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Ben on August 31, 2005 - 6:11pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
$1.80?

I wonder if it would be worth the seventeen hour drive to get some of that?

Probably not.

We haven't seen anything below $2.00 in weeks, if not months.  Cheapest regular gas in Houston is 2.40, and 3.30+ has been reported at more than one station.  We fully expect prices to rise tomorrow.

Oh, there's nothing at all wrong with the Houston infrastructure, and we have more than our share of refineries nearby... :)

(I've yet to see any "out of gas" warnings or even long lines, yet)

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mw on August 31, 2005 - 8:02pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Prices here on the west coast of Canada over the last week or two have been hovering around 1.08 a litre CAD (roughly * 4 to get your US price, somewhat less), as "low" as 0.98 a litre.

This morning - 1.12. Not a big jump; we will not have shortages here, unless people freak out.

I recall the OPEC induced shortages in the US - watching film of the line ups; we did not experience that in Canada of course, but the entire event did also modify behaviour here.... Pinto's (to explode) and Vega's, and a lot of Datsuns and Toyotas and Mazdas were bought in the years to come.. for some time really, especially here in the west where we've always been a little more enviro conscious (and don't have the snow of the rest of Canada).

Another cycle to come.

Feeling good about the car I sold over a year ago in anticipation of this...

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