Featured Pipeline break may impact gas prices

...nah she wouldn't do that for me...happened to be in the area of NJ...and we always fill-up in NJ when we get the chance. Although less so now that NJ has gone to smaller independent oil cos. Our fav stations are gone.

 

Flowing again. Several days to fill to the end and resume normal deliveries.

 

Jersey is merely a few miles away for me yet I rarely make the trek over the bridge unless I have to. When I have to go over there it of course makes sense to fill up but it does not make sense to make the drive / pay the toll to JUST to buy the cheaper gas due to the $5 toll.. Kinda negates the savings, especially for our 10 +\- gallon tanks. Might be different with a 30 gallon monster truck tank...

I do like riding my Motorcycle in the a NJ Pine Barrens though...

 

And what is a DW?

 

dear wife, darling wife, daring wife.

 

Ahh ha!! Copy!!



Also, Delaware is always cheaper for Gas than Pa (a little more $ than NJ though) plus tax free shopping and also right down the road from me so I try to fill up there when I can.

But as stated above now that I don't have to pump 25 gallons into my silly truck anymore the savings are negligible so it doesn't really matter all that much I mean honestly a 30 cent savings on gas is what like $3 total on a tank for the Prius... Less than the price of a Big Mac, plus I only fill up every 3 weeks or so

I don't like to overspend as much as the next guy but I guess I'm getting at that the Prius is pretty frugal no matter what the gas prices are..

 

It is possible to leave NJ without having to pay.

Has for people being pennywise and pound foolish when it comes to gas prices, I remember when the first WaWa gas station opened in our town. There were lines for the pumps. The older station at the other station had no customers, but it was a cent more per gallon.

 

Reminds me of when a refinery went down in the Midwest last August. Gas prices suddenly skyrocketed from around $2.52 to about $3.29 almost overnight.

Lots of long lines at gas stations that hadn't jacked up their prices yet, and the Prius I was driving at the time doing 60 mph was passing up a convoy of trucks and SUV's all driving on the right lane on the freeway.

I lucked out and managed to gas up while it was still low at one local station, even though I still had half a tank. Then said tank lasted me two weeks, just long enough for prices to start normalizing again.

Even in the Prius I was constantly scanning gas prices for any sudden changes in price in case OPEC and/or Big Oil decided they wanted to resume gouging us at the pump.

Now with my Chevy Volt, I don't even bother updating gasbuddy anymore, since my commute can be covered entirely on electric. And in winter I have to burn around a quarter of a gallon when my range drops, which means I fill up about once a month during the cold season.

I'm still surprised they haven't penalized oil companies more for not having better monitoring systems for potential problems, or at least just having a couple of guys visual and look at the pipes for any problems. It's becoming an increasingly common issue, and why the Native Americans were fighting tooth and nail to prevent a pipeline attempting to be built near their reservation in North Dakota.

I doubt this will cause most, if any, people living in the areas affected by this pipeline to start looking at plug-ins a little closer though. Especially considering how fast they got the situation somewhat under control.

Now if prices went up quite a bit, and stayed up there for at least a few months, then it might be a different story...

 

WaWa taking over...not TopTier last I checked.
This summer we were down in historic Greenwich NJ in deeper South Jersey saw the so-called first WaWa, although the family did not call that one WaWa, but that's where early settlements started and the family came into the US. Also they had the first tea party down there, but Boston got the credit. Should have been the South Jersey Tea Party. I know TB, the official first WaWa is in Southeast PA I guess the family spread out.

 

Don't forget: Divorced wife.

 

divorce is not an option.

 

Ah but what does DH stand for?

 

Richard Cranium.

 

195 to 295 to 95 above Trenton.

 

I go through Lambertville and New Hope when visiting friends.

 

If you go over the Dingman's Ferry Bridge on Christmas, it's free.

 

I've taken Scudders Falls bridge (no Toll on 95) more times than I care to mention but normally I'd just pay the tolls in NJ/Del Mem Br due to opting not to go thru Philly on I95 for traffic.

But I see what you're saying you cannot really hop from PA to NJ to buy cheap gaso due to bridge fares in most places. Never thought of that as we lived on the Jersey side. Here we have no Tolls between VA and MD so that causes (in my theory) north VA (despite lower pump taxes) has higher gaso prices to match MD because the marketers want to discourage crossing state lines just for gaso. So if you could hop PA to NJ to get cheap gaso, guess what, they'd bump up the price on the border to stop that non-sense.

However I do not know a pick-up might save $20 bucks not including bridge fares to NJ. The 70 cent tax in PA may be a whole new ballgame.