what's your gas prices down too?

[ninnymary]

Murphysranch, I try to fill up at Costco also. But the local Safeway has a .10 cents rewards per gallon when you spend a $100 which isn't too hard to do. This helps some and usually my husband and I alternate between filling up our cars. Since I only do local driving I can make a tank last quite a while but he commutes and uses more.

Mary

 

[Larisa]

In Moscow today, $ 2 per gallon. Prices are subject to change every day.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Mary, you have different things working in California. There is the basic cost per barrel for the oil. Different oil is of different quality so the price of a barrel of oil varies based on that quality. Sort of going along with this, different refineries are set up to handle a specific quality oil. You cannot take a heavy tar oil like shale oil and put it through a refinery set up to handle a high grade light crude. So the basic cost per barrel a specific refinery has to purchase can vary from one to another.


While we are on refineries, California has the highest gasoline standards in the nation from a pollution aspect. Not every refinery can make gasoline of the quality required to be sold in California. There are refineries specifically built to produce California quality gasoline. If one of those refineries has a problem and needs to be shut down to fix the problem, the volume of California quality gasoline can drop pretty dramatically. It is supply and demand. If the supply drops then the cost goes up because of the demand although there may be plenty of other gasoline not up to California standards on the market. The cost to make this higher standard gasoline is higher too just to start with.


According to one source I found, your state taxes are $0.6598 per gallon. Pennsylvania is the only state higher at $0.70. The national average is $0.4885. Several of us are going to be well below that. It’s also quite possible a local taxing authority (city, county, or special tax district) will add local taxes on top of state taxes, like they do with local sales tax. Maybe a city or county is paying for a new road with a special local gasoline tax.


Another factor that is often ignored, but transportation costs enter into local prices. Some places are fairly near refineries or distribution centers, others a lot further away. If it costs more to transport that gasoline to your local station, they will charge more. Some refineries that make California gasoline are not in California. Because of the high pollution standards in California, it’s less expensive to build refineries in neighboring states. Sometimes they just can’t get the permits to build even if they are willing to try.


Then there is the competition factor. In rural Arkansas you can get some pretty high prices if there is only one station in reasonable driving distance. But if there is competition those prices can drop dramatically.


There are some other factors working but that’s enough. I don’t know all of them anyway. I don’t know how much many of these lay into your local prices. It is not all just a differencing tax.

 

[ninnymary]

Wow Ridge, that that is a whelm of information! You are quite right. Thank you, I learned something today.

Mary

 

[majorcatfish]

depending where , here at home reg 1.89 diesel 2.29 1 hour away at work reg 1.49 diesel 1.89

 

[seedcorn]

$1.68 today. Saw $1.51 yesterday but didn't stop--dumb....

 

[journey11]

It was $1.89 yesterday and dipped down to $1.75 today. Just in time to fill up all the gas cans for the generator.

 

[digitS']

Yes, @ninnymary , I have noticed typos including a headline saying "Under a Dollar."

One and "a" dollar must have taken on a new, more modern meaning, at least when it comes to gasoline.

We do so little driving during the winter, it makes almost no difference. I do so much driving during the summer ... the above $4/gallon during 2007 nearly destroyed any incentive I had for "gardening on other people's property." I felt like I was working for Exxon Mobil!

Steve
around $2 per gallon here

 

[ninnymary]

I must be paying the most for gas than all of you! Not something I'm proud of. My husband drives to SF for work but he gets free parking which is HUGH and worth tons of money. He also has a 4 cylinder and takes a rider so he's able to use the carpool lane. Not totally free but he does save a lot in bridge tolls.

Mary

 

[Smart Red]

Saw it for $1.69 this morning. Didn't stop for gas. I'll probably fill up tonight.