Holy OPEC, batman!

[petermarcus]

I just paid $1.53/gallon for regular unleaded, and I know Atlanta has some of the lowest priced gasoline in the country. What the hell are the rest of you paying?

Actually, I am really curious. What do y'all pay for gasoline/petrol? Here is a currency converter if you're outside the US.

(for the metrically inclined, 1 US Gallon = 3.79 liters, that works out to around US$0.40/liter)

Between Iraq and Venezuela, I think we're going to have to go back to horses. At least grass is relatively inexpensive.

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[indighost.livejournal.com]

that's approximately what i pay... though i don't get gas very often because i don't drive very much (i walk to/from work). but i think i've seen $1.37 around somewhere?? the cheapo station? =)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

The same station was $1.39 a couple days ago. Everything just jumped like mad. I've seen it a bit cheaper, especially outside of the city limits, but it's still astonishingly high.

[indighost.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah. denver, colorado.

and as i drove around today, i noticed that it's all $1.49 for the cheapest..

grr.

[pignacious.livejournal.com]

Ours fluctuates but regular unleaded just bounced up to 1.64 per gal.
Bourbonnais, IL

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Where is that again? About an hour south of Chicago?

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[pignacious.livejournal.com]

Yes, 1 hour south of Chicago. The price went up recently from about 1.53/gal

[teaser.livejournal.com]

We pay about ZAR 4.35 a litre...that's about $0.52.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

That's not too far off. There are places in the US for around that price.

[wild-mind.livejournal.com]

Paid $1.49 this morning, been fluctuating between $1.37 and $1.50 since we arrived.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Puts a damper on the roadtripping, doesn't it?

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[wild-mind.livejournal.com]

Eh, after paying a high of $1.87 at one point in Reno, I've decided to control my complaining ;)

[saphra.livejournal.com]

It's hovering around 1 EUR per liter here... so roughly $1.05 or something a liter... so a lot more than the US, be happy. Germany is expensive.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Wow! That is very expensive. I remember reading that during the first Gulf War, gasoline was so expensive in Greece that they would turn the car off and coast downhill, then start the car again.

[kaar.livejournal.com]

I came hopping by and read a bit in your journal: Hello :)

And I figured I'd add my 2 cents worth:
I'm from the Netherlands and it's even more expensive here than it is in Germany; It's €1.10 (=$1.18) and more per liter right now. So your 40cts sounds like a great price to me ;)
I actually put gasoline with octane (spelling??) 98 in my motorcycle and that is up between €1.16 and €1.24 per liter in Utrecht right now.
Maybe I should go take my motorcycle roadtrip in the usa right now afterall....

[canuckgirl.livejournal.com]

I paid $1.49 on Monday. But it's up to $1.55 as of today. :)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

That seems to be around the average. It was $1.08 in the fall! Sheesh.

[warwick.livejournal.com]

If I've calculated correctly, we're paying about US$2.24 per gallon.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Whew, sounds like NYC!

[warwick.livejournal.com]

I paid A$1.002 per litre when I put fuel in yesterday, so that's how it works out for us ...

*take two*

[ohmyhead.livejournal.com]

Regular unleaded is up to $1.80 here. Two summers ago it was $2.10. The attendant, when asked if it was legal for him to fuck me like that at the pumps, claimed this is a high rent area and he needs to charge more.

All I could think of then was how much rent *I* pay, and then I cried.

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[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Do you at least get a fluffer for that price?

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[ohmyhead.livejournal.com]

Not from "Gordon", not on your life! LOL

[alladinsane.livejournal.com]

It's running from $1.39 to $1.50 here in Forsyth County(The $1.39 is the member price at the loval BJ's Wholesale Club...they're the cheapest in town)

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

I've seen it in the $1.30s near the Fulton/Forsyth/Cherokee line, but that was a few days ago. I'm sure it's jumped.

[hellarad.livejournal.com]

i paid $1.62 in seattle yesterday.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

1.62? Yuck.

(Hi! Glad to see you!)

[hisbeauty.livejournal.com]

77.4 cents a litre today ...
Prices have just risen in Vancouver & Calgary so we will be hit with an increase soon ...
Rumour has it we will see $1.00 a litre by summer :(

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[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

About $0.50 a liter US, then. Ouch!

[ginamoog.livejournal.com]

81.9 a FUCKING LITRE here.

It's like hell on earth.

[ginamoog.livejournal.com]

I should clarify that is 81.9 cents canadian.

If we travel to other towns going inland towards the valley it would be cheaper.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Okay, works out to US$0.53/l, or US$2.03 a gallon. Whew...can you canoe down the Fraser to work?

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[ginamoog.livejournal.com]

Yipes! I hear in the UK it's worse.

Yeah, lemme go dig the canoe out the garage.. hahahaha:)

[days-unfolding.livejournal.com]

$1.75, San Jose, CA

The price has gone down some. It's been as high as $2.00.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing San Fran has gotta be around $2.

[jillbutt.livejournal.com]

$1.60 in Seattle

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Not too far off the rest of the US, looks like.

[flirtini.livejournal.com]

yesterday I paid $1.79 for regular unleaded. pfft.

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

That's OC? Al said he's paying about the same.

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[flirtini.livejournal.com]

Yeah... not sure what it's like in LA or San Diego, but pretty much around where I live and work (OC) it's usually around $1.79-$1.89 for regular unleaded.

[indighost.livejournal.com]

so what i really wonder at this point is, is it really that much more expensive to get oil/gas right now? because of the problems with iraq/venezuela? or is the perception that it could get harder to get gas making the price jump, because they CAN?

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

It is and it isn't. The gas station prices (other than the occasional asshole exception) are just passing on what they have to pay the oil companies, plus transport, storage, taxes, etc.

The oil companies, however, deal with speculative commodities, so there is some psychology (and gouging) in it. Normally, we the US gets just as much oil from Venezuela as we get from Saudi Arabia...except that Venezuela hasn't been pumping any oil for the last month. We don't get too much from Iraq, in fact France gets more oil from Iraq than we do, but war in the region will throw a wrench into shipping and storage.

[applelard.livejournal.com]

I paid $1.51 for regular unleaded on Thursday. Sad thing is that I hadn't even realized prices had risen so much in the past week or two. No sir, I don't like it!

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

No, ma'am, neither do I!

[plural.livejournal.com]

I pay ~$1.29 a gallon here in greensboro

[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Wow. It was $1.29 about 2-3 weeks ago here (in the 'burbs, anyway). If the weather wasn't so damn cold, I'd consider the cycle thing myself. My old Honda used to get around 90MPG.

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[plural.livejournal.com]

yeah whats up with the damn weather
cold winter in the south?
its all fuct

the duc gets ~50mpg
but then again
as motorcycles go
she is a gas guzzler

[nbbmom.livejournal.com]

I paid a $1.31 this morning at Sam's Club. Other places it's around $1.47

[starlazdaze.livejournal.com]

$1.57 in lower Delaware....

not tooo long ago the prices were in the $1.30 range...

the prices seem to rise daily

I commute an hour each way...so yeah...*cries*

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[petermarcus.livejournal.com]

Ouch. I had an hour commute a couple years ago, and I'd go through a tank of gas every four days.