3.13 a Gallon
March 10th, 2008 | by Scott |That’s what I just paid here in the Ponca. Over 48 bucks to fill up my little Sonata.
One of the benefits of moving here is that I can go two weeks on a tank of gas whereas in Waco I lived a good 20 minutes away from the office. Now, I can do it in 3.
And 4 bucks is on the horizon.
What are you paying in your neck of the woods?
35 Responses to “3.13 a Gallon”
By Jim MacKenzie on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
2.95 today… but it has been as high as 3.25. We live 7 minutes from church and school. We’re buying a house this summer that is cutting our commute by more than half (2 minutes).
How’s that? I figure I can walk, so can my kids…
By Phil Wilson on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
Too frackin’ much.
By Scott on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
Interesting. I would have thought Colorado Springs would be higher than an oil town like Ponca. Shows what I know.
By Kevin Bussey on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
$3.25. Pretty soon I’ll be paying by the pint of blood.
By Belinda on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
AH - you drive a Hyundai! I love Hyundai! We bought a 2007 Hyundai Entourage (van) in January 2007, and we absolutely LOVE it!!!
Gas was $3.03/gallon on Wednesday when I filled up, but it’s now up to $3.09 where I fillup on my way home (Texaco). Some places are as high as $3.29/gallon. I’m so grateful to GWB and the war in Iraq - along with my “tax cuts.” UGH
By Jim MacKenzie on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
I’m thinking my local-yokel Conoco dealer hasn’t had the time to get out there and hike the prices yet (too cold)… You’re right, we are usually higher.
By Robin on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
Gas here in southeast Michigan ranges from $3.18 at Costco to $3.35 at other stations. Still isn’t as high as I paid on Memorial Weekend here one or two years ago - $3.69 in northern Michigan. Can anyone say drill and refine in the USA!?!
By Shane on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
It’s over 3 in Waco too, but I’ve been walking to work.
By happy on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
3.09 in Austin…but it’s a company car and a company credit card, so I don’t feel it so much. My brother was at a think tank last week, they told him at least 3 1/2 years, and I’m sure that’s just a guess but it was guys from Harvard and Wharton. The only good think is that I might be able to buy a house in So. Cal. about then.
By len on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
3.11 here in Clarksville. I was at a funeral in Ashland City today and had to fill up and it was 3.19 there. Nashville is usually a little bit higher than us.
By Justin on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
I saw 3.25 today in Crieve Hall… average is around 3.19.
It will go up, as long as our government continues to spend money it doesn’t have, as well as bail out the financial industry. You can’t just print money and open up credit without their being inflation. And since oil is traded in dollars, and the value of the dollar is going down, well, you get the picture.
There was (and still is) only one politician who knows what to do to fix it. Just for the record, the gas has not increased in price versus gold. The same amount of gold buys the same amount of gas as it did 8 years ago when it was a dollar. Gas isn’t more expensive. The dollar is worth significantly less.
And they tell me that inflation isn’t the biggest problem for the poor. I bet we see 15% or higher inflation this year.
By terri on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
3.11 in this part of Alabama. It was 3.29 in Atlanta this past weekend.
By Jennifer S on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
3 freaking 49 in Seattle. That is $3.49 for those of you who can’t speak my language.
By Jennifer S on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
continued…But it would be worse if we didn’t have such a good public transit system. I drive 8 miles and take the train downtown then catch a bus to take me to my building.
By T.H. on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
3.99 (and don’t forget the 9/10 of a cent) per gallon of diesel in Atlanta, GA. The only solace I take in paying that much is in the 40 mpg I get between fill ups.
By Greg England on Mar 10, 2008 | Reply
I’d LOVE to be paying as low as 3.13/gal. We’re pushing 3.75. My friend in Switzerland is paying 7.60 a gallon and in England I hear it’s already up to 10.00 / gal (US currency). Should we “count our blessings” or park the car?
By John on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
It’s in the $3.20 range here but I can take a 3o minute drive over to New Jersey and save about $0.40 and get it pumped for me.
By Scott on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
So, as much as a dollar difference in places. And apparently there would be no gas price problem if Ron Paul had been elected.
Who Killed The Electric Car?
By Lane on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
We payed $3.03 last night at the Walmart gas station here in North Alabama. That was not with a discount. Of course, Walmart gas has Ethanol in it, so that may make it a tad bit cheaper.
By Travis on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
3.15 in Dallas for the cheapest stuff.
Did anyone see on the Daily Show the other day the clip of the President being asked by a reporter about reports that gas prices could reach $4 by the summer? The President’s response was, “What’s that? $4? Well, I haven’t heard that. That’s news to me.”
Also, Jon Stewart showed a clip of Bush from a debate in Oct 2000 criticizing the Clintons for not doing more to prevent the gas crisis in the 90s. That was back when the gas prices were a whopping .98 cents a gallon!
By Belinda on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
Yes, when Bush took office, gas was $36/barrel. But we’re supposed to believe that Bush and the republicans can’t control it? I didn’t fall off the last truck thru town.
By LukeD on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
I drive a Sonata too. I filled up for $3.18, but that was last week.
By Robin on Mar 11, 2008 | Reply
It’s called a free market. I lived through the Carter administration trying to control the price of oil and remember not being able to get gas. Besides, the oil companies are making huge profits, why would they want to change anything. They are a monopoly whether or not anyone wants to admit it.
By Sunny on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
I paid $2.99 the other day. I left the gas station, drove across the road, and ran into a store for 15 minutes. When I came back to the intersection, the gas station had raised their price to $3.14 a gallon! I was super shocked and pulled out my receipt to make sure that I had gotten the $2.99 “deal”! Now, I only wish that I had filled up.
I worry about what prices are going to look like when the kids are driving. When I started out, it was $.85. Now, I can only put a little in at a time. I honestly can’t remember the last time that I filled up.
By Justin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Robin,
Gas wasn’t 36 dollars a barrel. Oil was. And like I said earlier, the actual value of the oil (and therefor the gas produced from it) is the same as it was in 2000… our currency is just worth less.
Scott, if you stop printing money, you’re gonna stop a good bit of the inflation of gas prices.
And I’ve seen who killed the electric car. Pretty good documentary, but it’s worth noting that it is actually worse for the environment to drive an electric car. Coal power plants aren’t the cleanest things in the world.
The market will bring something new. Just be patient. And don’t start taxing “profits” of oil companies, and things will be better.
By Robin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Justin - I don’t see anywhere where I said gas was $36 a barrel - it was Belinda. I can get in enough trouble by myself without attributing someone’s comments to me. It’s up to $3.35 here today.
By Belinda on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Yes, it was me. A typo. It was $36/barrel. You can adjust for inflation all you want, but it doesn’t add up. Someone is getting rich.
By Justin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
No, that’s the point Belinda. They aren’t. If the dollar is worth less, having more of them doesn’t make you any richer. If I’m selling widgets, and in 2000 I sold them for 1 dollar, and was making a profit of 30 cents per widget sold, then the cost of goods to create the widget goes up by 60 cents, I have to charge a dollar sixty to yield the same thirty cent profit… and that profit is less, because likely if my production costs have gone up that much, so have everyone else’s. Then their goods are more expensive, making my thirty cents less valuable.
By Justin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Also Robin, sorry for the mix up. I think I began to respond to you, then changed my mind.
By Jonathan on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Justin, you’re just padding your comment total lead.
By Justin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
What?
By Justin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
I would never do that.
By Justin on Mar 12, 2008 | Reply
Ever.
By Scott on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
Up to 3.16 now.
By Justin on Mar 13, 2008 | Reply
its supposed to go up 25 more cents this week… gas prices are still lagging oil prices, We’ll see 3.75 for regular unleaded this summer.