Gas Prices

[txab]

$3.36- $3.38. The ol' fark you over for holiday driving

[PhilB]

Do you have a BP or Amoco station nearby?  The reason I ask is because the Earnify app by BP gets you a discount on fuel.  Just a $.05 off per gallon, but if you link it to your Amazon account, you get $.10 off per gallon.  This weekend, until July 5, 2026, you can get $.50 off per gallon on a one time fuel purchase.  I just got 30 gallons of gas for my mowers and UTV.  That's $15 in savings.  

[Grumpy Bear]

$3.63 today. Inching down. Plenty still over $4.20 

[richard wysong]

Same here Grumpy

[diyer2]

$3.99 85 oct.

[Atlas]

Prices didn't rise for the holiday weekend, but then again, how could they? It's already highway robbery.

 

Gas is "down" to $4.96 on discount for 87 here

[txab]

$3.18

 

Northern DFW area $3.05-$3.10

[Chuck FB]

5 hours ago, Atlas said:

Prices didn't rise for the holiday weekend, but then again, how could they? It's already highway robbery.

 

Gas is "down" to $4.96 on discount for 87 here

 

That brings me back to the summer of 2007 when I drove up a portion of scenic highway 1 and not sure if it was Big Sur or one of the other stations along the road but it was right at 5.00 a gallon for regular, however it was also 5.00 a gallon at the one and only service station that same summer in Aspen Colorado, probably to make all those California movie stars with fancy shacks in Aspen feel like a home away from home . I don't recall the price ranges along the normal non touristy highways over the few western states I drove but it was certainly far less in some area's but California would have been the highest state in general I happened to be through then. I felt so ripped off in 2007 paying 5.00, that I do remember !. 

[Atlas]

17 hours ago, Chuck FB said:

 

That brings me back to the summer of 2007 when I drove up a portion of scenic highway 1 and not sure if it was Big Sur or one of the other stations along the road but it was right at 5.00 a gallon for regular, however it was also 5.00 a gallon at the one and only service station that same summer in Aspen Colorado, probably to make all those California movie stars with fancy shacks in Aspen feel like a home away from home . I don't recall the price ranges along the normal non touristy highways over the few western states I drove but it was certainly far less in some area's but California would have been the highest state in general I happened to be through then. I felt so ripped off in 2007 paying 5.00, that I do remember !. 

 

I recall paying $5.00/gallon in 2007 as well, although, different circumstances. A severe windstorm followed by a rare ice storm knocked out power in our region for days. We had a gas generator keeping the fridge cold and our furnace on power, and fuel stations either didn't have power, or didn't have gas because deliveries were delayed because of the storms. Driving around, we found one station that didn't have power but had a sandwich board set up out front. $5.00/gallon. They were hand-pumping it out of the underground tanks. I'm not sure that was legal or even advisable, but we needed it, and they had it. So we filled up. I was just out of college, just bought our house. Times were tight so $5.00 felt really outrageous. Local supermarkets couldn't keep stuff cold so they were basically giving food away. Fridge/freezer cases were literally being emptied out before the food expired. Never seen anything like it before, and until this day this event serves as the boilerplate for our winter storm prep.

[Chuck FB]

41 minutes ago, Atlas said:

 

I recall paying $5.00/gallon in 2007 as well, although, different circumstances. A severe windstorm followed by a rare ice storm knocked out power in our region for days. We had a gas generator keeping the fridge cold and our furnace on power, and fuel stations either didn't have power, or didn't have gas because deliveries were delayed because of the storms. Driving around, we found one station that didn't have power but had a sandwich board set up out front. $5.00/gallon. They were hand-pumping it out of the underground tanks. I'm not sure that was legal or even advisable, but we needed it, and they had it. So we filled up. I was just out of college, just bought our house. Times were tight so $5.00 felt really outrageous. Local supermarkets couldn't keep stuff cold so they were basically giving food away. Fridge/freezer cases were literally being emptied out before the food expired. Never seen anything like it before, and until this day this event serves as the boilerplate for our winter storm prep.

 

I will say though that the 5.00 a gallon for only one fuel stop while on the Number 1, that privilege of driving from the point of Paso Robles ( where I fueled up before crossing to the coast ) and all the way up ... across the Golden Gate where I stopped and walked on the bridge ( and someone jumped off the bridge opposite the side I was on ... never saw it happen but the tow truck/paramedic told me ) and continued on north back onto No 1 and all the way up to where it connects to 101 and also explored some of the Red Woods although had been through some of that before. The fantastic view of that scenic ocean route was most certainly worth the extra dollars I spent on fuel. Just prior to that I had driven through Death Valley and that was some experience in the middle of July, then spent a couple of days in Yosemite and hiked to the top of Half Dome. The summer of 2007 was very memorable for what I saw and experienced in California.