AsianGirl007

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Here's the way I see it:

Let's say gas used to be $1.89 per gallon and now it's $2.35 per gallon. That's a difference of 0.46 cents per gallon. Let's say you have a 17 gallon tank, that's $7.82 per fill up. Lately I've been filling up once a week, which is $31.28 per month. Now if gas prices stay the same, it's $375.36 per year. I see a pair of Gucci shoes or a round trip plane ticket somewhere. Not trying to gripe too much, I know I'm driving a Lexus and not a 4 banger Toyota that gets good gas mileage......that's just the way I see it.

Yankees Diva

yupp i just paid $1.89 for premium wiht 6cents off so that means tom. its regular price will be $1.95. id rather be the cheapskate and save when i can and fill up on mons and thur when they have 6cents off for premium.

~ Stella

johnee78

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$2.15 for premium. Hollywood, florida and going up by the day...

EvgeshaIS300

i went to my friends house in Belmor Long Island this Sat. got some gas there at 2.29 (self servise).

mmarshall

Thanks for all the input. There were a lot of good points brought up here. I'm sure we've all noticed what has happened in the last 6 months or so...and what is happening daily. Many reasons ( NOT necessarily mine ) have been put forth for this.....lack of a national energy policy, OPEC greed, too many needless large SUV's and trucks, artificially low gas prices in thje past, not enough mass transit, Middle East instability and war, oil company profiteering, opposition to local drilling, people who want powerful vehicles, arguing between Democrats / Republicans, Congress vs. the White House, etc.....
I won't get involved in detail in all of the political reasons or solutions here...that is the subject for another thread, maybe, but I have found that the best way to keep the costs of filling up reasonable is to look for good, name-brand stations that have local price wars....this often happens on weekends. By doing so I've so far managed to avoid paying more than $2 a gallon for Chevron or Shell ( two good brands ) 93 octane.

-J-P-L-

I posted a couple days ago that it was $2.00 / gal for 93 here in Mass.

It is now $2.07 / gal for 93. It seems to be going up daily now.