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Old Jun 21st 2017, 12:21 am
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Now got $1.89 a gallon here in 'bama.
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Old Jun 21st 2017, 9:31 am
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I'm desperately trying not to think/convert UK prices into dollars. I can say that it's about 50 quid to fill this poxy 1litre engined Ford Focus, which for all the gas economy hype, only returns about 37MPG (using UKGallons not US). I feel a little cheated when I consider that my scabby old '94 Citroen (my last UK vehicle, prior to 2010) returned a solid 50mpg despite the fact that I 'worked' it hard!
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Old Jun 21st 2017, 10:01 am
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Originally Posted by Amie06
Now got $1.89 a gallon here in 'bama.
$2.70 here in the great Northwest, a lack of local refineries plays a part. Such as zero refineries in Oregon and zero planned in the next 100 years. Same with new refineries in California and Washington. The current refineries are making a killing, example #1 your post.
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Old Jun 21st 2017, 12:17 pm
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
.... Today it is down another 1¢, so now $2.009. I anticipate paying less than $2 by the weekend.
Only 24 hours later (Wednesday morning) and it's already off another 1¢.

I wonder how many more price cuts there will be before I fill up at the weekend?
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Old Jun 22nd 2017, 2:00 pm
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Another station that was $2.089 last weekend, and is usually among the most expensive BP stations of the ones I use (when I need gas in that area) has slashed the price to $1.999, matching the cheapest that I know of in the area.

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Old Jun 22nd 2017, 6:48 pm
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Noticed it was about 1.26/liter on the way to work this morning. Down 5 cents or so.
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Old Jun 22nd 2017, 7:54 pm
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Most $1.99 here now
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I had to pay 2.57, bought enough to get me down where I can fill up and my two containers.
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Old Jun 23rd 2017, 9:14 am
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Here was I getting all excited that my first fill up back in the States was going to be considerably cheaper than three weeks ago but my local is only a penny less than it was, now $2.169.

I will hold off filling up for a day though because I spotted $2.099 just down the road whilst running last minute errands late last night so hopefully I'll see a 7 cent drop at my local this morning...

... otherwise I shall go sulk in a quiet corner. .
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Down to $1.95 today
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Originally Posted by zzrmark
.....my scabby old '94 Citroen (my last UK vehicle, prior to 2010) returned a solid 50mpg despite the fact that I 'worked' it hard!
A '94 Citroen got 50 mpg What model was that? I was lucky to get 30mpg out of anything that age.
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Old Jun 23rd 2017, 1:59 pm
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Originally Posted by Sheepdip
A '94 Citroen got 50 mpg What model was that? I was lucky to get 30mpg out of anything that age.
Maybe a diesel?
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Originally Posted by Sheepdip
A '94 Citroen got 50 mpg What model was that? I was lucky to get 30mpg out of anything that age.
I used to get about 31-32 mpg (UK) from my 1.6 Sierra, 29mpg (UK) out of my '89 3.0 V6 Alfa, and I get about the same (25 mpg, US) from my '02 V8 Mustang. As far as I am concerned the correlation between engine size and fuel economy is not obvious.

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Old Jun 23rd 2017, 3:16 pm
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My wife drives a manual diesel VW beetle over here in Washington state , diesel is roughly $2.47 a gallon here at the moment (Washington has extra tax on fuel compared to the rest of the states) and it's still really nice to get 50mpg on a run as at the end of the day I still have to work to put the diesel in it (wife only lets me drive the car when tank is below a quarter for some reason !)
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Originally Posted by Beaverstate
$2.70 here in the great Northwest, a lack of local refineries plays a part. Such as zero refineries in Oregon and zero planned in the next 100 years. Same with new refineries in California and Washington. The current refineries are making a killing, example #1 your post.
Do you belong to Costco ? That seems to be cheapest around and it's top tier !
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