Will 100LL ever be this "cheap" again?

[MSPAviator]

I was just going through some old pictures I took...found this one of a gas receipt...

$3.85/gal for 100LL, and that was just a little over a year ago. Now I'm paying $5+

Things jumped way high at the beginning of this year and car gas atleast has been trending down... Will 100LL follow the trend of car gas?

 

[denverpilot]

We fell below $5 here. Only just. But it did fall. Oil's below $80 bbl, but it'll go back up...

 

[AEROBAT]

At our strip it depends on the bulk price when they fill the tanks. If it was high when they filled it the price does not change until they re-fill the tanks even if the wholesale price has dropped considerably. As a consequence if another airport has cheaper gas everyone fills up there so sometimes it can take a month or so before we see a change.

 

[silver-eagle]

Paid $5.70 a gallon at Eastport (EPM) yesterday. I've seen prices as high as $8. $5.65 at my home airport. I doubt we'll see prices go down very much.

 

[timwinters]

$5 at KTZV where I've been working. $3.5 auto gas at home is easier to take.

Hopefully 100LL's replacement will be more cost effective. Being able to use the pipeline system, in of itself, would make a huge difference in cost effectiveness.

 

[TangoWhiskey]

Funny, but the least price per gallon on 100LL on my long OSH trip wasn't at any small midwest airport, but at TacAir @ KAPA, Denver Centennial. $4.95 full service!

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[SCCutler]

I can get it at F69 (about a 45 second flight north of Addison) for $4.79; if I am flying east, Rusk County is $4.39 for 100LL, if flying south, I can visit Cleburne, for $4.53 gas, westbound, I'd hit Eldorado, ($4.77) or Ballinger ($4.50).

It has come down some, it may come down more. We said all the same stuff a few years back, and it got below $3.00/gallon for a while. Maybe it shall do again.

Of course, the printing presses continue to pump out sheet upon sheet of currency... so long-term, you'll have to perform the inflation-adjusted-value game...

 

[Fearless Tower]

It's been years since I've seen 100LL below 4. It is still hovering around 6 in SoCal.

I'm paying around 3.80/gallon right now to fill my car with 87.

 

[flyingcheesehead]

Funny, but the least price per gallon on 100LL on my long OSH trip wasn't at any small midwest airport, but at TacAir @ KAPA, Denver Centennial. $4.95 full service!

But were you even bothering to look for cheap fuel?

If I was going KOSH->KAPA->KFTW today, I'd be stopping at KPOH ($4.50), KLHX ($4.70), KHBR ($4.10) and maybe topping off at KXBP ($4.43) just before getting home... But I'm guessing you aren't getting any credit for buying cheap fuel like I do.

TX and OK are where the cheap fuel is.

 

[azure]

TX and OK are where the cheap fuel is.

It's not in MI that's for sure. The cheapest fuel locally that I know of for sure is $4.95 at IKW. 48D may have $4.97 but I haven't been there in over a month, and the Airnav entry is nearly a month old too. Fuel at home is $6.23, but is $5.38 at nearby 57D (and about 5% cheaper with a member discount card). Needless to say I never fill up at home.

 

[SkyHog]

I was just going through some old pictures I took...found this one of a gas receipt...

$3.85/gal for 100LL, and that was just a little over a year ago. Now I'm paying $5+

Things jumped way high at the beginning of this year and car gas atleast has been trending down... Will 100LL follow the trend of car gas?

Last time I flew down to Belen, NM, there was an old FBO building there that had faded letters reading "100LL: $1.25"

It almost made me cry.

 

[PaulMillner]

Hopefully 100LL's replacement will be more cost effective. Being able to use the pipeline system, in of itself, would make a huge difference in cost effectiveness.

Avgas volumes are too small to make cost effective use of the pipeline infrastructure. The transmix, which is the confusion zone before/after each pipeline batch, would consume and downgrade most of each avgas cargo, and can't typically be sold as Mogas due to high aromatics. And the economics don't work for installing avgas tankage at terminals.

Paul

 

[timwinters]

Avgas volumes are too small to make cost effective use of the pipeline infrastructure. The transmix, which is the confusion zone before/after each pipeline batch, would consume and downgrade most of each avgas cargo, and can't typically be sold as Mogas due to high aromatics. And the economics don't work for installing avgas tankage at terminals.

Paul

interesting.