Your Gas Price

[Kanegrundar]

Remember when gas was under a dollar? Well under a dollar. I remember everyone being outraged when it hit a dollar.

Yep. It was 80-some cents when I started driving. I'll stop there though since I'm just showing my age now!

 

[Desdichado]

Remember when gas was under a dollar? Well under a dollar. I remember everyone being outraged when it hit a dollar.

I tanked up before leaving on my honeymoon for $.99. I already sound like an old codger even saying that.

Right now, we're where Henry's at; I can get gas at a number of places between $1.96 and $1.99.

Oddly enough, in the township where I live, gas is always about $.10 more expensive than I see on the way into work as I pass through other cities. Sucks for my wife's car; she has to go pretty far out of her way to fill up. But that's a 20-gallon tank, so it pays off. :\

 

[diaglo]

Yep. It was 80-some cents when I started driving. I'll stop there though since I'm just showing my age now!

it was $0.79 per gallon at the gas station at the top of my street when i moved to GA in 1995.

it didn't go over S1.00 until just before 2000.

this time last year i was paying $1.29 per gallon.

edit: when i first started driving there was lead in the gas. and we liked it that way.

 

[Queen_Dopplepopolis]

I clearly remember gas under a dollar in my childhood days in South Dakota and Wyoming... Even when I started driving 7 years ago or so, gas was around $1.15/gal.

 

[Jdvn1]

I clearly remember gas under a dollar in my childhood days in South Dakota and Wyoming... Even when I started driving 7 years ago or so, gas was around $1.15/gal.

... AND WE LIKED IT!

Sorry, that post plus your sig... couldn't resist.

Gas seems to be always cheaper in the southern US.

 

[Dimwhit]

I'm still waiting to see gas drop below $2 where I am. It was $2.11 yesterday, and I think it's still falling. For some reason, Idaho supposedly has the 5th highest gas prices in the nation. Or we did a couple weeks ago. The oil companies must not like potatoes or something...

 

[Rel]

It was about $2.49 here just before Katrina. But mostly didn't get much above $3. There was a few places that were more than that but I was lucky enough, even Labor Day weekend to not pay more than $2.99 a gallon.

What?! What's so special about Archdale that gas was $2.49 before Katrina when everywhere else in the state was ~$1.75 or so?

Yesterday I saw a couple place edging down close to $2.00. Still in the $2.07-$2.14 range at most stations.

 

[Henry]

What?! What's so special about Archdale that gas was $2.49 before Katrina when everywhere else in the state was ~$1.75 or so?

Yesterday I saw a couple place edging down close to $2.00. Still in the $2.07-$2.14 range at most stations.

I'll tell you the funniest thing about the prices in the past three months: Ever since the price started falling again, and rising, falling, rising, falling, the answer to the question of "who's got the cheaper gas?" has gone to a different gas station every week. For a period of about two weeks, Exxon had the cheapest gas in my area. EXXON!?!? (Exxon used to run about 30 cents higher per station in my area until October).

 

[Rel]

I'll tell you the funniest thing about the prices in the past three months: Ever since the price started falling again, and rising, falling, rising, falling, the answer to the question of "who's got the cheaper gas?" has gone to a different gas station every week. For a period of about two weeks, Exxon had the cheapest gas in my area. EXXON!?!? (Exxon used to run about 30 cents higher per station in my area until October).

With all due respect, Henry, I don't think that's the funniest thing about the gas prices. The funniest to me is that GROWN ADULTS that I know are sometimes calling me in a highly excited state to inform me that "They've just seen a station in east Raleigh with gas for 5 cents cheaper than the place right up the street from me!!" Whereupon they urge me to hurry over there and fill up my tank at this "Lowest price they've seen ANYWHERE!!!111!!"

This is stupid on so many levels that it is difficult for me to remain friends with these idiots.

 

[Henry]

This is stupid on so many levels that it is difficult for me to remain friends with these idiots.

But... But you said 'thank you' and everything when I called you!?!?!

I'm a gas-hunter, myself, but I won't go out of the way to do it. And driving more than 3 miles out of my way is, indeed, one of the heights of stupid.