Gas Prices...

[heart13]

So, what are the prices in your area? This morning started out at 3.17 per gallon and by this afternoon it was up to 3.29! :confused:

Are you doing anything differently do to them? I know personally I'm not going shopping out of town on the weekends, or at all for that matter. Fortunately I don't drive a gas guzzler so I'm safe if I stay close to home! :rolleyes:

[mom363546]

the cheap unlead was $3.09 this morning so thats a little better than your area. I do drive a gas guzzler. I used to buy $5 everyday then I started buying $6 now theres no way around it its a $10 bill.

I know some say why do you stop daily or so often.It just kills me to spend $50 for a weeks worth so I feel I don't notice as bad when I nickle and dime so to speak.

[VanillaBean]

Gas here in the Mid-Michigan area was $3.39-$3.23 all week and weekend long. It is just ridiculous. :mad:

[Carly's Mommy]

Yikes! It sounds crazy to say this, but after looking at the previous posts I guess we're lucky that gas around here is only $2.95 - $2.99 for regular. I just spent $46 this morning to fill my car up. :eek: That tank should last me about one week. :(

I remember when my husband and I got married 8 1/2 years ago, I had less than $150 per month budgeted for gas for both of us. $150 won't even cover one of us for a whole month now. :(

[abieisert]

Double YIKES!!!! I cringe every single time I have to fill up. I live in the south and I complain that our gas rose to $2.89 (cheapest around here). Luckily I am a stay at home mother so I don;t have to worry too much about filling up that much. And my husband works offshore in the Gulf of Mexico so he only gets gas once a week or every 2 weeks. Man, goes to show you...it can always be worse.

[1poppie]

:eek: As of yesterday Palm Springs, CA Area - The cheapest gas is $3.49 at 79 octane. My car pings if I use it and runs smooth with the expensive 92 ocatane at $3.89 :( My car is just going to have to ping for a while.

[Cpogie]

Up here in Big Bear Lake, Ca, the gasoline is $3.66.9 a gallon, that is for the cheapest octane, 87, what a rip off!

[chalytown]

I guess that I don't have it as bad as everyone else. Around my area, it's $2.95. Of course that is high... I too also remember, about 8 yrs ago, to fill up my gas tank, it only cost... $12.00. That's a big jump now a days.. Going on vacation at the end of the week. We saved more on gas budget than for souvienrs:mad:

[mygals2]

I'm in SE Michigan, it's $3.29 here. I remember when I first got out of college, (1991) I had a little Dodge Shadow. I could fill it up at .96/gallon, totalling around $10.00!

[Deb62862]

Here in Memphis it was $2.83 for regular unleaded at BP this morning when I stopped. I think I'd go broke if I lived where some of y'all live going by the prices you have posted.

[mom2fussbudgets]

It's $3.09 here in Tulsa, OK. The bad part about it is that everything else is going up as well. I am suffering from a terrible case of sticker shop from shopping at the grocery store! I can't get over the fact that milk is more than $3.00 a gallon, and if I want a quality loaf of 100% whole wheat bread, I have to pay more than $2.00 for it! It seems like everything is going up except our paychecks! :(

[Cpogie]

It's $3.09 here in Tulsa, OK. The bad part about it is that everything else is going up as well. I am suffering from a terrible case of sticker shop from shopping at the grocery store! I can't get over the fact that milk is more than $3.00 a gallon, and if I want a quality loaf of 100% whole wheat bread, I have to pay more than $2.00 for it! It seems like everything is going up except our paychecks! :(


LOL you should come to Calif, Milk $3.99 a gallon
100% Whole Wheat Bread $3.99 a loaf
Filet Migon $12.99 pound (no I don't buy it) lol
I could go on and on but I think Calif. is out of sight with most comsumer products, including housing!

[MOMMYOF2BOYZ]

gas goes for $2.89 in the burbs of the burgh
i was out this morning and it went up to $2.99 overnight


that's in pittsburgh,pa.

[mom363546]

ours went up a dime this morning its $3.19 your lucky if your still buying it under $3.00. I also feel lucky when I look at what others are paying!

[mom2fussbudgets]

LOL you should come to Calif, Milk $3.99 a gallon
100% Whole Wheat Bread $3.99 a loaf
Filet Migon $12.99 pound (no I don't buy it) lol
I could go on and on but I think Calif. is out of sight with most comsumer products, including housing!


I used to live in Yuma, AZ (hubby was in the Marine Corps) and I have family and friends in CA, so I am very familiar with CA. I miss that area of the country a lot. My hubby and I would love to live in CA, but we are afraid we would not be able to afford it. We also believe our quality of life would go down. We've done some research, and CA is not a very affordable place to live because of the poor income/housing ratio. In other words, the average salary is not compatible with the high housing costs. We paid $25,000 cash for our house in 1993; today it is worth approximately $80,000. I think that is probably an unheard of price for a house in CA. Plus, as you pointed out, consumer goods are also very expensive there. :(

For those who can afford to live there, I definitely envy you! CA is very diverse, which makes it interesting. I am also in love with the climate, the flowers and trees, not to mention the ocean! I've been all over CA, and I have yet to find an area I didn't like.

[Cpogie]

Gee, a house for 80,000 unheard of here in Calif, in fact you would be hard pressed to find a lot here for $80,000, as an example I live in an own your own lot and Manufactured home in a Mobile home park, my house is 3 1/2 years old, 1,300Sf. I can sell this for $250,000 and we are talking a mobile home per say.... now if you want a home worth living in they start at about $300,000 for a fixer, my previous home was purchased for 250,000 in 1992 sold it in 2001 for 370,000 and now it is worth 1 MILLION in 2007, so this state is out of sight!!

[ept_0202]

Gas in Nashville is about $2.93, yesterday I was able to find $2.87 by the grocery store I shop at. I only put $20 bucks in at a time - just to make it less shocking when I stop (and I keep hoping that it will go down)

[BreyzNMikayzmom]

:mad: I live in Northern IN, gas was $3.15 lastnight, and now $3.39 this morning. I drive a Toyota and put $20 in a week, fiance drives a Mustang which only takes Premium, so his is $3.59 today. I just have to laugh at him, he had to have THAT car.
We are driving to Northern MI Memorial weekend, I'm scared to see the prices then, they always seem to go up around holidays, I can guarantee we'll be taking the Toyota lol.

Angie

[LORITHECHICK]

$3.55 as of yesterday:eek: :eek: :eek:

[VanillaBean]

Gas was $3.49-$3.50 here in mid-Michigan!! Also here they have put a limit on how much gas you can get when using a credit card. Some stations its a $75 limit, others it is $50.:mad:

[Carly's Mommy]

Our gas prices just went up to $2.99 for regular. My hubby and I are going to have to think about carpooling on the two days of the week that his mom comes to our house to watch our daughter. Luckily, we only work a few miles from each other, so it really wouldn't be that big of a deal.

Boy, am I glad I don't live in California or Michigan right now! I feel for you guys. :(

[joseph849]

i live in michigan and believe me there is no work and gas prices are rising about 11cents a day. my hubby works construction has for 35 years his union told him he would probably have to go out of state to work.

[heart13]

I remember complaining to someone ten years ago that gas was up to $1.20!!!

If I only knew then what I know now! :p

[mom2fussbudgets]

Gee, a house for 80,000 unheard of here in Calif, in fact you would be hard pressed to find a lot here for $80,000, as an example I live in an own your own lot and Manufactured home in a Mobile home park, my house is 3 1/2 years old, 1,300Sf. I can sell this for $250,000 and we are talking a mobile home per say.... now if you want a home worth living in they start at about $300,000 for a fixer, my previous home was purchased for 250,000 in 1992 sold it in 2001 for 370,000 and now it is worth 1 MILLION in 2007, so this state is out of sight!!

How'd you end up in CA? Do you feel like the high housing prices are worth it? Curious, because moving there someday is still in the back of my mind. Hubby will be graduating from college 12/08, and I plan to graduate at some point. Maybe someday we could actually afford it? Maybe not! We like the idea of having a house that's paid for. But, is that a reality in CA for normal folk? Would you rather be living somewhere else?

As for the original topic--gas prices hit $3.29 here today. :(

[Cpogie]

How'd you end up in CA? Do you feel like the high housing prices are worth it? Curious, because moving there someday is still in the back of my mind. Hubby will be graduating from college 12/08, and I plan to graduate at some point. Maybe someday we could actually afford it? Maybe not! We like the idea of having a house that's paid for. But, is that a reality in CA for normal folk? Would you rather be living somewhere else?

As for the original topic--gas prices hit $3.29 here today. :(

My mom and dad moved here to Calif. when I was just 12, so I have been here since 1960.....I have, or rather my husband and I have owned 12 property's in the past 33 years, (been married 35 years, lol) our first house in 1974 was $27,500, as to todays prices, housing prices are not worth it, they are so inflated it is sickening, you should see some of the houses, they look like a tear down shack and they sell for 3-4 hundred thousand dollars, I live in a place where houses are still cheaper than down the hill, meaning I live at the top of a mountain, a resort town, so there is really no good jobs.....so you are either retired, like us, or work for very little and rent a house, but then rents are very high, it's a no win situation here in Calif, and if you watch the news, this state is under the biggest forclosure event ever, people are losing their houses by the groves here, but prices still climb, I think if I had come here just a few years ago, I would not of stayed here in this state, it just costs too much, a much better place to go is Arizona, but then it is getting pricey too, I don't know what the answer is, especially for young people, how do they ever afford a house?? So, save your money if you want to live here in California!! Goodluck.

[mom2fussbudgets]

Thanks, Carol.

CA is bad, but other states are getting there. My sister and brother-in-law live in VA, and housing prices are out of sight there as well. They built a house approximately 2 years ago for $600,000, and it is now worth well over a million. It's crazy!

[heart13]

Only one week later and gas here has gone from 3.29 to 3.39...:(

[Blondhorsecrazy]

Gas prices are so bad...if it goes up anymore we cannot afford to drive!:eek:

[Mom2-3boys]

Gas prices where I live in South Dakota are 3.29 up from 3.15 this morning. I drove 90 miles west this morning to where my folks live also in South Dakota and they are at 3.43.

[Brbie]

What a rip off gas prices are. Ours here is $3.15 and 30 miles away it is $2.83

One thing we do to try to make a difference is. we stop going into the stations to buy anything. I figure if everyone would start doing that they would feel the effect. If we need something to drink, snack on, lotter ticket etc. We get it at a fast food place or grocery store or any place other than the gas station.

We all have to buy gas, so we have to find other ways of hurting the stations. Not buying inside will hurt eventually IF enough do it.;)

[heart13]

Something I do, and I don't know if this really makes a difference, is only put ten dollars in my car at a time, only once a week, if necessary. That way I'm only spending a set amount at a time and not succumbing to the paying more each time I fill up. Then I'm more conscious as to how much I'm driving and how much gas I have left before I 'fill up' again.

[BreyzNMikayzmom]

Gas went up here again today (Northern IN). $3.59 for the cheap stuff.
Surely a headache for our 900 mile trip were taking this weekend.

Angie :mad:

[sweety19]

Filling gas with this rate is like dating youself

[rdawnh]

$55 to fill our tank!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek: :mad:

[tnj4ever]

Gas has reached about 3.25 - 3.19 here, but a very polite cashier told me yesterday that if everyone did not buy gas on Tuesdays for a whole month gas companies would lose big bucks since most high end stations fill up on this day. I have not done the research yet but could be useful.;)

[heart13]

Is anyone shortening their travels this weekend due to high gas prices? I know I would've like to make a road trip - but with these prices I feel I should be saving my money for other things...

[BreyzNMikayzmom]

I seen on the news that gas was $4.29 in Aspen, CO. I'm thinking geez that's alot, but the way things are going, we'll be at the price eventually!

Angie :)

[rdawnh]

The idea of not buying gas on a certain day does not affect the oil companies (the ones who set the prices). All that does is affect the store owner since he already bought the gas and will sell it to you at that price until it is gone. The thing that will make the money people take notice is if we all as consumers use LESS of the product all together. Find alternate means of transportation such as public, carpooling, walking or biking if capable. Instead of spreading those errands out throughout the week do them all in one day and make an efficiant route to utilize the gas and time you have available. Someone said they only alot themselves $10 a week for gas. This is a good idea, makes you more aware of how you are spending your resources. I know this is one of those easier said than done kinds of things but with out sacrafice the money poeple in this industry cant be forced to sacrafice either (that is how they see lowering hte price, as a sacrafice). A one day strike even on a weekly basis only makes people change what day they fill up when the truth is they still fill up. Just because the station get a delivery on that day doesnt mean they wont still get the delivery since they have sold product througout the week weather we stike on delivery day or not. This is a personal choice each and every one of us has to make, deal with it or sacrafice to fix it. My husband just added writing to our local congressman can help too since it is alway an item of dicussion to have this type of hting regulate. If they hear it enough maybe just maybe something will be done to help. Ok everyone I am stepping down from my soapbox now, sorry to sound preachy or anything I have just thought about this alot and have made choices in our household to minimize our fuel cost. Mostly becuase we just dont have the money to fill up everyweek but because the prices are just stupidly high.

Rebecca :)

[VanillaBean]

:eek: It is now up to $3.65 a gallon for reg. unleaded!!!! Don't go to that many places anymore. Work, grocery store and drs!!:confused:

[perc52]

Gas here in Alabama is $2.98 a gal. for unleaded. :)

[heart13]

Gas here in Alabama is $2.98 a gal. for unleaded. :)

That settles it - I'm moving! :p

[Jess1406]

I live in the northwest florida area and gas is $3.09 a gallon here. Seems cheap compared with some of the prices others have posted, but still high for us.

[Staci624]

We were up to $3.09 last week. Then it went to $2.99. Today I noticed it was $2.95.

[richnstef92]

Were I live in NC it is $2.85 a gallon. Just 4 miles in SC its probably 5 to 10 cent cheaper.

[chalytown]

Prices are dropping in my area of Pennsylvania. It's about $2.95

[mom363546]

Prices are dropping in my area of Pennsylvania. It's about $2.95


Yes it is! I paid $2.97 today but... I also noticed milk prices jumped! Its always something! :eek:

[mom2fussbudgets]

Yes it is! I paid $2.97 today but... I also noticed milk prices jumped! Its always something! :eek:

Yeah it is. :(

I paid $2.89 this morning. Watch, tomorrow it'll be $2.79, LOL!

[lizmolik]

Today Gas was $3.27 in Southern Illinois :eek: