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| Gas up again!This is a discussion on Gas up again! within the UPS Discussions forums, part of the Brown Cafe UPS Forum category; Originally Posted by covemaster
cheapest I've seen was this morning at Flynns next to you at 3.29
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10-04-2008, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by covemaster  cheapest I've seen was this morning at Flynns next to you at 3.29 | The cheapest i have seen is $3.26. Remember the good old days when you could get almost 4 gallons for a buck at one of those off brand stations? Then the Arabs put the squeeze on in '73 and everybody cried when gas shot up to 56 cents a gallon if you could get it. If I babied my '71 340 Duster, I could get 10 MPG. I usually got 6 MPG. My biggest expenses were gas, rear tires and clutches in that order. Can't afford that today.
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10-04-2008, 09:15 AM
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Originally Posted by covemaster cheapest I've seen was this morning at Flynns next to you at 3.29 | yeah this was in my town. Not too far from there though
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10-04-2008, 12:27 PM
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Just put $82.00 in my wife's Windstar. We're going down to South Miami for a party tonight. I paid $3.53gal. Drove to my race this morning in Vero Beach, about 35/40 miles north of here. On the way back I saw the price of gas was $3.41, if you paid cash. This was at a big highway/turnpike interchange in Ft. Pierce.
This would be a good thread to keep alive, so we can know what gas prices are wherever we plan to travel. On a side note, I did okay in my race. I ran 3.1 miles in 20:02. I was aiming for 19:30 or below. I met a Vero Beach UPSer while I was there. He's been a driver 25 years, is in the next higher age group than I am and ran the course in 18:40.........Ouch!!! | 
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10-04-2008, 03:00 PM
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Originally Posted by stevetheupsguy I met a Vero Beach UPSer while I was there. He's been a driver 25 years, is in the next higher age group than I am and ran the course in 18:40.........Ouch!!! | Hurray for the old guy!  | |
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10-05-2008, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by stevetheupsguy Just put $82.00 in my wife's Windstar. We're going down to South Miami for a party tonight. I paid $3.53gal. Drove to my race this morning in Vero Beach, about 35/40 miles north of here. On the way back I saw the price of gas was $3.41, if you paid cash. This was at a big highway/turnpike interchange in Ft. Pierce.
This would be a good thread to keep alive, so we can know what gas prices are wherever we plan to travel. On a side note, I did okay in my race. I ran 3.1 miles in 20:02. I was aiming for 19:30 or below. I met a Vero Beach UPSer while I was there. He's been a driver 25 years, is in the next higher age group than I am and ran the course in 18:40.........Ouch!!! | Up here in VA we call 3.1 miles a 5k  . Some of those old guys are smokin' fast, doubly impressive by a driver though cuz it can be tough to get your training miles in with this job, especially with a family. 20:02 is plenty fast though, probably beats 90% of the population. Good job 
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10-05-2008, 10:51 AM
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Originally Posted by Jones Up here in VA we call 3.1 miles a 5k . Some of those old guys are smokin' fast, doubly impressive by a driver though cuz it can be tough to get your training miles in with this job, especially with a family. 20:02 is plenty fast though, probably beats 90% of the population. Good job | Thanks Jones. The guys in my age range really are fast. I came in 13th out of 173 runners, but would love to win. One of these days I'm going to win, that's a promise.
Oh and Gas is at $3.51 here in rainy Florida. | |
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10-05-2008, 02:07 PM
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The conversion factor from miles to kilometers (klicks) is 1.6 so 3.1 miles would equal 4.96 miles which is close enough for government work to 5 miles. | |
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10-05-2008, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer The conversion factor from miles to kilometers (klicks) is 1.6 so 3.1 miles would equal 4.96 miles which is close enough for government work to 5 miles. | 4.96 km...
Anyways, not going there today.
When I was in the army, we called that a perimeter run. Not quite 5k, more like 6 miles around the base, every payday. That's why I now work at UPS...
not quite as demanding.
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10-05-2008, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Jones 20:02 is plenty fast though, probably beats 90% of the population. Good job | More like 99.9% of the population...still like it the old guy beat him though.
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10-05-2008, 02:57 PM
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I filled up the 800 I was driving on Friday at $3.38 a gallon.
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10-05-2008, 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer The conversion factor from miles to kilometers (klicks) is 1.6 so 3.1 miles would equal 4.96 miles which is close enough for government work to 5 miles. | Someone I know has "Preview twice--post once" in their signature..
Take it from me, a 5k race is 3.1 miles 
(87 octane gas is currently $3.59 here in NoVa)
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10-05-2008, 04:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Jones Someone I know has "Preview twice--post once" in their signature..
Take it from me, a 5k race is 3.1 miles | That stung! LOL
Bad thing is, I did not see it the first time!
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10-05-2008, 05:05 PM
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Preview twice--post once only works on the weekdays when there is no waking up for naps or running back and forth to the TV to see who scored or who's winning. Upstate, is was actually a 3.1 mile race or 5k. The driver that finished before me is 5 years my senior and as we were speaking he siad he was thinking about doing a triathalon. I guess this guys in really good shape to be going that route.
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10-05-2008, 05:07 PM
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This is what I get from trying to watch football and type. Yes, I meant to say 4.96 km which is roughly equal to 5 km.
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10-05-2008, 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer This is what I get from trying to watch football and type. Yes, I meant to say 4.96 km which is roughly equal to 5 km.
Patriots won (ugly) so I am happy. | You still have your head turned, right? you said 4.96km is equal to 5km. Too much multitasking there mister! | |
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10-05-2008, 05:12 PM
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Originally Posted by stevetheupsguy You still have your head turned, right? you said 4.96km is equal to 5km. Too much multitasking there mister! |
Homeboy, I said "roughly equal". | |
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10-06-2008, 06:17 PM
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Saw $3.179 today . | |
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10-06-2008, 06:19 PM
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$2.99 here plus 10 cents off that if you pay cash | |
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10-06-2008, 06:24 PM
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On the way to work this morning, gas was at $2.99 a gallon. | |
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10-06-2008, 06:28 PM
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