Dropping Numbers
Here we are yesterday afternoon at the corner of Warren Avenue and Riverside Street. This is the lowest I've seen it around here in a long time, a couple of years anyway. If it's 2.94 up here, there will be lots of places lower. Jersey is always lower than us, and motorists can't pump their own gas in that state either. I wonder what's the price of 'dirty regular' going for these days? When I was in high school and doing a lot of walking the Sunoco station at the corner was dispensing gas for .29 cents a gallon and they cleaned your windshield and checked your oil. Those days are in my rearview mirror. Yours too, I take it. Bet more cars will be hitting the pavement and heading "over the river and through the wood" for turkey this year. AAA tells me; I ain't wrong.
What are you paying this weekend?
I'm sure many of you can beat 2.94.
Ding. Ding.
Hmm, I think I paid something like $3.19.
ReplyDeleteThere is a cash only station here that had it for 2.58 a gallon yesterday but most places are around 2.69. I remember those .29 days. I even remember what my dad used to call the gas price wars where it would get down to .19 a gallon. Long, long gone days.
ReplyDeleteOh yes. Gas wars in the neighborhood. There were 5 stations at our corner. FIVE! Amazing. Great fun to watch the battles.
Deletewe have $2.75 in our town. other places nearer to dallas are a little cheaper, i think.
ReplyDelete1,74 Euro for a liter of gas, 1,63 Euro for diesel...
ReplyDeleteThink we are paying $2.95 for unleaded regular and $3.69 for diesel. The recent drop in fuel prices may be the consequence of OPEC dropping the price of crude oil to put American production in places like North Dakota out of business. The price of Arabian crude is now less than the cost of production using fracking at the Bakken oil fields in ND. Don't worry. Fuel prices will rise next spring.
ReplyDeletePretty sure California has the most expensive gas due to a special mixture to meet clean air act standards. We're at about $3.20. Whatever is in that mix, it really pays off. When I was a kid, the air was so bad our school had smog days.
ReplyDeleteOur rates are for litres, so it;s somewhere in the neighbourhood of a buck twenty or so for a litre. It's been higher for quite awhile, but I doubt it'll ever go back under a dollar again.
ReplyDeleteWe dropped below $3 a few weeks ago. What a pleasant surprise! There's a new 7-11 gas station in town that continues to drop prices. I think yesterday they were at $2.89 for regular unleaded.
ReplyDeleteMakes me cry.
ReplyDeleteI pay about 1,59 € per litre. That would be 1.98 $ for 0.264172052 US gallons (says the online converter).
Lucky you. Still over $3.00 here, yesterday I saw $3.04 at one station. We have the highest prices in our state for some weird reason.
ReplyDeleteI paid $1.11 for a litre here in Toronto this week and there are a few stations around where it is a bit cheaper. Not sure what that is in US gallons.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, my car requires premium and there is a significant . . . premium . . . charged over the regular gas price.
ReplyDeleteWe're down to $2.54 here.
ReplyDelete$2.85 at the moment but we've been as low as $2.64. I hear big pickup truck sales are up. Idiots.
ReplyDeleteWhat's with the economics of gasoline in New Jersey? I get there a couple of times a year to see family. It's the only state I know of that has no self-service but the prices are usually about the same as low-tax, low-service Missouri.
$2.62 in Mobile, AL - I am just glad to see it below $3.00!
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$2.69 here in Tulsa. I remember gas wars in northern New Mexico in the 60's. 5 or 6 gallons for a dollar.
ReplyDeleteAll I know is that we are paying a lot less than Europe!
ReplyDeleteWoohoo! $2.73 today! (Though I remember a fill-up for my VW bug well under $3).
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