Yikes!! What are gas prices where you live?

[longship]

Southern California prices are $2.739 at a few stations. Most are charging $2.899.
These prices are rising faster than a loaf of bread.

What gives? What is causing this crap?

:grr: :grr: :grr:

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Up 20 cents in the last week. Last I looked, unleaded was $2.259

[Aviation Pro]

2. Up $0.30 in the last 10 days here in Central Florida....

...I believe we are headed to a new national average of $3.75/gal this summer.

[LibDemAlways]

3. Regular this AM in my area of Southern Cal - $2.94.

[musette_sf]

4. $3.08 for premium

was the cheapest i could find today in NoCal.

[longship]

16. Premium?

Who uses premium? My 18 year old Volvo runs fine on Reg-Unl.

I can't think of any reason to use premium unless a person is either naive and believes the Petrol commercial claims that Premium is in any way better for your car, or a person drives a Boxster, or a Ferrari, or something like that.

I've always assumed that premium gasoline--or as we used to call it, ethyl (which gave rise to a myriad of bad jokes about pumping ethyl)--is a sucker bet.

[CRF450]

29. My Trans Am needs premium

Vehicles with a high compression engine (10:1 or more compression ratio) need premium, its the same deal for those that are supercharged or turbocharged. My dirtbike also runs premium, so no, its not a sucker bet.

[burrowowl]

23. If you live at altitude

you can go down a grade.

[musette_sf]

24. unfortunately, not much altitude

close by the Bay.

[marmar]

5. $2.48 at my usual suburban Detroit gas station today....

About 10 cents less than it was 2 days ago. I'm glad I waited. :)

[etherealtruth]

7. $2.49 Macomb county

[marmar]

11. You could have driven west to Royal Oak and saved a penny a gallon....

of course you have used up more than that driving. :silly: :hi:

[Reverend_Smitty]

6. Not that expensive...but still too damn much

3 weeks ago they were in the $1.90 range and today I noticed that they were about $2.35! Quite frankly it sucks

[tammywammy]

8. $2.49/gallon diesel

[Trajan]

9. What causes it ? ....

Greed has always been a factor, though certainly not the only factor ....

About 2.45 in Portland Oregon ....

[Retrograde]

10. $2.79-$3.49

I've seem regular as low as $2.79 this week, and premium as high as $3.49 (3.99 for full-service). San Francisco Bay Area.

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[BeachBuckeye]

13. Went up 15 cents on Friday

$2.69 per gallon in Naples, Florida

[Hekate]

14. $3.20 down the street from where I live on the Central Coast, CA

There's three gas stations at that intersection and prices at two of them have gone up like a rocket over the past couple of weeks, to $3.199. The third has been charging 24 cents/gal less all along, and I don't know why, but we are getting our gas there.

They're messing with our minds -- because they can.

Hekate

[radfringe]

15. $2.55 as of yesterday. was $2.29 on Tuesday

[Lint Head]

17. Oil Men

It's as obvious as the internal combustion engine outside your home.
Oil men run the country and they will charge what ever they damn well please without giving a rat's ass what anyone thinks or does about it.
:dem:

[0rganism]

18. It took longer to hit $3 again than I thought it would, actually

back when the prices dropped through the floor in October (right before the election) I was positing that the national average would be back up to $2.89 by the first week of January.

[Nicole]

19. $2.35 in OKC n/t

[kath]

25. yep, it's relatively low in OK - but it's still gone up about 50 cents in the

past month or month-and-a-half.

[thereismore]

20. $2.89 regular. SoCal nt

[Sir Jeffrey]

21. I know * was talking about adding to the Strategic Reserves...

that would push the prices up quite a bit. You know, if we invade Iran we'll need some extra gas or people will riot once the Strait of Hormuz shuts down.

edited to add that gas went up nearly 40 cents a gallon where I live (2.09 last week to 2.45 yesterday)

[Warpy]

22. Up 35 cents in central NM

$2.04 around the corner to $2.39. And that was on Tuesday. Probably over $2.40 now.

[Patsy Stone]

26. Up about 25 cents to 2.43 in S. Fla.

What happened?

[spanone]

27. Up fourteen cents since Monday....sprink break.

[shadowknows69]

28. 2.75

NY

[tibbir]

30. I found a station selling for 2.299 a couple of days ago....

No telling what it's going for now.