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  • larsblarsb Member Posts: 8,204
    Saw RUG for $3.459 and Diesel for $3.599 at the same station. Only 14 cents apart? That's the lowest gap I've seen in a WHILE.
  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    I bought gas today at a Union 76 station. $3.59 if you get a $5 car wash which I did. Both very good prices. Diesel was the same price. So I could have gone twice as far on the same amount. Costco is down to $3.63
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    So reports my brother who's visiting us this week.

    Still $3.69 here in the boonies of the UP.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    Word is we broke the $3.30 mark at home. $3.29 at my usual Sunoco. I should be there Thursday. Will keep you posted.
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    $3.39 most places, but I haven't been out to see since then. And on Friday I used my grocery points to pay $2.69 :shades:
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited June 2012
    Cruising and camping in the Copper Country - delicious dinner at the Harbor Haus in Copper Harbor tonight for $51 before tip.

    I was able to fill up the van for ~$45 earlier today for $3.37 a gallon. Much nicer filling us up instead of the car.

    Diesel was $3.71.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Back in WA, paid something like $3.90 for Chevron premium today - not like where I was a week ago, but I paid $4.50 the last time I bought gas here, so that's nice.

    Saw another Chevron that had both gas and diesel at $3.69.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Gasoline really isn't that cheap, we've just been deluded into thinking $3.50 or so is cheap. Anyway, I had both my 1989 Cadillac Brougham and 2007 Cadillac DTS Performance out this weekend on long trips. I took my Brougham to the Carlisle All-GM show and then to NE Pennsylvania and returned to Philly with my DTS. Sunoco Ultra was around $3.53 in various places. Heck, when my Brougham was new, premium gasoline was around $1.29 per gallon.
  • shadescapesshadescapes Member Posts: 21
    Dillons in Liberal is $3.29- diesel $3.69
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    was for $3.52. Petrol prices went down as far as $3.23 around July 4th then the weekend after jumped 20 cents then jumped again & again to mimicking my last report. This drought must be causing the prices to increase like this (oops, did I give them an excuse for the rise in prices?).
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Local gas went from $3.59 to $3.74 this weekend.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Paid $3.99 for Chevron premium yesterday
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    Yep, I love how every upward twitch in oil prices hits the pumps right away, but for some reason, decrease in oil price always seem to take a wait and see attitude as far as adjusting prices downward
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Yikes, we just jumped twenty cents to $4.09.

    Glad I filled up a couple of days ago (saw the gas sign running errands on my bike).
  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    just filled up the Park Ave during lunch, at the local Shell in Seabrook MD. 93 octane's up to $3.949, and that's with the 5-cent off Thursdays special they run.

    Last time it was filled up was on 7/26, and 93 was $3.689 then.
  • berriberri Member Posts: 10,165
    Ethanol will be driving gas up even more down the road. So will the gov relax the mandate - NO, they are increasing ethanol to 15%. People blame the farm lobby, but in most farm states the urban areas have more voters than the farm areas. Hmm, could ADM and the ethanol business be a large political contributors???
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    edited August 2012
    >People blame the farm lobby, but in most farm states the urban areas have more voters than the farm areas.

    It's not the farmers and their lobby. Indeed, as you indicate the urban voters are greater in number than the farm/rural areas who might wish for using corn for gasoline instead of people food and livestock food. But it's the big business lobby in the farm businesses that are benefitting from the government subsidy to make ethanol, which may have expired. Andersons is a large grain trader in Toledo and they're involved in an ethanol plant in this area. The ADMs have more votes than the actual farm-oriented families who vote.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • larsblarsb Member Posts: 8,204
    Just took a quick 5-day jaunt to Texas from AZ, and the lowest I saw was $3.159 along the I-10/I-20 corridor.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    Gas prices jumped 15 cents across the board since Saturday morning! Is that little pipsqueak in Iran shooting his mouth off again?

    Sunoco at Rising Sun and Longshore in NE Philly:

    RUG = $3.69
    Plus = $3.79
    Ultra = $3.95
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    West coast prices set to spike, just after local prices came down after another refinery issue. What a coincidence!
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    I bet the sun is going to come up today somewhere as well, and you know what that always does to oil prices :sick:

    We jumped 13 cents here in central PA BEFORE the news of the refinery fire. Want to bet there was an INSTANT reaction at the pumps and I'm seeing even higher prices this morning??
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Up to $4.29 for Chevron premium here now. I am so shocked that we have this new "crisis" just weeks after the previous crisis passed.

    Have had to go to the south sound the past couple days, E55 is managing 22mpg in stop and go <40mph rush hour hell, not too bad for something of that size.
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    We seem to be matching your prices somewhat but our 87 octane is averaging $4.29, with premium averaging $4.45. My usual place is about a dime cheaper. AS with others, a lot of these price increases have been before each "crisis" occurred and the jumps were by 15 ~ 25 cents each time.

    I'm just waiting for the next run-up, driven by the teleprompter-reading heads "$5 by Memorial Day"
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    We've recently seen the return of 10 cents more per gallon for credit. My former regular Sunoco has gone to this. I charge gas to get the cash back money. Darned if I'll pay that dime.

    I can get $3.57 regular on the Parkway (Sunoco).
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    I fear when and what the next crisis will be, and how non-accidental we all know it will be. Pipeline issue, another down refinery, maybe a war by one our tail wags the dog "allies"...Prices aren't going to be lower again for long.

    Speaking of discounts, there's a local station offering something like a 20 cent cash discount on either Saturday or Sunday. Seems steep.
  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    Agree with you and fezo.

    Fezo, we have the same thing at some of the stations in the city, credit is higher than cash.

    Fintail, with you. You almost hate to watch the world news because something is always going to cause it to go up. Read a few days ago about Mexico refining less...
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Sometimes hard to think it is all random coincidence, eh? :sick:
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Around the UP, I'm seeing regular range from $3.78 to $4.09.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    All this with high reserves which should lower the price.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited August 2012
    They kept saying getting the Midwest refinery back online and a pipeline fixed would bring the prices down. A few days ago the local station dropped to $4.05, then this morning went down to $3.99.

    Wal-Mart up the road dropped one cent to $3.77.
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    We had stations down in the .29 and .39 range when they ran the prices up. We're still at .69. Guess all those exports are helping hold the prices up here.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • jae5jae5 Member Posts: 1,206
    edited August 2012
    Apparently getting that refinery back up caused petrol prices to go up as well. Add to that the Isaac & pre-Labor Day gouging and we're up to $4.45 in a couple spots in La Grange, $4.26 ~ $4.30 by me, higher in Chi-town.

    And yet the refinery in Indy is causing havoc with a lot of motorists due to distributing bad gas.

    On to Iowa...
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    I'm surprised our gas prices haven't bumped back up yet. Both cars are mostly tanked up but we're driving the week after Labor Day so I'm sure $4.50 is just around the corner for us.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Heh, prices jumped so much overnight here it made the radio. Haven't been out of the house, but the radio said Walmart jumped from $3.78 to $3.99 and the local stations nearer to me went to $4.19. Rumor is that the next town over is $4.29.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Don't worry, it is all honest market forces - supply and demand, free markets, capitalism - no fairytales here.

    Over the weekend I paid something like $4.30 for Chevron premium.
  • PF_FlyerPF_Flyer Member Posts: 9,372
    It was almost comical. Within an hour of the storm being officially classified a hurricane, we got a 6 cent bump at the pumps.
  • ryansmamaryansmama Member Posts: 1
    I live in the middle of the Mojave Desert, North of Los Angeles. It's a small town near a Military base, and the closest "big city" is Lancaster.

    Since gas is the one thing you can't drive out of town to buy, every major station has the exact same price. Chevron and Shell are the Big Boys, and regular gas was $4.24 per gallon yesterday.

    The mini-mart stations are running about $4.18 for regular.

    If you rent a car and tell them prior to leaving that you want it filled when you return, their prices are actually lower than the gas stations!
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    I guess the oil companies are jacking up their prices in anticipation of the Labor Day holiday! :mad:

    Sunoco at Longshore and Rising Sun in NE Philly:

    RUG= $3.75
    Plus = $3.85
    Ultra = $4.03
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    Now slowly sifting back down.

    Shot up to $4.09 briefly on news of Isaac's hitting the coast. Then $3.99 which sounded more politically tolerable.

    Supposedly a pipeline from Louisiana supplies part of our fuels here in the lower Ohio region, just like during Katrina.

    Today my wife texted to say price is "down" to $3.79 at one station. And this is Friday of Labor Day weekend. That's about what I would have expected for a rip price for the last high usage weekend.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    edited September 2012
    We hit $4.19 right before the holiday. :sick:

    Plan to drive to the Mitten later this week. We'll see how that goes.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    I was driving to work this morning and notice a 14-16 cent jump in gas prices across the board at the Sunoco on Longshore and Rising Sun this morning! As Marvin Gaye once sang, "What's goin' on?"

    RUG = $3.85
    Plus = $3.99
    Ultra = $4.15
  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    edited September 2012
    The excuses given by the petroleum institute and companies are as humorous as some political campaign statements. I saw on the news last evening there are hurricanes in the Atlantic, so that must be reason against to raise prices?

    Prices here range from $3.69 to $3.85 between Cincy and Dayton yesterday.

    2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,

  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    I hurried up and topped off the Grand Marquis at a station that still had RUG at $3.71 at lunchtime.
  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    It's just capitalism and free markets and all that, not lies at all :shades:
    I paid $4.26 yesterday at a Chevron for premium, that price including a 16 cent cash discount.
  • steverstever Guest Posts: 52,454
    Paid $4.09 in the UP, got a bargain around Traverse City at a Speedway at $3.79. Now in Port Huron where it looks like $4.09 is the going rate. The van did get a bit over 26 on the last tank so that helps. Diesel looks to be running around $4.25 in most places.
  • lemkolemko Member Posts: 15,261
    $8 or $9 Gas at Some LukOil Stations
  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    That is a real issue. The main reason so many small gas stations went out of business. The margins are VERY low on selling gas. They make a few cents on gas and a buck on a bottle of water.
  • fezofezo Member Posts: 10,386
    This is my favorite - Kezbari said LukOil has said it charges more because it has a well-known brand name.

    Well-known? And even if you accept that they are well known for all the wring reasons.

    I'm not one that boycotts brands much. I can't boycott Saudi oil because it's in more or less everything. Chavez isn't a big enough threat to me to boycott Citgo but since we now have no Citgo stations that is moot.

    That said I will not touch Lukoil unless I've uncharacteristically let the gas get so low that I need something in which case I'd get $5 worth and move in. Lukoil is totally tied into the Russian government - people who mean us genuine harm.
    2015 Mazda 6 Grand Touring, 2014 Mazda 3 Sport Hatchback, 1999 Mazda Miata 2004 Toyota Camry LE, 1999.
  • gagricegagrice Member Posts: 31,450
    I had never heard of Lukoil. Here in CA we have a lot of Spirit Gas stations. Rumor has it they are Russian owned. Who knows? I have never bought gas from them as they charge 10 cents per gallon for using a CC. And they are higher priced to start with.
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    I'll never buy from Chavez run Citgo, either.
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