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04-28-2008, 04:47 PM
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What is the price of fuel your way?
I am anticipating my trip North again this Summer and I am trying to decide whether to pull a small sleeping trailer w/a compact SUV using unlead @ 19 mpg, drive a full size PU w/a minimum equipped camper shell using diesel @ 12 mpg or drive the fully equipped monster using diesel @ 8 mpg. I expect to enter Canadian soil via Calgary and Edmonton and pick up Dawson Creek/Alaskan Highway toward Fairbanks. I am planning a few side trips throughout the trek but eventually go toward Anchorage ending in Haines. Obviously, w/$120/barrel oil and w/projections of even higher, the prices will, I am sure, swing upwards. But, just to get some idea, Guys and Gals, can you give me some latest local quotes? Of course, if 3 of my grandkids do travel w/me, my choice is restricted to the 8 mpg wheels.
Last edited by RAMFEB31; 04-28-2008 at 04:51 PM..
Reason: punctuation
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04-28-2008, 04:48 PM
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Fly boy
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Haines, AK
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Haines was at $3.90 a gallon when I was home in March.
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04-28-2008, 05:41 PM
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Not a member
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Alaskagasprices dot com will cover many area's....
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04-28-2008, 06:06 PM
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"Live with Intention"
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$3.60-&3.90 depending on where you go.
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04-28-2008, 09:33 PM
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Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Xa'at
$3.60-&3.90 depending on where you go.
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That's about the same in Fairbanks. But diesel fuel costs around $4.29 this week.
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04-28-2008, 09:48 PM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
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"planning my next trip north"
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Betwixt the Worlds
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Premium unleaded at BJ's Warehouse is $3.68/gallon. I think I may fill my Corvette up with race fuel tomorrow night.
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04-28-2008, 10:43 PM
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"Live with Intention"
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Juneau, AK
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Fun With Photoshop, with your guide Xa'at
Quote:
Originally Posted by Barkingowl
Premium unleaded at BJ's Warehouse is $3.68/gallon. I think I may fill my Corvette up with race fuel tomorrow night.
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Oh, that made me think of this picture that I took the other day over in Douglas...
I don't actually know if that was the corvette club or not, but I totally cracked up at these two random dudes hanging out with their perfectly polished corvettes in the middle of a parking lot at like 8 o clock on a saturday night in Douglas. Call it... photo shopping inspiration.
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04-28-2008, 10:57 PM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
Status:
"planning my next trip north"
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Betwixt the Worlds
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Xa'at
Oh, that made me think of this picture that I took the other day over in Douglas...
I don't actually know if that was the corvette club or not, but I totally cracked up at these two random dudes hanging out with their perfectly polished corvettes in the middle of a parking lot at like 8 o clock on a saturday night in Douglas. Call it... photo shopping inspiration.
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That's funny! And that's what most Corvette owners are about, cleaning & polishing the cars & never driving them. 
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04-28-2008, 11:07 PM
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I am downright amazed at what I can destroy
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Yup, them 'Vette owners are a strange breed.
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04-28-2008, 11:12 PM
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I live in NC but my heart is in Alaska
Status:
"planning my next trip north"
(set 26 days ago)
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Betwixt the Worlds
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Quote:
Originally Posted by warptman
Yup, them 'Vette owners are a strange breed.
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I have to agree... But then again most people say that about me who don't know I own a Corvette. 
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