Avgas is cheap

ASJ wrote:

Who pays over $2 for 100ll?? Geez.

Everybody who buys it within a hundred miles or so of Old Bridge, NJ. I haven't
been further away than that in some time now.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

If the FBO owner could forecast the future price of fuel accurately, he
wouldn't be running an FBO.

Mike
MU-2


"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
...


Dennis O'Connor wrote:

Our airport manager says he is letting the tanks go nearly to empty
before
ordering another load, because he will have to raise the price
significantly
once he does..

I don't think much of that logic. If he then buys a full load of gas at a
higher
cost and the supplier lowers the price a few weeks later, he needs to
charge
higher prices for quite some time before he sells enough to need to refill
his
tanks. He runs the risk of pricing himself out of the market for a while.
If I
were doing it, I would buy as little as possible while the supplier's
prices
are high. And, yes, I have seen avgas prices go down as well as up.

Most of the airports in this area let the tanks go nearly dry because they
get
price breaks for quantity purchases. I understand that there's a large
discount
if you buy an entire trailer full at a time. Maybe that's what he's trying
to
do.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that
you look forward to the trip.

Teacherjh wrote:

Mid-grade Unleaded in SLC is $1.67

Mid grade is a tax on people who are bad at math.


Maybe for cars; my Peterson STC for both the Piper and the Skylane
mandates 86 min Octane which requires purchase of Mid grade...

MikeM
(wasn't born yesterday)
Skylane '1MM
Pacer '00Z

mikem wrote:

Maybe for cars; my Peterson STC for both the Piper and the Skylane
mandates 86 min Octane which requires purchase of Mid grade...

Is that pump octane, research, or motor? The minimum pump octane that I've seen
available in New Jersey is 87 octane.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

"Peter Duniho" wrote in message ...

Actually, the $3.50/gal was a bit of a shock...highest it'd been before was
about $2.90/gal and normally it's been lower.

I've still got a lot of room to go before I reach the shock level on
avgas prices. Back in '99 I paid $3.75/gal in Deadhorse, Alaska.

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)

Actually it is 87.

mikem wrote:



Teacherjh wrote:

Mid-grade Unleaded in SLC is $1.67


Mid grade is a tax on people who are bad at math.



Maybe for cars; my Peterson STC for both the Piper and the Skylane
mandates 86 min Octane which requires purchase of Mid grade...

MikeM
(wasn't born yesterday)
Skylane '1MM
Pacer '00Z

In high altitude areas like here in Montana the lowest octane rating is
85.5. Mid grade is 88 and the highest is 91.

G.R. Patterson III wrote:


mikem wrote:

Maybe for cars; my Peterson STC for both the Piper and the Skylane
mandates 86 min Octane which requires purchase of Mid grade...


Is that pump octane, research, or motor? The minimum pump octane that I've seen
available in New Jersey is 87 octane.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

my Peterson STC for both the Piper and the Skylane
mandates 86 min Octane which requires purchase of Mid grade...


You can't get that by mixing hi grade plus low grade in the proper proportions?

Jose

--
(for Email, make the obvious changes in my address)

"John Galban" wrote in message
om...
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...

Actually, the $3.50/gal was a bit of a shock...highest it'd been before
was
about $2.90/gal and normally it's been lower.

I've still got a lot of room to go before I reach the shock level on
avgas prices. Back in '99 I paid $3.75/gal in Deadhorse, Alaska.

According to Airnav, the US average is $2.62 with lows of $1.80 in Texas and
Iowa and highs in the $4.00 range in Massachusetts and New York.

http://www.airnav.com/fuel/greatdeals/pocket?type=1

"John Galban" wrote in message
om...
"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
...

Actually, the $3.50/gal was a bit of a shock...highest it'd been before
was
about $2.90/gal and normally it's been lower.

I've still got a lot of room to go before I reach the shock level on
avgas prices. Back in '99 I paid $3.75/gal in Deadhorse, Alaska.


(Update)

According to Airnav, the US average is $2.62 with lows of $1.75 and highs in
the $4.13 range.

http://www.airnav.com/fuel/report.html