How much is gas where you live?

Yeah, California and New York are usually both quite high! (That's not the reason I don't go to either of those states anymore, though. ) You could come visit me and get some cheaper gas while here.

@Marty1 Yeah, the average for your state is $2.42/gallon of gas. I just checked the prices for right this minute and it looks like a Shell station has gas for $2.39/gallon there. (Yeah, taxes on a gallon of gas there is 71.1 cents per gallon. That is definitely the highest per gallon taxes paid in the United States!) I've never taken an Uber. How safe do you feel when taking one? (I've heard some really scary stories and am positive I'd only call one in an Emergency! Although, the last Emergency we had here was the minor heart attack I had last summer. I still insisted on driving to the doctor's office and to the hospital afterwards. My insurance won't pay for an ambulance or the ER and Pretty doesn't have a license, either.) I'm not doing too badly right now. I've been going in to work very early and getting home late every day. I'm usually too tired to come to myLot. How have you been doing?

It's down to about $3.15 here in the 'burbs. I heard that SF was the highest. But SF and LA could be neck and neck.

Can you remember what the price was the last time you filled your tank, ARM? Yeah, we were paying $2.40 a gallon or $.64 per liter (Do you pay for liters of gas?) for gas last month. It always cuts into the budget when prices for anything goes up.

@responsiveme Hmmm... that's about $2.16 a gallon. That's not too bad. Wow! How do you go about getting an allowance like that?

@DaddyEvil the price keeps fluctuating but it around Rs 75 per litre. Many companies give a petrol allowance for their employees

@TheHorse We use the car very little, everything is close to the place where we live.

Hey no fair. Europe is more compact!

@LadyDuck Oh, wow! You really don't drive very much! I put approximately 20,000 miles on my not-so-new car per year. It's a 2006 Buick Le Sabre. I get between 29 and 30 miles per gallon. I buy gas about once a week. A full tank cost me $28 plus change today.

Prices fell to $3.41 per gallon? Good grief! I'd have to find a job close to home instead of driving 20 miles one way per day, paigea! (How can you afford that?)

@paigea You drive almost as much as I do, going back and forth to work, paigea. (about 31 miles a day) Your grocery store has a gas station attached to it? I thought only Walmart did that? (That'd be a nice perk, though. I wonder if Walmart would consider giving us a deal like that? Yes, I know better! *shake my head*)

@DaddyEvil Just used to it I guess. What ever the price, we get 7 cents per litre to spend in the grocery store. And we try to always shop at that station. So that is 28 cents less per gallon I guess. I try not to drive more than necessary but most days I work 50 km from home.

Wow! That is quite high, Laurel! (How can you afford that? I thought your prices would be pretty close to ours?) Hey! You've changed your avatar! Who did you steal the photo from? (Maybe your daughter? *grinning and teasing you*) That is a very nice photo of you! Is it a recent one? I was just thinking about you. How have you been? (I guess I could check out your discussions lately and find out, huh? )

@DaddyEvil the picture is from a few weeks ago. thank you! I have been doing good. I am trying to get back to being on here more often.

@Happy2BeMe You're looking very well, too! (I was concerned about you after your heart attack, even though you said you were doing much better when I talked with you then. I don't always take what people say literally. Most of us gloss over things so as not to make others worry about us. *shrug* Yes, I do it, too.) I've been missing more often than not lately. I've been going in early and staying late. I'm usually wiped out by the time I get home again and just go to bed.

Wow! You pay a lot for gas! How often do you fill your tank? My car holds 16 gallons, so I paid a total of $27.35 for the tank full of gas. It takes me just over a week to go through that much gas. (Driving to work and back, going to the grocery store and back plus incidental trips to my doctor's office (usually once or sometimes twice a month).)

@aureliah Yeah, if we were paying that much for gas here I'd have to move closer to my job or find a job closer to my house. (Either would work, but I'd be spending more money for a house to rent if I moved closer to my job and would have to accept a smaller amount per hour if I found a job closer to home. *sigh*)

@DaddyEvil I can only fill my car with usd 55 and this takes me for about 2 weeks. The gas prices are too high

@TheHorse 1 USD is 32 Baht. so here a liter is .0.69 x 3.78 around 2.60 $ per gallon ahh it turned out it is more expensive here. haha thanks now I realized it is more expensive here.

@TheHorse I would have just looked up the conversion rate and done the math myself, pony. Sometimes, you are too funny!

Good gosh! Can you provide more details? How many cents or dollars is a baht?

I filled my tank again today and paid $1.69/gallon, Cindy. You may have misunderstood what your niece said. According to AAA and Gas Buddy no gas station is currently paying $4 per gallon. But both say the price of gas will go above $4 per gallon relatively soon in California. Both AAA and Gas Buddy say the average for gas in Georgia is currently $2.08 per gallon right now.

@TheHorse I am in Georgia, I live in an area where they have a summer blend gas and winter blend. The winter blend is cheaper so I enjoy gassing up in the winter more than the summer for sure.

Where are you? It only says United States by your name.

@just4him Gas Buddy says gas at the Pilot Travel Center in Mauston was $1.98 a minute ago. So prices are holding pretty steady right now.

Oh, that's not too bad, Valerie. Did you happen to notice what the price per gallon was today? My AAA trip app says that gas is $2.08 right now in Wisconsin. I filled up again today for $1.69 a gallon.

@DaddyEvil That's great. The lowest I've seen as of yesterday was $1.93. The common price is $1.99.

Did the price of oil futures go up? I haven't been following the markets closely over the past few days.

@cintol I noticed today that some stations around here are at $2.95 for Regular. That's pretty good for the Bay Area.

@TheHorse I don't know what changed, didn't hear anything on it but now gas is going back down and we are between 1.83 - 1.85

I winder if anyone outside of California (in the US, I mean) is paying more than $3.00/gallon.

@TheHorse - id guess Hawaii.

@Plethos I was wondering about Hawaii as well. Maybe their cars work on hot lava.

WOW! That's still a really good price per gallon, Andria! And yes, I can see how much you're loving the lower prices there! *really grinning at you* What kind of vehicle do you drive? It has a pretty small tank, doesn't it? (Roughly a ten gallon tank? *just guessing from what you've said here.*) I filled up today at $1.69 a gallon, but it still cost me slightly more than $28 to fill my tank. I believe the tank on my Buick Le Sabre holds roughly 17 gallons. I get between 29 and 30 mpg with it.

Hmmm... so you use public transportation? Of what type, if you don't mind my asking? I looked up prices of gas in Romania. Here is a chart I screenshot from this site: https://tinyurl.com/Gas-prices-Romania

What's your method for getting around?

Wow! I knew Missouri had some of the lowest prices for gas in the US but normally prices around me are better than anywhere else in the state! (I'm 30 miles southwest of Springfield, Missouri.) Yeah, good gas prices don't mean a whole lot right now. *shake my head*

@porwest The vending machines around you can't make change for a twenty?

@DaddyEvil It's a conundrum isn't it? Cheap gas, but can't go anywhere. It's like walking up to a vending machine with a $20 bill. You still ain't gonna get no chips even though you have plenty of money to pay for them.

@DaddyEvil not really as close to the Horse. My closest friends on mylot here is probably gillygirl and Belle Star and courtney lyn I have a couple others close that I have known for yrs. on FB in real life but no longer live close to them. Except for my daughter I am quite alone in this world . Only one other friend lives close and like I have said in a post, she visits maybe once every month or 2 Better then nothing I guess

@bunnybon7 Oh, my! I didn't realize that, Dearheart. (I did think we had talked about you having two children, though. I must be thinking of another friend on myLot.) It's sad when we start getting older, isn't it? Most of my friends from childhood have passed away in accidents or one from cancer. It's too easy to lose contact and we can't be sure those we can find will be interested in being contacted. (I left a message for my best friend from school not too long ago but he hasn't returned an email or message. But it looked like he uses his Fb even less than I use mine, if that's even possible. Who knows, he still might contact me. I'm just waiting to see.)

Right now gas prices here run about $2.29 a gallon for unleaded. In Holiday, Florida, gas price averages $2.69 a gallon, Bonnie, so neither price is too bad for our areas. Missouri normally has one of the lowest prices overall for gas in the United States. Some of our friends on myLot have it a lot rougher than we do. Do you talk with @TheHorse very much or at all? (I like to think he is a very good friend of mine.) He lives in California and gas prices out there are running around $3.59 a gallon right now.

@DaddyEvil Yes, everything is good. Thank you! Don't just bookmark it, open it from time to time

@hexeduser22 I actually did open the first two posts, read them and responded to the first one. Unfortunately, I tried several times to respond to the second but something glitched each time. Hmmm... by chance, you didn't make it glitch on purpose, did you?

Hello little bastart! Long time no see! I do hope everything has been going very well for you and your family. (And yes, I did notice the link to your blog on your profile. I've already bookmarked it! )

@DaddyEvil There is a refinery at 150 km. We have taxes on everything here. For the gas, Europe is on the way to abandon it. Combustion engines are progressively banned from cities, it is scheduled for 2030 in Paris and for 2040 for all France. To encourage people to buy hybrid or electric cars they raise the price of gas twice a year. The yellow vests protests started because of a gas raise.

@topffer Good grief! The Tesla S cars only get 250 miles on a full battery, which costs the owner about $22. None of the other brands of electric cars get higher than 100 miles per full charge. How do countries expect their citizens to actually pay that and get such low mileage? (I drive over 18,000 miles a year. My car gets about 29 mpg.)

OMG! Are you quite far from a refinery, Top? Usually, the closer a person lives to a refinery (at least here) the cheaper the gas prices are. And why do you have such high taxes on your gas? I pay 35.4 per gallon of gas. (Included in the $1.70/gallon.)

@DaddyEvil We've always paid more for gasoline up here. The carbon tax was taken off last fall, but they are going to add it back on again. Our government loves taxes and has lots of them for us to enjoy.

@Juliaacv Of course your government loves tax money! The more they take in the more they can give to someone to test why birds eat worms! Things like that are what our government loves doing with all the tax revenue they receive but can't think of a better way to waste it! *shake my head* The latest stupid thing I heard about here was the over $1 billion spent to increase the trolley tracks by 10 miles in San Diego, California. *shake my head*

Yeah, I saw that, Julia. The articles I read claim that you pay higher taxes per liter of gas than we do per gallon. (That's screwed up!) And I kinda think you may be right about them putting that tax back on, too. (You are talking about the Carbon Tax that was removed last October, right?)

I just filled up my tank last night for $1.83 a gallon for mid-grade fuel. Our fuel prices are normally among the lowest in the country.

@moffittjc Uhm... actually, it isn't necessarily the gas stations doing the collusion. You need to remember, all the gas at all the different stations come from a very few (even fewer now, after Hurricane(s) Katrina, Rita, Ike and Gustav) US oil refineries. Out of those refineries damaged/destroyed by those four hurricanes 12 of the damaged refineries were rebuilt but nine others weren't and four refineries that weren't damaged at all were never brought back online afterwards. (Suspiciously, those four refineries were/are owned by ExxonMobile. More suspiciously, the articles I read detailing the reasons behind the shutdowns of four undamaged refineries back when this all happened are no longer accessible online. And I can't find any articles explaining why a Fortune 500 company saw fit to close working refineries during a time when 12 others were shuttered for repairs from hurricane damage.) So, the small stations are just keeping their finger(s) in the consumer's pockets as much as they can by following each other's pricing. The collusion on gas pricing belongs on someone else's doorstep.

@DaddyEvil I don't know where we stand compared to the rest of the county (I know California takes the prize in high gas prices), but Gainesville often has the highest gas prices in Florida. I'm pretty sure there is lots of collusion going on between the gas station owners, because you can drive 5 minutes outside of our city in either direction and all of sudden gas becomes $.20/gallon cheaper.

And here you are down at the bottom of the discussion, too, Faye! Why were you hiding out down here? Prices here are at $2.29 a gallon now.

@DaddyEvil Because it's cooler down here. Oh and it's closer to the gutter and that's where my mind lives anyway lol. Nice! I just filled up today and it was $3.04 - but that is for premium fuel, I didn't look at regular

@DaddyEvil I seriously doubt you could embarrass me Anywaaaaaay, smart move getting the plus - I wonder if putting in some additive would help too, sometimes I like to get a bottle of "heet" or "Stp Octane Booster" every now and again