I filled up my gas tank this morning, $44.42 for 12 gallons of regular.

[AlCzervik]

i have a small car, when i got it a year ago i think my first fill up was around $32.

[Warpy]

1. Yow!

Are you in California?

Here in central NM, prices actually fell last week, from $3.15 to $3.12. Big woop.

Thanks for reminding me why I got a Korean econobox instead of an SUV.

[AlCzervik]

3. yup, norcal. Many of my neighbors have land yachts, i have no idea how they afford

to fill them up.

[Warpy]

9. I confess I have a serious problem with smugness

at the pump these days, especially when somebody with a monster truck or large Saudi's Ultimate Vengeance is on the other side and ticking over $60 to my under $25 fillup.

I haven't owned anything with more than 4 cylinders since 1969, except for my dad's car for 3 weeks after he died. It had a 6 and I was appalled at how much gas it sucked up.

[AlCzervik]

12. my neighbor has 2, yes 2 land yachts. One Huge Toyota something or other

2 wheel drive btw----dumb move, people want to drive to Tahoe and 2 wheel drive ain't gonna cut it, so she puts that up for sale and in then in the mean time she buys some Chevy Land yacht. Ok so no one wants her Toyota Suv because of the 2 wheel drive so she ends up letting her newly licensed 16 year old daughter with a lead foot drive it.

Both are these vehicles were purchased with home equity loans, last time they borrowed $100k for the Chevy and a pool, the pool guy forgot to include the cost of the deck so that was an additional 10K and then her husband got laid off from intel and now has a job making 30% less a year. I really have no idea how they survive,

[sce56]

19. I smell a DUZY there! Never heard them called that before ;-) Great saying! n/t

Saudi's Ultimate Vengeance!

I had to fill up yesterday had the light come on coming back from No Ho. It was $3.49 at ARCO in Torrance saw it for $3.59 in NO HO!

[sce56]

20. Sorry you did not get that Duzy! I guess my first qoute was true. n/t

[Squatch]

2. You must embrace "the suck."

It costs me about $15 a week to fill up for my commutes. Then again, I commute on a motorcycle which gets about 45 mpg.

[Mojambo]

4. 25 bucks gets me just over a quarter of a tank.

It's around 3.50 here and steadily climbing.

[ThomWV]

5. I put $16 worth in a motorcycle last week.

[Angela Shelley]

7. Hi ThomWV, the price of oil is falling ...

so I take back my comments from two weeks ago. :-)

[ThomWV]

11. Is it really?

My expectations for a much lower price are more long term. My date for cheap oil is still a year and a half out. I wouldn't be at all surprised by a pretty quick lowering though. This financial mess we're in is going to shock us into some true economic activity, and one of those things will be much reduced demand for virtually everything. Prices will react.

[musette_sf]

6. $60+ for 15 gallons

at Costco!!!

[AlCzervik]

8. yikes! I'll be in SF tomrrow.

[musette_sf]

10. and this was in Fremont

it's even more at SSF Costco, i rode home on fumes last night to save a few bucks in Fremont.

[lunatica]

13. I filled my Honda Accord, 13 gallons for $51.00

In the Bay Area, California

[B Calm]

14. Truckers are talking on the CB about a week long strike. Imagine

how much 200 gallons of diesel fuel everyday is costing the owner operator truck driver. Diesel is already over $4.00 a gallon!

[proud patriot]

15. Truckers are taking the brunt of this as well as consumers

Inflation is really difficult to manage with
our salaries dropping and remaining Stagnant .

I wish the Truckers well

[Chugalugger]

21. I own a Peterbilt with a 15 liter Catapillar diesel Eng.

I make a living as an owner operator. Dsl fuel costs about 50 to 75 cents more a gallon than gas. Go figure. If I filled up here in Houston at $4 a gal, it would be $800.00. This recession is slowing down the amount of freight avail. out here. This means we truckers are competing for less freight, meaning the rates are not going up nearly enough with the price of fuel. My truck empty pulling a tlr gets 7mpg, loaded 5.5 - 6 mpg. My average cost per mile is 67 cents per mile just for fuel last month. IT SUX. Yes their is talk of a strike but I doubt it will happen. Our biz is to fragmented for it to b organized. enuff bitchin or now. If there is a big enuff srike organized i will be he first to join.

[CRF450]

16. Its gonna cost me around $70 to fill up my Dakota.

In a month I'll have to start driving it for my summer job. Wish I could get one of those hybrid Silverado's.

[jaksavage]

17. We've only just begun... nt

[Cronus Protagonist]

18. Cheaper than milk

I'm just glad I don't ride a cow to work.

:P

[Giant Robot]

22. For a trip downstate to see relatives tomorrow

Mrs Giant Robot filled up the Korean made vehicle for $42 for 3/4 of a tank. Not sure how many gallons it was officially. Getting scary since we live from paycheck to paycheck.