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Higher fuel prices appear to be costing Walmart $150 million. Their trucks currently have a 65 MPH limit.

 

[old medic]

With the amount that we drive a $1 increase in gas prices impact is less than $50/month... a nit in the whole scheme of things.

Made me look... our big trip may cost an extra $150 this year....

 

[ncbill]

Higher fuel prices appear to be costing Walmart $150 million. Their trucks currently have a 65 MPH limit.

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Or do like some states do and impose a 55 mph limit on commercial trucks.

Which would save them even more $$$.

 

[FIREd]

The pumps have no cut off at 100€ here in Europe . I recently breached the 100€ mark while filling up my compact car running on diesel. Of course a full tank usually lasts me a month, so I’m not complaining.

 

[Flieger]

Closing in on $4 here in the South ($3.93/Gallon).

Flieger

 

[Aerides]

Paid 4.99 for premium at Costco yesterday. Regular was about 4.26.

 

[Koolau]

Higher fuel prices appear to be costing Walmart $150 million. Their trucks currently have a 65 MPH limit.

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Walmart revenues are on the order of 700 billion. $150 million seems more like a rounding error and I wonder what the extra time on the road costs vs the little bit of fuel savings.

 

[cbo111]

Shell Oil just announced quarterly profits of $6.9 billion, up by 112% since Q4 in 2025. I guess those big oil political donations are paying off handsomely.

 

[Andre1969]

It is funny how psychological gas prices can be. My normal routine is to top off at BJs on Friday, before going across the street from them and shopping at Aldi. My 2012 Dodge Ram takes 89 octane, which BJs doesn't sell, so I'll alternate between 87 and 93. And I rarely let it get below half a tank, so the mixture should average out to around 90.

Well, yesterday, there was a line at the BJs gas station, and I didn't feel like waiting, so I went over to Aldi and did my shopping, and figured I'd hit the High's near my house on the way home. As I was leaving Aldi, I noticed the line over at BJs had died down. For a second, I thought about just going back over there and getting gas. But, this was a 4-lane divided road, so that would involve going down about a half-mile, making a U-turn, and then after filling up, making another U-turn at a traffic light that seems to take forever, to head back home.

So, I just went by High's. This was my week for 87, and it was about 30 cents higher here than at BJs. I was annoyed for a second or two about that, but it only took about 5 1/2 gallons to top off. So, about $1.65 more. Makes me think of that line from "North by Northwest"... "Roger...PAY the Two Dollars!"

 

[athena53]

So, I just went by High's. This was my week for 87, and it was about 30 cents higher here than at BJs. I was annoyed for a second or two about that, but it only took about 5 1/2 gallons to top off. So, about $1.65 more. Makes me think of that line from "North by Northwest"... "Roger...PAY the Two Dollars!"

I know I shouldn't be fretting about the extra cost when my typical fill-up is 8 gallons. Still, when I've accumulated a discount of 40 cents or so off a gallon of gas I run the tank down as far as I can to maximize the discount.

 

[foxcreek9]

Interesting charts on the price of gas - from the blog

A Wealth of Common Sense - Personal Finance, Investments & Markets

Personal Finance, Investments & Markets

awealthofcommonsense.com

 

[Koolau]

Very interesting data and presentation. An actual "NEWS" article such as this would be good, but, of course, the only "good news" to a news outlet seems to be "bad news."

Instinctively, I knew this as I remember in the late '60s looking for the station that was 30 cents instead of 33 cents back when I first became an independent driver (AKA a guy who had to pay his own gasoline bill)!

In those days, I could fill up my Opel for $3 and drive all week - when I was making $4/hour. Now, my equivalent "salary" (SS + Pension) covers a week or more of gas for the equivalent of an hour's "pay" or less. The more things change... etc.

 

[Taco]

Shell Oil just announced quarterly profits of $6.9 billion, up by 112% since Q4 in 2025. I guess those big oil political donations are paying off handsomely.

Shell is, of course, a European oil major. The Asia, Africa, Oceania region is their largest. Followed by Europe. Together those regions make up over 2/3rds of their revenue.

Shell lost over $20 billion in 2020, made a record $42 billion in 2022, and made about $18 billion last year. They are obviously in a very cyclical industry.

To put their latest $6.9 billion quarterly profit in some perspective, Google’s latest was $62.6 billion and NVDIA’s was $43 billion.

 

[JCH10400]

I paid $5.39 a gallon for top tier regular at our local reservation this morning and thought it was a bargain. Gas stations in my California area are close to or over $6.00 a gallon.

 

[yakers]

Actual price paid yesterday, on US40 between Needles and Barstow CA, next gas service 56 miles, charge $1 to use rest room if not buying gas. Middle of nowhere so they can charge whatever, no other options.

 

[frank05]

Feds just now are allowing E15 gas so you millage may suffer if adopted by oil companies. Also you may want to avoid if you don’t fill up often.

 

[Semi-Retyrd]

Actual price paid yesterday, on US40 between Needles and Barstow CA, next gas service 56 miles, charge $1 to use rest room if not buying gas. Middle of nowhere so they can charge whatever, no other options.

If you take the Lenwood Rd exit near Barstow, the 24hr Arco station there has regular gas at $5.86/gl now.

Cheers, Dennis

 

[PatrickA5]

Your problem is you only have 1 credit card. Probably the limit on it is not high, so you end up using a high percentage of the available credit now and then, which is bad.

I have 8 credit cards, with total limit of $125K so when I put a trip on a CC of $10K, my credit usage is still below 10%.

Just get a new no fee credit card and I'm sure it will at least double your available credit. Also handy to have in case your regular CC gets it's number stolen or just lost.

DW just got a credit card denied (Citi) because she's not using enough of her credit line. She has 2 cards with about $60K in available credit. Usage might be $1K per month. Credit score 820. I guess Citi could smell out the fact that we only use CCs for points/miles/signup bonuses.

 

[Texas Proud]

DW just got a credit card denied (Citi) because she's not using enough of her credit line. She has 2 cards with about $60K in available credit. Usage might be $1K per month. Credit score 820. I guess Citi could smell out the fact that we only use CCs for points/miles/signup bonuses.

I have been threatened by Cap 1 to close my account as I did not use it for so long...

I have a lot more usage on the 2% cash back card so do not use the 1 1/2% cash back...

 

[Teacher Terry]

I have a small car and live close to many things so I only fill my tank every 4–6 weeks. I filled up last week in northern Nevada and it was 5.37/gallon. Diesel was a dollar more. I try to use one of the cheaper gas stations without going too far out of my way.

When we had our motorhome, it only got 9/miles to the gallon and if we were taking a really long trip, it got to be so expensive. One year I figured out that it was cheaper to take our car and stay in hotels then it was to take the RV and stay at RV sites. And that trip I think we were logging 6K miles.

At that time we had one large dog and two tiny dogs so we stayed at a lot of motel sixes. I planned the entire trip in advance since we were gone for six weeks and if I couldn’t find a pet friendly hotel, we stayed at Airbnb’s that were pet friendly. It took a lot of research because not a lot of places are willing to let you have a large dog, although he was much quieter than my little two.

 

[Sunset]

DW just got a credit card denied (Citi) because she's not using enough of her credit line. She has 2 cards with about $60K in available credit. Usage might be $1K per month. Credit score 820. I guess Citi could smell out the fact that we only use CCs for points/miles/signup bonuses.

Wow.... never heard of that before.

Except for a CC that I use for travel which has a credit line of 30K, I have phoned my various CC companies and asked to reduce the credit limit of a few of them that I only use for specific things example groceries, reduced it's credit line to $5K as even that is too much.

I could see the denial if she had other CC's with Citi , but if they were with a competitor, it doesn't make sense.

 

[PatrickA5]

Wow.... never heard of that before.

Except for a CC that I use for travel which has a credit line of 30K, I have phoned my various CC companies and asked to reduce the credit limit of a few of them that I only use for specific things example groceries, reduced it's credit line to $5K as even that is too much.

I could see the denial if she had other CC's with Citi , but if they were with a competitor, it doesn't make sense.

I imagine Citi looked back and saw she's had numerous Citi cards over the years, and we mainly used it to meet various minimum spends to get sign up bonuses. They were probably using the under-utilization as an excuse since they had to come up with something to send with the denial letter.

More on topic - just filled up at the local Walmart (Murphy USA) for $3.67. Station across the street was $4.19. First time I've ever seen a line at the Murphy station.