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Went for a little ride yesterday just to get out the house, sunny but cold and dry.

Ride on! your bike sounds healthy, what is fuel costing you these days?

My bike is still apart but I have everything needed to put her back together now and a bunch of time to do it.

We are paying around $5.55 per US gallon i believe, what are you guys paying for it.

Here the price for Shell and Exxon 89 octane is $2.09 per gallon. Of course that's before you get the Giant Food discount. Some other brands of regular gas cost $1.99 per gallon, but I always run "top-tier" brands of gasoline. Yesterday, with the discount, I bought Shell 89 octane for $1.85 per gallon. Keep in mind that included in that price is the Maryland state tax of $.35 per gallon and the Federal tax of $.18 per gallon, so the fuel itself before taxes cost me $1.32 per gallon. Ed

Wow! I thought the price war would have help bring prices down for you guys too, we were over 3 bucks a month ago
www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/business/oil-cras...sia-trump/index.html

bluej58 wrote: Wow! I thought the price war would have help bring prices down for you guys too, we were over 3 bucks a month ago
www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/business/oil-cras...sia-trump/index.html

Most of the price of gasoline is Tax for the treasury, the oil companies are on a very narrow profit margin over here.

In Germany we have to pay $4,90 a gallon super E10, $5,03 a gallon super E5 and $6,98 a gallon supreme super for the fuel.
The overall tax rate is 70,55 % per LITER and Gallon but we have no speedlimits on the Highways to burn our Money as fast as possible.

bluej58 wrote: Wow! I thought the price war would have help bring prices down for you guys too, we were over 3 bucks a month ago
www.cnn.com/2020/03/20/business/oil-cras...sia-trump/index.html

Gas has been hovering around the $2.00 mark for a long time here in the lou. Gas prices jump considerably whenever crossing over the Mississippi into Illinois. JB has to pay for all of that free stuff somehow.
www.google.com/maps/place/QuikTrip/@38.7...697969!4d-90.5243317

Seeing $1.77 pretty regularly around here.

I just filled up today at $1.79

On today's price of gas in the UK for every $ you spend 66 cents goes to the government, and they call the oil companies greedy.

I live in the country but work in the Chicago land area and get clipped for around 400 bucks a year in tolls.
my truck only gets around 16 mpg and my closest gig is 120 miles round trip, if I had to pay 5 bucks a gallon we'd be sunk.
This lock down is going to bring the American Express ( credit card )way down but then we have nothing coming in either.
Now I'm spending money on gardening and bike parts instead of gas
Our government is printing new money like crazy right now and I'm sure our taxes will reflect that sooner or later.