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Post#351 at 04-14-2007 12:50 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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What a difference a half-hour makes...

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!
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Post#352 at 04-14-2007 01:19 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by Zarathustra View Post
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.







Post#353 at 04-14-2007 01:57 PM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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Quote Originally Posted by Justin '77 View Post
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.
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Post#354 at 04-15-2007 01:29 AM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
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.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King







Post#355 at 04-17-2007 12:11 PM by mattzs [at joined Mar 2007 #posts 201]
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Gasoline inventory

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)
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Post#356 at 04-19-2007 10:15 AM by catfishncod [at The People's Republic of Cambridge & Possum Town, MS joined Apr 2005 #posts 984]
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PR Cambridge: $2.79 and rising.
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Post#357 at 04-19-2007 11:10 AM by mattzs [at joined Mar 2007 #posts 201]
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Quote Originally Posted by catfishncod View Post
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
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Post#358 at 04-23-2007 12:21 PM by cbailey [at B. 1950 joined Sep 2001 #posts 1,559]
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Leveling off ? Not yet Anyway.

Gasoline at $4 Coming to a Pump Near You, Unfazed by Rising Tab
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...YOo&refer=news
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Post#359 at 04-25-2007 10:40 AM by Earl and Mooch [at Delaware - we pave paradise and put up parking lots joined Sep 2002 #posts 2,106]
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Continuing to nudge upward here - in the last couple of days I've seen a range from $2.779 to $2.869 for regular.
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Post#360 at 04-25-2007 01:15 PM by mattzs [at joined Mar 2007 #posts 201]
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Quote Originally Posted by Earl and Mooch View Post
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
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Sledge Hammer: Yeah, three movies was enough.
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Post#361 at 04-25-2007 09:28 PM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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Our gas just clicked up to $3.199 for regular.
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Post#362 at 04-26-2007 03:02 AM by mattzs [at joined Mar 2007 #posts 201]
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$3.05 sw chicago 'burbs.
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Sledge Hammer: Yeah, three movies was enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8C...related&search=







Post#363 at 04-26-2007 10:40 AM by Hari Seldon [at Trantor joined Jun 2002 #posts 47]
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$4.00+ coming to a gas station near you...

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.
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Post#364 at 04-28-2007 04:12 PM by mattzs [at joined Mar 2007 #posts 201]
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Prices are going to explode, too.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/28/tan....ap/index.html
Dori: The terrorist has demanded a million dollars, a private jet and an end to the Star Wars program.
Sledge Hammer: Yeah, three movies was enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irp8C...related&search=







Post#365 at 04-28-2007 10:13 PM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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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.
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#366 at 04-28-2007 10:19 PM by Zarathustra [at Where the Northwest meets the Southwest joined Mar 2003 #posts 9,198]
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Quote Originally Posted by mattzs View Post
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.
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#367 at 04-29-2007 03:25 AM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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Quote Originally Posted by Zarathustra View Post
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.
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Post#368 at 04-29-2007 06:15 PM by catfishncod [at The People's Republic of Cambridge & Possum Town, MS joined Apr 2005 #posts 984]
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PR Cambridge price check: after hanging at $2.79 for two weeks, going up again. $2.83 as of yesterday.
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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.
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Post#370 at 05-04-2007 12:45 PM by catfishncod [at The People's Republic of Cambridge & Possum Town, MS joined Apr 2005 #posts 984]
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Just bounced to $2.93 here; $3+ by June for sure now.
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Post#371 at 05-04-2007 01:04 PM by Child of Socrates [at Cybrarian from America's Dairyland, 1961 cohort joined Sep 2001 #posts 14,092]
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We are at $3.29 here in SE Wisconsin. It has gone up between five to ten cents a day for the past week.







Post#372 at 05-04-2007 01:24 PM by Justin '77 [at Meh. joined Sep 2001 #posts 12,182]
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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?)
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Post#373 at 05-04-2007 04:20 PM by The Grey Badger [at Albuquerque, NM joined Sep 2001 #posts 8,876]
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$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.

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Post#374 at 05-05-2007 12:06 AM by Roadbldr '59 [at Vancouver, Washington joined Jul 2001 #posts 8,281]
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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.
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Post#375 at 05-05-2007 08:36 AM by Marx & Lennon [at '47 cohort still lost in Falwelland joined Sep 2001 #posts 16,715]
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Quote Originally Posted by Roadbldr '59 View Post
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.
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