How Bad is Gas Gouging in Your Area? This is the Worst I've Ever Seen

[kysrsoze]

Today, I pulled into a Phillips 66 station on in Rolling Meadows, IL, on Algonquin Rd between Rt 53 and Golf Road.

They advertised regular gas for $3.66 per gallon, or $3.21 for gas with a car wash. Other grades are not advertised. When I pulled in, the car wash was out of order and the pumps read mid-grade gas at $3.96 per gallon and premium at $4.26 per gallon. I went back into the shop and asked for my cash back, then drove two more blocks to a Citgo station where I was able to buy premium for the same price as regular at this Phillips station.

This is absolute robbery and is not the only case in the Chicago area. There are numerous Chicago stations charging $3.99 per gallon for regular and $4.19 for premium. Thankfully, I live in Chicago and am able to take the train or bike to work, so I drive very little. But my fiance is getting pummeled by gas even in her 4-cylinder car because she has to commute and hasn't been able to find a job closer to us.

Of course, the news wants us all to believe nobody cares, but I'm absolutely ticked off at how disgusting a business like this can be. I wrote all the local newspapers and TV stations because I'M MAD AS HELL AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!

[Monkeyman]

1. Rod Made A Promise to look into it

Still Nothing. Gas Went up again today in the Western Subs

[SeattleGirl]

2. It's not quite that bad here in Seattle, but it's sure not pretty.

The station closest to me has mid-grade (what I use), at $3.59 a gallon. I was in a small town south of Seattle last week, and saw a Citgo station with mid-grade at $3.40. I'm glad I work from home, and only occasionally have to go out on appointments!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. sudenland of Chicago burbs. average 355.9

up from 345.9 yesterday.
up from 329.9 last week.
up from . . . .

[William769]

4. $3.15 a gallon!

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[Kingshakabobo]

5. I bet the BP station at LSD and North/LaSalle in the city is the highest.

They always gouge.


edit to add: I paid $3.65 at the BP @ Irving and Broadway in the city. My debit card authorization ran out before the tank filled......apparently they only pre-authorize $75 dollars and I didn't have the heart to re-start the pump.....LOL.

[kysrsoze]

8. Yeah, they suck too. It's bad enough we get raped by the oil companies

but the local stations are just as bad.

[HeeBGBz]

6. I was told tonight to gas up

Because it's going up another $.30 tomorrow.

[SeattleGirl]

7. What? $.30 more a gallon. SH*T!!!

And just yesterday, I heard that the stock market had a good day, in part because the price of oil had gone DOWN a bit. I think this whole thing is rigged. :grr: :grr: :grr:

[kysrsoze]

10. It's a complete scam. This is artifical supply suppression

All they have to do is let the refineries go to sh*t and not build anymore, and they make out like bandits. If our Congress had any kind of spine, we would have a windfall profit tax on the industry or some sort of nationalization of the refining industry by now. Of course, we know that will never happen.

[SeattleGirl]

14. Yup, I agree with you.

They are manipulating the market, and the powers that be aren't doing a damned thing about it.

[rucky]

9. I usually have enough cash to get just enough gas...

to get me to the next gas station.

[HeeBGBz]

11. Yeah, I haven't gassed up yet

Even after being told. I got $10 earlier, but I really should go put more in.

[northofdenali]

12. With a refinery literally in our back yard -

we're dealing with anywhere from $2.79 to $3.09. In the outlying (but still on-road) communities, $5.00 isn't unheard of. In the bush? Forget it - they're looking at $7.00 easily.

BP, Exxon/Mobile, ConocoPhillips et al are turning record profits. BP's Trans-Alaska Pipeline maintenance is for shit, due on their own admission to cost-cutting measures.

http://www.adn.com/money/industries/oil/story/8892687p-8791712c.html

BP lacked a good process for assessing corrosion risk in Prudhoe Bay pipelines, and corrosion fighters were forced to make "tradeoffs" to meet budget targets, a BP-hired consultant found.

<snip>

Aside from Congress, federal pipeline regulators, Alaska pollution regulators and federal criminal investigators are scrutinizing the Prudhoe problems.

Among the findings in the 132-page Booz Allen report:

• BP lacked an adequate process for assessing corrosion risk in pipelines and for making adjustments -- for example, when the composition of oil changes, possibly increasing corrosion.

Welcome to the United States of Big Oil.


On edit: AND BP just tried to get our legislature to OK them using their repairs to the pipeline as a tax write-off. Ballsy enough for ya? Try living in a state literally owned by the oil companies. Our own little corruption scandal is heating up big time - and it looks like Big Oil is behind 98% of it: http://www.adn.com/news/politics/fbi/story/8871159p-8771647c.html

There are many other stories under "Alaska Corruption" in the Anchorage Daily News, well worth reading for anyone out there who thinks Big Oil will ever be benign.

[CatholicEdHead]

13. Most $3.99 are in the NW part of Chicago

it does get cheaper in the suburbs.

http://www.chicagogasprices.com/

[scarface2004]

15. i own a gas station...

and have been told to ratchet it up to $6 by june...screw the motoring public!

[Left Is Write]

24. If gas were to go to $6, I'd have to quit my job.

It would be too expensive to work!

[CK_John]

16. They are just probing for a new resistance point. n/t

[havocmom]

19. They put all their plans for governance in case of emergencies in place

Buffed and polished the implements to dissolve the government as we have known it. Seems they did a lot of work on that just the past couple of weeks.

Now they are setting up the stage for the emergencies. They are fucking begging for people to start rioting so they can pull another power grab.

Cheney is in a corner. The good cops are closing in on his criminal enterprise. He is not the sort to come along peacefully.

There is bad mojo working as the chess game winds down to a conclusion.

It's a whole lot more than poking around for the tolerance level at this point.

Cheney is in a world of hurt. He has made it possible for his buds to steal BILLIONS. You be they will help keep him out of the clink.

Thinkin this is more than a probe. This is becoming incitement - so they can disband the institutions we hold dear.

And people, consider this: Food takes fuel. Takes fuel to grow, harvest and get it to market. This is about more than your personal gas tank.

[tblue]

17. I saw $4.45 a few days ago in San Francisco. For Regular!!! Find best prices at gasbuddy.com

[Strelnikov_]

18. "60-70% chance we would have gasoline rationing this year"

http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic29180-15.html

Apparently, Matt Simmons was at an APSO meeting last night, and told people he thought there was a 60-70% chance we would have gasoline rationing this year. 90% chance if there's a Gulf hurricane.

The refining capacity problem was apparent to me, and many others, following Katrina. As usual, though, the warnings were ignored by the sheeple and politicians.

Sold my guzzler for a 40+ mpg car in May of 05.

The warning annunciators were flashing even then if one was willing to look.

[havocmom]

20. Rationing like health care: the rich will have it

the rest won't.

Plant food seeds.

[Gabi Hayes]

21. meanwhile, the strange saga of diesel: it's been as much as 90 cents

a gallon more than regular....I know, cause when I bought my diesel car two years ago, that's what the difference was for awhile.

I've heard it's cheaper sometimes because it doesn't take as much refining as gasoline

today, here's what it's costing in the chicago area at the cheapest stations: less than gas now; around twenty that are $3.00/gal or less

go figure

http://www.chicagogasprices.com/index.aspx?s=Y&fuel=D&area=All%20Areas&station=All%20Stations&tme_limit=36


btw, this year, for the first time, over half of the cars on the road in Europe run on diesel

[july302001]

22. gas

It's running $3.04_9 at the very lowest up to $3.09_9 around here in North Cackylacky. A report from Ohio says there was gas at @ $2.99_9. West Virginia is running $3.19_9 or so.

I see a lot of people filling up at the lowest-priced station around (Ingle's grocery). Friend of mine with a GMC van reports credit card authorization running out at $75.00 - - almost filled the tank but short a gallon or so.

I've got car payments, but I'm happy that I bought a used Prius last summer -

[guitar man]

23. Tulsa OK

3.09, in the "oil capital of the world" pffft!

Oklahoma City, where I'm at working right now, it's 3.15 :wow:

It cost me 9.04 last night to fill up the tank on my bike. On a Sportster no less, with it's infamous small "Peanut" tank as they are called.

It's outrageous :grr:

[sce56]

25. Wow I thought we got it the worst in LA Highest here now is 3.89 Reg

As reported on http://www.losangelesgasprices.com/
I bought it for 3.33 Monday first time I bought in about two . five weeks! Got a new job and live five blocks from it! Last job was 40 Miles from home....

Lowest in LA Area is 3.21 in Bellflower

[BrotherBuzz]

26. $3.33 in Sacramento Valley, a drop of 2 cents from last week

Woohoo :crazy:

[Horse with no Name]

27. Went up 10 cents last night--up to $3.09 in East Texas

Fucking ridiculous.

[Broken_Hero]

28. 3.24 -edit

in Neosho, MO........:(

Edit:it was 3.14 sunday evening....

[tkmorris]

40. Neosho eh?

I used to live in a little town south of there, Anderson Mo. Nice place. A bit backwards, but the scenery was fantastic.

[Xenotime]

29. I can't afford to mow my grass...

THESE OIL COMPANIES ARE FUCKING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCK THIS PISSES ME OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Breeze54]

30. Expect to see it hit $5.00 a gal. before summers end!

It's $2.86 near me for reg.

An unwelcome sight

As gas prices hit record levels in many Illinois cities, drivers wonder: How high will they go?

http://www.pjstar.com/stories/051607/TRI_BD7QBTFT.025.php

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

By JAN DENNIS of The Associated Press

EAST PEORIA -

Carroll Pruitt pumped nearly $69 worth of gasoline into five large plastic containers in the back of his pickup Tuesday, stocking up in case record Illinois fuel prices spiral even higher.

But even if they do, Pruitt says it won't keep him from filling up his gas-guzzling Chevrolet Silverado or a motor home that costs more than $180 to fill as Illinois gas prices reached an all-time high of $3.32 a gallon Tuesday for self-service regular.

"What are you going to do? Stop driving?" said Pruitt of East Peoria.

Drivers grumbled, but most said they won't park more as gas prices reached new highs in nine of 11 Illinois cities surveyed for a daily gas price report compiled by AAA. Ironically, the records came the same day an online drive called for a nationwide gas boycott to punish oil companies for sky-high prices.

"I just spent another arm and a leg. And it seems like it's diluted with water because it runs out so quick," Keith Johnson of Springfield said while pumping $3.29 a gallon gas at a station not far from the state Capitol.

Chicago posted a record average price of $3.42 a gallon Tuesday, the state high and well above the national average of $3.08.

"That's a new record," Eddie Ingalls said as a pump registered $83.89 after he filled up his GMC Yukon at a station near downtown Chicago. "Every time I pump up, it's a new record."

The pain at the pump was spread around the state, with new records ranging from $3.29 a gallon in Quincy to $3.19 in Decatur.

Authorities say high gas prices pose a unique hardship across much of rural Illinois, where gas-chugging pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles are part of the culture, but public transportation options aren't.

Many downstate workers also face daily commutes that can top 50 miles each way as they opt to live in small towns where crime rates and housing costs are both low, authorities say.

"I think people are just sucking it up because you have to. What can you do if you have to drive 30 miles to work?" said Christopher Merrett, director of the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs.

Garrett Ginglen drives 80 miles round trip every day from his home in Lewistown to his job as a safety manager for Caterpillar Inc. in Peoria. High prices have pushed his weekly fuel bill from $40 to $50, but he says the extra cash is worth it to raise his kids in the quiet and safety of his hometown of about 2,500 people.

"I don't see moving anytime soon. In a small town, you know everybody and I like that," Ginglen said.

More.......

[jumpshot]

31. Gas Gouging is happening in Canada too. It is out of control!

Although we buy our gas by the liter not the gallon, it is still moving up rapidly. This week in my hometown of 100,000 people, gas went up 17%. I got so annoyed I created a website that I plan to send to our local radio stations. If people cared enough to act, then a plan similar to this one might work. If gas keeps going up like this, soon we must collectively try something! http://www.gascompetition.com

[last_texas_dem]

32. It looks like it just shot up again yesterday

I found it for $2.93 near my apartment, but I saw it as high as $3.09 in North Austin. I've managed to avoid ever paying more than $3 for a gallon of gas ($2.99 is the highest I've paid) but I'm sure the inevitable will happen and I'll have to break the three-dollar mark soon.

[lildreamer316]

33. Suburb of G'boro, NC:$3.19 (regular)

although it had dropped a whole 2 cents this afternoon...dunno why.

[u4ic]

34. $4.61 a gallon

$1.22/litre. That's for regular gas. I don't even want to look at how much the premium stuff is.

[CK_John]

35. IMO,They want gas to be the same Europe, $6.99 is the target. n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

37. Yeah, but in a lot of European areas they have decent mass trans.

That isn't the case here.

[fortyfeetunder]

36. Is high price punishment for Nov. election outcome?

Remember prior to the elections in November the prices took a downward spiral...and after the elections -- where Dems won the House and Senate -- the prices started their not quite exponential rise?

Think we are being punished for the change in Congress?


Just wondering?

:shrug:

[Hekate]

39. Naw, they were gonna do it anyway. Pre-election they were just messing with our minds.

Why? Because they can.

Hekate

[radfringe]

38. as of Sunday morning in Dallas PA

regular gas ranged from $2.99 - $3.15

hate to see what the prices are this morning