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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat is happening with gas prices? Check out the national map
http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspxI am amazed to see the high prices along the entire west coast.
Has there been pipeline disruption?
I was in DC on Wednesday to see Kathleen Turner in "Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins".
It was superb. Driving home to Chapel Hill, I filled up with $3.80/gal for premium--which was about $.32
LESS per gallon than I had paid earlier in the week in anticipation of the drive from NC to DC.
Am I missing something regarding oil distribution that's been in the news?
ButterflyBlood
(12,644 posts)And it goes on a seasonal pattern, resulting in some shortages now.
mnhtnbb
(31,384 posts)FarCenter
(19,429 posts)Tikki
(14,557 posts)Tikki
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)We are at $3.65.
2on2u
(1,843 posts)seabeyond
(110,159 posts)Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)Here in Centex, it was $3.37 or so.
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)might have been 3.65. i was trying to remember and asked son. seemed like a week ago 3.65 though, and up to 3.85
underpants
(182,781 posts)the shut down in refineries have not been from the EPA they have been from our domestic oil companies. That is their main control on the spigot.
ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,384 posts)Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)After being refined for Calif's req.
OR they're just taking advantage of higher prices on the coast and raising their own accordingly.
hollysmom
(5,946 posts)brewens
(13,577 posts)believe the job numbers. The only difference is that they are wrong and as usual, I am right!
villager
(26,001 posts)...refinery problems, but they know the public won't resist, and the government will do nothing, so every alleged "disruption" means more billions for the bottom line....
MANative
(4,112 posts)It stayed at that level (about $4.25/gal) for two weeks, and dropped down to about $4.10/gal in the last day or two. Still too damned high. Blame it all on the Koch brothers and their oil/gas speculation model, instituted around 2005. Bastards.
skeewee08
(1,983 posts)We were $3.55 now $3.33
Indpndnt
(2,391 posts)Very surprised it went down 6 cents from one refill to the next!
TeamPooka
(24,221 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,384 posts)Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)former9thward
(31,986 posts)Try another theory. Gas prices are going down elsewhere in the country. Is big oil trying to buy the election for Obama your next theory?
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)marions ghost
(19,841 posts)ease up on the south and southeast?
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)in the nick of time.
(Southern California)
mnhtnbb
(31,384 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Story posted in CA Group:
AP: Calif. gas prices will rise, then fall next week
http://news.yahoo.com/calif-gas-prices-rise-then-fall-next-week-082247664.html
winstars
(4,220 posts)Sort of a riff on the 'not in my back yard' I guess. It's close enough though, its a big, spewing real refinery right in the middle of lots of people nearby.
The scum oil companies just don't wanna refine enough gas so they can keep prices always high and to occasionally REALLY rip us off, like right now, opposed to the regular screwing we get...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I'll edit to correct. I was flashing back to memories of fishing on the old pier at Redondo many years ago.
winstars
(4,220 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)That was long before the storm knocked out the pier and it was rebuilt.
We'd fish for Halibut but kept hooking up Bonito, which was a nightmare because as soon as they got hooked they'd race back and forth, tangling everyone's lines.
When I finally got a Halibut, I was in heaven. It wasn't very big--just 13 pounds--but I was the hero of the pier. I had company for dinner that night, so I cleaned the fish and grabbed a simple recipe out of a cookbook for broiling it with onion, covered in breadcrumbs and dotted with butter. And I was the hero of my dinner party, because the Halibut came out magnifique.
Those days are long gone. At Santa Monica Pier a while back I talked to the bait shop owner, who said none of the piers get Halibut like they used to. And there are warnings about not eating fish caught close-in to the piers.
But I have good memories of fishing Redondo Pier. And they had a walk-up window at the beginning of the pier where you could get some halfway decent hot clam chowder on those cold days. Even though their coffee sucked.
Sekhmets Daughter
(7,515 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)I will be driving through NC, SC and GA this week on the way to Florida.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)Webster Green
(13,905 posts)I paid $4.33 per gallon today at a Costco in Sonoma County. That is as cheap as I can find it here.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)And Molly was a dear friend of mine.
I am in the Bay Area and our gas prices are thru the roof.
mnhtnbb
(31,384 posts)once when she came to speak to a group of Dems when we lived in Lincoln, NE.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)The others are over $5.
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)would have to have a little less profit. You already know where their priorities lie and it isn't with the American people.