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John Byrne
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | 1
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Stay-at-home that I am, I only have to gas up my cars every couple of months. Today it was the Jag’s turn. Tank was almost dry. See thread title. Thank you, King Donald.
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Rich Marzullo
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | 2
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Not so slowly creeping up to $5/gallon in the Twin Cities.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | 3
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Top was $5.89. I actually went down a grade. Hope the Jag doesn’t throw up. As usual, flashing back to my ’71 Beetle and my first fill-up. 35¢ a gallon.
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James Johnson
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 3:38pm | IP Logged | 4
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The "smart" people voted for this.
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Veli Loponen
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Joined: 19 April 2004
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | 5
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I don't have a car or don't drive.
But in my part of the world gas prices are way more, as they have always
been. At the moment price is about 2 euros (about $2.30) for a liter. A
gallon has 3.785 liters, so in our prices gallon would be about $8.70.
Of course this is probably one reason we have a pretty good public
transportation system in most of Europe. I'm happy for that because it
means I don't have to get a car to get into places I want to go.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | 6
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For as long as I can remember I have been told that the rest of the world pays more for gas. Know what? Doesn’t help!!
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Brian Miller
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 4:14pm | IP Logged | 7
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Our youngest drives a 2008 Infinity. We didn’t know when we bought it that
it has to run on premium only. It cost us just under $95 to fill her up earlier
this week. That’s insane for a 17-year-old’s vehicle. Hell, it’s insane for
anyone’s vehicle.
I see that one of the MAGA proud in Alaska is asking for donations for gas
money so they can keep campaigning to hold their senate spot. Idiots.
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Michael Hogan
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | 8
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JB, you had a '71 Beetle? I had a '74. It was a glorious
car until it wasn't.
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Bill Collins
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | 9
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I'm currently paying the equivalent of $6 a Gallon and
that's from the cheapest local station!
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Vinny Valenti
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Remember about 4 years ago, people were placing stickers of Joe Biden saying "I did that!" at gas stations?
Where are those folks now....?
I'm literally in the air right now headed to Fairbanks, Alaska. I'm afaid to see what the gas prices are over there! Probably won't be renting a car at all anyway, since we're slowly taking the railroad and bus down to the coast at Seward this week.
Edited by Vinny Valenti on 21 May 2026 at 8:34pm
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Evan S. Kurtz
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| Posted: 21 May 2026 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | 11
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When I bought my Tesla in 2018, I had to do a lot of work to persuade my wife that it was worthwhile. We had a couple of things going in favour of purchase - first, at the time the province of Ontario offered a $14k rebate on any EV purchase. Second, I drove a 2014 Honda Civic that I was able to sell for another $14k. That got the price out of pocket down a good amount, but we also used a spreadsheet to try and estimate long-term savings on gas.
Of course, when the pandemic hit there were a couple of years there where both gas prices were surprisingly low and we weren't exactly traveling a lot. Still, as I now approach the 8th anniversary of purchase, despite how hopelessly disappointing Musk turned out to be as a human being, I haven't regretted purchase.
...I'll get back to you if the car ever sets fire in my driveway.
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