CuriousByNature Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 12 hours ago, Unicorn said: Canada still uses gallons? No, I converted it for the post. We use litres, so I multiplied by 3.78 to get the gallon amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Epigonos Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Just got gas at my neighborhood Costco this morning -- $5.05 a gallon regular unleaded. Let's hear it for the absolutely outrageous California gas tax. That tax money is supposed to go to the maintenance of the state highways as well as bridge s. In reality very little goes to those items while the vast majority of the money goes to pet projects of state legislators. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Von's (which is Safeway in other places) has their own gas station here in Palm Springs. If you are a regular Von's customer and have an account with them (I do much of my food shopping there), you get a discount on the gas price. I filled my car with premium last week, for $4.10/gal. That special probably won't last long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaffingBear Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 36 minutes ago, Epigonos said: Just got gas at my neighborhood Costco this morning -- $5.05 a gallon regular unleaded. Let's hear it for the absolutely outrageous California gas tax. That tax money is supposed to go to the maintenance of the state highways as well as bridge s. In reality very little goes to those items while the vast majority of the money goes to pet projects of state legislators. Just got gas at my neighborhood Costco this morning. $0.24 higher than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted March 8, 2022 Author Share Posted March 8, 2022 On 3/7/2022 at 7:35 AM, Lucky said: Costco regular gas today is $4.81.9, the highest its ever been. But, it is still the lowest local price. $5 a gallon is here! One day later it is $4.91.9...and long lines at Costco! Sam's Club had no line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luv2play Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Please tell me if I'm wrong but if I lived in Palm Springs I wouldn't be too concerned about high gasoline prices. PS is a very small urban settlement in the middle of the desert. Everything is within a few miles of where one lives. I imagine a tank full of gas could last a month if one stayed within the immediate area. Or am I missing something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ bashful Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 15 minutes ago, Luv2play said: Please tell me if I'm wrong but if I lived in Palm Springs I wouldn't be too concerned about high gasoline prices. PS is a very small urban settlement in the middle of the desert. Everything is within a few miles of where one lives. I imagine a tank full of gas could last a month if one stayed within the immediate area. Or am I missing something? Same way too. Now that I’m retired, I”m generally staying within my neighboring suburbs. Car sits several days a week, and fill up once a month. Last year, I actually went seven weeks between fill ups. I could have waited a few more days, but it was projected to get very cold so didn’t want freeze my butt off just to fill up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSR Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 Out & about around noon, I drove past the gas station (cheapest gas in the area) but didn't stop to fill up because I was pressed for time. Regular was $4.37. ~10 hours later, I had time to fill up, but the price had jumped to $4.49! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FreshFluff Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 I drove a couple of miles tonight and filled up at $5.19 for regular. My regular station’s listed price is $5.99. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ bashful Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 A guy I follow on Instagram showed a station in Southern California with a sign today of $6.29.9 for regular. Ouch. That’s gotta hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SubBobby Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Wow, about $4.39 in NYC, but SC is much worse 😇 Fawkeye_NYCm2m 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ MysticMenace Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 $1.89 - got more than just gas with that bean burrito from Taco Bell 😅🤣 + azdr0710 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FrankR Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 On 3/8/2022 at 2:37 PM, Luv2play said: Please tell me if I'm wrong but if I lived in Palm Springs I wouldn't be too concerned about high gasoline prices. PS is a very small urban settlement in the middle of the desert. Everything is within a few miles of where one lives. I imagine a tank full of gas could last a month if one stayed within the immediate area. Or am I missing something? PS may be small in population, but it is pretty spread out. I used to live in Center City Philadelphia, where I could walk to almost any of the places I went regularly, and could hop a bus or subway to almost everything else, from work to stores to restaurants to theaters to hospitals. In PS there is NOTHING I can walk to easily from my house--it's 4 miles roundtrip to the closest commerce of any kind, and most of the places at which I do any kind of regular chores or shopping are 6-12 miles roundtrip. The nearest shopping mall is 30 miles roundtrip. Public transit is not a viable option. Almost every time I leave home to do something outside my immediate neighborhood, it is by car. + FreshFluff and + nycman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted March 12, 2022 Author Share Posted March 12, 2022 On 3/8/2022 at 10:19 AM, Lucky said: One day later it is $4.91.9...and long lines at Costco! Sam's Club had no line. The next day Costco went up to 5.33.9! + Charlie 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FrankR Posted March 12, 2022 Share Posted March 12, 2022 3 hours ago, Lucky said: The next day Costco went up to 5.33.9! Yikes - I heard things arr even more painful over at the Shell station! 🤭 mike carey, + azdr0710, Luv2play and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike carey Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 6 hours ago, FrankR said: Yikes - I heard things arr even more painful over at the Shell station! 🤭 I buy diesel. Looks like I'm in luck. Luv2play and + FrankR 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Axiom2001 Posted March 13, 2022 Share Posted March 13, 2022 It's Sunday, March 13, 2021. While I was leaving a 7/11 after purchasing today's SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, I happened to notice the prices of petro at the Chevron Station (Marina, CA) that was across the street. Premium was listed at $6.16 per gallon. I'll continue to go to our local Costco where I spent $65.00 last week ford an almost full tank of gas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloKyle Posted March 15, 2022 Share Posted March 15, 2022 Gas had shot up to 4.49 here last week. With oil prices now dropping I've seen most places this week at 4.39 and I did see one at 4.29. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ FreshFluff Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 On 3/15/2022 at 7:37 AM, BuffaloKyle said: Gas had shot up to 4.49 here last week. With oil prices now dropping I've seen most places this week at 4.39 and I did see one at 4.29. Gas prices here have continued to increase. The station where I paid $5.19 for regular 9 days ago is now at $5.69. On the other hand, the station that was trying it on at $5.99 has not budged either way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvwnsd Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Tuesday (3/15/22) I bought regular gas at Chevron in central Phoenix for (wait for it) $4.699/US gallon. It is the least expensive station around. Most stations (even the cheap gas) are at or above $5/US gallon. + FreshFluff 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeamerBikes Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Still paying roughly the same for my EV "fill ups". Not gloating just paid it in advance when I bought the car. Tho I did get $7500 back in taxes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Charlie Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 I just filled my car with regular at my local station in Palm Springs: $5.99/gal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 On 3/10/2022 at 1:12 PM, Charlie said: PS may be small in population, but it is pretty spread out. I used to live in Center City Philadelphia, where I could walk to almost any of the places I went regularly, and could hop a bus or subway to almost everything else, from work to stores to restaurants to theaters to hospitals. In PS there is NOTHING I can walk to easily from my house--it's 4 miles roundtrip to the closest commerce of any kind, and most of the places at which I do any kind of regular chores or shopping are 6-12 miles roundtrip. The nearest shopping mall is 30 miles roundtrip. Public transit is not a viable option. Almost every time I leave home to do something outside my immediate neighborhood, it is by car. That is one of several reasons why I still live in Philadelphia. The University of Pennsylvania is another reason. A third reason is one can see Opera and Broadway shows in New York without staying overnight. Yet another reason is Philadelphia is a relatively cheap place to live Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ RJD Posted March 20, 2022 Share Posted March 20, 2022 20 hours ago, WilliamM said: Yet another reason is Philadelphia is a relatively cheap place to live "Relatively" is subjective. I was born, raised, and lived my whole life in Philly until 3 years ago. One of the main reasons I moved out was due to the city wage tax, along with high property taxes and inflated additional costs associated with living there. City wage tax is just under 4% of gross income. I was paying $3,600/yr for auto insurance for one vehicle (that's with a clean driving record, multiple policy discounts, and every associated group discount available). Property taxes tripled in the 20 years I owned my last home, and homeowner's insurance was through the roof considering I was in a 1,000-sq foot rowhome. Those inflated additional costs are a direct reflection of location. I moved outside the city into a home that's more than twice as large as my previous one. Since my office is located in a neighboring county, I got an immediate pay raise of almost 4% (no city wage tax), my homeowner's insurance is the same as it was in the city, but my auto insurance is 25% of what my premium was at my Philly address. Plus, in keeping with the subject of this thread, I was filling up my tank twice a week for the 2.5 - 3.5 hours I spent commuting each day. At today's prices, it wouldn't have been sustainable. At the end of the month, my expenses now are $300 less than when I lived in the city, even though I'm paying more than double the property tax as in Philly. BSR and + Charlie 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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