What are you paying for gas in your region?

[PlatyPius 5]

yet it's in question if some cars can make 200k though.

i'm sure my neighbor, who's truck gets about 12 mpg, has already passed the point of paying more than he did for the truck.

My Volvo 940 is about to turn over 270k once the brakes are replaced. It is otherwise fine. Still on its first transmission, if you can believe it.

My husband's Subaru Legacy is 190k. It will probably make it to 200k. Dunno if we are really going to keep it after that.

My Volvo 244DL has somewhere around 250,000 - 300,000 miles on it. The odometer died long ago, which is common for those - the teeth break off of the drive gear. I paid $200 for it 4 or 5 years ago, and have put maybe $500 in it since then. I could fill it up 15 times and be over what I paid for the car in total. First engine, first transmission, first most things. I replaced a brake rotor, the pads, a fusible link, the fuel pump relay, and the radiator. The rest of the money was for cosmetic things like parking light lenses and such. It still needs an OD solenoid bypass kit before I can drive it the 120 miles to work each day....with no OD it only gets about 20mpg. Gets 25-27 when it works.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

$3.68 @ Columbia Costco

$3.87 @ nearest petrol pump (Exxon) to my home (beside Howard County CC)

[Amby 490]

regular was 3.86 but premium was $3.80...very odd

[tom&tata 2]

Some gas station already has 3.99 at lunch time (from 3.84 average this morning)

[William33 110]

Kansas City today

Regular = $3.67

Mid =$3.77

Premium =$3.87

[Dr. A ♥ O 203]

Oil prices slip back after record above $135

By THOMAS HOGUE, AP Business Writer 1 hour, 33 minutes ago

BANGKOK, Thailand - Oil prices hit a record above $135 a barrel before falling back in Asia Thursday, with supply worries, rising global demand and a slumping dollar keeping crude futures on an upward track.

With gas and oil prices setting new records nearly every day, many analysts are beginning to wonder what might stop prices from rising. There are technical signals in the futures market, including price differences between near-term and longer-term contracts, that crude may soon fall. But with demand for oil growing in the developing world, and little end in sight to supply problems in producing countries such as Nigeria, few analysts are willing to call an end to crude's rally.

Midday in Singapore, light, sweet crude for July delivery was trading at $134.58 a barrel in electronic trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange, up $1.41 from Wednesday's settlement.

The contract had earlier hit a trading record of $135.04 a barrel after rising $4.19 in the floor session Wednesday to settle at $133.17.

Investors seized on a U.S. inventory report Wednesday to boost prices, but traders interested in pushing prices higher are increasingly picking and choosing the news they wish to pay attention to, analysts say.

"Even if this report was bearish, with the momentum the way it is right now, it wouldn't matter," said Phil Flynn, an analyst at Alaron Trading Corp. in Chicago.

Crude prices first passed $130 in Wednesday's electronic trading on concerns about demand, supplies and a weaker dollar, and then they just kept going.

Analysts say crude has been boosted in recent days by especially strong demand for diesel in China, where power plants in some areas are running desperately short of coal and certain earthquake-hit regions are relying on diesel generators for power.

Overnight, the rise accelerated when the U.S. Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said U.S. crude inventories fell by more than 5 million barrels last week. Analysts had expected a modest increase.

The EIA said gasoline inventories also fell, which took the market by surprise as well. Inventories of distillates, which include heating oil and diesel fuel, rose less than analysts surveyed by Platts had expected.

In Asia, the dollar has continued to weaken, dropping to 103 yen in Tokyo's currency market. It was holding steady against the euro after weakening against Europe's currency the day before.

Investors see hard commodities such as oil as a hedge against inflation and a weak dollar and pour into the crude futures market when the greenback falls. A weak dollar also makes oil less expensive to buyers dealing in other currencies.

Many investors believe the dollar's protracted decline over the past year has been the most significant factor behind oil's rise from about $66 a barrel a year ago to today's highs.

In other Nymex trading, heating oil futures rose 3.31 cents to $3.9415 a gallon while gasoline prices added 2.42 cents to $3.4207 a gallon. Natural gas futures rose 8.9 cents to $11.729 per 1,000 cubic feet.

July Brent crude rose $1.59 to $134.29 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.

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AP Business Writer John Wilen in New York contributed to this report.

Source

Edited May 22, 2008 by Olivia*

[Dr. Obvious 49]

Investors seized on a U.S. inventory report Wednesday to boost prices, but traders interested in pushing prices higher are increasingly picking and choosing the news they wish to pay attention to, analysts say.

Burn the Witches!

[Lisax 0]

$3.85 @ Mobile garage today in Rhode Island. I put $45 in my husbands car, but I could have gone at least to $50 dollars to fill up the whole tank, but we would like to eat as well! you know?

[Kevin and 10]

regular was 3.86 but premium was $3.80...very odd

Premium might be 10% Ethanol. I had seen this in Iowa and Nebraska. I bought it by mistake and got crappy mileage using it too.

[Mark&Steph 0]

Some gas station already has 3.99 at lunch time (from 3.84 average this morning)

We paid 3.99 for regular a couple of days ago

The premium was 4.20 or something.

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I saw 3.69 on the drive in this morning.

[*JG* 2]

I saw $3.78 this morning.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

i saw elvis. beat that.

[*JG* 2]

i saw elvis. beat that.

My Uncle is an Elvis impersonator! I WIN!!!!!!

(I'm serious....he is)

Tell me you saw Jim Morrison, Troll, and I'll concede!

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

That I can not claim, for I can not tell a lie...................

You win!