What are you paying for 93 octane now? [⚠️ ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS ⚠️]

[LCK22GT]

I'm not driving it yet this year, but I checked my local Shell 93 yesterday. It was $5.13, central Michigan. We pay like a $1.00 premium for high octane around here. Must be because of low demand in the rural area.

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[Pistol_91]

Everything we pay for is high as hell.

 

[wingnutt]

Everything we pay for is high as hell.

we were just reminiscing over a bottle of Eagle Rare here recently, and came to realize…since covid, almost nothing is cheap anymore

 

[Stage_3]

we were just reminiscing over a bottle of Eagle Rare here recently, and came to realize…since covid, almost nothing is cheap anymore

Very true my man. I've realized that a long time ago.
Six years after and everything is still priced high. Currently going higher too.

 

[Pistol_91]

So much for crushing inflation

 

[Mach VII]

Mid-Hudson Valley, NY. Right off the Taconic Parkway...

 

[sk47]

we were just reminiscing over a bottle of Eagle Rare here recently, and came to realize…since covid, almost nothing is cheap anymore

So much for crushing inflation

Hello; Yes the actions during Covid were regrettable. Way too much money printed and given out with too few verifications on where the money was going. Even when the money went to the proper places it was a flagrant abundance dumped into people's laps.
Then after the Covid debacle of printing money more trillions were run thru the press for an infrastructure bill which turned out to have less for infrastructure than it did for green energy & EV targets. The nature of inflation needs to be understood.
Would take too long to try to explain in detail but some things stand out. Mostly once inflated it cannot be reversed. An extreme example might be the cost of a new pony car in 1970 compared to today. I had my eye on a 1970 Camaro listed for $4000. You know what the price would be today. Something at $50,000 today. My salary for a whole year in 1970 was $4,500 before taxes.

We do not notice the typical 1 or 2 % which happened over decades. At least until you get old and wind up on a fixed income. Consider that inflation is presented as a rate rather than compared to some fixed reference.
I keep trying to find some relatable analogy to inflation. My newest is a layer cake. A new layer gets baked in from time to time and is almost permanent. Back just before the Covid stuff started, I had an OTD deal set on a base model Mustang GT for $30 K. The most recent OTD deal for a left over 2025 Gt with a manual was $48K at the end of Feb 2026.
I may try comparing inflation to climate and the fluctuations of day-to-day prices to weather.

The gas prices today can and should come down when (IF) supply fears ease. The last few days is a fear reaction aligned with the knee jerk raise prices just because they do not let a good excuse get away. I was around in the early 1970 when there was a real supply shortage. Price more than doubled. We had to fill up on alternating days. If your tag ebnded in an even number you were allowed to buy on say MW&F. Tag ending with an odd #T,T& S. No gas sales on Sunday. We are not yet at long gas lines.

The lucky among us will be able to demand more income nd so keep ahead of inflation. Stuck with a static income you will hurt.

 

[Nawsad123]

I thought 5.99 was bad last week....wtf

 

[Hostil]

we were just reminiscing over a bottle of Eagle Rare here recently, and came to realize…since covid, almost nothing is cheap anymore

Seams since the election, nothing is cheap anymore.

 

[Mach 307]

You can find 93 as low as around $4.83 in my area, which is about an hour or so outside of Chicago. Gas prices shooting up right now are largely driven by fear of supply disruption rather than a true global shortage. China losing access to discounted Iranian oil has added some demand pressure, but that’s not the main factor. The bigger issue is the risk to global supply chains caused by the conflict in Iran, especially around the Strait of Hormuz, where a significant portion of the world’s oil passes through. Markets are pricing in the possibility of disruption, which is pushing prices up. Honestly, paying a dollar or so more per gallon for a while is a reasonable trade off if it means preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons and reducing the likelihood of their government continuing to execute its own people.

 

[Stage_3]

Seems since the pandemic, nothing is cheap anymore.

FIXED!!

 

[Anyone3505]

I haven't paid attention to gas prices in probably a decade. We budget for it and only pay attention when we go over the budget, and look at monthly trends in so far as to accurately budget.

Vehicle fuel (including electricity for electrics) is just a cost of living for most areas of this country. Add in fun v8 cars we drive for pleasure, and there's not much we can do besides not go somewhere, which isn't usually much of a choice most of the time. Of course at some point the monthly budget will be so high it would eventually mean that.

 

[Hack]

Seems since the plandemic, nothing is cheap anymore.

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Fixed typo.

 

[wingnutt]

Seams since the election, nothing is cheap anymore.

FIXED!!

yea, the latter is what we concluded as well…not the former

that being said, since Buccees comes up once in a while…

 

[Johnny maverick]

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