<p>Filled up today @ $1.59/gal And that’s in Jersey where we only have full service, pump your own is in fact illegal.</p>
<p>Too bad. We will be back to gas guzzling ways. Long live Hummers.</p>
<p>Simba, my husband says the same thing. People will not try to conserve anymore. </p>
<p>For me though, those high prices are still fresh in my mind and I’m thrilled to fill up for less and greatly appreciate it. I filled up today for $30 dollars compared to close to $80 this summer. I paid $1.51 with my .20cent Kroger discount.</p>
<p>People I know are saying they are going to buy big trucks now. I think people have not learned anything. Even train ridership is down.</p>
<p>I would think that folks would understand the reason behind falling gasoline prices. If you don’t have a bulletproof job, stowing a little away may be a good idea.</p>
<p>Last April, because of job and extra hs carpool duties I used over $600 of gas. With the kid in college and job changes for me, it dropped to $46 in September, and last month (I just paid the bill) I only bought $10.94 of gas - about 5 gallons! </p>
<p>More than the dollar savings I’m loving the time I’m not behind the wheel and love walking to work.</p>
<p>I know it is impractical now with the economy in a recession and heading for a deep recession, but we really need a flexible federal gas tax. It doesn’t help anyone to have this much price volatility.</p>
<p>I don’t think gas s/b taxed any more heavily than it already is and I don’t like the idea of taxing it for social engineering purposes.</p>
<p>If nothing else, the recent fluctuations should have demonstrated to people how volatile the price can be and they should include this as a real factor in their next purchase decision.</p>
<p>Actually the high gas prices start me on my path to frugality. It’s chic to be frugal now. I’m not going to reverse it.</p>
<p>Yeah, and when prices spike again people will sell off their trucks.</p>
<p>This will also kill the research in alternative energy, expensive oil recovery such as ultra deep exploration and unconventional oil from shale and tar. Saudis we are stuck on you for better or worse.</p>
<p>And the funny thing is all the businesses who immediately raised prices because of high gas prices haven’t lowered their prices.</p>
<p>Am still paying just over $2/gallon for premium, but that is a HUGE difference from this summer. </p>
<p>I’m wondering how long it will take for my employer to lower the mileage rate allowance we are given for work. It had gone up to .59/mile (IRS guidelines), but I know the agency can’t afford to cover that if gas is half of what it was this summer. I drove almost 150 miles yesterday to perform a memorial service - that’s $88 the agency has to pay me just for gas mileage reimbursement, much less my regular pay.</p>
<p>Now you know why the head of Exxon gets paid millions. It’s not always easy.</p>
<p>I drove from Berkeley to Seattle and back again this weekend, and I was surprised to see how low gas prices actually went. “Alarmed” might be more accurate. As beneficial as it was to cut my gas cost estimate in half, I was thinking a lot of what I read above: this is likely to set green alternatives efforts back a lot.</p>
<p>Paid $1.74 for regular unleaded in Redding, CA, about $1.84 in northern Washington, and about $2.09, on average, in Oregon (which, like NJ, is mandatory full-service).</p>
<p>$1.45 at the cheapest place in OK City. $1.55 at the cheapest place in Dallas.</p>
<p>$1.81 is the lowest I’ve seen in the main parts of Nashville, but I heard it is down around $1.39 outside of town.
I am just thankful that it is low for now.</p>
<p>We have not hit anywhere near those prices. Prices are lower but one of the cheapest gas stations in town was 2.09 for regular unleaded today. For us that is pretty good. I did notice the car wash was advertising under 2 dollars but you have to get a carwash and it is a full service car wash.</p>
<p>$2.24 at the cheapest place in town, but just 5 cents more at the closest place that pumps it for you. (As long as I pay cash.)</p>
<p>I paid 1.84 for PREMIUM at Costco yesterday. Regular was about $1.53!!!</p>
<p>It is obvious that the oil companies are colluding to suppress the price of gasoline in American. There are backroom deals going on right now and their objective is to force Americans to become further addicted to oil. Where are the democrats when you need them to investigate this corruption?</p>