2011 Gas prices! What are you paying?

Yesterday, I filled up for $2.71 at Shell, but that was with 10 cent discount thanks to Kroger. It was regularly $2.81.

I use regular grade.

Fort Worth, TX
 
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It looks like California, New York and Alaska have the highest gas prices. I have a feeling Hawaii is high, too.
 
I had to go to St. Louis today, so got regular for $2.87, but at home in Illinois it runs $3.09!!!
 
We're a half hour south of Boston (Bridgewater area - Massachusetts) and the cheapest that I've seen regular gas is $3.01.

But if you go to a gas station close to the exit/entrance to any highway, it's much higher, around $3.15, give or take a few cents.
 
Well, it may be sneaking up in the states, but I promise you do not have a monoply on high gas prices:rotfl: I did the math to convert from liters to gallons and also Euros to dollars. This is for diesel (cheaper than regular, and the car goes a lot further on one tank:woohoo:):

Heidelberg, Germany $6.79 per gallon.
 
I would be thrilled to have those gas prices!!! I just worked out what we pay right now per gallon (I'm in Canada, we use litres) and it's 4.39!!!!
 
Southwest Florida here...I paid $3.07/gallon on Friday!!
 
Why the wild swing in gas prices on the mainland?

And if you zre under 3 buvks a gallon no whining, some of us are 50 cents or more higher!!
 
$3.07 here in the Minneapolis area. They keep telling us that gas prices are going up because of the "winter blend" they use :lmao: Greed would be another definition of the "winter blend" too. :thumbsup2
 
I last paid $3.09 in a Minneapolis suburb.

The answer to why gas is going up is because we've not learned anything about dropping our consumption. As long as demand is high (as it is), then it's going to be expensive to buy.

When it was last this expensive (2008), people did start trying to conserve, and then, of course, the world-wide recession also drove down demand. Prices dropped. Now, the reverse is happening.

We need to cut our demand. Drive less. Drive more fuel efficient vehicles.
 
I last paid $3.09 in a Minneapolis suburb.

The answer to why gas is going up is because we've not learned anything about dropping our consumption. As long as demand is high (as it is), then it's going to be expensive to buy.

When it was last this expensive (2008), people did start trying to conserve, and then, of course, the world-wide recession also drove down demand. Prices dropped. Now, the reverse is happening.

We need to cut our demand. Drive less. Drive more fuel efficient vehicles.

Sure, we will drive more fuel efficient cars when they start MAKING them. Sure, you can buy a hybrid for $10,000+ more but that is an awful lot of gas money-probably 10 years of gas money for us. Cars have gotten LESS efficient over the years. We had a 1989 Toyota Corolla that got 45 mpg highway, compared to the 47mpg rated on the Prius :confused3. I am not convinced that mass transportation saves all that much either. Sure, in a place like Washington DC where the metro is large and established and funded through millions of tourists as well as workers, it makes financial sense. In Minneapolis, the one light rail line is very popular and well used but it still runs at a huge deficit each year (even with 60% more ridership than projected). Buses are nice as long as you stay in your office all day, never have to worry about getting a sick child home from school, etc.

We are spoiled in MN because you can live within 15 miles of your place of employment and have top notch schools-that isn't an option is most metro areas. If someone here has a 30 minute commute or more it is considered horrible. Try an hour plus commute in places like Boston. We also have pockets of industry scattered throughout the metro. Only about 10% of the workforce in the Twin Cities metro area actually works in either downtown. To me, a system like that vs building lightrails to take 10% of the people into downtown makes more sense economically.
 


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