Yesterday I left work and drove over to the Safeway at Mill Plain and Andresen. As I pulled in I noticed the Union 76 station across the street selling regular at $3.029 per gallon, and made a mental note to fill up on the way out.

Thirty minutes later, shopping done, I left the Safeway. The price across the street had risen to $3.069!

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

Curse me/us? Why, you're not American?

That comment was addressed to the US dollar, not the people who live under it.

Sorry for the confusion.

Originally Posted by Justin '77

That comment was addressed to the US dollar, not the people who live under it.

Sorry for the confusion.

I don't think the US dollar will be talkin' back. But if it could it might discuss it's serious and growing self-esteem problem. His young friend PetroEuro is bringing back guilt-laden, terrorifying memories of what he himself did to Ol' Man Sterling.

Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59

Yesterday I left work and drove over to the Safeway at Mill Plain and Andresen. As I pulled in I noticed the Union 76 station across the street selling regular at $3.029 per gallon, and made a mental note to fill up on the way out.

Thirty minutes later, shopping done, I left the Safeway. The price across the street had risen to $3.069!

And at my neighborhood 76 station, where I usually fill-er-up, we're up to $3.099 for regular.

I'm guessing a drop of 3 to 3.5M barrels for the report due on 4/18. (assuming demand of 9.5M and production/imports at 9M)

PR Cambridge: $2.79 and rising.

Originally Posted by catfishncod

PR Cambridge: $2.79 and rising.

Demand leveled off, price starting to have an impact?

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/gtpsusm.gif

Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You, Unfazed by Rising Tab
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...YOo&refer=news

Continuing to nudge upward here - in the last couple of days I've seen a range from $2.779 to $2.869 for regular.

Originally Posted by Earl and Mooch

Continuing to nudge upward here - in the last couple of days I've seen a range from $2.779 to $2.869 for regular.

Something is wrong with this picture. Production/imports are running about 9.6M bpd and demand is showing at 9.3M bpd, yet inventories showed a drop of 2.8M barrels.

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/tw..._gasoline.html

Our gas just clicked up to $3.199 for regular.

$3.05 sw chicago 'burbs.

looks like refinery problems and high demand may very well push prices up to $4 a gallon this summer, well above the post-Katrina peak.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/04/26/news...ion=2007042605


Here in the DC-suburbs, I see prices anywhere from $2.85 to $2.99 lately.

Prices are going to explode, too.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/28/tan....ap/index.html

My corner station hit $3.54/gallon for self-serve unleaded the other day. The previous peak last year was $3.43. We're in new territory here.

Wasn't there another refinery explosion this morning, this time in Oklahoma? Gee, that should help.

If I didn't know better, I'd suspect something fishy is going on.

Originally Posted by mattzs

Prices are going to explode, too.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/28/tan....ap/index.html

Ah hah. There it is.

A combination of the housing market downturn turning off the Greenspan ATM and rising gas price eating up the cash in our wallets could be enough to send some of Tom Mazenec's scenarios a-goin'. Yikes.

Because once the American consumer stops his/her 11 year-long buying spree, the Fed will have to choose between lowering interest rates, tanking the dollar, and hyperinflating the cost of imports and thus initiatig an inflationary spiral at home OR raising rates, saving the dollar, and initiating a deflationary spiral at home. Hmmm. I wonder which they'll do.

The goldbugs could end up very happy.

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

The goldbugs could end up very happy.

I can't imagine it will be very happy to be surrounded on all sides by misery and despair. We'll be able to take care of our families and help out our friends and neighbors (barely, probably), but living through a collapse is probably no fun even if you are personally safe.

PR Cambridge price check: after hanging at $2.79 for two weeks, going up again. $2.83 as of yesterday.

Tempe, AZ: QuikTrip (QT) off of I-10 but not actually visible from the freeway: $3.05. Vastly increased since January - actually the low this year was about three days prior to Election Day, when it was about $2.09.

Just bounced to $2.93 here; $3+ by June for sure now.

We are at $3.29 here in SE Wisconsin. It has gone up between five to ten cents a day for the past week.

Filled up again today (I'm making daily trips in and out of the city to the hospital every day this past week) 95Ай for 19.70r/L = $2.896/gal. A bit up, off the exchange rate, but not much drama (am I correct to read that you guys are now paying more than we are?)

$2.959 last weekend. $3.099 today, here in beautiful downtown Albuquerque.

Energy-wise we have totally lucked out this spring - just enough storms coming through to keep us from needing wither our irrigation or our air conditioning, certainly warm enough not to need heaat (shirt sleeve weather.) This is extremely rare in Albuquerque.

My other car is a pair of shoes.

I just topped off the tank of my Mustang yesterday... at $3.359 per gallon! Total cost: $40.01. Good thing it (amazingly) doesn't require premium.

Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59

I just topped off the tank of my Mustang yesterday... at $3.359 per gallon! Total cost: $40.01. Good thing it (amazingly) doesn't require premium.

As Click and Clack, the Car Guys noted: no car 'needs' premium these days. The on-board computer just recalibrates the timing to accomodate lower octand fuels - at a perfomance penalty, of course.