What Kind of Fuel Am I?

[Crackpot]

Filling at $4.10

[Sue U]

My regular station:

March 01: $2.679
March 12: $3.279
March 16: $3.369

[BoSoxGal]

[datsunaholic]

$5.59 today for Regular Unleaded. Diesel is now almost at $7.00. It's gone up $2 in 2 weeks. They're going to run into an issue with the electronic signs when it hits $10 a gallon by Easter around here. And it's going to be an issue with my company fuel card that only allows $200 a day.

[Burning Petard]

Costco at Christiana, DE is $3.29 this morning. it is just under 5mi from my home. I try to manage my trips so I buy fuel there while on my way to/from someplace else.

snailgate

[Joe Guy]

This is the same gas station I photographed on March 10th. Price has increased about 9% (50 cents/gallon) for gasoline...

[BoSoxGal]

Explosion at large oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.

[liberty]

Don’t you want the price of gasoline to be high? Won’t that magically start the EV revolution?

[Joe Guy]

Don’t you want the price of gasoline to be high? Won’t that magically start the EV revolution?

Electric cars preceded gasoline vehicles. They only made a comeback after rechargeable batteries were improved.

[ex-khobar Andy]

Don’t you want the price of gasoline to be high? Won’t that magically start the EV revolution?

Short answer is yes, I'd like to see the price of gasoline to be about double where it now is. In the last year or so I have driven a few thousand miles in UK and continental Europe, and cars tend to be smaller because gas/petrol is expensive. (But larger SUV-type vehicles are more and more common every time I go.). We need to start economizing now - EVs are a partial and temporary solution - and public transport has to grow to become the norm.

[BoSoxGal]

[Big RR]

Don’t you want the price of gasoline to be high? Won’t that magically start the EV revolution?

Short answer is yes, I'd like to see the price of gasoline to be about double where it now is. In the last year or so I have driven a few thousand miles in UK and continental Europe, and cars tend to be smaller because gas/petrol is expensive. (But larger SUV-type vehicles are more and more common every time I go.). We need to start economizing now - EVs are a partial and temporary solution - and public transport has to grow to become the norm.

While I agree with you in principle, I am not so blithe as to endorse doubling the price of gas when most people have little or no access to public transportation for commuting to work and other daily necessities (in many places in the US the car is the only viable way to get anywhere you cannot walk). The solution has to be balanced or it will be strongly resisted by the people, who will elect more 'drill baby, drill" candidates.

[MGMcAnick]

I filled last evening at a Love's truck stop for $3.039 with a "loyalty card" that gives 10c off. Same today, but I didn't need any.

[Joe Guy]

[Crackpot]

The wife and I are both driving hybrids now. Compared to 2008 I’m paying about the same per mile as I was back then (may improve as temps reuse for spring/summer if prices stabilize).