Thread: Gas prices drop
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10-14-2008 03:40 PM #1
Gas prices drop
Hooray for the consumers, by not using as much gas, the price has come down!!! At least for the time being. $2.65 in our area.
Richard
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10-14-2008 03:55 PM #2
Still over $3 here in Tennessee!I ain't dumb, I just ain't been showed a whole lot!
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10-14-2008 04:10 PM #3
Lowest I've seen here is $ 3.09, and I can live with that. It had been $ 4.20 just a couple of months ago. Funny how $ 3 now seems CHEAP.
Don
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10-14-2008 04:45 PM #4
$2.99 this weekend in York PA. Hope it continues downward for a while. I need cheap gas to get to the Turkey Run next month.Bob
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10-14-2008 04:49 PM #5
2.97 here in the middle of Texas
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10-14-2008 05:15 PM #6
$2.69 here in Va.BARB
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10-14-2008 05:30 PM #7
It would be nice to see it stabilize a little under $3.00 it would make it easier to take. The up and down not knowing from one day to the next what you are going to be paying makes it hard to manage the bills.
Richard
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10-14-2008 07:35 PM #8
I want to see below $2, and the economy might turn around!.
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10-14-2008 07:43 PM #9
I just filled the truck at $2.43.Ken Thomas
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10-14-2008 07:53 PM #10
$2.65 in NW Ia. My wife's work car is no longer paying for itself. That's good, right?
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10-14-2008 08:00 PM #11
When the barrel was $81 before all this we were paying 2.69 here and we are still at 3.24 there ripping us .
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10-14-2008 08:02 PM #12
$3.24 In California
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10-15-2008 02:06 AM #13
no the prices havent dropped trick is still 8.50+ tax haha, yeah the OTHER pump gas has dropped though
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10-15-2008 05:36 AM #14
Around $3.20 here in Vegas, was around $3.40 in Seattle when we left yesterday. Watch your state pols, good time for them to sneak in some fuel tax increases since you've been used to higher.
The world economy will heal over the next couple years or so, energy demand will rise again, as will it's prices. You'll be wishing for $4 gasoline once we get "Change we don't understand". The ban on domestic drilling will be reimposed, vast sums of capital will be squandered on "alternatives" that still show little promise even after decades of "investment" and we have no idea how soon they might blossom if by some chance they do prove viable, and the real costs of "protecting the environment from carbon" get rolled up. The actions of government over the past two weeks, plus all the "goodies" promised for the near future will give inflation that might just make you pine for the 1970s again.Your Uncle Bob, Senior Geezer Curmudgeon
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10-15-2008 09:51 AM #15
Bob It's too bad executives weren't exempt from bail out funds. The term golden handshake might be recoined as platinum or diamond in the near future. The parties that AIG had were just the tip of what probably is happening all over. Greed and the pursuit of thy self is an ugly problem, where morals and integrity have taken a back seat.
I agree this is just a momentary wrickle, until OPEC figures a way to get 147 a barrell again.
All those of you who have large gas tanks(500+ gallons at home, I guess now is the time to start filling them again.) A friend has a 200 and a 500 gallon setup he bought just before gas hit 3.00 a gallon. I told him to fill them, because it would get worse. He didn't believe me and they have set empty for over a year now.
I also worry about the total environmental impact for all of our current gas conservation choices. Nobody wants to answer what will happen when all of those hybrids need new batteries, and what recycling issues this will cause, or the silica production for solar cells, and the hazardous waste that is caused in the manufacturing process( China has already demonstrated that dumping it into their local farms has effectively killed all life and any future farming near these plants), so the answers are not easy, but I do believe funding for alternative energy sources that are availible to us, and will have lower environmental impacts is essential. We can't continue the way we have and expect our livestyles not to change, and our health to survive.
I also agree that we need to work on our infra structure in the interem. I don't know much about coal energy plants these day, just that nations that use coal for heat have a tremendous problem with their citizens health in the areas of asthma, emphysema, and mercury poisoning which is liberated into the air during the burning process. I don't know if nuclear is the answer, but for the short term these may be necessary evils." "No matter where you go, there you are!" Steve.
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