BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?

Subject: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:07 PM

Gasoline (petrol), we are told, is now at a national US average of $1.99. How come, in Juneau, Alaska, we're still paying more than $3.00? The cheapest price in town that I have found is $3.09 9/10 but most of the stations display $3.19 ranging up to $3.39.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Melissa
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:15 PM

I think it's $1.79 around here..Missouri.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:16 PM

Northern Pennsylvania: $2.09/gallon as of 11-21-08

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: artbrooks
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:31 PM

Low $1.90s here in Albuquerque, but I did see $1.89 yesterday. #1 daughter says it is $1.63 in San Antonio.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:33 PM

I bought gas yesterday for $1.769.

Fort Worth, Texas

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Janie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:34 PM

Lowest here is $1.87 Piedmont, NC

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Amos
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:44 PM

Lowest in region is $1.99.


A

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 01:48 PM

sob

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Becca72
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:11 PM

$1.88/gal in South Portland, ME as of yesterday.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Sorcha
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:15 PM

$1.87 last night. SE Wyoming

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Noreen
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:20 PM

Just gone down to 92.8p per litre locally, was up to 110.9p at maximum.

Feel better now Ebbie? (When someone has done the sums- not time now).

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:29 PM

Can't do the sums myself, Noreen- but it does occur to me to wonder how long it takes the average motorist in the UK to use up a tank of fuel? In the US a long commute to work can force tanking up twice a week. A worker living in the suburbs - suburbs that can be 50 miles from the city, ('suburbs' defined according to authorities) may have no other option.

There are communities in the US that are planned to provide housing within the same community as businesses but the concept doen't seem to have taken too firm a hold yet.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Jack The Sailor
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:35 PM

I've heard that Alaska has a governor that gets things done. I've heard that mostly from Alaska's governor. Get her to work on the price of gas.

Refine, baby, refine!!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:42 PM

It's the lowest now that I have seen it in several years: 78.9 cents a litre in Ontario, Canada. Only thing is, I don't know how to convert that into gallons for comparison to the American prices.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Barry Finn
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:44 PM

$1.84 here in southern New Hampshire

Funny, I'm looking at airfares from Boston to London & back during the summer & it doesn't look like they're dropping the prices any even though when fuel costs went up they added surcharges, now that the costs are down ?????

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: gnu
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:49 PM

$0.82 Canuck.... from $1.38 not so long ago. Per litre, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: michaelr
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 02:58 PM

It's going the wrong way. Gas needs to be more expensive, not less, so that SUV and monster truck driving idiots aren't encouraged, and the auto industry sees the error of its ways.

I want to see prices of $5/gal and up.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:08 PM

Yup, 1.88. Want I should bring you some, Ebbie? How much do you figure would be worth the drive from NC?

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: vectis
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:08 PM

90.9pence a litre here (UK) that's about £4.10 a gallon or about $10 a gallon. We dream of $3 a gallon over here.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Genie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:22 PM

I paid $1.899/gal. here in Portland, Oregon yesterday. That's down a dime a gallon from last Sunday and down about 20 cents from 2 or 3 weeks ago.
That's the cheapest price I've found in Portland, and we're about 10 cents a gallon cheaper than Seattle, on average, and about 20 cents a gallon cheaper than San Diego, usually.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:24 PM

I guess I must be the winner here. Thursday $1.749.

There were a couple of stations that the gas-search sites said were a couple of cents lower; but the only ones close were noted as being out of gas. (I think they drop the price when they run out, just to piss off the competition?) The sites show statewide average here at about $1.77.

The reports note that although it's come down a little, diesel is still close to $3 in most parts of the US. It's come down by less (absolute or percentage) than gasoline, so the "spread" is actually increasing.

John

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: kendall
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:28 PM

Ebbie, don't forget to factor in the rebate you folks get from the oil business there.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:39 PM

Yesterday it was 90.9pence per litre, on Tuesday it was 92.9p and last Saturday it was 94.9p per litre. If it keeps going like this I may be able to afford to fill the whole tank up by Christmas!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Beer
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:50 PM

I filled up last night on the reserve just outside Montreal at 75.9
Here in my home town it is 82.9
Beer (adrien)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bobert
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 03:52 PM

I'm almost afraid to report on the price of gas here for fear that evrybody is gonna move into our picturesqu area of the country but...

...it's $1.719 here in Page County, Virginny...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Alice
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 04:13 PM

Lowest price here, $1.84.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 04:50 PM

%2.09 yesterday.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 05:55 PM

Kendall, yep, we get the annual Permanent Fund Dividend, which runs from $900 to $1200 per person.

On the other hand, rent for a studio apartment here will run you about $750 + utilities (easily another $150), a one-bedroom unit about $950, a two-bedroom about $1200, a house anywhere from $2000 on up. What are your prices?

In McMinnville, Oregon, comparative rentals don't compute. My sister rents half of a duplex with a full dining room, two bedrooms, an automatic doored garage and a fenced large backyard with a lockable storage shed for $625.00.

Airfare? A Seattle-Juneau round trip costs anywhere from $550 to $625 - three weeks beforehand. A Seattle-Anchorage round trip is just over $200- but that's because there are multiple airlines in Anchorage. We have only one.

An Alaska state ferry trip to Seattle (Bellingham, a half-hour from Seattle) takes three days and costs a walk-on more than $300 one-way, plus food. If you want an onboard cabin it will cost you another $350 on top of your own carcass. If you are not a walk-on but have a car you wish to take along, that will cost another $460 dollars - for a compact car. Costs more for a larger vehicle.

Keep in mind that all these fares are for ONE WAY. If you want to come back, double all the prices; there are no price breaks.

The only thing that makes Juneau, Alaska's prices - and climate - bearable is that we get to live here!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bill D
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 06:09 PM

I haven't bought gas for a couple weeks,(we don't drive a whole lot) and it was $2.07 then.... I guess it is a bit better now, though it's always higher here than in the suburbs...or across the river in Virginia. Next weekend we make 4 round-trips to a craft show in Virgina, so I guess we'll fill both the car & the van...

Enjoy...it won't last. (and the oil companies are still making money)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 09:42 PM

$1.69 is what I saw today (Saturday 11/22) at one of the low-cost stations, here in Indianapolis.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 10:51 PM

November 22, 2008 in Northern Pennsylvania: $2.04/gallon

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Nov 08 - 11:19 PM

Several stations at $1.649 as of today in central Ohio. Most, even the little places are less than $1.729.

And while I agree we need very few SUV's if any, Karen drives 500 miles a week to work and back so this brief respite is great. WE get a price break from grocery points 30cents this month) so the last tank cost $1.43 a gallon and we'll get 50 cents off next month so we might be getting gas for close to a 1.15 maybe?????   I can dig it!

We average a little over 25 mpg with the Diamante so the difference between 4 bucks and a buck seventy five is roughly $175.00 A MONTH!!! We need the money!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Cluin
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 02:57 PM

82.5 cents per litre here in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. It's been dropping about .4 to .5 cents everu day.

Some say its due to the dropping price of oil, but our heating oil hasn't shown a corresponding drop.

I believe they have dropped the price of gasoline to encourage us to spend money this Christmas. It will shoot back up again after the holidays.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:16 PM

Wow! It's down to 76.8 a litre today in Orillia.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:21 PM

US $1.839/US gallon for regular unleaded.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Midchuck
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 04:24 PM

IT WON'T LAST!

DON'T GO OUT AND BUY A NEW CHEVY SUBURBAN OR FORD EXPEDITION, EVEN IF YOU WANT TO SAVE THE CAR MAKERS. IT'LL JUST EGG THEM ON.

Peter (shouting on purpose).

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,pattyClink
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 07:28 PM

A-dollar-fifty-nine per gallon around here. We do okay because we dig it up and refine it around here. Doesn't seem fair that Alaska doesn't get the same shake!

Very glad about the new price, hope it will allow us to travel to see family at Christmas. But still grouchy that the high prices put the kibosh on going to the O'Flaherty Retreat this fall. It's all about timing.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Nov 08 - 10:23 PM

No, it certainly WON'T last. I've never craved a bigger vehicle than we have now -- they meet our needs and what more do you need?

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Gurney
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 01:23 AM

Too complicated to work out into something meaningful ($NZ1.49/ltr) but I see crude is 1/3 the price it was 3 weeks ago. Wonder who made all that money? Producers? Shippers? Refiners? Speculators?
Certainly not retailers. They make about $0.2c a litre here.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: MMario
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 07:04 PM

$2.39 in the "local" town, $2.11 in all the surrounding communities. Our village is planning on sueing

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,MarkS (on the road)
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 07:33 PM

Just paid $ 1.659 here in Southern New Jersey. And that is with the station person pumping it. You are not allowed self service in New Jersey.
Mark

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: annamill
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 07:34 PM

Here in San Diego CA, it's about $1.99. While refueling yesterday I met a man who had just bought a Hybrid auto. With a big smile, I laughingly asked him if he was mad that he had spent all that money to buy a Hybrid. He snarled and said "NO!" He didn't smile back. Californians have no sense of humor.

Love, Annamill (TeeHee)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 07:53 PM

$1.72 today. $20 to fill my tank. OK!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 10:02 PM

Here in W. Ireland, I'm paying €1.10 a litre (about €5 a gallon = about $2) It's a bloody scandal, when oil reached its peak in July, $150 a barrel, we were paying €1.30 a litre so, by that token, as oil's now $50 a barrel, we should only now be paying €0.43 a litre. Somebody/s making an obscene profit in these troubled times!!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Rowan
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 11:01 PM

A month ago, here in the Oz New England, it was $1.45 (Aus) per litre ($5.80 per US gallon); it's now come down to $1.22 per litre ($4.88 per US gallon. And, even being careful and limiting the extent (~400km) and style (gentle) of my driving I still get through about 45 litres/week in the Subaru; another 7000km and it will have clocked up the half million.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 11:03 PM

Lower still now. 75.9 cents a litre in Ontario.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Jaze
Date: 24 Nov 08 - 11:08 PM

$1.69 In Richmond Va on 11/24

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Michael Harrison
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:23 AM

Fort Worth, Texas; Rufe Snow near I820; Race Trac $1.60 @ gallon.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Mark Ross
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 12:34 AM

$1.99 is the lowest I've seen this week here in Eugene, Oregon.


Mark Ross

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,roj
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 01:09 AM

I've just done the sums. Petrol costs $5.17 per US gallon today. A 50 mile daily commute is not uncommon in the UK. But 70-odd per cent of that is tax, and the government needs the cash so much more than we do.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:11 AM

Got some yesterday at $1.51 US. That was at a BP station.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Janie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:40 AM

Big price drop this morning from $1.87 to $1.74 in central NC.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:07 AM

"Here in W. Ireland, I'm paying €1.10 a litre (about €5 a gallon = about $2)" Jim Martin

Eh! No Jim 5 euros = $6.49.

And the "obscene" profit on the European side of the pond normally goes to the Government in the shape of tax. Additionally just because the price of crude oil per barrel drops today, that does not reflect the price paid for the refined oil that you are pouring into your car at the pump that could have bought at $147 per barrel depending on where you are.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Midchuck
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:10 AM

Pump prices in Rutland, VT, finally dropped to $1.99 as of this morning.

But I got it in Portland, ME, a week and a half ago for $1.98.

I hate to see Maine ahead of us in anything. It gives Kendall a big head.

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Becca72
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:20 AM

The same station that was $1.88 last Saturday was down to $1.75 two days later...Sorry, Peter. :-) Hell, lobster is $3.99/lb right now!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:43 PM

Orkney continues to be at the heart of "rip off" Britain in terms of fuel prices.With a litre of deisel at £115.9 (It's come down from the £1.40/litre of the summer)With prices higher on the smaller islands we have no choice.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 05:58 PM

Have you thought about secession? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Phil Edwards
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:00 PM

I want to see prices of $5/gal and up.

Move to Britain. This recent slump in prices has brought petrol down to around 90p a litre, i.e. $6.16/US gal.

For other Brits' benefit, the $2 that's been quoted upthread works out at 29p a litre. Remember when that was how much it cost? No, me neither (although I can remember my Dad filling up at 6/8d per gallon, so the price must have passed through the 29p/litre mark some time in between).

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: olddude
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:03 PM

Try 2.55 at our local gas station. Western NY is the highest in the nation. The attorney general is looking into why. Price gouging I think. They say it is because of the trucking up here that we are far away from the refineries. Guess what PA is an hour away Warren PA, has united refinery ... make sense? not to anyone around here. We still pay through the nose

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:19 PM

"Try 2.55 at our local gas station. Western NY is the highest in the nation." OldDude

The last I knew, OD, Alaska was still in the nation. In Juneau we are still paying more than 3.00 per gallon. In some of the villages in Alaska they are still paying more than $10.00 (no typo) per gallon.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Arkie
Date: 25 Nov 08 - 10:17 PM

In Mountain View, Arkansas where gas is higher than anywhere else in the state according to a Little Rock television station map the lowest price in town as of this evening is $1.639.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Monique
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 05:54 AM

Here (France) it's between €1.10 and €1.30 a litre (or even more in some places, depending on where you live and where you buy it) = between $5.42 and 6.41 a gallon with 1€=$1.30

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 06:46 AM

Finally, in northern Pennsylvania finally hit under $2.00 per gallon coming in at $1.99/gallon. WOO HOOO!!

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Stu
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 07:13 AM

"We still pay through the nose"

No you don't. In the UK we pay through the nose, you get cheap fuel.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Naemanson
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 08:29 AM

Here on Guam the price is down to about $3.50 and diesel just dropped to under $4.00! Life is good here! (Sarcasm alert!)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:04 AM

Lowest price I've seen in New Orleans so far is $1.59. I filled up on Monday for $1.66, lowest available that day; it's been falling every day.

We normally have prices a few cents below the national average.

The very lowest prices can be found in Baytown TX at I-10 Exit 789. We've made quite a few trips between New Orleans and Austin TX over the past couple of years, and the four large truck-stop/gas-stations at that interchange have always offered the very lowest prices along the route or anywhere in the region, generally at least 10 cents below the best New Orleans prices. If that's holding true today, they might be down to a buck-and-a-half or a little less at 789.

Baytown is just east of Houston and home to gigantic refineries; I'm guessing that the proximity to the source is part of the explanation for low gas prices there, and the easily-remembered exit number (7-8-9) might have something to do with why that one particular spot offers the lowest of low prices.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bryn Pugh
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 09:04 AM

Until recently the $12 gallon - diesel - was nothing unusual. Can anyone explain why, in the UK, diesel is about 15 pence the litre dearer than unleaded petrol ?

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 26 Nov 08 - 10:39 PM

Filled up for $1.54 a gallon Nov. 25 at a Marathon station in Royal Oak, Mich. Most places, though, it's around $1.65.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 06:35 AM

Still paying 49.9p per litre for LPG (Autogas)here in Lincolnshire. Loving it!!

If you're doing any sort of serious mileage, it's got to make sense...

D

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 07:40 AM

As I understand it, the British government has jacked the price of diesel up above petrol to discourage people from buying diesel vehicles. They are dirty, and they pollute the air much worse than petrol burners.
They also collect more taxes on the higher priced fuel.I guess that helps to pay for the lung problems that the diesel fuel creates. Someone has to pay for that "free" national health care you enjoy. :-)

In my part of the world, there are scores of fuel stations all competing for my money, so a quick check on the computer will tell me where the lowest fuel price is to be found, and that's where I go.
Price fixing is illegal here, so they either compete or go under.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 08:16 AM

Something for Kendall

"Motor Vehicle Emission Controls: Fuel Types

Introduction
In recent years concern about exhaust emissions from motor vehicles has been increasing. To combat this, the motor industry has been promoting the diesel car as cleaner than petrol cars, due to their greater fuel economy and reduced maintenance requirements. However, diesel cars have very different emission characteristics, and an increase in diesel cars at the expense of petrol cars could have important implications on urban air quality, smog formation, global warming and other environmental issues. Emissions of lead are falling due to the banning of leaded fuel in the UK and many other countries. Recently there has been much debate about which fuel, diesel or petrol, is the cleanest in terms of exhaust emissions. Unfortunately there is no clear answer due to the lack of measurements of emissions from both types of fuel, although data from track tests and dynamometers have shown certain trends.

Emissions from Petrol Vehicles

Emissions from petrol cars have been dramatically reduced by the introduction of catalytic converters, which oxidise pollutants such as CO to less harmful gases such as CO2. When compared to petrol cars without catalysts, catalyst cars have much lower CO, HC and NOx emissions, at the expense of CO2 emissions, which increase due to the oxidation of carbon monoxide to CO2. As a consequence of this, a catalyst car will also use slightly more fuel and become less efficient. However, despite these improvements, petrol cars with catalysts still produce more CO and HC than diesel cars, although exhaust emissions of NOx and particulates are much lower than diesel cars. In fact particulate emissions from petrol cars are so low that they are not routinely measured.

Emissions from Diesel Vehicles

Diesel fuel contains more energy per litre than petrol and coupled with the fact that diesel engines are more efficient than petrol engines, diesel cars are more efficient to run. Diesel fuel contains no lead and emissions of the regulated pollutants (carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides) are lower than those from petrol cars without a catalyst. However, when compared to petrol cars with a catalyst, diesels have higher emissions of NOx and much higher emissions of particulate matter.

Cold Start Emissions

Emissions from cars are greatest when an engine is cold. On a cold day a petrol car may take up to 10km to warm up and operate at maximum efficiency; a diesel car may only take 5km. Consequently, diesel cars produce less unburned fuel during a cold start, which will result in lower emissions of carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons. Diesel cars could make a significant impact on air quality in urban areas where most cold starts occur, especially when it is considered that a catalyst on a petrol car would take several minutes to reach its operating temperature. Overall, diesel cars emit less hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide and lead pollution than petrol cars, but produce more noxious gases and significantly more particulates.

Emissions for Road Vehicles (per vehicle kilometre)

Vehicles - Carbon monoxide - Hydro-carbons - Oxides of nitrogen - Particulate matter - Carbon dioxide
Petrol car without a catalyst* - 100 - 100 - 100 - 0 - 100
Petrol cars with a catalyst - 42 - 19 - 23 - 0 - 100
Diesel cars without a catalyst - 2 - 3 - 31 - 100 - 85

* Petrol cars without catalysts have been given a relative value of 100 for comparison

Despite much debate over which car, petrol or diesel, is cleaner, weighing up the advantages and disadvantages is not easy. For example, diesel cars have been promoted, as they produce less CO and HC on average when compared to petrol cars, and they have greater fuel economy producing less CO2 per km. However recent health concerns about particulate matter have given diesels a less environmentally-friendly image, as have the higher emissions of nitrogen oxides compared with petrol cars. As a comparison, petrol cars produce virtually no particulate matter, take longer to warm up, produce more carbon dioxide per mile on average, and emissions of the regulated pollutants are higher.

Cleaner Petrol and Diesel

A method of pollution reduction currently being utilised involves the use of cleaner petrol and diesel. It is cheaper to improve conventional fuels than to use many of the alternatives and no investment is needed for new storage tanks and service stations. Ultra low sulphur petrol is now widely available in the UK.

Alternative Fuels

To replace pollutant fuels (petrol and diesel), alternative fuels are currently being developed. Those put forward as alternatives to petrol and conventional diesel include: compressed natural gas (CNG); liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); city diesel; hydrogen; alcohol fuels; and battery operated vehicles.

LPG & CNG

On a cycle representing congested urban traffic, both LPG and CNG outperform petrol powered vehicles on emissions of carbon monoxide (CO). Indeed, emissions of CO from CNG powered vehicles are of the same order as those emitted by diesel vehicles. However, emissions of total hydrocarbons (THC) from CNG vehicles are relatively high because of methane, the major component of natural gas. Although methane is a small contributor to the formation of low level ozone it is a major factor in global warming. Emissions of NOx and particulates from both LPG and CNG powered vehicles are significantly lower than those from diesel vehicles. Moreover, emissions of NOx from CNG vehicles are half those from equivalent petrol engined vehicles. A recent study using a small delivery van fitted with a three way catalyst and capable of switching between CNG and petrol, showed that on a modified EU emission test cycle, emissions of CO, non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC) and NOx were 76%, 88% and 83% respectively lower with CNG than with petrol. Using data from other studies CNG also compares favourably with emissions from equivalent sized diesel-engined vehicles.

City Diesel

City diesel is a petroleum based lower emission diesel developed in Sweden but now available in many European Countries including the UK. Exhaust emissions from vehicles fuelled with city diesel compare favourably with exhaust emissions from equivalent vehicles fuelled with conventional diesel. The main benefit of city diesel is that its combustion reduces particulate emissions by 34 - 84% depending on engine type, duty cycle, test basis and type of particulate measured. An additional benefit of city diesel is that it is a low sulphur fuel, which is necessary for the optimum running of oxidation catalytic converters.

Conclusion

To produce a cleaner environment for all to live and work in, the development of alternative, cleaner fuels is essential. To encourage the use of the fuels, competitive prices combined with good marketing techniques are required.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 11:30 AM

"Someone has to pay for that "free" national health care you enjoy. :-)"

Not 'free' at all Kendall - we pay 11.8% of our salary in National Insurance to pay for, inter alia, the NHS. That's on top of 22 - 40% income tax (but I'll bet you already knew that, you little tinker!) :-) :-)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: kendall
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 01:18 PM

I live with a Brit. Yes, I knew.

I like the diesel engine for a number of reasons, but when I get behind a huge truck or bus that is spewing out great clouds of black smoke that; I don't like.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Phot
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:58 PM

Petrol here is now below 90 pence a litre for the first time in over a year. Shame the Discovery is going to off the road for the next two years for a rebuild then! But a Skoda thats giving over 150bhp will keep me amused for the time being(Bye Bye licence!)

When the old girl returns there will be a 4.6V8 under the bonnet, and I'm going to try and build a web site about it.(Yep, I'm sad!)

As for diesel engines, unless it was made by Gardiner of Patricroft. or a Naipier Deltic..........forget it!

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: gnu
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 02:59 PM

C$0.7813/l, regular self-serve today. Our prices are frozen weekly at 00:00h, Thursday, +/- 2 cents "delivery allowance"... whatever the heck that is.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: fumblefingers
Date: 27 Nov 08 - 10:21 PM

$1.499 Yesterday in Sherman, Texas

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 06:03 AM

So when the price of oil per barrel was going through the roof to many on this forum that was all part of a great Bush/Neocon conspiracy to enslave and control the world. Now that the price is tumbling does he or they get credit for the decrease in prices as well??

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Stu
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 10:19 AM

"Now that the price is tumbling does he or they get credit for the decrease in prices as well??"

Of course he does - his unworkable and unsustainable system of irresponsible capitalist greed has caused a worldwide economic slowdown, possibly a global recession. The resulting drop in oil prices as energy demand drops in the face of financial uncertainty has, at least seen the price come down to a more reasonable level.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Beer
Date: 28 Nov 08 - 12:54 PM

Montreal area.
Per Litre. Go to the small writing at the top of the page where it say's click here in blue.
Beer (adrien)
http://www.montrealgasprices.com/Chateauguay/index.aspx

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 11:43 AM

"his unworkable and unsustainable system of irresponsible capitalist greed has caused a worldwide economic slowdown, possibly a global recession." - Stigweard

So GWB invented capitalism??? Thought it had been around for a damn sight longer than that, of course it has, and it's weathered far worse storms than the current one in the process, which is more than you can say for any alternative system.

By the bye Stig, you cannot "force" people to be either greedy or stupid. This whole stramash started with home loans being given to people in the US who never should have been given them by finance brokers Fanny and Freddie. Now who was it that set those up again??

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 01 Dec 08 - 11:48 AM

89.9pence per litre here on Saturday... I was mildly surprised when my tank wouldn't take any more and the meter still read less than £30... If only I'd remembered to take my 5p off a litre voucher in as well... !

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Michael Harrison
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 01:35 AM

WOW! Go Sherman, Texas! $1.589 here in Fort Worth, Texas! Cheers!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 04:14 PM

What side of town are you on? It's at $1.669 this morning here on the southwest side of Fort Worth.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Sorcha
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 06:04 PM

$1.67 for the low unleaded now. Diesel is still pretty high.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 06:15 PM

Well, glory be! This morning, in Juneau, Alaska, I saw $2.99! First time under $3.00.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Cluin
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 06:50 PM

85.9 per litre here in the Sault.

Funny how it's been dropping only .4 or .5 cents for a while, then overnight it jumps up 8 or 10 cents. No real reason behind it.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,guest
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 08:37 PM

$1.54 9/10, Woodbridge, Virginia

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 09:38 PM

It's dropped to €1.04 per litre here in W.Ireland - but nothing like the €0.50 it ought to be (with reference to the current $50 barrel)!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 09:46 PM

$1.81 is as low as I've seen in the metro Wash DC area. I know where it's probably 5-7¢ lower, but it takes $1.00s worth to get there.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Dec 08 - 09:56 PM

US $1.61 9/10 per US gallon here in Idaho today. Cheaper in Salt Lake City.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 04:54 PM

Okay, so, like, it was the lowest I've ever, like, seen it today, eh? Well, I mean in a long time, eh? So it was, like, 75.9 cents a litre for regular, only I use, like, supreme, eh? Anyways, let's say I had used regular? Well, with my Canadian Tire Gas Saver credit card I can, like, get 10 cents off a litre at the Canadian Tire Gas bar, eh? So I would, like, of got regular fer only 65.9 cents a litre!!! Holy flip! Only I bought supreme and I got it fer 76.9 a litre. That is flippin' cheap! Wow, eh? The car runs better on supreme and I get better mileage, so that is why I use it, eh?

(I'm channeling Shane again)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: kendall
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:48 PM

$1.64 at the South Portland convenience store.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bobert
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 08:57 PM

$1.64 here, too...

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Dec 08 - 10:58 PM

Anybody know what litres come to in U.S. gallons?

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Dáithí
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 05:58 AM

Good to hear the stuff above about alternative fuels and pollution..as previously posted, I converted to LPG last year and yesterday paid 47.9p per litre in Newark (er..Nottinghamshire, not NJ!).
It's the only way to drive a Jeep with a 4.7 litre H.O V8!
Dáithí

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 12:06 PM

$1.58.9/gal yesterday at the "B Express" on Elysian Fields Ave. at the I-610 interchange (New Orleans).

I mention this because it's the first increase I've seen in quite a while, since prices began dropping from the four-dollar level. The previous day, their price had been $153.9.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bill D
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 04:46 PM

Oh...BTW, I do have a AAA credit card for gas....I get 3¢ a gallon off when I use it.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bobert
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 06:08 PM

Well, folks, ya'll ain't gonna beleive this but there is a Martin's grocery store in Harrisonburg where the gas is $1.559 a gallon but...

...they give you these points fir shoppin' there and we never buy anything but "sale" stuff there so we make out very well on the groceries and when you have spent $100 they give you 10 cents off a gallon of gas and if you spend $200 it's 20 cents so if gas doesn't fall even more then next week we'll fill up at...

...$1.359!!!

Now ya'll beat that if ya' can...

B~

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:49 PM

By Christ Bobert, that's one really devious Neo-Con Plot isn't it????

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:50 PM

100

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:51 PM

Must be down to all that "Gas" they "stole" from EYRAQ - Eh??

100 up.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 07:52 PM

Under a pound a litre in UK for Unleaded ,So with the exchange rate , about $7'50 a gallon!!!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Phot
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 11:28 PM

And all the while, the poor oil companies make huge profits, while the rest of the world goes to hell in a handcart!

Chris

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: 3refs
Date: 04 Dec 08 - 11:44 PM

74.9 litre at Canadian Tire. Orillia, Ontario.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 12:38 AM

Ah...Canadian Tire! The friend of the working man. ;-) Say, that must be one hell of a big handcart, eh, Phot?

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 01:26 AM

Still $2.99 a gallon in Juneau.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Teribus
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 03:03 AM

"And all the while, the poor oil companies make huge profits, while the rest of the world goes to hell in a handcart!" - Chris

Well as 93% of all those "poor oil companies" are "National Oil Companies", i.e owned by the state, that would mean that the hugh profits go towards the following:

- Future energy research and development, and exploration
- Maintenance of existing infrastructure
- Public purse

All benefiting the "Nation" as a whole.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 10:38 AM

Are you dreaming, Teribus? They are "National Oil Companies"? In the US? hahhaha

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: pdq
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 12:13 PM

RUNNING ON EMPTY?

Don't blame the oil companies

By Henry Lee Published: July 24, 2008

If you listen to many elected officials and political pundits, you might think oil companies or speculators are to blame for high oil prices. The evidence does not support such a verdict.

It is true that some major oil companies have made huge profits, but this does not mean that they are responsible for the price of oil. When a consumer buys a gallon of oil, the company benefiting is more likely to be the national oil company of Saudi Arabia, Nigeria or Venezuela rather than Chevron, Shell or Exxon. About 86 percent of the world's oil is produced by state-owned oil companies. The reality is that the major U.S. oil companies are price takers: Their prices are set by the world market where they contribute smaller and smaller percentages of the world's production.

If the major oil companies are not to blame, what about the speculators? There is little doubt that the number of speculators participating in the marketplace has grown exponentially and that they are responsible in some part for both the speed and magnitude of the recent increases in world oil. Who are these speculators? They are oil-consuming companies, like airlines, that fear prices may go still higher. They are oil-producing companies that fear that the price may fall precipitously and thus "sell" into the futures market. They are brokerage firms and banks that are trying to protect their assets in a market where inflation fears are rising and the value of the dollar is declining. Almost certainly there are some bad actors among the hundreds of speculators, but most are not Enron clones ripping off consumers. They are companies and individuals trying to protect their assets.

So, why are oil prices so high? The answer is simple: Demand is high and supply is low.

Between 1982 and 2002, oil prices were low. Gasoline prices more than doubled between 2002 and 2007, and instead of cutting back, Americans drove more and continued to buy large gas-guzzling vehicles. Part of the reason was that they were a lot wealthier than they were in the 1980s. Thus their change in incomes over the past 30 years was dramatically greater than changes in the value of their oil purchases. With gas at $4.10 a gallon, this situation is finally shifting, and consumers are forced to allocate an ever-growing proportion of their incomes for fuel.

Finally, oil consumption in countries such as China grew faster than GDP. Since the GDP was increasing at rates more than 9 percent per year, China's oil demand was skyrocketing, not just for gasoline to power cars and trucks but for diesel oil to run thousands of small electric generators.

Why didn't supply keep up with the demand growth? In 2004 and 2005, some pundits were predicting that 10 million to 15 million barrels of new oil would come on stream by 2010. Since then, only about 1.5 million barrels of non-OPEC new oil has come onto the market. Ironically, part of this problem is that oil supplies are controlled by state national oil companies that make investment decisions based on criteria that are often less commercial than those used by the major oil companies that we like to berate.

No one knows whether prices will continue to rise, but there are three truths worth considering. Oil prices are volatile, which means that prices that go up rapidly can go down rapidly. The best way to reduce prices is to reduce the rate of demand growth, and there are signs that this is finally beginning to happen. Finally, speculators who bid the price up can also bid the price down, but they will only do this if they believe that the fundamentals are shifting.

If people want lower gasoline prices, they should first identify the true culprits: unsustainable rates of consumption growth and a world oil supply that is unlikely to meet the forecasted consumption levels.

Henry Lee is director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at the Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Rapparee
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 12:53 PM

US $1.519/US gallon.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Phot
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 01:11 PM

Wow! Terribus, I've never been quoted before! I'm humbled by your attention, thanks!

Shame I don't feed trolls.

Wassail!! Chris

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: pdq
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 01:25 PM

There is a slight difference between the figures that Teribus and I used. The 93% figurehe used refers to known oil reserves contolled by state-owned oil companies. Saudi Arabia (state-owned) has approximately 10 times the known reserves of Exxon-Mobil, the largest privately-owned oil company.

The 86% figure I used refers to the daily production of cude oil. This statement is for clarification purposes only as Teribus deals in fact, not opinion. Everyone here can learn a lot by reading his posts.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Ebbie
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 02:36 PM

Oh, poo, pdq. There is a huge difference between a country that has vast reserves of oil and the company that exploits it. One is an entity that is open to bid, the other is an entity that bids.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: 3refs
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 02:47 PM

Little Hawk
As I've gotten older, sometimes I find the the new Canadian Tire catalogue as stimulating as Playboy used to be. Lots of "Oh's and Ah's" and "Ya should see what I could do with that"!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 05 Dec 08 - 06:52 PM

1.479 at a local knockdown station.
For those who were wondering, a barrel of crude oil is 42 gallons. It is not a 55 gallon drum. When you do your price guesstimates, base your calculations on that.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 10:40 AM

CDN$1.282/litre (X 1.0467 = US$1.342/litre) for regular which now has 10% ethanol.

We have three grades and I will have to buy the top grade for my lawn mower, snow blower and generator. I have read that ethanol may void some warranties, that it does some harm to larger engines as well, that it has a short shelf life even if a stailizer is used, etcetera, but I dunno if any of it is true,

Spaw... is this ethanol a good/bad thing?

Oh, in case ya wanna do some converting...

USG = 3.785 litres   IMPG = 4.546 litres

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Silas
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 10:50 AM

In the UK it is about £6.30p per gallon. Not sure about the current exchange rate, but I would think in US terms about just under $8.00 a gallon.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: DMcG
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 10:55 AM

135.9p/litre, or about $2.22 per litre, $8.41 per US gallon if my sums are correct

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 11:04 AM

Between $1.28 and $1.36/liter in and near Montreal.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 11:14 AM

In north central Pennsylvania, it runs between $3.64 to $3.74 per gallon.

Several gas stations will only allow $75.00 per debit transctions.

Michelle

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: bobad
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 11:29 AM

Around $1.25/l here in Eastern Ontario.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 12:10 PM

Around £1.49 a UK gallon in Shetland and diesel 3p more.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: DMcG
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 12:34 PM

Really, strad - not £1.49 a litre? If you haven't made a simple typo, what's behind shetland being so much cheaper than the rest of the UK?

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 02:51 PM

The current bubble is speculation on the part of those playing the commodities market. It should go down again fairly soon.

North Africa esp. Libya produces only about 2 percent of crude, and Saudi and other sources took up the slack. Never a problem, except perhaps to Italy and France in the short term.

Europe adjusted to much higher gasoline price years ago. Gas for my rental cars over there was about double American rate years ago, and the disparity hasn't changed.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 11 - 02:59 PM

Q... what's the $ in Gasland? And, are youse under the ethanol mandate?

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: mouldy
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 03:36 AM

The cheapest I can get diesel for is £1-36.9/litre at Asda, but it's a 15 mile trip away. There is a local garage on the A1 just a couple of miles away at £1-43.9/litre. (Which I would only pay if I had to).

I live in North Northumberland. It's agood job I go up to Berwick Upon Tweed (where Asda is) fairly often. However, I have a 5p/litre money off voucher for Morrison's at Berwick, so that'll help on the next fill up. I have a 17 gallon fuel tank, and it gets a bit expensive!

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,strad
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 07:27 AM

Just read my post from yesterday = which I should do before posting.
£1.49 a gallon was many years ago and it seemed a lot then!

DMcG, you're quite right - £1.49 a litre. (Why do we have to have 2 different measures???)

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Brian May
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 07:45 AM

(Why do we have to have 2 different measures???)

Because most of us are older than Dodos and they've been extinct for a hundred years !!!

I still work out mpg (miles per IMPERIAL gallon - is there any other sort???)

Take care all out there, nil illegitimus carborundum.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Apr 11 - 04:13 PM

$3.73 per US gallon Saturday. Wilmington, NC, USA

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 12:50 AM

I paid US$4.06/gallon (with the supermarket's 3-cent-per-gallon discount) in Long Beach, California today, and US$3.79 off the highway in Tonopah, Arizona, 5 hours later. If I'd gone another mile east, I could have paid $3.69. In Tucson it's $3.49.

At $8 a gallon I don't know if I could afford this long-distance marriage. Bad enough as it is. (When we started, airfares were low, though gas got as high or higher in the summer of '08.) 2 more years to go.

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 04:50 AM

It went to $4.01 at ARCO in Sacramento today. ARCO (a division of BP now) usually has the cheapest brand-name gas in this area.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Beer
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 08:09 AM

Jumped to $1.47 in Montreal over night. That's per liter.
ad.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Stu
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 12:53 PM

Crikey, that's 90p a litre. Shine on, you guys have got a shock coming.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Janie
Date: 12 Apr 11 - 10:58 PM

On Monday, 4/11/11.

$3.79/gal. Cross Lanes, WV
$3.89/gal. WV Turnpike Rest Stop, Beckley, WV
$3.68/gal. Bland, VA

Today, 4/12/11, Mebane, NC $3.76/gal.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 04:45 AM

I know of a Canadian city in which prices per litre vary by $0.11 among the retailers. Here in New Brunswick, prices are "regulated" and may only be changed Wednesday at at midnight. Currently, the maximum price is CDN$1.305 and most stations sell at approximatey $1.28 to $1.29. That will rise tonight.

Average prices in Canada have risen 25% since October and the average family is paying $950 more per year. In October, the price here was $0.99.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,Jim Martin
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 05:43 AM

€1.449 per litre in Ennis, Co.Clare.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 07:12 PM

Gnu asked, I pm'd but didn't post.
In Calgary, Alberta (Cowtown)-

Costco- 110.9/liter
Tsuu Tina (First Nation)- 113.9
Co-op and Safeway, PetroCanada and Esso- 114.9 (at cheapest but many higher)
Highest- Shell, Safeway, Esso, Co-op, Safeway, etc. at 117.7 in the better neighborhoods.

And goes up and down as it does everywhere.

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 07:24 PM

Filled up yesterday on the way to visit mother ! TOO bloody much , and mostly Bloody tax !!!

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 07:24 PM

AR$4.90 per litre in Salta, Argentina - that's pesos and are currently 4 to the US$

Subject: RE: BS: What is Your Current Price of Gasoline?
From: GUEST,mg
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 07:52 PM

3.999 in SW Washington USA mg