fuel prices

luvrbus · September 06, 2021, 06:19:05 AM

With out the cab permit in Oregon the posted price jumps 40 cents a gal for a RV it is a mileage tax there truckers pay it by the month RVers pay at the pump

chessie4905 · September 07, 2021, 04:03:02 PM

In Iowa today. Fuel prices hovering around 3.00/gal. Little more, little less.
Saw the worlds largest ball of twine in Cawker, Ia., and the geographical center of the IA. United States near Lebanon, IA.

Van · September 07, 2021, 06:26:48 PM

Go Hawkeyes!

OKIE9ERS · October 03, 2021, 09:55:00 AM

western Okla--90 mi west of OKC.
Loves on I-40 3.48 for cash--+ 5 cents for plastic.
4 miles east in town...3.05

luvrbus · October 03, 2021, 11:24:21 AM

Quote from: OKIE9ERS on October 03, 2021, 09:55:00 AM
western Okla--90 mi west of OKC.
Loves on I-40 3.48 for cash--+ 5 cents for plastic.
4 miles east in town...3.05

It $2.82 plastic or cash in Bullhead AZ.$2.82 at Sams $2.76 with the Sams credit card

chessie4905 · October 03, 2021, 11:27:04 AM

got back home Friday. 24,000 miles this summer trip all over the US West. Shocked when fueling up here in PA. $3.69. Friend said it jumped here about 2 weeks ago. Wasn't that high for a few states ago.

luvrbus · October 03, 2021, 11:39:37 AM

Quote from: chessie4905 on October 03, 2021, 11:27:04 AM
got back home Friday. 24,000 miles this summer trip all over the US West. Shocked when fueling up here in PA. $3.69. Friend said it jumped here about 2 weeks ago. Wasn't that high for a few states ago.

OK had the lowest taxes on fuel for many years it $.05 till 2018 and now it just keeps going up, it is like $.20 a gal now

richard5933 · October 03, 2021, 01:59:52 PM

Quote from: chessie4905 on October 03, 2021, 11:27:04 AM
got back home Friday. 24,000 miles this summer trip all over the US West. Shocked when fueling up here in PA. $3.69. Friend said it jumped here about 2 weeks ago. Wasn't that high for a few states ago.

I always avoid fueling in PA when possible. Isn't the tax there about the highest in the country?

sledhead · October 03, 2021, 03:21:00 PM

Quote from: richard5933 on October 03, 2021, 01:59:52 PM
I always avoid fueling in PA when possible. Isn't the tax there about the highest in the country?

thats because the roads are as smooth as silk !!

well not the roads I have had to drive on

dave

chessie4905 · October 03, 2021, 03:34:53 PM

They were for about a year, but Ca. jacked theirs again. They didn't care for second place.
Alot of roads out west aren't too great. Even some of the interstates are poor. One road in NM was heaved so bad, had to run 35 to 40 for 30 miles. But the pavement itself was nice.
Michigan has poor non interstate roads all over.
I don't know who finishes the concrete roads out west, but they should be fired. Even new or newer sections rippled or bowed, causing some constant bouncing.
In CA, nobody slows down at all in work zones. Even with signs everywhere stating "No Tolerance" Observed better in other states.

luvrbus · October 03, 2021, 05:36:56 PM

Interstate and US marked hiways the Feds are responsible for the funds not the states,Texas farm to market hiways are better than most fed hiways.LOL the Feds are working on it according to the BS coming out of DC

chessie4905 · October 03, 2021, 07:16:07 PM

Interesting thing out there. They break up the concrete during road rebuild and run it through portable crushers for reuse.
Another thing, I think in Kansas, they reversed direction of travel lanes for about 1/2 mile at an interchange they were rebuilding. Really was odd. Never saw that before.

richard5933 · October 04, 2021, 03:55:50 AM

Quote from: luvrbus on October 03, 2021, 05:36:56 PM
Interstate and US marked hiways the Feds are responsible for the funds not the states,Texas farm to market hiways are better than most fed hiways.LOL the Feds are working on it according to the BS coming out of DC

While certainly federal funds are used as part of the highway maintenance budgets, states and local governments are solely responsible for Interstate Highway maintenance.

Often states will get federal money to use to build a stretch of Interstate Highway, which is why special permission is required to add to tolls to an Interstate. It's my understanding that if a state builds the road without federal funding they can put tolls on it without permission.

Don't blame the Feds for the lack of maintenance on highways in a particular state. That blame belongs squarely on the elected folks in each state. Just like here in Wisconsin - we've been struggling with statehouse occupants who have bickered over highway funding for years (decades) and used the money for things other than maintaining the road. Now there are some stretches which are crumbling and they are pulling money from other project to get the repairs done. They'd certainly love to have more federal money to inject into the roads budget, but they'd likely piss it away on nonsense anyhow.

chessie4905 · October 04, 2021, 05:03:43 AM

here in Pa. They do it all the time. After the historic gas tax increase for bridge and road rebuilding a few years back, they've managed to repair a dam for the fish commission, fund State police coverage for small communities with local police, projects for mass transit in cities, and anything else to siphon away the monies.

Busted Knuckle · October 04, 2021, 06:04:59 AM

Quote from: richard5933 on March 06, 1975, 03:41:35 AM
They'd certainly love to have more federal money to inject into the roads budget, but they'd likely piss it away on nonsense anyhow.

LIKELY MY @$#!
You know damn well they already have something planned to waste that extra $ on before they even ask for it!

BK