Cheap Gas!! $2.82 a gallon!

woot very happy filling up today. The gas stations i fill up at are called "Country Fair" and the one by 1-79 and preque isle casino has the cheapest in Erie, so coincidentally close to my house.. anyways the regular price is $2.92 a gallon but if you go in the store and use a gas card instead you save $0.10 on every gallon. So i filled up the truck today for $2.82 a gallon.. payed $20... filled half the tank and filled the whole truck with scrap! Cheers

I talked with my grandpa about why the gas prices are so low.. he told me about an oil reserve in North Dakota that has lots of oil and is threatening the oil buisness of the saudi's, so the saudi's are selling it dirt cheap to keep the oil buisness in the U.S.. hence the cheap gas prices. Idk if this is true, but I could believe it. Yay for cheap gas!

Gas is down to around $2.66 at the HEB by my house. I'm waiting for it to start going back up again, but keep hustling as much as you can while its down!

I went through Erie about a week and a half ago and 2.5 weeks ago and it was at around $2.98 both up and back to NY to visit the fam.. It was AWESOME!
Indiana had the highest prices sans NY.. Once we hit the NY border it's always bad.. but it wasn't as bad on the Thruway as I anticipated.. Think it was $3.18 on the NYS thruway.
We spiked up to $3.09 here from about $2.82 low a few days back.

In NewZealand, that gallon would co$t you US$5.60........

Or NZ$8.00. Its NZ$2.14 a litre here

Our minimum wage is NZ$13.50 a hour though.

(My math maybe a little off. Here, a 44 gallon drum contains 210 litres, and our $ is worth US0.70 cents..)

The low prices has to do with a bearish commodities market. Metals, grain, oil all down. One commodity thats up for now is beef last few years were a perfect storm to make the prices spike for now. In one to two years they will go down too if grain stays low like it is.

All it will take is the fear of something or an outright wold scale event for prices to go back up in a heartbeat.

I wish I had a way to store fuel on a larger scale.

Eric

$3.12 here at a new Mobil station. I usually gas up at the smaller independant stations but I can pass up these prices. Haven't seen it this low in about 3 years.

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The news media must be looking to boost prices on grain then.. Our local just ran a whole story the other day about how Pasta prices shall skyrocket because of the low grain yields.

As they say.. "Buy on Rumor.. sell on fact" right?

We are back down .10 cents to $2.99/gallon.. what a difference a day makes eh?

Originally Posted by unknownk

How many of you were driving back when gas was $1 a gallon and you could fill up BEFORE paying?

One of my first jobs as a young man ?? was at a full service gas station where we would; Wash the windows, check the air in the tires, check the oil and other fluids, all for only .29 a gal.

Now your lucky if you can get someone behind the counter to help you in a timely manner.

Originally Posted by Mechanic688

One of my first jobs as a young man ?? was at a full service gas station where we would; Wash the windows, check the air in the tires, check the oil and other fluids, all for only .29 a gal.

Now your lucky if you can get someone behind the counter to help you in a timely manner.

Ha.. Ain't that the truth.. Tonight I was at a station and paid in cash.. the lady in front of me was owed .27 cents change, cashier gives her the quarter and says "I don't have any pennies" I get up there and my total is $5.97 and I give her $6.. she says "Do ya want the pennies back..cause I don't have none" I said "Don't worry about it" at the same millisecond I look down and see a ROLL of FREAKIN Pennies in the drawer (you all know that spare change space that is past the quarters) Yup.. that was called "Too **** lazy to break the penny roll so she won't have to count them at the end of the night when she totals out her drawer!"
DAAAAMN!

LOW GAS PRICES ? I can understand the brain washing if some of you younger folks but am very surprised at some others. The administration list my inflation rate over the last 8 years at 0 to 1.55% per year 3 years in a row at 0, this according to my social security ck. If that is the case then why is fuel 98% higher then when this administration took office. at the change of administration fuel price was $1.88.

Oh and by the way the other guys arnt any better. This thread exactly how its done.