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#1 Post by secondchance » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:36 am

Gas keeps going up, up, up.

MIL in S. Illinois just told me it's $1.89 there.

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#2 Post by TheCalvinator24 » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:47 am

It dropped 10-12 cents here since yesterday.
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#3 Post by kayrharris » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:48 am

I paid $1.93 for diesel day before yesterday. Less than premium.
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#4 Post by Bob Juch » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:51 am

I paid $1.679 yesterday.
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#5 Post by littlebeast13 » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:53 am

Second Chance wrote:Gas keeps going up, up, up.

MIL in S. Illinois just told me it's $1.89 there.

It's $1.84 down the street. I paid $1.74 over on the MO side Wednesday night.....

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#6 Post by sunflower » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:54 am

I paid $2.25 last weekend, I haven't looked at what it is now.

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#7 Post by ulysses5019 » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:57 am

$2.11 in Vegas last weekend. $2.15 here in LA.
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#8 Post by Rexer25 » Fri Feb 20, 2009 9:59 am

I paid $1.65 yesterday.


For unleaded gasoline.
per gallon.
Enough already. It's my fault! Get over it!

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#9 Post by tlynn78 » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:00 am

1.85 here


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#10 Post by Sir_Galahad » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:08 am

It was about $1.67 here on Monday, $1.75 on Tuesday, $1.69 on Wed and $1.67 yesterday. I haven't gone out yet today.
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#11 Post by earendel » Fri Feb 20, 2009 10:37 am

I freely confess I don't understand the vagaries of gasoline prices - it's going for about $1.85 here, BTW - or why gasoline prices go up when the price of crude oil is going down. However I did hear something on NPR the other day that made some sense.

It seems that the benchmark price of crude oil is for a grade known as "West Texas Intermediate" sweet light crude. However there are other types of crude out there, including "North Sea Brent" crude oil. This second type costs more than the benchmark West Texas Intermediate and seems to be the crude of choice for North American refineries. Apparently that accounts for some of the disparities in price - WTI may go down in price but NSB could go up, so also the price of gasoline.
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#12 Post by SportsFan68 » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:00 pm

$1.98 here.
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#13 Post by Jeemie » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:03 pm

earendel wrote:I freely confess I don't understand the vagaries of gasoline prices - it's going for about $1.85 here, BTW - or why gasoline prices go up when the price of crude oil is going down. However I did hear something on NPR the other day that made some sense.

It seems that the benchmark price of crude oil is for a grade known as "West Texas Intermediate" sweet light crude. However there are other types of crude out there, including "North Sea Brent" crude oil. This second type costs more than the benchmark West Texas Intermediate and seems to be the crude of choice for North American refineries. Apparently that accounts for some of the disparities in price - WTI may go down in price but NSB could go up, so also the price of gasoline.
It's an infrastructure thing.

When our oil infrastructure was built, West Texas Intermediate typically was the more expensive crude. So it wasn't cost-effective for refiners to pipe or ship it anywhere in the US except in the environs of the refineries that refined it.

So, unfortunately, only the south-central part of the US has access to gasoline refined from WTI.
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#14 Post by Sir_Galahad » Fri Feb 20, 2009 1:08 pm

$1.59 this morning.
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#15 Post by BigDrawMan » Sat Feb 21, 2009 10:16 am

i saw 2.19 yesterday, but most are down to 1.95

soon a gallon of gas will caost more than a barrel of oil.

i would like the job to explain gas prices.

the new explanation about the Sudden change in the benchmark oil is very strong

the "tensions in the middle east"."Strikes in nigeria",retooling of refineries" guy musta retired.
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#16 Post by ne1410s » Sat Feb 21, 2009 3:05 pm

1.89 in Central Illinois this Saturday am.
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#17 Post by littlebeast13 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:55 pm

It was dropped to $1.79 here yesterday, though I had a daymare this afternoon that it shot up to $6.88...

Of course, there really is no gas station on the road I was on in that dream anyway, so I feel relieved that it wasn't a premonition, like the countless times I start thinking about a song and it ends up being the next one played on the radio....

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#18 Post by Jeemie » Sat Feb 21, 2009 7:57 pm

littlebeast13 wrote:It was dropped to $1.79 here yesterday, though I had a daymare this afternoon that it shot up to $6.88...

Of course, there really is no gas station on the road I was on in that dream anyway, so I feel relieved that it wasn't a premonition, like the countless times I start thinking about a song and it ends up being the next one played on the radio....

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Oh it's a premonition all right.

It just won't be true until a year or so from now.
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#19 Post by littlebeast13 » Sat Feb 21, 2009 8:01 pm

Jeemie wrote:
littlebeast13 wrote:It was dropped to $1.79 here yesterday, though I had a daymare this afternoon that it shot up to $6.88...

Of course, there really is no gas station on the road I was on in that dream anyway, so I feel relieved that it wasn't a premonition, like the countless times I start thinking about a song and it ends up being the next one played on the radio....

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Oh it's a premonition all right.

It just won't be true until a year or so from now.

Well, if they ever build a gas station in the place it was in my dream, I'll start getting worried....

Of course, it's just a couple months away from my first KC trip of the year, which is a better indicator of soaring gas prices than any silly dream.....

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#20 Post by Bob Juch » Sat Feb 21, 2009 9:52 pm

All four gas stations in town had it for $1.959 today. They never have all had the same price. Humm...
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#21 Post by cindy.wellman » Sun Feb 22, 2009 6:24 pm

$1.67/gal ---- but I had my Maverick card (lol) so it was only $1.65/gal

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#22 Post by sunflower » Sun Feb 22, 2009 8:20 pm

cindy.wellman wrote:$1.67/gal ---- but I had my Maverick card (lol) so it was only $1.65/gal
Okay, that's it...I'm coming to live with you!

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#23 Post by cindy.wellman » Sun Feb 22, 2009 9:41 pm

sunflower wrote:
cindy.wellman wrote:$1.67/gal ---- but I had my Maverick card (lol) so it was only $1.65/gal
Okay, that's it...I'm coming to live with you!

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#24 Post by mntetn » Mon Feb 23, 2009 7:47 am

$1.669 street price in Smyrna, TN yesterday (Sunday) -- about 13 cents than Nashville itself.

Take another 15 cents off for Kroger card = 1.519

Am I the winner this week?

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#25 Post by cindy.wellman » Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:33 pm

mntetn wrote:$1.669 street price in Smyrna, TN yesterday (Sunday) -- about 13 cents than Nashville itself.

Take another 15 cents off for Kroger card = 1.519

Am I the winner this week?

WOO HOO! I think you win.

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