Posted on 07/19/2025 5:23:44 PM PDT by george76
We payed $3.19 yesterday at Sinclair station at Main & 62nd(?).
They went up here about 30-50 cents last week
He’s starving the poor filling station operators!/s
Sigh... $5.59/gallon regular and $5.79/gallon premium in my area (SF peninsula in CA). Seems to be going up as long as Newsom is governor.
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That’s absolutely brutal.
Might try that one. I’m in that area often.
Gas prices were lower three months ago where I live than what they are now.
Except Kali-Fornia, Oregon and Washington!
Those Bozos are raising the national average a $1.00 or so, all by themselves.
Passing through Abilene, Texas a few weeks ago, we paid $2.239/gal!
CA, OR and WA need to get with the program! And lower their gas prices!
EXCEPT in California. The price will go up .65 cents soon and if an oil pipeline closes along with 2 refineries that are expected to close next year or so then the price could be between $8 to $12 a gallon!
Same here in FL. Gas prices hovering around $3.10. They’ll drop to $2.89 or so, and literally the next day, same gas station, back up to $3.10-$3.19. It’s been a rollercoaster around here.
I had a 1969 Mercury for my first car. Used to be able to fill the 18 gallon tank for $20 when I started driving. I remember gas as low as $0.75 a gallon in the 90s. Crazy how far we’ve come.
$2.30 yesterday at Sam’s Club in Grapevine, TX.
I live in northern Indiana. I went into Kokomo and Peru and found higher prices in both places.
I filled up yesterday in Tyler, TX at $2.429/gallon. But, we have our own oil field, AND our own refinery!
Inflation and gas prices down - stock market up...
Works for me.
Cheap Gas/Oil is the solution to the Russia aggression in Ukraine. Russia pays for its war by selling oil to India and Western Europe.
If Trump sold oil to Europe and India at competitive price Putin would have to put his war on hold...as he did in 2017 when Trump pulled the way Obama was financing the invasion of Crimea.
Drill Baby Drill
I'm an old guy, remember working in local gas stations in the late 1960's when I was between 18 to 21. Gas about 22 cents a gallon. Customers would get full service, along with stamps they could trade for stuff. It was a slow increase in costs from my dad's time when he had to fuel his first car, a Model T, to my time in the 1960's fueling my first car, a '56 Chevy. But a rapid increase in costs to the 1990's. Now the increases come ridiculously fast. As you say, crazy!
Over the past year or two, gas here has gone from ~$2.50 up to $2.90 now. Nowhere near the prices several years ago when some stations were under $2 per!
Have the rats gotten around to closing the last refinery in CA?
They're working on it. The Benicia refinery is set to close in 2026. There are constant protests against it, increasingly so over the last decade. Run by Valero. Despite contributing a lot to local charities and organizations, the NIMBYs that recently moved in pushed for it to be closed.
These people moved into new subdivisions built nearby, and constantly complain. The refinery has been there for decades with few problems. These idiots bought homes nearby, and knew the refinery was there. They drive cars, fly on airlines, use plastics and asphalt created by refineries, and can't make the connection to the need for the refinery. You don't like it, don't move next to it!
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