Gas watch.....ours is down to 2.59 here. This is the Memorial

[theophilus]

Day Weekend folks and gas has been going down! It's down about thirty cents in the last three weeks. Now this runs counter to logic and a lifetime of experience. There seems to be no such thing as "the market" anymore. No competition, either, as every place is virtually identical in their pricing. To me, this lowering of prices says that they were artificially too high. I believe that is called "gouging". Anyway...what's the price of a gallon of regular in your area and what do you make of this price DROP leading up to the Memorial Day Weekend? Is it just here in Arkansas or do you see it, too?

[aquaman]

1. Just paid 2.46.....

I presently drive 260 miles a day for work so any relief is good.

[Gman]

6. $2.46? Where are you

The cheapest I've seen was $2.49 last Thursday in Corpus Christi.

[Newsjock]

2. It's just you

Actually, gas here in this undisclosed part of Very Red California is down ... but only about 4 cents in the past month. Regular is going for about $3.259 now at the cheapest places, although $3.399 stil is common at the big-name places.

And, no, this isn't out-of-the-way Blythe, where prices are about another 30 to 40 cents higher than even that.

[aquaman]

9. Live in Columbia, SC

Got the gas in a rural town outside of Columbia.

[TahitiNut]

10. Riverside has eased by about $0.10 from recent high; still more than $1.00

... above January's averages.

http://www.detroitgasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

[rosesaylavee]

3. $2.88 - Chicago suburbs

And ours haven't gone down - pretty much maintained a $.05 spread over the past month. Too many SUVs around here to bring it down. :(

[TahitiNut]

12. Yep. Chi-town area hasn't seen any relief. Still up by $0.70 since January

http://www.detroitgasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

[TriSec]

4. Only pennies

No change here in Greater Boston. I just saw $3.05 for mid-grade at the Hess...down about four cents from last weekend. Prices have been pretty flat for about 3 weeks, though.

[williesgirl]

5. Fairfax VA last Thursday - $3.04/gallon - no relief here!

[BlueIris]

20. No relief in Western Oregon, either. Still $3.05/gal for regular gas.

UGH. This summer is going to SUCK.

[sabbat hunter]

7. prices in NYC area

have been stable the last few weeks. between 3.25 and 3.29 a gallon for regular.

[TahitiNut]

8. Detroit area - down $0.20 from May 13 high - up $0.40 since March

http://www.detroitgasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

[TahitiNut]

11. Little Rock has eased by about $0.25 since April highs

Still up by more than $0.70/gal since January.

http://www.detroitgasprices.com/retail_price_chart.aspx

[Scoody Boo]

13. The refineries have finished...

switching over to those silly summer blends and are back on line. They did it early this year so already high gas prices would not have to go even higher onver the Memorial Day weekend.

[kahleefornia]

16. I thought Bush was dropping the special blends

Didn't he make some speech to the effect of "screw the environment - my poll numbers suck right now."?

That, and his big investigation into price gouging (which lasted all of about 5 days, and surprisingly found nothing to be amiss) was supposed to bring prices down.

[Armstead]

14. It's called Monopolistic Price Fixing...And the Dems ignore it

The number of oil companies has been allowed to dwindle because of mergers and acquisitions. Once we had Exon and Mobil. Now we have Exon Mobile.

Naturally, the fewer companies in a market -- and the bigeer the survivorsd are -- the less it is a market. It becomes the privatye playground of monopoliusts.

This has been going on in every industry for 30 years, and now the chickens have come home to roost.

And yet, the Democrats continue to ignore and allow this consolidation, and joining the GOP in the plaintive excuse "We can't do anything about it. It's those big old markets."

[rzemanfl]

15. Yeah, and Coke was five 12-packs for $10 for the Holiday

weekend. Wanna bet they are doing this out of patriotism and love for their countrymen? Didn't even slaves in the South get a "holiday" from time to time?

This is about demand and demand, the Holiday Inn, Outback Steakhouse, Coors Brewing, NASCAR sponsors, etc. bunch of campaign contributors demanded that the oil company campaign contributors lighten up for the weekend. Remember how gas went down at Christmas shopping time?

Gas is down, may as well write a check against that home equity line of credit and take the SUV on a trip no matter how "unsettled" you are.

[VTMechEngr]

17. $3.00 in Connecticut.

Big oil still has New England by the Balls.

[OSX]

18. 3.17 in Los Altos, CA

Los Altos - just a tad West of San Jose and South of San Fran, CA.

The highest it got for reg unleaded was 3.39 just a few weeks ago.

-osx

[deFaultLine]

21. Looks to me like...

The red states are given breaks and the blue ones are being screwed.

$2.99 a gallon where I live in Washington State.

[Tripper11]

19. $3.17 and up in the Seattle area....and getting worse!

"They" expect it to hit $4 a gallon in time for school to get out and travelling to begin. Ferry rates are going up as well.

The fact theophilus that your subject line is "ours is down to 2.59 here." really sucks, if you know what I mean?

[yankeedem]

22. In 1999 we were down to 85c/gallon

Aren't you glad we have an oil president, who can jawbone the cartels to get the price down?

[mike_c]

23. $3.56 most places here, although some are selling for $3.53...

...and the low price in the area is $3.50. There is some indication that prices have gone down a little-- I mean, EVERY gas station sold gas for $3.56 a gallon last week, so a few have gone down a few cents. I'm in north coastal california, generally among the highest gas prices in the lower 48.

[smaug]

25. Gas price rise since 'Decider in Chief' elected

We have a convenience store with gas which went out of business during the 2000 election here by US Hwy 71. The gas prices (I think it went out during October/November 2000) is still posted, and thousands drive by it every day (Hwy 71 is a major artery in western Arkansas from Shreveport, LA to Joplin, MO). The price? Oh, $1.08 unleaded. Gas price yesterday at Walmart was $2.71. So, we've had a 250% increase in less than six years.

Yep, oil men in charge will 'jawbone those prices down' - hey, I got a bridge to sell ya!

[MindPilot]

24. San Diego still averaging around $3.35 eom