Filled up this morning for $2.72. The station down the street was already at $3, and the station I was at was getting ready to up their price too. Ugh.

$3.26 when I just bought it. Fucking ridiculous.

Why didnt i see this thread yesterday. I was thinking of pumping yesterday at $2.64 but decided to do it today before school, to my surprise now $2.98. I even saw in the news some of Illinois is it $3.69.

Gas is currently 2.79 here on average, and is as low as 2.69 still.

I love dependency.

Makes communism look kinda nice, doesn't it?

Okay, I was really just kidding there. Please don't take that seriously. We don't want another "You guys are all assholes, sick and cold, go to hell" type post because of what I joke about.

Was 1.20/L this morning but is back down to 1.03 this afternoon... This just underscores for me that what was going on was gouging.

Let's face it. I can handle the price going up because of the disaster. It makes sense. BUT... The gas they have in the pumps right now was purchased at a lower rate.

They are just taking advantage of a bad situation... that *is* sick and cold.

$3.19/gal in Indiana, Wednesday night...

It went up $.46/gal overnight here. From $2.749 to $3.209. I filled up yesterday at $2.749...yay me!

It's only up .10 here in Corvallis. I'm really surprised. It's up to 2.67 (highest all summer) after hitting 2.63 two weeks ago and dropping to 2.57 early last week. I thought for sure the price would have jumped more by now. But then we are close to all the West Coast refineries :)

nothing to say

Just bought some at 2.69. Actually, we bought it for 2.79 because I couldn't find the 2.69 pump and people were honking.

It is nice living blocks away from the cheapest station in town.

Supposedly in Georgia. Fucking A!!

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Thanks for the heads up, I'll definitly fill it up tonight.

No doubt. This morning it was $2.68, when I came home about an hour ago, the gas station up the road was putting up $3.24.

It just seems a bit odd that every gas station in town has a different price and it seems to be changing at random times during the day. I know a few months after 9/11 about a dozen different gas stations around here got into some trouble for price gouging, so, this little flare up doesn't surprise me one bit.

Not even 12 hours later, its up to 3 allready.......

Blah.

Not much impact here in California, up roughly 5-8 cents since Saturday. But, as someone else alluded to, we have the west coast refineries close by.

I read an article which stated that Internet rumors have helped fuel the run on gas in the south, such as a rumor about State Troopers closing all gas stations at a certain time. I think the lines only help drive up the crazy demand and are actually inflating the prices more than the should be.

EDIT: I guess I didn't pay as much attention today to this prices, I checked one of the gas price websites, and the average here in Orange County is up to $2.88, from $2.81 yesterday and $2.75 last week. The national average is $2.86, and I can tell you that I can not remember the national average being even within 30 cents of the California averages. With the heavier California gas taxes and generally higher cost for the cleaner gasolines we use here, you can say California now may have some of the cheapest gas in the country. Little consolation though, in light of the events of the last few days.

i've only used up a quarter tank but it looks like i should buy gas tomorrow. i had no reason to today, and instead of driving to the local college here, i ran and it took me 10 minutes :-D

I am in Salt Lake City and just filled up the night of the hurricane @ 2.39/gal. I have only used about a quarter tank in my Pont Sunfire since then and refueled tonight @ 2.69/gal. So it has shot up about 30 cents here in just 3 days. I was hoping we would see gas here drop down to about 2.00/gal sometime in the future because it was slowly dropping, but now who knows if we will see the 2.50/gal price again.

I just got a full tank the other day. Reg. Unleaded at my BP near me was $2.59/gal. So I won't need to worry for a bit. <3 my Corolla.

You're right. It is sick and cold. It's not like there are better things to do with the saved money....like, oh, I don't know, donate to help thousands of people recover from a terrible disaster. It's much better to spend the money on gas instead.

Anyway, I saw it at 2.99 last night and the station was PACKED with people filling up.

I usually wait until i'm low and then fill up my tank completely. I usually tank about 11.7 gallons.

Gas here shot up $0.30, to $3/gallon in the last 2 days. All reports point towards that going up to $4/gallon. That's a total difference, just because of this event, of $1.30. THAT'S INSANE.

Also, the difference in price means that, with the extra $1.30/gallon, it will cost an additional $15.21. That is a lot of extra money that, as SecretMethod70 pointed out, has many, many better uses than going towards gas.

So, yeah, I'm pissed gas prices are skyrocketing. I'm also sad that so many people's lives are fuxored. But you know what else? Most gas stations in the area were OUT OF GAS...

In central florida, the shortage is so bad that they're expecting to have to suspend school bus service after labor day (the 5th) until the supply of diesel is restored. This will horribly inconvenience everyone with kids- and also those who have to drive around with all those extra cars on the road. This will make for mad drivers, and more drivers, which will increase accidents. They are reporting having to shut down airports because of lack of jet fuel and other fuels needed to run things.

By the way... not for nothing, but I searched and didn't see a single post- not one- in all of the very many threads about the tsunamis that hit over in Asia from you. You were active in the forums they were in, but didn't post once in any of the tsunami threads. I'm not saying that because you chose to post in practically all the hurricane threads that you had to post in the tsunami threads... but a shitload more people's lives were ruined and taken away by that disaster than hurricane Katrina.

I'm just curious, and I bring it up, since apparently you're calling us all cold and sick. You know, since that's not a nice or fair thing to say, I figured I'd extend my curiosity on your total lack of voice for the tsunami victims and see why you didn't care about that.

[my uncle] I'm not sayin' nothin', I'm just sayin'. [/my uncle]

It is so insane here its not funny. Yesterday was pay day....I get gas on payday...I COULD NOT get into any gas station along the 11 mile drive home....streets were backed up with people waiting to get to the pumps and I was almost on empty. SO many gas stations are now out of gas.

Fortunately the one next to my house had been replinished sometime over nite, so I got to pay 3.19 to fill my tank up. I got over by work and realized I needed to stop and get a Dr Pepper so I pulled into the BP station next to my office.....they were out of gas...the tanker truck was in the parking lot pumping...YAY the station would have gas...BUT people were in the fucking parking lot cussing out the tanker drivers cause it was taking so long....helloooo people, you can only pump that stuff so fast.

I grew up in a pipeline family, the two that run thru georgia over to texas are the ones that are down. I believe I heard this morning that one is up and running at 35% and they hope for 50% by the weekend....Im not sure which one though, my daddy worked for one, my grandfather the other one.

People...dont yell at the tanker drivers, and you stupid gas stations trying to charge so much (yes some stations here were charging over 5 dollars a gallon yesterday, but they were shut down) stop being so fucking greedy!!!!!!

Im scared at the rate drive offs are increasing...those people are going to cause some serious wrecks trying to get away.

I know that rant didnt make any sense...but geez Im just shocked at the behaviour of some people

edit* I found an article about this stuff here...which talks about both pipelines (my daddy worked for plantation, my grandaddy worked for Colonial)

Arizona had a pipeline crunch two years ago, and it was a mess - but it was an eye opener to just how quickly things can change, and how much a rumor can affect the behavior of the masses.

hi there, well i live in australia and i paid $1.28 a litre for petrol or what you all call gas, this time last year i was paying under $1 a litre, so with the change over in currency ect us aussies are paying a lot more than everyone else, it just seems to cost more and more every week!

It was hovering around $1.27/L at the highest and .98/L at the lowest here in Toronto this morning...

The pump near my house that was $1.03 last night was back up to $1.25 this morning... Fuckers.

Huh. The news item in ShaniFaye's post just makes me think I contributed to the panicking! Which I may have... and if I did, I'm sorry. :(

Right now, the range is 2.85 to 3.09/gallon in the stations I've seen here in NYC. I can't believe they'd keep the prices up after the pipelines are functioning again... but I've been surprised before.

Nah, I don't think you have much to do with it. The news would have come from somebody. I think I clued in on Sunday when they were talking about closing the oil rigs and evacuating.

I just got off the phone with my daddy, and I thought I'd pass what he told me along, to anyone that might be interested.

Pipeline company lesson #1
Whats happening right now is that....the main staging area is in Baton Rouge and Pascagoola (sp?) MS...those staging areas require 6000 to 8000 hp motors to run the pipes. The pipes should not be damages as they lay 12 feet underground, BUT they run up hill from Baton Rouge to Bremen Ga (which is right at the alabama state line). They have no power, there are not many generators that can run a 6k-8k hp motor which is why they are only running a 35%. The line that runs from Bremen GA to Greensboro NC doesnt require power to pump the tanks because gravity does the work for them.

On a normal day they will pump around 800,000 barrells per day...each barrell is 42 gallons. Right now if they are running at 35% they are pumping 280,000 barrells which would be 11,760,000 gallons a day.

We arent running out of gas....its just taking time to get it here.

anyway, I thought that might be interesting to somebody

Urk, for a temporary price hike, that's insanity. God help you all when the fuel really does start running out, holy crap.

Thanks for sharing your info Shanifaye.

I have felt irritated that people could be so greedy. Hubby does have to drive about 30mi one way to work and back each day. I do not drive anywhere for work or even much during the week for groceries. So long as it isn't pouring rain or freezing cold I use my bicycle and bike trailer to take the kids places and even go to the grocery store. I am lucky to live in a smaller town where a leisurely bike across town from one end to the other only takes me about 45 min. We are using as little gas as possible.

What irritates me is that the gas stations are somewhat milking the 'threat' to our gas supply by hiking the price much more than is reasonable. I can understand some changes in price but from $2.72 to $3.23 in one night is outright greedy.

As for being concerned about those who've been hit by the storm - Complaining that we're more concerned about the money we spend on gas is not hurting them any. If the hike in gas price was to fund relief efforts I would be much more willing to spend the added dollars. For greed - I will do my upmost to avoid giving you any more money than my personal needs dictate.

It's $3.30 here in Boone, NC. Wee!!!!!

-Lasereth

Hey! Control yourself there. ;)

Call me a cynic, but with Labor Day weekend around the bend, I imagine those prices aren't going anywhere but up.

Charlatan called it right...."fuckers."

$3.30 about 20 miles south of charlotte in SC, normally oen of the cheapest places i've seen to get gas, but that has changed...tremendously....

sad story, a house burned yesterday as the firetruck coming was blocked by lines for gas stations running into the street...the firetruck was literally stuck while in sight of the burning house...

Another sad story: my manager has a dodge durango, not the most efficient car by any means, and lives 45 miles away from work..and shares her car with her bf who drives another 30 miles to his workplace...75 miles for a one way trip to work, so 150 miles per day at an average of 18-20 mpg at $3/gallon.. so roughly $10/day for driving to and from work, which means she is working for roughly an hour pre-tax JUST to pay to come to work that day

another funny item: it is now cheaper for me to replace my battery than it is to fill my tank. it is also cheaper for an oil change with synthetic oil that my car uses: mobil 1 full synth is $5.30/quart so an oil change is ~$30 with filter.

anyone know what the highest gas price was during the 70's when adjusted for inflation?

I think they topped out at about $2.94, adjusted for inflation. It was actually 1980 when they hit that high. I've also heard numbers like $3.07 and $3.30, and 1981, too, but I don't know who is telling the truth.

I think it's pretty clear, we've made up for that inflation gap now.

Im sorry to threadjack a little but since I just heard on the news, unless you NEED to buy it now, dont buy gas just to save a dollar or two. I think workers and Gulf residence need it more now than we do.

Looks like Ill be bumming rides for a little bit now.

It's right over $3.00 adjusted for inflation in the early 80's.

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