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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    fugawzi wrote:
    I actually filled up for $1.85/gal yesterday. That's only because the grocery store I shop at offers "fuel perks". The more $$$ you spend at their store, the more $$$ you get discounted per gallon. Their price was $2.95/gal, I had a savings of $1.10 per gallon = $1.85/gal. Now I start back at 0 and have to accumulate savings by shopping there. I'm sure there are similar places all over the country.
    I think price per barrel is controlled by the oil companies, since Saudi Arabia is basically a client state and the oil companies themselves have such a huge influence. its like they are keeping prices as high as they can to maximize profit yet low enough so as not to encourage alternative fuel development. this last summer was kind of them deciding to really get as much as they could out of us, but since there was so much talk about alternative fuel they decided to bring the price back down. Just an idea, since alternative fuel sources put companies like Exxon (with more economic pull in the world than Saudi Arabia itself) out of business. there's no way they are going to allow an alternative fuel source unless they can profit from it.
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,301
    mickeyrat wrote:
    2.58 was 2.62 this morning. dropped twice in 24 hours
    2.48 at the circle K
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  • slightofjeff
    slightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    You conspiracy theorists crack me up.

    The price of oil is dropping because the stock market is crashing. There's less demand for it when everybody is going bankrupt.

    Price of oil has dropped like $100 a barrel in the past few months.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • jimlives
    jimlives Posts: 48
    I've been reading the global economic crisis is driving it down.
  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    slightofjeff wrote:
    You conspiracy theorists crack me up.

    The price of oil is dropping because the stock market is crashing. There's less demand for it when everybody is going bankrupt.

    Price of oil has dropped like $100 a barrel in the past few months.
    price per barrel is arbitrary...whatever they decide it to be. they pull more out of the ground price goes down, they refine more, price of gas goes down. since they control how much they take out of the ground, and how much they refine, using free market principles, they control prices.


    keep supply down, prices go up. surplus=loss of profit.


    this recession might affect that some, but in general the price of oil and gas is whatever they decide it to be.
  • AiCPearlJamWeen
    AiCPearlJamWeen Posts: 785
    Out here in Western NY (Dansville NY, south of Rochester) gas is $3.19 a gallon.

    The funny thing is that I am 19 and I remember when I was 13 and my mom would bitch about gas being "a whopping $1.15 a gallon". I wish those days would come back.
  • melodious
    melodious Posts: 1,719
    3.39 in my place of employ...i think cali put more tax on fuel...gotta pay for those rest stops/checkpoints ;)
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  • JSBE
    JSBE Posts: 1,078
    $2.67 and $2.69 right up the street from my work...and that's not even the "special" cash only price.

    i'm about 15-20 miles south of boston.
  • drew2420
    drew2420 Posts: 61
    $2.39 around Minnesota today
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,301
    mickeyrat wrote:
    2.48 at the circle K
    2.21 at the circle k and just filled up both my and my wifes car at the get-n-go(giant eagle) for 2.14!!!! 2.28 - 2.20(fuel perks) =.089 a gallon!YEAH I cheated but so what.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    I filled up my truck at Costco which was on E for $47.17 back in the summer I filled up from $85-$89. Huge difference now that gas is selling at $2.29 here in MD.

    Peace
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  • BetterThanYou
    BetterThanYou Posts: 853
    g under p wrote:
    I filled up my truck at Costco which was on E for $47.17 back in the summer I filled up from $85-$89. Huge difference now that gas is selling at $2.29 here in MD.

    Peace

    seems my area is running about a week behind you. we're at $2.69 right now. man, it'd be nice to see it around $2.00 thanksgiving weekend.
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  • blondieblue227
    blondieblue227 Va, USA Posts: 4,509
    $1.41!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    gas station sign on tv news. i had the sound off, wonder where it was at?
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  • PJ_Saluki
    PJ_Saluki Posts: 1,006
    It's $2.19 here in Carbondale.
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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    $2.01 where I'm at.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • walden freeman
    walden freeman Posts: 511
    $2.20 this morning on my way home.

    I'm disgusted that I was happy to see gas at $2.20 per gallon. They've really mindfucked us.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    walden freeman wrote:
    $2.20 this morning on my way home.

    I'm disgusted that I was happy to see gas at $2.20 per gallon. They've really mindfucked us.

    Actually, that's extremely cheap when compared to the cost of gas around the world and when you think about the taxes, etc. that are included.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
  • melodious
    melodious Posts: 1,719
    2.79 unlead
    2.85 unlead +
    3.05 diesel
    all insanity:
    a derivitive of nature.
    nature is god
    god is love
    love is light
  • dream_on_it
    dream_on_it Posts: 65
    $1.97 in Waco, TX
    ...this crooked heart swells all around...
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,249
    Today Laurel, MD....$2.04 .......$45 fill up on regular

    Peace
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    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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