# Gas price **URL:** \ **Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\ **Created:** [March 24, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157 "2008-03-24T23:33:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dszekely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@dszekely](https://community.cartalk.com/u/dszekely)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:33pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/1 "2008-03-24T23:33:39Z")
So, when gas was 25 cents a gallon, the 25 POINT NINE cents maybe made sense. To have gas approaching 4 dollars a gallon, and still tack on 0.9 cents is ludicrous. Does anyone else resent this absurdity? My only concern: if they elimintate the 0.9 cents at the end, that would make room for the TEN DOLLAR digit…maybe we should let it be… ---
**Author:** ![Ruben\_Gonza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@Ruben\_Gonza](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Ruben_Gonza)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/2 "2008-03-24T23:54:01Z")
AMEN brother. i feel sorry for the guys with diesel trucks in central Georgia where diesel is $4 a gallon where the trucks get 15-20 mpg!!! ---
**Author:** ![Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/joseph_e_meehan/32/21_2.png) [@Joseph\_E\_Meehan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Joseph_E_Meehan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 12:36am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/3 "2008-03-25T00:36:38Z")
It does no make any sense, in fact it make no sense to have a penny coin any more. The last time we dropped a coin was the half penny and at the time we dropped it the value was about 20?. It makes no sense to have pennies or nickels. Let’s get some of that change out of our pockets and make more room for dollar coins. ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 12:56am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/4 "2008-03-25T00:56:58Z")
I agree that we should at least get rid of pennies, especially since it costs more than one cent to mint them. ---
**Author:** ![GreasyJack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@GreasyJack](https://community.cartalk.com/u/GreasyJack)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:09am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/5 "2008-03-25T01:09:29Z")
The guy who owns the gas station’s take per gallon is still pretty much the same regardless of what the final price is. In many places, it’s even less because the high prices lead to more people holding out for the cheapest gas in town, which puts more pressure on the stations to keep their profit margin as low as possible. That 9/10ths of a cent doesn’t affect you much, but to a small gas station owner those fractions of a penny per gallon may make up most of what they actually make on gas sales, if they make anything at all. It’s big corporations that are making the profits off high gas prices, not your local gas station. ---
**Author:** ![rocketman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@rocketman](https://community.cartalk.com/u/rocketman)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/6 "2008-03-25T01:33:31Z")
Reminds me of the movie . . . “Office Space” . . . where a fraction of a cent doesn’t mean all that much . . . until it does. Rocketman ---
**Author:** ![B.L.E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@B.L.E](https://community.cartalk.com/u/B.L.E)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:48am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/7 "2008-03-25T01:48:13Z")
How much money were most of us earning when gas was 25.9/gallon? I don’t know how many times I said “just put in a dollar’s worth” when my fuel gauge was registering empty. Hurry up payday! ---
**Author:** ![shadetree51](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@shadetree51](https://community.cartalk.com/u/shadetree51)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:13am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/8 "2008-03-25T04:13:34Z")
i would love to get that 9/10ths from every gallion of fuel sold… every day year in year out. ---
**Author:** ![Docnick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Docnick](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Docnick)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/9 "2008-03-25T13:48:44Z")
At that time we danced to a song called “Hey Good Looking”, in which one line said “I got a Hot Rod Ford and a Two Dollar Bill”. Cheap dates were still possible. At that time I had a summer job that paid $1,10 per hour with an ashphalt paving crew. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:36pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/10 "2008-03-25T16:36:06Z")
Pennies and fractions of pennies seem insignificant, but for business and particularly financial institutions doing huge numbers of transactions the little pieces have a huge impact. We need pennies. I know I need mine! ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 4:43pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/11 "2008-03-25T16:43:43Z")
We can keep them on paper, but we can do without the coins. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/12 "2008-03-25T17:59:01Z")
You can all send your pennies to me! I’ll be happy to take them. I’ll add them to that small change jar on my dresser…the one that I cash in every month for $20 or so. ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/13 "2008-03-25T18:09:18Z")
I have a pretty good size bucket of change that’s been collecting for a while. I keep telling my kids that they can have it if they bother to sort it out and take it to the bank, so far they don’t seen that interested. ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/14 "2008-03-25T22:38:12Z")
Sort it? Banks have change counting machines. Let the technology do the grunt work. ---
**Author:** ![Craig58](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3da27b/32.png) [@Craig58](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Craig58)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 10:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/15 "2008-03-25T22:40:46Z")
…but it’s more fun to have the kids do it. (-; ---
**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/gas-price/12157/16 "2008-03-25T23:31:12Z")
I wonder how much one of those huge banks would weigh if you filled it up with change. The ones that looked like giant pepsi/coke bottles and stood like 3~4 feet high(google has failed me in finding an image of one)