gasoline prices

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

So far gas is holding steady at around $3.90/reg. I'm honestly surprised it hasn't hit 4 yet.

It's stayed around $3.90/$3.91 for regular up until this morning... now we're at $3.96

I knew it would happen, but I guess I really hoped it wouldn't... we are inching closer to $4 for the "cheap" stuff

[jon1856]

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

[summer_gphib]

I'm really dreading our July road-trip to Missouri this year. Luckily my CR-V gets decent mileage, and uses regular. It will be about a 2,000 mile trip, but we have to go... hubby is in a golf tourney, and they won't fly our dog in the Summer. (He flies often with us in the winter-- only on delta or Northwest, because the other airlines suck at animal transport.)

Filled up hubby's truck at Sam's yesterday and it was $3.89. Everywhere else in town is at around the $3.93 mark.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by summer_gphib

I'm really dreading our July road-trip to Missouri this year. Luckily my CR-V gets decent mileage, and uses regular. It will be about a 2,000 mile trip, but we have to go... hubby is in a golf tourney, and they won't fly our dog in the Summer. (He flies often with us in the winter-- only on delta or Northwest, because the other airlines suck at animal transport.)

Filled up hubby's truck at Sam's yesterday and it was $3.89. Everywhere else in town is at around the $3.93 mark.

not at all related to gas prices, but why don't other airlines let you take your dog in the summer?

I fly American and have never had any problems with taking my dog with me. It costs almost as much as an add'l seat even though it counts as a carry-on luggage piece

[jon1856]

I do understand Marketing 101 but why is it that those NOT IN NEED get the good stuff at no or very little cost?

Honda hopes Hollywood glitz shines up fuel cell car

TAKANEZAWA, Japan -- Honda Motor Co. is hoping a little Hollywood star power will add sparkle to its new fuel cell vehicle and make the FCX Clarity the greenest car on the red carpet.
Actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Harris, as well as film producer Ron Yerxa, are among the first five customers tapped to lease the garnet red no-emissions sedan.
While the car is rich with public-relations opportunities, it is still largely experimental. Honda expects to lease only about a half dozen in the United States this year, and about 200 in both the United States and Japan over the next three years.
The first car rolled off the line here today and will hit the streets of southern California next month. Yerxa, known for his work on "Cold Mountain," will get the first delivery through Honda of Santa Monica, one of three dealerships chosen to handle the leasing.
Keenly aware of the image coup scored by Toyota when celebrities rolled up to the Oscars in the fuel-efficient Prius hybird, Honda intentionally chose stars among its first Clarity customers.
"We wanted a few celebrities because at this time it's important to spread the message," said Stephen Ellis, Honda's manager of fuel cell marketing, here at a press event.
Yerxa and Harris were flown out to Honda's New Model Center north of Tokyo to attend a line off ceremony attended by President Takeo Fukui. But also on hand was Jon Spallino of Redondo Beach, Calif., a purported example of the hoi polloi lining up for the car.
"I'm going to take it to places to show it off," said Harris, whose roles included the bride-turned-terrorist in the television spy drama "24," "That's what it's all about."..............
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../62741773/1176

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...923001566/1065

[FirstAndFinest]

Originally Posted by jon1856

I do understand Marketing 101 but why is it that those NOT IN NEED get the good stuff at no or very little cost?

Honda hopes Hollywood glitz shines up fuel cell car

TAKANEZAWA, Japan -- Honda Motor Co. is hoping a little Hollywood star power will add sparkle to its new fuel cell vehicle and make the FCX Clarity the greenest car on the red carpet.
Actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Harris, as well as film producer Ron Yerxa, are among the first five customers tapped to lease the garnet red no-emissions sedan.
While the car is rich with public-relations opportunities, it is still largely experimental. Honda expects to lease only about a half dozen in the United States this year, and about 200 in both the United States and Japan over the next three years.
The first car rolled off the line here today and will hit the streets of southern California next month. Yerxa, known for his work on "Cold Mountain," will get the first delivery through Honda of Santa Monica, one of three dealerships chosen to handle the leasing.
Keenly aware of the image coup scored by Toyota when celebrities rolled up to the Oscars in the fuel-efficient Prius hybird, Honda intentionally chose stars among its first Clarity customers.
"We wanted a few celebrities because at this time it's important to spread the message," said Stephen Ellis, Honda's manager of fuel cell marketing, here at a press event.
Yerxa and Harris were flown out to Honda's New Model Center north of Tokyo to attend a line off ceremony attended by President Takeo Fukui. But also on hand was Jon Spallino of Redondo Beach, Calif., a purported example of the hoi polloi lining up for the car.
"I'm going to take it to places to show it off," said Harris, whose roles included the bride-turned-terrorist in the television spy drama "24," "That's what it's all about."..............
http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dl.../62741773/1176

http://www.autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dl...923001566/1065

That crap burns me up too! Do people really buy XYZ because they see someone famous using XYZ?? I'd rather support a company that did good deeds in the community.

[PeppyGPhiB]

Originally Posted by FirstAndFinest

That crap burns me up too! Do people really buy XYZ because they see someone famous using XYZ?? I'd rather support a company that did good deeds in the community.

I AM in marketing, and I'll tell you that, YES, OF COURSE THEY DO! Clothes, accessories, make up, cars, even dogs! People want to look like the stylish, rich and famous...not the poor. Just the truth.

Anyway, I read an article about this yesterday and I was under the impression that at least Jamie Lee Curtis purchased her car. Don't know about the others since they weren't mentioned in that article.

[texas*princess]

Free tacos with gas receipt from Jack In the Box

Disclaimer: I don't work for Jack In the Box, nor am I affiliated with them. I just heard about this and thought I'd pass it on in light of today's high fuel & food prices so I'm not trying to spam. If the mods think it should be deleted, please feel free to do so. </end disclaimer>

Jack in the Box is giving away 2 free tacos with a gas receipt on Thursday June 26th!

Viva la Taco! lol

[DeltAlum]

A post in two parts:

Part one...

Sister in law from Detroit is in town on business and says that gas is $4.07 there. She was amazed that gas at the Safeway store next to us was only $3.87. And, having spent at least $50 in a food shopping trip using my "Safeway Club Card," I got a 10 cent per gallon discount, so I paid $3.77.


Part two...

An oil company spokesman on our local NPR station last week said that prices were generally lower at grocery stores or big box stores because they don't depend to gasoline sales for their profit. He also said that, contrary to what we've been told, US refineries are not working to capacity, but have some "confortable" head room. If that's true (I obviously really don't know), it flies in the face of what "Big Oil" would have us believe.

[jon1856]

Originally Posted by DeltAlum

A post in two parts:

Part one...

Sister in law from Detroit is in town on business and says that gas is $4.07 there. She was amazed that gas at the Safeway store next to us was only $3.87. And, having spent at least $50 in a food shopping trip using my "Safeway Club Card," I got a 10 cent per gallon discount, so I paid $3.77.


Part two...

An oil company spokesman on our local NPR station last week said that prices were generally lower at grocery stores or big box stores because they don't depend to gasoline sales for their profit. He also said that, contrary to what we've been told, US refineries are not working to capacity, but have some "comfortable" head room. If that's true (I obviously really don't know), it flies in the face of what "Big Oil" would have us believe.

I was taking to a business man up in Nantucket and he told me gas was $5.00 on the island!
And heard on a news show, not sure just which one, the other day that US refineries are working at about 89% and that is just about the normal rate given normal shut downs for maintenance.
I personally have not fact checked that.

[Sister Havana]

Gas around me is $4.22-$4.25. How sad is it that I saw a station near where I was today at $4.03 and thought that was a major bargain?

[christiangirl]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

not at all related to gas prices, but why don't other airlines let you take your dog in the summer?

I think it's because it gets too hot and they won't want to be sued when the plane lands and you find out your dog died from heat exhaustion during the flight. That's the gist I got when I inquired about flying Delta with my dog.

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

It's stayed around $3.90/$3.91 for regular up until this morning... now we're at $3.96

I knew it would happen, but I guess I really hoped it wouldn't... we are inching closer to $4 for the "cheap" stuff

It's up again... $3.989 for regular.

Boo

It is now officially $60.63 to fill up a CAVALIER. WTF!

[ASUADPi]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

It's up again... $3.989 for regular.

Boo

It is now officially $60.63 to fill up a CAVALIER. WTF!

Wow, wish Phx was still in the 3 dollar range. I need to fill my car up and the cheapest gas I've found is between $4.09-$4.15 (but that was this morning, I'll wake up tomorrow and it will probably be 5 cents more )