Shell in Clarksville, Tennessee
Today [18 JUL] at $2.399/gallon...
Originally Posted by jamesdglick
Bit of a bounce-up recently. Now it's 19.90rub/L ~= USD$2.37/gal.
"Qu'est-ce que c'est que cela, la loi ? On peut donc être dehors. Je ne comprends pas. Quant à moi, suis-je dans la loi ? suis-je hors la loi ? Je n'en sais rien. Mourir de faim, est-ce être dans la loi ?" -- Tellmarch
"Человек не может снять с себя ответственности за свои поступки." - L. Tolstoy
"[it] is no doubt obvious, the cult of the experts is both self-serving, for those who propound it, and fraudulent." - Noam Chomsky
-Now [1 AUG] back to $2.499/gallon
I paid $2.899 Thursday evening for Premium. That price has been more or less steady in the PDX area for the past month or so.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
The gas market is strange in the Twin Cities. They will either be steady or go down something like 1 or 2 cents a day for some time, but then when they increase they go up like 15 cents in a day. Down in Phoenix, increases and decreases are both gradual. I don't know why they spike up so much when they increase up here.
Anyway, a couple of weeks ago they were down to around $2.29 in Minnesota and $2.35 in Wisconsin, and now it's pretty much $2.49 on both sides of the border.
1987 INTP
Do you happen to have, Speedways in the Twin Cities?
We have SuperAmericas which are run by the same company, just a different brand name (sort of like Chevrons and Texacos, etc). IIRC, SuperAmerica used to be independent, but Speedway bought them several years ago, but kept the SuperAmerica name in Minnesota and far western Wisconsin for brand loyalty purposes.
1987 INTP
Hey I'd forgotten about Speedway gas... they were all over the place when I lived in Columbus.
Then again, I was a loyal Sunoco customer the whole time I was there. Their Ultra 94 is possibly the best gasoline ever devised by man.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Drive around during the noon hour, on a tuesday or thursday, and you'' notice they're the first to spike, with all other stations fellowing like sheep within the next 4 hours.
Saying it was $2.49 on both sides of the border is an understatement. Usually Minnesota is cheaper, and the suburbs differ from one another. However, there is a psychological demand barrier at $2.50, so gas is $2.49 almost everywhere in the Twin Cities. Even the gasbuddy page lists the average price as $2.475, and yet 8 out of the 10 most expensive stations are just going for $2.49, which means that probably 90-95% of stations metro-wide are going for that price.
Last summer, a similar thing happened where lots of places where $3.99 when the national average was about $4.05 since demand apparently plummeted over $4. Our gas broke $4 for about two days in June 2008. Nationally, the price didn't peak for another month but people up here would simply not buy gas over $3.999. It was crazy. You literally had a third of cars on the freeway going 55 in a 65 when that happened, and the commuter buses were packed full with standing passengers and everything.
You don't see that driving grossly under the speed limit or cramming the buses today at just $2.49, but apparently there is still some sort of psychological limit there where the stations can't get away with $2.50 right now.
1987 INTP
Clarksville, TN
-Back up to $2.599/gallon.
I spoke too soon. Stations in my area of the metro randomly spiked ten cents yesterday or the day before to $2.59 - on the day I needed to get gas, of course.
1987 INTP
Gas prices in SoCal
I paid $2.999/gal in La Mesa, just outside San Diego this morning. I've seen gas as high as $3.159 in La Mesa.
Trust Cali to be high.
I want people to know that peace is possible even in this stupid day and age. Prem Rawat, June 8, 2008
Premium in Vancouver, WA is up to $3.059.I paid $2.999/gal in La Mesa, just outside San Diego this morning. I've seen gas as high as $3.159 in La Mesa.
Trust Cali to be high.
"Better hurry. There's a storm coming. His storm!!!" :-O -Abigail Freemantle, "The Stand" by Stephen King
Currently $2.619 in my town, although I did see $2.499 at a gas station about four miles south of Downtown St. Paul in a 1st-ring suburb today. $2.599 is probably the standard rate in the Twin Cities right now.
1987 INTP
Clarksville, TN
-Now [9 SEP] back down to $2.499/gallon. Hmmph.
$2.499 in Prescott WI again, similar in nearby Minnesota, saw $2.319 right near downtown Saint Paul today.
1987 INTP
-Now [16 SEP] down to $2.39/gallon.
Likewise. filler
1987 INTP
Seen in Albuquerque yesterday:
University Chevron 2.599
Highland Chevron 2.469
On the left side of a northbound frontage road: 2.349
On a street corner in town:
Economy Gas 2.469
Circle K 2.369
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
-Now [20 OCT] at $2.48/gallon
-On Saturday [24 OCT], $2.599/gallon. quite a jump...
Up to $2.669 here in Albuquerque. I understand we were looking at $82 a barrel, up from $63, at the end of the week.
How to spot a shill, by John Michael Greer: "What you watch for is (a) a brand new commenter who (b) has nothing to say about the topic under discussion but (c) trots out a smoothly written opinion piece that (d) hits all the standard talking points currently being used by a specific political or corporate interest, while (e) avoiding any other points anyone else has made on that subject."
"If the shoe fits..." The Grey Badger.
$2.79/gal. here in the City of Three Rivers. Up a good 20 cents or so in the last couple of weeks.
Bri2k
-Now [19 NOV] at $2.499/gallon.
