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[which_chick]

Gasoline was $2.99 a gallon this morning on my way to work. On my way home from work, it was $3.19 a gallon. I have never before seen gasoline at these prices around here, and I've lived here damn near all my life. I wonder what gasoline will cost tomorrow? I wonder what people are going to do for heating oil this winter. (We already bought heating oil for all of our apartment buildings, enough for all winter long, about two weeks before Katrina hit... and the two-dollars-and-change we paid for the oil is looking mighty good right now, I gotta say.)

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[fooliv.livejournal.com]

I've never lived in a building with oil heat - didn't know you could stockpile an entire winter's supply like that. How much do you go through?

My apartment runs baseboard electric, and I'm wondering what the loss of the natural gas facilities down there is going to do to electricity prices this winter... Oh, well. Unless it triples, I should be able to afford it.

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

We have an... arrangement with one of the local fuel oil companies. We buy an entire winter's worth of fuel oil (more, if the price is halfway decent) in August and we pay for it in August and they store it in their tanks and deliver to our assorted tanks as needed throughout the winter. The oil company is willing to do this for us mostly because of the volume we deal in -- this year we bought eight thousand gallons of fuel oil.

[ornery-chick.livejournal.com]

Todd and I have been talking about how glad we are we had the foresight to buy a small car that runs on diesel. That 45mpg is awfully pleasant these days.

[ksleet.livejournal.com]

$3.29 here in the middle of downtown Chicago. I'm surprised the difference between here and there is so slim.

[teflon-tim.livejournal.com]

Here in Upper Darby & nearby Springfield DelCo, it ranged anywhere from $2.99 to $3.31. Up in Berks County where my folks live, it was a surprisingly consistent $3.19 everywhere we went. Of course, this was 24 hours ago, so there's no telling what changes have taken place since.

So Mark, how's public transit out there in Chi-Town?

[ksleet.livejournal.com]

Uh, it's remarkably affordable, especially lately...

I've been trying to not mention it in front of the folks at work, though, since they're always grousing about how much it costs to fuel up their high-performance sports coupes now. (Also, I've always found people who find some sort of moral superiority in taking public transportation to be almost uniquely irritating, and I'm not going to even resemble that person if I can help it.)

On a tangential note, I saw a Prius today. It's a handsome and futuristic car. Weirdly shaped, though, and big. I guess 90% of the trunk is batteries or ultimate terror fields or whatever it is those things run on. Several folks at work have made noises about trading in for one.