Posted on 05/11/2021 8:57:45 PM PDT by Freedom56v2
Given the gas price hikes and shortages, I thought it might be helpful to have a thread posted where people can provide information such as location, current price of gas, the percentage increase, and availability.
grocery store is about 7 miles away....
with this inflation and shortages, I almost feel I have to buy something every day....buy buy buy....
I worry they'll cut the electricity although we do have a generator....our freezers are full....
what do you mean by “fuel/garden shed”....do you store a big tank of fuel in there?>...
“I know nothing’k... NOTHING”!
Kansas City suburb.
$1.66 on Election Day 2020.
$2.79 today.
Over $3.00 for regular 87 octane in upstate NY. $3.30 for 89.
Blizzard? It’s May 12...
Where do you live ;)
Thanks for the link.
I knew he tried!
North Texas has a large spread. Costco and Sams clubs both have $2.38 with lines 10 plus cars deep. Race trac by the motorway is $2.89 for 87 and only two cars deep. I’m glad I have a few hundred gallons in metal storage drums with Stabil fuel in it. 55 gal virgin metal drums $30 each when people are not panic buying them. 4 fit in a standard 8 foot trailer takes about an hour to fill all.four from a standard pump. Stakem high, stackem deep just like ammo and food. If you are not a prepper by now you missed your window socialism is here get used to shortages.
I am going to pass this along!
East Texas, Lufkin/Nacogdoches area.
Today, still $2.699 most places, hasn’t increased. An hour south toward Port Arthur (I went fishing) I paid $2.499 Monday. Always cheaper there, this is the most expensive area for 50 - 60 miles in any direction.
Looking at my gas log, on 1/23 it was $2.239, on 11/6 just after the election, $1.799. That’s just under a dollar increase. I expect it to go up any day now. I’m surprised it hasn’t already, it has been hanging at 2.65 - 2.69 for a month or more. I just realized, it did go up 4 cents, it was $2.659 a couple of days ago here. $2.699 today.
That’s regular unleaded, and by the way most of it at a Chevron that has a sign out that it’s ethanol free. I can get it 2 cents cheaper, but I like not having ethanol in it. On the road toward Port Artur no such luck, it has ethanol.
Thank you!
Kansas City suburb.
$1.66 on Election Day 2020.
$2.79 today.
Tho can still get $3.05 at Costco, today gas is $3.3 at most other stations in Western burbs of Chicago...
Chicagoland prices in Western suburbs are down a penny to $3.29/gallon.
According to Bloomberg, hackers were paid last Friday! Hmm... Interesting facts revealed in the article.
From article:
Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million to Eastern European hackers on Friday, contradicting reports earlier this week that the company had no intention of paying an extortion fee to help restore the country’s largest fuel pipeline, according to two people familiar with the transaction.
The company paid the hefty ransom in difficult-to-trace cryptocurrency within hours after the attack, underscoring the immense pressure faced by the Georgia-based operator to get gasoline and jet fuel flowing again to major cities along the Eastern Seaboard, those people said. A third person familiar with the situation said U.S. government officials are aware that Colonial made the payment.
Once they received the payment, the hackers provided the operator with a decrypting tool to restore its disabled computer network. The tool was so slow that the company continued using its own backups to help restore the system, one of the people familiar with the company’s efforts said.
A representative from Colonial declined to comment, as did a spokesperson for the National Security Council. Colonial said it began to resume fuel shipments around 5 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday.
Read More: Biggest U.S. Gasoline Pipeline Restarts After Cyberattack
The hackers, which the FBI said are linked to a group called DarkSide, specialize in digital extortion and are believed to be located in Russia or Eastern Europe.
LISTEN: Michael Riley discusses the Colonial Pipeline hack with Paul Sweeney and Kailey Leinz on Bloomberg Radio.
On Wednesday, media outlets including the Washington Post and Reuters, also based on anonymous sources, reported that the company had no immediate intention of paying the ransom.
Ransomware is a type of malware that locks up a victim’s files, which the attackers promise to unlock for a payment. More recently, some ransomware groups have also stolen victims’ data and threatened to release it unless paid — a kind of double extortion.
The FBI discourages organizations from paying ransom to hackers, saying there is no guarantee they will follow through on promises to unlock files. It also provides incentive to other would-be hackers, the agency says.
However, Anne Neuberger, the White House’s top cybersecurity official, pointedly declined to say whether companies should pay cyber ransoms at a briefing earlier this week. “We recognize, though, that companies are often in a difficult position if their data is encrypted and they do not have backups and cannot recover the data,” she told reporters Monday.
Such guidance provides a quandary for victims who have to weigh the risks...
Much more at the source.
Some stations in Eastern NC are still closed. But many do have gas now.
Good to know!
Hope these pipelines shore up their security soon.
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