OT: Bad subject - GAS!!!

I want your gas prices!

I paid $2.73 last night for regular. And the station across the street from my office (a block from the freeway) has premium for a tenth of a cent under $3.

Ridiculous!

Feeling any better about your gas prices, Dave?

Alicia

Gas has been above $2.39 for quite a while here. We're all MAD cause it's up to $2.59 now. I just paid $2.61 on my trip, but here close to home it's $2.59 at the discount stations.

Lynne

I guess I should say here is Northern California.

Lynne

Panhandle of Northwest Florida is $2.39 a gal. Its going up everyday. Hugs Irene

Gas in my part of Atlanta was 2.39 this morning, 2.49 by this afternoon. This was in the roughly three hours between my passing the station on my way out, and passing it again on the way home. The local BJ's, a discount club similar to Sam's Club, had gas this afternoon at 2.31. I'm only down a quarter of a tank, but I'm gonna top it off in the morning. I hope it isn't too much higher. The BJ's gas prices has repaid the cost of the membership many times over. My DH is a courier, and the cost of gas comes out of what he makes for each delivery. He's starting to seriously think of getting out of the driving business.

Mel K

Here in Queens it is $2.89 for regular.

Since I'm going away for two weeks by car, I'm cringing. The first week is in my sister's car (with A/C) and the second is in my little car that could (no a/c). At least my car lasts 2 weeks on a tank full of gas.

Kate

Uh Dave, we'll trade. We filled up on Thursday at 99.9 cents per Litre ($3.20/US gallon with exchange factored in). We've started walking more for the short trips like church or corner store and planning our errands so that we don't make extra trips.

I had to fill my tank tonight and it was $2.49. We live in rural Southern Indiana and my DH drives 44 roundtrip miles everyday to work. Our middle/high school is a consolidated one for the entire county and the kids had band practice everyday this week. I had to drop one off at 9 am pick that one up at 11 and drop off another at the same time, and then return at 1 to get that one. It is a 7 mile trip one way. No wonder I had to fill up tonight......usually a tank will lase me two weeks unless I need to make more than one trip to Wal-Mart. Sandy

Heehee, the other day I watched a gas station change their price from $2.11 to $2.39! Then when I went back the other way it was up to $2.45!! Tonight I paid $38.97 for 15 gallons of gas. Good thing my van was only 1/2 empty!! LOL But I wouldn't trade the luxury of driving it for better gas mileage tho.....it's sooo much more comfortable than a little car that I'd need a shoe horn to get into and out of!

Dave - here in Seattle land - we're up to $2.59/reg - and that's at Costco, where gas is usually 5-10 cents cheaper on the gallon. I am grateful I live so close to one!

Unfortunately, where I used to by a tank once every 2 weeks, since I got fired and now am temping in Bellevue, Wa, a drive accross Lake Washington, I am going through a tanka week - and that's about $45. (I drive a minivan)

YIKES!!!!

Now, not only do I need a new job that pays well, I need one that I can bus too so I am not spending all my money on GAS.

UGH. When will they invent cars that can use compost? : )

Jessica

I just filled up the SUV today, and it was $2.32 at Costco. Can't complain too much, as we were paying closer to $3 when we lived in California a few years ago!! Haven't really changed my lifestyle too much, since we really don't burn up the gas that much running too many places. Still, I wish all this oil prices would settle down SOON!!

What's funny is I drive a mid-sized SUV and it costs me about $30 to fill it completely, and my husband drives this little Volvo that takes about $35 to fill up! How weird is that? :-)

Carolyne in TX

*sigh*

Oh yeah, and hubby commutes 35 miles a day now one way... and loves the drive tho... at least we have really good gas milage cars... but I"m giving mine a tune up soon so its better... getting less and less lately... oh, and we are in Ohio.

Our gas prices are in the 2.50 range today and may be higher tomorrow. I think everyone is not taking any unnecessary trips and walking wherever they can. I have seen an incease in the bicycling crowd.

Hugs, Sabrina in Kentucky

a good friend is a life long treasure

I filled up the car yesterday after work and for regular it cost $2.75. It was on the news that August 15 and 16 are national boycott getting gas days.

Chrissy

My ramblings on the subject...

Last night I saw the gas was $2.47/gal.

For those of you NOT using the a/c, there was an episode of "Mythbusters" that compared driving with a/c to driving with windows down. The guy in the a/c car had it cranked up so high that he was wearing a coat (it was summer) and he got BETTER mileage than the car with the windows down. Just thought y'all might want to know that.

School starts Monday. Our oldest son (17, the one who went missing) graduated last May. Our middle son (13) will be starting high school. It's

3 blocks away so he will be walking. Our youngest son (11) is starting middle school. It's 6 blocks away so he will also be walking. The elementary school was about a mile away so I've been driving at least one of them to school for years and this year I will send them out the door and leave the van in the garage. Of course, I have always driven everybody when it rains or if the temp is really cold (below 30 is insane to me).

I'm a stay-at-home mom. My minivan turned 5 on May 1st (I bought it new). It has 47,000 miles. I am usually a "diva" when it comes to new cars, but I LOVE this van and they quit making it in 2002 (Mercury Villager Estate) so I am hanging onto the one I have until I fall in love with something else. DH's truck is newer and has more miles. He drives 19 miles one way to work. We HAD an evening ritual of driving around after dinner. I know this will sound silly, but we would take the dog for a ride to look for deer. Yes, it takes very little to entertain us! LOL

I can't say I have really changed anything other than the "dog ride". We are only going 2 or 3 times per week now. For the record, we go less than

10 miles round trip, but it's VERY slow on dirt roads and such. We live in a small-ish town (40,000) and I have just about everything I need within 3 miles of my home. I have to drive to Omaha (about 15 miles) to get to Kohl's (my favorite store), but if they had one here then I would probably never leave Bellevue! We have a Super Wal*Mart 2 1/2 miles away and my tanning place is right across the street (I tan3 times per week on Dr's orders, not a vanity thing). My nail place is INSIDE Wal*Mart. I plan these trips when I need groceries so they are hardly any extra gas.

Cecelia

About $2.45 here in AZ.

Cecelia informed:

compared driving with a/c to driving with

I can certainly understand that when traveling on highways. I wonder how it compares when driving on "surface streets" (do they call them that anywhere besides SoCal?). I never get above 35-40 & often don't get above 25 (with lots of stopping for lights).

Alicia