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All three prices around here match the bottom price in your photo. Four if you count diesel. Paid 4.25 for 92 oct. for the bike yesterday.
 
Filled up this morning - Oakland,CA $4.24 - 91 octane. $73.00 to fill the tank. Ouch!!
Randy
 
Filled up a Suburban with $73 worth of diesel the other day. I paid $50 for a 1958 Fairlane in 1971 and drove it for 6 months before it threw a rod. Something is just not right about that.
 
Hi Gang,
Prices here in New Jersey are not too bad yet.Regular is about $3.50 per gallon.Won't be that for long.Pretty soon ,I'll have to give up driving on the weekends and just drink beer.Here's an idea!Come to New Jersey for some cheap gas and then stop in and have a cold one.
Bobby R
 
Hey,

You guys are lucky. 95 oct in England has just hit ÂŁ5 per gallon, just short of $9 per US gallon.

I have just filled my up 100/6 for a long trip at the weekend with real leaded 4star (97 0ct but with lead) from a local supplier and it cost me the equivalent of $150 to fill the tank.

It runs so much quieter on leaded fuel, but at those prices I only do it once or twice per year.

Makes you wonder when I have just travelled to east coast USA from UK on a $400 plane ticket!!
 
Yeah, but your prices have always been astronomical.

We were in Scotland in '96 and then it cost almost 4 dollars a gallon. So your price increase has been proportionately a lot smaller than ours here in the colonies.
 
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'">Here in Missouri, we're seeing $3.87 for premium, $3.57 for regular. We're heading down to Lake of the Ozarks (huge lake in southern Missouri) and I've heard that the price down on the water is @ $5.00 a gallon already. Summer driving season hasn't even started yet...but you'll still find me bhind the wheel of some vehicle most of the summer.

That being said, I'm incredibly thankful that it doesn't keep food off of my plate. Who I feel really bad for are the families that live paycheck to paycheck. If I fill up our vehicles each week, it's close to $125, not including the Healey. If you make $32K a year, which alot of families make even less, after taxes, that comes close to 25% of your income. It's just sickening.</span>
 
Any truth to the old tale that if you hang a couple of lead fishing weights in your gas tank it will supply the lead your engine needs? I heard that once long ago...... Would be one way of lowering your gas bill....
 
About 3.50 a gallon in Lincoln, NE for regular, I got the wife a Honda Fit a year or so ago, which does pretty well on gas and comfortably seats 4 adults.

But the best thing it is fun to drive for some of the same reasons that an old LBC is fun to drive, not a ton of power, but motor will make it go if you use the gearbox, but mostly it is light and responsive and the steering and handling nimble, it makes a little noise and the ride is not super smooth.

Anyway I like to drive it, if more of suchlike is the result of the high gas prices that wouldn't be all bad.
 
I filled up the Suburban at Walmart in far north Dallas this AM for $3.299.

The "Burb" allegedly has a 44 gallon tank and I put in a smidge over 41 gal..

Lessee... $3.299 X 41+ = <span style="font-weight: bold">$136.00</span>. Can anybody beat that ?

My previous high was $126 in Laguna Hills, SoCal last January.

On the plus side... I get over 600 miles to a tankful.
I drive from Dallas to San Diego on 2 tanksful.

It's "Pay me now or pay me later...."

Tim
 
Cottontop said:
Lessee... $3.299 X 41+ = <span style="font-weight: bold">$136.00</span>. Can anybody beat that ?
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I don't know if it beats it, but it's still sad:

We drove the family to the Outer Banks of North Carolina a week ago with the family "car" (15 passenger Dodge van) with the trailer attached we averaged just over 8 MPG (ouch)!

We paid about $3.75 per gallon for a 1,650 mile round trip. The tank holds 33 gallons, so we were stopping about every two hours (two days down, and two days back) to spend between $75 and $85 for gas at each stop... :cryin:
 
Hello@all

1,50 EURO/litre = 2,25 Dollar/litre who beats more ? ;-)

Michel- who live near Frankfurt/Germany
 
About $4.16 for 91 octane. Hey thats not so bad for up here where we are miles from anywhere. Went down hwy 395 last weekend and it was about $4.70 in Lee Vining (out side the back door of Yosemite). I'm supprised at Santa Monica's pricing. You have competition.
 
In the Netherlands we pay

For 1 litre (95) gasoline Euro 1,60 converted to US 2,47 The gallon = 3.78 litre, that converted we would pay US 9,33 per gallon
 
If I remember correctly the price of Gasoline was 5 years ago around 1.20 ( last family visit) so prices have tripled during those years. For the price of fuel we pay a fixed percentage of 67 percent goes to the Government ( excise value added tax) . The other 33 percent for buying feedstocks, destilling, storing transportation, profit oilcompany, profit of the gasstation etc etc. I dare to bet even if the price would be twice the present one we wouldn't drive one mile less
 
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