trainboyH16-44 wrote:I'll never understand why they're so high here, but hey, at least we get it back. It's currently $1.08/L at my local gas station....
....Now this evening I heard on the media of help from Saudia Arabia and Mexico will step up and help our government with the Alaskan shortage....So what's all the big deal of right away price increases....Guess that's easy to answer. They won't miss an opportunity to add to those great profits.
Quentin
In central Colorado, went from 3.09 to 3.14 for regular unleaded. Diesel jumped to 3.33. Of course the resort areas are higher. It's too bad the oil companies get away with this.
Morning paper indicated our government will make up the difference for us from the Strategic Government Oil Reserve...while the problem is handled in Alaska....So why all the price increases...???
So far minimal here....2.99 to 2.89
Here is the latest
http://today.reuters.com/news/articleinvesting.aspx?view=CN&storyID=2006-08-08T163120Z_01_SP179724_RTRIDST_0_MARKETS-OIL-UPDATE-8.XML&rpc=66&type=qcna
chad thomas wrote: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.
Living nearby to MP 186 of the UPRR Austin TX Sub
While I would expect gas prices to goo higher, I don't know where you're hearing 4 or 5 bucks due just to this Alaskan pipeline closure. Most "experts" I have heard on the news predict ten cents tops.
$2.81 in Lancaster, SC near the Lancaster and Chester Railway station.
Joe H.
vsmith wrote: JOdom wrote: upchuck wrote:I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high. On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked. Nawthun Vuhjinya? isnt that just outside New Dehli? Stop at Vrajmohan's 7/11, got the best takeout chicken vindaloo in the region
JOdom wrote: upchuck wrote:I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high. On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked.
upchuck wrote:I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high.
On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked.
Should have used the standard spelling - Northern Virginia. I grew up "way down yonder in the land o' cotton", and was spelling phonetically to liven things up a little.
Although given today's realities you really can't tell the difference between NoVA and New Delhi . . . or Islamabad . . . or Seoul . . . or Mexico City. I'll guarantee you can get very good chicken vindaloo here, if you know where to go.
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JOdom wrote: upchuck wrote:I bought some in Chula for $3.17. Lower, but still too high. On 8/5, regular was $3.029/gallon where I buy it in Nawthun Vuhjinya, and that's the cheapest price around - trust me, I've checked. Chula? What state?
Chula? What state?
I think he is talking about here in Chula Vista, Ca. Just south of San Diego.
jeaton wrote: Based on my experience on a trip from home to Indianapolis last Friday, I would say that fuel prices have yet to deter anybody else from getting out of the Chicago area for the weekend. Mid day northbound on I-94 was stop and go from downtown Chicago into Wisconsin. We were going in the opposite direction at that point, but had to join the crunch of trafic heading east and south of Chicago. I think I averaged no more than 55mph from Gary to Indy. In two weeks, we have to do it again. I have reserved a small fortune to make this necessary trip. With a little bit of luck everybody will be dead broke by that time and I will have an open road. Seriously, my sympathy to those of you who must travel and have no option other than the car.
Based on my experience on a trip from home to Indianapolis last Friday, I would say that fuel prices have yet to deter anybody else from getting out of the Chicago area for the weekend. Mid day northbound on I-94 was stop and go from downtown Chicago into Wisconsin. We were going in the opposite direction at that point, but had to join the crunch of trafic heading east and south of Chicago. I think I averaged no more than 55mph from Gary to Indy.
In two weeks, we have to do it again. I have reserved a small fortune to make this necessary trip. With a little bit of luck everybody will be dead broke by that time and I will have an open road.
Seriously, my sympathy to those of you who must travel and have no option other than the car.
Thank your lucky stars you don't have to do what I'm planning a few weeks from now- drive from Iowa to California and back, then drive from Iowa to Florida and back.
Brian (IA) http://blhanel.rrpicturearchives.net.
Regular is CDN$1.15 on Vancouver Island, give or take a couple of cents here and there. Oh, that's for a liter. I forget the conversion, but I think it is near 4.2l/USgal, so that puts us at well over $4.00/US gal.
We just unloaded a pickup and a 26' travel trailer for a new Corolla (45mpg). I figured we should get the value out of them while the gettin' was good. I wouln't be surprised to see gas reach CDN$1.40 or more before long...the way things are going in distant places.
Randy Vos
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....Just this morning I saw on the news of the pipeline mess in Alaska and alarm bells immediately went off...Upshot on prices. Wife will be taking granddaughter back home to Indy today so I took 3.0L Lexus {lucky it does get good mileage}, over to station right away and "gave the oil Co.}, 40 dollars for 13 gal of 87 oct.
Price now was 3.06. Early last week the Indy / Muncie area experienced a 50 cents per gal raise over night...From 2.69 to 3.19...!! Since then we see it from 2.95 to what I paid this morning....
With the above news of the pipeline people in vast areas will be thinking like I did...go get it before they raise it on this mess.....and that itself will tend to raise it. We can't seem to win on this issure. They have us coming and going.
$3.12 here this morning. But when will it matter? Driving the interstate yesterday, I stuck to the 65mph limit to save some money yet not try to be an obstacle in traffic. A steady stream of cars passed me at 70, 75, 80mph. Will it ever sink in that our money spent to buy gas and oil from OPEC winds up in the hands of the fanatics who want us dead?
I always try to remember that when it comes to economics, the tail wags the dog. Our oil will rise in price to reflect the going world-wide price. We can't keep an artificially low price on the oil we produce for our use for very long without causing more problems for ourselves. Look what happened to the railroads under ICC regulation.
CNW 6000 wrote: tree68 wrote: eolafan wrote:This morning we opened the newspaper to read about the pipeline in Alaska having corrision problems and the shutting down of 8% of U.S. crude production...so I am expecting a sudden and significant jump upwards in pricing this week. Oddly, I've always read that the bulk of the oil from Alaska went elsewhere. These sound like great reasons for the oil companies to raise prices more for a largely ignorant public that keeps on paying. I bike when ever/where ever possible. We're paying ~ $3.13/gallon for 87 octane. Premium is ~ $3.35/gallon. It'd be nice to have "cheap" gas of ~ $2.50+/- again!
tree68 wrote: eolafan wrote:This morning we opened the newspaper to read about the pipeline in Alaska having corrision problems and the shutting down of 8% of U.S. crude production...so I am expecting a sudden and significant jump upwards in pricing this week. Oddly, I've always read that the bulk of the oil from Alaska went elsewhere.
eolafan wrote:This morning we opened the newspaper to read about the pipeline in Alaska having corrision problems and the shutting down of 8% of U.S. crude production...so I am expecting a sudden and significant jump upwards in pricing this week.
Oddly, I've always read that the bulk of the oil from Alaska went elsewhere.
These sound like great reasons for the oil companies to raise prices more for a largely ignorant public that keeps on paying. I bike when ever/where ever possible. We're paying ~ $3.13/gallon for 87 octane. Premium is ~ $3.35/gallon. It'd be nice to have "cheap" gas of ~ $2.50+/- again!
Dan
eolafan wrote:As of Sunday morning at my local corner stations (one Mobil and the other Shell) we were paying $3.16 (Mobil) and $3.25 (Shell) [don't ask me, I don't know why either]. This morning we opened the newspaper to read about the pipeline in Alaska having corrision problems and the shutting down of 8% of U.S. crude production...so I am expecting a sudden and significant jump upwards in pricing this week.
We're around $3.12 right now, but they've laid the groundwork, so I figure $4.00 by Labor Day.
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