Three blocks from the Fresh Start there’s another place to buy gasoline. Cheaper?
I still have difficulty believing the low gasoline prices here in town. Of course, even the low prices here don’t match what the woman who runs the local military museum says she saw in Chadron, a town north of here about 58 miles: gasoline at $1.70 a gallon! It’s almost cheap enough to drive up there for gasoline. Certainly, if I had to drive up that way for any reason, I’d keep that price in mind and refuel there instead of here.
I get gasoline here, mostly because it’s a block away from me, just around the corner.
Last summer, this sign read 3.569.
Four blocks away from where I buy gas, this mini-mart sells gasoline for less.
Quite a bit less, it seems!
Three blocks from the Fresh Start there’s another place to buy gasoline. Cheaper?
No, but it’s still cheaper than where I buy gasoline. Diesel users get a break here, though.
Clear on the other side of town (and past another station I’ll come back to when I’m on the right side of the road for photos) is the new Maverik station, the one I thought might be behind this little price deflation….
It’s cheaper than where I buy gasoline, but not the cheapest place in town. It sits across from a sister station to the one where I buy gasoline. The sister station’s price sign was, um, “not working”.
Well, I doubled back to the Git N Split (sic), which is open 24 hours a day, and is about two-thirds of the way across town from me. If I drive somewhere before the sun comes up, I often buy gasoline here. It’s the only branded gasoline in town, though Cenex is a Co-Op station, one of three along this street operated by them.
And it is the price winner for my town since you get a 10¢ a gallon break for paying cash. That’s why you “Git N Split”: you are robbing the owner every time you pump gasoline into your car! 🙂
Here the prices are: 1.5 euros/litre unleaded plus. It’s excruciatingly expensive – plus production prices have downed 40% this year and nothing happens! I hate these guys!
Right now, I am happy with our prices, but they vary so much so fast, one can’t plan around the cost of energy. In some ways, I think countries with price-controlled gasoline prices have the right idea, though I realize that carries its own problems with it.
Merry Christmas to you, Doug and Andy!
I’ve never understood the ups and downs of gas prices. The explanations I’ve heard from various sources over the years never seemed to make much sense to me. For the moment, whatever the reason, it’s helping us here.
Thanks, Lavnia! Same to you! I am with you.
Once, when there was a huge increase in cost, the local newspaper contacted a representative of Cenex (Co-Op operated gasoline stations) to try to learn something about this process. The representative gave a very detailed and clear explanation that actually made sense when I read it, but when I tried to repeat what I read to someone, I realized I still lived in Darklandia! Ha!
The market price’s determined by mumbo jumbo, speculation, divination, reading tea leaves or spilled sheep guts, supply of crude available for refining, selling one’s soul to the devil, ability of the refineries to refine enough of the gasoline with the qualities required for the season during which it will be sold, tossing of dice, what the public is willing to pay for their youngest children taken hostage, and many other arcane variables, including the price of tea in China.
Must be so. I read it in the local newspaper!
I was looking at the news and due to the lower price of gas, you have over a billion dollars of extra disposable income so far! Up here we pay by the liter or quart (aprox) we went from $1.39 a liter to $1.06! YAY 🙂
I made the conversion to price per liter in euro cents in the hope it would encourage someone reading this post in the euro zone to comment on what the price is in, say UK. I hadn’t thought about Canadian prices, so that’s interesting, too! Both our countries are in an oil boom, so we should see some price relief, I’d think.
It’s great for us but countries like Venezuela that rely heavily on oil exports is suffering a major economic crisis.
I hate to see that side of it, not that I am in favor of the governments of some of the more notable examples of that dependency, but because it’s always the ordinary citizens who suffer, not the leaders (oftentimes dictators) who are in control.
Sadly I have to agree.
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It just occurred to me, ask Katenworld, he’s in the UK!
That’s right! I’ll have to do that.
And his family is in Germany, so we get those prices as well. Or ask Orhanover. I’d ask my sister who lives in Berlin, but she doesn’t drive.
That would be interesting to me since I had to buy gasoline on the economy when I was on army jobs. We paid with coupons denominated in liters. They had to be filled out with the date, one’s name and company. No one wanted the one liter coupons when driving Chevrolet Suburban Carryalls, and tried to get the 10 liter coupons (I think that was the largest) as a practical matter of avoiding the time and physical pain of filling out all those coupons – 3.79 coupons per gallon, with a 20 gallon tank! It goes without saying, when you went on a job, you wanted to to get your coupons early in the month, before all the big coupons were gone. I think one deterrent to issuing more convenient coupons was the fact that you never got change when you pumped more than the coupon liter denomination on the last coupon or people would have scammed the military for lots of money.
Good idea!
Have I suggested people take a look at your blogs lately? I can’t recall if I have ever done this. Shame on me! Your Cats At the Bar is hilarious, a droll look at cats, of which you have a few! From that blog, people who love dressage or just like to look at beautiful photos of horses can follow the link over to your other blog. I’ve only followed it for a short time, but I can recommend it as well for the high quality of writing and photography, your usual standard.
Why thank you so much. That’s very kind of you. I think I’m guilty of the same thing. Besides you, there are several blogs I really need to share, that I know you and others would enjoy. Hey! that could make a great New Years post! All the blogs “I know and love”!
How about a collaboration? We have similar tastes in blogs, I’m sure we could could put together a list that would be fun, maybe start our own award? What do you think?
I sent you an e-mail. I like the idea!
Wow gas is cheap there and we usually have the highest gas prices here because we are so far away from the distilleries. (hope i spelled that right)
It surprised me that it was so low here because we rarely have the cheapest or anywhere near the cheapest prices here. I pretty much drive as much as I do (not that much!) whatever the price of gasoline, but it’s nice to have really cheap gasoline even if I don’t particularly benefit from it. What it does do, however, is reduce the cost of doing business, of trucking things in to retailers, or manufacturing, etc., and makes America a bit stronger for being more competitive abroad. I doubt we’ll see reduced prices (much) at the grocery store, but it might slow the rise.
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