Got Held Up Today at the Gas Station!

[RickOKC]

I'm pretty lucky - my round trip to work & back is 12 miles and the vast majority of my favorite businesses are along the same route. Regular unleaded here is $3.50 & up, but "real gas" without ethanol is around $3.67 & up.

Is everybody using sites like gasbuddy.com? It's good for finding the lowest price, but I'd also caution against using the cheapest "no name" stations. I was a devotee of gasbuddy and used cheap gas during the first two years of owning my Monte Carlo. Then I had to have injectors cleaned. The bill worked out where I could have been spending 50 cents a gallon more for better gas and would have broke even. I still use gasbuddy - but only to compare stations I trust.

[jwatk1ns]

Yah, but the pic was just too funny to turn this thread into a political debate.

Thanks, I agree, I don't want a debate, just a little political satire is all.

[Gussie2000]

Bart,,,check this out...just got one....likin it.... http://www.walmart.com/ip/700C-Men-s...-Bike/13398142

I can forecast chinese economy getting another boost by the US when bike sales hike up.

Now we got to really start thinking about going GREEN because of the GREED

[Mark B]

April 19, 2011
Sams Club $ 3.74/gallon $ 65.00 total
89 octane

[mdwyer]

$3.54 for regular here in CO, but it's going up almost everyday...

Now we got to really start thinking about going GREEN because of the GREED

I was wondering if green tech might possibly be why we here in the mountain states are lagging behind the rest of the country in fuel prices. Hybrid tech has been pretty popular, here. The second question I always get with the VX is "is that a hybrid?" There's a Tesla showroom in Boulder. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory has a number of locations in the state including a big wind farm. Some of those wind turbines are built right here by Vestas. On top of that, we're pretty tight with our bikes, and have led the way with that socialist program of bike sharing, B-Cycle

Maybe... just maybe our pioneering of green tech is paying us dividends.

On the other hand, it MIGHT just be that Colorado is near refineries in Wyoming. and generally uses lower fuel grades (premium is 91 proof, 82/85/91).

[rsteinmetz70112]

I was wondering if green tech might possibly be why we here in the mountain states are lagging behind the rest of the country in fuel prices

I think it's probably more likely the fuel blend you use and possibly the taxes. I live in Louisiana and our prices are usually significantly lower than in Georgia. I can't tell you what our prices are right now because I don't buy regular. The last tank of 93 octane I bought was 3.89

[Mile High VX]

CO taxes per gallon are 22 cents, that's 23rd in the nation.

WI is the highest at 32 cents and GA is the lowest at 7.5.

LA is 20 cpg.

[Bee Sting]

$1.293 per litre at the gas station across form work here in Ottawa.

That's CDN$4.86 per US gallon.