AudiA4Turbo22

I'm sure all of you fellow Americans have felt the unfortunate impact of the constantly rising gas prices. Just figured I'd make a thread to compare the prices of each member's state & City/Town.

I'm in SoCal and it has gotten stupid expensive:

91 - Shell - $4.73/Gallon

Saw a couple spots near Hollywood last weekend that were charging $5.09/gallon for 91!

Filled the tank YESTERDAY and it cost me $120 even. This is nuts!


Before someone goes off ranting about how if you own a Mercedes you shouldn't care how much gas costs or how efficient your car is, understand that it isn't the money solely, it's the principal. Spending $120/tank on fuel in a car that only goes 350 miles with that is pretty frustrating. Regardless of how much money someone may have, the fact that so much is going to something that not even 10 years ago was nearly half price is upsetting. Plus, people with money didn't make it by being stupid spenders, the dollar still has value to them.

AMGC60-3

On base here in Germany I filled up the tank on Friday @ $4.19 for 93 octane, off base ia a different story, its about about 6.50 to almost 7.00 euro a gallon which comes out to almost $10.00.

danlnyc

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2...order_fuel.php

paracutin

$4.15 in Springfield, IL for Shell Premium

AudiA4Turbo22

Lol I'd rather pay $5.00/gallon than go to TJ for gas. I probably would get robbed before getting to the station lol. And if I did make it out in tact, my car would run so poorly chances are something would break and the repair bill would be more than a years worth of gas in Germany(@$10.00/gallon).

LOL

Moto One

Yea is sucks, but I felt that way when gas here went over .75. OMG I'm old.

4.98 on Friday, in Tahoe City, 4.05 at Costco in Reno. I'll drive the 70 mile round trip for that. (12.00 in fuel to save 10.00 over all).

Mark

AudiA4Turbo22

^^Those were the days. My father says when he was in his 20s, gas in the states was $.25/gallon.

I need a time machine and a fuel tanker. lol

LOVEMYBS

I paid $4.03 in VA for 93 premium yesterday; 89 and 91 still sell below $4.00. VA doesn't have a lot of the crazy gas taxes most other states do.

roadrutz

One man's meat is another man's poison -- and vice versa. The higher gasoline prices go, the better my local economy is and the better my business does, so while I sympathize with you guys and have to pay the same high prices myself, I also can't help feeling just a little yee-ha every time the cost of fuel goes up again.

I used to live on a boat in the Caribbean. Some of the megayachts used to (probably still do) drive all the way to Venezuela just to fill up with diesel because they hold so much fuel -- several thousand gallons, typically -- that the two-day drive each way is worth it for the savings. Donald Trump purchased Adnan Kashoggi's yacht and complained afterwards that it isn't often The Donald gets out-negotiated but he did in this case. "SOB delivered it with an empty tank," he said, "It cost me $25,000 to fill up." And that was 20 years ago...

vedro

Pretty soon my monthly gas bill will be higher than my lease payment.

AMGC60-3

It just went up again to $4.24 for 93 on base here in Germany.

AudiA4Turbo22

If you don't mind me asking, what do you do for a living?
I'm guessing it's either transportation or fuel based(i.e. gas station).

You lived on a boat in the Caribbean? That's awesome! I hope it was on a megayacht lol.

Try a 747 with an empty tank, crap costs $400,000 to fill up! Best part is, it will only go for a 17-18hr flight before needing refueling.

vedro

Average gallon of gas in the states is over $4 again and almost $10 in EU. Can anyone with commodities experience explain the volatility in the price over the past five years?

AMGC60-3

I like that graph you have there, where did you find it? In 08 gas was over $11.00 at some gas stations also you need to consider the weaker dollar-Euro exchange rate.

roadrutz

My wife and I have a company that rents furnished offices to small business people and professionals -- "executive centers" in other words. We are in Calgary which is energy central in Canada, colloquially known as the oil patch. So although my business is not directly affected by oil prices, our local economy very much is. Oil prices up --> we rent more offices. Oil prices down --> people vacate our offices.

I used to own a software company. After we sold it we bought a 45-foot sailboat and lived on that in the Caribbean for a few years. Not too strenuous a lifestyle, I admit, but I did actually start to get bored with palm trees and sandy beaches, and I found myself dreaming longingly of blizzards and snow so we packed it in and came back here. We are considering retiring again and are building a house on some lakefront property we own in the Okanagan Valley, one of Canada's prettiest areas and with a surprisingly Mediterranean climate. Life is tough but we're strong.

AudiA4Turbo22

That, my friend, is one kick butt life story. Also, the office business makes lots of sense, our company does commercial property management and unfortunately I find it harder to rent out units when the gas is up as people's pockets become shallower. Then again, I'm not in the middle of Oil City.

Wish you two the best of luck in reaching your life goals.

Moto One

Funny how retirement goes. A friend retired to Costa Rica saying he was tire of how crowded the Lake was getting and he too was tired of the snow. He bought a house there, sold all his property here. He also was a life time bachelor. He lasted almost six months, packed up, moved to Los Angles, got married, bought a Harley got his SAG card and became an Old Tough Guy doing bit parts in the movies.

Me, I stayed here and do my contract work in TV broadcasting, and Automotive industry as a product consultant.
I only have 4 Emmys for my retirement efforts, and an old ML 500. But I wouldn't mind moving out of Snow Country.

Mark

azzurribaggio

I own several cars so the ML sits in the garage until gas prices go down , I last filled her up in Jan when 93 octane was running 4.00 around here...

AudiA4Turbo22

My favorite part of forums, the diverse backgrounds and careers behind each member.
Retirement is boring, especially if you're alone.

Moto One

With all the trouble that I cause around the house, I'm lucky to not be alone .

Mark

KA8

You think $5/gal is bad? Wait until $6-$8/gal+ in near future. You will miss paying $4 for gas. All you can do is invest to offset inflation

AudiA4Turbo22

If that happens, I'm converting this thing to run on E85, I'm sure OEMTuning could help me with this.

LOVEMYBS

This weekend I traded my two CLK63 AMG V-8's for a Porsche 997TT Triptonic that gets 18and 23 mpg. My CLK's got a lot less. According to several salesmen a lot pf people are trading their V-8's for V-6's. Although I was interested in their S65 AMG I couldn't pull the trigger because these cars (V-12's) are now rapidly depreciating dinosaurs and do not make good daily drivers. IMO high gas prices (above $4.00/gal) are here to stay.

AudiA4Turbo22

To be honest, I'm a bit saddened by your decision there, but congratulations nonetheless.

I think Porsches are a bit of a ripoff for a 70 year design that has nothing but LEDs now.

However, that S65 AMG, I could NEVER have said no to. Those are the class leaders in that segment, but I could see why you were concerned.

Most people buy an S65 and end up getting rid of it within the first year or two, because they realize what it truly costs to maintain and how impractical it could be.

LOVEMYBS

Thanks for your concern and I too am sad to see them go. But, I did get a good deal from my stealer who wanted my cars more than I wanted to sell them. They are also not a Porsche dealer so they were motivated to unload the P-car too. I guess it was just time to move on. I've owned CLKs for 6-7 years now and I wanted to try something else.

I love the CL and S65 AMG's for what they represent but, as you very correctly point-out they are high maintenance cars that require a lot of potentially costly attention. There will always be limited market demand for them especially as they continue to rapidly depreciate as compared to other smaller and more fuel efficient vehicles. However, IMO the US auto owner is being "driven" by internal governmental forces and policies to reduce our dependence on foreign fossil fuels which is causing a wholesale change in the way the US consumer and automakers view our "fuel efficient" future.