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Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by wjtracy, Mar 6, 2020.

  1. El Dobro

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    Dropped 6 cents to $2.19. Meh.
     
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    Dropped 6 cents to $2.19. Meh.

    PC is working funny. The virus?
     
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    and i was worried about missal attacks on petroleum in the middle east :rolleyes:
     
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    Washington State's gas prices are finally dropping, but the 'price war' of sub-$2 gas I found in Cle Elum last week, now $1.54-1.69, has grown only as far as Thorpe, a single station on I-90, 15 miles away. And there it is down only to $1.99.
     
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    Oh, that's so funny. I thought you were answering the posts just above your post, talking about getting Triclosan out of household products, like soaps & toothpastes.
     
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    Looks like were now at $0.99 for E10.
     
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    Reaching that was probably helped by having a state gas tax of just 20 cents, vs 49 cents here and as high as 61 cents in CA.
     
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    True, plus a very short delivery distance.

    True story. About 20 years back, a contractor flew in to consult on some Unix issues and was surprised to no see tee pees at least in a few places as he drove in from the airport. I told him we keep all of them in our backyards right next to our personal oil wells. So I 1/2 lied . . . . about the tee pees. :D
     
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  9. fuzzy1

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    Short delivery distance can be surprisingly irrelevant here. Over the years, I've often seen it cheaper in the Seattle Metro area than near the refinery mouths near Bellingham and Anacortes.
     
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    It strikes me that this could happen if they're tanking finished gasoline into the port while using the local refineries for other products. *shrug*
     
  11. mikefocke

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    I had paid in the teens for gas at the pump. But now at the refinery price is up to $.43 cents a gallon. The rest is transportation and taxes. Darn little profit. Most gas stations exist to sell you things inside be they lottery tickets or beer or coffee (though self serve coffee has been discontinued now).
     
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    $3.68 locally, but that's no corn squeezin's fuel (non-ethanol 92 octane). Just went ahead and bought 20 gallons of the stuff. We usually keep around 20-30 gallons no-ethanol around from end of October through February just in the event of severe weather issues, etc. But considering, decided it would be wise to have extra on hand at the moment -- if a few trees drop around our place from the March winds, we will need a few gallons.

    Probably not a bad idea to start keeping a supply of no-ethanol 12-months of the year....we do have earthquakes and such.

    Not using much fuel lately. If I were up to riding my bike, we'd be using a lot less.

    The 87-octane ethanol stuff is running $2.43-$2.70 US gallon.
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    my guy is down to $2.45 from $2.85 the other day
     
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    $2.25 when I filled up today. About a 25 cent drop since the price of oil started dropping.
    Now diesel may have dropped a full dollar here; $2.69.
     
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    ETC(SS) The OTHER One Percenter.....

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    Oil prices fall as demand woes eclipse U.S. stimulus

    Oil is in the 20s....and it might go down some more....which is unfortunate for some.
    I have 2 SILs in the oil biz.
    Both work in refineries - which are usually quite resistant to oil volatility - since.....everybody uses gas - right?

    Well......the problem is, people are not flying...or driving around very much....and there's only so much oil that you can jam into the strategic petroleum reserve....or other storage facilities while you're waiting for the prices to go back up.

    Refineries are usually running FULL OUT - boogedy boogedy...but when people start running out of places to stash their product they're going to have to start doing maintenance and other overhead projects that they do not normally get around to.....and THEN......(?????)

    They might actually have to go to reduced ops and shutter some facilities - which will be........interesting, to say the least.

    AND...remember.
    People who live on free soil are paying around $1.00 - $1.50 a gallon for RUG.
    People who are still paying more than that may be living in states that have a spending problem that's going to be a lot more problematic........because there's a lot fewer $3 gallons of gas being burned. ;)
     
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    A lot less damage to roads is occurring too. So I guess we get to see a fresh take on how much was really going into upkeep vs. whatever else various states have been doing with the revenue.
     
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    However, road-weathering continues unabated. Gov't road taxes are slashed, to fix bridges & roadways that need repair now. So road infrastructure, which WAS crumbling, is now in free-fall.... & I do mean free-fall.
     
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    Not if you're charging at out-rageously priced Super-chargers.... even regular chargers. Yeah, these highway charging stations have taken the efficiency of EVs, & made sure they are getting the monetary efficiency benefits of EVs, by charging 5 times (higher?) more than the going kW-hr prices.