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May 6th, 2008 at 8:58 am
Sadly Avrila, that looks pretty good from here. Arco’s regular is $3.57. You don’t want to know what Chevron looks like.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Wonder what it’s like in Needles right now?
May 7th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Whoa…didn’t wanna know this…$4.29-$4.49 regular, $4.79-$5.00 diesel :O
http://www.motortrend.com/gas_prices/33/california/san_bernardino/needles/index.html
May 7th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Wha….?
That’s insane.
May 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Just put $877 in the Freightliner, yesterday in Salt Lake City. OUCH!
May 8th, 2008 at 8:50 am
I think I’d die.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
Remember complaining about $1.50?
Of course it’d also help if the dollar weren’t fracked on international exchange rates. Stupid freaking not-even-interest mortgages.
May 9th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Gack? Gack!? Around here we’re paying $3.70 per gallon of regular.
May 9th, 2008 at 5:43 pm
That picture is from about a week ago. It’s gone up since then.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
It’s only a few months later, and now…who do I have to go out with to get that gas price?
August 3rd, 2008 at 10:56 am
Did you notice the fuel price in Wales?
August 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Gas is down over 15 cents here in the last week or so. I paid $3.839 yesterday for ten gallons.
August 3rd, 2008 at 8:04 pm
In Wales…I forced myself to not do the math. It would have hurt too much because they’re stuck with the metric system.
$3.85 is as good as it gets there (except at the crappy station that I don’t go to because I like my car).
August 4th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
At the Shell in Porthmadog, regular is 1.20 pounds per liter. In very rough figures, thats $2.45 U.S.D. per liter. If I remember right it about 3.7 liters per U.S. gallon. More or less $9.05 per gallon.
August 4th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
“Stuck” with the metric system? Metric system rules. Metric system is awesome. The world runs on the metric system.
Long live the metric system!
August 4th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
I knew it had to be something like that.
On the other hand, they can take the train from city to city and they don’t have the urban sprawl problem we do. Probably they drive once every week or two for a big grocery shopping trip and on the weekends for fun if they’re rich, not 40 miles to work.
And the problem with metric is, it moves the psychological barriers on price further apart. £1 a liter just doesn’t sound as bad as £3.70 a gallon (which would be pushing $8). We would be approximately equally screwed if we sold gas by quarts, but there isn’t a convenient bigger unit in metric…there’s the decaliter I guess but I’ve never heard of anyone using that.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
And I saw $3.81 at a decent station today. Or $0.95 a quart. That just sounds less awful.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Okay, first off, I don’t give a shit about any of your qualms about price per liter. Metric still rules.
And actually, there are some small stations in the Susquehanna Valley that are selling by the half gallon and quart. These small, independent gas stations have never updated their pumps to digital displays, and they still have the analog spinning numbers, numbers that don’t go as high as they need to right now. So they’ve had to sell in smaller units and put a cap on volume per purchase.
August 5th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
OK then, your third world county is going to start a trend that will result in us being just as screwed as the rest of the world. Or maybe people getting home equity loans to pay their mortgages will beat them to it.