How far would you drive to save a few pennies on gas?

Fortyfive years ago the price of gas was around $.30 to $.35 per gallon. Frequently the stations would fight for your business with "gas wars", lowering the price of gas $.02 to $.03 per-gallon. A 20% to 30% differance was enough to make it worth while to drive a few miles for the savings. Today they want to make a big deal out of a $.02 to $.03 discount. It is hardly the 20% to 30% discount of those past years. If you drive a few extra miles for a few cents savings today you have to be careful not to spend more driving the few miles for the cheaper gas. Save me 20% to 30% and I will drive the extra miles.

I will drive about a mile. By the time you drive 5 mile it want be a saving.

Oil dropped today to $138.00 / barrel. Can somebody at the news desk tell me why gas prices went from $3.93 / gal to $4.08 / gallon overnight? That's
$.15 / gal. I've looked all over the news for a catastrophie in the middle east or at least something that would vaugley resemble a problem in the oil market or production or OPEC industries. I hope the oil companies haven't used Ben Bernankes "gloomy" forcast for the economy as another excuse to raise the prices again. This is only Mr. Bernanke's "forcast". It is in his best opinion. Why does everything we do and pay for seem to have its financial basis directly tied to an industry or world leaders opinion. Can't the floks on Wall Street think for themselves any longer?

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you need to go out of your way to REWARD the owners that are selling for less.The most important thing to do-other than drive the extra mile or two--is GO IN the store and BUY something-even just a drink.They are only making a penny or two on the gas--some are actually breaking even just to get you in the store.

To me it seems that it is not worth the drive to save a few pennies, because by the time you drive to a cheaper station to save 2 or 3 cent you could have saved that gas, and get more for your money at your neighboring station. You use 2 or 3 cents by turning on your ignition, stopping at 4 or 5 traffic lights before getting to the cheaper station. By the time you get to the gas station you have burned about $1.00 worth of gas to save 2 or 3 cents. NOW I ASK YOU DOES THAT MAKE ANY SENSE?

None of us really has to drive out of our way to find cheaper gas.

I drive to work from RH every day, I pass at least 15 stations including
Walmart and Kroger. Today I paid $3.38 at Kroger for gas. That is still to high.

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I will never buy anything from Enmark or El Cheapo again. After seeing what the oil companies have created to cause todays spike in price there has to be an investigation. I guess it is their way to make up for all they have lost recently with the drop of the oil prices. We heard from someone working for a local gas dealer that Saturday morning they will set their prices at $5.29 per gallon. This may be rumor, but if this is true I would love to see TOC do some polking around with this. I know that may not happen, you guys wouldn't want to jeopardize your advertising income. I've call Kingston office to encourage Jack to get vocal about this. Our oil companies screwing us and there is nothing we can do about it. This is just WRONG!

It is sad to say on how much we all rely on oil and the oil companies know it!!! They can price it how ever they choose and we pay for it. Until our government steps in and says we can start using our own resources and start making more steps to do away with foreign oil we are screwd. We have to find another alternative!!!! I know that we are slowly, but it isn't enough. The american people are struggling with just trying to pay the prices at the pump and get by. Oil companies, in my opinion are only getting richer while the rest of us are getting poor! Sometimes I have to wounder if we will have enough gas just to get to work and back. We all, I am sure, are making alot of ajustments to our ways of living and praying that something or someone will come along and do something to help the people! For the people that are working at minium wage or the elderly who are on a fixed income are hurting the most!!!! The price of gas per gallon is alomst fifty percent of their hourly wage! That is ridiculous! It feels like no matter what you do you can not get ahead. The old saying is " the rich keep getting richer while the poor keep getting poorer!" I am going to leave off with saying in my opinion the U.S is going to hell in a hand basket!!!! We need a HOLE NEW GOVERNMENT, from ground up!!!! Not just because of oil but because of ALL the problems the U.S has. It is time for the citizens of the U.S to take back OUR COUNTRY and lets get back to the basics.