Rising Gas Prices

[joestein]

All these Filet O Fishes.... Is this a lent thing?

 

[clifffaith]

We have a 90 minute round trip each day for Cliff’s radiation treatments so we fill up twice a week right now. Monday gas in our San Juan Capistrano adjacent area was $4.98. We filled up today at $5.08.

 

[TravelTime]

If you are taking highway 50 past Echo Lake or Echo Lake Summit (south of lake Tahoe), check with Caltrans first. They had a "cabin sized" boulder roll down and block the road. So the road is closed until they blast the thing into pieces that can be moved. There is currently no estimate of when that will be.

Thanks for the heads up. Fortunately, we are on the 80 side and ski at Palisades. Hopefully, nothing will cause a problem on this side.

 

[mentalbreak]

McD's medium combo meal Filet 0 Fish was $7.89 where I'm at this week. I am thinking they changed the fish sandwich after all these years. Wasn't what it used to be at all sadly. Taste wise not the same, looked like ? minced fish possibly , 1/2 the cheese they used to have and a toasted bun. Did not like it. Will try again to see if it was a change or just a one time bad sandwich

I’m not sure if this happens nationwide or not, but in MSP, McDs started using a different filet o fish when the sandwiches went on sale during lent. Smaller filet and definitely lower quality. My mom noticed and that was the end of our special once/year McDonalds Friday fish dinner during Lent. I guess that makes them a leader - they have been pulling the down-sizing market move since the mid-80s.

On another tangent but related fish note, if you ever have the chance to catch an “On the Hook” food truck in your area - do it. Best fish-fry cod I have ever had.

 

[TravelTime]

Just drove by a gas station and I saw $5.95 per gallon in Auburn, CA. It was for premium and paying with credit card so it applies to me. I am dreading what I will see on Tahoe this weekend.

 

[The Colorado Kid]

Gonna need a new space on the pumps for the $10 digit

 

[TravelTime]

Yet they say we only have inflation of 7%. I think they exclude food and energy.

The 7% is an average. It is probably higher but the government is reporting 7%. It also varies a lot regionally.

 

[TravelTime]

Gonna need a new space on the pumps for the $10 digit
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Wow, where is this? Even higher than the highest I have yet seen in CA but not by all that much.

 

[easyrider]

Finally bought my first tank of gas this year. It was close to $90. Gas was about $3.90 today. I have a 25 gallon tank and @ $6.00 it would be $150 a tank. I get 12 mpg so about 300 miles a tank. We are close to $100 a tank which is about 33 cents a mile. @ $6 a gallon its $150 a tank or about 50 cents a mile. Oh well. That is what I read to expect by summer. I thought about a hybrid car but I like my suv's and can buy alot of gas for the price of a hybrid car.

Bill

 

[easyrider]

All these Filet O Fishes.... Is this a lent thing?

Yes. I wasn't even thinking about Lent but its Friday and I see cod on the kitchen counter top.

Bill

 

[moonstone]

I haven't seen any Canadians posting on this thread so I'll jump in. Our gas prices are also going up like crazy and we were already paying more then the highest US prices. Today in Barrie ON, which is about 60 miles as the crow flies north of Toronto, the cost was Cndn$1.749 per liter. By using this conversion table (Online Calculator Converting the cost Cents Per Litre to dollars per gallon of gasoline in Canada and USA in US Gallons (mississauga4sale.com) to convert liters to US gallons and the Canadian dollar value to US dollars, that price comes out to about US$6.66 per US gallon!! More than any state's prices I can see on GasBuddy dot com. We have heard reports that we will be paying Cndn$2.00/liter by summer - approaching what we were paying last fall in the Netherlands.


~Diane

 

[Passepartout]

I haven't seen any Canadians posting on this thread so I'll jump in. Our gas prices are also going up like crazy and we were already paying more then the highest US prices.

Yup. We like to whine, but in the overall scheme of things, US fuel prices are the envy of the world. Nowhere in the world is energy as cheap as in the USA. We!l, maybe Mexico, but certainly not in Europe.

 

[jmhpsu93]

The first world problems are strong in this discussion. SMH

I forgot that the hidden amendment in the Bill of Rights guaranteed cheap gasoline to all Americans.

 

[dioxide45]

Yup. We like to whine, but in the overall scheme of things, US fuel prices are the envy of the world. Nowhere in the world is energy as cheap as in the USA. We!l, maybe Mexico, but certainly not in Europe.

Well, there are a lot of other places that are far cheaper than the USA and even Mexico. The middle east is probably paying under $1US a gallon and much of South America is the same. You can get gas real cheap in Venezuela.

 

[kanerf]

What? This post has been here for over seven hours and we still haven't gotten our first "I have an EV so I don't buy gas" post!

Kurt

Yup, I do. Well Plug-In Hybrid, so I don't buy too much gas.

 

[Ken555]

Well, there are a lot of other places that are far cheaper than the USA and even Mexico. The middle east is probably paying under $1US a gallon and much of South America is the same. You can get gas real cheap in Venezuela.

Great comparisons! Everyone I know escaped from Venezuela and it wasn’t because they wanted to pay higher fuel costs.


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[Passepartout]

Yup, I do. Well Plug-In Hybrid, so I don't buy too much gas.

Me too. We bought 10 gallons of gas in February. For two vehicles including my Tundra with a drinking problem.

 

[joestein]

Yes. I wasn't even thinking about Lent but its Friday and I see cod on the kitchen counter top.

Bill

Every Friday we try a new pizza place by our new house. One town over, Matawan has an excess of great pizza. Pizza in our town kinda sucks. It is around a 15 min drive to Matawan, so not so bad.

We are not doing this for Lent - I am jewish and my wife is catholic, but neither of us are religious.

Sesame seed crust seems to be a big thing in Matawan. We went to Esposito's - the home of the sesame seed pizza. They claim to won the best non-traditional pizza at the international pizza expo in Las Vegas in 2015.

We got tomatoes, garlic, fresh mozz and homemade pesto with 1/2 sausage. It was really outstanding - though a bit oily. I post my reviews to the NJ Pizza page in Facebook.

 

[dioxide45]

We are not doing this for Lent - I am jewish and my wife is catholic, but neither of us are religious.

Not doing it for Lent? I certainly hope not. Friday is a traditional fasting day during Lent and many Christians abstain from red meat or meat from warm blooded animals. Usually something is given up during lent. It is quite obvious this isn't being done for Lent!

 

[youppi]

Well, there are a lot of other places that are far cheaper than the USA and even Mexico. The middle east is probably paying under $1US a gallon and much of South America is the same. You can get gas real cheap in Venezuela.

Yes there is around 50 countries where the gas is cheaper than USA as per https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/gasoline_prices/
But if you check the gas price vs the income, there is only 3 countries where the gas is cheaper for there population than for US population https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/articles/85/

Check the data of USA and Canada in both URL. The gas is 1.34x more expensive in Canada ($1.40 vs $1.044 per litre) but it's 2x (1.6% vs 0.8%) more expensive for Canadian because American income is much higher than Canadian income.

Check the data of USA and Mexico in both URL. The gas is 1.07x more expensive in Mexico ($1.118 vs $1.044 per litre) but it's 8x (6.4% vs 0.8%) more expensive for Mexican because American income is much higher than Mexican income.

Note: The data in the URL are from February 28, 2022 but the gas price increased everywhere during the last week and not only in USA. So, the ratio should be similar today too.

 

[Tia]

Had not thought about Lent being the cause, terrible if so

I’m not sure if this happens nationwide or not, but in MSP, McDs started using a different filet o fish when the sandwiches went on sale during lent. Smaller filet and definitely lower quality. My mom noticed and that was the end of our special once/year McDonalds Friday fish dinner during Lent. I guess that makes them a leader - they have been pulling the down-sizing market move since the mid-80s.

On another tangent but related fish note, if you ever have the chance to catch an “On the Hook” food truck in your area - do it. Best fish-fry cod I have ever had.

 

[easyrider]

Not doing it for Lent? I certainly hope not. Friday is a traditional fasting day during Lent and many Christians abstain from red meat or meat from warm blooded animals. Usually something is given up during lent. It is quite obvious this isn't being done for Lent!

There was a time I gave up things for Lent. One Lent I was really thinking about it and I decided to give up the give up. To most it would seem I gave up nothing but the reality is I did give more by giving up nothing in particular. We had cod tonight and I wondered why but then I wondered why not. It's a good tradition that reminds me of good things.

Bill

 

[geist1223]

I haven't seen any Canadians posting on this thread so I'll jump in. Our gas prices are also going up like crazy and we were already paying more then the highest US prices. Today in Barrie ON, which is about 60 miles as the crow flies north of Toronto, the cost was Cndn$1.749 per liter. By using this conversion table (Online Calculator Converting the cost Cents Per Litre to dollars per gallon of gasoline in Canada and USA in US Gallons (mississauga4sale.com) to convert liters to US gallons and the Canadian dollar value to US dollars, that price comes out to about US$6.66 per US gallon!! More than any state's prices I can see on GasBuddy dot com. We have heard reports that we will be paying Cndn$2.00/liter by summer - approaching what we were paying last fall in the Netherlands.


~Diane

When we travel to Vancouver BC we always stop at the last Costco in Washington to buy food and top off the vehicle. We always notice lots of Canadian Plated Vehicles getting gas. We talked to a few of the Canadian Drivers and they come down about once a week to fill up their tanks.

 

[pedro47]

Gas prices in the Tidewater Va area are as low $2.99 per gal in Hampton, Va to $3.40 per gal in Virginia Beach, Va.

 

[swditz]

I am curious to see if folks start a run on EV cars. I remember when people were selling off their SUVs because of high gas prices. We needed a vehicle for our six kids and picked up an awesome deal on a 3 year old suburban!
Is there a large inventory? If not I'm sure prices will skyrocket. We were thinking of changing over. if the right vehicle/deal comes along we probably would but I doubt one will be easy to find now.