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Old May 14, 2008
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D. I like the option of kicking the Hippies in the teeth works for me where do I sign up???/
 
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Old May 14, 2008
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29 gallon tank. $4.49 a gallon. Do the math lol. Except i can drive this dang thing for a little over a week before filling lol.
 
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Old May 23, 2008
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when i was 16/17 gas was about 1.30 a gallon up here. not bad. im about to be 21 now and gas is 4.00$ a gallon and in my motorcycle i run premium so its around 4.15/4.18 a gallon!



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Old May 23, 2008
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Still lowering but no need to waste gas until I find a job..
 
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Old May 23, 2008
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4.02 here in waynesville thease gas prices suck takes me about 85.00 to fill the truck up
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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I payed 3.69 a gallon last night. Not too bad, relatively, but it still sucks. When is enough enough? Congress keeps holding these little hearings with the rich and profiting oil executives - but nothing is changing. Is there any wonder about the state of our economy and the low approval rating of the current congress and administration? wow, what aren't we getting?

I'm a little worked up about it, lol. It's not even June, and gas prices are insane!
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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3.69 wow....i went with my dad the other day, he filled up for 4.69 !!! (premium)
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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3.79 and still climbing. Bad thing is we are finally going to go our first vacation next week to georgia and we are driving. That sux
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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yeah, I know $3.69 isn't something to lose my head over, but it really is getting up there. The problem is that I'm a full time student with a near-full time job. I can't just drive less (I have, I actually cut all of the extra trips out and now leave from school to work mon.-thrus.). The hours I work prevents me from taking mass transit... I'll be working until 8:30 or so, and the regular city busses take over 2 1/2 hours to get from downtown up to home (and 3 different busses). We have an "express" bust, but it only runs during rush hour. I can only cut so much out of my driving before I have to just suck it up and pay it.

I'm not in real bad shape. My commute to work is around 25 miles one way and mostly highway. A lot of people drive further. I haven't figured it out exactly, but I'm around 19 miles per gallon, so it's not real bad. It just makes it more expensive to live and be social - and that's money that I'm trying to save for the rest of life -- like a Master's degree or (later on) a home...you know, little things like that.
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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It was $4.11 here last night. I have my Ranger up to about a 20 mpg average, with a best last night of 23 mpg, but that was "light" footing around. I drive for a living, and the current gas prices are literally killing me. Its bad enough I have to try to make my truck get the mileage of a Prius, but I feel I'm getting close to my max economy and if gas keeps going up I'm afraid its going to put me in the poorhouse.

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Old May 24, 2008
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I'm getting sick of staying at home cause i cant afford to go anywhere. I drive 200 miles a week to work and back so I save my gas for that.
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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Originally Posted by k.blakeley
I'm getting sick of staying at home cause i cant afford to go anywhere. I drive 200 miles a week to work and back so I save my gas for that.
I feel you bro. I drive 300+ miles a day. I'm all over WV KY and OH in my job. I pretty much drive the whole time I'm on the clock. I get paid mileage, but the problem is gas prices are increasing while my mileage pay is staying the same.
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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Originally Posted by short_circus
I feel you bro. I drive 300+ miles a day. I'm all over WV KY and OH in my job. I pretty much drive the whole time I'm on the clock. I get paid mileage, but the problem is gas prices are increasing while my mileage pay is staying the same.

how much do you get per mile i get .50 cents
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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I get around $.45, I think. I don't do a whole lot of driving for the company, so it's not a huge deal. I'm going about 250-300 miles a week between school, work, and church...
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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$4.60 a gallon here on base for regular.
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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In my suburb of Cleveland, Oh we set a record for the highest price of self-serve regular unleaded in the state at $4.23 a gallon complements of an independent Shell station.
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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$ 4.00 and climbing here in southern Indiana. My dad is a truck driver and he drives all over the U.S. , he paid almost $5 a gallon for fuel the other day. Thats crazy.
 
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Old May 24, 2008
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I get .35 per mile, plus 10 bucks a day for mileage. Which is way too low in my opinion. We've been battling the boss over this for a long time,...

It wasn't so bad when gas was less expensive but it's rough now.
 
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Old May 25, 2008
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Ya, I am in central Indiana. It is like $3.98.
 
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Old May 28, 2008
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Originally Posted by ericcarney1
$4.60 a gallon here on base for regular.
what do people pay off base $8.00 or so?
 
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Old May 28, 2008
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So I was dating this guy who had a meeting with Exxon Mobile execs. and even though the meeting was about something else they got talking about fuel and they told him they plan to have it at $5.00 a year from now... I just close my eyes when I fill the truck. I go to the same few stations (depending on where I am in the city) and just fill 'er up without looking at the total. It doesn't hurt as much that way. ;-)
 
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Old May 28, 2008
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It's about $4.31 for regular here.
 
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Old May 28, 2008
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Originally Posted by DetroitR6
when i was 16/17 gas was about 1.30 a gallon up here. not bad. im about to be 21 now and gas is 4.00$ a gallon and in my motorcycle i run premium so its around 4.15/4.18 a gallon!



LAME.
**** when i was 16 it was still about a dollar. had the 95 cent gas days here and there. and then in about a year it went to 120-30 and people had a **** fit. i would cut my good arm off with a rusty spoon for that now




filled up for 3.79 for 89oct.
 
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Old May 28, 2008
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gas in niagara falls new york is $4.09 kinda still affordable i guess
 
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Old May 28, 2008
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gas in niagara falls new york is $4.09 kinda still affordable i guess
 
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