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Old 02-12-2003 | 01:12 AM
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Ultra 94 went down 2 pennies in the past 3 weeks here in the detroit area ($1.84 a gallon)
Old 02-12-2003 | 01:20 AM
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i'm getting these two threads mixed up...! <img border="0" alt="[grrrrrrr]" title="" src="graemlins/cussing.gif" />
Old 02-12-2003 | 01:21 AM
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Old 02-12-2003 | 01:30 AM
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$1.51 for 87 through $1.71 for 91 here in the Chicago suburbs. I can get 105 down the street for about $3.50 IIRC
Old 02-12-2003 | 04:37 AM
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Try living in Finland (or anywhere else in Europe) for a year or so, and all your complaints about gas prices will go away - guaranteed

(~1.15€/l -&gt; ~4+$/gal)

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Old 02-12-2003 | 05:09 AM
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$1.57 - $1.84 for 87 unleaded depending on where I go here in small town central Cal. Add another 10 cents for each octane increase. This is up about 15-30 cents per gallon in the last two weeks with the corporate stations leading the pack in percentage of increase.
Old 02-12-2003 | 07:32 AM
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1.75 a gallon for 92 octane with corn squeezin's.

People at work have started car pooling. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="wink.gif" />

It will go up more... a lot more... in the next couple of years. When the Chinese are adding 250,000 cars a year to their fleet, and all the other LD countries try to do the same...

Enjoy it while you can, boyz. The golden age of IC engines is now.
Old 02-12-2003 | 08:10 AM
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Very true Sami. UK is currently about £3.50, or $5.50, per imp gallon for 95RON. No doubt it will go up when you lot start bombing.
Old 02-12-2003 | 08:21 AM
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I never even pay attention to gas prices (and not because I'm currently in an oilfield business). I haven't paid attention to gas prices for years. I just go to the pump and fill it up and leave. I never check prices because the price is not going to stop me from buying the stuff.

I have no clue what I've been paying per gallon.
Old 02-12-2003 | 09:58 AM
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The price varies a lot here in Norway, $4.5 to $5 for one US gallon. 80% of it is pure taxes though.

We have 95 and 98 octane here. I see that the US have 87 and 93 octane, is this the same measuring system or are these numbers uncomparable?

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Old 02-12-2003 | 10:18 AM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">No doubt it will go up when you lot start bombing.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">It went up here.Couple of days ago the lowes was €1.08 / liter.Now the lowest 95 octane is €1.11 / liter.

Eirik,
in the US they use different rating than in europe.Was it called ROZ.If i can remember correctly we use RON.If you convert these low US figures into european system you will find out that they have as good gas as we have.
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1.74 here in Cincinnati, Ohio this morning for 87 octane. I went to Costco and paid 1.46 though. War is gonna hurt us all in one way shape or form!

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Old 02-12-2003 | 05:21 PM
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At the pump I am paying about $1.5x per gallon here on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. It's a little higher as you get closer to D.C. or Baltimore. My car gets only 87 octane.

I figure that I pay significantly more for each gallon of gas by way of federal and state income and sales taxes. Let's see, how much of the federal budget goes to maintaining a military presence in the Middle East, how much went into paying for the Gulf War, how much is going into paying for the upcoming war with Iraq? How much of the federal and state budgets goes toward dealing with pollution created by burning all that gasoline (e.g., the tert-butyl-ether fiasco)? Maybe one of these days I'll do the research necessary to come up with a reasonable figure.

I figure a true capitalist would like to see people pay the cost of the product when they actually purchase the product. Instead, here in the States we have government-subsidized gasoline.

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Old 02-12-2003 | 05:41 PM
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I just filled up for 1.14 for one whole complete LITER! It's 91 octane, and the cheapest I can get, but still... 6 months ago it was around 1.03 or so.
Old 02-12-2003 | 08:36 PM
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We buy in litres but if my conversion is right we are paying 2.15 USD a US gal for regular in the Toronto area today


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