Price Gouging: Gas hits $2.81 for regular in No. Va.

[FSogol]

It had been rising 3 cents a day, but jumped 15 cents over the weekend.

What is the cost in your area?

[CottonBear]

1. $2.539 in NE GA and Middle GA. n/t

[marmar]

2. Anywhere from $2.65 to $2.79 in metro Detroit...

In Royal Oak, I found it for $2.65 a gallon. A couple of miles away in Troy, it was $2.79.

[TahitiNut]

11. Yep. Happily, the Citgos on Crooks at 12 Mile and 13 Mile are pretty good.

I stay off Woodward and away from I-75 ... where the prices are highest.

[marmar]

13. True. The closer I got to I-75, the higher it went.

Thank goodness for Hugo Chavez.

[TahitiNut]

14. Next time you're on Crooks between 12 and 13, just yell

... "Hi, Mike!!" very loudly and I'll wave. :evilgrin: I might even be picking up meds at the SavOn Drugs right there. (Look for a red LeBaron pervertible.)

[marmar]

17. Will do...

If you hear someone screaming "Hi Mike" from a dark blue Dodge Stratus en route to the Main Art, it's me!

[Squatch]

3. $2.61 in Norfolk

What's driving prices up, besides corporate greed?

[FSogol]

5. Besides corporate greed? An administration who profits from the gouging

:-(

[katamaran]

20. $2.69 in Ghent, $2.79 in Chesapeake/Western Branch

[izzybeans]

4. No the invisible hand changed the gas guzzler signs in Indiana

to read 2.75 (in my town anyway). :sarcasm:

Funny thing is I saw this invisible hand, and he was a tiny old man who sold me the morning paper. The invisible hand uses a long silver poll to set the "market value" of my vehicler life-blood. He of course is a representative of an oil co. profiteer. His salary has most likely seen no substantial increase since the gouging began. Another invisible hand. Just like Jeff skilling. ;)

[Staph]

6. Here in central WV, from $2.71 to $2.79.

I was out of town for most of last week. Between Sunday and Friday, my local station jumped from $2.65 to $2.75. I'm glad I filled up the car before I left!

[MountainLaurel]

9. Hi Staph!

Out of curiosity, where in central WV? My parents live near Fairmont.

[Staph]

19. Farther south . . .

I live near Charleston, but I grew up in Morgantown. Where near Fairmont?

(For those of you not from West Virginia, this is something that we West Virginians do, when we run into one another. The entire state of West Virginia is one small town, where we all seem to know each other, or know someone who knows someone who's related to someone . . .)

[MountainLaurel]

22. Monongah

Home of the worst coal mining disaster in history, or so the historical marker in town says.

And you are so right about that last point. I was first exposed to this phenomenon vacationing in Virginia Beach one year, when we not only were sitting on the ferry across the James behind the uncle of my brother's best friend but were in the same motel on the beach with some scary folk from our hometown. But WVans can find each other anywhere: One of my best friends went to Japan to teach English a few years ago. In his orientation class in Tokyo was a guy from Fairmont who vaguely remembered my name from his high school years.

[Staph]

23. Many, many years ago,

I was on a business trip in Dallas. At dinner with a bunch of co-workers from big cities (LA, Atlanta, Chicago, NY, etc.), I was getting teased about being from West Virginia.

"I bet she isn't wearing shoes under the table." "We'll have to read the menu to her. West Virginians can't read."

The waitress slammed her tray on the table and said, "Stop picking on her! I'm from West Virginia, too!"

So I asked her where she was from. She, too, was from Fairmont, so we started playing the "do you know..." game. Turns out that I went to high school with her cousin.

(And I can't for the life of me remember who the cousin was now. You never waited tables in Dallas, did you?) :D

[MountainLaurel]

25. Definitely wasn't me

My only excursion to Texas was to San Antonio and that was for work.

[demnan]

7. Across the Occoquan River from you

we are at $2.69 a gallon in Woodbridge.

[Initech]

8. Well over the $3 range in Southern California

And you'd think that in a state where people rely on their cars, gas would be dirt cheap here, but noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo... :banghead:

[dchill]

10. $2.70 here in NW PA - All I know is...

that under BushCo, Price Gouging is simply "Business as usual." A couple of days before 9/11, I paid $1.45 per gallon. Follow the money. Who benefits?

[4 t 4]

12. over $3 in Chicago! nt

[SmokingJacket]

15. $2.83 at my local station, NY.

Up to 2.89 elsewhere in town. Ouch!

[Rick Myers]

16. $2.69 today in Minneapolis

[movie_girl99]

18. I got it for 2.65 at the Costco near me yesterday

but it's averaging 2.75 at most places.

[B Calm]

21. $2.68 a gallon INDIANA

[tammywammy]

24. Don't forget to check gasbuddy.com before you fill up! n/t