Gas has slowly decreased in price here. Currently $3.05.
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Gas prices?
- Thread starter MoodyBlues
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I filled up a mower and my wife's Jeep with $2.99 regular yesterday.
Drove past the station today and the price has gone up 34 cents a gallon.
Gas here dropped to $2.95 a week or so ago and has stayed right there. I had hopes it might fall some more.
It will... it's kind of a crazy coincidence that gas prices always seem to lower just before presidential elections...
Local gas prices have gone back up to $2.99 a gallon.
$2.89, here.
Gas here has finally dropped to $ 2.89.
rootabaga
Android Expert
That's terrible!!
rootabaga
Android Expert
Only one reason California has a declining population…
Gas was two cents cheaper today. Just in time for me to fill up my mowers. I will put off filling up my truck a few days in hopes that the prices are on a downward trend. It often falls just prior to elections.
rootabaga
Android Expert
I guess I should add that while we also pay ridiculously high prices for gasoline, part of that expense is because the fuel is “reformulated” to reduce emissions. In addition to added fuel expense, the reformulated fuel also results in lowered fuel economy. So we’re burning more (and buying more) gas, but allegedly polluting less.
Ain’t California great? {rolls eyes}
Ain’t California great? {rolls eyes}
I have a daughter that lives there and wouldn't migrate for love nor money. I also had an Uncle that walked away from his failing business during the dust bowl days in Oklahoma and migrated to California and opened an auto repair shop and then a number of gas stations. When he retired he moved back to nowhere Oklahoma. I think California is like most places... you love it or you don't.
Currently, the price for regular is $2.77 per gallon at my Top Tier QuikTrip
2.99 today for regular in Michigan
Dropped down to $2.599 when I filled up, yesterday.
There has been a very gradual decrease in the gas prices in my area since July. At that time it was $ 3.39 and is now $ 2.75. I should be thrilled to see the decrease but I'm so old I remember buying 17¢ gas.
You are old...lowest I can remember is 35¢.
I drove a bit in 66 but by the summer of 67 I owned my first car. (I use the term loosely) Gas was 21¢ - 30¢ but I enjoyed a gas war that year and site the cheapest gas I bought.
I remember gas wars. Try to explain those to the current generation.
Back in the 70's I managed a convenience store and we kept our gas prices 2¢ less than our nearest 2 competitors.
Back in the 70's I managed a convenience store and we kept our gas prices 2¢ less than our nearest 2 competitors.
A nickel or more drop in gas nowadays creates a run on the pumps. Consider the savings when gas was at 30¢. A nickel off was HUGE! And I'm sure your two cents off created traffic. It's best to make a little profit vs losing customers and setting on product. Those were the days.
My oldest was trying to equate prices now vs when we were here age and how much better we had it. I told her that my first job paid something a little bit over a dollar and hour.
My first truck had an interest rate of 18%.
25 years ago I retired from a $30,000 job.
New hires at several pay grades below mine are now getting nearly twice that.
My first truck had an interest rate of 18%.
25 years ago I retired from a $30,000 job.
New hires at several pay grades below mine are now getting nearly twice that.
It's all relative. I made much more as time went on and yet I was always struggling to make ends meet. I was just as poor at 25 as I was at 65. 