Thread: The price of gas?

Prices accross the street depend on what time of the day it is, where in the city you are, and how much the owner of the store paid for the gas in the first place. Usually, the further away you get from a highway the cheaper it will be. And gas is usually more expensive during the day than it is at night. And I've heard that the price on the sign and on the pump are for cash only. You actually pay a little more if you use a card. Different companies will also add different types and amounts of additives, which will make for more expensive fuel.

Originally Posted by crazycliff200843

Different companies will also add different types and amounts of additives, which will make for more expensive fuel.

Shell does that over here. They have normal diesel and excellium diesel which is touted as 'much better'
It is also significantly more expensive. 20% or more if I remember correctly.
I did the test, but since my mileage per tank of diesel did not increase by the same amoutn, I have gone back to using the regular stuff.

Since they stopped airing the commercials for it, I think the whole thing didn't really take off.

Originally Posted by roughneck

Its my understanding that the oil companies don't set the prices, that the price is actually driven up by the people speculating on it.

Don't get me wrong though, the oil companies made some hugh money.

Bingo! The price of oil dropped after a memo written by Nancy Pelosi to the ICE commision went public. It was big news for a couple of hours. In the memo Pelosi said that congress had given the commodiities and exchange people the authority to go after the banks who were rigging the market to artificially inflate the price of oil. The price of oil according to supply and demand should have been around 60 dollars a barrell and not 140. The ICE commision responding saying they knew the banks were doing this but since they were doing it overseas it was out of there jurusidiciton and there hands were tied. These are the same banks by the way that got the bailout. They fleeced you at the pumps, then transffered huge amounts of money to foriegn banks and got a hand out from our goverment to recoup the money they sent overseas. That's why a lot of banks refused the bailout. Where to believe it was for there huge bonuses. But if they accept they have to allow the goverment to see what they have been doing. Right now the goverment can not see what a bank does, there are laws in place to prevent this for our best intrest of course. If they are allowed access and find that the oil prices were not just rigged overseas but some of the actions took place here they go to prison. And now there are even more revelations about the bailout. Apparently the goverment is only buying stocks of the banks and not the securties after all. It's all related, the price of oil, the bailout, and the news isn't telling any of us the truth.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

Woo!!!

Slightly off topic, but I find this sad: my truck, which is a 1990 Chevy with a 350, gets the same gas mileage as these new trucks today and still tows more- 20 highway/14 street, 10,000 lbs. You'd think that after 20 years, GM would have figured it out. I think they have and they just haven't been sharing it with us.

i know how you feel! My 1995 Mustang GT with a 5.0 V8 gets about 27-28 mpg on the highway and anywhere from 3-23mpg city depending on my mood :-)
for reference my roomates Girlfriend's new Cobalt gets about 30 highway :-)
(battle between fun and econo-boxes)


back on topic Gas here in abilene has been around 1.86 for the past 5 days. It seems it's slowing :-\ but that's still down TWO DOLLARS since the highest i paid about 4-5 months ago :-) it feels good to be able to dig my foot into the floor pan of my mustang again without having to take out a loan

Originally Posted by Detach

back on topic Gas here in abilene has been around 1.86 for the past 5 days.

Sometimes I miss Abilene. Grew up in Buffalo Gap. I know some good knifemakers in that area. Are they still building anymore wind generators there?

i don't know anymore...now there's so many that you can't tell when a new one goes up! but i assume they are because i see the blades trucked in everyonce in a while. there's a HUGE farm of them (200-400 acres i think) out past Hamby. and all that fresh green energy gets pumped all the way to DFW area...

haha you'll probably end up back here sometime...it IS a black hole hahahaha

Filled up today for $1.65

My wife and I were in Oregon this past June and I paid the most I ever could have imagined for gas. It was $4.40. So thats a difference of $2.75 a gallon. I'm beginning to think we were all screwd out of a bunch of money.

I went to OKC yesterday and went to the promised land: 7-11. It was $1.41!!! I couldn't believe my eyes.

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

I went to OKC yesterday and went to the promised land: 7-11. It was $1.41!!! I couldn't believe my eyes.

i should report this post to the mods and admins as pure envy and spite

... i paid $2.23 on Friday. i hate the tax rates in NY!

Originally Posted by Quick Orange

I went to OKC yesterday and went to the promised land: 7-11. It was $1.41!!! I couldn't believe my eyes.

With a car wash? Still $1.62 here