GAS PRICES

ok people it is getting BAD VERY BAD so bad i am looking up gas pump hacks. so here is what i am asking post your City and the best place to get gas and the price at that station. the idea is to find the lowest price in your area so if others can find a deal we will get the word out. also helpful tips that really work on getting better gas milage. No Posting BULL **** about how some tard got 50 miles to the gallon on one trip going down hill with a tail wind. we want truthfull tips and numbers so we can help eachother. if we work together we will be strong if we bull **** one another then this will be for nothing. Zip, Zero, Nada!


Reseda, CA

Arco station at the corner of Victory & Haskell in Van Nuys, CA

$4.21

Here in NB the gas prices are locked by government...so most everywhere is 5.04$ a US gallon or 1.333$/L

$3.89 in NC

Yeah the cheapest place around me is $1.399/L so thats about $5.296/Gallon.

your new bus still looking like a great find? LOL

keep it under 3k in the rpm and take your damn subwoofers out! Here it keeps swinging between 3.89 and 4.07, it's weird because it wont stay locked for more then 6 hours before it goes back up or down again

http://www.gasbuddy.com/

Type in your zip code and it will give the lowest prices in your area.

It's 1.29 in TO

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It's 1.29 in TO

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so is this $1.29 a Liter in canadian? so $4.89 a gallon canadian? how much U.S. is that with the exchange rate? just want to know.

Gas futures are down 10 cents today on Wall Street and oil is down $2.00 per barrel...perhaps the bubble is bursting.

4.25/gal when i filled last fri. think its at 4.17 now.

get a neo. they are awesome! or some other device u can managae ur fuel with. lighten your car, and listen to the other stuff y2dan said. a tune up is nice to do to.

and just stay off the gas pedal.

I Don't know what that would be in american but yeah it's 1.29 canadian in TO

its about $4.07 here in philly

its between $3.92- $3.99 here in Providence when im at school and its $4.13- $4.25 back home in Danbury

around 4/17 in C-bus ohio

Just my theory.. but instead of better mpg.. the best result would come from lower gas prices....

SO .. here is the solution (IMO*) Use more gas ... the owners of the oil companies are not gonna settle for less money.. so if we consume less fuel as a whole.. then gas prices will rise.. if we double our gas use again as a whole then gas prices will drop, as the need to make $2.00 per gallon would drop to only $1.00 per gallon inorder for them to make the same profit... so in thoerey.. us trying to save gas .. is really just screwing us in the end...

Just put your self in the oil company owners shoes.. would you be willing to go from make 2Million a year.. to make 1Million? Pro not .. so in the event I see im not going to make as much ill adjust prices accordingly.

4.44 this morning, probably more now. :cry:

$3.85/gal cash price at American Gas where I work in NJ.

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$3.85/gal cash price at American Gas where I work in NJ.

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do u guys charge per gal or per transaction to use a CC and if so how much?

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$3.85/gal cash price at American Gas where I work in NJ.

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do u guys charge per gal or per transaction to use a CC and if so how much?

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per gallon and its $3.95/gal credit....a lot of places here are doing it...we had to do it because our credit card fees were to much because everyone is using their cards and hardly anyone pays cash. Being a small gas station owned by an american citizen (pretty much every other gas station in our area isn't) who employees a lot of local kids to work, but still have to stay competitive with the other gas stations that don't have a lot of expenses we dont make a lot of profit. we just changed over last thursday and boy have i heard it. I could go on and on about stories of ignorant people. Like this one guy who said we don't need to charge 3.85 a gallon and I just wanted to be like are you retarded its not like we are still buying it for under $2's and charging you the extra 1.85, like we come in everyday and spin a wheel to see what the price will be. I goes according to what our load price, the market, and competitor's price...the competitor's price was always lower for cash because they were doing cash or credit and now that we have started that ours is lower. My boss didn't do it to screw cc buyers, but to try to get people to buy using cash instead. So pretty much for every 10 gals your spending $1 extra, to me thats not a big deal.

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It's 1.29 in TO

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so is this $1.29 a Liter in canadian? so $4.89 a gallon canadian? how much U.S. is that with the exchange rate? just want to know.

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American and Canadian money right now is pretty much on par. No need to convert USD to CAD

yep, the us dollar dont mean **** thanks to bush and his scheme to print more money! and also the fact that our currency is no longer backed by gold anymore like it used to be way back when. but thats another time and place.

3.79 almost anywhere, but 3.74 at sams. Not that bad as some of you who pays 4 bucks already

SHELL STATION RTE 22 BREWSTER,NY $4.19 CASH PRICE/$4.25 CREDIT PRICE FOR REGULAR UNLEADED

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around 4/17 in C-bus ohio

Just my theory.. but instead of better mpg.. the best result would come from lower gas prices....

SO .. here is the solution (IMO*) Use more gas ... the owners of the oil companies are not gonna settle for less money.. so if we consume less fuel as a whole.. then gas prices will rise.. if we double our gas use again as a whole then gas prices will drop, as the need to make $2.00 per gallon would drop to only $1.00 per gallon inorder for them to make the same profit... so in thoerey.. us trying to save gas .. is really just screwing us in the end...

Just put your self in the oil company owners shoes.. would you be willing to go from make 2Million a year.. to make 1Million? Pro not .. so in the event I see im not going to make as much ill adjust prices accordingly.

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Only one problem with that theory mate. If the oil companies can make extra profit by selling more gas, they will not lower the price of that gas.
Take the trend. They raise the gas price from $1.00 to $1.50, people freak, then they lower the price to $1.25, people think they are getting a deal, and are all happy with $1.25 per gallon gas. Take that, repeat, over and over, and you see how the oil company does their thing. Now if gas prices were to go down to $2.99 or $3.50, you would most likely be happy, because gas is cheaper.
The problem isn't that we are using less gas, or even that the price of oil is so high. It is that the oil companies are trying to rape the consumers, because they know that we are slowly moving away from fossil fuels as a whole, and want to secure their wealth.
During the senate hearings, it was noted
"I would understand the higher fuel prices, if your profit margin was the same, but I see it as no coincidence that now, with the gas prices at an all time high, you are reporting over $140,000,000,000 in profit. And you say that you are not gouging?"
The price of oil goes up, the price of fuel goes up. Basic mathematics, I suppose, but the price of oil goes up, the profit for the oil companies reaches records, and the price of fuel triples. They are taking us to the cleaners. And they will continue to do so no matter how much, or how little we buy. If we are willing to pay the price, they are more than happy to set the price high.

Sad But very true. I wish my Wave had come as a hybrid. It's $50 just to fill it now. Thank god I got rid of my Bonneville and got the wave or I'd be broke by now.

well i really dont care much because in the end opec will run out of their oil and we will still have ours....but who knows we will probably revert back to a third world country by then.

Woohoo the price dropped 3 cents a litre today. Like that really makes a difference in the amount I spend on gas. But at least it didn't go up again

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During the senate hearings, it was noted
"I would understand the higher fuel prices, if your profit margin was the same, but I see it as no coincidence that now, with the gas prices at an all time high, you are reporting over $140,000,000,000 in profit. And you say that you are not gouging?"
The price of oil goes up, the price of fuel goes up. Basic mathematics, I suppose, but the price of oil goes up, the profit for the oil companies reaches records, and the price of fuel triples. They are taking us to the cleaners. And they will continue to do so no matter how much, or how little we buy. If we are willing to pay the price, they are more than happy to set the price high.

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see its not that we are willing but we need to to tech survive, not everyone lives close to work or stores. im suprised no one has tried to kill the top excutives of these oil companies....we should just beat them in the streets :lol:

Sam, I do agree.

It isn't that we are willing to pay it, it is because we really have no choice but to pay it. Either way, it is a win for them. Here is the kicker of it all though. We are powerless to them, because we need their product. If the government or people lash out at the oil companies, they can lower production or raise prices even more. A return to the gas shortage of the 70's.
It all comes down to the way the system defeats itself. They raise the prices, we pay it, we lash out, they cut the supply, and again the price goes up. Government taxes them extra, and they pass the extra costs back down to us. We pay more.

Bottom line is that we need them more than they need us. They are more than willing to exploit that fact. They have us all over a barrel (no pun intended). That is an oil Barrel by the way (there's the snappy pun).

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Bottom line is that we need them more than they need us. They are more than willing to exploit that fact. They have us all over a barrel (no pun intended). That is an oil Barrel by the way (there's the snappy pun).

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That was too an intended pun :lol:

Gene is right. Now, if we go to there corporate offices with guns, bats, and lead pipes... Could you imagine a storm of thousands, maybe millions of armed people marching on a oil giants corporate office... :twisted:

the oil companies already know we will pay upwards of $5 a gallon to drive, England just hit around $9 a gallon from what I saw on the news. Using more gas will just give them a bigger profit, they won't lower the price

$4.12 here in the Syracuse, NY area...cheapest station is Hess unless you are willing to drive to a BJs (4.09). Gas futures are trading lower on Wall Street at $3.33/gallon and should continue to slide below $3.00 by the end of June. You have to add federal and state taxes plus gas station profits to that which typically adds almost 80 cents a gallon. Long story short: Prices will begin to drop the first week of July to around $3.80 per gallon for the national average. If all goes as planned on Wall Street price per gallon at the pump will be $3.25 at Labor Day.

Reduce the Coefficient of drag on the vehicle and you'll see a notable increase in gas milage. Obviously for most "boat tailing" and major body work isn't feasable, but I've seen major increases with major (but inexpensive) aerodynamic modifications.

1) If you live in a cold area... cover up the grille. By doing this you're not allowing air to pass into the engine compartment. You're increasing surface area, however with air not having to pass into, through, and out of the engine compartment you'll get a net decrease in Cd. Experiment with cardboard at first. This way if you're running too hot, you can simply pull over and tear it off. Even reducing the openings may get you fair increase in MPG if the area you live in is just too warm to fully cover the radiator. A more efficient smaller opening (think of the air intakes on larger vehicles... wide and narrow) should still get you a net reduction.

2) Underbody trays. Cover up everything you can on the underside of the vehicle. This makes the airflow smoother under the vehicle.

3) Cover up the wheels! Front wheel cowlings would be a little work, however the rear wheels would be fairly easy. This isn't the most effective method of Cd reduction, however it's probably the easiest.

There's tons more you can do, check out http://ecomodder.com

$5.17 US/gal in Burnaby, BC. $1.38 cdn/litre.

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the oil companies already know we will pay upwards of $5 a gallon to drive, England just hit around $9 a gallon from what I saw on the news. Using more gas will just give them a bigger profit, they won't lower the price

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The Brits pay more because their taxes don't go to paying off fuel... The US government gives oil companies $.70 of every tax dollar to keep the prices down as far as they are now. If taxes didn't go into it the prices would be about $9 a gallon too, the good thing at least is that would give the government probably trillions of dollars to put into better projects and stuff, too bad Bu$h isn't smart enough to do stuff like that, but even if he could he'd just give it back to pork barrelers.

A piece of evidence is the Brit's healthcare system, it's free for them cause it's all paid by taxes.

they got us by the gas tank and they know it!! it may go down some, but whether it does or not we'll all pay anyway!! sad truth!