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Title: Gasoline prices
Post by: Old Goat on Aug 16, 2005, 06:44 AM
Whats the price of gasoline in your neck of the woods?...Will the higher prices effect your future camping plans?...Price of regular here in Shelby,NC is $2.59, up .09 cents since yesterday morning..............
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Post by: bmbkamp on Aug 16, 2005, 06:54 AM
When we left our campground in Cape Charles, VA on Saturday, we filled up at around $2.22.  When we got home late in the afternoon (we live near Reading, PA) prices were $2.51.  I think it was around $2.53 this morning.  Our prices usually are just a few cents below the national average.  I heard on the radio this morning that prices in some parts of Europe are over $6.
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Post by: AustinBoston on Aug 16, 2005, 07:20 AM
$2.67
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for unleaded regular. :swear:

Austin
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Post by: TheViking on Aug 16, 2005, 07:47 AM
$2.75 for reg. unleaded.  Went to Brentwood,Ca. yesterday and noticed that Premium was $3.15 !!!!
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Post by: Tufster on Aug 16, 2005, 08:05 AM
Gas in Ontario Canada is 99.7cents a litre which works out to roughly $4.00 a gallon for regular unleaded.
It is really starting to hurt everytime I fill up the truck.
Have a great one
Mike :canada:
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Post by: TheViking on Aug 16, 2005, 08:30 AM
Quote from: TufsterGas in Ontario Canada is 99.7cents a litre which works out to roughly $4.00 a gallon for regular unleaded.
It is really starting to hurt everytime I fill up the truck.
Have a great one
Mike :canada:

That sucks !!
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Post by: 4campinfoxes on Aug 16, 2005, 08:57 AM
Ours went from $2.23 to $2.35 to $2.47 in a week's time.  I now firmly believe it's all about the oil companies bleeding us dry.  I used to buy the "price has gone up, demand is high" line of bs, until I read about the record profits the oil companies have been making in recent years.  And I've never quite understood why the summer driving season should push the prices up, I mean it isn't a fluke, it happens every year, it should be part of the plan.

Lickily I've switched from driving my big Ford E150 all around town to a small more efficient Toyota Corolla.  And DH bicycles to work so he's even more fuel efficient than I am!
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Post by: Kelly on Aug 16, 2005, 09:02 AM
$2.599 on 'my' side of the Cities, Austin.

I stopped for gas this morning.  Budgeted $40.00.  Took $39.60 to fill the tank.  Whew!

Only 2 (maybe 3) more camping trips this season and they are all within a couple hours of home.  Not sure what this does to next year's road trip ~ yet.
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Post by: SactoCampers on Aug 16, 2005, 09:09 AM
High gas prices are not a temporary phenomenon. It *is* a supply and demand thing. All commodities are.
 
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Summer season pushes prices up because people drive more. We're competing with emerging economies for the same finite resources.
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Post by: GeneF on Aug 16, 2005, 09:17 AM
Regular unleaded is about $2.59 here.

I budgeted $3.00 a gallon for our upcoming trip.  I figure I will be spending about $150 less for this 5500 mile trip than I did for my 11,000 mile trip last year.  $1650 verses $1800.

We considered not taking the trip this year but then figured we don't know what gas prices will be next year so we are going ahead anyways.

We bought the truck and Kiwi to travel when we retired but if the gas prices keep on going up, we may be doing more local camping next year.
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Post by: OC Campers on Aug 16, 2005, 10:02 AM
It is $2.65 here at the cheapest station.  I don't know how it will affect our camping plans.  We don't have a trip planned till Labor Day weekend.  We have changed the way we drive though.  I try to do all my errands at once and I now drive the truck and dh drives my Odyssey (he has a 50 mile round trip commute).  

If we could fit the 3 kids and a dog in a Toyota Corolla I would be trading in the Odyssey today.  But the kids would bicker the whole time they are in the car.  Our Odyssey gets about 15 mpg around town vs. 30 for the Corolla.  I might just have to buy some ear plugs:D :p
 
Jacqui
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Post by: Tgraham on Aug 16, 2005, 12:24 PM
Here in Charlotte, NC it is 2.59. It was only 2.39 a little over a week ago. I have recently bought a used Suzuki 259 motorcycle for the work commute. Calculations show about 67 mpg  :)  verses the F150 at 16mpg.

We just returned from a trip to PA with a one day skip up to Niagara and back. Total miles from home to back with all the sight seeing in between came out to just under 2,000 miles.  :eyecrazy:  I think I spent nearly 400.00 in gas.

With gas cost continuing to rise, not too many more trips like this are in the future. :(
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Post by: Dee4j on Aug 16, 2005, 01:29 PM
it's about 2.71 my BIL Just arrived here from New Orleans and says it's about 2.31..we paid 2.98 in Yosemite last weekend.. not sure it will effect any camp plans
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Post by: Nick on Aug 16, 2005, 01:55 PM
In a 2000 mile trip the difference of gas cost at $2.30's verses $2.70's is going to be less than a hundred bucks. Not enough to make me cancel a trip. Paid $2.79 in Winters, CA yesterday on my way back from Hat Creek. Did not mind it a bit compared to the great time I had camping with my family.
 
 
Dee said....  .. not sure it will effect any camp plans
 
I agree.
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Post by: beacher on Aug 16, 2005, 04:16 PM
WoooHooo!!  CA has the highest gasoline prices in the country!!  The news channels are covering the latest gas prices, as high as $3.15 in Gorman, CA.  In Southern CA. the average price is about $2.85 right now.
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Post by: TheViking on Aug 16, 2005, 05:08 PM
I talked to a friend of mine in Az last night and he said they are approaching $2.50.
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Post by: brainpause on Aug 16, 2005, 05:19 PM
Saw $2.53 at a cheap place on the way home today, for regular.

Larry
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Post by: lushy on Aug 18, 2005, 08:07 AM
$2.79 in my area....Chicagoland is even higher!
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Post by: dee106 on Aug 18, 2005, 09:10 AM
new jersey is about 2.43-2.49 for reg.
 new york is about 2.60 -2.87 for reg.
 downtown mahattan its up to 3.15 - 3.20
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Post by: AlaTex on Aug 18, 2005, 09:23 AM
Yesterday unleaded was $2.499 at discount stations.  Need to fill Expedition today or tomorrow (30 gal. tank).  May have to go to bank for loan, ha ha.  Also may buy 2005 GMC Yukon tomorrow.  Have reservation for week in Florida at SP in September and week in Great Smoky Mountains NP in October.

DW is retiring on August 31 and we are going to do some traveling (camping) - will just pay what ever the cost.  However I think gas will likely go down soon.  Hope so anyway.
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Post by: Old Goat on Aug 19, 2005, 06:32 AM
Gas prices dropped here at some stations yesterday from $2.59 down to $2.57 and $2.55.....
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Post by: barbjeff on Aug 19, 2005, 05:50 PM
Here in Toronto prices are sitting at around $1.00/litre which works out to approx. $4.00/gallon!!
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Post by: copcarguy on Aug 19, 2005, 11:47 PM
Hey all!

Around here (about 1/2 way between NYC and Albany) reg is anywhere from $2.659 to $2.899...  I have not seen it go over $3 a gallon, except in NYC, where on a recent trip down there I saw super at one place was $3.219.  Crazy.  I like to put the "9" at the end of the price because we pay that.  Think about all the .009's worth we all buy every day and I'm sure it is in the gazilions of dollars.  My E-250 cost me a wallet busting $103 to fill up last week.  I have a few gas cans and they were $30 to fill up.  Who would've ever thought filling up a few gas cans would be $30??  With all the vehicles in our family being V8's (except the Explorer, which is V6) AND my 100 mile a day commute, I bought a little '94 Escort on eBay last week.  I have gotten no less than 39mpg with the little car, and tonight's fill up I didn't have the a/c on and got 42 mpg.  Looks like the van will be literally a tow vehicle ONLY at this point.