Here we go again...
a very warm winter, heating fuel usage in the northeast way down - why didn't the refineries convert to making gasoline sooner?
let the shakedown begin.
$3 this summer?
how 'bout $3 this week! LOL
http://www.gasbuddy.com
CBS wrong again! The prices are already starting to drop because the stockpiles are already being transferring from winter to summer blend at the perfect time of the year. Last year they got a late start due to mechanical failures and a later winter sucking up heating oil.
2) Gas is already way over $3 on Colorado's wesern slope.
2004 : 2.50 a gallon seemed to be the peak
2005 : 3.00 a gallon was close to the peak.
$3.19 Unleaded Reg. Unocal Pukalani, Hawaii
Gas prices in the Harrisburg-York (PA) have gone up 35¢ in the past 2 weeks. Unleaded Regular is now at $2.55/gal, Unleaded Plus at $2.65/gal, and Unleaded Premium at $2.85/gal.
We'll be over $3.00/gal by mid-Spring, IMO.
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!
There ARE ways to make $$$ off of this forecast....
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.
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....
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?
"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.
"I think if you can cut back a little bit, that's a prudent measure, whether we're talking about gasoline or we're talking about appetite for other things. There is a lot of excessive consumption out there. It holds true in gasoline and holds true in a lot of other elements."
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MSM trying to talk down the economy again. VP Cheney said conservation was ineffective. I think he knows a little bit more about it than these talking heads.
$3.00/gallon gas -- is that a promise? (Current prices = $US3.45/U.S. gallon in BC)
Oil is up today -- $66 a barrel. Remember when it was $2 a barrel?
$3.00 by summer!!! Hell, it is $2.80 or in that area around here now. It has risen over 40 cents in the past two-three weeks. It will be $4.00 by summer at that rate.