mirrocraft16
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Things are cheaper down south, and NJ and NY seem to be the highest on the east coast.
NJ has a high gas sales tax too. They also just announced that they're raising the gas tax to pay for the revenue lost to electric cars. Plus they're going to bill EV owners a road use tax. All of which is on top of an annual automatic 1.9 cent per gallon increase to the already high tax of 42.9 cents per gallon. Ad that to already high registration fees and high property taxes and we're getting hit pretty hard here. My property tax on a home I bought 6 years ago for $71k is now just under $10k and with real estate prices going crazy, the new assessment is now $330k. If the taxes go up accordingly, most senior will likely loose their homes. With most getting $800 to $1,500/mo in SS, its not going to cover their taxes let alone food and utilities.
Gas by me has been going up about 10¢ a gallon per day since Sunday, the guy at the Sinclair station told me that it going to be going way up over the next few days. I was listening to some talk show on the radio the other day and they said to expect close to $5/gal prices by 7/4.
I paid $3.92 today for regular at the shore up north of me about 100 miles. It was a few cents cheaper here and there but for work they get a few cents off per gallon if I buy from Sinclair. At home, there are no Sinclair stations, just Royal Farms and Wawa but my truck doesn't do well on gas from Wawa for some reason. I get about 3 mpg less there.
I buy my boat gas only at BJ's Wholesale club, its always a few cents cheaper and they sell a ton of gas so its always fresh.
Walmart here is hit or miss for oil, or anything automotive or boat related. They've been cutting back in the past few years and have out most items behind glass. They no longer sell OEM filters, just Fram and Purolator. The entire boat section which used to be two isles is not about 40" long on the end of the air filter isle. The auto section is mostly wiper blades, floor mats and washer fluid with a small oil and antifreeze section. Batteries are hit or miss but they rarely have bigger batteries. I basically stopped going there because all the things I used to buy there they quit carrying. I haven't seen their brand oil there in a while, the last time I did i bought all that they had but that's gone a long time ago. I'm running on what I have left of some bulk oil I got up in PA at a Mercury dealer two years ago. I also have about twelve cases of older TCW-2 oil from a neighbor who passed away a few years ago, he had about 11 cases of old round can Arco brand boat oil and even some old Kendall oil. I'll run it in the older motors but not in my good motors but even then I'll mix it with some modern oil too.
I haven't checked lately but most of the big boat and outboard shops have gone away, only a few down the shore remain and one or two small repair only type shops. A few marinas have parts but they're not cheap. Bulk oil is a thing of the past since BRP ended E-rude motors. Most dealers took on an import to make up for the lost of BRP.
I had a two stroke Johnson 70 on a trihull years ago, that thing was rough on fuel, it had a 20 gallon factory tank and i had to carry two 6 gallon tanks just to run about 20 miles up and down the river. To be fair that boat was always overloaded, we would run over to a few water front spots and that meant about 20 miles out, and 20 miles back up stream. If my one buddy brought his wife, that was like three more people. I'm over 6ft and about 330lbs, and I'm the little guy in my crowd. On an empty boat I suppose that motor would have been a lot better but with two women in the back jump seats, two guys in the captains chairs, and the bigger couple up in the bow, it was maxed out and then some.
My Mirrocraft Lake fisherman is wide, so it stays on top of the water, I can run about 20 miles on a 6 gallon tank with my '82 35hp. But coming back up river it takes about 9 gallons or so fighting the current, and often the wind as well with two big men on board. An older friend of mine has the same model boat but he runs a new Mercury 9.9hp four stroke, and although its slow, it'll run for two days on a small 3gal tank. But that boat won't get on plane, even with just him in it. He's happy with it that way because it runs cheap. He just leaves earlier and gets back later. What takes us an hour takes him 2 1/2 hrs.
NJ has a high gas sales tax too. They also just announced that they're raising the gas tax to pay for the revenue lost to electric cars. Plus they're going to bill EV owners a road use tax. All of which is on top of an annual automatic 1.9 cent per gallon increase to the already high tax of 42.9 cents per gallon. Ad that to already high registration fees and high property taxes and we're getting hit pretty hard here. My property tax on a home I bought 6 years ago for $71k is now just under $10k and with real estate prices going crazy, the new assessment is now $330k. If the taxes go up accordingly, most senior will likely loose their homes. With most getting $800 to $1,500/mo in SS, its not going to cover their taxes let alone food and utilities.
Gas by me has been going up about 10¢ a gallon per day since Sunday, the guy at the Sinclair station told me that it going to be going way up over the next few days. I was listening to some talk show on the radio the other day and they said to expect close to $5/gal prices by 7/4.
I paid $3.92 today for regular at the shore up north of me about 100 miles. It was a few cents cheaper here and there but for work they get a few cents off per gallon if I buy from Sinclair. At home, there are no Sinclair stations, just Royal Farms and Wawa but my truck doesn't do well on gas from Wawa for some reason. I get about 3 mpg less there.
I buy my boat gas only at BJ's Wholesale club, its always a few cents cheaper and they sell a ton of gas so its always fresh.
Walmart here is hit or miss for oil, or anything automotive or boat related. They've been cutting back in the past few years and have out most items behind glass. They no longer sell OEM filters, just Fram and Purolator. The entire boat section which used to be two isles is not about 40" long on the end of the air filter isle. The auto section is mostly wiper blades, floor mats and washer fluid with a small oil and antifreeze section. Batteries are hit or miss but they rarely have bigger batteries. I basically stopped going there because all the things I used to buy there they quit carrying. I haven't seen their brand oil there in a while, the last time I did i bought all that they had but that's gone a long time ago. I'm running on what I have left of some bulk oil I got up in PA at a Mercury dealer two years ago. I also have about twelve cases of older TCW-2 oil from a neighbor who passed away a few years ago, he had about 11 cases of old round can Arco brand boat oil and even some old Kendall oil. I'll run it in the older motors but not in my good motors but even then I'll mix it with some modern oil too.
I haven't checked lately but most of the big boat and outboard shops have gone away, only a few down the shore remain and one or two small repair only type shops. A few marinas have parts but they're not cheap. Bulk oil is a thing of the past since BRP ended E-rude motors. Most dealers took on an import to make up for the lost of BRP.
I had a two stroke Johnson 70 on a trihull years ago, that thing was rough on fuel, it had a 20 gallon factory tank and i had to carry two 6 gallon tanks just to run about 20 miles up and down the river. To be fair that boat was always overloaded, we would run over to a few water front spots and that meant about 20 miles out, and 20 miles back up stream. If my one buddy brought his wife, that was like three more people. I'm over 6ft and about 330lbs, and I'm the little guy in my crowd. On an empty boat I suppose that motor would have been a lot better but with two women in the back jump seats, two guys in the captains chairs, and the bigger couple up in the bow, it was maxed out and then some.
My Mirrocraft Lake fisherman is wide, so it stays on top of the water, I can run about 20 miles on a 6 gallon tank with my '82 35hp. But coming back up river it takes about 9 gallons or so fighting the current, and often the wind as well with two big men on board. An older friend of mine has the same model boat but he runs a new Mercury 9.9hp four stroke, and although its slow, it'll run for two days on a small 3gal tank. But that boat won't get on plane, even with just him in it. He's happy with it that way because it runs cheap. He just leaves earlier and gets back later. What takes us an hour takes him 2 1/2 hrs.