Gasoline Prices
By Kareng
@kareng (80243)
United States
March 13, 2022 7:31pm CST
As you are all well aware of we have rising gasoline prices which are at an all time high. I posted the other day about a slight decrease in the price in my little town. As of yesterday, the lower price of $3.97 was still up and valid.
I stopped at the gas station on my way home from Baton Rouge yesterday and topped off my tank. The gas was still $3.97 instead of the $4.19 that it was just a few days before. I told my husband that the gas was still $3.97 in town and that is when he told me what the owner of the auto parts store told him Saturday morning.
The owner of the gas station next door to the auto parts store was at the auto parts store on Friday and told the owner that the gas prices would not continue to go down. In fact, he told him that the gas price would be going back up this coming week. Or at least, they will be at his gas station. It will be interesting to see how high the price jumps back up and if all the gas stations in town will also go up.
For those of you who also had a decrease in price last week, are the prices still going down? Or did they go back up again?
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@DaddyEvil (174658)
• United States
14 Mar 22
Gas prices are still holding the same here.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
14 Mar 22
@DaddyEvil Only 4 miles! You got it made on that one!
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@DaddyEvil (174658)
• United States
14 Mar 22
@kareng We still haven't used our car. Although I will need to take Pretty to the doctor tomorrow. Another 4 miles total on the odometer.
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@kaylachan (84837)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar 22
It's based on the price of oil, and the demand for gas. Sadly, a lot of people are still driving older cars that run on gas. It wasn't until last year, Toyota decided to upgrade all their models to hybrids. So, we'll continue to see prices and demand jump around for years to come.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
14 Mar 22
@kaylachan Gas prices here in US will continue to climb until we are 100% using our own oil and not buying from foreign countries. The tie was broken thank goodness but as long as the baboon is in office not telling when he will find another foreign source to buy from when we don't need it at all.
@kaylachan (84837)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
14 Mar 22
@kareng I know people aren't going to be jumping or chomping at the bit to buy eletric cars. I just meant, they're becoming more common. It'll be decades before gas powered cars are phased out completely. The adverage person hangs onto their car for as long as possible. ten to fifteen years. So, as long as the demand is there, gas prices will continue to climb.
In fact, we bought a van used, six months ago which is gas-powered. And, we plan to hang onto it for at least fifteen years.
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@LindaOHio (222727)
• United States
14 Mar 22
I haven't been out to see what the gas prices are.
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@kareng (80243)
• United States
16 Mar 22
@LindaOHio The lowest I saw it today in the Baton Rouge area was $4.09 a gal.
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@RebeccasFarm (91297)
• United States
14 Mar 22
I dont drive so I have not noticed..I mean I can drive, but dont want a car..too expensive.
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@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
14 Mar 22
It never went down here. Gas is at 4.89 a gallon here. It had been hovering around three bucks a gallon a little over a year ago.
It has jumped from 4.49 to 4.89 in the past two weeks.
@kareng (80243)
• United States
14 Mar 22
@Vikingswest1 Yes! I feel for those with families and kids who need to buy a lot of groceries. And of course, gasoline for the cars to go to work. Their budgets must be busted wide open now.
@Vikingswest1 (7443)
• United States
14 Mar 22
@kareng
Washington. I think the state has one of the highest fuel taxes in the US. Thank goodness I use only a few gallons a month.
If I were still working, it would be tough.
That added fuel cost is being felt in higher prices across the board.
@wolfgirl569 (135944)
• Marion, Ohio
14 Mar 22
Glad you could top off at a cheaper price.
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