How much did you pay for gas today?

A two-gallon can costs about $3 at the dollar store. So 50 of them would run you $150. If you bought your gas at $2 a gallon, that'd be another $200. So you're in for $350. But, if you used it instead of buying 100 gallons at $3.50, you'd break even. So you save a buck for every dollar under $150 that you pay for your storage container. If you can buy 50 cans at $2 per, then you'd save yourself $50. But that's only if the price goes to $3.50 a gallon. And that won't happen...at least not until summer vacations begin.

 

My head hurts....


$2.74 here in central Wisconsin...

 

I think he's thinking like a big 'ol tank that can hold hundreds of gallons of gas. I guess there's regulations that keep you from doing that, or what's to keep us from erecting1 gas tanks in the backyard and buying gas wholesale?

1 -- tee hee

 

$2.699

 

$2.88

 

$2.69

 

$2.89.9.

$3.50 by Memorial Day; $4.00 by Fourth of July.

 

Someone save this for posterity.

(no offense, S Man, but without fail, EVERY time someone has projected out-of-control gas prices, it doesn't pan out. Last summer it was $4/gal gas by August, which prompted a Clock Game-inspired bidding process by other posters intent on one-upping the last one's prophecy of fail (five dollars a gallon! HIGHER!seven fifty! HIGHER! twelve! ***dingdingdingdingding*** you have eight seconds left to bid on this lovely dinette set and GO). We were going to have $4/gal gas for Christmas 2005, but I gassed up for under $2.10 two nights afterwards.

Couple of stories I've seen online say experts think it won't be as bad this year as it was the last two summers. Obviously one well-timed Cat 5 in the Gulf or Iranian hiccup changes everything, but people in the know apparently aren't convinced this year will be that horrible.

Then there's the parallel universe prophet of fail: this guy, who thinks oil prices may fall to $15 a barrel. http://www.riverfallsjournal.com/articles/index.cfm?id=23339&section=collections&property_id=9. I, um, have my doubts.

 

2.51 this morning. same station was 2.55 this afternoon

 

So, price of a barrel of oil increases by $2 or so, and we see a 75 cent spike in gas prices. If it drops to $15 a gallon it better cost about $1.29 or so.

 

I think the spring spikes in prices has as much, if not possibly more, to do with the refineries shutting down and switching to the more expensive summer blend. And hasn't oil gone up by like 5-7 dollars a gallon?

If it goes to $15 and it isn't under $1.50, even in the summer, there's a major problem.

 

That's always their excuse. But I've been around for long enough to remember years when it spiked by about $.05 at the start of spring or around Memorial Day or 4th of July, not by 35-40 percent.