Semper Vaporo
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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 | | 10/04/2008 1:30 PM |
| I have seen a Corvette hauling a trailer...
Abominable!
A travesty of the automotive arts.
May as well run a Diesel locomotive on light rail. | |
 C. T. McCullough
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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pimanjc
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Jim Carter - Wichita, KS
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| | 10/04/2008 5:28 PM |
| My brother in law [a retired corvette engineer] used to make cooling test runs between the Arizona and Detroit Proving Grounds pulling an Airstream trailer behind a vette. JimC. BTW, gas has dropped another two cents. | |
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CCSII
Norman Oklahoma
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| | 10/04/2008 9:01 PM |
| | Under $3.00 in Oklahoma | | | |
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Bill4373
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Michigan
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| | 10/04/2008 9:08 PM |
| | In 1961, on Route 66, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, I put in 12 gtallons of Phillips 66 regular gas, gave the attendaqnt $1.00 (one dollar) and received 4 cents change. That's riight, 7.9 cents per gallon!!! | |
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flatracker
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Dunlap, TN
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| | 10/05/2008 5:53 AM |
| Still $3,71 here for regular. with a lot of gas stations still closed. Short lines at a lot of the ones open. That is suppose to die down in a week or two, according to the local news. Most have only regular and diesel. Don't understand that. I guess it's easier for the refineries, not having to deal with the different additives some cities or areas DEMAND in the extremly envoronmental requirements at issue.  I understand Memphis, Atlanta and Nashville are some of the hardest hit areas. | |
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aceinspp
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| | 10/05/2008 11:54 AM |
| Kind of makes me wish I'd keep my Z06 vette it got 29 MPH. Better than any of my other cars. Later RJD | |
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wchasr
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Western NY
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| | 10/06/2008 6:37 AM |
| SCot down here in teh oil country of NW Pa and SW NY the prices are STILL at or around $3.75/gallo. They ahd dropped but when the storm was comign they spiked again. it'll be weeks before they will consider dropping them again and only if somoething doesn't come along to excuse raising the prices yet again. (sigh)
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cmjdisanto
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Colonial Heights, Virginia
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| | 10/06/2008 8:22 AM |
| Posted By Cougar Rock Rail on 10/03/2008 10:33 AM Count your blessings...yesterday I paid $1.20/L, or x 4.54= $5.86/imp gallon! Keith
I always though a gallon was 3.78 litres?
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CCSII
Norman Oklahoma
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| | 10/06/2008 10:22 AM |
| | In the UK a gallon is 4.546 liters. | | | |
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Jerry Barnes
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Lexington, NE
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| | 10/06/2008 12:31 PM |
| | $3.26 a gallon here in Neb for the unleaded with 10% ethanol. | |
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kormsen
in the middle of the westparaguayan semi desert
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| | 10/06/2008 2:59 PM |
| | i remember, from my military time, that a jerry can with 20 liter was counted as five gallons by the us troops. | |
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CCSII
Norman Oklahoma
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| | 10/06/2008 3:51 PM |
| Oklahoma at $2.89
Some of you may be wondering why I keep posting OK prices. It's because they are most likely a precursor of what's to come nationwide. Go back and track our prices vs. yours (with the exception of some southeast prices) and I think you will find this true. | | | |
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aceinspp
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| | 10/06/2008 4:25 PM |
| Yep your right on the southeast prices. Later RJD | |
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wchasr
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Western NY
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| | 10/07/2008 7:05 AM |
| Dropped in Western Ny this morning to $3.69. I'm still not holding my breath on the Oklahoma prices. I'm expecting the European and Canadian prices anytime now thoguh.
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afinegan
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Boca Raton
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| | 10/07/2008 11:08 AM |
| Posted By aceinspp on 10/05/2008 11:54 AM
Kind of makes me wish I'd keep my Z06 vette it got 29 MPH. Better than any of my other cars. Later RJD
My brother owns a 2004 Z06, I have personally got 29 MPG from Fort Lauderdale to orlando, very impressive for a 405 hp car. We make electronic tuners where I work, and the Vette was one of the few cars that was tuned extremely well from the factory, We could only push 5 more hp out of it where the standard car/truck we got at least 20-40+ hp, (better gas mileage too by 1-2 mpg)
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ThinkerT
Alaska
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| | 10/07/2008 6:04 PM |
| $4.19.9 a gallon in my corner of the now freezing north. Dropped a nickle over the weekend.
Out in the bush, or those burgs at the very end of the road systems...I hear tales of prices ranging from $6 to $10 a gallon (the latter in Barrow). Even with the energy supplement deal (which included some nice breaks especially for those out in the frozen sticks) energy costs are now so high that folks are either starting to go green in a big way (Kodiak has an accelerated windfarm deal going up to provide nearly all of their electricty - wind never really stops blowing there) or they are moving out nearly enmass.
Projections I've seen (which come at it from the supply end) say we could be looking at some serious increases at the pump after this winter. | | | |
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Paul Norton
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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| | 10/07/2008 6:52 PM |
| Today in Ottawa a couple of stations had gas at just less than $1 per litre. It wasn’t that long ago that $1.35 per litre was the norm. I still chuckle when I see people complaining about the price of gas, but think nothing of paying the attendant up to $1.50 for HALF a litre of water. Something that is available free from every tap in the city. According to my metric converter: 1 imperial gallon = 4.546 litres, and 1 US gallon = 3.7854 litres. With the drop in oil prices, our Canadian dollar has devalued. A loonie is now worth US$0.89, down from US$1.10 last year. So 3.7854 litres (1 US gallon) of gas @ CDN$1.00 per litre costs CDN$3.79 or (CDN$3.79 x 0.89) US$3.37 | |
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blueregal
western ne.
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| | 10/07/2008 7:23 PM |
| Posted By Jerry Barnes on 10/06/2008 12:31 PM
$3.26 a gallon here in Neb for the unleaded with 10% ethanol.
$3.19 here Jerry out in the western part of the corn cob state or eastern wyoming part of the country!!
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pimanjc
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Jim Carter - Wichita, KS
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| | 10/07/2008 8:01 PM |
| $2.91 in Wichita, KS today. If you use the grocery store gas card, it is $2.81. JimC. | |
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leonpete
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Holstein, IA.
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| | 10/07/2008 8:35 PM |
| $3.03 in Cherokee, Iowa today. Thursday you will be able to buy it at the HY-VEE gas station for $2.69 after spending $10.00 in the HY-VEE grocery store.
I'll be there then!!! | |
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HOLSTEIN, IA.
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