Gas prices..
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Topic: Gas prices..
Posted By: SSOK
Subject: Gas prices..
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:18pm
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I know these are common, but I'm wondering what you are paying. I'm paying anywhere between 3.83-3.95 a gallon. If I jump the border to PA its around 4.20. /in before 4/20 ------------- 
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:22pm
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They've gone down a bit here. Last night I saw $3.77. This morning was $3.89 when I put some in my tank. edit- I'm around Cleveland, Ohio. According to gasbuddy.com, Ohio has some of the lowest prices in the country for some reason. -------------  irc.esper.net #paintball |
Posted By: Ace_Of_Spades
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:24pm
That about right in Texas wher we live its 3.86-3.89, drving two hours away to my grandparents the gas was anywhere from 3.91-3.99 and dielsel is at a steady 4.67 ------------- 
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SSOK wrote:Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:25pm
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Its $4.03 for regular at the gas station near my house. Which according to gas buddy is the lowest in my area.
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Posted By: Zata
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:30pm
| Thumb area of Michigan-$4.20's. It's been nice though, its been between $4.10 and $4.30 for quite some time now. I hate when it goes up every few days. |
Posted By: -ProDigY-
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:36pm
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Posted By: Yomillio
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:38pm
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Posted By: Benjichang
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:40pm
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Wow. I really had no idea how high prices were elsewhere.
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Posted By: unvolution
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:41pm
| ~4.45 give or take 10 cents |
Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:42pm
| $3.89 in Orlando, Florida. |
Posted By: barn_user
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:58pm
| $4 or so in South Dakota. |
Posted By: pb125
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 1:59pm
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I paid 4.59 yesterday.
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 2:00pm
| 3.98 in Northern VA for Unleaded |
Posted By: Enmity
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 2:05pm
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3.99 at the cheapest place around me, most places are around 4.07 in PA
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 2:13pm
| Near me (bit north of Pittsburgh) prices are floating from $3.97 to $4.03 |
Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 2:17pm
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Yea they have gone down a lot lately. Last week they were peaking at $4.19 here but now are down to $3.99. Last night I had a dream that I bought gas for $3.35. That was my entire dream...buying cheap gas. |
Posted By: Mehs
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 2:23pm
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3.69 omg !!! ------------- [IMG]http://i27.tinypic.com/1538fbc.jpg"> Squeeze Box ☣ |
Posted By: Pariel
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 4:13pm
| $3.80's-$3.90's. Not to bad, but I don't drive much either. |
Posted By: blackdog144
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 4:15pm
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for regular its around $4.40, and for premium (92 octane. only what my car will take) im paying $4.70. Diesel is about $5.00. Oh i live in western washington.
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Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 4:17pm
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3.85 is the cheapest around me, in North Alabama
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Posted By: rockerdoode
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 4:45pm
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You guys have it easy on gas...we play around 4.50 in washington. It's laaaammmmeeeee.
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 5:52pm
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minot, ND = $3.99 ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: sporx
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 5:53pm
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MO = $3.88 - $3.99 ------------- 
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Posted By: notXXscared
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 5:55pm
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$4.45ish in Ct where I am.
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Posted By: STOcocker
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 8:07pm
Same here in the Atlanta area. Some places are higher though. It just went down a few cents here. |
Posted By: Shub
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 8:50pm
| Today, I paid $3.95, near Somerset, PA. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 9:25pm
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I paid $4.23 when I filled up a couple days ago.
It's at $4.17 at the Shell I usually go to, $4.29 at the BP I work at, and I saw it for $3.99 at a Valero about half an hour from me (figures I already had a full tank). ------------- 
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Posted By: ctchofday
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 9:36pm
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~$4.10 for reg. here in the metro Atlanta area of Georgia paid ~$4.60 for 92 octane the other day and last time i looked at diesel it was ~$4.80 ------------- Xbl:PhantomReign97 
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Posted By: pntbl freak
Date Posted: 21 July 2008 at 11:22pm
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About $4.30 here in Northwest Indiana.
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Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 12:05am
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staying in between 3.969 and 3.999 I have a good friend who moved to Suadi arabia because his parents wanted to, for some job. but i asked him the other day what he was paying and he fills his land cruiser up for 15 bucks!! he said he'd send me some, sad thing is i know it won't happen :( ------------- "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum." |
Posted By: Zata
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 12:09am
| Correction, down to about $4.05 now... |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 1:01am
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I paid $1.449 a litre on thursday in town...so that's $5.49 a gallon.
Then I drove to Dawson and filled up there, at $1.747 a litre, so $6.61 a gallon. Americans have no right to complain about gas prices. |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 6:49am
Sure we do. That's what you get for using the metric system, sucker. 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 8:24am
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Posted By: StormyKnight
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 8:52am
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Was $4.11 last night. Dropped down to $3.96 here near Lansing, MI. ------------- 
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:12pm
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I have a question for the ages:
Where's this cheap gas/oil we were supposed to be ganking from Iraq? -------------
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Posted By: Ace_Of_Spades
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:13pm
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:30pm
This has nothing to do with production. The US is producing/ taking in more oil than ever before. |
Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:33pm
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here in the Ham it dropped from 3.95 to 3.85 overnight! ------------- "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum." |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 22 July 2008 at 9:48pm
What city are you in? I'm in North Royalton. ------------- 
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 6:40am
Sure it does... Though speculation, demand from other countries, and a weak US dollar certainly are affecting prices more than anything, there is no denying that increasing production and refining capabilities would drive prices significantly lower (if only for the time being). -------------
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 8:40am
No, that simply isn't the issue. It's been discussed time and time again, and current production is higher than ever before. Besides, lowering prices just furthers our dependence on oil. As much as I'd like to pay less at the pumps, I'd much rather see continued development in the areas of electric cars and such. |
Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 10:27am
QFT choop, but how long would it take to get electric or hydrogen fueled cars out on the road and practical to purchase? If it's over 10 years, we need to create some more refineries, or gas will be 10 bucks a gallon before an alternative energy fueled car is out on the market. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 6:42pm
Mercedes and Smart have both promised electric cars by 2010, so that should help lead the way. |
Posted By: ThatGuitarGuy
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 6:51pm
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Posted By: WGP guy2
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 7:00pm
| Wow. Filled up today for $3.93. Just a week ago this same gas station was selling gas for $.26 more. What happened? |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 7:10pm
So I should never say Scion or Lexus, just Toyota? |
Posted By: Ilford Rule
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 8:21pm
NEVER utter them. Ever. !!!!!! There's also the Honda hydrogen concept. ------------- CPro (w/ polished internals) 14" Bigshot BT SBS Various Rails NcSTAR D4B Macro AA 68/45 
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 8:30pm
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Isn't the Chevy Volt supposed to come out soon? -------------
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Posted By: nickname
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 8:30pm
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Sucks. It's been peaking around $1.25-$1.30 here in Toronto. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 8:31pm
2010 as well. BMW is looking into an electric mini by 2009/2010 I believe. |
Posted By: im_new
Date Posted: 23 July 2008 at 8:56pm
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gas grows on trees where i come from for everyone else here its 1.419/litre CAD diesel 1.439/litre CAD 5.37/gal USD &nb sp; 5.43/gal USD ------------- 98 custom pro e-trigger flatline torque loader tippmann expansion chamber |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 7:13am
And what do people who don't have $60k to buy a new car do in the meantime? Even if every new car sold from 2010 on was powered by an alternative fuel, there are still millions of people who will be driving gas-powered vehicles. It will take years for these new technologies to be affordable enough for the majority of people to own them. $5+ gasoline has the potential to send our economy down the crapper for the next 10-15 years unless something is done in the interim to reduce the cost of gasoline, and most especially diesel. -------------
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Posted By: SSOK
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 1:58pm
This man speaks the truth. Not to mention that not everyone can drive small cars due to jobs, and even electric cars have a small gasoline generator(which burns little gas, but still). -------------
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Posted By: RoboCop
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 2:21pm
| If the gas prices keep raising, people trying to save for a new energy car will have to spend their savings on gas. What are people going to do when machines take over everyones' jobs? More people will be out of work, therefore less money to buy other stuff. |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 2:40pm
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I wrote a paper about this a few months ago.... Similar, not exact, but very similar about job loss and all that stuff. -------------
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Posted By: PaiNTbALLfReNzY
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 3:08pm
| We should all just make Flintstone cars. That would solve the nationwide obescity issue and cut down on harmful emissions. |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:07pm
No, but lots of people do. And some will trade in, etc. No, not everyone will be able to drive an alternative-power vehicle, and that's fine. Supply and demand. Less people drive the gas powered vehicles, it's not such a hot commodity and (in theory) prices should go down. Solving one problem solves both problems. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:18pm
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I predict that within five years from today, there will be a variety of electric cars available to purchase in the full price range of vehicles. Not just 100k sports cars and BMWs, but regular-priced compacts and family sedans as well. There will be different varities of the technology, but cars propelled by electric motors they will be. Five years. That's the answer. Write it down, and check back here in five to congratulate me on my awesome powers of prediction. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:20pm
That's their plan...they've already said they'll do it within 3. |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 8:38pm
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Many vehicles will be launched within 3 years. Within 5 years it will no longer be early adopter territory, and an electric car will be an honest and legitimate option for all new car buyers. ------------- [IMG]http://i38.tinypic.com/aag8s8.jpg"> |
Posted By: t_hop
Date Posted: 24 July 2008 at 9:01pm
gas prices are still going down!  ------------- "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum." |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:30am
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Too bad all these plug-ins are still going to be burning fossil fuels, just at a power plant instead of out your exhaust...
We need more nuclear power plants. -------------
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Posted By: Skillet42565
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:35am
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I'm fairly sure local power here is hydroelectric.
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Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:40am
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If I wasn't lazy, I'd find a graph.
The majority of our electricity in the US comes from burning fossil fuels. -------------
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Posted By: Reb Cpl
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 7:57am
True, but, rather than the plants AND the cars using fossil fuels, its just at the production end and not so much at the consumer end. Electric or even any other alternative energy sources will slash the consumption levels of fossil fuels significantly, which can't hurt. Who knows, maybe the transition will inspire power plants and such to find alternatives themselves. On a gas price note, prices here fell 9 cents overnight about three days ago, and It won't go down any more. The two gas stations in town are the only ones on the main artery that runs by for almost 20 miles in either direction, so they usually charge the high end of the spectrum and hang there long enough so that when they DO change, its not 2 or 3 cents at a time, its a drastic shift, usually in a bad direction. I had a dream last night that I went to get gas and the price was $31.75 a gallon.  ------------- ? |
Posted By: Bunkered
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 8:01am
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Gas has dropped from $4.49 a month ago back down to $3.99 where I work.
Anyone get the feeling they're trying to hit us with sticker-shock, then slightly reduce prices so it doesn't get us too angry when it bounces back up towards $5? -------------
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Posted By: ammolord
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 9:31am
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WOHO!!!! prices just went down to $3.80 here!! ------------- PSN Tag: AmmoLord XBL: xXAmmoLordXx ~Minister of Tinkering With Things That Go "BOOM!"(AKA Minister of Munitions)~ |
Posted By: Rambino
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 10:06am
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Yes and no. Yes, the electricity has to come from somewhere. In the US, our electricity generation is roughly 50% coal, 20% nuclear, 15ish% diesel/gas, and the remainder hydro/wind/solar. But those are centralized plants. They are vastly more efficient than small decentralized power plants in cars. This means that the net energy usage for electric cars is drastically less than gasoline-powered cars. The Tesla Roadster, for instance, gets the equivalent of roughly 235 mpg. Granted that the Tesla is a small car, but the most similar gas-powered car is the Lotus Elise, which gets 25-30 mpg. The extrapolation will not hold, but it is not unreasonable to figure that converting our entire fleet to electric would result in at least an 80% reduction in energy use for cars. And then there is pollution. Cars are very polluting. Power plants have far greater pollution control than cars. Even the dirtiest coal plant in the US releases significantly less CO2 and particulate pollution per kWh than even the cleanest gasoline/diesel car. So, no, switching to electric will not do away with pollution or fossil fuels, but it will be a massive step in the right direction.
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Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 11:50am
$3.86 now. -------------
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Posted By: Ilford Rule
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 2:58pm
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Posted By: ^Pirate^
Date Posted: 25 July 2008 at 3:08pm
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Prices used to be around 4.45 around here because of the Amateur Trapshooting Association but they're goin down now they're at around $3.859 so they taken a good little drop. Ohhh Emmm Geee.... I've had this strike for nearly three years!!!!!! ------------- 
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 1:11pm
| In whitehorse all our power is hydro and wind :D, in BC most, if not all is from hydro as well. |
Posted By: Da Hui
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 1:12pm
$3.96 now  -------------
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 1:15pm
| Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 1:35pm
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Posted By: agentwhale007
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 1:39pm
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Gas is up to $3.90 again in Orlando.
Sucks pretty badly. |
Posted By: Bounty
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 1:58pm
| I just saw $3.67 down here in NC but I'd say the average is about $3.75 |
Posted By: MeanMan
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 6:03pm
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Wow, they dropped quite a bit. Yesterday it was $3.66 at a gas station further away. I didnt feel like driving to it, so I drove like, less than a mile round trip to get gas at $3.75 -------------
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Posted By: Ace_Of_Spades
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 6:11pm
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gas went down 8 cents here, now its $3.80 -------------
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Posted By: choopie911
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 6:13pm
| Damn, I wish our gas was that cheap, holy. |
Posted By: Ace_Of_Spades
Date Posted: 26 July 2008 at 6:21pm
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Texas is near the Ocean, the gas dont have to go as far as others...yay costal states -------------
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