It always goes down after the holiday weekend. If you can wait it out til Tuesday, you're definitely better off.

I filled up the truck last night at Costco and it was $4.00/gallon :eek:

$4.52 for Off-Road
$3.85 for unleaded

Something to the tune of ~$150 fill up

I waited till Tuesday, it dropped more since then in some places but others are still around 4.00+

The same trend is happening here in Houston. A city that considers the term 'public transportation' dirty words. :p

$4.22 at my "usual" place. Public transportation doesn't reach my area of town.

Well in some west coast cities, one can thank GM for that:(:mad:

I paid over 43 dollars for 3/4 of a tank last night. Unfortunately, I travel from the city to the suburbs for work - not the other way around. And there is no stop anywhere close to my job. Otherwise I wouldn't mind driving a mile to the train station and jumping on the railroad! It doesn't pay for me.

I pay $3.99 for regular and there are several gas stations in my area well over $4/gallon.

Ah, love the BURBs and Driving big gas guzzlers:mad:

Hey, I live in the burbs and drive 4.5 miles a day both ways. How about you?:rolleyes:

I have trees, and some land! But, guess what, it cost gas to cut the grass.If you do not help then do not complain, YOU are taking gas from us, others and not helping keeping the prices down!:mad:

Keep driving along!:o

WTH?

Evidently You do not get it?:rolleyes:

Da Maroon.! Don't drive so far, got a better car that uses less gas.

I drive a car that is gas efficient, do you? How far from your job do you live and drive?

Dah, do that explain my last post?:rolleyes:

I drive an 5.4 V8 F-150, during the summer I live about a 40 minute drive from where I work. On top of that I also have upkeep to do around the enormously huge amount of property I live on, hence why I needed off-road diesel. I needed the tow package on the truck for those purposes, but it'd be much more expensive than my difference in gas to buy a completely new vehicle.

Yep. Paid $4.09 the other day. And we'll be getting the summer blend here in Chicago next week so it will be going up even more - some of the stations in my town raised prices to $4.19 for regular.

Diesel is around $4.99 - some places it is well over $5!

I read today that, since some of the older gas pumps can't be set to register above $3.999/gal, some gas stations are being allowed to program their pumps with the price of a half gallon of gas. So the gas pump registers, say, $2.10 per "gallon", and then the price is doubled when you go to pay.

I'm paying around $4.599/gal for premium. Diesel, meanwhile, is going for over $5/gal.

It cost me almost $40 to put HALF A TANK in my car today. And I feel entitled to whine because my car gets 30 city/35 highway. At least the car is paid for!

$3.85 in MA still... it's down a few cents from last week when we were hovering just under $4.00

In my travels today, I saw a gas station selling regular for $4.199/gal and premium for $4.359/gal. That's cheap around here. I also saw a gas station a few miles away, getting $4.459/gal for regular. Guess which one had a line and which one was deserted.

I started to cry yesterday.
The gas station that was $3.99 is now $4.21!
As I posted above, they now have meters set to sell at 1/2 gallons untill they get new meters.

Check out the Chevy Volt that GM will begin producing in 2010. Cool looking car, all electric.

http://www.chevrolet.com/electriccar/

That kind of resembles the new Camero Concept.

That's kind of cool. I also like the name. If I could, I would go into car-naming.. that has to be a fun job. :p

The interesting flip side to the news release was that The Hummer brand
may be shut down or sold off.
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../57736413/1065
https://home.autonews.com/clickshare...-gRcmhI5k18g-0

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...857467221/1065

Yes, and they are closing some truck plants as well.

The Albertsons by my house is at $3.82, yet the Albertsons by the unversity (which is probably 10 miles away) is at $3.77.

Sams is still the cheapest though, its in the low $3.70's.

its up to 4.31 for regular by my house, its a little cheaper in the bronx...
i spent my last 6 dollars on gas today and the gas light didnt even go off... :(

Bad news for anyone thinking of buying a hybrid any time soon:
Battery shortage hurts hybrid sales

With gasoline at $4 a gallon, the market is screaming for more hybrids. But sales of hybrids dropped significantly in May.

Battery shortages are crimping supplies of the Ford Escape Hybrid and Toyota Prius, two of the top-selling hybrids.

Prius sales dropped 37.5 percent in May to 15,011 compared with May 2007. Combined sales of the Escape Hybrid and its stablemate, the Mercury Mariner Hybrid, dropped 26.0 percent to 2,378 last month.

General Motors' big SUV hybrids are not selling well because of their high prices and limited fuel savings.............................
http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...8/newsletter01

This is an interesting story from LA Times:
Soaring costs are squeezing gas station owners too

[COLOR=#333333! important]Dealers say fuel and other expenses are rising so rapidly that they can't keep up.[/color]
[COLOR=#999999! important]By Elizabeth Douglass and Ronald D. White, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers
June 10, 2008 [/color]
Andre van der Valk hasn't been paid in six months.

He has a job, though, as owner of four service stations in Southern California. He hasn't taken a salary this year so he can pour all his money into buying fuel for his stations.
Despite the jaw-dropping prices at the pump -- they jumped 19 cents a gallon in California to $4.43 in the last week and averaged more than $4 a gallon nationwide for the first time, the Energy Department said Monday -- service station owners aren't making the killing that motorists assume.

That's because credit card fees, the price of tanker-loads of fuel and other costs are rising so rapidly that station owners haven't been able to keep pace despite the record prices they're charging.

"People see $4 gas, and they think these retailers are making a fortune," said Ben Brockwell, a director at Oil Price Information Service, which tracks fuel prices. "The reality is these guys are being stressed to the limit."...............................
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...,2585887.story

I paid $3.99 yesterday. That rounds up to $4 so, yes, I have paid $4 a gallon for gas. My credit card receipt brought tears to my eyes.

The pump cut me off at $75 at $3.990, not even 3/4 tank.

Gas was did jump from $3.89 to $4.29 last week, but it's back down to $3.95. I'm going to need a fill up soon so I'm just trying to jump on it at the right time...I feel like I'm rocking back and forth on my toes, playing double dutch. :rolleyes:

I was on empty on Saturday, so I had to go to the nearest gas station...and pay $4.09. Needless to say I put in just enough to get me to my destination.

I was just coming to this thread to post the same. The pumps around here also cut off at $75 for credit card sales at the pump- so I am spending $75 twice a week for gas now, but have not had a truly full tank in a couple of weeks.

jon1856- Good call posting that article about station owners. They are really getting screwed over in all of this. In addition to the cost increases you reference, demand is actually going down for gas- so they are also making less revenue on a volume basis.

Producers and oilfield services are of course making a killing, but quite a few business lines in the oil/gas industry do not fare well when prices get like this.

Thanks.
But more importantly is just how low one lets their gas tank get.
For at least two reasons, you should not let it get down to "Zero":
1) There will always be a small amount of dirt and sediments in ones tank.
The lower it gets, more will get pulled into engine.
When you have a PM done on car, ask the mechanic to check your gas filter when he checks your air filter.
2) Unlike gas station tanks, which float, car's tanks can form water condensation. And the lower you get in tank, the better the chance of the water on top will get into engine.

Its officially then end of the world, its hit the $4.00+ mark in El Paso.

I got an email the other day about how to save gas, and one was to not buy gas during the day---to either fill your tank up in the morning or in the evening when the temperature is cooler. At first I didn't think it mattered until this last time I filled up my tank and got a lot less mileage!!

Not yet. I filled up Saturday for $3.89 and the next day that same station was $3.99.

Energy Dept. says oil, gas prices to stay high

WASHINGTON - Motorists can expect gasoline prices around $4 gallon through next year, the Energy Department said Wednesday, with oil prices staying well above $100 a barrel.
Crude oil prices are likely to average $126 a barrel in 2009, $4 higher than this year, as oil supplies and demand are expected to remain tight, Guy Caruso, head of the department's Energy Information Administration, told a House hearing.....
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25096617/

I hope that the e-mail was not the kind covered in following link from
Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/gastips.asp
Sort of mixed reviews/thoughts. Very interesting read.
Other sites cover it as well:
http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/aut...umping_gas.htm
Linked from ^ is the following which also has some good info:
http://www.edmunds.com/advice/fuelec...2/article.html

Not yet- 3.91 yesterday, and it was not the cheapest station around.