Gas Hits $0.82 a Gallon in Atlanta suburbs!!! (Now go see your families for Turkey Day )

AAA ^ | November 18, 2001 | Travel Club Advisory

[Blessed]

Ga.Motor Fuel Tax is around $ .18 per gallon.We are at the end of the pipeline so transportation cost are lower.We do not have silly state required formulations like other states.We benefit from our good weather.When bad weather limits driving up north we get the surpluses{you can't turn the pipeline off).Wecome South Brother just leave your better ideas at home.We don't care how they do it in New York,California or Chicago.

[RobFromGa]

I (Willie Green) WOULD provide economic stimulus through accelerated funding of infrastructure projects that would also provide long-term benefits: construction of power plants utilizing nuclear/clean-coal technologies and fuel efficient high-speed mass transportation systems such as high-speed rail and maglev.

Excuse me, but shouldn't these be PRIVATE investments if they are going to be so darn profitable? When has government spending ever helped anything?

And, if we are in a slow, downward spiral won't we need less energy and transportation-- making these investments redundant?

[rintense]

Yeah, still $1.22 in West Michigan.

[VaBthang4]

BUMP!

[Willie Green]

Since when has ANY major transportation infrastructure been developed in this country without government involvement? The original postal roads, the early canals and railroads, the locks & dams that make our inland waterways navigable, the old U.S. highway system, the construction of major metro airports and the air traffic control system, the interstate highway system, bridges, tunnels, etc. etc.

Infrastructure projects produce tangible assets that benefit taxpayers for generations (Look at our great hydroelectric dams.) Improved transportation infrastructure is particularly beneficial because it facilitates domestic commerce.

I'd much rather spend money on tangible projects such as these because those items constructed produce real benefits for everybody for decades to come. Sure beats corporate/individual welfare payouts that just get excreted from our domestic economy as a continueing trade deficit.

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

We are at the end of the pipeline so transportation cost are lower.

I remember when the Doraville storage tanks were the end of the line for a poor soul about 30 years ago. That sucker burned for days.

[mrfixit514]

Around $1.09 in North Georgia with one station selling for $0.90.

[KeepTheEdge]

Demand has fallen off, that is why prices are dropping.

No sympathy here for big oil, they jacked up the prices right after Bush was sworn in, and we already had an economy on the edge of decline.

[eddie willers]

Just before the 73 'Oil Crisis', a gas war got the price down to 22¢ on one corner in Tucker, Ga.

PS. Milk is $3.19 / gallon at Kroger's.

[cgk]

$1.09 in the valley of LA, Cal... at 2 different ARCO's. That's the lowest I've seen yet, even cheaper than Thrifty gas which is still 1.13.

Mrs Kus

[Constitution Day]

"Hawaii leads the nation with the highest gasoline tax. As of February 2001 it totaled 54.5 cents per gallon. This includes 18.4 cents per gallon in federal taxes, 16 cents per gallon in state excise taxes, 14.9 cents per gallon in additional county taxes, an estimated 5.1 cents per gallon from a four percent state sales tax, and 0.1 cent per gallon for an environmental response tax. In contrast, Alaska's gasoline tax of 26.4 cents per gallon is the lowest in the nation."

Gasoline Taxes as of February 2001 (cents per gallon)

26.4--Alaska
30.4--Georgia
32.4--Wyoming
32.9--New Jersey
34.8--Kentucky
35.2--South Carolina
35.4--Missouri
35.4--Oklahoma
36.4--New Mexico
37.3--Virginia
37.4--Arizona
37.7--Indiana
38.1--New Hampshire
38.4--Dist. of Col.
38.4--Louisiana
38.4--Texas
38.4--Vermont
38.4--Minnesota
38.8--Mississippi
39.1--Arkansas
39.2--Alabama
39.4--Iowa
39.4--Kansas
39.4--North Dakota
39.8--Tennessee
39.9--Massachusetts
40.4--Colorado
40.4--Maine
40.4--Ohio
41.4--Delaware
41.4--Washington
41.9--Maryland
42.4--Oregon
42.4--South Dakota
42.9--Utah
43.0--North Carolina
43.2--Nebraska
43.4--Idaho
43.8--West Virginia
44.5--Pennsylvania
45.0--Michigan
46.2--Montana
46.2--Illinois
47.4--Rhode Island
47.8--Florida
47.8--Wisconsin
48.6--Connecticut
49.4--New York
50.3--California
51.5--Nevada
54.5--Hawaii

Source: Google's HTML version of gas price study on Chevron website.
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BTW, regular unleaded is $1.05 at the Gate station here in Rocky Mount, NC.

[topher]

Wholesale price of gasoline is about 50 cents a gallon, but refined gasoline is also imported (limited refining capacity here). Georgia may benefit from imported refined gasoline under 50 cents a gallon.

California, on the other hand, adds things like alcohol and other additives (which may be expensive per gallon of gasoline). Also, California's reformulated gasoline is only for California. So $1.89 is probably right for the Bay area, though there were reports of $1.09 in Los Angeles.