Keeps on climbing:
Gas prices leveled out a few days ago in my area, been $3.299 for regular at Kroger, both Mapcoās, Exxon and Shell for 3 or 4 days nowā¦ Will they go up more, maybe, but it has still been higher during the last 2 and 3 years at timesā¦
Here is the 3 year gas price chartā¦
Just for an Apples to Apples comparison, I wish they showed one just for my area, but Nashville will have to doā¦
Itās NOT a maybe. Energy experts all over the world say this will be a long-term uphill climb of gas prices. We havenāt even seen the full effects of 25% of the worldās oil supply being shut down.
ā¦ especially when you consider that the Pentagonās latest statements tell us that the war could last for another 6 months.
Oil reserves will be used up in a few days. Trump is begging other countries for help with getting ships through the gulf. Help unlikely from countries he screwed up with tariffs.
Domestic Brent crude produces mostly gasoline. Heavy oil from Canada and South America is mostly exported to countries with appropriate refineries.
But those countries also need oil and I cannot believe they will ācut their nose to spite their faceā¦ā Meaning that they too will run low or out of fuel rather than help clear the straightsā¦ It really is in their own best interestsā¦
Mines, torpedoes, drones, missiles, explosive laden speedboats. If you could clear the straights, they would already be clear.
On a typical day, almost 150 oil tankers transit the Straits of Hormuzā¦ The tankers are not just threatened by mines, and torpedoes, but the more dangerous missiles and dronesā¦ The best way to protect the tankers is to escort the tankers through the most dangerous areas and the United States Navy does not have enough ships to do thisā¦ A war ship might have the necessary weaponry to counter the missiles and dronesā¦ and if the rest of the world wants that oil to get through, they darn well should lend a handā¦ They would not be fighting Iran, but preventing Iran from targeting tankers providing oil to almost every countryā¦
There must be something wrong with my car. I filled the fuel tank, washed it, waxed it and even put tire shine on the properly inflated tires. It does not run any better than it did before all of that.
Never had a full tank in any of my cars.
??? Related to my girl friend? Never gets gas until the low fuel light comes on.
I did.
How much power consumption an extra gallon of gasoline adds. Weight only figures into acceleration and rolling resistance (which must be tiny), not wind resistance.
If this were a real war the government could commandeer resources for the war effort. Didnāt Wright point out that the higher price for fuel is going to the oil companies?
Heās told us weāve already won and that we donāt need help from anyone else.
Thatās us. The refineries in the Gulf are made to process Venezuelan and Canadian crude. Thatās the point of the pipeline all the way through the US.
Why donāt countries with crude oil refine their own? Arenāt they missing out on profits and jobs?
Really? How much do you put in? I always fill up. My time is worth something, and fuel is used to stop and start, as well as additional wear.
Me too. Why not fill up?
My first āreal jobā was working at a gas station when they were full service. Back then only a few customers would say fill it up. Often the purchase was $2.00, but we still cleaned all their windows in 10 degree weather. When stations offered gifts, the requirement usually was only $2 or 5 gallon purchase. I had a lot of b e e r steins! Now that I pump my own, I always fill it up.
My dad was a $2 customer, the only time cars were filled up was on our vacation trips.
The long-term forum members may recall my comments about my wacky boss, who always bought only $2 or $3 of gas each time he went to the gas station. He insisted that āif you tell them to fill it up, they can cheat youā. I remember asking him for an explanation of how this cheating could be done, and he was unable to provide an explanation that made any sense. He was lucky that he lived only about 8 miles from our workplace, because his driving habits surely resulted in appalling gas mileage with his Buick.
Unbeknown to him, his nickname was Chatty Cathy, because he talked constantly, and when he drove, he would look at his passenger every time that he talked. When he turned to look at the passenger, he would hit the brake, and then when he looked back at the road, he would hit the gas to compensate for the lost momentum. Besides wrecking his gas mileage, hisā¦ uniqueā¦ driving style was so uncomfortable (and dangerous!) for his passengers that I learned to offer to drive when we had to go to a meeting out of town. Being cheap, he never refused my offer.
I recall asking him how often he went to the gas station, and he said that it was usually āabout 5 times a weekā. I canāt imagine wasting that much time each week.
I never saw my brother in law fill his fuel tank. And I never asked him why. He has passed so I canāt ask now.
The only tank I ever saw him fill was his Harley which had a tiny peanut tank holding only about 2.5 to 3 gallons. Riding together with my 7.5 gallon Kawasaki meant a lot of fuel stops.
We did have a mother/son team as regular customers. As I recall drove a 62 Ford. They wanted the tank filled all the way to the neck and kept meticulous mileage records. Donāt know if his real name or nickname, Butch, then he got his new car, remember it well, 67 Galaxy XL 500, 390/4 speed. Another regular had a 66 Ford 7 Litre convertible. I got to drive that beast, no power steering, at low speeds required some muscle on the steering wheel.
When I was a gas jockey, back in the late '60s, there was a guy who would come racing into the station in his Mustang every weekday morning, and he would shoutāāJust two dollars worth. Iām already late for work.ā
He followed the same routineāevery day. I was always tempted to ask him why he didnāt just leave the house 5 minutes earlier on one day, and fill the tank on that day, but I never did.
During the energy crisis of the 70ās I just back from Nam and a poor college student. More than once, I was scrambling in my console to find even a dollar for gas.
I worked with a guy that would buy cup āOā noodles at our company store for a $1.00, I said you drive by a big box store on the way to work, just buy a case, then less than $0.50 each. No, that would cut two minutes off my sleep.
BTW, filled up this AM, $0.001 less than $5/gal. When are those ten tankers of free oil going to get here?