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Well, I'm home in Alaska on leave from Korea and one gallon of regular gas is now $4.05, and Premium is $4.27.
What's amazing is that there's something like gabajillions of gallons of crude under my feet right now. I filled my Jeep and it cost me $68.85.
That's right.
not a typo.
$68.85
When I was 16 a gallon of gas was around $0.69.
:-(
There's 3.78 liters in one US gallon.
That's about $7.12 a gallon, or $128.52 to fill my Jeep.
Random price for 95 octane unleaded (not sure what that equals in the US, it's the standard most cars use over here) yesterday in Denmark:
$8.53 a gallon
You were complaining about what? ;-)
(I'm glad I don't have a car, I get a lot more mileage on my scooter :-D - except when it rains, then it sucks)
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Random price for 95 octane unleaded (not sure what that equals in the US, it's the standard most cars use over here) yesterday in Denmark:
$8.53 a gallonYou were complaining about what? ;-)
(I'm glad I don't have a car, I get a lot more mileage on my scooter :-D - except when it rains, then it sucks)
Oh My God! $200 for a tank of Petrol...we are doomed!
Random price for 95 octane unleaded (not sure what that equals in the US, it's the standard most cars use over here)
87 octane. For us, 91 is considered "premium." Think it has to do with the way they measure though, and the fuel is basically the same (though ours has 10% ethanol).
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Random price for 95 octane unleaded (not sure what that equals in the US, it's the standard most cars use over here) yesterday in Denmark:
$8.53 a gallonYou were complaining about what? ;-)
(I'm glad I don't have a car, I get a lot more mileage on my scooter :-D - except when it rains, then it sucks)
Ouch! That would run me $145 to fill my tank!!
I don't know about Denmark, but almost everywhere in the US is s--p--a--c--e--d; nothing is very close to anything else. Unless you live and work in a metropolitan area, or are a student on campus, it's virtually impossible to do anything without a private auto. And for most Americans, public transportation is nowhere near as dependable and relentlessly awesome as other countries (like Korea--public transportation in Korea is the best option, and usually faster than driving yourself), and taxis as a standard mode of transport here are simply more expensive than owning your own car.
I soooo miss Alaska! Whenever I see a bush beside the road at night, I still slow down, expecting to see a moose. Feel pretty silly looking at the night sky looking for Northern Lights in Colorado Springs, too! Thankfully, the barbarians have finally started importing Alaskan Amber last week! Hooray!
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I soooo miss Alaska! Whenever I see a bush beside the road at night, I still slow down, expecting to see a moose. Feel pretty silly looking at the night sky looking for Northern Lights in Colorado Springs, too! Thankfully, the barbarians have finally started importing Alaskan Amber last week! Hooray!
Ohhh, yesss! I'm having a mug of Alaskan Amber right now. It goes so well with my moose steak and salmon.
Well, I'm home in Alaska on leave from Korea
This is odd... I enjoyed our discussion on the Mist that I went looking at your other posts.
I am also stationed in Korea, on Yongsan in Seoul. Where are you stationed, if you don't mind saying. If you do, feel free to email me at casey.jacobson@gimail.af.mil
It's kinda cool to know there's another Paizoan on pen.
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Well, I'm home in Alaska on leave from KoreaThis is odd... I enjoyed our discussion on the Mist that I went looking at your other posts.
I am also stationed in Korea, on Yongsan in Seoul. Where are you stationed, if you don't mind saying. If you do, feel free to email me at casey.jacobson@gimail.af.mil
It's kinda cool to know there's another Paizoan on pen.
I answered in another thread, but in case you don't see it, I'm the AFSCOORD at CRC; I work with 'Newman', if you know him. My wife came back to AK to have the baby (state birth certificate, AK benefits, and it's our permanent address, etc), but normally she lives at Yongsan; they'll be back around June, then I'll be down there every weekend and 4-day.
So where in Alaska? We lived in Delta Junction. Tried to do a mini-con there (Knavecon), and it turned into a nano-con instead. We had more community donations for concessions than the money we raised for the creative writing scholarship we were shooting for.
Still, I loved the Interior! Walmart and McDonalds over an hour and a half away, but we still had high speed internet. Fairbanks has a good gaming store, too.
You know if you are an Alaskaphile if you watch "30 Days of Night" and through all the vampire gore, you are thinking, "Man, I miss Alaska!". They taped it in Bethel, I think, but called it Barrow...
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So where in Alaska? We lived in Delta Junction...
I'm from Fairbanks, north of Delta Junction. I don't know how long ago you were up that way, but it's grown exponentially in the last five years--if you guage growth in terms of commercial enterprise. We have a huge Barnes & Noble, though they drove Waldenbooks out on a picket. We have a Chili's now, and a Carls, Jr.; there's a Wal-Mart Supercenter (which so many use to define the mark of civilization, but I tend to think it draws the 'raff from the Rim--just kidding, a little); There are hundreds of new houses (for the thousands of new residents we've gotten in the last two years alone) though I still haven't been able to sell mine. The Comic Shop is our one and only FLGS, and I love them. Oh, and of course, we have something like seven Starbucks and a hundred separate coffee shacks!
"Once you've felt 40-below, anything above zero is kinda nice."
Oh, and I just got back to Korea [ :-( ], and when I left yesterday regular gas at Fred Meyer's was $3.61 a gallon :-)
Smiles all around!
That Fred Meyers has really good vietnamese salad rolls! :->
I flew out of Fairbanks in December, so I'm well acquainted with the furthest north Barnes and Noble! We used to take my daughter to sleep in front of the fireplace -- until got too old to stay still for that long.
Ah, Alaska!
Oh, and the Comic Shop donated stuff for our nano-con, so I loved that place!
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That Fred Meyers has really good vietnamese salad rolls! :->
I flew out of Fairbanks in December, so I'm well acquainted with the furthest north Barnes and Noble! We used to take my daughter to sleep in front of the fireplace -- until got too old to stay still for that long.
Ah, Alaska!
December! The darkest, coldest month of the year! Three hours and 15 minutes of sunlight on Christmas Day! -41 degrees Fahrenheit!
...oh, the nostalgia. :-)
Yes, it was definitely a good time to be somewhere warmer, and with more light!
The strange thing about Alaska is if you can see the stars, it is way too cold to stay outside and enjoy them!
What great summers, though!
$5.00 !
I'm wondering if I should switch to diesel.
So how much do you have to pay for petrol?
I soooo miss Alaska! Whenever I see a bush beside the road at night, I still slow down, expecting to see a moose. Feel pretty silly looking at the night sky looking for Northern Lights in Colorado Springs, too! Thankfully, the barbarians have finally started importing Alaskan Amber last week! Hooray!
We barbarians have been importing Alaskan Amber for some time. ;)
I remember paying $5.00 and over when it spiked in '06.
HAHA! See that's what those silly socialist Alaskans get! We beat them to the $4 mark months ago! HAHAHA! LOSERS!
Its the "vast right-wing conspiracy", trying to get people mad at the President before elections.
Probably neither actually. Alaska had some missed fuel shipments earlier in the year. They finally got some in once the bays froze over but it wasn't an overly abundant supply. My guess is simple supply and demand -- there isn't as much supply so regular demand means a higher price.
Also with the tension Over Syria and Iran prices are trickling up still. This plays to Iran's favor since the higher prices are in general the more likely someone is to cut a deal with Iran -- one that is more favorable than they would otherwise get.
However I think they probably played their hand a bit too soon with the Straits of Hormuz.
Sarcasm meter broke much?
In all honestly it's been hovering at the $3.10 mark where I live so I can't complain too hard about gas prices in comparison. I've not seen it at the $4.00 mark at yet.
The damn thing kept exploding when I watch the news. Keeps thinking everything is sarcasm, cause no one could be that dumb.
Well, if it keeps exploding, that would cause a short suppy, wouldn't it?
The damn thing kept exploding when I watch the news. Keeps thinking everything is sarcasm, cause no one could be that dumb.
Oh I'm sorry -- that's my fault I'll recalibrate, I didn't realize you had been bombarded so. Here have a drink and some cookies.
There are also speculators.
There are also speculators.
Always, probably do more damage with their inflation causing ways than just about anyone else.
Don't get me started on fracking.