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Post#226 at 05-04-2006 01:55 PM by Earl and Mooch [at Delaware - we pave paradise and put up parking lots joined Sep 2002 #posts 2,106]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59
Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
My guess (I might be wrong) is California.
Or Washington DC.
It's not northern Delaware. Prices have held around $2.85 here for the past few days.
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Post#227 at 05-04-2006 03:06 PM by scott 63 [at Birmingham joined Sep 2001 #posts 697]
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Quote Originally Posted by Earl and Mooch
Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59
Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
My guess (I might be wrong) is California.
Or Washington DC.
It's not northern Delaware. Prices have held around $2.85 here for the past few days.
Birmingham dipped to $2.79 for a few days and then returned to about $2.84
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Post#228 at 05-04-2006 03:44 PM by takascar2 [at North Side, Chi-Town, 1962 joined Jan 2002 #posts 563]
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Quote Originally Posted by scott 63
Quote Originally Posted by Earl and Mooch
Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59
Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
My guess (I might be wrong) is California.
Or Washington DC.
It's not northern Delaware. Prices have held around $2.85 here for the past few days.
Birmingham dipped to $2.79 for a few days and then returned to about $2.84
Detroit area was around $2.75 last weekend. Chicago (outside of the city - Northern Indiana) around $2.89 (Chesterton). Should be lower tommorrow - gasoline futures dropped to $1.99/gal today.







Post#229 at 05-04-2006 03:48 PM by Ocicat [at joined Jan 2003 #posts 167]
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Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
My guess (I might be wrong) is California.
Yep. Santa Barbara, to be precise. But it's not as much as in Humboldt County, about four hours north of San Francisco. There it's always quite a bit more than here -- actually, it's one of the highest spots in the country. I've got friends up there. I'll talk to them over the weekend to find out what they're paying.
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Post#230 at 05-04-2006 08:16 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Quote Originally Posted by Ocicat
Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
My guess (I might be wrong) is California.
Yep. Santa Barbara, to be precise. But it's not as much as in Humboldt County, about four hours north of San Francisco. There it's always quite a bit more than here -- actually, it's one of the highest spots in the country. I've got friends up there. I'll talk to them over the weekend to find out what they're paying.
Wonder what it's like in Weed, California, halfway between Redding and the Oregon state line, around now? Labor Day Weekend, 2005, at the height of the "Katrina Era", a gallon of premium was going for $3.55... with regular about a quarter less.

I'll bet it's much higher than that now :shock: .
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Post#231 at 05-04-2006 08:48 PM by Ocicat [at joined Jan 2003 #posts 167]
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Hmm... My gas station now has regular unleaded at $3.40/gallon! I also noted on the way home that it's $3.50/gallon at the station near the 101 on-ramp. I haven't made a concerted search for the most expensive gas in town, though.
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Post#232 at 05-04-2006 08:54 PM by Ocicat [at joined Jan 2003 #posts 167]
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Quote Originally Posted by Ocicat
Hmm... My gas station now has regular unleaded at $3.40/gallon! I also noted on the way home that it's $3.50/gallon at the station near the 101 on-ramp. I haven't made a concerted search for the most expensive gas in town, though.
Well, according to this anyway, yesterday you could pay as much as $3.56/gallon for regular in Santa Barbara!
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Post#233 at 05-06-2006 11:49 AM by Tom Mazanec [at NE Ohio 1958 joined Sep 2001 #posts 1,512]
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I caught part of a news broadcast at work that said stations were running out of 3s.







Post#234 at 05-06-2006 09:04 PM by Earl and Mooch [at Delaware - we pave paradise and put up parking lots joined Sep 2002 #posts 2,106]
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Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
I caught part of a news broadcast at work that said stations were running out of 3s.
Just like they were running out of 2s a couple of years ago. At least they aren't resorting to gimmicks like suddenly pricing per liter, or having only half the price on the pump like in 1979/1980. (Remember "1/2 Total Sale" on pumps then?)

I have seen more stations around here go with electronic signs lately. They're harder for me to read, though, because they're calculator-type numerals.
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Post#235 at 05-06-2006 10:34 PM by Ocicat [at joined Jan 2003 #posts 167]
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Quote Originally Posted by Tom Mazanec
I caught part of a news broadcast at work that said stations were running out of 3s.
Well, there are always the 4s!
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Post#236 at 05-11-2006 02:32 PM by Brian Beecher [at Downers Grove, IL joined Sep 2001 #posts 2,937]
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There was a group who recently came to the conclusion that the fair price for gasoline is around $1.30/gal. In order to achieve anything near close to that, we will have to conserve a lot. Do we have the stomach for that? I really don't think so, even though some are finally beginning to see that maybe we should begin to conserve a little. Why is it that it hasn't become patriotic to conserve gasoline?







Post#237 at 05-11-2006 02:54 PM by Marx & Lennon [at '47 cohort still lost in Falwelland joined Sep 2001 #posts 16,715]
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Quote Originally Posted by Brian Beecher
There was a group who recently came to the conclusion that the fair price for gasoline is around $1.30/gal. In order to achieve anything near close to that, we will have to conserve a lot. Do we have the stomach for that? I really don't think so, even though some are finally beginning to see that maybe we should begin to conserve a little. Why is it that it hasn't become patriotic to conserve gasoline?
It may be patriotic, but it's far from pragmatic. We work to drive and drive to work. I don't see that changing quickly. Leaving this in the hands of people that want to slow the process, or merely profit from it, will not get it done. Neither will the current crop of 'outs', who seem unable to take the bit in their teeth and run the race.

Perhaps this election will provide a little guidance to the 'outs', and recalibrate their candidate selection process. Most of the Dems running for GOP seats seem to be technocrats or policy wonks. People don't hire people like that. They hire charismatics, and this time, it would help to have a few charismatics with good ideas. I don't see any at the moment.
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Post#238 at 05-11-2006 03:17 PM by Child of Socrates [at Cybrarian from America's Dairyland, 1961 cohort joined Sep 2001 #posts 14,092]
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Prices are down to the $2.79 - $2.85 range this week.







Post#239 at 05-11-2006 04:40 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by Brian Beecher
There was a group who recently came to the conclusion that the fair price for gasoline is around $1.30/gal.
Why so high?

We're not really seeing an oil crunch right now nearly so much as we are seeing a dollar slide. You know, gas costs a whole lot of Indonesian rupiah...

Heck, even Russia is bouncing around the idea of getting out of the dollar in favor of the rouble

(haven't they been watching what happened to Iraq and is happening to Iran? Crazy drunken lunatics....)







Post#240 at 05-12-2006 06:31 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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Jumped $.10 in Albuquerque

Just filled up at $2.999 per gallon and parked the car in the garage.







Post#241 at 05-12-2006 07:18 PM by The Wonkette [at Arlington, VA 1956 joined Jul 2002 #posts 9,209]
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Re: Jumped $.10 in Albuquerque

Quote Originally Posted by The Grey Badger
Just filled up at $2.999 per gallon and parked the car in the garage.
I paid the same last night. I thought gas prices might have been dropping slightly, but I was wrong; gas prices are continuing to rise up to $3.10 and up.

I tanked up in North Arlington last night. I guess gas prices in the swankier part of the county are lower than around my neighborhood. Go figure.
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Post#242 at 05-12-2006 07:42 PM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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My local station peaked at $3.43 several days ago, but is now down to $3.36. The average price seems to be around $3.32.

I live in Silicon Valley.
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Post#243 at 05-12-2006 08:45 PM by Earl and Mooch [at Delaware - we pave paradise and put up parking lots joined Sep 2002 #posts 2,106]
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After hovering around $2.80-$2.85 for a week or two, prices today jumped to a range of $2.909-$3.019.
"My generation, we were the generation that was going to change the world: somehow we were going to make it a little less lonely, a little less hungry, a little more just place. But it seems that when that promise slipped through our hands we didnīt replace it with nothing but lost faith."

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Post#244 at 05-12-2006 09:23 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Premium still holding steady at $3.179. At the most expensive station in town, it's up to $3.299.
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Post#245 at 05-15-2006 10:18 AM by catfishncod [at The People's Republic of Cambridge & Possum Town, MS joined Apr 2005 #posts 984]
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After being steady for weeks at $2.89, the corner station bumped to $2.99 yesterday. $3 gas is here; how long to $3.50? August? July?
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Post#246 at 05-18-2006 05:38 PM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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Down to $3.34 for Reg. Unleaded self-serve here.
Americans have had enough of glitz and roar . . Foreboding has deepened, and spiritual currents have darkened . . .
THE FOURTH TURNING IS AT HAND.
See T4T, p. 253.







Post#247 at 05-18-2006 11:11 PM by catfishncod [at The People's Republic of Cambridge & Possum Town, MS joined Apr 2005 #posts 984]
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Quote Originally Posted by catfishncod
After being steady for weeks at $2.89, the corner station bumped to $2.99 yesterday. $3 gas is here; how long to $3.50? August? July?
Dropped to $2.97 on the news that Libya has been miraculously cured of leprosy, but don't worry, it'll rise again soon.
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Post#248 at 05-20-2006 11:09 AM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Upon my return from Yellowstone, I've noticed our prices have upticked to $3.05/.15/.25 per gallon.
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I pass a gas station on my way home from work. About a week ago, regular was about $2.94. In the last day or two, it has been about $2.69. I am actually pissed I filled up the day before the drop (and drove to a neighboring city to do so). What gives?







Post#250 at 05-20-2006 08:50 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Interestingly enough, 88-octane gasoline was only about $2.89 a gallon in Montana and Wyoming... low-grade 85-octane petrol cost even less.

There are still active oil wells in Wyoming, and Sinclair is headquartered there. If that petroleum is also locally refined, shipping costs would be much lower... perhaps the savings is passed onto the consumer.
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