Member # 37) on April 26, 2005, 07:36 PM:

Charge my wheel chair for four hours, And it runs for three days. The down side the sucker cost $10,000 with no radio. Gun racks were extra also.

Ronnie

Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on April 26, 2005, 08:54 PM:

Now see, Loco? There's a little insight for you, if you could just recognize it. My point was, I could also pay 2.26 or 2.29 a gallon if I just went to the first station I came to. But I'm always on the lookout for competition. Especially when I get a mile or so away from the high priced off-ramp stations. Check out the barrio to the west of you. The avg. over there is 2.17 a gal. Pinching pennies isn't easy, you have to work at it. [Wink]

Posted by Leonard (Member # 2) on April 26, 2005, 09:13 PM:

Tom, he wouldn't need to pinch his pennies if those deadbeat account receivables would pay up. Why should he carry those (big time) guys?

But, that's the way of the world, Danny. I bet Trump gets 2%/10 discounts, then pays in 90 days.....or later?

Good hunting. LB

[ April 26, 2005, 09:15 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ]

Posted by NASA (Member # 177) on April 26, 2005, 10:19 PM:

Ehhhh, Danny-boy. You want maybe I should have Guido and the good-fellas pay those dead beats a little visit? I think they'd do it just for fun. [Cool]

Posted by robins (Member # 410) on May 02, 2005, 01:45 PM:

I almost spent 86 fillin my truck today. Cheapist unleaded i could find too. Gas prices piss me off.

Posted by The Outdoor Tripp (Member # 619) on May 22, 2005, 03:09 PM:

Amen brother.

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