Gas Prices

[rosesaylavee]

Just passed a gas station I go by about once a week. It's price for unleaded regular has dropped to $2.99 or about $.20 cheaper than it was about 2 weeks ago. Another station in the next town was promoting $3.14 for the same.

You wanna bet 'busholine' prices will be in the $2.50 range by the November election?

Or, could it be that *co is actually 'jaw-boning' the Saudis about this right now? :sarcasm:

How's the gas gouging going in your area?

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I win. Ours just dropped to 2.699

It's like limbo - How Low Can You Go?

I think it will probably go up .15 tomorrow - that is what usually happens.

[AndyA]

5. Gas was $2.64 earlier this week, $2.69 yesterday and I think $2.67 today.

It changes so often now, it's hard to keep track. But I know there's PLENTY of profit built in for the oil companies! Bastards!!

[notadmblnd]

2. looking for them to be under 2.70 by next week

they have gone down from 3.09 to right about 2.74 right now.

[ananda]

3. It's gone down..

I saw where I could get it at $2.69 a gallon, except
that I already filled up a few days ago at $2.71.

Yep, the timing is rather convenient for *.

[aceman2373]

4. I am just happy it is below $3.00 again...

The gas hog I have was costing me a fortune... $2.79 in my neck of the woods..

[The Straight Story]

6. $2.45 here in Columbus, down from $2.49 yesterday (nt)

[Pepper32]

7. Down to $2.71 here...

I'm in Atlanta.

[BOSSHOG]

8. $2.82 - down seven cents in a week in South Mississippi

How can bush and his oil pals survive on those prices? It is incredibly compassionate of them to offer their product at such ridiculously low prices.

[charlie]

9. $2.59

Down 40 cents in 2 1/2 weeks.

[tridim]

10. So does $2.99 seem cheap to you now?

If so, mission accomplished.

Gas was around $1.20 before * stole office.

[Sherman A1]

11. Agreed

and that is when I really started cutting back on my driving. Since then it is back and forth to work and not too much else.

[rosesaylavee]

18. Have to admit that I do get a little 'blip' of excitement

when I see a lower price than a previously seen one... but I do slap myself around to bring me back to reality. :) Just grateful for $2.99 for now.

[tridim]

21. I didn't mean to pick on you specifically

I too caught myself the other day thinking $2.89 was cheap. As I drove by I remembered the good old days, just 5 years ago. Then I daydreamed about kicking our oil-man pretzeldent squarely in the nuts.

[snappyturtle]

12. We're still paying $3.25 for diesel....

in northern MN.

[MuseRider]

16. Same in Kansas

I paid $3.29 just the other day. Can't fill up the tank because they shut it off at $70.00. Killing me. If I did not need this truck I would be in a Prius.

[Imagevision]

32. Cape Coral Fla. gas prices dropped 8 cents in 8-9 days

I thought gas prices were supposed to go up because of BP's oil pipes problems, they stated they would be closing down 50% of oil production until early 2007.

GOP has serious election probs for 06

[Ignacio Upton]

13. Nothing surprises me anymore

While $2.50 gas would still cost an arm and leg compared to the prices of 2003 and earlier, Bush could pull off an Orwellian switcheroo. Remember how chocolate rations were cut and then "raised" in "1984?"

[ovidsen]

14. Alaska pipeline shutdown results in lower gasoline prices

Oh, wait!!!

Wasn't the absence of that precious irreplacable Alaskan oil supposed to push prices UP???

Isn't this why ANWR should be opened up?

You don't (gasp!) think prices are being MANIPULATED, do you??

[Warren Stupidity]

15. It ain't the individual data points its the trend.

And the trend is up, up, up. A major recession, global recession, deep enough to drive down demand, would cause a long term decline. Absent that, population increases and the ongoing modernization of the asian nations (China, India, et al) are increasing demand faster than increases in supply. The cost can only go up under these conditions. Peak Oil is real.

[seriousstan]

17. So why did he allow the price to be so high during the 04 election?

I heard this same B.S. about the prices of gas were going to be lowered before the 04 election. They weren't. Why not?

[rosesaylavee]

20. Don't know.

It's hard to figure crazy people out.

[seriousstan]

22. Precisely what I was thinking but I doubt we are talking about

the same "people". :tinfoilhat:

[Monkeyman]

19. Did you guys get your Electic or Gas bills yet mine up 75%

[butterfly77]

23. mine too...

and that won't be going down.

[focusfan]

24. I paid $2.59 in southeast KY

Diesel fuel still close to $3.00 though,it started falling the day after the cease fire.

[movie_girl99]

25. they are 2.52 at several places around my area

suburb near Dallas

[auburngrad82]

26. Even at $2.50 it would be 75 cents higher than election day 2004

and about $1 higher than election day 2000.



Liberal bumper stickers

[4dsc]

27. Dropping fast in Iowa

prices are down to $2.49 today. the price almost drops every day.. Must be an election coming..

[haele]

28. Drop in price before the Labor Day weekend.

We saw the same thing the week before Memorial Day and 4th of July. This is so we don't complain when it jumps back up to $3.25 by the middle of September. After all, "all that Holiday travel puts so much of a strain on the fuel oil reserves...supply and demand, baby..."

It will probably sit at that price until after the mid-terms, then jump up right before Thanksgiving.

They've got us inoculated for over $3 a gallon, and they're slowly working their way up to near $4. We'll start seeing $4 + by next President's Day.

I'd be very, very surprised if that isn't the plan.

Haele

[catmandu57]

29. We knew this was coming

They'll bite the bullet long enough to make the piggies look good, then raise the hell out of them next year..

[Imagevision]

30. BP shutting down half of its production, and prices drop?? this only

goes to show us how much big oil and government are in this together.

BP's Alaskan pipeline problems brought about estimates of gas prices in the $4.00-$5.00 range only 2 weeks ago- they said the repairs wouldn't be complete until early 2007, --> how can we have less oil production and have gas prices decrease?? duh?!! keywords> GOP to lose house/and/or senate in 06 elections.

[Deja Q]

31. 33 cents

per liter in Beijing (about 70 cents/gl)

http://english.people.com.cn/english/200102/06/eng20010206_61616.html