oleman-

You aren't very good at this.

If you have the quotes source them and post a link, if not stick to your chicken little predictions.

Two days later......still waiting.

Good Luck.

Not to interrupt a perfectly good argument, but Bob Dole paid $1.79 for premium today. (Bob Dole is kicking Bob Dole's self for buying something that <i>requires</i> premium...)

Regular unleaded is now $2.19 a gallon in Chicago. This was not in an expensive area, either - I'm sure it's worse downtown.

Bob Dole-

No problem, I used you as a reference earlier...

*from an earlier post*

"-Home power bills through the roof. (Don't believe me--ask Bob Dole) "

I still chuckle at your power bill rant earlier this year :^)

(Not that you were being gouged, just the way you posted it.)

In AZ It's $1.75 for premium at the lowest, $1.92 at the highest.

BTW--drop to mid--you can't tell the difference.

Bob Dole is glad that you're chuckling about it...

Not that anyone notices, but the previous two bills had "gas rape" written in the memo field of the check. The most recent said, "Payment for Astrodome naming rights."

And unfortunately, mid-grade does not work. Down here, regular is typically 87 octane and mid-grade is only 89...

Bob Dole did a very good job at entetaining while his bank account was being emptied.

****a suggestion for the memo--"Plese, dinner, some drinks--I usually like to be courted before being bent over. And some flowers when the check clears would be nice also"****

Self-serve gas is now $2.09 a gallon in Irvine, Ca. Full serve is $2.59 a gallon.

Of course, it is all about good old supply and demand right? No one would dare make 40% profits and pay their execs hundreds of millions of dollars for upping the price of gas by conspiring to control the market right?

Oh yeah, nevermind that Ca adds 13 cents a gallon for road taxes and pollution control. Or that the Feds add 50 to 75 cents a gallon for roads and whatever...

It couldn't have anything to do with summer being here and prices being jacked up to take advantage of vacation travelers would it?

Naw... that can't be the reason...

Glad I have an '88 Honda Civic that gets 40mpg...

Fly, I passed an Arco station in Garden Grove this after noon where gas was $185.9 for regular.

Thought we could re-hash this...
 

Gas this week-end in the Columbus area was $0.99 a gallon.

It's still $1.26-$1.29 here for regular unleaded, but it's better than it was...

I paid a $1.17 in Kingdom City, MO, but I saw it as low as $1.16 in some areas of St Louis this weekend. Can't believe it's dropped that much but I like it.

I Paid $1.09 this weekend.

1.19 in Lexington, KY. This is 'normal' for here (at least before it got really low a couple of winters ago). But how long will it remain???

Gas in Garden Grove, California was $1.80 a gallon yesterday.

$1.23 here in JoCo :)

1.29 here in Atlanta.

Gas is now 1.17 in neodesha. Compared to 1.69 three weeks ago.

Paid 1.34 yesterday. Could someone explain to me since evidently there never was any kind of refined gas shortage the reasoning for the price hike? And how these companies can live with themselves? The Pricks :mad:

$1.19 in Davenport Iowa
$1.25 in Goose Lake Iowa


Thank God


Hoover

Alanm: Simply this -- there was a shortage of fuel of the proper blend and formulation for the time of year in storage. EPA says you can only sell certain blends of fuels at certain times of the year and only in certain parts of the country. If the expected demand is greater than the storage plus the refined amount for a given time frame, then you get a price spike. Then you get expectations of higher prices and that spikes the price again. If consumers do not reduce consumption then there is no brake on the price spiral. What happened this summer was a lower demand (higher prices), more crude refined into gasoline (more inventory) which has placed a downward pressure on prices. When this inventory drys up, price will climb again. Thats why storage and refinery capacity are so critical to stable gasoline prices. It does have a limited shelf life.

I did some traveling this past weekend. I got 1.29
in LeMars Iowa and in Scranton, Iowa.

$1.85 in Hayward CA
down from $2.29

this is the Cheap Gas 87 Octane

$1.89 for Regular Unleaded
$2.09 for Premium Unleaded

Has not changed more than 2cents up and down over the last 3 months.


Poway, CA (San Diego Suburb)

$1.16 here...

Here in Central Wisconsin - the crap is still $1.46

I have not driven a car in 3 weeks as of yesterday.

#@ck 'em - I'll walk first

I wouldn't even mow my grass if I didn't have kids that play in the yard!!!

Geez, this pisses me off just thinking about it! :mad:

$1.07
 

I paid $1.07 today near the TX/LA border. Premium was $1.25.

I heard that it's $.99 near the LA/MS border but I didn't venture that far into LA.

That was an anomoly - just one exit off I-10 had gas that cheap. The cheapest I saw it elsewhere was $1.18 but I'm guessing the average in the Houston area is $1.28.....

Things are looking up for a roadtrip in my Yukon.....

Gasoline stocks hit a five year high as of yesterdays report. Do not see what is wrong in CA. it seems the laws of supply/demand operate in a different time warp.

Oleman, Californians must not protest the prices as much as the rest of the country. I suppose their just content to have gas. Although I have noticed the July 4th price hike went into effect today. Yesterday the price was 1.34 today it jumped to 142. The A$$wipes!! :mad:

Happy to report that gas prices have dropped dramatically lately. I actually saw $1.39 today, down from $1.43 yesterday at a cut-rate station near my house. Still too damn much, but the same station was over $2.00 a month-and-a-half ago.

The big-name stations are still around $1.50, but I never buy gas at any of them. sHell, scAmoco and the like can kiss my a$$. I always go for the no name stations. Gas is gas - why pay more than you have to? I don't drive a friggin Ferrari.

Hope prices continue to drop.

Alanm,

We protest as much as anybody else about the high price of gasoline but it does no good. They are finally looking into the gas stations and oil companies for price gouging. The ba$tards!

Gas is between $1.85 and $2.05 here in Honolulu, depending on what part of the island you are on. Then again, it hasn't fallen below $1.45 a gallon in the 9 years I've lived here, even when gas was well below $1.00 a gallon there...

I just returned from a week on the Oregon coast. The prices up there were ranging from 1.39 to 1.59 a gallon.

On my return drive down the coast the prices showed increases all the way into NoCal. The local stations in town are at 1.89 to 1.99.

WTF!!!!!

Last time I checked the Atlas, the Pacific Ocean rolled its waves on both the Oregon and Cali shores so why are we getting cornholed in the Golden State?

Just another reason to hate those varmits that build those stupid damns in our freshwaters streams!:mad:

That is right, Ca injun. Gas here in Northern California is considered the highest in the nation! Just dropped to $1.99 from low $2! here in Humboldt County. We get hosed here. Aren't there lots of refineries right down the coast??? It is an outrage!!!

I bought gas Monday here in Ms. and it was $1.37 a gallon then

$1.33 in Columbus Ohio today.


It bites.... .

Sorry, guys...

I filled up this morning for 1.21 a gallon...and that's 7 cents higher than what we filled my wife's car for on the 2nd...

Three gas stations near of my house (there are about 6 total, but I only saw 3 of them) are at $1.12, $1.13 and $1.14, or at least they were last night when I returned home from the hill overlooking Arrowhead (fireworks...).

Cry me a river. Gas here in Edinburgh, Scotland is 98 cents....... per litre. I'll do the math or you. It works out to be about $3.80 a gallon.

So saddle a sheep & quit 'yer bitchin' Morton! ;)

I prefer goats, but thanks for the suggestion. Word of advice, HC. Those bulls you see around KC arent real, so dont try to mount them during electrical storms.

On the rise again
 

Gas rose from a $1.18 to $1.29 this morning in Jefferson City. I find it hard to believe that the demand for gas, which was pushing prices constantly downward over the last few weeks, has made such a dramatic increase to warrant an $0.11 increase over night. Bastiges!

not reading the entire, thread, but I see our resident economics idiot is at it again. while oil co stocks may be up gas futures are way down. Gas futures are the leading indicator, by a couple of months, as to where prices at the pump will go. Stock price is a not an indicator of gas price.

If you want to know where prices will be in a couple of months watch the futures market.

Here in VA, prices are still around 1.50, they peaked a couple of months ago around 1.80.

Here in Garden Grove, California gas is still way above what I read about on the net. Gas yesterday was $1.76 for regular. We continue to get ripped.

It's about $1.18 in Houston, but I paid $1.06 east of Beaumont last Thursday....

Ok I post Weds that gas here in Jeff City, MO rose from a $1.18 to $1.29. Now on Thursday it's back down to $1.19. I'm glad it went down again, but WTF?????

$1.57 in Boulder yesterday and 1.24 in Cheyenne, WY. 77 miles apart and 33 cents. Go figure! I still think gouging is going on and has been going on for quite some time. The pricks :mad:

Gas prices continue to drop dramatically up here (of course, we're still paying more than most everyone else). Today gas at the cheapie station near my house dropped 6 cents to $1.31. It was over $2.00 in May.

Tough break for the poor oil company execs. If this continues, they may have to trade in their Ferraris for Porsches. Awwww.... :mad:

Today our gas prices in Topeka, KS range from 1.19 to 1.29. It's kinda funny that less than a month ago it was around 1.79 here. I bought gas at a station in northern KS last Saturday for 1.08. It was on an Indian reservation.

gh4chiefs- it did the same thing in neodesha. went from 1.15 to 1.35 overnight except at one station, then mysteriously two days later everyone went back to 1.15. damn oil pricks.

Gas here in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties (Ca.) are still in the 1.80 to 1.95 price range.

It was a $1.74 in Garden Grove, California yesterday.

At home here in Scottsbluff, NE as of this morning at the Albertson's gas station it was $1.33. Most of the other stations around town it varies from 1.35-1.39 Gas is much cheaper in Wyoming where it's down in the $1.18 to 24 range. Coloradan's are still getting hosed at over $1.50+ a gallon. Must cost more money to get stuff to them mountain folk. :D

I paid $1.03 tonight between Austin & Houston.

I paid 0.98 here in San Andreas, CA.

That gave me the opportunity to mow my lawn this afternoon.

LMAO - I paid $1.03 per gallon tonight. Since that price is at least $.20 less than most other stations, I filled up even though I was over half full....

Filled up this morning in Columbus, Ohio for $1.19

talk about idiots
 

I was picking my wife up for lunch a couple of weeks ago. There are two gas stations (right across the street from each other) by her work. The Shell was $1.51 and the Phillips 66 was $1.40. As I was standing there at the 66 filling my car up, I couldn't help but notice that there were more people getting gas at Shell.

I'll bet those are the same poeple that go back to work and ***** about the price of gas.

Gas by my suburban home is now down to $1.29. Unfortunately, I overslept this morning, missed my train and had to drive to work in Chicago. Had to get gas downtown for the drive home, and was stunned to see it was $1.60 downtown. Nice to know Chicago is still a$$-raping the universe. Anyway, I just got a couple of gallons to safely get home and then filled up the rest of the way out here.

Sure feels good not to live there anymore. Other than the 10% sales tax on my lunch every day, those scumbags don't make anything off me anymore. In fact, that was the first time in over a month I've driven there. Hopefully it will be a helluva lot longer before I have to again.

Got gas in Bartlesville, Ok. tonite for $1.11. I think gas is cheaper the closer you are to a refinery. It doesn't seem to be just freight costs either. Also, the taxes on gas vary from state to state.

CalInjun,

Are you serious? Duh, now I get it you filled your lawnmower tank which must have been half full. You got me with that one but good. :cool:

Here in San Diego gas after three months holding steady finally dropped about a dime this week so

Regular Unleaded is about 1.78
Premium Unleaded just made it under 2.00 at 1.99

And those are at the cheapest stations.

Frazod,

At least Chicago has the decency to use Vasoline.

Out here in Cali, we just assume the position every time the gas gauge descends towards empty. Here's a hot tip;

Two throw pillows on the driver's seat and a dollop of Preparation H makes the journey home from the station a bit less painful.:eek:

Yes, Injun, they use Vasoline in Chicago, and you get a kiss and a cigarette afterwards. Of course, the kiss is from one of Daley's goons and the cigarettes are $5.00 a pack! :D

I think our gas station owners here in Jeff City MO are on weed or something. Gas dropped here to a low of a $1.18 right after the 4th. Since then it has continously bounced back and forth between $1.19 and $1.29. It started this week at a $1.19 and about Weds or Thursday jumped to $1.29. Last night while driving home from work, I noticed several stations had gone back down to $1.19. This makes two straight weeks in a row it's done that.

It seems our gas stations here don't do any kind of real analysis of what they need to sell their gas for. Breaktime sets the price and everybody else plays follow the leader. With the exception of maybe one or two gas stations, every gas station in town has the exact same price.

As I said before, the supply and demand is NOT fluctuating that much over a two day period.

I think they're smoking some of that weed up here as well.

The station that was $1.29 shot up to $1.44, and now is back down to $1.41. I wonder if they spin some sort of wheel of fortune to determine gas prices.

The good news is I've cut my average gas usage by two-thirds. Even if I am getting screwed, it sure doesn't hurt near as much now that I'm not going through a tank a week.

$1.16 is about the lowest I've seen in Houston lately.

CBS news just reported that OPEC has agreed to production cuts in an effort to drive up oil prices. And of course good old Exxon et al will be all too happy to jack up the price of gasoline again.

I long for the day when somebody discovers an economically viable alternative to oil and we can tell OPEC and Exxon to kiss our collective asses!