Reno is headed there rapidly. Gone up a buck in the last few weeks to $3.49/gal. Why? No clue.
Vermin trying to take out Trump.
not a word about tax increases which I think were quite substantial in some states?
Canada went skyrocketing up as well (just in time to add to the greenhouse gases tax that Canada stuck on each litre of petrol.) Of course, people are blaming the folks who make the least profit off of each fuel sale: the oil companies.
You take a few minutes and explain the average profits the station, transporter, refiner, and oil provider take vs the three to four times that number (or more in California when you add in the underground tank taxes...) and it gets through their thick skull that the one who’s profiting (and subject to their vote) is their government.
$2.30/gal. in upstate SC today.
2.29 in Mandeville Louisiana today.
$2.98 Poconos in PA.
$2.49 in Geneva, Alabama. I think that is one of the highest in the state. I still get mine there as Florida is even higher.
Here I go again showing my ignorance so I’ll depend on some of you to ‘splain to me.......I thought if we produced our own oil and refined our own oil, gas prices in the US would go down.....where am I going wrong?
Here in the SF Bay Area, $4/gallon gas is normal. Right now, slightly under that. We have refineries here, but are required to mix lots of ethanol into the gasoline. Always high cost, never seems to go down compared to the rest of the country (price gouging).
Just a reminder to all. The spike in fuel prices in 2007 and 2008 began the downward spiral leading ultimately to the collapse of real estate in 2008.
When you can Spike fuel prices, you kill car sales. You make every economic activity far more expensive. All kinds of jobs start drying up. Then those people have trouble meeting financial obligations, and it snowballs.
We could be seeing the beginning of them tanking the economy as a method to attack Trump before the 2020 election.
ALMOST AT $4.00 here in San Diego.
$3.91.
$3.75 at AMPM in Los Angeles, cheapest I saw, I was in AZ last weekend $2.40
Went up to $2.85 here in my central Hoosierland area last week, but dropped to $2.50 today.
I just did a search of my local area, la/oc counties in California. I know I paid $3.79.9 for diesel on my last fill-up, regular is between $3.96 & $4.06, right now.
I paid $3.65 for premium today. Southern reaches of Puget Sound.
Every spring gas prices seem to skyrocket to the highest prices of the year. Why does this happen? In explanation, we hear the experts say that many of the refineries are “down for maintenance while transitioning from winter-blend to summer-blend gasoline,” but what does this mean?The difference between summer- and winter-blend gasoline involves the Reid Vapor Pressure (RVP) of the fuel. RVP is a measure of how easily the fuel evaporates at a given temperature. The more volatile a gasoline (higher RVP), the easier it evaporates.
Winter-blend fuel has a higher RVP because the fuel must be able to evaporate at low temperatures for the engine to operate properly, especially when the engine is cold. If the RVP is too low on a frigid day, the vehicle will be hard to start and once started, will run rough.
Summer-blend gasoline has a lower RVP to prevent excessive evaporation when outside temperatures rise. Reducing the volatility of summer gas decreases emissions that can contribute to unhealthy ozone and smog levels. A lower RVP also helps prevent drivability problems such as vapor lock on hot days, especially in older vehicles. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says conventional summer-blend gasoline contains 1.7 percent more energy than winter-blend gas, which is one reason why gas mileage is slightly better in the summer. However, the summer-blend is also more expensive to produce, and that cost is passed on to the motorist.
The switch between the two fuels happens twice a year, once in the fall (to winter-blend) and again in the spring (to summer-blend). The changeover requires significant work at refineries, so oil companies schedule their maintenance for those times when they will already be “down” for the blend switches.
As a consumer, the main thing to understand is that there are real reasons for the switch from winter- to summer-blend fuel, even if it results in some pain at the pump.
NBC=Fake news.
We were doing better prior to attaining “Energy Independence”. No great benefits to America finally becoming a crude exporter that I’ve noticed. Looks as though the rising consumer fuel prices are mitigating (for the oil industry) the oil tanker’s cost of pushing crude across the ocean. And now our beloved leader Kasick is raising Ohio’s fuel tax to boot, further damaging those who live paycheck to paycheck. He first made all the Ohio CCW carrying veterans happy by eliminating the license fees, then slapped us all in the face with the fuel tax increase. (Whap! Thank you sir, may I have another?)
We consumers are only money pawns for the oil company profits.