Gas Prices?

[Rock]

I just paid $4.49 for a gallon of regular gasoline. That is up 1.00 since yesterday. What is worse is many places have no gas to sell. What are you paying? Is gas available in your area?

[Stephen Fox]

Get off at exit 205 and go south on 11 to the County Line Beer Store and you can get it there for 3.59 and talk to a lot of Methodists on Friday afternoon about what is going on at their church.

[Rock]

[Ed Pettibone]

[William Thornton]

Up 50 cents/gal since yesterday.

[KeithE]

It was $3.519 at a cut rate place (Kangaroo) about 12:00 noon today but the line was at least a quarter of mile long. It was $4.659 at another (normally cutrate) place (Jet-Pep?) at noon. Finally fileld up at a Chevron for $3.999. I noticed the price was removed at the Kangaroo by 5:10 and the line was not as long.

[deb]

I filled yesterday at $3.49

This afternoon, same station (and one across the street too) has gas at $6.69 and lines 6-8 cars deep in each bay. My teenage driver, who I supply one take of gas a month for, is astounded....and probably wishing he were working more hours!!!
EDIT_-I meant $3.69 ... but this morning I noticed, that same station is now at $3.99...and several pumps at nearby stations are now covered

[Gary]

Isn't the free market wonderful?

Nice profit to be had on what they already had in their tanks.

They just need to remember to not light up their celebratory cigars near the tanks...

[Chris]

I filled up tonight at 5:30pm EDT for $3.659. I did that after hearing a story on TV news about refineries in Texas shutting down. I could have filled up this morning for $3.369.

A local TV reporter said the gasoline "pipeline" has been "turned off" at Memphis, and there is no eastbound gasoline east of the Mississippi. I knew natural gas traveled by pipeline, but I thought refined gasoline traveled by truck. Is there really a gasoline "pipe?"

The storm is so big, it will take a while to peter-out. I saw a prediction that the storm will be up to St. Louis by mid-afternoon on Sunday, then move up the Ohio River, dumping rain in its tributaries.


Where do you think Obama, McCain, Biden, and Palin will spend Sunday? The first three are currently in the US Senate, so any of them could initiate legislation to provide aid for Ike victims (but where will the money come from?). Palin can send the Alaska Air National Guard to help out.

[Timsings]

I just got back from filling up our two cars. Every station I saw was charging $3.999 for regular. However, the one Exxon station in our neighborhood was charging $3.789 for plus grade. They had been charging $3.659 for regular, but they had run out. I never found out what the deal was, but there was a local news crew out there when I took the first car, so maybe I'll be able to find out during the 10:00 news. I was surprised that the lines weren't longer.

Tim Reynolds

[Sandy]

It's the "Hurricane on the coast" excuse. The coastal refineries are shut down which means the pipelines to the east coast and upper midwest are not working. It is an interesting situation, since the price of oil continues to fall because of surpluses. Can you say, "price gouging?"

With all the lines at gas stations around here yesterday, the price went up 40 cents a gallon. It is against Texas law to raise prices during an emergency disaster declaration, and our illustrious and aggressive attorney general Greg Abbott has proclaimed the severest of fines for businesses who do. However, when a price increase of $1.10 per gallon was reported by a consumer who watched the station raise the price when the tanker showed up and a line formed, Mr. Abbott excused the business by saying that they probably had a wholesale price increase. Somehow, I think Mr. Abbott will not enforce anything that will cost any business owner a dime. Republican.

And our lieutenant governor, who has about as much meteorological expertise as Rodney Daingerfield, has predicted that there will be a tsunami-like tidal wave that will go up the Houston ship channel, threatening 25% of the nation's oil production. He is setting the stage for more robbery by the oil barons. Well, they bought his office for him, so why shouldn't he help them out?

We are being ripped off by oil companies, thanks to Bush.

[Ed Edwards]

[KeithE]

Coming home at 10:00 tonight, 2 stations had all their pumps covered and were not selling any.

[Ed Pettibone]

ED: Talk about price gouging, Gasoline coming off the ships at the pot of Albany was 23 cents a gallon higher than yesterday and the storm had just gotten to and that had probably had been on the ship for a week. However, Gas Buddy is reporting $3.60 at 11:20 P.M. I will fill-up over that way when I go to the Board of Missions meeting tomorrow . They where at $3.55 earlier today

[Jonathan]

[ET]

Took a small road trip down into Miss. last night for my son's football game. Folks were lined up at a Kroger station 8 deep in all the lines. Gas had jumped 25 cents since the day before. One place down in MS had gas listed for $4.25 and I had paid $3.40 to fill up on Thursday.

Got back in last night and my son came in with his car running on fumes. Took his car out and the cheapest I would find was $3.89. Some places had it listed for $3.59, but they were either closed or out of gas.

Had some good old-fashioned "runs on the bank" around here. Just involved gas instead of money.

Hehe....and here come the slams on the free market. Nothing like those glorious "central planning" ideas of price controls and rationing that made the 70s such a wonderful time!

[Bruce Gourley]

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[Bruce Gourley]

[Dave Roberts]

Here along I-95, regular was $3.899 this morning. Speculators have been buying oil futures they dumped overnight to make a tidy profit. We are dependent on a decreasing commodity. I heard this morning a statistic that says a great deal. We consume 25% of the world's oil but have only 3% of the reserves. No matter how nice it sounds, "Drill, baby, drill," won't make that much difference. We are in need of alternatives, not just excuses.

[Rock]

5.19 in Knoxville, Tennesse on Saturday Morning.

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[Rock]

[Ed Pettibone]

I traveled 290 miles through up State NY today a 145 mile round trip saw several service stations as I was only in 8 miles of interstate. NO lines at the stations some as high as $3.83 for Reg Most seemed to be $3.73 that is what I paid, 20 miles before one small town with at least 5 stations at $3.63 and $3.66

No difference in prices between 7:00 am and 4:30 PM the station where I filled up said they had been at $3.59 on Tuesday and that had been their low for several months.

[ET]