3.37 tonight in Ozark, Mo.

$3.33 around Joplin.

Isn't it amazing, how one man's words can effect American's livelihood so much? Not that I'm complaining where this is concerned, but he can just as easily effect it the other way. BTW, I paid $3.28 per gallon two night ago. Hopefully, it will drop even further.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/23/mark...ices/index.htm

IM shocked, how can prices be headed down during Summer? Traditionally the heaviest demand period....

I would say that this drop has more to do with the release of the IEA's stockpile than Bernanke's gloomy forecast.

Oh, and it looks like we are contributing 30 million barrels from the SPR, too.

Missouri River flooding will have a nice oily sheen, thanks to lower gas prices & barefoot sking in the cornfield.

Crude down 4 bucks right now to 91.

I fully expect Donger to unleash more natural disasters in the face of falling crude prices.

It is funny how KC seems to be lagging behind in cheap(er) gas around the country. We used to be one of the cheapest places for gasoline, now it seems we're smack dab in the middle of the pack.

Maybe someone much smarter than me can tell me this:

Why are they releasing oil reserves NOW when oil was headed down, instead of back when Oil was over 120 a barrel in 2008? Or just a few weeks ago when it was headed there?

This is in response to OPEC's recent decision to not increase production, even though the Kingdom unilaterally has chosen to do so. It's a political move mostly, with the knowledge that it would also drive down the cost of crude.

Someone must be starting to think about their bid for re-election.

$3.69 here in Northern California.

Ha. Whatever. Just 4 weeks ago, gas in my area, SW Ohio, it was 4. Its 3.35 now.

3.43 at my local QuikTrip

The national average is $3.69/gallon. KC is much lower than that.

Fair enough. I guess I'm used to the very cheap prices, not the kinda cheap. I'm suprised that Pestilence is paying less than 4 in No Cal.

30m from the reserves is a drop in the bucket when the US is using 19m a day. That's a mere 1.5 days of supply. Just a political stunt, all it is.

We only import 10M a day so that is 3 days worth of oil!

Here's a cool US gas price map for those who haven't seen it before...

http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx

right-clicking on the map will give you the average price in that county

30 million barrels from us, 30 million barrels from the rest of the world...that's like what, 6 days worth of imported oil. CBS news said that this will take the speculators out of the game and lower gas prices for the summer driving season. But...gas prices were already going down. So was oil. The administration said it was because of Libya's oil not being on the market or some shit. Then they said this will lower gas prices 5-15 cents per gallon. I don't believe that for a minute, and it's not like that's a big change anyway. But, the administration said that further dipping into the oil reserves is still on the table.

This is a hail mary pass by the administration to try to keep the minions happy through the summer. Gas and oil was already going down, people don't drive as much. But the Pres needs to look like he's doing something about it, so he can take some credit for what was already happening.

...I thought the Strategic Oil Reserve was for you know...national emergencies. We released some after Katrina, and in 1991 during the first Gulf war. Libya does not seem to be on par with those.

I think crude is gonna creep down to 75-80 area and hover until late next winter then rise to around the 115 by next June.

I have no data to support this. Its just a hunch.

Lower gas prices? No complaints here.

not low enough

Nah, next year is an election year.

I wouldn’t classify it as an “emergency”, but we are occupying 3 countries at the moment.

$3.49 here in NW OK.

$3.19 in Nixa, MO

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A nice 2.5% jump in crude today. Just for you.

Holiday price-gouging coming to a gas pump near you.

Gas has jumped 40 cents, this week, at my usual stop near where I work. That is ****ing criminal.

Its still dropping in Florida. $3.45

It was 3.25 Monday. Its 3.65 today.

That is criminal.

No, it didn't.

Do you frequent the gas station he didn't name?

ROFL
I was waiting for that. Search for a Speedway near Batavia, Oh.

Gas was 3.30 yesterday. Is it going to keep dropping?

nope. it is going back up now.

Bought for $3.22 today.

WIN.

Okay.

Last week = $3.42
Now = $3.52

There is a $0.40/gallon differential city-wide, but that isn't abnormal there (or anywhere).

If you want to get specific, name the station.

Jumped .11 just tonight.

This might be the saddest thread on CP. If a bunch of super rich ****'s all chipped in, they could use Solar, Wing, Wave and Geothermal technologies to built a mass transit system for the world that would never require gasoline or Big Oil for us, our children and their children, and their children's children.

It would take trillions of dollars, millions of laborers and 10-20 years of work, but we could save ourselves from this. And future generations would look back and thank us, as opposed to looking back and cursing us.

Think about how many countries spent 5-10 years building building nukes and missiles during the Cold War, only to all disarm them. They could have worked towards building a better world for their kids i.e. us. Instead, we're all struggling to make ends meet, work jobs we hate to pay for gas we shouldn't need, so we can go back to work the next day. Endless suffering, when we could have endless prosperity.

Wrong. Its 3.65 and it was 3.25 Monday.

Dude are you new to America? We ****ing hate mass transit here.

A lot of this. Mass transit is nice when the population density is, oh, say 1000 people a square mile. But do you really want to live literally on top and below somebody else?

Donger- Its Speedway 1269 Old OH-74 & OH-32 Batavia

I was talking about transportation, not living conditions.

And I live in Kasnas, where most of it is FAR less than a 1000 people a square mile. :p

That's the problem though. Mass transport is only viable if everyone lives in a metropolitan area. So it's either keep using oil because there's nothing else that is as efficient as it, or everyone lives in a megacity ala Tokyo.

No, I know. But I personally hate working hundreds of hours saying "Yes Sir, No Ma'am, yes I'll work Saturday, no I wasn't doing something outsidethe best interest of the company" and spending thousands of dollars on a machine I wouldn't need if the superrich and powerful gave a crap about me.

Kansas City is a metropolitan area, we don't have mass transit. Plus there are LOTS of of non oil alternatives like Solar, Wind, Wave (not in Kansas) and Geothermal that if harnessed correctly, could repower themselves and actually work in smaller venues if enough resouces (billions) were spent.

I know it's not gonna happen here, or most anywhere else anytime soon. And I also know the time, money and manpower would be extraordinary in order to do it, but it CAN be done. Mankind is smart, look what we've done. What was considered impossible 100 years ago is now a part of everyday life - cell phone signals in Siberia, satellites, brain surgery, the internet.

I refuse to believe the human race isn't smart enough to learn how to live in a world without oil.

Pfffttt...you can run your super mega mass transit system right by my front door and I'll still use my personal vehicles. The freedom they give me is worth every penny that they cost me.

You want to spent x amount of labor hours earning to money to finance your personal vehicles for the rest of your life, great. It's certainly your right to do that and I'm not going to argue that or say you're a bad person for exercising your freedoms.

But keep in mind in taking that stance you forfeit your right to complain about the rising price of gas you're in effect contributing to. And if there comes a day when financing your personal vehicles becomes unaffordable or have to choose between your house/relationships/children OR your cars, you have no one to blame but yourself. And the oil/gas prices aren't ever going down permanantly.

Oh **** that shit, I'm still going to complain.

talk about over the top. JFC

Quit bitching and go back to work.

But you want others who have worked hard for their money to spend it all on something for you so that you do not have to work as hard anymore?

You could always just move somewhere like Venezuela where the government subsidizes the cost of oil and gas is less than $0.25 a gallon.

about to. when you use this line on your grandchildren i'm sure you'll be doing it out of love and what's in their best interest, instead of the line of thinking "i had to suffer working to pay for my vehicles - so should they!"

1. you're damn right! for both me and the precious children you older timers claim to care so much about.

2. i could, but it'd cost me a lot less (and future generations) once we completed one here.

LMAO

Exactly

This Country will never leave a State of War.

It's really pretty simple: gasoline is still the most economically-viable method of powering vehicles. That being said, I'm all for alternative/renewable energy, but how are those going to power our cars?

Doesn't KC have a bus system? A quick look tells me that it does: http://www.kcata.org/

How often do you ride it?

I don't live work in KCMO or JO so I couldn't use it. I would in a heartbeat if it went by my home and work and save me money.

Electrically. Is it currently the most economically vaible method? No. But it could be if over time if enough money was initially invested. It's certainly better for the environment, and due to oil being a limited resource, makes much more sense in the long haul. And just because gasoline's cheaper right now, when oil becomes scarce in 20-30 years it won't be.

having you, of all people, champion a cause for the benefit of future generations is pretty ironic. Don't you have a t-shirt that says "f**k the children"? :p

Surely you noticed I put myself ahead of the children in that post LOL. Hey, everybody else uses 'em to support thieir arguments, so can I!

How do you expect that electricity to be generated? Fossil fuels are burnt to make it.

Solar, wind, wave and geothermal. I'm not smart enough to explain how but I know based scientific studies by people far smarter than me that the technogolgy is there. I also know the manpower, time and money spent to build these giant, energy recycling constructs is astronomical, and would put a giant dent in the economy (the word economy actually means to economize i.e. retain resouces as opposed to wasting them), which, admittedly would suck for awhile.

But things suck right now anyway. And as taunting a task as it would to do this, it can't be more daunting than continuing using up all the oil in the world in the next 30 years (which will happen much sooner than later) and going "Oh crap, we're fucked. Oops!"

Okay. Do you own a bike? Are you physically capable of walking?

And how are you going to generate all this new demand? You okay with building more nuclear plants?

Very little of the electricity we use comes from oil, BTW.

You could cover the entire country with solar panels and still be nowhere near the demand that all electric powered vehicles require.

Same thing with wind.

Same thing with wave.

Same thing with geothermal.

We could readily do it with nuclear.

LMAO @ the avatar, SR

from where i work to where i live would take me 3-4 hours to walk. considering it's all highway, i could bike there in 30 minutes, but no amount of money for gas, insurance, repairs, property tax etc. is worth risking my life.

Well, what about the childrens? You won't do your part for them?