Remember it only costs you about15 cents when you write it off for taxes.Gas prices just went up $.30 in local stations. Christmas rush is the reason from petroleum suppliers.
Gas prices
- Thread starter dafarmer
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We go to the one in WDM and unfortunately the only time we get there is on weekends. As you would expect, there’s always a massive line at least 4 cars deep at each pump.
I tend to get up to Ankeny about once every week or so. If my tank is around a 1/4 or lower, I will fill up there instead of the west side. I would never make a special trip for it. My time is way more valuable than a couple of bucks,
This. I genuinely have no idea what I paid for gas on Sunday. If it's anywhere between $3.00-$4.99 I wouldn't even notice.
That’s the sad part, we’ve gotten used to 3+ gas. Thinking 2.50 is cheap is mind blowing.
$2.50 is cheap gas if you factor how much we've devalued our money. Equivalent to something like $1.50 gas in 2005, when it was over $2.00 at this time of year.
Das Audi burns the premium so mine is alway spendy but I'll probably only drive 4000 miles this year so don't really give a poop about it that much. No work commuting anymore and everything like grocery, Home Depot, car shop and booze store are all within a 5 mile radius of home.
Have you always felt this way about gas prices?
Yeah if the line is short when I'm going to Costco to shop I'll fill up but otherwise I'm not wasting more then a couple minutes waiting to fill up with gas.
Oh, c'mon. It's a perpetual topic of conversation (see this thread). If Iowans of a certain generation can't talk about gas prices, they may not have anything to talk about.
Tougher starts is probably the obvious one, test with a multimeter or go to an Autozone or similar store to have them test it for free. Getting 6 years out of a battery is probably pretty good, I figure 3-5 years is pretty normal/average.
Does your vehicle hesitate to start? 6 years is about the limit. I’d probably change it out.
KS premium = no ethanol
Love's premium = 10% ethanol, at least $0.40/gal cheaper than KS premium
It's more about when it idles the fan for the heater seems to act like it's running out of power.
I'm pretty sure in the last 30 years or so I've never picked a gas station based on the price. I've also never based a decision on whether to go someplace or not on the price of gas. Now if it ever came to the point where some stations were $3 a gallon and others were $8 a gallon I'd start paying more attention to where I buy it.
Ok, that’s different than what I’m used to. I’ve always seen 10% ethanol, no ethanol 87 and premium which is 91 and no ethanol. Then also the other ethanol percentages.
That isn’t the battery. It’s probably the blower motor but if electrical it would be the alternator but the alternator would give you dead batteries. Do you have a voltage meter in your dash?
Are you sure there is ethanol in their premium? I didn't think any premium had ethanol. If that isn't the case I may need to start paying more attention because my small protest against growing crops for fuel involves never buying ethanol if I can help it.
