How much do you pay for gas?

[wrist cutter]

I think it's kind of a national trend now that gas prices are finally going down. Around here, the prices peaked at around $2.25 I think... I can't remember just how high they got.

I usually buy gas at Safeway because it's cheap and convenient since I'm there all the time, and the last time I checked it was $1.81. And you get three cents off per gallon if you have the Safeway Club Card, so I'm getting gas for about $1.78.

I went to the coast not too long ago and prices were much higher there, hovering around $2.00 still. So I feel kinda fortunate, since I doubt there are many places that are much cheaper than $1.78 in the US right now.

So, just say how much you pay per gallon of gas, where you get it from, and perhaps what state you're living in.

[Dan L]

Our house pays about £45 every three months on gas-

but then, by that I mean "gas" as in the butane/propane type which fuels gas ovens and central heating systems in the UK. Not what you're talking about, which is what we call [i]petrol[/i].. and I don't buy that seeing as I don't drive :p.

though unless things have changed drastically, the UK is notorious for it's stupidly high petrol costs.

[ManOPhire]

Well out here in SW Oklahoma I paid $1.73 for regular unleaded, at Wal-Mart ( [I]Watch for falling prices!![/I] ) :smirk:

It peeked here at about $1.99 I think, my truck was broken so I didnt ahve to buy gas. :laugh:

ohh and isnt Preminum gas such a crock of poo? you dont get much extra value and they charge you another 10 to 20 cents...

hey could everyone post what they drive and how big yer tank is?

My ride: 1990 Bronco II 2x4 with a 23 gal tank

[Guest lavalamp]

I pay $1.94 which is pretty obnoxious. Battling traffic to get to better prices is far more obnoxious though.

It really kills the fun of driving.

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[color=darkviolet]I pay anywhere from $2.17.9 (never buy your gas in an upscale suburb) to $1.89.9 (Corner of Buffalo and Wittier but only on Saturdays) per gallon of gas.

Today I was nearing empty and ended up paying $24.55 for 11.9 gallons of gas at $2.05.9 a gallon.

For some reason Rochester and Syracuse have comparable gas prices, but Buffalo actually has their gas going back down to around $1.95.9 a gallon without a special. (Mobil on Chili Ave will sell you gas for $1.97 if you buy a car wash and Delta Sonic takes .03 off per gallon if you get a carwash) I think it's because the cost of living is lower in Buffalo than it is in Rochester and Syracuse.

The least I ever paid for gas in NYS is at Ft. Drum back in 2002 when I got my gas for $1.53.9 on post. I felt so cool when I did that. Never mind that I had to refuel by the time I got to East Rochester. But that's a bit irrelevent to the question.

I'm sure Dan and the rest of the Eurpean and even some Canadian memebers may not feel so sympathetic towards us since they pay quite a bit more than Us states people do[/color]

[Dan L]

[quote name='ChibiHorsewoman][color=darkviolet']I'm sure Dan and the rest of the Eurpean and even some Canadian memebers may not feel so sympathetic towards us since they pay quite a bit more than Us states people do[/color][/quote]

Yeah, but that's because we're being ripped off, we're used to being ripped off and not enough people believe it can change to actually do something about it :p

Whereas you guys on the whole are charge more reasonable prices, so when someone charges noticably more, it's more of a specific thing to complain about (as opposed to our generic petrol price rip-offs problem)...

That reasoning sounded [i]far[/i] better in my head than it looks in post form...

That and, at the moment I don't pay for petrol personally so I have neither sympathy nor a lack of it- I just plain don't have much to go by from personal experience at all ;)

[Baron Samedi]

[size=1]Well, we pay around $1.10 a Litre here...but it is hard to compare, because not only are dollar values different, Litres and Gallons are different. I am too lazy to calculate it, but get this.

$1.10-$1.20/L in the country, 89c/L in the city. is that screwed, or what?[/size]

[WW2]

I pay nothing for gas! I just get munch off my parents for money, and use that. Hahahah!
Munch, munch, munch!:D

Oh wait....maybe thats not something to brag about.

Ok, forget I said that. Around here (NC) gas is usually around $1.79 a gallon.

[Xai]

Around here gas is usually about $1.85-$2.00, it's still quite a bit more than it was a few years ago. (I think it was about $1.20 then)

It depends on where you buy it though.

[DeadSeraphim]

[QUOTE=Baron Samedi][size=1]Well, we pay around $1.10 a Litre here...but it is hard to compare, because not only are dollar values different, Litres and Gallons are different. I am too lazy to calculate it, but get this.

$1.10-$1.20/L in the country, 89c/L in the city. is that screwed, or what?[/size][/QUOTE] [font=Arial][size=1][color=Indigo]We get a pretty consistent 79c/L around here... apparently Queensland has some special tax or some shizzle that covers the extra cents.

And if you show a docket from select super markets at selected stations, you get 4c off. So thats 75c/L. Heh, I pity you and your $1.10 a litre.[/color][/size][/font]

[Semjaza]

It's been doing down here. I think the highest I've seen it these past few months in Chicago was around $2.49 a gallon for premium.

[Corey]

[size=1]Regular Unleaded peaked at about $2.30 here in Milwaukee, WI earlier in the Spring/Summer but has stayed steady at $1.85-$1.99 since then.

I don't care about premium because it's a rip off and a waste.[/size]

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='Semjaza Azazel']It's been doing down here. I think the highest I've seen it these past few months in Chicago was around $2.49 a gallon for premium.[/quote]


[color=darkviolet]Hah, Got you beat big time! I saw a place over by Syracuse charging $2.51 a gallon for [size=3]REGULAR[/size]! :laugh:

Crap, prior to this insane gas hike there was this Gulf station a few towns over that was already charging $2.09 a gallon back in December for regular. Premium was $2.29. I wouldn't get gas there anyway because the woman who works there most of the time is a cranky old *bleep* who wouldn't give me directions to Tom and Nancy's Pizza and wouldn't let me look at the phonebook she had [i]locked up[/i] so I could look up directions.[/color]

[DeathKnight]

[color=crimson][font=tahoma]Here in San Antonio, TX you don't have to search around too long to find a place with a 1.71/g rate or maybe a bit lower if you are patient. That isn't too bad compared to some of the prices in this thread.

Ugh, some of these prices from around where you guys live seem pretty bad. Gas is, as you can imagine, usually pretty cheap here.[/color][/font]

[Falkon]

Hmm.. .well i dont drive, but i will soon... THe last time i checked the prices they were about 1.99/gal at phillips 66.

[Manic Webb]

[QUOTE=DeathKnight][color=crimson][font=tahoma]Here in San Antonio, TX you don't have to search around too long to find a place with a 1.71/g rate or maybe a bit lower if you are patient. That isn't too bad compared to some of the prices in this thread.

Ugh, some of these prices from around where you guys live seem pretty bad. Gas is, as you can imagine, usually pretty cheap here.[/color][/font][/QUOTE]
Curse you, you oily Texan! (j/k)

Here in California (San Francisco bay area, specifically), we pay $1.99 at the really [i]really[/i] cheap stations, but most stations average at about $2.19 for unleaded regular. I go to Valero stations, and pay $2.11.

I'm driving a rickety, old, smaller than today's models, Honda accord. So it takes me around $22 to fill my tank up from being near-empty. My grandfather drives a Dodge Ram (a very large van), so his tank takes at least $40 to fill up. It's scary.

[Transtic Nerve]

About a week ago, gas was $1.78/$1.79 or so... and that is low considering what we had a few months ago. But within that week it has shot up 10 cents. most places. Depending on where you go. If you go in high residential areas, its bound to be cheaper, but if you start heading out to downtown Orlando, you see the prices get higher and higher as you go. I was out past Orlando yesterday where the cheapest I could find was $1.91... costs me $30 to fill 15 and a half gallons.

[Inuyasha311]

Around here in SC gas got to be over 2.00 a galllon. Not to long ago it went down to 1.83 a gallon. I have to 89" in my car so I have to pay alittle extra anyway.But it only takes about 15 to 20 dollars to fill my car up.To bad for my dad who has a truck it takes 25 to 30 dollars to fill his up ha!!!

[Sara]

[size=1]The highest I've seen gas prices over here (I'm just south of Milwaukee, WI) was probably $2.19. A month ago, maybe? Before that it was $2.09 for a few days. (It jumped up twenty cents overnight..I'd bought gas the day before for $1.89, so I was rather pleased with myself that week.)

Gas prices were back in the dollar-eighty-somethings this past week, but they're in the dollar-nineties again right now. [/size]

[Dan L]

UK Prices are apparently about £3.70 per gallon. Most places go by the Litre- probably because it's only £0.80something for that, therefore it looks cheaper.

That works out about $5.50-$6.50 per gallon. No wonder we always complain, compared to you lot and your low prices :p

edit: apparently we pay just under 70% tax on every bit of petrol

[Baron Samedi]

[QUOTE=Alan][font=Arial][size=1][color=Indigo]We get a pretty consistent 79c/L around here... apparently Queensland has some special tax or some shizzle that covers the extra cents.

And if you show a docket from select super markets at selected stations, you get 4c off. So thats 75c/L. Heh, I pity you and your $1.10 a litre.[/color][/size][/font][/QUOTE]

[SIZE=1]Curse you! I'd even think about moving to Queensland, but it'd be my mums decision, heh. Why does Queensland have a rebate or whatever it is on fuel? That's not fair. But W.A has the most expensive fuel anyway, for some unfathomable reason. Yeah, we have the Woolie's dockets too, and now Coles has joined that fad, I think they're working with Shell. It's a good idea, anyway. I guess every cent counts. What really pisses me off though is the 20 cent difference between City and Country. I mean, it is obscene.[/SIZE]

[ChibiHorsewoman]

[quote name='DeathKnight][color=crimson][font=tahoma]Here in San Antonio, TX you don't have to search around too long to find a place with a 1.71/g rate or maybe a bit lower if you are patient. That isn't too bad compared to some of the prices in this thread.[/color'][/font][/quote]

[color=darkviolet]That is probably the one thing I miss about Texas besides the fact that they shut everything down when they have 1/2 an inch of ice on the roads. Except Wal*Mart, they never close Wal*Mart.

Man, I remember when I first moved down there in '02 and my husband and I would buy premium becuase we could afford it and it was only $1.21 9 at Diamond Shamrock (less on Ft. Hood)

For that matter, the I remember when my friend Red was driving me down to Austin back in November and he decided he'd rather pay $1.29.9 than $1.32.9 for gas even though I was the one giving him gas money (1 1/2 drive from Killeen) Those were the days.

Part of the reason TX has such low gas prices is becuase they don't have to import their oil and they have lower gas taxes than some of the other states (including NY) and their sales tax may be a bit cheaper. I've seen quite a few oil dykes going from I think near Lincoln (pop. 120) down to College Station. I could state other easons, but they probably aren't true.

Off Topic: My hubby asked me if there was anything he could send me for my birthday. I said, yeah, some of the Iraqi oil we're supposedly fighting for.[/color]