Posted on 03/28/2006 12:11:14 PM PST by presidio9
Because they have to make Oxigenated gasoline until X date by federal mandate.
Here in Alabama, it was $2.49 last week. This week it is $2.40. Go figure.
Who cares? I could really give a flip...milk goes up and down and nobody gives a ratz patoody...so does butter, lettuce, tomatoes and just about everything else in this great country. I need gas, food and clothing. I'll but what I need and stop going to the movies..ooops, haven't been to a movie in two years or more...I'll just adjust somewhere else.
The greedy oil companies need to talk to "THE GUY" who pegs the price each week and tell him to jack it up faster and bring it back down slower...LOL!
I paid $2.39 this morning in Mobile.
There ARE ways to make $$$ off of this forecast....
Yeah, but we're not talking about bottled water. Heh heh heh...
That's pretty good. You guys probably don't have to buy the exotic blend we do though. That probably raises our costs by $0.10 to $0.25 a gallon. Still, you're looking pretty good back there.
As Rush notes, this time of year the so called experts are touted by the Drive By Media on this subject and are more than often wrong.
Again I wish the specultors that are driving the market up would be investigated. This is where we would find the real crime, not at the corporate offices of Exxon, Cheveron, etc.
$2.42 - $2.49 around town with some isolated gas stations about 15 cents more proud of their product.
It's starting here in Texas. It's gone down about 5 cents in a week here so hopefully the Good People of North Carolina will see the drop soon.
1200 mile round trip, 15 MPG = 80 gallons...Yep, that extra $80 is going to change folks' plans. If it does, they need to stay home and work....
Down 10 cents a gallon here in OH in the past three days.
If Bush were smart, he'd have the EPA authorize any and all gasoline formulas everywhere in the USA. Why is one formula better at fighting smog in LA? A second in Huston? A Third in Chicago?
One of the bottlenecks that creates the summer increase in prices is the strain that so many different formulas have on the limited refining, storage and distribution of the product.
The formula I buy in Cornland to go to Chicago gives me 10 or 15% more mileage than the smog figthing formula I buy in Chicago to return to work. So if the smog fighting formula burns more gas for the same miles, how is that a plus for either energy conservation or pollution?
"1200 mile round trip, 15 MPG = 80 gallons...Yep, that extra $80 is going to change folks' plans. If it does, they need to stay home and work...."
Look at it this way - average family with two cars putting on a total of 30k per year, and each car averaging 20 mpg, an increase from $2.50 to $3.00 results in an extra $750 dollars in yearly gas costs.
That's a weeks pay for a lot of people.
// 40mpg Civic and 30mpg Accord owner
/ It's conservative to "conserve"
"This is going to be the summer of hurricane fears, the summer of hurricane worries."
Gee, I planned on enjoying my summer here on the east coast of FL. Now I have to make time to fear and worry about the unknown.
you mean as opposed to the oil company execs and cartels - who rig the markets because they think they are entitled to record profits?
there was supposed to be some relaxing in refinery permit rules - where are all these new US refineries going up? the truth is, the industry likes the tight refining capacity just fine - they don't want to build any new refineries, and they don't want to store refined oil stocks to smooth out these price dislocations. they don't want any new competitors in the market either, and would rather further consolidate through mergers then compete.
but I guess they are ENTITLED to be allowed to do anything they want?
I told you people like to bitch. lol
its because of credit cards. most people absorb these higher gas costs, because they buy gas on credit, and it just gets rolled into their debt load.
want to see some conservation - ban credit card purchases for fuel - cash or debit only.
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