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Sunoco Ultra = $3.22
U.S. Average Gasoline Price Plunges by 33 Cents, Largest Weekly Drop in History
The U.S. average price for regular gasoline plummeted by 33.3 cents to hit 315.1 cents per gallon. The price was the lowest since February 25 of this year though still 38.9 cents above the price at the same time last year. Prices were sharply lower in all regions of the country. The national average price has now fallen for four weeks in a row, with a cumulative drop of more than 68 cents per gallon. The price on the East Coast fell 32.1 cents to 322.3 cents per gallon. In the Midwest and Gulf Coast regions, the average price tumbled by more than 40 cents and as a consequence the average price in both regions slipped below $3 a gallon. The price dropped 40.1 cents to 299.2 cents per gallon in the Midwest and shot down by 44.6 cents to 299 cents per gallon in the Gulf Coast. The price in the Rocky Mountains fell 22.8 cents to 326.8 cents per gallon. Dropping for the sixteenth consecutive week, the price on the West Coast fell another 14.7 cents to hit 342.1 cents per gallon. The price in California lost 13.1 cents to settle at 347 cents per gallon.
Plunging 21.6 cents, the U.S. average diesel price hit 365.9 cents per gallon, the lowest price since March 3 of this year. The drop was the largest weekly decline since October 31, 2005, when prices fell just over 28 cents. Prices fell precipitously in all regions of the U.S. The price on the East Coast slid 21.9 cents to hit 370.9 cents per gallon. Dropping 21.7 cents, the price in the Midwest was 364.1 cents per gallon. The average price in the Gulf Coast hit 363.1 cents per gallon, a fall of 21.2 cents. The price in the Rocky Mountains decreased 18.9 cents to 369.7 cents per gallon. For the first time since EIA began collecting retail diesel prices, the West Coast had the lowest average price of any region, tumbling 22.5 cents, to 362.2 cents per gallon. In California, the average also dropped by more than 20 cents, falling 21.3 cents to 365.6 cents per gallon.
Not in San Diego. I paid $2.99 to fill up on 10/17/07. It is at $2.99 at several stations today.
C'mon $2 gas at least in AZ so I can go visit my sis.. :shades:
You know you really want to pay $2 for gas. You just want everybody else to pay $5 for gas. And spyder just wants to sell more Prius. It all has to do with a person's agenda.
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Last year it was headed up at this time, not down.
Now I will get worried if oil drops to $10 per barrel again. My retirement comes from oil country. We do have a lot of investment in Palm Springs so we are diversified.
Gas was $1.64 for futures so add $.50 tax and $.08 profit and you're at $2.25 roughly.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
How on Earf would I go about acquiring that situation? How can anyone pay $2 while everyone else is paying $5? That's a completely ludicrous and ridiculous thing to say.
I have never ONCE complained about the price of gas, because I see the BROAD benefits of the higher prices.
Do I like that higher diesel prices helped to fuel inflation? No.
But that's about the only thing I complained about.
I'm spending about $45 a month on gas right now. Gas prices dropping to $2 a gallon would save me at most about $15 a month.
Big Whoop. I spend more on newspapers than that.
A tree killer, and I thought you were an environmentalist.
You obviously missed my point about the gas. You come across as being one that could control the urge to drive around for the fun of it if gas was 2 bucks. While you talk like you believe everyone else will be wasteful if gas is cheap.
I for one have always been cheap and hated to spend more for gas or anything else I do not need. My wife is the same way. Her only car in the last 19 years is still under 100k miles and runs like a top. That I consider conservation. So we do not need $5 gas to conserve. As you seem to think everyone else does.
I do consider your position elitist and not well thought out.
You did hit one thing about me correct for once. I have never really "driven around for the fun of it" too much at all in my life. Driving to me is an "almost necessary" part of living in America in the 21st century. I could and would avoid it completely if possible. In fact, in future years I might go for a while without owning one, just to see what adventures that would bring. I know right now it would save me almost $700 a month if I did not have a car and the associated expenses.
Yes, Gary, you get "conservation cred" for keeping a car 19+ years. Good for you.
But the "elitist" thing you seem to keep coming back to - I definitely do not fit that description, and if any of my expressed views fall into that categorization, then it's merely by complete coincidence.
As I posted here earlier, I come from lower middle class people, and everything I have (which ain't much) I have earned with my brain and hard work. My mom is retired with $806 a month social security as her only income. Without that safety net, she would have to be forced to keep working well past age 70.
I have completely thought out the fact that cheap gas is bad for us OVERALL as a SOCIETY. I am not the only one who believes that either - there are commentaries all over the web which say the same thing.
High fuel prices have nothing at all to do with the current financial meltdown. It was merely coincidence that they occurred near the same time. Just like the coming lower fuel prices are not going to "save us" from anything except some good solid conservation and sound decisions.
A program Bill Clinton put 2.1 billion dollars into in 1998 was the beginning of the sub-prime meltdown. A program meant to help only a few people got picked up by "community organizers" around the country and they put pressure on lenders to start making loans to people who COULD NOT otherwise have qualified.
Combine the political pressure and the need for Greed and you have the cause of the problem.
Seeds were laid LONG before $4.11 cent gasoline this past July.
So I guess the folks who bought the 5000 sf McMansion using interest only loans and ARM had nothing at all to do with this real estate mess. "Community organizers" did not cause these banks and mortgage companies to qualify these folks. It was greed, plain and simple. It was easy money and now we taxpayers get to pay. Isn't capitalism great....
$2.83 - $2.88 RUG in the York, PA
It's a little less than a dime more down here.
Ciao
Amazing.
Of course gas is $1.63 on the markets. So add $.50 tax and $0.10 profit and you're at $2.23. So someone is still making a good profit if I've got the tax amount right for most state and federal taxes.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
It's as low as $2.65 up in Laurel though, which isn't TOO far away. Might actually be worth the trip if I ran my Intrepid down to almost empty and then ran up there. Any of my older cars, though, would burn about 2 gallons to make that trip, cancelling any savings.
i'm thinking it's not too easy to find RUG for over $3.00 a gallon locally.
Have a great weekend everyone.
COME ON $2 GAS!
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
It might make a trip that I'm planning to Florida and/or Nevada cheaper, maybe.
$2.629 at a Sam's Club station in Severna Park, MD.
Nationwide, the average cost of a gallon of regular gasoline has fallen below the $3 mark for the first time since mid-February.
AAA said the average price is at $2.92 per gallon Monday morning. Though 23 states had already seen gas fall below the $3 a gallon mark, the national average didn't get there until Saturday.
A month ago, gas sold on average for $3.80 a gallon.
Long way to go (thankfully) to get to the AWFUL $2 gas moment.
RUG - $2.75 - $2.79
Not so far. Prices $2.31 to $2.38 at several stations. $2.41 popular. And it's only Monday.
http://daytongasprices.com/
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Not some isolated $2 gas instances. We know those are coming.
That's not the same as the national average being $2.
Plus = $3.00
Ultra = $3.12
RUG avg about $3.25
my usual station is down to $3.06 (dropped .22 overnight Saturday)
still have shortages of plus and premium
Same here. I can imagine how much relief people are feeling who drive a substantial amount to/from work or as part of their job. The money freed up has to help the economy especially with Christmas spending coming up.
Hope the price continues down.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
RUG $3.23
MidGrade $3.35
Premium $3.46
Diesel $3.69
The other half were at $3.29 for RUG.
The average price for the Dayton area is given as $2.55 on daytongasprices.com using the chart gas prices option at the top. The highest is $2.79 and lowest is $2.30. I don't know if they use an average or median or simply average the highest and lowest.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Plus $ 2.48
Prem $ 2.58
Question: Since petrol prices have dropped has more and more people on your drives / commutes been reverting back to their speed-demon ways? For my drive it is getting worse and worse each day, where more people are tailgating, driving like bats-out-of-hell and doing the red-light to red-light derby. Talk about short memories :confuse:
EXACTLY. That's just another example of why the lower prices are not good for America.
I hope prices stabilize soon.
In reading articles and watching the telly it appears that the "economic experts" are saying the lower prices are sort of stimulus for us and that people are now going to take that extra money and spend, spend, spend. For me, the $5 ~ $7 less for the last two fill-ups didn't make me want to go out and spend, spend, spend, use more energy or drive more / faster. Plus these are the same experts spouting just last month that the economy was doing fine, there is no recession and there isn't one coming, market's great and the like.
While it can be good to be bullish in some things, it doesn't mean you should be full of bull.
to the melody of the $5 foot long subway tune:
2 dollar, 2 dollar, 2 dollar gasoleeen!
Oil is at 70$ today. Gasoline $1.63. Add on $.50 tax and 8-10 profit so that's about $2.21. The cheaper stations aren't holding up gas price with sticky prices too much. Some majors are $2.60 so they're pulling a good markup as long as people will pay it.
$2. here we come!!!
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
NC avg. now $2.98
locally the same
my usual station down to $2.89 this morning
(btw - I don't think I ever identified my usual station, it is a Hess operated by a local company Williams Oil. or Wilco)
still shortages of plus and premium, so there is a 20 to 40 cent differential, the differential is normally around 10 to 20 cents
RUG was $2.67.9
'11 GMC Sierra 1500; '98 Alfa 156 2.0TS; '08 Maser QP; '67 Coronet R/T; '13 Fiat 500c; '20 S90 T6; '22 MB Sprinter 2500 4x4 diesel; '97 Suzuki R Wagon; '96 Opel Astra; '11 Mini Cooper S
RUG - $2.65 - $2.75