navygz19 Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Or do not TRUST public transportation b/c though they live in a nice area, it's unfortunate that every surrounding area is, shall we say, not so nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vengeful Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Last I checked (yesterday), it ranged anywhere from $2.889 (Hess, Delta Sonic, Kwik Fill) to $3.279 (Mobil). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jj big shoe Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Like Aaron pointed out, some people don't really have a choice whether to take the bus or not. Their vehicle is their livelihood. I do service work as well and I'm in the car going from site to site all day. I've always been reimbursed for mileage and currently have a company vehicle, but most service industry personnel (especially if self employed) need larger vehicles to carry their gear around.* What really sucks is that the price of every other commodity is directly affected by fuel costs. You're not only paying for it at the pump, it's costing you more across the board. *BTW, as mentioned before, some people are required by their type of employment to operate their work vehicle all day without a passenger yet their tax money goes to provide HOV lanes for commuters. I believe that practice is unconstitutional and HOV lanes should be paid for solely by those who are in a position to use them every day. $.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mws Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 Last night I saw one of the local plumbers (one of those with 4 or 5 trucks around town) had a brand new minivan with company colors. Had pipes on the roof rack and everything! Unusual for here (usually in big-A trucks) but I bet he gets the last laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaKaNa Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 $3.00 a gallon right near philly. I filled up at $2.89/gallon over here in Jersey, about 5 miles from Philly... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94extreme Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 "public transportation" Great idea, except that some people do not have that option because they have to carry equipment and supplies that I just can't see being alowed on a bus or commuter train smoke you "supplies" before hand my man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k9sar Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 I filled up at $2.89/gallon over here in Jersey, about 5 miles from Philly... problem is that the savings to me are eaten up by bridge tolls to get there and back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fordsho90 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 3.60 in Commie land Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 I'm another one who has to use their vehicle for work. I use my Pathfinders to do it, though I really need a full size gas guzzling truck or van with the amount of tools I should be carrying all the time. As it is now, I have to swap in the tools I need for that particular days work. I'll continue to pay the price, whatever it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 (edited) Cheap place I've always filled up at finally went to $3.03 today, first time this round hitting 3 bones a gallon at that place, it's now officially starting to piss me the hell off. Edited May 18, 2007 by navygz19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XEcaribe Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 smoke you "supplies" before hand my man. hahahah good thinking. in maine its around 2.90 i cant imagine what its going to be this summer considering last summer was so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SC88Pathy Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 It was $3.559 when I filled up today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87pathmaker Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 (edited) I just filled up at 4.07 here in Wrangell, AK! You know what else is ******, in the winter most homes up here use oil heat for their furnaces (which run radiant heat and water heaters)... fuel oil is nearly $3 a gallon. It takes approximatly 500 gallons to heat a 2000sq ft home up here for 3 winter months... My hotel @25k sq feet uses a little bit over 1000gallons a month of fuel oil in the winter time...try having that for a heating bill Edited May 19, 2007 by 87pathmaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trainman Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Price went up to record highs just down the road in Kamloops on Friday, to $1.289 per liter. They are forecasting $1.40/l gas here this summer, thats about $5.20 CDN per US gallon. BTW, there were up to 5 hour line ups at the Peace Arch border crossing for people going from Canada to Washington State (its a holiday up here this weekend), lots of us Canucks going shopping down south and saving tons of money. One guy on the news said he saves $40 per fill on gas, he goes 3 times a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamzan Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 I felt the pain when put 20 bucks in the pathy today, and the gauge climbed from orange light on to halfway between 1/4 and 1/2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cuong Nguyen Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 3.19 here in Del Rio, Texas. Bud told me to expect to pay $4 in the summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alkorahil Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Paid $3.09/gallon today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 20, 2007 Author Share Posted May 20, 2007 Our price went down to $3.29 yesterday. Yay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barthel Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 Paid $3.49 yesterday in SoCal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unccpathfinder Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 2.93 in SC on Friday... something like 3.09 in charlotte Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
navygz19 Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 And they just keep on going up. This weekend's wheeling trip will probably be my last for a little while...I went through 2 and a half tanks of gas, at $3.00 a gallon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
csutke Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 its going up at a rate of .5 a week here in fort collins, CO. last i checked it was around 3.40-3.23. Im justa glad that i dont pay for gas at work. I work for a large carpet cleaning company and we have to ge gas at the end of every day. Yesterday i only drove about 120 miles and it cost the company about $55 to filler up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88pathoffroad Posted May 20, 2007 Author Share Posted May 20, 2007 Exactly. I've been reading threads on Fark.com about gas prices, the general outcry is: Buy a better car! Drive less! Live closer to work! Ride a bike to work, school, the store, etc! Get solar panels! WTMF. Sure, if I made $40K a year. There are way too many people in my position to allow any of those things to work. Maybe I should save my bucks and just fix the $100 Impulse I bought three years ago and swap engines on it so it runs and drives, then drive it into the ground. It should get 25 MPG or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedPath88 Posted May 20, 2007 Share Posted May 20, 2007 As mentioned above, I am also one who cannot use a smaller vehicle or bike to get my job done. Truth be told I should be using a larger one, like a full sized van. My average month cost per gallon in the last 6 months 11/06 - $2.385 12/06 - $2.536 01/07 - $2.510 02/07 - $2.439 03/07 - $2.715 04/07 - $3.063 05/07 - $3.382 (as of last fill up 05/18) I can go even further back too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonianbrat Posted May 21, 2007 Share Posted May 21, 2007 (edited) I commute to and from work every day. my round trip is 125 miles a day. and like Csutke said the average price of gas is like 3.22-3.50 or something like that. I drive my wifes honda which has gotten around 27-29mpg so thank goodness for that. My work truck is a 2004 full size chevy 3/4 ton with the 6.0. Last week I filled it up and it cost me 105.00 US. I nearly Sharted. I am presently looking for another job in case any of you were wondering why in the hell I am still commuting. Oh I should say it cost the company 105.00. Hence the reason why they quit letting me take the truck home every day. I recently told them I was quitting unless they let me keep my truck to commute with and they said they would let me take it home 2 to 3 times a week so things have gotten better to some extent, it still sucks though. Edited May 21, 2007 by zonianbrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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