How gas pricing is an unpleasant experience (wink wink)

[burythehatchet]

Have you noticed the pattern over the past 4 years? Here's what I've noticed - The price of a gallon of gas starts at a certain price, let's say $1.30 / gallon. Then there's a huge spike, it goes up to $1.70 / gallon. Over the next few months the price settles lower to $1.50 / gallon and we all breathe a sigh of relief, "good thing gas isn't $1.70 / gallon because that really sucked. Few months later, from a base of $1.50 / gallon the price spikes up to $2.10 / gallon. It hurts like hell because you were paying $1.50. Then after a few weeks it goes down to $1.90. "Man that's great" you say because "at least it's under 2 bucks".

Lather Rinse Repeat.

Most recently, in my area it cost about $2.60, then all of a sudden it spiked to $3.00. After a few weeks it went to $2.90. Today, the average price in Atlanta is around $3.30. It's the same game, the same pattern.

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Enjoy the ride.

[Mist]

1. Yep, I've noticed. A big spike, then falls back to the level they actually

were aiming at all along.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Heh.

;-) It's kind of like this...

[burythehatchet]

3. YIKES!

hope there's no pine tar on that bat
:rofl:

[Hugin]

4. I'm too lazy to look...

But, are there any time lines which correlate these dips and spikes
with national political events?

I bet there are and I'd also bet the correlations there would shock
people.

[burythehatchet]

5. here you go

[deaniac21]

9. From the same source.....A Primer on Gasoline Prices

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/analysis_publications/primer_on_gasoline_prices/html/petbro.html

[VolcanoJen]

6. There are some great price charts on GasBuddy

Gas Buddy Is Your Friend

I was amazed to find that locally (Cincinnati), gas prices were at their three-year low, in December of 2003... $1.28 per gallon!

Can you imagine...?

Look at the chart (mine only goes back three years). It would be very interesting to correlate the spikes with political events. Most interesting of all is to see the spikes peak and then release, but that the prices never sank as low as $1.28 again, and that the peaks seem gentle, almost like the oil companies are making love to us while they screw us, you know?

[Hugin]

7. Well, a kiss is always nice...

Yeah, I know.

It's been ratcheting up for awhile now.

There is increased demand in the Far East. Don't know how much of an effect there
is from that.

[Alcibiades]

8. Battle deaths in Iraq

I bet there is a strong correlation between gasoline prices and the death of our troops: the more troops die, the higher gas goes. As it turns out, it's not blood for oil, just blood.

[johnaries]

11. I've noticed they tend to drop whenever Congress threatens

an investigation. They go up again after Congress gives them a free pass.

[titoresque]

10. This is exactly what is happening!

So we wait. And we wait. And we wait for that HUGE spike, the one that will cause truckers to revolt.

It will never come.

And if it does we'll know it's too late anyhow because by then so many other things have happened to silence us. It's not just the gas prices. This is the play book straight out of Nazi Germany.

It so sad to me to think that someday we REALLY will revolt, I just can't understand why we're all waiting around for it to keep getting worse until we do.

Why are we waiting?

oh and K&R!

[fordnut]

12. Truckers

The independent truckers won`t revolt over fuel prices there is not enough of us left.Reagan made independent the trucker an endangered species when he raised federal use taxes and supposedly deregulated trucking.Large trucking companies have taken over fuel prices don`t bother them they get a raise every time fuel goes up.By the way I hate Reagan just as much as both Bushes!