Gas Prices! Let's help each other.

salmonking · 02-18-2003, 10:05 PM

Where are the cheaper gas prices. What with pick up trucks and jet sleds, we can all use every break we can get.
So far the least expensive I have seen was the Safeway in Troutdale,using your Safeway card.
Anyone else?

ReelTrouble · 02-18-2003, 10:20 PM

On the same subject. I keep my boat down at steamboat landing and therefor have to get gas on the water. I am only aware of two places to get gas within a reasonable distance on the water. Does anybody have any suggestions about where or how to get gas for cheeper. I have a fifty one gallon tank, and it costs ALOT to fill when the gas is over 2 bucks a gallon. If dont know where steamboat landing is, it is the marina on the east side of the glen jackson bridge, WA side of the river.

MasterCaster · 02-18-2003, 10:20 PM

Well I dont know how long it will stay this way but right here in Brooks it is $1.59 a Gal. Just so I do not advertise by name I will say its not Pilot and there are only 2 places to buy gas in Brooks.

I was in Keizer the other day at one of the stations and it was $1.57 the next day it was $1.72 :shocked:

Jon :smile: :grin: :smile:

Bobberologist · 02-18-2003, 10:21 PM

Be careful on that cheap gas. It maybe more expensive than you think.
Unbranded gas and Arco gas have one thing in common, they are just plain gas. True it burns. But contains no additives such as anti-carbonizers and detergents. The lack of these can lead to problems and expensive repairs.

MasterCaster · 02-18-2003, 10:25 PM

I understand the warning but we have been using gas from this place for MANY years and never had a problem. :grin:

Jon :smile: :grin: :smile:

corrirod · 02-18-2003, 10:46 PM

The crooks at Cornelius Pass/Hwy.26 wanted $1.89 for diesel yesterday! I drove down to Cornelius Pass/Baseline, about 2 miles away, and got it for $1.58/gallon. Talk about gouging!

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Herring Impaired · 02-18-2003, 10:53 PM

This site isn't updated like it used to be, but with the coming rise in prices, things are likely to pick up....

Gas Price Watch

Go to the USA on the left side, hover and then select the zip search.

Lunker · 02-19-2003, 01:09 AM

Found cheapest gas in Newport a few days ago at $1.57/gal for regular. It was $1.69 in PDX when I returned.

Yeah, the Gas Price watch was good when there were lots of input.

hound · 02-19-2003, 06:45 AM

$1.65 for diesel in scappoose last saturday

$1.74 in garibaldi last night

mike

Pilar · 02-19-2003, 06:54 AM

Arco, 92nd and Holgate. $1.69 regular last I checked.

Hey, as far as gas prices go, buy less of it. Find ways to not use as much fuel. Back about 4 years ago I rode the Max to work for almost a year. I bought a lot less gas. I began to not care much about what it cost. And I got to read the paper on the way to work. My blood pressure went down with every Sylvan Hills/26 traffic nightmare the train whizzed by.

The bus is not too bad either if you are not in a hurry.

A thing is only worth what some fool will pay for it.

fishchaser · 02-19-2003, 07:01 AM

The Safeway in Damascus has reg. for $1.52 GL.

I filled up the other day at the Cheveron on 82ndnd. and Killingsworth, for a $1.65 GL. and that was the cheapest I found.

Channel 6 said that the Damascus fuel was the cheapest.

Cool Texan · 02-19-2003, 08:31 AM

You know whats coming right....zipperlipping gas stations. Think about it...if I find cheap gas and tell you about it, you will go there, thus pushing up demand and subsequently the prices. Nope, not going to tell anyone, cuz greediness is what its all about.

Yes....that is sarcasm based on the zipperlip discussion on the main board. :grin:

1pump · 02-19-2003, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Unbranded gas and Arco gas have one thing in common, they are just plain gas.

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">That's not completely correct. ARCO uses a 10% ethanol blend year-round, at all their locations. That's why it's usually cheaper than most. Other stations just use 8% ethanol only during ethanol season, and only in the tri-county area.
I won't use ARCO gas.

fishbane · 02-19-2003, 08:55 AM

How about if we press our politicians to push detroit into getting us higher millage and alternate fuel sources by law. Oil funds terrorism more then anything else. Is the price of your son or daughter life for oil a price you want to pay?

Thumper · 02-19-2003, 09:03 AM

Hee hee. I love my Nissan 4X4 and my 30 hp jet!

I was warned by Northside Ford years ago to stay away from ARCO. Apparently ethanol, year-round, can do bad things. For what it is worth......

The Fishing Geek · 02-19-2003, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by fishbane:
How about if we press our politicians to push detroit into getting us higher millage and alternate fuel sources by law. Oil funds terrorism more then anything else. Is the price of your son or daughter life for oil a price you want to pay?

<font size="2" face="verdana,arial,helv">How do you expect that these folks around here are going to get their aluminum boats on plane with an electric motor? :tongue: Asking anglers to give up their big trucks and boats isn't going to go well.

Firedog · 02-19-2003, 10:06 AM

I got diesel in Troutdale today at Flying J and it was $1.66. They are usually the lowest in town or close to it. Gonna have to start watching for cheap diesel now.

TheRogue · 02-19-2003, 10:30 AM

Anyone see something on the news the last couple of nights about the gas "crisis"?? Supply is NOT low, until the last week there was basically no cold snap anywhere across the country, Venezuela is slowly becoming more stable and getting the oil pumping, and OPEC is still talking about production cuts later this summer to avoid a "glut". On top of that, the last I saw, the airlines were still using much less avgas than they were 3 years ago.

So tell me again, why are prices skyrocketing, sometimes going up hourly at your neighborhood station?? :whazzup: :whazzup:
And I'm sure, once the Iraq crisis is over, one way or another, will gas prices drop just as rapidly and just low as they were.

Sorry, feeling very cynical and sarcastic today.

TR

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Fish_N_Russ · 02-19-2003, 10:34 AM

Hmmmmmm interesting about Arco

So thats why its so cheap!

fishbane · 02-19-2003, 10:43 AM

I honestly don't expect us to give up boats, trucks and fishing. We can as a community press for hybrid trucks and engines though. Ford has a hybrid truck but now is stalling because they can get away with it. I hate having to depend on oil from other countries or at the cost of our country when can start moving towards other sources and ideas. If we as sportsman can have an influence we should do it. Thats my real point.

GasJockey · 02-19-2003, 07:38 PM

Just to keep everyone informed on the situation read the quote below, and try and remember the local gas station doesn't go to the middle east, dig a hole in the ground, pump it out, transport it to the US, refine it down to a usable substance, and jack the price up to the consumer. The price hikes suck for us too. When you buy less gas, do you think the gas stations costs go down at the same rate. Electricity costs the same, minimum wage is still $6.90, and we still have to pay the rent. Thanks for reading my vent letter.

"A number of our sources in the petroleum industry are suggesting that it is time for the Bush administration to allow a moderate drawdown of crude supplies from the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve in order to maintain a safe operating level for U.S based refiners. The SPR is currently holding just under 600 million barrels of crude oil.

Pronouncing the growing sentiment was last week’s release by the Energy Information Agency, an arm of the Department of Energy, of weekly inventory data. In the report, which captured data for the week that ended February 7, the EIA showed crude inventories at 269.8 million barrels, down 4.5 million barrels from the previous week. The agency added that this is the lowest crude stockpiles have been since 1975, and are now at the very bottom of what is likely considered safe operating levels by government analysts.

The EIA set the Lower Operational Inventory level for crude supplies at 270.0 million barrels. Breaching that mark could cause spot shortfalls in supply that the country’s oil industry could not immediately remedy, as well as potentially damaging some infrastructure, such as emptied storage tanks.

A number of sources agree with the EIA operating level assessment, saying that any snags in receiving foreign crude supplies in the coming days and weeks could force some refiners to reduce refining operations due to a lack of supply, thus exacerbating perceived tight supplies of gasoline and distillate fuels. Several suggested that it would be wise for the government to release at least 20 to 30 million barrels of SPR crude supplies now, distributing the crude to refiners ahead of any possible delays in getting crude into the U.S. in the near-term.

A few market players also noted that we are approaching the season where heavy fog is not an uncommon event along the heavy-refinery laced Gulf Coast, potentially adding further delays for foreign crude imports. The Gulf Coast, where more than 40 percent of the U.S. refining capacity is located, is critical for finished product in the Midwest and East Coast, as much of its output is shipped via various pipelines to those regions.

The industry sources further suggested that with the impending war with oil-producer Iraq, a withdrawal of crude from the SPR now would help to offset even greater potential price spikes by energy prices.

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Please buy twinkies, because my gas profit really sucks.