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What are you paying for gas?

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  • Posts: 10,321 Member
    I haven't bought gas in 4 years.
  • Posts: 636 Member
    $2.09 at Costco in CO - couldn't believe it
  • Posts: 3,418 Member
    In New Zealand we pay NZD 1.90 a litre. That's 1.47 US$
  • Posts: 1,725 Member
    Anywhere from 96.9 a litre at Costco, to 1.03.9 at Shell in this part of Canada
  • Posts: 104 Member
    2.29$
  • Posts: 8,159 Member
    $2.16
  • Posts: 20,316 MFP Moderator
    Wow. Reading this thread has made me feel a lot better about paying $2.70 for gas. I was feeling all persecuted, since half the country is paying less than we are here... While at the same time feeling elated that it's less than 3 bucks a gallon now. Woot!
  • 0.985 per liter in Ontario.
  • Posts: 11,502 Member
    Kenda2427 wrote: »

    I'm in Alberta, Canada and I'm with you. As nice as it is to have cheap fill ups this is not good for the economy. I cringe as I watch the price of oil keeping dropping to records lows. As oil sands projects slow down, lay offs abound and that is not good for anyone. Hopefully this turns around soon.


    While it may be that the drop in oil price is due to increased supply and that may be bad news for the oil industry (I feel bad for those oil tycoons *sarcasm*), it is good news for the economy as a whole. Consumers have more disposable income (the money we are no longer spending to fill our tanks) and can use that to purchase other goods/services... some of which may keep money locally or improve the economy in other ways.
  • Posts: 213 Member
    $105.9/litre which is really ticking everyone off given that you can drive 1.5 hours and pay 84.9 especially given that this is Alberta and we produce the stuff!!! grrrr
  • Posts: 536 Member
    $2.29 a gal in central Nebraska.
  • Posts: 4,555 Member
    Kenda2427 wrote: »

    I'm in Alberta, Canada and I'm with you. As nice as it is to have cheap fill ups this is not good for the economy. I cringe as I watch the price of oil keeping dropping to records lows. As oil sands projects slow down, lay offs abound and that is not good for anyone. Hopefully this turns around soon.



    I'm in Alberta too, we're paying around 80cents/litre...and I'm in the oil patch. I hope, despite the fact that I don't pay an arm and a leg for gas, that the price of oil goes up soon. It's not just the patch that's being affected right now, it's everyone. I'm constantly checking to see if we still have work to do, and prepare for what's in store if layoffs start happening.
  • Posts: 4,555 Member

    While it may be that the drop in oil price is due to increased supply and that may be bad news for the oil industry (I feel bad for those oil tycoons *sarcasm*), it is good news for the economy as a whole. Consumers have more disposable income (the money we are no longer spending to fill our tanks) and can use that to purchase other goods/services... some of which may keep money locally or improve the economy in other ways.


    except it's going to cost more to ship the goods in to the stores, people are losing jobs so they have to "go home" and live on EI, which is supported by the government, which is supported by oil and gas. This is the most ignorant post i've seen today. Think this through, you will be paying MORE for food than you do now, because it's not just going to fly onto the shelves. And most of the people from the coast, are working in Alberta, who do you think is going to get laid off first? those that drive home on their own dime every night, or those that get flown in and out by airplane? this devistates us all.
  • Posts: 879 Member
    Saw 2.43 this afternoon in Maine.
  • 1.99 in north Louisiana!

    I'm really sad about it though cause I don't want any of my family loosing there jobs because if this! So when I fill up I think of my uncles and cousins and everyone loosing there jobs! I pray they go back up soon!
  • Posts: 323 Member
    edited December 2014
    I have a plug-in hybrid car...... so as long as I don't drive more then 30 miles a day it cost very little.... I normally just plug it in every day at my school... the only time i need gas depends on how many times my wife makes me driver her to mother's....^^
  • Posts: 11,502 Member
    lilRicki wrote: »


    except it's going to cost more to ship the goods in to the stores, people are losing jobs so they have to "go home" and live on EI, which is supported by the government, which is supported by oil and gas. This is the most ignorant post i've seen today. Think this through, you will be paying MORE for food than you do now, because it's not just going to fly onto the shelves. And most of the people from the coast, are working in Alberta, who do you think is going to get laid off first? those that drive home on their own dime every night, or those that get flown in and out by airplane? this devistates us all.
    You are kidding, right?! Lower gas prices cause shipping costs to increase?! How?!
  • Posts: 1,014 Member
    $2.47 in Southern WI
  • Posts: 4,555 Member
    You are kidding, right?! Lower gas prices cause shipping costs to increase?!


    With the tanking of the cost of oil, our dollar is tanking too. We are sitting at something like 82 cents on the US dollar, which is causing inflation all over the place. Thus causing the cost of goods and services, especially outside major cities, to increase. You think the cost of food is going to go down because we are getting cheaper gas? That just means the farmers won't be so dirt poor and the truck driver might get to stay at the Super 8 instead of in his trailer.
  • 88.6/L lowest its been in a long time!
  • Posts: 1,027 Member
    I have to go to the gas station! I have a Prius (hybrid) so I can go weeks without buying gas. Last time I did, it was like $3.20 in Rochester, NY.
  • Posts: 11,502 Member
    lilRicki wrote: »

    OK, I am guessing that you are Canadian, then. The exchange rate of $0.86 CAD per $1 USD and overall decline of the CAD compared to other currencies is going to drive higher costs for your imports, no doubt. On the flip side, it should also drive more exports, assuming your country can identify other goods/services that are desired by foreign countries.

    There is the other side to consider regarding Canada's economic future and oil: The environment. Wilderness preservation can be a long-term benefit for Canada if it promotes responsible and sustainable use of that wilderness. Doing so could bring tourism money if done properly. Continuing to mine for oil is a short-term benefit for Canada, which ignores the long-term economic risks.
  • Posts: 305 Member
    $2.48 in mid-Michigan
  • Posts: 22,834 Member
    Getting SCREWED at over $3.10 a gallon for diesel.
  • Posts: 2,227 Member
    edited December 2014
    $2.12/gal in suburban Cleveland, OH.
  • Posts: 1,469 Member
    1.95 in Dallas
  • Posts: 112 Member
    $0.89/Litre here in Edmonton :)
  • Posts: 1,957 Member
    $2.39 for 10% ethanol in Nebraska....go figure we have all the ethanol plants in the nation....our fuel tax is wayyyy too high...
  • Posts: 956 Member
    Whoo- Hoo Gas just dropped to $1.99 here in Des Moines. I'm filling up tonight before it goes back up.
  • Posts: 2,654 Member
    2.06 this morning in SouthEast Michigan
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