Nobody has been talking about the fact gas is inching back to $3 a gallon. Not here or on the news, unlike when it jumped to $3. But today http://atlantagasprices.com/ show the cheapest is $2.75 in Alpharetta and the highest is 3.19 in Marietta.
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Posts: 2401 | Location: NE Corner of Georgia | Registered: November 09, 2002
Yeah, we are all getting used to being jerked around by gas pricing. $3 gas is not "news" anymore ... but ANYTHING about Anna Nicole IS "news". Go figure.
Posts: 548 | Location: Marietta, GA, USA | Registered: November 10, 2002
Don't complain about gas at $2.99! When we went to Wisconsin May 25- June 1 gas was anywhere from $3.39 to $3.57 a gallon. Was glad to get back to Tennessee where it is cheaper!
Don't complain about gas at $2.99! When we went to Wisconsin May 25- June 1 gas was anywhere from $3.39 to $3.57 a gallon.
We saw the same prices in Wisc and Minn during the same time period, and that was for a 10% ethenol blend. To top it off, we got a tank of bad gas somewhere in Minnesota and the little MX-5 was just barely limping along until we refilled at the N. Dak/S. Dak border. Talk about worrying about a trip canceled less than half way through...
Posts: 160 | Location: Marietta, GA, USA | Registered: November 04, 2003
What in the world is the gas stations deal??? Prices here in town have gone up 2 cetns a day for the past week bringing us to a 18 cent jump in about 5 days! $1.69 to $1.87 for the cheap stuff. I understand Georgia has prices up to 60 cents lower than the rest of the country, but whats the deal with sudden steep climb????
This started this thread in 2004. I went on strike when gas went to $2.50. As long as it stays =>$2.50 I will stay at home, use bicycle, use public transportation, plan my trips, do no geocaching, do without some of those things I want. I am a child of the South in the 40's and 50's after ther great depression and during the rationing system of WWll. We in the rural South didn't have very damnned much, so we learned to make do with what little we had. My dad made my toys, we had a garden, We had BOOKS, we talked with each other! We even listened to each other. To continue as a great nation we must exercise personal financial responsibility. If your credit card is maxed out, I assure you, you are in trouble. It is paramount we elect responsible leaders. The present executive branch of government is a disaster! The present and recent legislative branch of government is a disaster! The US is at a critical point in history. If we continue our willy-nilly ways we are going down the tube like all other great civilizations before us. What Anna Nichole and Paris does is of no importance in your or my future. Symptoms such as the gas prices, immigration, high school drop out rate ( 46% in GA?), p... poor scores in science, lack of homegrown engineering students etc. are only a few harbingers of what is to come.
Sorry, didn't mean to rain on your parade. Nasty
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Posts: 159 | Location: Lake City, Ga | Registered: November 18, 2002
I understand where you are coming from. I remember growing up in the country going swimming in the creek, riding our bikes which we had to maintain ourselves, playing into the summer evening when it was cooler, just doing games that didn't require any equipment, tag, hide-and-seek, or just chasing fireflys,
But now days I do have to get a geocache fix ever so often. Even it it means skipping a meal out, not buying something I want. But even having to scrap up the money for a geocache trip, I refuse to do just a numbers run. The geocaches have to interest me to make it worth my time and money to hunt them.
Gas is back up around $3 per gallon in Atlanta and the silence is deafening. The Memorial day increase must have been a test to see what we would do. There must have been a small resistance, so the 4th stayed down in the $2.90 range and now it is creeping back up. I predict $3.25 around Thanksgiving 08. I wonder just what their goal is? Sometimes I wish they would go ahead and stick it to us and get it over. It may get us all to conserve, but I don't think they want that to happen. That strategy appears to have broken the Cartel's back in the 70's.
If you take the $3.00 now and the $1.70 when this thread started and apply that to a 20 gallon capacity gas tank, it only makes a difference of $26. So, what the hell! Y'all got plenty of money!
that which does not destroy you, makes you stronger - nietszche
Posts: 159 | Location: Lake City, Ga | Registered: November 18, 2002
Yeah, gas is a bit high these days. But I know if you drive around and look you might find a better price somewhere.
Look for gas stations not in the middle of nowhere but next to other gas stations. Also. Get a kroger plus card and use it at the pumps. If you spend 100 dollars at Kroger they give you 10 cents off at the pumps.
Posts: 3 | Location: Right next to you | Registered: November 10, 2007
Thread started May 13, 2004 Prices here in town have gone up 2 cetns a day for the past week bringing us to a 18 cent jump in about 5 days! $1.69 to $1.87 for the cheap stuff. about $35 for fillup.
April 15, 2008 Gasoline in my area is $3.37 per tank or about $67 for fill up. diesel about $4 per gallon or for 4wd pickup with 30 gallon tank, $120 per fill up.
Y'all still driving twenty or thirty miles into an urban area for micros?
that which does not destroy you, makes you stronger - nietszche
Posts: 159 | Location: Lake City, Ga | Registered: November 18, 2002
Originally posted by nasty george: Thread started May 13, 2004 Prices here in town have gone up 2 cetns a day for the past week bringing us to a 18 cent jump in about 5 days! $1.69 to $1.87 for the cheap stuff. about $35 for fillup.
April 15, 2008 Gasoline in my area is $3.37 per tank or about $67 for fill up. diesel about $4 per gallon or for 4wd pickup with 30 gallon tank, $120 per fill up.
That fillup above of $35 is now $63.
Last week I paid as little as $3.08 in MS and as much as $3.49 in IN.
Don't say you can't, say you'll try.
Posts: 1056 | Location: Suwanee | Registered: May 21, 2004
I used to make spot checks on my gas milage to make sure my vehicle was performing well. I do it differently now. I take what it cost me to fill up divided by how many miles I traveled on the previous tank. Gas is costing me $.21 a mile on my pickup truck and $.13 a mile on my old 1993 4cyl Mazda Protege. Before I get in my vehicle, I analyize what I am about to do and figure how much the gas alone is costing! My wife's Saturn is about the same as the Protege.
Gasoline in my area is $4.00 to $4.06
Look at when this thread started and the gas prices then and how they have progressed through the duration. It will make you want to puke!
that which does not destroy you, makes you stronger - nietszche
Posts: 159 | Location: Lake City, Ga | Registered: November 18, 2002
