Gas prices coming down?

[HoopScoop]

My wife just called me, said she filled up for $3.57 in Oklahoma City. That's down about 22 cents from yesterday. The norm has been about $3.79. I did a quick check of gasbuddy.com and several places in OKC are down in the $3.57 to $3.63 range. Just one gas station in Norman has come down to $3.59 - the rest still in the high $3.70s

She said while she filled up a guy next to her drove up and got out and went wow!, my friend was right - it's only $3.57. It feels like Christmas!

Maybe gas prices are finally coming down a bit! Hopefully they will stay down.

[Noah121]

In Lincoln, the prices have been around $3.99 and $4.09 lately, but I have seen some $3.89 today. (Of course, biking on my new Cadenza 8, I haven't paid full attention to the gas prices).

[40ishHorn]

$3.96 at the nearest place to me in Dallas today....but that's held for about the last 7 to 10 days. (which I took as good news)

[Scamp]

Back in the 20th century :rotflol:

A much-younger co-worker thought I was kidding her, when I said that gas stations used to give their customers drinking glasses, steak knives, and trading stamps--while charging less than 40 cents a gallon!

[Dale8R]

Oh, don't forget to tell that co-worker that they also pumped the gas, checked the oil and water and aired up the tires if need be, while you sat in the car the entire time ~~ no extra charge!

My Mom still has some wonderful old glasses that she got over 60 years ago. They have colorful swirling designs in red, green and yellow. We sometimes get them out of the hutch on special days, though not so often as we used to. I guess they have become more of a museum piece to our family.

[LadyBuff]

I still have some of those glasses and other relics, too. They got me started when I was first on my own.

I have started taking the bus to work. There is a gas station across the street and it has been $3.99 for quite a while now. I'm only driving for necessities.

[Row6Seat10]

I still have and use a rain gauge I received as a Christmas gift the Skelly station passed out to customers as a token of their appreciation for having my business from way back when. :p

they also pumped the gas, checked the oil and water and aired up the tires if need be, while you sat in the car the entire time ~~ no extra charge!

Don't remind me Dale8r.....I pumped my own $3.76 per gallon gas this morning, squeegied my own windshield and checked my own oil...all the while the attendant sat inside the air conditioned booth reading a magazine what looked to be the National Inquirer! :rolleyes:

[Bball Girl]

It's all a ploy - they showed us what $4 a gallon gas looks like - so now they're going to lower it a bit and we'll just all be soooo thankful it's only $3.76 that we won't complain about the oil companies profits :eek:

[Noah121]

I still have some of those glasses and other relics, too. They got me started when I was first on my own.

I have started taking the bus to work. There is a gas station across the street and it has been $3.99 for quite a while now. I'm only driving for necessities.

Indeed. And for me, I have stopped driving every day, rather attempting to take the car at MAXIMUM once per day. If I commute to campus (for my summer research), I have been either biking the whole way or biking halfway and taking the bus the rest of the way. I get a free bus pass since I am a student on-campus at UNL during the school year. But, I hadn't taken full advantage of it for two years!

[LadyBuff]

My co-workers think that I am crazy for taking the bus because it does add some extra time to the commute. I think they are crazy for not taking the bus.

The bus service just started from where I live on July 1. It has a two year grant to see what the ridership will be. It is getting more people every day.

We also have a call and ride service. The bus wait would be about 45 minutes on Fridays because I get off at noon, so the call and ride picks me up at the office and brings me straight home. Can't beat that service.

Some days the car is not even started. Unfortunately tomorrow, I have to use it twice, but won't need it at all on Tuesday-Friday.

[Dale8R]

Unfortunately, bicycles are not a serious option where I live, it's too hilly. I gave my bike away when I moved to Arkansas. My neighbor and I HAVE talked about scooters, but that's all it is, talk.

Our nearest serious shopping place is about 15 miles away. Used to be that I'd go on any whim or excuse to go. Now I plan ahead and go maybe once a week, sometimes less often than that.

With volleyball season starting soon, I will be using the car more, but some things you can't put a price on.

[swok34]

I just hope we don't leave some of the lessons we've learned behind. We have got to reduce our dependence on oil. Period.

It amazes me that Iran threatens to shoot something at Israel or "develop" the ability to do so and gas in the US goes up a quarter a gallon.

Is Boone Pickens on the right track with wind power and natural gas?

Now, THESE are pretty cool, pricey, though:

http://www.piaggiousa.com/pimages/MP3_large.jpg

[LadyBuff]

I will have to drive to the volleyball matches and then the volleyball games. But I am no longer driving to work. That is a tremendous savings. I do drive about 3 miles to the grocery store once a week.

[Noah121]

I will have to drive to the volleyball matches and then the volleyball games. But I am no longer driving to work. That is a tremendous savings. I do drive about 3 miles to the grocery store once a week.

Did you mean to say "basketball games" rather than "volleyball games?" How far are you from work?

[40ishHorn]

It's gone down 12 cents in the past week at my neighborhood Shell station.

[HoopScoop]

Gas is now down 40 cents here in central OK since my first post 9 days ago. Just 44 more cents to get below $3 - maybe then I'll smile a little.

[ChipperF1]

"Just 44 more cents to get below $3 - maybe then I'll smile a little.

Not happening...We'll be at $4.50/gal by the preseason WNIT.

[LadyBuff]

It's below $4 here. Don't think I will ever see it below $3 again.

[swok34]

As cheap as $3.35 a gallon in parts of Oklahoma City.

Norman seems to be around $3.43.

[wildcatfan]

We were down to $3.48 in Wichita but it jumped to $3.65 this morning.:(

[Noah121]

I saw as low as $3.69 in Lincoln tonight and $3.57 in Bellevue.

[TTU79]

Averging $3.75 in Lubbock.

[sybarite]

It's down from about $3.99 to $3.69 in Dallas. A few places got over four, but I think they really tried to hold it under four.

Age revealed: I remember gas at 12 cents during a price war, 15 cents otherwise. When we put in a dollars worth of gas, we expected it to last for a week. It was the least expensive part of operating a car. But, tires were about $7, innertubes ran about $2, and bread was 18 cents a loaf. But, I think wages averaged about $50 per week to support a family.

We didn't remember the price problems of 73, and we went back to even larger vehicles. I don't think that gas prices will subside much this time.

I think every gas station had a mechanic back then as well, sometimes several.

[BeBe]

......I think every gas station had a mechanic back then as well, sometimes several.
AND someone to pump the gas for you for that price! None of this self-serve stuff.

[sybarite]

AND someone to pump the gas for you for that price! None of this self-serve stuff.
At the time, I can remember the attitude that they wouldn't permit "untrained customers" to touch the nozzles. Only "friends" were permitted to touch the precious nozzles if they were too bush serving other customers.

[40ishHorn]

Well I for one, can't remember gas prices any lower than 25 cents per gallon. ;) In addition to pumping your gas, they washed the windshield, checked the oil, and the water in your radiator (and even the air in your tires if you wanted them to). Ah, the good old days of free air and water hoses at gas stations.