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Could gas fall to $3 a gallon?
Philly.com News ^ | 9/26/11 | Peter Mucha

Posted on 09/26/2011 8:21:06 AM PDT by Evil Slayer

As gasoline prices keep falling at the pump, analysts are wondering how low they can go.

Crude prices could continue to drop, in part because of lingering economic woes seem likely to keep demand down.

The national average is down to $3.54 for a gallon of regular, and in the city with the cheapest gas, St. Louis, the going rate was $3.08 a gallon as of Friday, according to the Lundberg Survey released Sunday.

Some Central Jersey stations are also in that ballpark. Two stations in Old Bridge, Middlesex County, and one in Marlboro, Monmouth County, have pegged regular at $3.07, while one Trenton station has $3.08 and another has $3.09, according to www.NewJerseyGasPrices.com.

With a drop of another dime possible, according to Lundberg, that could mean gas selling for less than $3 a gallon once again in the region.

And that's without crude prices falling more, which could happen.

"The worsening perceptions of the European economies means there's a potential for the damage to petroleum demand to go viral worldwide," analyst Trilby Lundberg told Bloomberg News.

(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Missouri
KEYWORDS: gas; gasolineprice; oil
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To: Evil Slayer
Wow!!! St. Peters,Mo. $2.87. I used to live there.

Well there are 50,000+ people living in St. Peters now. It has grown.

61 posted on 09/26/2011 10:26:33 AM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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To: Buddygirl
Saw gas at 3.35 at Wilco-Hess in Mebane, NC .....that station is usually rock-bottom for the Triad area.

Still, prices are headed in the right direction, AFAIC.

62 posted on 09/26/2011 10:42:28 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Evil Slayer

Whoop-de-friggin-doo...
I can’t believe I’m overjoyed by sub $3 gasoline.


63 posted on 09/26/2011 10:44:41 AM PDT by MS_Steve
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To: RainMan

Washington is consistently 10 - 15% above the national average.


64 posted on 09/26/2011 10:48:05 AM PDT by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: woofer; PastorBooks
I just read "The Negotiator" by Fredrick Forsyth. Good book, BTW.

It was written in 1989-1990 or so. Quote that stuck with me was "What will Americans do when they're told to pay $2/gallon for gasoline?"

Of course, $2.00 then was worth quite a bit more than $2.00 now.

65 posted on 09/26/2011 10:53:07 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Evil Slayer

I’m in O’Fallon and paid 2.92 yesterday.


66 posted on 09/26/2011 11:01:52 AM PDT by Second Amendment First ("Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..." - Thomas Jefferson.)
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To: rintense

>>It was 3.17 in Brighton,MI last night.<<

Seriously?
We are paying 3.39 at Sam’s Club here in Macomb county and thinking it’s a bargain.


67 posted on 09/26/2011 11:23:23 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: Evil Slayer

>>$10 a gallon in England.<<

Socialism sucks. Let’s not try it here.


68 posted on 09/26/2011 11:24:40 AM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: Evil Slayer

Impossible. Peak Oil, finite resource, ever-expanding demand, etc.


69 posted on 09/26/2011 11:32:31 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (I have been called intolerant. It's true. I refuse to tolerate the intolerable.)
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To: netmilsmom

I paid $3.31 in Monroe yesterday, then saw the Brighton price on the way home and was mad! lol


70 posted on 09/26/2011 11:44:48 AM PDT by rintense (Polls are for strippers and cross country skiing. ~ Sarah Palin, 9.3.11)
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To: missnry

Yeah, it sure has grown. I moved from there around 1973. Lived outside city limits alone one of the rural state highways just south of St. Peters. Haven’t been out that way since then. They were talking about a super highway going to be built right where my house was located. House is probably gone if they did.


71 posted on 09/26/2011 11:59:25 AM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war)
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To: Evil Slayer
Well, hurricane season will be over soon, so not much effect there.

And the "EPA summer blends" will be going away too.

I think we will shortly be seeing a bunch of US refinery capacity being taken off line for "maintenance".

Yeah, that's the ticket.

72 posted on 09/26/2011 12:23:33 PM PDT by Notary Sojac (Nothing will cure the economy but debt deleveraging, deregulation, and time.)
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To: Evil Slayer

still $3.70 in Western NY


73 posted on 09/26/2011 12:44:47 PM PDT by Ouderkirk (Democrats...the party of Slavery, Segregation, Sodomy, and Sedition)
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