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It had it under a dollar a few weeks ago, but I think it's back up around 103 or so.
 
We've been dancing around 1.06-1.12 in Southwestern Ontario, running around 1.07 in London as of today. London is a bit cheaper than Stratford or K-W for some reason (based on my travels over the last week).
 
it's been dropping for a week or so here. I passed a station on the way home tonight at $1.11 - I most recently paid $1.16 maybe 10 days ago. Used to be around $1.30 though.
 
I was feeling so good about paying 113.9 yesterday. Much better than the high of 143.9 back a few months (which I deftly avoided), but boy, we urbanites in the GTA are ripped off, I guess. I can't imagine that these are natural prices. I smell an election.
 
Weirdly, I saw one gas station yesterday advertising gas at 100.0
Are they afraid of having it go below a dollar? I never see gas prices without a 5 or a 9 at the end.
 
Pr. Jae said:
When I have gas I usually down a $1.00 can of ginger ale to get rid of it :D
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Snort. Actually, wouldn't drinking something fizzy make it worse (though Mom used to give us flat ginger ale that had been sitting open long enough to lose all the CO2 for a upset stomach)?
 
Mendalla said:
Snort. Actually, wouldn't drinking something fizzy make it worse (though Mom used to give us flat ginger ale that had been sitting open long enough to lose all the CO2 for a upset stomach)?
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I find the gas in the soda pushes out the gas in me. The ginger might also have a positive effect on the belly.
 
Gas prices continuously make me reconsider my decision to buy a 6-cylinder vehicle a few years ago.
 
In this day and age, there isn't much need to go larger than a four unless you need a large vehicle or do towing. Even in a sports car, a decent four with a turbo or super charger can do as good a job as many sixes (and a turbo-ed six can replace a lot of eights). My Civic's 4-cylinder isn't going to win any drag races but it's good enough to pass trucks on the highway which is the only time I really "push" an engine in my day-to-day driving. Even my petrol-head son isn't really interested in big engines. His admiration tends to be for companies that manage to milk maximum power out of smaller ones.
 
I drive an SUV, which I bought for several purposes: always dragging children's belongings from one place to another (mom the moving truck), I'm a gardener, always dragging large bins of horse poo, and trees and stuff around, also have a large bouncy dog, so room is useful for her too.

However, when I bought it, an engineer friend of mine pointed out the stress of putting a car engine in a truck body then expecting it to last, so I went for the 6; knowing what I know now about the expected lifespan of the thing, I'd have been just as fine with the 4 and a bit less broke...

My next car will be, I don't know what...
 
Our other car is a small SUV (the last generation of the Honda CR-V before they made it into a crossover based on the Civic) and I do like how easy it is to load it and carry larger loads. For instance, we've hauled small trees for our yard in it and it's great for hauling Little M's bike and ski gear. However, its engine is underpowered (a largish 4) and I hate driving it on the highway.
 
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We hit 102.2 in places yesterday but it's back to 106.9 this morning. The per barrel price for oil continues to slip, though, esp. since OPEC decided to sit on their hands so I imagine it could still come down more.
 
Our next vehicle is going to be some kind of crossover-SUV thing - possibly a Tucson.
 
And the buck barrier has been breached in London. A few stations were at 99.8 yesterday, this morning most are at 96.9 or even 96.6 in places.
 
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