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Post by daylilydude on Aug 20, 2011 14:24:03 GMT -5
I can remember being one of the neighborhood kids that mowed lawns, and I could get a gallon of gas for .25 cents a gallon, so for 5 bucks I mowed some huge lawns.
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Post by spacecase0 on Aug 20, 2011 21:44:25 GMT -5
my favorite quote on the issue, "it is not the gas that has gone up in price, it is your money that is worthless"
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Post by grapenut on Aug 20, 2011 23:32:54 GMT -5
I remember .25 cent a gallon gas, too! I would go out and charge $3.00 a lawn and do about 8 lawns a day if I could, made some pretty good money for a kid. Now days you can't get a kid to mow lawns, I always thought it was a rite of passage.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 31, 2011 14:35:46 GMT -5
I remember .25 cent a gallon gas, too! I would go out and charge $3.00 a lawn and do about 8 lawns a day if I could, made some pretty good money for a kid. Now days you can't get a kid to mow lawns, I always thought it was a rite of passage. Both of my sons do lawns out here on the island. They take what they are offered, some folks pay them $20 others pay them a little more, they use a push mower, takes them some hours on large lawns. The grown men here ride their lawnmowers and charge about $50 on up! Gone are the days you could absorb the gas cost to mow lawns that are big! The folks usually supply the gas if the lawn is a big one. My one son fixes cars, golf carts and bikes, gets paid what they give him but...he is only 13. They will split wood, clear brush, pretty much whatever they are asked to do out here. Guess that is something less done by kids on the mainland?
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Post by adobo on Sept 5, 2011 22:57:16 GMT -5
I remember .25 cent a gallon gas, too! I would go out and charge $3.00 a lawn and do about 8 lawns a day if I could, made some pretty good money for a kid. Now days you can't get a kid to mow lawns, I always thought it was a rite of passage. Both of my sons do lawns out here on the island. They take what they are offered, some folks pay them $20 others pay them a little more, they use a push mower, takes them some hours on large lawns. The grown men here ride their lawnmowers and charge about $50 on up! Gone are the days you could absorb the gas cost to mow lawns that are big! The folks usually supply the gas if the lawn is a big one. My one son fixes cars, golf carts and bikes, gets paid what they give him but...he is only 13. They will split wood, clear brush, pretty much whatever they are asked to do out here. Guess that is something less done by kids on the mainland? kids here nowadays spent all day playing with their PSPs and other online games. btw, i remembered the day when gasoline here are only P2.00 per liter. now its P54/L.
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Post by w8in4dave on Sept 6, 2011 9:00:16 GMT -5
Pfftt!! Even when we could get our kids to mow lawn they did a terrible job and or they don't get off the lawnmower to pick stuff up, they just run over it or go around. I have always thought mowing lawn as time alone. Thinking time. I love to hop on the lawnmower. We have our gas delivered to us. yes it is a lil pricier. Sometimes, the guy that delivers it went to school with Dave , when the prices are down is when he will deliver it. He owns the business and we support his local business. That and he is a very nice guy!! But smetimes the gas goes lower but he tries. Before we left Gas was 3.99 a gal. it is 3.69 up north Mi. as of yesterday. Tell me thats not gouging?? How can it be lower the farther they haul it??? It is always lower up here than down home.... To bad our truck takes diesel .. Not really it gets 22 miles a gal. Not bad huh?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 6, 2011 14:05:55 GMT -5
I remember gas being $.99/gal but I wasn't yet driving at the time. By the time I was driving, fuel was about $1.15/gal. Gas here in Western Kentucky today is about $3.19/gal. I sure wish it was the same price as when I started driving
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Post by Deleted on Dec 28, 2011 9:49:58 GMT -5
Gas averaging about 3.09 around here, some places have it for $2.99. Dec. 28, 2011
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Post by izitmidnight on Dec 29, 2011 0:29:17 GMT -5
Since I live in one state and work in another, I see three different price ranges. The most expensive station is running 3.58 a gallon, the mid range stations are about 3.19, the cheap stations are at 2.89 a gallon. Always try to fill up at work!
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Post by paulf on Dec 30, 2011 11:11:20 GMT -5
Taxabraska's gas is 3.29. I live on the border with Missouri where gas is at 2.88. Our town has been trying to secede and become part of the show me state for years.
I remember in high school gas was a quarter and every once in a while there was a gas war and the price went down to 17 cents/gal. We would pool our pocket change and "scoop the loop" looking for girls all night long. (Never did see the girls, but drove around for hours on a couple of bucks)
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Post by reubent on Jan 10, 2012 23:02:20 GMT -5
by the time I got old enough to start noticing, it was 65 cents a gallon.
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Post by krikit on Apr 20, 2012 13:03:40 GMT -5
I recently read an article where there's a plan to put these 'black boxes' into all new cars by 2015 that not only will track you & likely can listen into your conversations in the car, but will charge people by the mile (another money grab - under the guise of pollution or some green thing).
I remember when I would drive around until I found a gas station for 35 cents & refused to pay the outrageous charge of 59 cents & now any gas station would be swamped by motorists if they could get gas for that price - now it's $1.20+ per litre - it's amazing that could happen in a few short years.
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 20, 2012 16:21:02 GMT -5
$1.29 a litre this afternoon actually, down from $1.35 last weekend.
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Post by daylilydude on Oct 11, 2022 14:17:22 GMT -5
WOW, today at the station we get our gas had a really big jump in price this morning, it went from $3.07 to $3.27 overnight... now I know there are states with much higher prices, but this was a really big jump for us overnight!
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 11, 2022 14:32:35 GMT -5
I would be thrilled at $3.27. I have not seen a price that low in probably over a year. Gas in my town was $3.95 for regular today.
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Post by paulf on Oct 11, 2022 14:47:58 GMT -5
The recent (two years) high gas prices have been in place for so long some people will disremember and think a drop to $3.65 is a clear victory. Let's go back to $2.25 and then call it a win. Not so smart people have very short memories. I like no inflation and low prices better.
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Post by spike on Oct 11, 2022 19:12:10 GMT -5
Prices are around $3.76 to $3.95 here.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 11, 2022 19:18:12 GMT -5
Up 4 cents since I posted 4 hours ago. $3.99 now.
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Post by hairymooseknuckles on Oct 11, 2022 19:21:27 GMT -5
Our went from 2.95 to 3.19 in just 1 day.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 12, 2022 9:50:11 GMT -5
We use propane to heat our home and the 1000 gallon underground tank was filled 2 months ago. This will last about a year but I feel sorry for those people who rely on oil to heat their homes. Natural gas prices are up too and if we have a cold winter, people are really going to struggle to pay.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 12, 2022 10:38:23 GMT -5
I feel bad for folks in all cold climates this winter. Heating costs - using any fuel - are going to be nuts.
(Except the few folks who have wood-burning stoves and land with good trees for burning. They just have to pay for gas for their chainsaws and trucks to collect the wood.)
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Post by paulf on Oct 12, 2022 15:29:03 GMT -5
We prepay for a year's supply of propane to get the best price. 2019/20 was $1.15/gal, 2020/21 was $1.13/ gallon; after the election, 2021/22 went to $1.54/gal and this year, we paid $1.94/gallon. I think I see a trend and I wonder if it can be reversed somehow. Would the media call it a victory if my heating bill was reduced by a dime per gallon.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 12, 2022 15:57:55 GMT -5
Would the media call it a victory if my heating bill was reduced by a dime per gallon. Of course they would. They are experts at manipulating the numbers like saying that inflation only went up .1% last month. The fact that it is at a 40 year high is not mentioned! I think that we paid around $2 per gallon for propane 2 months ago and I just checked the price this morning. It was $3.15 per gallon. I think that it's going to really be a tough winter for some people and that does not even take the high cost of food and everything else into account. I think that these politicians who say that things are not so bad have never bought their own groceries or filled their own gas tanks.
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Oct 12, 2022 17:44:25 GMT -5
Well I haven't bought gasoline in a year and a half since the car and lawn mower are electric. The price of natural gas is higher though which means that the price of electricity will go up after the electric companies long term fuel contracts expires. As to why gas prices went up? Well I can't discuss that without touching the forbidden third rail.
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Oct 13, 2022 14:00:41 GMT -5
I don't know if you folks remember me talking about replacing my HVAC system in Nov. 2020 and the following year with my new and much more efficient heat pump I saved around $1,000 on electricity. Nice, right?
Well, since then my power company was bought out by FPL (Florida Power and Light). They keep raising our rates, and summer my electric bills are almost as high as they were before. I shudder to think what they would be if the old heat pump had kept working.
Heating is a lot less of a concern down here, but as electricity prices keep going up, I expect to see a lot of open windows next summer, as a whole lot of people will have to choose between air conditioning and groceries. I bet that clotheslines are going to make a big comeback, too.
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Post by spike on Oct 13, 2022 16:03:20 GMT -5
Laura_in_FL, boy do I feel your pain! We get cold winters up here and at one time we were heated by fuel oil. 275 gallon tank, went through a tank a month (drafty old house) and currently $4.75 a gallon. Thank goodness we are all electric now as we don't have natural gas and forget about propane.
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Post by paulf on Oct 13, 2022 16:49:06 GMT -5
Prediction: As the increase of all-electric vehicles hit the consumers, the price of charging them will increase exponentially until the cost to all of us who remain with gasoline or diesel vehicles will be higher , much higher, than the cost of gasoline and home electricity costs combined. The electric grid will not be able to keep up with demand mostly since there are so many governmental regulations which prevent new construction of power plants in any form.
Editorial comment: We live less than two miles from a nuke plant which has been in operation for more than 25 years without a single problem. Our electricity prices are some of the lowest in the world and we need more of this form of power except some factions in the Washington bureaucracy dislike good, safe, cheap energy.
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Post by brownrexx on Oct 13, 2022 17:00:31 GMT -5
paulf, I agree that our infrastructure is not ready for all electric vehicles. I also heard something interesting yesterday about electric vehicles. The government wants companies to develop technology that will not allow people to exceed the speed limit. Don't think of it as Big Brother controlling your car, think of it as saving lives!
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Post by mgulfcoastguy on Oct 13, 2022 22:13:33 GMT -5
My car is currently charging at 40 amps. That is about the same electricity that a clothes dryer or electric oven draws. This time of the night most businesses are closed, cooking is over, lights are starting to be shut off. Since most nuclear, coal, or combined cycle natural gas plants don't "throttle down" very easily that means that the power companies are trying to give surplus electricity away. In fact electric cars are doing the grid a favor. Now in some other states that have enacted onerous regulations regarding power generation or the maintenance of and distribution of power, yes they are going to have problems. Btw Georgia is currently finishing two additional nuclear power plants. The higher natural gas prices (and certain third rail actions) might change public opinion on nuclear power plants, here and in Europe in general and Germany most specifically.
Anyhow additional charging capacity will eventually be needed, partially due to population increase. It is technically easy though politically difficult in about a third of the country.Their loss.
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Post by spike on Oct 14, 2022 10:14:57 GMT -5
So how long does it take to charge an electric vehicle? How far can you travel? Curious if electric vehicles are road trip worthy?
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