Crazy Gas prices!!!

[CelicaST-162]

I go to fill up, and I didnt expect to see 82.9 cents/liter!!!! :eek:...and premium gas is 93 cents a liter! (Feel sorry for you turbo guys.) I wish I had a small four cylinder econo box :( compared to my gas hungry thing we call an SUV :drama:
Wont be much of shock when they hit $1.00/liter.

[nismodrifter]

and that my friend is why you should switch to diesel :D filled up $25 worth at 59.9 I think a couple days ago...gonna last 3 weeks minimum :D 800-1000kms per tank pwns j00!!!

[Mckenzie]

Shit....I have no gas either. :(

[illeagle]

:clap: Yay, i'm glad i left my DPFI civic STOCK. Sure it's slow, but I can get well over 400km per tank, always on priemium. Yesterday i filled up for $27.00, i'll do it again in 3.5 weeks...:poosie: And my Turbo Mazda also takes regular..;)

[hjr]

fuck, and i was pissed at 78.5 round where i fill up. (that was reg, i use prem.)

[rage2]

Originally posted by illeagle
:clap: Yay, i'm glad i left my DPFI civic STOCK. Sure it's slow, but I can get well over 400km per tank, always on priemium. Yesterday i filled up for $27.00, i'll do it again in 3.5 weeks...:poosie: And my Turbo Mazda also takes regular..;)
Run regular instead on the civic, and you'll see over 500km easy. I drive my civic hard and see 500km, 560km if I go easy.

[CRXguy]

I thought it was a mistake when I saw 82.9! Motherfuckers. Both my cars are running low on gas. :nut:

[kaput]

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[Gonthro]

i was wondering why i saw people lined up aroudn the block to get gas at a little shop down the street for gas at 70.9, i ended fulling up down the road at a not nearly as crowded esso for 72.9

[hatetank]

Thank god I just filled the WRX-PIG up for 82.9/L premium.

[/////AMG]

www.calgarygasprices.com

[dj_rice]

Damnnnnnnn Civics get 500km+ on $27?

I only get like 225-250km on $20

[SoSlowDx]

lucky I walk to work:eek:

[xDiMSuMx]

Safeway on 32nd ave and 52 St is still at 75 for regular
just filled it 30 mins ago

[illeagle]

Originally posted by rage2

Run regular instead on the civic, and you'll see over 500km easy. I drive my civic hard and see 500km, 560km if I go easy.

Thanks, i'll try that in... oh say, 2 weeks...:poosie:

[EnRich]

Thats rediculas... I can't believe these gas companies, cockroaches...

Rich

[cman]

damn i had to fill up today too, i knew i should have done it yesterday:(

[Barnes]

i'm glad i filled up, when it was at 75.4. and just as i was, they changed the price to 82.5, those fuckers. i remember like 3 or 4 years ago. when i use to ride dirtbikes, it was like 45 cents a litre. and 55 was WOW.

[Team_Mclaren]

damn my car is running so low now, dont think it'll last two days!!!
the stupid thing eats gas like 30 bucks a week!!!!!! on mid grade. i think im running rich... how u check for that?

[CelicaST-162]

Originally posted by Team_Mclaren
damn my car is running so low now, dont think it'll last two days!!!
the stupid thing eats gas like 30 bucks a week!!!!!! on mid grade. i think im running rich... how u check for that?

Are you puffing black smoke? Black smoke means excess fuel burnt. Try a tune up, thats what I am doing on mine to try to get some more miles out of a tank! BTW, from a full tank (65 liters) goes empty in a week! :eek:

[Altezza]

Add another 10 cents if you live in Vancouver...get ready for an expensive summer...

[fast95pony]

An extra $3-5 a week for me. I guess I can live with that.
On the bright side...less SUV's on the road !
:clap:

[spyguy]

its 92.9 in vancouver for regular :(

[WGR4Pussies]

heres a graph, I'm glad I drive a honda and my dad pays for my gas:poosie: :rofl:

http://www.calgarygasprices.com/images/charts/xgraph16.png?ii=23361

[Zero102]

Jeez!
Yeah, I saw the prices going up, but I was in a real hurry, I got lucky, the esso in Coventry (where I was headed) stayed low until I got out of physio.
Been running right beside the 'R' (crazy germans =) for a couple days now. Just did some work on the car, wanted to see exactly how much better the mileage got (pretty good, from 14.5L/100km to 11.2L/100km, saves me about $11 a tank).

[ALI BABA]

Originally posted by kaput
Has it ever been this high? I can't remember when it was, but I'm young and haven't been driving for long.


This is the highest its ever been in Alberta (according to Global News):thumbsdow

[CKY]

i hate how gas prices work, they rise it like 2 bucks, they drop 50 cents, and the trend just goes on and on.......... and the thing is the 50 cents drop usualy last less than a week before the prices go back up:whipped:

[lam-boy]

Originally posted by CRXguy
I thought it was a mistake when I saw 82.9! Motherfuckers. Both my cars are running low on gas. :nut:

ahh no kidding, on the way home..82.9, must be a typo.
wrong!
and im 1/4 left..damnit!!

[YCB]

seriously... no wonder i saw all the gas stations full. frick. i should have taken the hint.. the beater sucks gas like a mother..
450km/tank.. tank is 70 litres.. :banghead:

[FroggerDude]

Originally posted by dj_rice
Damnnnnnnn Civics get 500km+ on $27?


YUP! :D

[muse017]

Originally posted by nismodrifter
and that my friend is why you should switch to diesel :D filled up $25 worth at 59.9 I think a couple days ago...gonna last 3 weeks minimum :D 800-1000kms per tank pwns j00!!!

TDI -> Way to go~!

[yohan4ws]

shiat.. im takin a highway drive to edmonton this weekend .. SUCK!

I usually fill at the centex on ctr. street north and 26ave ... premium is only 5cents more than regular, wed / sat / sun is 2cents cheaper.. I filled at 76 for premium (92.9octane) bit over a week ago.. still 3/4 .. oiy :eek: i saw the price of gas today and :barf:

[RiceCake]

Damn gas prices yesterday morning in Vancouver was 92.9 for regular :eek:

[Xtrema]

It's the @#$%%# taxes I tell ya. They don't jump by 2 or 3 cents anymore because of the damn taxes.

The gas station owners doesn't make much out of this either. All the $$$ goes to the government and the oil companies.

Why would Martin promise gas tax back to the cities? Because he knows the money that goes back to the cities is peanuts compare the extra taxes coming in during high gas prices.

But consider yourself lucky living in oil town. At least some of the money flow back to our businesses.

[haze4dayz]

If i had the money i would get the new Toyota Prius with Hybrid Synergy Drive. 55-60 MPG.....dam :thumbsup:


Gas: 75 hp @ 5,000 RPM:thumbsdow
Electric: 67 hp @ 1,200-1,540 rpm:thumbsdow

[WGR4Pussies]

fucking gas, I got the S-AFC scalled back -50 across,
by the way, what does detenation sound like?

[rice_eater]

Originally posted by illeagle


Thanks, i'll try that in... oh say, 2 weeks...:poosie:

haha why are you so excited? my modded neon gets about 500km out of a tank :poosie: So the amazing fuel economy of the honda isn't all that amazing

[Sean7]

Originally posted by haze4dayz
If i had the money i would get the new Toyota Prius with Hybrid Synergy Drive. 55-60 MPG.....dam :thumbsup:


Gas: 75 hp @ 5,000 RPM:thumbsdow
Electric: 67 hp @ 1,200-1,540 rpm:thumbsdow

Ya but look at the torque #'s:

Gas: 82 lb.-ft. @ 4,200 rpm
Electric: 295 lb.-ft. @ 0-1,200 rpm :nut:

Torque is all you need for getting around town.

[gag44]

my grandpa has a toyota prius, he took me for a ride in it, it has a display that shows fuel consumption, which engines are on, when the battery is being charged, etc. for the whole drive the mileage was in the 0-5L/100km range :eek: that's like 900 km/tank (45 L tank)
it accelerated about the same as your standard economy compact.

[Zero102]

They're so quiet too. I really applaud people for buying them. Although I question what disposing of that many batteries will do to the environment over the emissions saved.

Good thing I did all that work on my car, really helped out my mileage, and my pocket book through these hard times.

A little off topic, but why are all the hybrids gasoline/electric, and not diesel/electric, is it because of the repetetive starts, and that starting a diesel that many times would be inefficient?

[T5_X]

FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Right before my roadtrip through interior BC to Vancouver :banghead:

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by Zero102
A little off topic, but why are all the hybrids gasoline/electric, and not diesel/electric, is it because of the repetetive starts, and that starting a diesel that many times would be inefficient?

#1 Diesel in North America is crap (too high sulfur content) and distribution network is inferior compare to gasoline.

#2 A good well tune Diesel engine still put more pollutent in air than a standard unclean gasoline engine.

Hybrid is a good idea but only under this circumstances:

On average a hybrid is about $6000 more than a non hybrid equivalent:

Camry 4-cyl $25K Prius: $30K Difference: $5K
Civic - $22K Civic Hybrid: $28.5K Difference: $6.5K

Since there isn't any history on battery durability, let say it needs a replacment in about 7 years. So the question is, will you save $6K of gas in 7 years?

Average driver do 20,000km /year. Gas usage for each of the vehicles above:

Camry: 1800L ---- Prius: 1200L --- Saving: 600L/year
Civic: 1400L ----- Civic H: 1000L ---- Saving: 400L/year

So in order to get my $6000 investment back over the 7 years, the gas price must be:

Camry/Prius: $1.43/L
Civic/CivicH: $2.14/L

And believe me, economy is already tanking at $0.80/L gas prices. I hope we won't see that kind of gas price in 7 years, otherwise, we have more to worry about than gas. So none of the hybrid make economic sense right now.

Now, if they start to offer hybrid cars @ normal car prices, than real saving kicks in. But I think that's still a few years away.

But if you really look at mpg perspective, diesel is actually very close to hybrids. If gas production company start to invest in post production of diesel, it's actually a better/cheaper alternative to hybrids.

Plus as someone said before, where is all these NiMH batteries gonna go when they expires?

And don't every get me started on prospect of fuel cell cars.......

[CelicaST-162]

Great! Now it's 88.5 cents a liter! :banghead:

[lam-boy]

Originally posted by CelicaST-162
Great! Now it's 88.5 cents a liter! :banghead:

are you fucking serious??
omg i was gonna fill up FUCK!

[Big_C_racing]

Xtrema.....well put, didn't think of it that way before. Thank god for the good old Deisel Mercedes......Put in 25 bucks for a tank and i got 800K to go before I gotta put that 25 back in. And really guys.......a part of that crazy gas price is due to all those gas guzzling suvs and truck that people are commuting in. Buy an economy crapper for that and save the beast for recreation!!!

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by Big_C_racing
a part of that crazy gas price is due to all those gas guzzling suvs and truck that people are commuting in. Buy an economy crapper for that and save the beast for recreation!!!

But this is oil town. All the peons who work for big oil gets like 25% bonus last year + mad raises. Executives get millions. They won't care about another $10 a week on gas and keep on trucking.

[nismodrifter]

W000000000 DIESEL = STILL 59.9 :D :D :D :D

Big C: what kind of diesel MBZ do you have?? gotta love em :)

[3G]

Fuck You to Klien, Martin and all the gas companies they can all eat a phat dick :thumbsdow Fucking Nazis

[Redlyne_mr2]

Premium ranges anywhere from 1.00-1.05, regular is around 91 cents here in Ontario...Piece of shit garbage ass province

[l/l/rX]

man crazy line up at superstore!!!! went to fill up before that 6cent increase. i was in line for like 20min! it was crazy!
but damn i hate this almost paying a dollar per litre. :banghead:

[Mike_man44]

It was 96.5 Cents per L here in ontario today. get used to it I guess.

Edit: Thats just reg. too.

[CelicaST-162]

I want a diesel now, hell I bet a Dodge Cummins would have better mileage than mine! Or at least an econobox!

[T5_X]

I'm in Vancouver right now, glad I filled up in the interior before I came here. It was 98.5 here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! for me thats 108.5!!! It would cost over 80 bucks to fill my tank :eek: :eek: :eek:

Greedy bastards. My dad and I went fishing the other day further up the lower mainland and it was 10 cents cheaper in Abbotsford.

[pinoyhero]

Damn it just gets worse, maybe over a buck before the May long weekend, a time the stations notoriously pump up prioces.

[nickyh]

Did the calc on the fuel economy on my Jetta (1.8T) it works out to about 33mpg. Not shabby for a turbo but then we don't drive the crap out of the car.

It sucks the price of gas - but I work in O&G so I eat it at the pump but it helps the bottom end when I get my bonus next year..... what can we do - boycot the gas stations?

[fast95pony]

LOL !

Global were interviewing a guy in a grey S10 Blazer about the price of gas at a gas station. He still had his Rxxx number from last Friday's Secret Street. Yesterday was Tuesday.

Who's this loser trying to impress with leaving his race numbers on ?? :dunno:


:rofl:

[Toma]

Saw 88 cents regular at the Esso 16th last night!

[googe]

94 is 97 cents now :cry:

[hyperwhite]

damn, i dont even wanna check how much gas is up to now here. last i saw was 89.3 and i live in niagara falls so when the tourist season hits im gonna be screwed. FUCK OPEC!!!!!!!

[sputnik]

I dunno... I really dont mind the high gas prices.

sure we are paying a few bucks more each fill... but the higher gas prices are, the more money Alberta makes...

the more money Alberta makes... the sooner they will be able to remove the need for provincial income tax.

not to mention more hospitals, schools and crap like that.

[Xtrema]

Originally posted by nickyh
It sucks the price of gas - but I work in O&G so I eat it at the pump but it helps the bottom end when I get my bonus next year..... what can we do - boycot the gas stations?

Just thank god that we live in Alberta where all these oil money will come back to you in some way or form.

BTW, back to hybrid, now they are saying you only get about 60% of their mileage claim by the manufacturers in real world driving. So it's all false advertising.

http://www.wired.com/news/autotech/0,2554,63413,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1

[ICEBERG]

Just bought 91 Octane at 99.9 cents a litre today.:eek:

[/////AMG]

www.calgarygasprices.com SUCK!
I checked in the morning went to a shell which was suppose to be 79 and it was 88.5 came home at around 3ish checked again and there wass a shell 2 mins away from me and it was 81 cents, go and its 88. Do they ever fucking update!??!

[hjr]

Originally posted by sputnik
I dunno... I really dont mind the high gas prices.

sure we are paying a few bucks more each fill... but the higher gas prices are, the more money Alberta makes...

the more money Alberta makes... the sooner they will be able to remove the need for provincial income tax.

not to mention more hospitals, schools and crap like that. hahaha, ya like how gst was introduced to get rid of the deficit then it was to be taken off the books, well its 10 years on and that shit still hasnt happened.

[SI-vic]

Originally posted by hjr
hahaha, ya like how gst was introduced to get rid of the deficit then it was to be taken off the books, well its 10 years on and that shit still hasnt happened.

Just be glad we dont have to pay the pst tax just like every other province in this country.
anyways,
I heard on the news that gas prices are expected to peak during the summer (which means we havent suffered through the worst yet) and gas prices will finally drop down during the fall (not sure how far it'll drop but hopefully low enough)

[Ajay]

I was paying $24 to fill my car up from empty to full when it was 82.5 for regular. Now that it's jumping up to 88.5 it's gonna cost me what....$28?! I can still live with that considering I get a lot outta my gas tank!

Must suck to have those big SUV's and trucks that guzzle the gas....I'm gonna laugh at a friend who's dad has an Excursion!

[cman]

im glad i work at a gas station now, always know 2-3 hours before hand when the prices are gonna go up:)

[JordanLotoski]

Originally posted by sputnik
I dunno... I really dont mind the high gas prices.

sure we are paying a few bucks more each fill... but the higher gas prices are, the more money Alberta makes...

the more money Alberta makes... the sooner they will be able to remove the need for provincial income tax.

not to mention more hospitals, schools and crap like that.

i agree....even if it hits 5 bucks a litre someday we are all gonna bitch while we pump....who cares its a few extra bucks a fill up..maybe dont use pemuim i use regular in both my cars:D

[Red1]

ya its 87.9 here, one gas place is at 97.9....
I live in Moose Jaw