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I filled up at $3.49 per gallon for premium but I buy my groceries at Albertson's and they are giving fuel coupons at $.50 of per gallon if you spend at least $100.00 in groceries. So make that $2.99 per gallon.
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« Reply #16 on: April 09, 2008, 10:30:48 PM » |
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Since a couple people have mentioned paying more for 93 Octane/Premium, I thought I'd point out - every reliable source I've ever heard address the question (including Consumer Reports and the Car Talk guys on NPR) has said that buying the high octane gas offers no benefit over the cheap stuff.
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« Reply #17 on: April 09, 2008, 10:33:13 PM » |
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Since a couple people have mentioned paying more for 93 Octane/Premium, I thought I'd point out - every reliable source I've ever heard address the question (including Consumer Reports and the Car Talk guys on NPR) has said that buying the high octane gas offers no benefit over the cheap stuff.
I've heard that, but I have a turbo engine and the head of the service center at the dealer (who still does my service, although I'm not still under warranty) is quite insistent that the engine needs 93 octane. I figure, he knows the engine better than I do. FWIW, I bought 87 octane for all my other cars. |
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« Reply #18 on: April 09, 2008, 11:03:39 PM » |
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Since a couple people have mentioned paying more for 93 Octane/Premium, I thought I'd point out - every reliable source I've ever heard address the question (including Consumer Reports and the Car Talk guys on NPR) has said that buying the high octane gas offers no benefit over the cheap stuff.
I've heard that, but I have a turbo engine and the head of the service center at the dealer (who still does my service, although I'm not still under warranty) is quite insistent that the engine needs 93 octane. I figure, he knows the engine better than I do. FWIW, I bought 87 octane for all my other cars. Okay, I guess I should have added - I've heard them all say that the higher octane gas is a waste of money "except for a few special types of high performance engines." I never knew what that last part referred to. |
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« Reply #19 on: April 09, 2008, 11:14:26 PM » |
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You people are such WHINERS!
petrol here is £1.08 a LITER... that's $2.16 a LITER... for those of you who don't know what a liter is... it's .264 of a gallon... so we are paying about $8.18 per gallon.
So quit your whining... or get a car that gets better gas milage. Mine gets about 40 miles to the gallon (mix of in town and highway)
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« Reply #20 on: April 10, 2008, 12:55:39 AM » |
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$3.02 gal for regular on Tuesday when I last filled up. I've had my car for eleven years and only put 80,000 miles on it, so I don't think the gas is hurting my budget. Now, my heating bill, on the other hand, that's gotten pretty steep. I'm going to put more insulation in the attic this summer and be grateful I didn't buy a house with those huge ceilings that are so popular now. No way am I heating or cooling all that extra space just for aesthetics.
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« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2008, 08:31:22 AM » |
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$3.33 / gallon for 87 octane. Thank goodness for public transportation and bus passes paid for by the university.
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« Reply #22 on: April 10, 2008, 09:30:39 AM » |
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I'm curious: Does anyone buy 89 octane?
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« Reply #23 on: April 10, 2008, 09:32:25 AM » |
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$3.79 for 87 octane so I am glad I live close to campus and no longer have teenage drivers using my gas.
I know it is much less than those across the pond are paying but remember, in many places here the public transportation is very limited, if not completely non existent. Driving 25 miles in any direction here takes about 40 minutes in traffic. Taking public transportation 25 miles in any direction from here takes a minimum of two and a half hours to all day depending which direction you need to go.
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« Reply #24 on: April 10, 2008, 09:45:24 AM » |
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You people are such WHINERS!
petrol here is £1.08 a LITER... that's $2.16 a LITER... for those of you who don't know what a liter is... it's .264 of a gallon... so we are paying about $8.18 per gallon.
So quit your whining... or get a car that gets better gas milage. Mine gets about 40 miles to the gallon (mix of in town and highway)
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« Reply #25 on: April 10, 2008, 12:07:41 PM » |
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Since a couple people have mentioned paying more for 93 Octane/Premium, I thought I'd point out - every reliable source I've ever heard address the question (including Consumer Reports and the Car Talk guys on NPR) has said that buying the high octane gas offers no benefit over the cheap stuff.
I've heard that, but I have a turbo engine and the head of the service center at the dealer (who still does my service, although I'm not still under warranty) is quite insistent that the engine needs 93 octane. I figure, he knows the engine better than I do. FWIW, I bought 87 octane for all my other cars. Same here. I have a VW Passat with a turbo and it requires 91 and higher octane. I paid $3.49/gal for that earlier this week. My Camry and Civic ran fine on 87 octanes. |
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« Reply #26 on: April 10, 2008, 12:13:38 PM » |
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$3.01. I win. But I walk almost everywhere, and only drive once or twice a week when I go to the grocery store or go park at the train station.
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« Reply #27 on: April 10, 2008, 12:14:33 PM » |
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I've been looking for a new car, and unless I want a hybrid (I don't think I do) there just aren't any vehicles that get better mileage than low 30's.
I live 25 miles from campus and can't really cut down my driving. I don't drive much of anywhere else. (Oh--that drive takes me how long? 25 minutes.) My current car gets about 29mpg if I behave myself.
We have absolutely no public transportation that comes within 5 miles of my house, and I live in a city.
Gas prices? 3.25 last time I looked.
Oh, and you know you can look at the little tickers on the gas pumps to see how much of each type of gas that pump has sold since the last calibration. And no. Almost nobody buys 89 octane, IIRC.
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« Reply #28 on: April 10, 2008, 12:19:33 PM » |
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While I don't enjoy spending a lot of money on gas, I'm not complaining about it either. Gas has been artificially cheap in the US for way too long. I hope it keeps going up.
I wouldn't mind the price of gas going up if we stopped giving the companies $18 billion a year to keep the prices low. We give them a subsidy that is supposed to be to generate new energy sources and keep prices low. They take the subsidies and pocket them and keep prices as high as the market will sustain. I heard that Congress was questioning them about it, but I doubt that money will be taken away from them as long as we have oil men in the white house. |
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« Reply #29 on: April 10, 2008, 12:26:02 PM » |
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I traded in a small SUV for a Toyota Corolla, and it averages right around 35. I looked at hybrids, but couldn't really afford it. The SUV only got 19 or 20, so this is a big improvement. Costs $30-35 to fill the tank ($3.19 around here), and that lasts me about 2 weeks if I don't do too much extra driving.
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