Gas $1.99

Dutch2

Now that the democrats are in charge our gas prices have gone down from $2.17 one day to $1.99 the next. I filled up my vehicle, 32 gallon tank, and it stopped before hitting $60.00; I thought something was wrong with the pump. Don't know how low the gas prices will go or how long it will last, but is certainly is nice for a change. Now if the price for heating oil and natural gas for this winter will follow along...

cnghr

We paid $3.75 this morning. I doubt if ours will ever get down below the $3 mark, but it was nice to only pay $84 to fill up, rather than $100 like we were paying not too long ago!

KSR6450

I filled up on Tuesday night as the attendant was out there changing the numbers on the sign. I paid $1.97! It was nice to fill the tank for under $30.00.

Paul in Cannon Beach

I haven't seen $1.99 yet but I have heard you can find it in Portland. That would almost feel nostalgic.

Too bad you cant stock up on gas.

ACU Frank

$1.94 this a.m.

Susan in La

I was excited last week when I saw it for $2.27. I haven't had to fill up this week yet, so it may be lower. For an oil producing state we don't get the best prices.

KSR6450

FYI They have this neat new invention you may have heard of called - gas cans. Or maybe you could invest in some oil drums and a siphon hose...

cnghr

Anybody heard what gas is going for in Southern California right now? I'm heading down there on vacation on Sunday so it'll be interesting to see...it's gotta be cheaper than it is up here, anyway!

KSR6450

This site was given in a previous post - [url]www.gasbuddy.com[/url]
Have a safe trip! Hope it is warm and sunny for you xB-)

ACU Frank

Wow - Driving from Alaska to SoCal? Hope you get at least two week's vacation!

CAllen

Hey cnghr, I'm just outside of Los Angeles and I got gas at $2.48/gallon. Crazy I could fill my Tahoe for $42.00 when I couldn't even fill the tank before the pump would stop at $100.
Have a great trip, it's nice and sunny here in So Cal!

NaeNae55

Tch Tch Dutch. I see you are already claiming credit for the dems for things that really had nothing to do with them (or the republicans for that matter). Have you not heard that OPEC has already met and plans to reduce the supply to bring prices back up? I guess we can all tell you it is the dems fault when the price goes back up, and it will, soon.

Dutch2

Yep, been hearing 'bout that for some time. Plus about a new group that is being or has formed along the lines of a GPEC that hopes to be able to ensure the price of natural gas will also be controlled. But I can't claim credit for dems as I voted for the other guy... Having lived in Arkansas during the Clinton years, when he was working his way up through the ranks to Gov is enough to turn anyone into a Republican.

joannie

$1.83 at some of the OKC stations.

Wildsporty

We are still at 2.33 for the cheapest gas, but that is better than 4.00.

Shirley

ACU Frank

$1.79 here Saturday.

The price is likely to go back up a bit, regardless of election results, due to the annual winter conversion of production to heating oil.

Cheryl S SPHR

Paid $1.86 at Sam's Club in the western part of the state yesterday; still $2.29 here in our town -- we always seem to be higher!

Didn't think I would ever see it below $2 again!

Cheryl

NaeNae55

Almost makes you feel like you have to have your picture taken in front of the sign doesn't it?

Dutch2

While out an about yesterday morning - I noticed the price for a gallon of regular was down to $1.49.

cnghr

We actually flew to Southern California on our vacation and drove a rental while we were down there, and enjoyed only having to pay $2.35 or so a gallon. Got back home and ours is STILL at $3.75! There was a letter to the editor in our local newspaper last week where a guy who lives here but who travels to the "lower 48" often and he was asking why everyone else's gas prices have dropped so dramatically and ours have stayed right where they've been for the past month or more. All the stations in town are charging the same amount and they say it's because it's shipped up here on barges and that's what they have to pay so that's what they charge us. I think they're totally feeding us a line, but as long as everybody in town charges the same amount, it's going to stay that way, I'm sure. After coming back from the "real world" and seeing the prices down there I'm just thoroughly disgusted that we're still paying as much as we are!

NaeNae55

I would be disgusted too! The real question is, did your prices drop at least $2 per gallon? If you were paying $1.40 more last summer, and you are still paying about that much more then perhaps they are right about the barges. However, if your prices only dropped $1 when everyone else's dropped $2, then something is rotten in Denmark. Don't you have newspapers or television news that investigate this kind of thing? (Normally you can turn to a government agency for protection, but when they are getting taxes based on the high prices....)

Nae

ACU Frank

Nae, the taxes shouldn't be affecting their judgement. Gas is one of the few products on which gas is collected on a per-unit basis, rather than as a percentage of the sale price. In other words, if your state collects 22-cents-a-gallon tax, it doesn't matter how much the gallon costs.

NaeNae55

I believe you are right. I stand corrected.

cnghr

Our gas only dropped 80 - 90 cents a gallon before it came to rest at $3.75. I know our prices have generally been at least a little bit more than what everyone in the lower 48 pays but this is the first time in my memory that there's been such a large gap.

ACU Frank

Maybe your governor should interrupt her 2012 campaign to come home and deal with it.

cnghr

Yeah, that was my take on it too. She's been so busy making t.v. appearances and fielding book offers, etc., not to mention the whole idea of running in 2012, that I don't see how she could possibly be governing the state!