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05-05-2004, 02:35 PM | #1 |
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Gas Prices
With the continued increase in gas prices is it worthwhile to keep each other posted on good gas prices on the lake?
It may have changed by now, but Fays was at $1.99 on saturday afternoon. |
05-05-2004, 03:23 PM | #2 |
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Gas price
Pier 19 in Tuftonboro was $2.40 on Sunday. OUCH!
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05-05-2004, 03:39 PM | #3 |
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Gas Prices
$1.95 at Lakeport last Saturday.
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05-05-2004, 04:05 PM | #4 |
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Gas Prices
The price today at Channel Marine was $2.249.
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05-05-2004, 06:57 PM | #5 |
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A good thing your engine doesn't run on water...
A 9 oz. bottle of Evian water will run you $1.49.
That works out to $21.19 per gallon. |
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05-06-2004, 11:19 AM | #6 |
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The high price of gas does feel painful when gassing up, but its just a small part of my total budget. I will be HAPPY if I am able to get out enough that my fuel costs equal or exceed just my insurance costs ($220). I think I've already spent an equal amount (or more) just to get the boat ready to go.
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05-06-2004, 12:18 PM | #7 |
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Gas rebate is important
With the high cost of gas on the Lake (and elsewhere), the $.18 refund is very important. When going through my receipts recently I noticed that Pier 19 is not providing total gallonage on their credit card receipts. This prevented me from sending in about six slips. Anyone else having this problem with any other marina on the lake? That's what I get for not looking at the slip when I got the gas. I just assumed it would include the gallonage. We all know what they say about assuming anything.
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05-06-2004, 01:24 PM | #8 | |
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05-07-2004, 07:29 AM | #9 |
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How are the prices at Downings landing in Alton Bay?
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05-14-2004, 10:43 AM | #10 |
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Lakeport Landing Prices
Wednesday Lakeport Landing was @ $2.02 per gallon.
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05-14-2004, 10:47 AM | #11 |
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Downings
Looked to me like the pumps said $2.39 at Downings Wednesday evening. OUCH!
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05-14-2004, 04:16 PM | #12 |
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Gas prices
I was just at Fays. $2.23 gal . I am going to fill up tomorrow before it goes up any more
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05-14-2004, 06:27 PM | #13 |
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...there's always sailing!
For about six hundred dollars you can usually find someone's old 14' fiberglass fixer-upper complete with a main and a gybe. Usually, they belong to someone from Moultonborough who got too old, too fat, too lazy, or has a bad back and the sailboat has sat out back, unused, and it's time to sell.
Let's see, which is more of an adrenillan rush; hanging on to the steering wheel inside an 8000lb, 550hp, 32' gofast doing 75mph in a straight line or keeping a 15', 200lb sailboat w/ two sails trimmed out in a 10mph breeze? |
05-14-2004, 06:43 PM | #14 |
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The answer is B
by far, a sail boat is much more exciting and challenging.
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05-14-2004, 09:32 PM | #15 |
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Gas Prices Going UP
In was at Fay's Wednesday and had just filled up when they came to raise the price to $2.23 9/10 . Glad I was already finished with a 70 gallon tank.
Boy, they were not to happy with Mobile and the reason they were given for the price increase. Look on the office door at the pumps for Mobile's "Excuse Card" to see why Fay's felt that Mobile could have kept the price down by not printing the card. We all pay plenty for gas on the lake and I feel the prices should be closer to what we pay at the pumps for our cars and trucks. We are penalized for having a "recreational vehicle" ie a boat. I know we a least can get our state tax back but that is not the point and by the way my boat is not a high speed gas hog - just a 22' cuddy w/a 260 hp V8. |
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Really what we need is a revolution/evolution in boat design to increase gas mileage. Disagreeing a bit with what you said above, all our boats are gas hogs. Think about boat MPG (blowboats excepted) vs car (even SUV) MPG. Yikes ! I still hope that, given the drop in electronics costs, a way to make deployable hydrofoils available to the mass market may happen. Perhaps prolonged "high" gas prices may spur some innovation ???
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05-18-2004, 04:11 AM | #17 |
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Gas prices
Just topped off yesterday afternoon at Lakeport. $2.22 a gallon and rising.
Gas attendent said price changed twice on Saturday. In the morning it was as low as $1.89. They've always been the cheapest on the lake though no matter what the price is anywhere else. |
05-18-2004, 08:54 AM | #18 |
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fueling up
I just hope the high cost of fuels at the marina's vs the roadside gas stations don't cause more people to fill up a fleetful of 5 gallon containors and manually fill the boats. Every year I see more and more people doing that on the shore filling small boats and jetskis with fuel from gasoline containors. Some of those nozzles on them can leak like a sieve. The outcome for fuel spills would be numerous around the lake shore. I for one would like to see the lake quality going up not deterioting for economic reasons. Not good for swimming, wells and wildlife.
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05-18-2004, 12:38 PM | #19 |
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lakeport gas prices
$2.21 on Sunday
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