$2.71???  That’s cheap!  Latest Dallas prices (on average) are around 2.83 with premium about 20 cents higher than that.  And, that was yesterday…

Wow, Alan, even in the Big D?  I guess Dubya doesn’t get into that part of Texas very often, though.

In Saturday’s Seattle Times, above the fold on the front page, was this report.  Good thing I filled up a few days ago, when my Citgo station (specifically, #4 on this map, one of nine Citgos within five miles of me) charged just $2.99 for premium.  I remarked at the time that I used to be able to fill up my first car, a 1972 Chevy Vega, for $2.99 a tankful.

Sigh…

I remember those days. I clearly recall 25 cents per gallon. Then I remember the oil embargo and the long gas lines and the even/odd day sales, too. Should we go and bomb Iran, I’d be surprised if we didn’t find ourselves in that situation again (despite what Steve Forbes says). Or worse. I suppose we eventually will, anyway, after the major oil fields start their decline (several already have).

Well, Alan, I wouldn’t exactly say that $2.71 is cheap, but I’ll take your point. There are usually a few places in the country where gas is significantly more expensive than here. Kind of wouldn’t think of it being in Texas, though.

I wonder how expensive it has to get before the the woman quoted in the story that N linked to will begin to look at her Jeep as a huge albatross around her neck. By that time she’ll have to pay someone to take it off her hands if she decides to buy a more fuel efficient car.

Dallas has the highest gas prices in the state for some reason.  We’re told it’s because of all the additives that are needed to control pollution, but I think it’s all a conspiracy.  If you start getting away from the populated suburbs, the price drops significantly.  Grrrrr. 

Anywho, thankfully I work from home and am pretty close to a train station if things get too awful...and they will!

If you’ve got a tourist economy, how do you think we feel?  What happens if the cost of jet fuel goes so high (and the airlines pass those prices along) that people decide not to fly here?

I think I’ll take a camera along on my daily 3-mile outing today and photograph my local gas station price boards.

Oh, the gravatar guy still hasn’t figured out how to allow someone to change the e-mail address that’s the key, or if he has he hasn’t informed the user community.

It’s a world of shared hurt. Some more than others, but it’s going to have an effect on everyone in one way or another. You guys will really get hammered if jet fuel skyrockets. And probably will have unpleasant effects on all your other imports, too. I presume that we should start getting used to it, if that’s possible. Not that we’ll probably have a choice in the matter if things continue in the direction they seem to headed.

Seems to me that changing one’s email address is about the most basic of account functions. How strange for him not to have built it in.

We are sitting at 2.98 for the non-premium stuff here.  I don’t even look at the premium prices anymore, my heart can’t take it.

Unfortunately for my job I have to drive a huge big gas guzzler SUV, but I have reduced my days of driving it from 7 down to 3.  The rest of the time I use a little commuter car with much better gas mileage although I’m still driving more than 50 miles per day on average.

I imagine a lot of people are cutting back on how much they drive, Joann. Or trading for smaller cars or trying to drive their commuter cars more than their larger vehicles.

While I was out and about this morning, I checked gas prices and noticed a few frowny faces at the pumps. It’s gotta hurt, especially the SUV and truck drivers. Now, I did see an H2 Hummer at the Mobil station and my heart didn’t bleed at all for him. Do those things take regular or premium?

The price of gas went up here overnight.

Shell:
regular - 2.85
mid - 2.95
premium - 3.07

Mobil:
regular-2.79
mid - 2.89
premium - 2.99

Sunoco:
regular - 2.85
mid - 2.95
premium - 3.06

The Mobil station hadn’t changed their prices from yesterday, yet. Don’t know what Citgo’s prices are. They’re on the other side of town and I didn’t have to go that way today.

I have been going to the Gulf station in my town for a long time now--partly out of loyalty--we go there for routine service usually and (2) they actually pump your gas for you and were consistently cheaper than the other stations.  There was a time I only bought Mobil - no reason, maybe I liked the name, who knows--but then after they posted their obscene profits, I swore I would never buy there again.  SO, now I have a dilemma--my loyalty to the little Gulf station is being tested as he is now nearly 18 cents higher than Mobil.  I don’t want to help Mobil get richer, but..........  Oh and gas is running around 2.89 or so here last time I filled up which was Friday or Saturday.  I suppose I could get a horse..........

Linkmeister--I am watching those flights and jet fuel ever so carefully cause if it comes to pass, then I am there before you can say ALOHA--and there I will stay (even if I have to move there ALONE!!) cause given my choice, I would far far more prefer to live on Oahu than on the mainland!!

Well, cyn, if you’re itchin’ to travel to the outer islands, now would be a good time.  Believe it or not, in the midst of rising fuel prices, there’s a ticket price war going on between Aloha, Hawaiian, and a couple of new upstarts.  One-way fares are back to $39 between Honolulu and Kahului, which is about what they were in 1985.