How Much Is Your Gas?

Fire21 Moderator Posts: 12,262	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 8, 2022 13:53:00 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fire21 on Oct 8, 2022 13:53:00 GMT -5 3.85
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MTwomn Moderator Posts: 8,527	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 8, 2022 16:30:02 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MTwomn on Oct 8, 2022 16:30:02 GMT -5 Oct 8, 2022 13:53:00 GMT -5 Fire21 said: 3.85 This morning we are a dollar more than what it is there. $4.83
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88cars38 Honored Member Posts: 7,398	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 9, 2022 8:28:44 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 88cars38 on Oct 9, 2022 8:28:44 GMT -5 YIKES it is $4.47 this week.
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MTwomn Moderator Posts: 8,527	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 9, 2022 20:14:42 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MTwomn on Oct 9, 2022 20:14:42 GMT -5 Not our current price.
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Fire21 Moderator Posts: 12,262	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 10, 2022 9:45:37 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fire21 on Oct 10, 2022 9:45:37 GMT -5 Oct 9, 2022 20:14:42 GMT -5 MTwomn said: Not our current price. The good old days were not that long ago...
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How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 11, 2022 11:48:36 GMT -5 MTwomn and 88cars38 like this

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Post by Fire21 on Oct 11, 2022 11:48:36 GMT -5

It dawned on me today that the increased price of groceries allows our gas points to increase more rapidly, so we get more off at each fill-up.

But then, we pay more for the gas AND groceries, so we're still losing.

Ain't nobody winning these days.

FAR TOO MANY Americans are proving NOT to be worthy of the incredible bounty of their unbelievable Country, which was given to them by the Blood, Treasure and Sacrifice of those before them.
...Howard Galganov

Fire21 Moderator Posts: 12,262	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 14, 2022 21:31:42 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fire21 on Oct 14, 2022 21:31:42 GMT -5 Down 5 cents to 3.80. Saw a couple places at 3.78.
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How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 15, 2022 0:22:51 GMT -5

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Post by MTwomn on Oct 15, 2022 0:22:51 GMT -5

Today gas was $4.66. Filled up with my rewards points of $0.85/gallon. Only needed 11 gallons.

17 October $4.58

20 October $4.53

22 October $4.39

24 October $4.38

26 October $4.25

29 October $4.15

4 November $4.05

6 November $3.95

8 November $4.11

Last Edit: Nov 8, 2022 17:52:07 GMT -5 by MTwomn

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Fire21 Moderator Posts: 12,262	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 24, 2022 16:58:35 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fire21 on Oct 24, 2022 16:58:35 GMT -5 Running errands today I saw 3.57, 3.65 and 3.68. Used to be all stations in a town were the same, at least in my experience.
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How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 28, 2022 0:05:50 GMT -5

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Post by MTwomn on Oct 28, 2022 0:05:50 GMT -5

Oct 24, 2022 16:58:35 GMT -5 Fire21 said:

Used to be all stations in a town were the same, at least in my experience.

Yes, they would all be within a couple cents. Lately it is crazy. I only report the Circle K station that is closest to the house. Any time I go out I drive past it. This morning it was $4.25. Had to go to the bank and the Circle K that is less than 2 miles from the regular station, was at $4.41. Then another station I drove past was $4.39. All the gas comes up on the same barges from the refinery on the coast and the same fuel trucks from the port in Pasco to the stations. The gas is all the same. I believe that they are using a dart board to determine the price.

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How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 28, 2022 1:00:40 GMT -5

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Post by MTwomn on Oct 28, 2022 1:00:40 GMT -5

Where does our gas come from?

I did some research tonight. Our gas in eastern WA comes from four refineries on the coast just south of Vancouver, BC. Most of the crude oil comes in from Alaska but around 25% comes down the Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta. Some of it goes to a marine terminal at Burnaby, British Columbia, where it is loaded on vessels for export to Tacoma, Washington, several locations in California, and other refining centers. About 191,000 barrels daily, is diverted to a branch line known as the Puget Sound Pipeline, east of Vancouver, which delivers the fuel along a 69-mile route to four refineries at Ferndale and Anacortes, Washington.

About 19% of the crude takes the Olympic Pipeline to Portland/Vancouver for refining then a portion is barged up the Columbia to Pasco.

The Department of Ecology states that up to 70 per cent of oil imported into the state originated in Alaska. This goes to the same refineries as the pipeline crude.

About 10% of the fuel for eastern Washington comes in through the Yellowstone Pipeline from refineries around Billings MT to Spokane and Moses Lake. This fuel would be trucked around eastern WA.

We see a lot of oil tankers on the trains running through the area. The only information I could find was from 2013 that said it was coming from North Dakota and Montana. It is probably going to the refineries in Portland and Vancouver, WA. A portion probably is barged to Pasco.

Still Biden says the increase in gas prices is because of Putin.

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How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 28, 2022 9:27:25 GMT -5

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Post by Fire21 on Oct 28, 2022 9:27:25 GMT -5

The fuel delivery system around our country, indeed around the world, is far more complicated than most of us realize. Every turn in the "pipeline" costs a few more cents. But when enough oil isn't allowed to supply the refineries, then prices soar, i.e. what happened after biden shut down domestic oil production. And then he turns around and depletes our strategic reserves in order to make up for the decreased supply.

As for what prices are doing, I have no doubt that gouging is going on in places. I don't understand what makes up the price per gallon, but if all things were being done fairly then the price in any given town would be the same throughout. I understand added delivery costs to mountain towns and remote places. But to have such wide-ranging prices as Ilene cited is proof to me of hanky panky within the system.

FAR TOO MANY Americans are proving NOT to be worthy of the incredible bounty of their unbelievable Country, which was given to them by the Blood, Treasure and Sacrifice of those before them.
...Howard Galganov

88cars38 Honored Member Posts: 7,398	How Much Is Your Gas? Oct 30, 2022 10:38:15 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by 88cars38 on Oct 30, 2022 10:38:15 GMT -5 $4.15
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MTwomn Moderator Posts: 8,527	How Much Is Your Gas? Nov 7, 2022 1:45:37 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by MTwomn on Nov 7, 2022 1:45:37 GMT -5 Our price dropped again this evening, $3.95. We are now under four dollars!!!
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Fire21 Moderator Posts: 12,262	How Much Is Your Gas? Nov 8, 2022 14:45:49 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Fire21 on Nov 8, 2022 14:45:49 GMT -5 Filled this morning with 87 octane at 3.75/gal, but got 30¢ off with grocery points = 3.45.
	FAR TOO MANY Americans are proving NOT to be worthy of the incredible bounty of their unbelievable Country, which was given to them by the Blood, Treasure and Sacrifice of those before them. ...Howard Galganov