ouch!
I filled up for $3.19 on Saturday. It went up to $3.59 overnight as of yesterday.
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Did the gas taxes go up?
Home heating oil is going up.
“The Saudi-Russian alliance is proving a formidable challenge for oil markets,” the IEA said, noting that their combined supply cuts of about 1.3 million barrels a day had led to a sharp increase in prices, with Brent Crude, the international benchmark for crude oil, rising above $90 a barrel and prices pushing to a 10-month high.
The cuts come on top of the fact that the IEA is expecting demand to grow further. Oil demand is set to rise by 2.2 million barrels a day in 2023, averaging 101.8 million barrels a day, according to the IEA. Demand growth is likely to temper next year to 1 million barrels a day, averaging 102.8 million barrels a day, the IEA said, as China’s economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic tempers and higher electric-vehicle adoption lowers consumer demand for fossil fuels. Nevertheless, China is expected to account for 75% of the increase in demand this year.
Nope, just the price.
After reading comments, I was surprised that it is only 
$5.28 at the Ralph’s station near me. That’s before using gas rewards points. It’s been much worse.
Premium is $4.45 here (CT)
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I got premium on Tuesday at Costco and it was $5.39 (Southern California).
At my monthly fill up now, I paid $2.92 for my 88 gas at sheetz. Premium is $3.82.
We drove back from Northern Ca yesterday and prices were all over the map. We got gas off Hwy 5 north of Sacramento for $5.15. Next gas stop was off Hwy 101 and was 5.85 at the discount station. Both of those were credit card price, cash would have been less. We noticed some stations off the Hwy were over $6.00.
There are many websites that list information about gas prices in the US. The state with the highest average today is California, at $5.50 for regular. Within CA, SLO was the region with highest average gas prices of $5.75, followed by southern CA. Mississippi is the state with the lowest average gas prices – at $3.30 for regular.
I paid $5.29 when I filled up yesterday, which was the lowest price in my area of southern CA. The total cost was $75 even, which is highest total bill I’ve ever had for gas. There have been higher costs per gallon at times, but the total bill was lower because my tank wasn’t as low.
Just paid $3.67 in Denver.
One the other hand, paid $75 for groceries and hardly got anything. Some luncheon meat but no other meat. Milk was on sale for $2/gal, bought some juice and yogurt but really can’t think of anything that caused it to be so high. Just everything costing $1 more.
Today at Costco it was $102 because I bought Tide Pods and dishwasher tabs. Good thing the roast chicken is still $5.
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Inflation makes me stronger. I can carry the groceries in with one hand now!
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I can see why grocery stores are merging to stay competitive. Target is 7 min from my house, so I decided to go there for a weekly round of groceries, since I usually shop at Kroger. The prices were surprisingly good, but I quickly found out why. Talk about shrinkflation! I bought frozen salmon, for instance…$14.99 a package. There were 3 filets…but they were in nice pretty packaging. It’s like food stores are in a race to the bottom. I think I’ll start buying most of our food at Costco and Sam’s. Stores with low prices seem to be sacrificing quality. Fish at HEB smell like death, for instance. Stores with good quality are either raising prices, and/or shrinking quantity…and in most cases, both.
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This is meant as purely fun. Has anyone seen it, the replies are hilarious
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David Brooks needs to stop drunk-tweeting! That was so ridiculous, but I have been enjoying the replies. The restaurant where he bought the 18.00 meal (with sixty bucks worth of scotch more or less) has been especially funny in their responses.
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/22/media/amazon-prime-video-ads/index.html
ad free tv will cost you $2.99/month in 2024
I use Amazon Prime for the 1 day shipping. The streaming selection is good for a low budget sci-fi on occasion, but that’s about it for me.
I’m at the point where I drive around with the “Gas Buddy” app to fill-up. Yes…I’m THAT cheap. It’s a inherited trait I got from my dad. If the station is in a 5 mile radius, my car costs approximately $0.10 a mile, for a cost of $0.50 to drive there. Overall, doing that saves me roughly $2 per car per fill-up. So, driving 5 miles to the grocery store gas station is totally worth it. Sure we can afford to pay the higher “convenience” price…but who in their right mind wants to pay more when they can pay less?
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