I never thought I would be happy to be paying $2.99/gal., but today, I was happy.

 

 

NO, this was not a full tank.  It was still filling. 

 

JimC.

Count your blessings...yesterday I paid $1.20/L, or x 4.54= $5.86/imp gallon!

 

Keith

Living in the duty/tax laden UK our petrol (your gas) price locally  is 107.9 pence per liter so x 4.84 = £5.22 per gallon; to dollar rate = $9.25 approx per gallon. The tax portion of that is at about 66%, and that does not include road tax )(licence) or insurance and its (government ) tax!

 

In the rural areas it is higher than that, and diesel is also higher.

 

Notwithstanding (lovely word that!) that the government still has empty coffers!

 

My last 1/2 tankful cost me about £22 ($39) and that was after a long run so it was for us a good MPG rate, with my 2 liter engine.

Jim,

 

At those prices, why not fill up on super and clean out your engine?!

 

Ugh, I know what you mean, $2.99 shouldn't be 'a bargain'.

$2.99???? Jeez thats downright cheap!

$3.50 is the  lowest I've seen around here.

Our taxes are still a fair bit higher than yours ... today I paid C$1.03 per litre or C$3.80 per US gallon ... once the currency conversion is done at C$1=U$0.92 the cost of gas here is about U$3.50 per US gallon.  Compared to $2.99 thats an extra fifty cents in tax on every gallon so our governments will stay solvent!

 

Regards .. Doug

I think the lowest I paid  going to Marty's was  3.35.    My whole gass bill for my round trip to Marty's  was  somewhere aroun  455.00 bucks.

I didn't think that was too bad.    I think what helped was  taking  Route  54 from  Tucomcari NM  to  Wichtia KS.   I was not on the  Freeways. It was a good road, deserted, and  speed limits was   65 and  70 MPH   I never passed one car or truck the whole distance.

Not counting the stuff I bought from  MR Kidman  my  whole trip  inclucing  three motels was  894.71 

Now also this was off set  by wining 300 bucks at the "DANCES WITH SKUNKS" casino outside of  Albuquerque.   

 

You just verified exactly what the oil companies want.

 

Just look at every time the price of fuel has spiked.

 

It goes up, we all complain, the government say they're going to investigate, then the price drops back to about half of what they raised it and we're all happy to be paying more, because it's less than what it peaked at. Also, you never hear anything out of the government about any investigation findings.

 

Randy

 

 

Its election time folks, of course its going down now, so its pretty much off the table

as an election issue, neither party wants to deal with it, but don't be surprised at what

is likely to happen AFTER the election!!!

Paul R...

Actually, it will stay low through the holiday season, so we're more inclined to buy more stuff. Then in January, when the bills hit, hold on to your hats!!!   And then the {losing political party} will immediately blame the {winning party} for problems that mysteriously appeared the day after they took the oath of office. (Who, me? Cynical?)

Joe, next time, rent the Corvette. You don't really need all that camera gear, do you?  

Later,

K

Rent the Corvette with a trailer hitch and  put all your gear in the trailer