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PF_Flyer · March 2005

That's what it felt like hearing those "news" stories with some analyst saying, "Fill up NOW before the price at the pump goes up at least 25 cents next week."

And it's a sort of self-fulfilling gloom and doom prophecy. If people listening actually take the advice and run to the gas station to fill up, demand will have been increased and the price WILL go up.

I'm REALLY getting tired of the "we're all gonna die" quality of the news anymore.

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explorerx4 · March 2005

it's still gonna go up 25 cents, so i filled everything up today. the other part is i don't like the owners of the cheapest place in town. i filled up for 10 cents more a gallon around he corner(1.99.9).

Mr_Shiftright · March 2005

In Marin County, premium has jumped to $2.65/ regular is averaging around $2.20 and diesel is way up to $2.59. That .40 cents a gallon more for diesel certainly cancels out the supposed advantage of owning one, at least in San Francisco. I'm thinkin' $3 a gallon by summer.

PF_Flyer · March 2005

We had a 12 cent jump the other day up to $1.99 for 87. Premium up to $2.19

andre1969 · March 2005

nearest to me seem to have been holding steady...

Citgo: $1.899 for 87
Shell: $1.969 for 87

When that scare came out, the Citgo held their prices, but Shell jumped up around 3-4 cents.

I lucked out on Friday though, while out running some errands, and found a Shell station about 10 miles away that had 87 for $1.799. I had about a half-tank, but decided to take advantage of it!

PF_Flyer · March 2005

Prices here held for about 3 days on the doom and gloom news story. I find it interesting that the jump was pretty much half of the predicted 25 cent jump. Wonder if the other shoe drops for a 13 cent increase??

utter · March 2005

Inner city gas prices are all over the place. Been seeing it ranging from $2.39 down to $1.77. Most places are stuck in the lower $1.80s

wilcox · March 2005

Price too high here. OPEC, have mercy on dollar.

andre1969 · March 2005

last nite going home I noticed the Shell station was at $2.079 for 87 octane. They were like $1.969 a couple days ago.

ghulet · March 2005

...I don't remember prices exactly, but was a bit shocked (it's been a couple weeks since I last bought gas) that they were around $2.229/2.329/2.429 for 87/89/93. Here's hoping someone in my home replaces one of the SUVs for a Scion or Corolla if these prices hold.

chrisducati · March 2005

$2.24'9. St Louis. Filled the company truck at 84 bucks.That will last about a week if no one drives it much...

210delray · March 2005

Central Virginia:

Hess across from Sam's Club:
87 - $1.829
89 - $1.929
93 - $2.029

Shell just a couple miles away is $1.959 for 87. So is Sheetz about 10 miles away in the other direction.

bottgers · March 2005

With price of gas over $2 a gallon most everywhere now, and in some places, way over $2, just how high will prices go?

I've said this before and I'm still a firm believer in that the U.S. cannot sustain $3 gas prices. Some of you point out that other countries pay a lot more for gas than we do, or the current price isn't as high as it has been in the past when you adjust for inflation. The fact is, prices are higher now than they've ever been here in the U.S., and other countries have learned how to survive by using less. The U.S. hasn't. This county's economy still completely revolves around the transportation system, and if the price of gas stays at or near $3 a gallon on permenant basis, it will destroy our economy. Do OPEC and big oil companies really want to bite the hand that feeds them? They need our economy to be strong. They need our economy to keep making money because they can't survive without us. Without the U.S., all companies in the business of selling oil would go bankrupt. So when, and at how much will the price of gas peak?

210delray · March 2005

...but we could face a recession on the order of 1974-75 and 1981-82, not fun, but we'll get through it.

And I'm not so sure if OPEC will be forced to lower prices as much as happened before, what with rising demand in China.

It's probably true we're in a golden age of horsepower that's about to come to a screeching halt, and say good bye to the large ute as a fashion statement!

PF_Flyer · March 2005

OPEC talking about increasing output if prices stay at present levels:
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/050314/opec_9.html

The Saudi oil minister said current oil prices were "unjustified."

I really think that prices are artificially high at the moment due to the way the commodity markets work.

At the pump, our local prices here are still holding at $1.99 after that 12 cent jump a while back. Have to wait and see what affect today's news does or doesn't have.

jlawrence01 · March 2005

Everyone gets panicked this time of year by the price of gas as refineries switch over to the summer formula.

I wish that the EPA would limit the number of formulations required (the Chicago Tribune states that there are no less than six between Chicago and St. Louis).

At some price point, it is time to switch over to a complete ethanol usage for vehicles. It would be sort of interesting.

Like usual here in Illinois, Sams Club is 15 cents cheaper than the oil company gas stations and a nickle cheaper than Costco. They are always the last to jump up.

imidazol97 · March 2005

>complete ethanol usage

We don't need ethanol required. That's what ADM has been lobbying for since they control most of the ethanol production. Wonder why they'd want everyone to require ethanol???

ghulet · March 2005

KCRam · March 2005

Same station... diesel:

Feb 25 $1.939
Mar 04 $2.139
Mar 08 $2.159
Mar 16 $2.219

Make it stopppp

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PF_Flyer · March 2005

You're scaring me into not wanting to go out today and find out!

davem2001 · March 2005

What cost $1.00 in 1980 would cost $2.42 in 2003.
(the inflation adjuster site I went to stopped at 2003 but you get the idea) http://www.westegg.com/inflation/

I'm pretty sure gas cost around $1.00 a gallon back in 1980.... I think part of the problem is, we're coming off historically LOW gas prices and back to more "normal" prices.

4,5,6 years ago when gas was still around $1 a gallon, that was just a historically low price.. that would be like 20 cents a gallon back in the 60's....no wonder people were buying all the Suburbans and Excursions, etc..

PF_Flyer · March 2005

State College, PA $1.99 for 87

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210delray · March 2005

Regular unleaded reached around $1.40/gallon (in 1981 dollars) at the beginning of 1981.

davem2001 · March 2005

Ok, that proves my point even more - according to the inflation calculator site -

What cost $1.40 in 1981 would cost $2.98 in 2003.

So, while today's prices don't thrill me, and obviously I'd prefer it if gas was $1.25 a gallon right now, it's nothing that we haven't dealt with in the past - it's not "the highest gas prices ever" and the sky isn't falling

a_l_hubcaps · March 2005

Cheapest I could find today was the Eastcoast station at US 1 and Springfield Ave, selling regular for $1.99 and middle for $2.14. Prices have shot way up here in the last week.

-Andrew L

PF_Flyer · March 2005

Up 6 cents yesterday to $2.05 for 87, $2.225 for premium

210delray · March 2005

Yesterday for 87:

$1.979 at Liberty and "Lowest Price"
$1.989 at Hess
$1.999 at Exxon, Shell, Sheetz, and Citgo

So, we've got record crude oil prices, a record federal budget deficit, a record trade deficit, a falling dollar with no end in sight, and GM and Ford on the ropes. Meanwhile, Congress is concerned about steroid use in baseball.

Is there something wrong with this picture?

fintail · March 2005

If pro is the opposite of con, progress is the opposite of congress. Of course, it doesn't help when you endlessly bend over backwards for corporate interests and cowardly modern-day robber barons.

I paid $2.39 today for Chevron 92 in northern WA. I saw it upwards of $2.55 at some stations, and never lower than $2.29.

anonymousposts · March 2005

It was $1.99 for 87 octane at most gas stations around here about 60 miles west of Atlanta.

bottgers · March 2005

....someone was going to try to justify today's prices by stating they're not as high as they once were after adjusting for inflation. No matter what spin you put on it, today's prices are the highest they've ever been, period. You can try to justify that any way you can, but the average cost of gas has never been over $2 before, and until now, it never cost me $19 to fill up my little Tercel. Any way you look at it, these prices are ridiculous!.

210delray · March 2005

...about this a long time ago, but we did virtually nothing about it. And we still can't agree on a solution.

At least my vehicles have 4-cylinder engines and run on 87.

Meanwhile on Congress's mind today, it's Terri Schiavo. While I have all the sympathy in the world for her, I don't think Congress has any business butting in at this time.

bottgers · March 2005

.....the powers to be seem to have no interest in addressing the issue. It's kind of like the movie "Jaws" where Richard Dryfuss says to Larry "You aren't going to do anything about this problem until it swims up and bites you in the [non-permissible content removed]!" Same thing here. Nothing will be done about this problem until our entire economy is on its way down the sewer pipe.

210delray · March 2005

...it's just that there are too many competing interests, but the result is the same -- nothing.

But you're right, once the economy is brought to its knees, then we'll get some action.

davem2001 · March 2005

ok, this is just SPIN, - "I'm too dumb to understand inflation, gas costs more now than it ever did"

bottgers · March 2005

Whatever you need to tell yourself to get that warm fuzzy......

wilcox · March 2005

W. Georgia all over the place. 87 OCTANE - Low of $1.87 chevron, high around $2.06 marathon.

And cost to manufacture plutonium has increased a great deal...but they in iran are making progress with these increased revenues.

PF_Flyer · March 2005

Another 4 cents up to $2.09 for 87 here in Happy Valley!

KCRam · March 2005

My usual Sunoco truck stop, Palisades Park NJ

87 - $1.919
89 - $2.019
93 - $2.099
94 - $2.139
diesel - $2.159

Filling up with diesel at 2pm today were me, 3 straight trucks, a semi, another diesel pickup, and a midsize shuttle bus.

The first shipments of diesel in April should be regular D2, not the more expensive (and less-efficient) winter mix. Home heating oil production will also be over, meaning more raw #2 for diesel fuel - diesel should be below regular unleaded by tax day.

gpk · March 2005

Its 2.25 here in Eau Claire, Wi for 87 octane.

210delray · March 2005

I filled up today at Hess for $1.999 for 87. The last time I bought gas a couple of weeks ago, it was $1.829.

PF_Flyer · March 2005

Another small bump of 4 cents up to $2.13 in State College, and despite the continuous negative drumbeat in the news, it's starting to feel like a leveling off to me. Nothing specific to base that on, just a gut feeling. When they have the public stampeded in one direction, that's when things usually switch and they have to drive us in another direction

wilcox · March 2005

Today the BP station on the way to work was $2.09 for regular.

I'm going to "Cut Down" on my fuel consumption. Pleasure driving less (will borrow my son's Grand Theift Auto and begin to play it).
Parking the pickup. Driving the sweet little Contour more...for commuting. Keeping top speed below 60mph.

This strategy should lower my consumption by atleast 25%. Probably more...

utter · March 2005

$2.03 for Regular in NorthEast DC. Think thats the cheapest its flwoing.

larsb · March 2005

$2.06 is best price in town for reg unleaded, at Fry's Phoenix - NW 67th & Indian School.

City Average is 2.149

PF_Flyer · March 2005

I guess I altered my driving a bit as the price approached $1.90. I try to double up tasks I have to get done and take one trip instead of two, and on days I don't have to I try to not take any. Now working out of the house helps, but yes, I'm exerting my little chunk of decreasing demand. I certainly don't rush out and fill up when a radio news story tells people to do so before the next increase. That's insane and probably contributes to short term demand increases, which make commodity traders lean even more to the upside, yada, yada...

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bryan · March 2005

Sunday, 3/20 Sunoco off I-66 at Glebe Rd. 2.03
Tuesday, 3/22 2.04
Wednesday, 3/23 2.07
Thursday, 3.24 2.11

I have seen it at high as 2.15 on Lee Highway near Rosslyn, VA.

I paid 1.95 on 3/20 in Rehoboth Beach, DE

Gas is usually cheaper closer I get to MD/DE line.

One Citgo station on Rt. 50 near Queenstown usually runs 5-8 cents less than all others.

jlawrence01 · March 2005

Personally, I have not made any changes in response to this recent gas spike. I use 45 gallons per month MAX and an extra $45/mo on gas does not affect the budget that much as I don't have car payments.

Would use public transportation but that doesn't make financial sense as it is cheaper to drive until the gas hits $3.50/gal.

ghulet · March 2005

Drove by the closest gas station to work last night (Ashland and Lawrence), prices were $2.42/2.52/2.62, IIRC. Good thing I don't drive too much (~3 miles to work each way), this is getting a bit ridiculous.

jlawrence01 · March 2005

I drove from Edison Park to Crystal Lake on *fumes* last night to pay $2.11 for regular. One or two more lights and I would have been walking.

PF_Flyer · March 2005

My wife workd in Altoona, PA which is about 40 miles away, and in the past there generally has been a 5 to 10 cent difference in price between here and there. (In the current media panic over gas prices this has not been the case) There were times that it was DARN close to being worth it to drive there and back given the mileage I was getting and the price differential. As long as I could jusity the trip by actually having something to do or get there, I'd make the trip AND fill up. I never quite pulled the trigger on just "taking a ride' to fill up!

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