How bad are you getting hit at the pump?

[tree68]

$3.13 at the convenience store down the road, but 15 miles away "in town" I paid $3.01...

I'll second the complaint about the costs rising immediately.  Katrina had barely hit when word hit the street about "shortages."  Prices went up how much???

[Anonymous]

$3.07 for Premium on two cars for a total of about 74 dollars today in Central Arkansas. Both cars were recently shopped for routine service and continue to get 20-25 mpg so Im happy.

[Rick the Railroader]

But Gas was $2.86 to $2.89 in London, KY 10miles away.

[Rick the Railroader]

$2.70 per gallon today in Corbin, KY with $0.03 off at Walmart other words $2.73  

[Modelcar]

...Noted on the news this morning the BP in Alaska will keep a good percentage of it's operation open as the suspect pipeline is being repaired and another bit of news from OPEC...Demand projection will lessen in coming weeks..{or something like that}, so it will be interesting to see what prices do.

Also we can be looking for a bit less traveling from this point on seasonally as many schools have resumed classes, etc....Another less demand from traveliers.

In general the tone on the financial programs this morning seemed to be for oil prices at least not to be spiking upward baring no upstart of waring in the mid east, etc....so looks to me there are plenty of reasons for gasoline prices to at least moderate a bit in the next few weeks....Let's watch.....

[Murphy Siding]

....As I mentioned earlier I would check back in town this evening....and did and the price is still the same as it's been for about 3 or 4 days now....2.79

Be interesting to see what happens in the next few days as crude did drop in price these last several days....

Don't you think that it is interesting that when the price of oil goes up, the price of gas goes up the next day.  However when the price of oil goes down, it always seems to take a couple of days for the same to happen at the pump.

 

Bert

     I sell lumber for a living.  The lumber industry, and I'm sure nearly every other industry is the same.

[miniwyo]

Today, I was filling my truck, and this guy just came up and punched me. He PUNCHED me for no good reason!  It really hurt too, now I have a black eye. 






HAHA  No  just kidding, I filled up my truck today for $2.75. but the really ridiculious things is that at a station on one end of town is $2.75, and on the other end of town the stations are all $3.04. I went for work to a town 100 miles north of here called Pinedale, I Filled up my Duramax Diesel (work truck) here in RS for $3.27, and then again up there for $3.89. (Good thing the company pays for that)

[n012944]

....As I mentioned earlier I would check back in town this evening....and did and the price is still the same as it's been for about 3 or 4 days now....2.79

Be interesting to see what happens in the next few days as crude did drop in price these last several days....

Don't you think that it is interesting that when the price of oil goes up, the price of gas goes up the next day.  However when the price of oil goes down, it always seems to take a couple of days for the same to happen at the pump.

 

Bert

[Anonymous]

In Albany, Ga. regular dropped from 2.89 gal to 2.76 just this week. We tend to run about ten to fifteen cents higher than our surrounding area. Phil

[Modelcar]

....As I mentioned earlier I would check back in town this evening....and did and the price is still the same as it's been for about 3 or 4 days now....2.79

Be interesting to see what happens in the next few days as crude did drop in price these last several days....

[Gluefinger]

Almost very station is $3.09 except for one I found at $2.99.

[eolafan]

Paid $3.13/gallon for regular here in Aurora yesterday, which I noted was about ten cents a gallon lower than was being charged up in Hartford, WI the same day...go figure!

Update one week later and I am back in Hartford, WI and the price I paid today here was $3.13, about ten cents less than it was here a week ago today.

[n012944]

In the northwest burbs of Chicago I paid $3.19 today, it has gone down a couple of pennies the last couple of days.

 

Bert

[Modelcar]

...........Muncie, In: 2.79    Noted crude was down around 70 dollars a bbl today so it should be dropping some....I will check a bit later in town this evening for the latest price.

[Rick the Railroader]

Well let's see in Kentucky in the 100mile area I go to alot I've seen gasoline as high as $3.19and as low as $2.71 a gallon but around London/Corbin, Ky usally around $ 2.80 a gallon. Doesn't that sound like someone's price gouging to you.

[broncoman]

Wow that's pretty scary that CA isn't the highest for gas.  Paid 3.05 in Sacramento area yesterday.

Dave

[eolafan]

Paid $3.13/gallon for regular here in Aurora yesterday, which I noted was about ten cents a gallon lower than was being charged up in Hartford, WI the same day...go figure!

[Modelcar]

....Adding 50 cents of tax to gasoline would be dissipated out in various directions especially into politicians pet projects or slipped into a budget somewhere to "balance" and a very minimum getting to where the original intent was hence doing little or nothing.  And of course we'd have the lower and mid income scale of folks being hurt even more by the added cost....

[spbed]

Paid $2.89 for regular yesterday in Austin TX

 

Just curious what gas prices are like around the country (and world) these days. Here in San Diego we peeked at $3.40 a couple weeks back but it has slowly dropped to $3.19.

[rvos1979]

One of the big reasons costs are so high are government taxes; you'd think they'd reduce them because they're getting such a higher dollar amount now, but I don't believe this has really happened anywhere yet.

Actually one of the problems the US faces is that it's gasoline tax is so remarkably LOW compared to the rest of the world. As gas prices continue to rise (as they will - we're reaching peak production right about now, meaning that we've used about half the world's petroleum, and what is left is going to be deeper / more remote / harder to refine etc. than what we've already used was) places like Europe that used high gas taxes to create an excellent infrastructure of mass transit - especially rail - to fall back on will be doing OK. In the US in many areas we're going to see major problems in the years to come. As one European diplomat once said, 'all America's problems could be solved with a fifty cent a gallon tax on gasoline' !!

Pretty interesting, also gets more interesting when one sits down and breaks down where the money goes.  On average, about 23% of the cost of gas goes for federal and state taxes.

Of note around here, Wisconsin Governor Doyle has repealed the minimum markup law for gasoline with ethanol added to it, causing prices at certain stations to drop sharply.  At the time the story hit the papers, Badger State Ethanol's gas pumps in Monroe Wisconsin were selling E10 gas for about $2.80/gal, and E85 was seling for about $2.13/gal.  It should be noted that the gas pumps are only several hundred yards from the ethanol plant itself, and BSE has a blender's permit to make it's own E10 and E85.

[Chris30]

Let me just say this... I've started counting the minutes that I have to work each day just to pay for the gas that it takes to get me to and from my 34 mile daily round-trip commute. Gas is @$3.30 a stinkin gallon (and rising) from those oil companies that cry poor and then post record profits (surprise!!). My truck gets @20 miles to the gallon... $5.61 a day, $22.44 a week (I usually only work four days in the summer(14 weeks-hint))... Grand total=$ 1,380 a year in gas just to get to and from work. That's great! (<--note the sarcasm-->) I have to work just to get there and back.

CC

If anybody takes the time to figure out how I came up with $1,380, give yourself an A+. Then, tell yourself that you have way too much free time and that it's a nice day outside .

[wjstix]

One of the big reasons costs are so high are government taxes; you'd think they'd reduce them because they're getting such a higher dollar amount now, but I don't believe this has really happened anywhere yet.

Actually one of the problems the US faces is that it's gasoline tax is so remarkably LOW compared to the rest of the world. As gas prices continue to rise (as they will - we're reaching peak production right about now, meaning that we've used about half the world's petroleum, and what is left is going to be deeper / more remote / harder to refine etc. than what we've already used was) places like Europe that used high gas taxes to create an excellent infrastructure of mass transit - especially rail - to fall back on will be doing OK. In the US in many areas we're going to see major problems in the years to come. As one European diplomat once said, 'all America's problems could be solved with a fifty cent a gallon tax on gasoline' !!

[BR60103]

Toronto area prices have dropped in the last 2 days from about 1.07/l to .97/l (with variations).  What gives?

[Modelcar]

....Gentlemen....You can not compare gasoline prices here in the USA to European or even Austrailan prices as the tax structure is totally different....They pay for much different services than we do here...It's apples and oranges.

Price just as I came by one of the stations I deal with within this past hour was $2.84 / gal. Plenty high...In fact they are getting us to the point now when it dips below the 3 dollar mark, we feel wow.... we're getting a bargin.  Brain washing.

Yes, and to the comment of a post above of 6 dollar crude...and the oil companies making a good profit...I'll relate to remembering crude prices / bbl in the 3 dollar plus margin and we all know oil co's used to make plenty of money.

[solzrules]

Hey Chad,

I am down under in Australia.

Would you believe we paid A$1.327 -4c discount voucher .

THAT IS PER LITRE!!!!!

There is 4.5 litres per US gallon(aprox.)

SO 4.5*1.327=5.9715 OR A$5.97 per gallon.

THe exchange rate is A$1= .7666 US

OrUS$ 4.576 per gallon, this is about average but some times up to around A$1.42/litre

Hope this helps your world prices.

Cheers for your post to as it helps us realise we are all sufferring with high fuel prices to some extent

Garry0281  

YIKES!!!!  I hope they hurry up with the hybrid 4 x 4 pickup truck! 

[Anonymous]

Hey Chad,

I am down under in Australia.

Would you believe we paid A$1.327 -4c discount voucher .

THAT IS PER LITRE!!!!!

There is 4.5 litres per US gallon(aprox.)

SO 4.5*1.327=5.9715 OR A$5.97 per gallon.

THe exchange rate is A$1= .7666 US

OrUS$ 4.576 per gallon, this is about average but some times up to around A$1.42/litre

Hope this helps your world prices.

Cheers for your post to as it helps us realise we are all sufferring with high fuel prices to some extent

Garry0281  

[Gluefinger]

One of the big reasons costs are so high are government taxes; you'd think they'd reduce them because they're getting such a higher dollar amount now, but I don't believe this has really happened anywhere yet.

[ndbprr]

$2.98 a gallon at a Shell and Speedway in Ottawa Illinois on the morning of 8/11.  Put every drop in it would hold.

[tatans]

$3.00/ gal. this will be the lowest you will ever see gas and next month when it is $3.75/gal. will be the lowest it will ever be again, then when it is $7.00/gal.,  like it is in the rest of the world, you can say I wish it was $3.00/gal. Try buying a house ! ! ! Today it is$1.24 per litre and soon to be rising.--Say just how did those oil companies manage to make billions of dollars at $6.00 per barrel ? ? ?