Gas prices in my metro-Atlanta town have risen $.05 in 24 hours WTF

[doni_georgia]

My husband just returned from the convenience store and he said gas prices at both of our neighborhood gas stations has risen $.05 overnight. Anyone else seeing this today? Friday a week ago I paid $2.09 a gallon. Yesterday I paid $2.29, and today prices are $2.34. Not like it is a holiday weekend. Any ideas?

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Yes, I'm outside the metro Atlanta area

On Thursday morning gas prices were $1.99. When I came home that evening, they were $2.24! Then Friday morning, they dropped again to $2.14, then that evening they were back up to $2.25. They've gone up again to $2.31.

What the hell is going on? This is nothing more than price gouging. Assholes.

[doni_georgia]

6. Exactly! This is what has been happening here

$1.99!@ where was that - RaceTrack on 78? I haven't seen it below $2.00 in forever here. Gas prices changing that much can't be legal. Didn't the GA House pass some law about price gouging during Katrina?

[INdemo]

2. Its a rip off

price fixing at its best........

[FloridaPat]

3. Same here is Central Florida. Oil prices haven't really moved.

Haven't heard why.

[madrchsod]

4. 20-25 cents in the last week or so in northern il

2.40 average..premuim is about 2.60

[meegbear]

5. Went from 2.07 Friday to 2.17 Saturday just north of Boston ...

get used to it, unfortunately.

[doni_georgia]

7. If oil prices haven't risen, and yet prices are rising everywhere

something must be up. They know something the rest of us don't.

[lovuian]

11. Getting prepared for Iran??? or the mexico wells are depleting

lower production dropping off dramtically.......

[bahrbearian]

8. Could it be...

[we can do it]

9. Up 20 cents this week in ohio

[lovuian]

10. Up in Houston and Austin

its actually more expensive in austin...$2.23 Houston $2.18

[tool_of_the_people]

12. In central North Carolina....

our gas prices went up $.07 from $2.17 on Friday to $2.24 on Saturday.

[newyawker99]

19. Hi tool_of_the_people!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[doni_georgia]

13. Got this from LBN - think we have our answer

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x194950

[CottonBear]

14. Hi doni! Gas prices are expensive in Athens.

Gas hasn't been a $1.99 here for years it seems. The prices were about $2.09 yesterday. I haven't checked today. Just a few weeks ago, prices were about $2.20.

[doni_georgia]

16. Same here - RubyDuby is lucky one living near a Racetrack

We're surrounded by Chevrons who price gouge on principle.

[electron_blue]

15. Yes, it went up about 20 cents/gal in my area. Sorry I can't get

worked up about a 5 cent/gallon increase.

Gas has gone up in the U.S. every March for the last few years. Not sure why - anybody know?

[Harald Ragnarsson]

17. Oil CEO's have to pay in on their income taxes? n/t

[Lefty48197]

18. They're trying to line their pockets before we take over the Senate

and have some oversight over the out of control oil industry.

[JanMichael]

20. Spring break

millions of college students in the big assed SUV's driving down South...or whever students from out west, or the midwest go.

On the road with credit cards and cell phones.

[Telly Savalas]

21. In the absence of any serious discussion of public transit expansion

or a bold plan to introduce sustainable energy sources, the oil companies can exploit a captive market. And it will continue so long as people only gripe about gas prices, but don't do anything to advance an alternative.

[kestrel91316]

22. This is unusual?

Here in SoCal we see wild escalations overnight with considerable regularity.

[Renew Deal]

23. SoCal is the only place where I have seen....

One gas station 50 cents more than the one across the street. I still remember seeing $1.75 at one station and $2.25 for the same grade right across the street. I don't understand that.

[kestrel91316]

26. On one corner near my house there are three

gas stations, and there is always about a 10 cent spread between them.

[HeeBGBz]

24. $.20 in the last two weeks here

A dime a week. Did we have another hurricane?

[ThomWV]

25. Up $0.15 in 24 hours here.

And the price varys about twenty cents from one side of town to the other, as if prices were following the tanker truck.