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Posted by Modelcar on Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:13 PM

....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....

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, August 17, 2006 9:39 PM
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
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Posted by n012944 on Friday, August 18, 2006 12:28 AM
 Modelcar wrote:

....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.

 

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Posted by miniwyo on Friday, August 18, 2006 12:50 AM
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)

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Posted by Murphy Siding on Friday, August 18, 2006 8:22 AM
 n012944 wrote:
 Modelcar wrote:

....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

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Posted by Modelcar on Friday, August 18, 2006 8:35 AM

...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.....

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Posted by Rick the Railroader on Friday, August 18, 2006 5:17 PM
$2.70 per gallon today in Corbin, KY with $0.03 off at Walmart other words $2.73  
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Posted by Rick the Railroader on Friday, August 18, 2006 5:25 PM
But Gas was $2.86 to $2.89 in London, KY 10miles away.
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, August 18, 2006 5:27 PM
$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.
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Posted by tree68 on Friday, August 18, 2006 6:03 PM

$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???

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