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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Mackin USA on March 28, 2020, 08:14:53 AM

Title: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: Mackin USA on March 28, 2020, 08:14:53 AM

What is the current price of gas in your area.

$1.49 @ Costco in Raleigh, NC

Title: Re: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: littleman on March 28, 2020, 09:09:13 PM

Yeah, super low, too bad none of us have any place to go.

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Post by: rcjordan on March 28, 2020, 09:12:22 PM

$1.79 here

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Post by: Drastic on March 29, 2020, 03:01:37 PM

Regular spot, qt, 1.79. Shell is 1.64 for cash.

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Post by: Travoli on March 29, 2020, 09:07:43 PM

$1.19 in Houston and everybody is sad about it.

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Post by: Drastic on March 29, 2020, 10:11:09 PM

Good time to buy a boat with twin 454s.

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Post by: rcjordan on March 29, 2020, 10:20:20 PM

...Or how about one of those $90k pickup trucks? You'll pay for it in gas savings!!

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Post by: rcjordan on March 30, 2020, 12:21:37 PM

'Texas Tea'

Oil falls amid Saudi Arabia-Russia price war, coronavirus hits demand
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/30/oil-falls-amid-saudi-arabia-russia-price-war-coronavirus-hits-demand.html

Title: Re: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: rcjordan on March 30, 2020, 07:08:37 PM

Ooooph!

Some American Oil Is Going for Less Than $10 a Barrel - BNN Bloomberg
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/some-american-oil-is-going-for-less-than-10-a-barrel-1.1414723

Title: Re: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: rcjordan on March 31, 2020, 11:11:28 PM

No easy fixes to a Texas-sized oil problem - Axios
https://www.axios.com/texas-oil-demand-coronavirus-e8392241-b1c7-45fe-96a8-f3b7f22d2084.html

Title: Re: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: rcjordan on April 18, 2020, 10:54:21 PM

Some gas prices drop under a dollar per gallon due to coronavirus
https://nypost.com/2020/04/18/some-gas-prices-drop-under-a-dollar-per-gallon-due-to-coronavirus/

Title: Re: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: creative666 on April 20, 2020, 07:05:16 PM

At my local filling station in Muizenberg Cape Town its dropped by over R2 a liter! It is currently R16.16 which is around .89c a liter...

Just a shame I can't drive anywhere anymore  ;D

Title: Re: Gasoline prices thread
Post by: littleman on April 21, 2020, 12:29:04 AM

Could be in the recession/depression thread too:
Oil Plunges Below Zero for First Time in Unprecedented Wipeout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-19/oil-drops-to-18-year-low-on-global-demand-crunch-storage-woes)

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Post by: grnidone on April 21, 2020, 01:26:48 AM

The town I live has an economy based on oil and agriculture.  A lot of people are now out of work around here because the pumps are stopped.

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Post by: Brad on April 21, 2020, 11:44:37 AM

Heard from Iowa: all the ethanol plants that convert corn to ethanol for gasoline are in deep trouble financially.

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Post by: littleman on April 29, 2020, 04:58:34 AM

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Post by: Drastic on April 29, 2020, 12:45:43 PM

I noticed diesel is about a buck higher than gas. Trucking must be keeping up the demand on that side.