How is the price of Gas in your area?

[sce56]

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas6mar06,0,4664382.story?coll=la-home-headlines

Gasoline prices jump
By Ronald D. White, Times Staff Writer
9:50 PM PST, March 5, 2007

Motorists, open your wallets.

Gasoline prices have pushed past $3 a gallon in parts of California with no letup in sight. Over the last week, average pump prices jumped at least a dime a gallon in much of the nation, the Energy Department said Monday.

Fuel experts blamed the multi-week surge on refinery and pipeline problems, strong oil prices, unusually high driver demand and the tricky annual change to less-polluting summer gasoline.

Drivers just want it to stop.

"This is very bad," said Kevin Kiroub as he pumped $2.899-a-gallon gasoline into a custom Chevy Silverado 2500HD pickup truck at a Chevron station just west of downtown Los Angeles. Kiroub owns Iceberg Heating & Air Conditioning in Sunland, and he really racks up the miles on the truck, which runs on a 6.0-liter V-8 engine that generates 353 horsepower.

"We service air-conditioning units all over the area. We travel all of the time, and this is really hurting our business. We have had to raise our prices, and we have lost a lot of good customers," Kiroub said.

Kiroub increased the cost of a service call to $69.99 from $49.99, and he no longer travels to Palm Springs and San Diego for work. "We just can't afford to."

A couple of pumps away, Victor Velez was trying out a new way of buying gas for his 1987 Ford Econoline. The graphic designer refuses to look at the price and buys $20 of fuel each day. But the new system doesn't work, Velez said, because he gets behind the wheel and sees that the fuel gauge has been moving less and less toward the full mark.

[Broken_Hero]

1. Sunday it was 2.29

A gal, in SW Missouri. Its been creeping up fast...in some towns, further south of me, gas is 2.39 and higher...

[pepperbear]

2. 2.29-2.39...actually fell below $2 for about ten minutes right around Xmas. n/t

[villager]

3. Gasholes in L.A. have it near 3 bucks per now...

n/t

[Selatius]

4. In rural Mississippi where I am, it jumped a quarter to 2.49.

I just don't want to think how bad it is in major metropolitan areas.

[RB TexLa]

5. Everyone said it was the end of the world when it first went over a dollar

a gallon. World didn't end.

[Breeze54]

19. For who?

:shrug:

[Skink]

6. 3 dollars/ gallon in Texas seems to kick in right when the Electric Co shakes us

down for an extra 50 to a hundred.

[Skittles]

13. OMG

TELL ME ABOUT IT :o

[TomInTib]

7. I rarely drive (but I have a great car)...

I pretty much walk to everything that I need.

[Twist_U_Up]

8. Upstate NY $2.69 and climbing fast

in the last 2 weeks it has went up 40 cents

[longship]

9. $2.89/gallon in SoCal.

It just keeps on going up. Will probably be $3.00/gal in a few days.

And I'm about to depart on a cross-country, 2,500 mile trip in my 28 mpg, 18 year old Volvo wagon.
Oy!

[unsavedtrash]

10. here in Tuscaloosa it varies from 2.25 to 2.49

someone showed me this site on gas prices. Insert your zip code and it should show prices in your area.
http://autos.msn.com/everyday/gasstations.aspx?zip=&src=Netx

[sakabatou]

11. $2.79

[Hawkowl]

12. Nationalize the Oil Companies

I'm absolutely serious. Right now, they are the source of the vast majority of evil in the world. Nationalize them. Put them under congressional oversight, and put all their profits into developing alternative fuels. Then use oil only for non-fuel products. It will be the 21st century of the Post Office.

[NewJeffCT]

49. I actually know a Freeper that agrees with that idea

He also says that we should start building nuke plants like crazy, after all, if they're safe enough for the French...

[leftofthedial]

14. up

[BlueIris]

15. $2.55 and going up (Western Oregon).

I'm actually having BAD visions of regular gas here passing $3.50 a gallon.

[razzleberry]

16. refineries are gouging

with crude at $60,

wholesale gasoline should be about 1.52 a gallon,
not 1.90

bush is doing something ro restrict supply

[mduffy31]

17. Funny oil is down $1 a barrel..

[fed-up]

18. TOO F*CKING MUCH-$2.89 at the cheapest place in town nt

[Breeze54]

20. Outside Boston: $2.45 and rising daily....

:grr:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

21. Morris County, NJ--paid $2.23 today and someone pumped it for me.

I love NJ. Pumping your own gas and paying more is for suckers.

[JackBeck]

36. We paid 2.35 last night.

It's gone up about .30 since the election.

And it's good to be home and pampered again.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

40. I went to some no name gas station in Dover that takes cash only.

It's probably a front for something.

[GreenTea]

22. $3.09 a gallon Humboldt county...stick it to the liberals, unfortunately we are ALWAYS the highest

in the entire nation for gasoline...SF gets the headlines as the highest but again, Humboldt to the north of SF is always ten to twelve cents a gallon more.

[XemaSab]

We're running right behind you and we PUMP the shit here!

Look offshore and all you see are drilling rigs! :o

[krispos42]

23. $2.39-$2.45 in the Twin Cities n/t

[AtomicKitten]

24. $3.15 gallon regular in SF

[madokie]

25. 2.39 yesterday unleaded regular northeast oklahoma

at least another 18 or so months of gouging ahead of us, methinks

[RebelOne]

26. It has jumped 10 cents since last week here in North Georgia.

I filled up my tank last week for $2.29 at Citgo. As of yesterday, it is now $2.39.

[maine_raptor]

27. Prices vary here in Northern Maine.

In town, $2.53.

10 miles north, $2.52.

10 miles south, $2.56.

Haven't checked this AM, though, but I am expecting a home heating oil delivery in a couple of days.

Anybody want to buy a first born male child?

[deepthought42]

28. About $2.45 for regular around Annapolis, MD...sigh. n/t

[Skidmore]

29. $2.42 for the ethanol blend...

add a dime for Regular.

[Homer Wells]

30. $2.59 here in Southern WV n/t

[lectrobyte]

31. Raleigh NC 2.49 for regular

[Javaman]

32. North Austin, Texas shot up 30 cents since last week...

Was at 2.09 now at 2.39

[MadHound]

33. Here in Mid Missouri, it has jumped about thirty cents a gallon over the past two weeks

And despite their blather about refinery and pipeline problems(which ones? where), strong oil prices(which have yet to break the $60/bbl mark yet) and other such bullshit, there is really only two reasons why the gas prices are going up.

The first is, if you remember, in Bushboy's State of the Union address he promised to double the amount held in the Strategic Reserve. This has now started, increasing demand and thus driving up prices.

Then there is the matter of pure, simple greed. The East Coast, excepting a few areas, had a pretty mild winter. Since the East Coast is the main market for heating oil, the oil companies couldn't gouge out their normal amount of profits. Therefore they are starting in early on the summer spike this year, so they can make their annual quota of record breaking profits.

With the oil companies these days, one simply can't win for losing, they're going to get your money one way or the other. That is unless we all start switching away from oil and gas, and start investing in wood heat, biodiesel powered vehicles, and wind for electricity.

[Mr. Ected]

34. $2.39-2.49 for Regular Unleaded in Atlanta

[Atman]

35. Gone nuts in the last week...near $2.60 around Hartford

Out of nowhere, boom, shot up .30-.40 with not a peep from the media. What's going on?

.

[NewJeffCT]

50. Write to the AG's office

sounds like something Blumenthal would love to announce at a press conference.

[shanti]

37. $3.01 a gallon here in sacramento, ca

:grr:

[luckyleftyme2]

38. to high

the repukes must be filling the coffers to pay their legal fees. they don't have to worry about being electrocuted or gassed-to expensive -it will be the firing squad.

maine avg. $2.51 per gal reg.
heating oil $2.43 from my dealer

subpoenas are out and pay back should be horrific!go pelosi!
get mad -get even as only a female can!

[maveric]

39. $2.91 at ARCO (cheap), stations. San Diego.

Many "last chance" stations, by freeway ramps are $3.00-$3.10.
It'll be $3.49 by Memorial Day.

[Liberal In Texas]

41. Meanwhile, this news item:

US crude oil futures fell below US$60 (RM211.10) on March 6, extending the previous session's 2% slide as falls in global equities markets entered a second week.

http://www.theedgedaily.com/cms/content.jsp?id=com.tms.cms.article.Article_24fc8f5f-cb73c03a-135da430-3953f510

Hmmm, wonder why there isn't a corresponding fall in gas prices in the last week?

[Cobalt Violet]

42. $2.49 regular. n/t

[Rainscents]

43. They took my arms and legs and now, they want my kids!

It's $2.55 today.

[XemaSab]

44. 3.04 in Santa Barbara

n/t

[misternormal]

45. $2.46.9 in West Central Arkansas...

Kind of funny to me that the gas prices were lower before the oil companies announced once again that they had record profits last quarter.

When no one made a stink about it, the prices almost immediately shot up again.

They are blatantly stealing money from the pockets of the public, announcing it every quarter, and then sitting back o their fat asses plotting the next price hike.

Sickening.

[BlueIris]

46. Up to 2.59 for regular now.

It'll probably be higher by the time I have to go out tommorow.

[NewJeffCT]

47. Hartford, CT area - 2.59-2.64, was 2.29 on Saturday.

went up 20 cents Saturday-Sunday and then more this week.

[OhioChick]

48. $2.49 Regular n/t

[Altean Wanderer]

51. Unfortunately we ain't seen nothing yet...

especially if BushCo is crazy enough to attack Iran, potentially resulting in a loss of 25% of the world's oil supply virtually overnight. If that happens, we're looking at least $4.00 / gal, perhaps even more, but that would be the LEAST of our worries. Radioactive fallout may be a more immediate concern.

Otherwise it's $2.45-ish in southern NH and about 10 cents more in northern Massachusetts.

[pinniped]

52. I paid $3.11 9/10 today, but $2.99 9/10 can still be found at the 76 station in Daly City, CA.

That 76 station hasn't raised its prices (at least on 87 octane) in probably two weeks.

All the other gas jerks are jacking their prices up with no end in sight.

[Maine-ah]

53. 2.60 - 2.65 for regular

wtf is going on? it's gone up 30 cents in a week!

[SalmonChantedEvening]

54. Philly burbs $2.49, up from $2.25 less than 2 weeks ago n/t