Any higher gas price than this?
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I remember gas in the mid $4s when we visited daughter when she was living in Belmont some years back. That hurts. We're at $3.45 here.
Paid $4.99 today in Los Angeles. Guess I scored?
I will take 16mpg city in my 2018 Silverado Crew Cab LTZ (5.3-4WD) happily than drive a penalty box. What ever gas costs.....
Mid 5s in Hollywood.
That mentality helps drive the the price of gas up. I drive vehicles that get 30-50 MPG but I still care what the price of a gallon of gas is. During the worst of the pandemic around April 2020 when demand was low and supply was high I was buying regular 87 octane E/10 for $1.399. I'm not saying I want people to be out of work or feel uncomfortable going anywhere but it did show that lower demand decreases prices. If people that don't need them would give up their gas guzzling pickups and SUV's and get even a larger car that will get 25-30 MPG the consumer could help control the price of gas/oil. My mom has a '99 Mercury Grand Marquis that her and dad bought new. Dad passed away in 2010. Since dad passed away mom, my wife and myself have taken trips in it a few times. Even at speeds up to around 70-80 MPH on the highway it will get around 27-28 MPG. I often drive it around here to take mom places, even in local driving with most trips 15-25 miles with some city driving thrown in I can get around 24-25 MPG. I drove it on a trip once from Russellville, KY to Indianapolis, IN, I set the c/c at 55 MPH and we just enjoyed the scenery. If I recall correctly it got 31.5 MPG. This is a 4.6L V8.
$3.03 at WM near me.
Pretty much any gas station in the rest of the world.
Filled up with Shell 91 on the weekend at $1.80/L.
Filled up with Shell 91 on the weekend at $1.80/L.
Yea, I believe the rest of the world is paying (when converted) around $6-$10 per gallon. Which explains why Japan loves Kei cars with 660cc turbo engines, smaller countries ride mopeds everywhere, and why Europeans have slow 1L-2L diesel hatchbacks: efficiency and fuel savings.
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I got gas at an HEB over the weekend for $2.85.
Nonsense. It's is well reported that OPEC nations were overproducing in order to drive NATGAS producers out of business. You don't have that type of oversupply driving down prices.
In this graph you can see production ramping up in 2016.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=44356
Between $3.03 to $3.29 here in central Va.
The spread between regular and premium is less in California than in the Midwest where gas is cheaper.
My wife does lots of business travel and is going 217 miles one way today, back home Thursday evening.
434 miles round trip company paid at .56 a mile is $243.04. Any additional non business related driving is at her expense.
Driving her Corolla Hybrid which still maintains great highway MPG at speed, probably 54 MPG trip average.
8.04 gallons at $3.30 per gallon costing $26.53 in gas for the trip.
Her other car is a 2015 Audi A4 quattro which would get 32 MPG on the trip but needs premium gas at $3.90 per gallon
Driving the Audi would cost $52.89 in gas vs the Toyota at $26.53.
My wife does lots of business travel and is going 217 miles one way today, back home Thursday evening.
434 miles round trip company paid at .56 a mile is $243.04. Any additional non business related driving is at her expense.
Driving her Corolla Hybrid which still maintains great highway MPG at speed, probably 54 MPG trip average.
8.04 gallons at $3.30 per gallon costing $26.53 in gas for the trip.
Her other car is a 2015 Audi A4 quattro which would get 32 MPG on the trip but needs premium gas at $3.90 per gallon
Driving the Audi would cost $52.89 in gas vs the Toyota at $26.53.
Unrelated question: why Corolla Hybrid and not a Prius? Styling? Or noticeable price difference? Something else? Just genuinely wondering as one of my relatives is facing that exact choice right now.
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