Posted on 08/31/2005 3:30:39 PM PDT by Sender
I just paid $4.09 per gallon to fill up with regular. An hour ago the same station was at $3.09. I have verification from WSB Radio 750 Atlanta that local stations are charging from $4 to $6 per gallon, while Atlanta motorists are queued up for blocks to get some. Rumors are that the gas supply in Atlanta will run out before the weekend.
Really? Guess we will head out to our local Walmart.
You listen to WSB over WGST (I used to live in Georgia)?
Sure be a shame to see someone run a junk car over the thieves' pumps. Hate to see anyone do a criminal thing like that to such sterling businessmen. That would be wrong.
Yep, sure would be a shame ...
I'd call the police within seconds of seeing such a thing !
Here in N. E. South Dakota, it went from $2.59 to $2.99 this morning.CBS news just showed gas at $6.09.
That is gouging!
How 'bout we change some regulations and build some more refineries and spread them around, rather than putting them in the path of hurricanes?
OH!! But we might damage the environment! What about the owls? And the snail darter? And the whales?
$5.87 / gal in Atlanta right now (one station):
http://www.atlantagasprices.com/
Yeah, I believe they actually "moored rig" (I think that's the term --- I did my North Sea duty and don't leave terra firma anymore) actually all banned now -- these are probably grandfathered rigs in about 20-30 feet of water.
Not the huge things you see in the North Sea that have 20 or 30 wells going at once.
Really not a big deal in 3-4 weeks.
I must be on the Dummy Board by mistake.
"Gouging" is just a bush@# political term. Let the markets work -- let anyone charge whatever they want for the scarce commodity -- and it will resolve itself quickly. "Cap" prices by stupid legal action does nothing but ensure unnecessary shortages will occur.
Some gas stations are out in Greenville County (specifically Simpsonville and Fountain Inn). In Ft. Inn - an Exxon had a $10/car limit at 3PM-ish today. About $2.90-$3.00+ from what I have seen and heard.
-Eric
I keep hearing that they only make a penny a gallon
It varies from state to state with the lowest being 2 cents more to dime more and even more than that according to the area.
http://money.howstuffworks.com/gas-price2.htm
I don't worry, either.
Having a ranch, I have my 1,000 gallon tank of "orange" (tax-free) diesel.
Not supposed to use it on the road, but if need be . . .
Best possible thing that could happen right now is for prices to spike dramatically. 10-15% of the country's refining capacity has gone offline in the past 3 days, and it won't be back online for at least a couple weeks. Unless we want outages to pop up all over, people's consumption has to be dramatically curtailed. That won't happen with a 10-20 cent increase in the price. We need a sharp increase, as painful as it is, at least until normal production levels resume.
(And yes, Savags is an economic moron.)
Same price here. By the way, have visited your fine town going to Brussels Bonsai. With the price of gas it might be awhile before I make that road trip from Bama.
OOOh. Little testy are we.
Everyone has a right to their opinion.
Went to the gas buddy site and checked Saskatchewan. The price was around a dollar . Is that U.S. dollars? Are they still measuring gas in imperial gallons or liters?
I think it is WGST, it's 750 on the AM dial.
The price here in NW Indiana has gone up 70 cents since last evening.
Us ruralites never panic. Ive got a generator that runs on gas or propane, I can pump water by hand if need be, and I have a dozen solar/dynamo charged flashlight/radio combos. I also have a nice barter system going with the farmer at the far end of the lake.
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