Buying gas is like playing the stock market!

C50

C50

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Ohio, USA
I was planning on filling a couple of 5gal. gas cans for my mowers today but while driving this morning noticed gas was down to $3.86. Now what to do? Do I wait and see if it drops lower before buying? Do I buy now before it starts cimbing? Do I buy more gas cans so I can stockpile? What about the gas I already have that cost $4.60 a gal., will my mowers run OK on devalued fuel? Should I dump it?

It's all become so complicated.
 

We went over to the granddaughters house, about 15 miles from here, yesterday afternoon, and our local stations were charging $4.30/gal. Over there, the Casey's station had a price of $4.05. I gassed up there. Our area gas prices have come down nicely in recent weeks, but still Way over what they were last year.

With all this heat and dry weather, my lawn mowing has slowed way down. I have enough in my gas cans for 1 more good mowing, and when I use that up, hopefully the prices will be a few cents lower.
 
I saw a station selling for $4.43 per gallon which is the cheapest I've seen in months. This place must have a connection. Their gas prices are lower everyday. Good to see. :giggle:
 
Several weeks ago I bought 10 gal.s of gas @ $6.40/gal. Yesterday I again bought 10 gallons, the price was down a bit to $5.79.
I won't buy in larger quantities unless I absolutely need to, until gas gets back under $4.00/gal.
 
I bought a gallon of gas for my weed eater last summer, still have about 1/2 gallon left. So I'm still burning the cheap stuff..

My mower and leaf blower are battery powered
 
If you need the gas, get it now @$3.86, which is dirt cheap. Gas isn't going to get much cheaper. You could drive yourself crazy over a few bucks either way, is that worth fretting over? And , yeah, you're right the gas will cost more in the future, but if you buy a bunch of $ gas cans, will that offset any savings in buying bulk now? And if you're like me you will buy lots of gas, and switch to battery powered stuff.
 
Gasoline should continue to drop in the US over the next couple of weeks. The floor, currently appears near $4.10 nationally or about 30¢ less than now. Barring geo-political issues, hurricanes in the gulf or refinery outages due to the heatwave. Exports of gasoline have slowed and inventory is up 9.3MB over the past two weeks. The strong dollar and lower consumption being the reasons.
 
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