Gas Prices Check-in

[my73charger]

We are still at $3.35 and holding....I am sure we will see it jump tomorrow for Memorial Day though.

[70charger_boy]

This morning in Warwick, RI it was $2.96 gal and now at 11 am its $3.19.  WTF

[chargerboy69]

Oh yeah, ours dropped to $3.04 for 87 octane but I paid $3,45 in Michigan over the weekend. 

Troy

I am going to have to drive across the state line for that. It is $3.68 a gallon here in Fort Wayne.

[Harlow]

Dropped from 3.29 to 3.24 yesterday out here in Colorado

[Silver R/T]

it's dropped a bit to 3.18

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Is this officially political yet?

Troy

My God yes.  Lock this fucker up.

[70charger_boy]

Is this officially political yet?

Troy

My God yes.  Lock this fucker up.

You said the F word.....$3.19 gallon

[Manfred318]

Dropped down a few cents over the weekend to $3.06/gal regular.

[Mean 318]

3.30 

[Mike DC]

   
It seems like everybody I know is always able to recite exactly what they just paid for gasoline the last time they filled up.
They all have opinions about why it's high, how unfair it is to certain Americans, who caused it, and who's really getting the money.

But for some reason, nobody complains much about the price of health care, or the price/shortage of smaller houses & apartments, or the natural-gas prices that have gone up so dramatically . . .

 

[Vainglory, Esq.]

And it gets worse...

[Brock Samson]

    the  "I" Word,.. anyone?.

[PocketThunder]

   
It seems like everybody I know is always able to recite exactly what they just paid for gasoline the last time they filled up.
They all have opinions about why it's high, how unfair it is to certain Americans, who caused it, and who's really getting the money.

But for some reason, nobody complains much about the price of health care, or the price/shortage of smaller houses & apartments, or the natural-gas prices that have gone up so dramatically . . .

 

Mike, what happened to your signature

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in between thoughts? 

[Mike DC]

 
(Okay, here ya go!)   
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Sorry if my post threatened to derail the thread onto one of those other subjects I threw out.  Didn't mean to push things that way. 


I just think that gasoline prices draw disproportionately strong reactions for what they are.  It's definitely worth talking about, but I don't understand how preoccupied & really angry people often get over it. 

For example, $3/gallon gasoline seems to make a much bigger impact on people's hopes & dreams than $40,000 sticker-prices on new pickup trucks. 
I don't understand that.

   

[69DodgeCharger]

"For example, $3/gallon gasoline seems to make a much bigger impact on people's hopes & dreams than $40,000 sticker-prices on new pickup trucks. 
I don't understand that."


You will the next time you go to buy groceries or any other "retail" type products. I have noticed a significant price increase in just the last few months. And don't forget your "fuel surcharge" for your trash pickup service and propane deliveries. Somehow I doubt that if I bought a new vehicle it would make nearly every other "consumable good"  I have to purchase increase 10-20% in price every 6-12 months. So we all should be getting a wage increase that is proportionate to that right? Makes sense to me.

[Mike DC]

You will the next time you go to buy groceries or any other "retail" type products. I have noticed a significant price increase in just the last few months. And don't forget your "fuel surcharge" for your trash pickup service and propane deliveries. Somehow I doubt that if I bought a new vehicle it would make nearly every other "consumable good"  I have to purchase increase 10-20% in price every 6-12 months. So we all should be getting a wage increase that is proportionate to that right? Makes sense to me.

Totally agree.  You're right about the larger ramifications being much more important than any pump price.
Business owners/managers or people who deal with transportation jobs seem painfully aware of this (as well they should be). 


But the average person off the street usually doesn't seem to be thinking like that when they bitterly complain about a few-cent increase.  Most of the time people usually seem to be only thinking of the few cents per gallon.   And they seem every bit as angry, and they seem to take it just as personally.  That's the part I was commenting on. 

I once witnessed a guy literally chewing-out a gas station attendant over an increase in gas price (as if it's their fault), and then he proceeded to buy about $25 worth of lottery tickets.  WTF?

 

[DodgeChargerNeeded]

It was 3.65 a gallon for 87 octane last week, Its all the way down to 3.47 today. Middle lower Michigan.

[Charger_Fan]

$3.17 is the cheapest I've found here in Salt Lake as of yesterday.

In the spirit of adding something informative to the thread, have you guys seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0oYnjzlnjo&NR=1
The guy's burning WATER as a fuel!

[hemigeno]

Last Thursday (right before Memorial Day weekend) I headed out on a road trip, and I filled up close to home at $2.99.  Crossed into Illinois, and gas immediately jumped up to about $3.20 which is a normal spread between MO & IL.  Closer to Chicago it was in the $3.45 range.  NORMALLY I can count on Indiana's gas prices to be about $0.30 to $0.40 cheaper than Illinois, so I waited to fill up until I got into Hoosier territory thinking that I could save some bucks.  Nope...  In fact, EVERY place in Indiana along the I-94 corridor was about $0.05 to $0.07 higher than Illinois.  I paid $3.52, and when I got back in the car I was actually flipping through the radio stations wondering if we had experienced some sort of national tragedy causing gas prices to shoot up.  Michigan ended up being right around $3.49 or so.  On the way home (Sunday afternoon) gas was down a few cents per gallon, and today (Thursday) it's back to $2.89 around home here in Missouri.

Strangely enough, through all that wild fluctuation in gasoline prices, diesel fuel stayed pretty constant and didn't shoot up over the holiday weekend.

[kink67]

Unleaded 87 is running $3.42 in Appleton Wisconsin for the last 3 weeks !!!!

[2fast4u]

  I went to Dallas from the 24 to the 29 last month and when we had left the gas here in SW Ks was 3.39 and the cheapest place I found was just south of Dallas in Waxahachie and it was 2.94 for unleaded


2fast

[Manfred318]

Went down again at the cheap place this morning to $3.00/gal regular. Its at least $3.09 everywhere else. Diesel is still $2.89 has been for the last two months or so around here.

[Lowprofile]

Paid $2.99 gal for diesel in Buffalo, NY 5 days ago..........Paid $2.59 gal in Brunswick, GA Yesterday! The tax rates of some of these states is just outrageous.......We know who really makes all the profit, don't we? 

[Lowprofile]

You will the next time you go to buy groceries or any other "retail" type products. I have noticed a significant price increase in just the last few months. And don't forget your "fuel surcharge" for your trash pickup service and propane deliveries. Somehow I doubt that if I bought a new vehicle it would make nearly every other "consumable good"  I have to purchase increase 10-20% in price every 6-12 months. So we all should be getting a wage increase that is proportionate to that right? Makes sense to me.

Totally agree.  You're right about the larger ramifications being much more important than any pump price.
Business owners/managers or people who deal with transportation jobs seem painfully aware of this (as well they should be). 


But the average person off the street usually doesn't seem to be thinking like that when they bitterly complain about a few-cent increase.  Most of the time people usually seem to be only thinking of the few cents per gallon.   And they seem every bit as angry, and they seem to take it just as personally.  That's the part I was commenting on. 

I once witnessed a guy literally chewing-out a gas station attendant over an increase in gas price (as if it's their fault), and then he proceeded to buy about $25 worth of lottery tickets.  WTF?

 

I know the trucking industry has, and always will pass the increase onto the shipper, the receiver, and finally the consumer. We charge all of our customers a fuel surcharge based on a per-mile run. Last time I checked, I believe it was $1.80 per mile.

[70charger_boy]

It is down to $2.949