Gas --- how much is it in your neck of the woods?

[Hondo812]

I saw gas as low as $1.99 in Southwick, MA and as high as $2.29 in CT yesterday.

How much is it where you are?

[ISKIVT]

In Rutland, VT $2.05 at Mobil, $2.01 at Cumby's, and 1 place has $1.98

[The Volusianator]

Green Bay, WI = $2.16 regular unleaded

[larrys4227]

Anywhere between $2.04 and $2.30....and thats within a mile or two of each other.

Ride Safe, Larry

http://www.pbase.com/larrys4227/image/37382311.jpg

[Dtoolman99]

Here in Connecticut,I haven't seen prices below $2.00 in quite some time :( ,maybe they are starting to drop a bit 8)

[Hondo812]

I just came back from taking my oldest up to Fitchburg State (caged it). I gassed up for $1.94/gal :D

[VTXLAZ]

2.90 in miami:)

[vtx1300wolf]

around $2.05 to $2.17 .
http://bigbikeriders.com/photopost/data/500/2129Picture_169-med.jpg

[ISKIVT]

$2.15 in VT, $1.95 in North Jersey.

[Hondo812]

I gassed up this morning for $2.03/gal in Walpole, MA this morning (cage). The good news is that it looks to be dropping the last few weeks.

[chase73]

back up 2 $2.39 where i am in billerica ma

[Hondo812]

Chase,

Any good roads up your way? I am working off of Concord Rd in Billerica.

[Hondo812]

Unbelievable....$2.85!!!! :evil:

[Ux VTX]

Damn glad I bought that car!

[Hondo812]

Car? I thought you had a truck?

[Ux VTX]

still got the truck, now I also have an 06 Ford Fusion in the stable... daughter is getting lic.

[VTXFanatic]

I was at the Stop & Shop in Foxboro at 4 pm and I got the last tank of gas at 2.79. They were going up to 2.82 with the card. The guy said they went up 6 cents Tuesday

I'm hurtin;
2 cars that take 93+
2 that take reg
2 bikes that take reg

95 mile a day commute

Anyone wanna donate to my gas and insurance fund :roll:

[Ux VTX]

I'm donating in my own way.... through the noseat the gas hose.

[Ux VTX]

#$%@#% $2.999 yesterday in Uxbridge!

:evil:

[Hondo812]

Got some this morning for $2.95 in Walpole. It was $3.02 at my regular station :shock:

[RogerBzVTX]

Hondo almost a buck difference from when you started this post.. almost a year..

Boy how time flies!!!!

good thing the X's are soo gooood on fuel :lol:

[Hondo812]

Roger,

Sorry to hear about your housing dilema. That sux.

On the gas mileage thing...I know it goes up and down depending on how overactive ones wrist can be but mine averages about 40 mpg which has the car beat by quite a bit at 28mpg. I suppose though when you factor in the cost of tires, service, etc. the car is still cheaper to run.

I remember when I started this thread that only a few months before gas was at about $1.65'ish. I don't think I ever captured the post Katrina prices that went upwards of $3.50'ish either. I get the sinking feeling that we will see that price again...and soon.

[RogerBzVTX]

Yeah it does, Just means i need to change the plan going forward.. Not that I am already part of the NE X Riders.. I'll most likley be comin back home to Ma where I grew up "Tewksbury Ma" but the current wife "version 2.0"
don't wana move from NH.. Can't blame her.. and we are banging heads pretty bad over it..

so time will tell..

Yeah gas prices are just plain out of control..That all I got to say about that.

Ride Safe and Catch up with ya all sooner or later..

[Hondo812]

Hope to see you out there on the road sometime Roger. For now I will be giving those roads in northern mass/southern NH a wide berth. I expect the ones that are passable will be heavily travelled.

[Hondo812]

After seeing prices above $3.00 for weeks I saw for the first time in a long time gas at $2.85 in Walpole.

What is it in your neck of the woods?

[roadstargirl]

Nobody answered because

1) they either did this already in the off topic board

or

2) it's too damn boring to expend energy on answering.

That won't change no matter how many times you delete and resubmit to bump it up to the top of the list.

~~~yawn~~~`

For anyone who really cares, get the big picture here:

http://www.vtxoa.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=154080

[Ux VTX]

Now WHO in the heck would delete and resubmit their post just to get it to the top of the list? Agreed, that would be a sign of a very insecure individual. Thanks for pointing out what a low-life tactic that is.

More to the topic: Local gas prices are a lot more relevant to me than the ones across the country. Of course if you do look across the country it gives you a better picture of gas gouging and the corruptness of the current administration but that is definately a topic for the OTB.

No idea what I am paying Hondo... I just plug in the card and pump, it keeps my stress levels lower.

YMMV.

[roadstargirl]

Now WHO in the heck would delete and resubmit their post just to get it to the top of the list? Agreed, that would be a sign of a very insecure individual. Thanks for pointing out what a low-life tactic that is.



Yeah, who would do that? That's what I thought when I first read your post about 12 hours before you deleted it and reposted it.

Busted!

:)

I tried to see the prices from the NEVTXRiders Kanga ride, but there were too many bikes in the way:

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g236/bikingjudi/gas.jpg

[Ux VTX]

Caught that huh? I was showing someone how to do the delete-repost-bump thing this morning in an effort to explain this silly conversation to them.

8)

The Who I was referring to was was the Horton-Saw-A-State-Coordinator-Who!

I'm just glad to see prices dipping below $3. How sad is that.

[roadstargirl]

Caught that huh? I was showing someone how to do the delete-repost-bump thing this morning in an effort to explain this silly conversation to them.

8)

The Who I was referring to was was the Horton-Saw-A-State-Coordinator-Who!

I'm just glad to see prices dipping below $3. How sad is that.

I have no idea who you are talking about and it's probably just as well. I see a couple of people doing it, but not a state coordinator....myself included, at times.

What strikes me as silly about talking about gas prices on a motorcycle board is that chances are good you're riding your motorcycle for pleasure, not work....so if the gas prices are that prohibitive, I guess you need to stay home and go for a walk....

And even if the price varies by 10 cents a gallon, on a five gallon tank, that's fifty cents.

Do 400 miles in a day and break even by skipping a coffee....

[Ux VTX]

I have no idea who you are talking about and it's probably just as well. I see a couple of people doing it, but not a state coordinator....myself included, at times.

I don't know how to say this without prolonging this silliness but... YOU'VE GOTTA BE KIDDING! :shock: I can't remember (and didn't accuse) you specifically doing it but I have seen on many occasions the Grand Fubar doing it. As for other's I don't know b/c I don't usually look for it. I am a bit slow b/c it took me a while to figure out how the "NEVTX.com" group rides all kept rising to the top with no new replies.

Motorcycles run on gasoline. It's relevant.

[roadstargirl]

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Reposting a ride so that it goes to the top makes perfect sense to me.

Reposting other crap?

That's your pal....not mine....

[Ux VTX]

Yes, he's my pal... but what did he repost?

I know Hondo... he'll skip 5 gas stations to get to one that saves him 3 cents per gallon... so this is pertinent information to him and to me b/c I benefit following his lead on these occasions.

And as to saving only a dime per tank... you go ahead and think that way. I wouldn't go out of my way to save a dime but I would go out of my way to endorse a vendor that consistently provides a product at less margin to it's customers. BTW: There are whole web sites (and a section on AAA.com) that are dedicated to showing where the cheapest gas can be had - why is that?

Bumping (however sneakily by a self-admitted [proclaimed?] "official") a post that has dropped down to the (OMG!) 3rd or 4th post when the readership of the forum knows of at least 3 other places to find the same exact information adds a heck of a lot less new information than an updated local price of gas.

[Hondo812]

In the past week and a half I have seen gas in central CT averaging $3.30 per gallon while finding some closer to home for $2.85. That's a $0.45 per gallon difference and that is significant. I suspect that gas in NH is down in the $2.70's and quite frankly that would influence to a certain degree where I choose to ride.

This is not a knock on CT at all as I truly enjoy the roads over there, however, I also enjoy the roads thoughout New England and if it's cheaper this weekend to go to NH then it's a safe bet that's where I will be going.

[Oakala]

Tilton area is $2.79........guess that means you will be up here this weekend :)

For me I have to work, so no riding this weekend but to work and back home :(

[cslarry]

Hey Ux, they have to post and re-post & bump & delete & re-post. that way they can fish for newbies to replace the riders they have pissed off.
That and I guess that they have no other life.....
Let's get together, I've been away on biz too much this summer.
Larry

[roadstargirl]

:) :) :) :) :) :)

Six riders gone.

:) :) :) :) :) :)

You were never one of them.

:) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Once again, CSLarry opens his mouth and puts his foot in it......as predictable as Christmas.

[Hondo812]

Thanks for the info Oakala. Looks like I will be heading up there shortly. Sorry to hear you have to work for the weekend.

[btalon]

Got to pipe in about tilton again, was there yesterday $2.75 everywhere you looked - pretty good considering it's pushing $3 up north - worth riding south for the day - lol!

[roadstargirl]

I got it for $2.71 in Brockton last week.

Doesn't make it a place to ride to.

:)

[btalon]

LOL - you speak so highly of it! It's 0 dark 30 now and it's raining like heck here, no riding tomorrow I believe!

[Ux VTX]

Agreed on all points cslarry. Should be an open day or two in the next few weekends, let's see what we can get going...

d

[roadstargirl]

So btalon, I guess we've agreed on all points, too, huh?

And I guess we can agree to ride together on any one of the bazillion rides listed at

www.nevtxriders.com.

Right?

[Ux VTX]

*yawn*

If it's such a great web site and club why the heck do you spend so much time here trolling?

[roadstargirl]

Oh, mostly because this web site belongs to me as much as it does to you, and I spend a fair amount of time on the off topic board here....

And I figured everyone was dying to know what I've been paying for gas....seeing as how it's so pertinent and stuff.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g236/bikingjudi/pokey.gif

[Ux VTX]

Ah, a forum with equal rights. Liberating ain't it? :wink:

[roadstargirl]

They're all over the place, so long as you behave.

[Ux VTX]

:lol:

[vrrmm]

Ah, a forum with equal rights. Liberating ain't it? :wink:

That is sooo funny Dave....

You and Hondo were telling me we couldn't post our rides here!!!

[roadstargirl]

Well, goddammmit...who has the rule book, anyhow?

:)

[Hondo812]

Bill...if you have something to contribute please do so. If you feel the need to whine and complain then do it somewhere else.

[Ux VTX]

Ah Billy speaks...

Not really, some of us were just sick of the incessant Napolean-complex thread bumping across multiple VTXOA forums. It was the bumping and cross posting that we were aggrevated with more than anything. Especially from the cash owner of a place where it's Bill's way or the highway.

Curious Bill... do you also deny "stealth-bumping" threads?

[Oakala]

FROM WMUR: http://www.wmur.com/money/9750883/detail.html


"AAA said the average price for a gallon of gas Monday was $2.87. At an Irving station in Tilton, cars lined up for even cheaper gas, paying $2.75 a gallon."

[Ux VTX]

I saw that on NECN last night, very cool... they got better volume pricing and passed it on to the consumers, then the local competition lowered it's price. Nice.

[vrrmm]

Ah Billy speaks...

Not really, some of us were just sick of the incessant Napolean-complex thread bumping across multiple VTXOA forums. It was the bumping and cross posting that we were aggrevated with more than anything. Especially from the cash owner of a place where it's Bill's way or the highway.

Curious Bill... do you also deny "stealth-bumping" threads?

Is that what you are talking about Hondo?

[Hondo812]

Thanks for the link and the update Oakala. You too Judi.

Brockton as a destination? I dunno...but there is lots of good riding in nearby Halifax, Kingston, Whitman, etc. Seems to me it can make a convienient meeting spot for a SE Mass ride. Just use your imagination.

[roadstargirl]

There are some absolutely awesome rides in the Halifax area...I would know, I used to live there.

Meeting in Brockton? Why would ya?

I work in downtown Brockton and in the two years I've worked there, three people have been killed in front of our business....half a block from the gas station I mentioned.

NO WAY would I ask someone to meet me there.

Not convenient to highways, no cultural elements to amuse you on the ride into Brockton, and a good 75% of the drivers don't speak English or have a valid license...and probably less than half are insured.

So why in the name of God would you want to meet there? Just to say you did it and lived? To look at the hooker on Main Street? Or maybe to watch a drug deal go down?

If I use my imagination about Brockton as a meeting place, it quickly turns into a nightmare....

But thanks for the heads up about what you might consider appropriate, good to know.

Now, asking someone to meet me at the Exxon station at exit 8 off Route 495 and taking 123 to Route 106 towards Halifax....well, that's more my style. Oh yeah, and then 106 to 105, circle back through the twin lakes in Middleboro and end up on Furnace Brook in Plymouth to downtown...NOW WE'RE TALKING.

But Brockton? Bad choice all the way around...

And yeah, if I put together a ride like that, you can bet your bottom dollar I'd bump it to the top over a gas thread. Otherwise the easily bored could miss it.

[roadstargirl]

Bill...if you have something to contribute please do so. If you feel the need to whine and complain then do it somewhere else.

Bill, come on, you know that as the leader of the VTX riders in Massachusetts, you're not allowed to whine. You are not allowed to have an opinion at all, thought you knew that.

Everyone else can, but you must keep your silence.

Lucky for you, there isa preponderance of friends here and on the Mass board....as well as on www.nevtxriders.com (http://www.nevtxriders.com).

[roadstargirl]

I saw that on NECN last night, very cool... they got better volume pricing and passed it on to the consumers, then the local competition lowered it's price. Nice.

Boy, that is nice to hear. Doesn't it make you crazy when you see them raising their prices before they've even been forced to pay higher prices to fill the tanks?

I'm still in the mode of boycotting Exxon and Mobil....they are making huge enough profits without my money.

[Ux VTX]

...
Is that what you are talking about Hondo?

Not whining Bill... just calling it like it is.

All hail.

ZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Ux VTX]

Now, asking someone to meet me at the Exxon station at exit 8 off Route 495 and taking 123 to Route 106 towards Halifax....well, that's more my style. Oh yeah, and then 106 to 105, circle back through the twin lakes in Middleboro and end up on Furnace Brook in Plymouth to downtown...NOW WE'RE TALKING.

SHHH!!!! Those roads are secret! Please don't give out NEVTX proprietary roads!

[roadstargirl]

Now, asking someone to meet me at the Exxon station at exit 8 off Route 495 and taking 123 to Route 106 towards Halifax....well, that's more my style. Oh yeah, and then 106 to 105, circle back through the twin lakes in Middleboro and end up on Furnace Brook in Plymouth to downtown...NOW WE'RE TALKING.

SHHH!!!! Those roads are secret! Please don't give out NEVTX proprietary roads!

Geez, I give you guys a chance to gracefully get out of looking like a$$holes, and you don't even do it....

[Ux VTX]

Too funny, I guess a$$hole must be in the eye of the beholder. But hey, thanks for the generosity!

[roadstargirl]

Yeah. Six of you. 500 of us.

Suit yourself.

[Ux VTX]

Gotta love fuzzy math!

500 active participants or 500 "members"?

6 disenchanted or just 6 that bother to say anything?

[roadstargirl]

Gotta love fuzzy math!

500 active participants or 500 "members"?

6 disenchanted or just 6 that bother to say anything?

Six that don't show up.

Despite the crap that you guys want to lead others to believe, we're still riding...plenty of people show up every week. And they all question why you guys carry on with this crapola.

Whatever, Dave. We've had this conversation so many times that anyone reading already knows what will be said next.

No fuzzy math going on, but maybe some fuzzy thinking over there in la la land....

[Ux VTX]

Madamme...

You took the first shot here (at Hondo). It may not be a thread about a NEVTXRiders.com ride but it is interesting conversation which bears directly on the joy of MC riding... gas prices.

However you are correct on one matter: This is going nowhere it hasn't gone before. So even though you try to end the conversation with a couple more jabs (la la land? sounds like a fun place to me!), let's just agree to disagree and let it go.

Fuzzy, out.

[roadstargirl]

Sounds fine to me.

Maybe we could even agree not to go down this road again, that sounds good to me, too.

[Hondo812]

$2.74 in Foxboro tonight. I can't recall ever seeing it drop this fast. Same station was $3.05 3 weeks ago.

[cslarry]

Hondo--the gas companies are just setting us up for 4 bucks a gallon as soon as heating season comes.
Larry

[Ux VTX]

That's a very pessimistic view cs...

Unfortunately you are probably right...

Ugh.

[roadstargirl]

$2.69 in Brockton last night.

If you decide to stop, bring friends...or be packing...

:)

[Hondo812]

I don't share your fear of Brockton RSG. I grew up 2 towns over and spent much of my youth in Brockton. I took classes over at Massasoit in the late 80's and early 90's and survived quite fine. I took the MREP over at Massasoit a few years ago and again "escaped" unscathed.

Now towns like Halifax or Rochester...those scare me. :lol:

[roadstargirl]

I currently LIVE two towns over.

Brockton is another world.

Those who work here and grew up here tell me that it's changed a lot.

The cop I'm friends with echoes that sentiment and calls my company "the Eden of North Main Street."

Like I said, three murders in front of my building in the last two years. Not cool by anyone's standards. We have a steady stream of people who want to shoot up in our parking lot, despite video cameras. There are usually about five hookers on the corner at lunch time, many of them pregnant, most of them young, and all of them strung out on crack or heroin...I'm not educated enough about drugs to know which it is. There are drug deals on the corner, and the cops use our stairways to video tape activities out there on the street.

There are areas of Brockton that are still full of nice houses....but there are no gas stations in those neighborhoods. The gas stations are where the dense population is....and that's where the crime is, too.

When I first started working here, I was unaware of the local "culture". Now after developing relationships with the cops because they want copies of our security tapes, I know better...and NOW I see it. Before I didn't suspect anything and was blind to it, I guess.

I looked at the demographics recently for Brockton, well over 50% of the residents live below the poverty level. Where there is poverty, there is crime. There is a large population of immigrants, most of them illegal.

Of the 13000 houses in Brockton that are owner occupied, (roughly 50%) only 423 are assessed at more than $250,000. Average price of a house in Massachusetts is now set at $360,000 or close to that. The drop out rate from school is 33%. (These figures are from the Brockton, MA home page, figures are from the city records.)

Last year there were 700 burlargies, almost 2000 B&Es, 200 robberies, 1800 assaults, 2000 charges of larceny, and 1000 cars stolen. Figures on the police web site show a consistent pattern since 1993. I've got no idea what it was when you lived here....but in a town of 90,000, those figures are pretty aggressive. If you think about the figures, it's three stolen cars per day, seven larcenies, 5 assaults per day.....You get the picture.

It's not a pretty picture and it kind of surprised me. I figured with the real estate market what it has been for the last six or seven years, that urban renewal would have hit Brockton sooner or later. Now the real estate boom is going away and Brockton sits as it was.

[roadstargirl]

By the way, I think I have a very clear impression of what Brockton is like....I listen to sirens ALLLLLL DAY LOOOOOOOONG. Can't even talk on the phone if I have the windows open, people ask what is going on in the background (ie vendors, etc.)

By the way, the national average per 100,000 are as follows:
murders 5.5 (8 in Brockton)
rapes 32 (there were 44 in Brockton last year, 66 the previous year)
robberies 137 (200 in Brockton)
assaults 291 (1800 in Brockton!!!)
larceny 2365 (2000 in Brockton)
motor vehicle larceny 421 (1000 in Brockton)
burglaries 729 (2000 in Brockton)

And Brockton is 10% small than the average used for the national figures...with a population of 90,000.....

[vrrmm]

What about the guy a couple of weeks ago got run over by a car on Friday didn't see who it was and shot on Saturday didn't see whop that was too.

And that is just the begining of the stories every weekend from Brockton hospital

[btalon]

There are usually about five hookers on the corner at lunch time, many of them pregnant, most of them young, and all of them strung out on crack or heroin...

One word - PICTURES - LOL - are they hot and how much do they charge??

[roadstargirl]

I'll snag a pic if I can do it without being noticed....it's not pretty.

When I was going to the gym at lunch time, they were cleaning up a motorcycle accident at the corner.

Did I forget to mention that Brockton has the worst drivers in the world? Most of them don't speak English...

Bike was totalled, cop that was there had no idea if the guy riding it was alive or dead...the bike was toast.

[Hondo812]

Back to topic...

http://www.massachusettsgasprices.com/

I read where gas may be down to around $2/gal by Thanksgiving. Wouldn't that be nice?

[Deb0416]

I just heard that rumor this morning also. I hope it is true. Sad that we are excited to see prices at $2.00 and think that is cheap HA HA
Although I'm sure someone will bring up the fact that in Europe it is almost $7 a gallon and we should be thankful! :o

[roadstargirl]

Find the cheapest prices here:

http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprice ... ndex.shtml (http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/gasprices/states/index.shtml)

By zip code here:
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx

From the government web page:
Retail regular gasoline prices are projected to average $2.72 per gallon in 2006, and $2.67 in 2007 (Gasoline and Crude Oil Prices). Summer 2006 (April 1 to September 30) regular gasoline pump prices are expected to average $2.92 per gallon, 55 cents higher than last year's average of $2.37 per gallon.

It's like legalized gambling this time of year, deciding when to sign that contract for fuel oil....Someone at work told me that they heard on the radio that prices are supposed to continue to slip between now and Thanksgiving, but I can't find anything that proves that...

And Brockton still sucks.

[Oakala]

And again........$2.65 - $2.67 in the Tilton area.

Now if the rain would just leave so I could take advantage of those prices!!

Few weeks back we were right around $3.00. So my math works this way:

4 gallons at $2.65, I am saving $0.35 per gallon. This gives me an extra $1.40 in my pocket, wich equates to one medium coffee from Dunkin's !!!!

I don't care if it is cold......I just want the rain to go away.

[roadstargirl]

I promise to send a dollar bill to anyone who cannot afford to ride because gas is up, say, 20 cents a gallon....and you have a five gallon tank.

I can't help with the rain unfortunately..

[VTXFanatic]

gallons at $2.65, I am saving $0.35 per gallon. This gives me an extra $1.40 in my pocket, wich equates to one medium coffee from Dunkin's !!!!

49 Cents for a Medium... Today Only !!! Bought 4 this morning. That should get me throuigh till lunch !!

[roadstargirl]

If only they were doing that with iced coffee!!!

$2.54/gallon in Hanson last night on the way home. Busy station....

[Hondo812]

$2.39 at Cumby's in Walpole last night.