Gas prices in the south

[coffee-guy]

"The highest price crude-oil futures hit yesterday was $69.81 a barrel in Nymex trading, up $2.61 for the day, or 3.9%.

The record remains the $39.50 barrel price reached in April 1980, equivalent to $95.26 when adjusted for inflation."

Quoted from The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, August 31, 2005

This was a front page artilcle and if anyone has access to it you should definately breeze through it. I have been trying to convince people for several years that we are not even close to gas prices that reflect inflation over the last 20-30 years but whatever. Here is a post from last week that includes a few of my rants...

http://www.superiormuscle.com/vbulle...ad.php?t=26190

[michael]

$3.29, $3.39, $3.49 here in Indiana

[magdalena]

$2.89 the cheapest one in OK

[space mountain]

it was 2.84 this morning at 6 am at 7 pm its 3.29 premiunm

[Taylor]

I live in charlotte nc

monday it was 2.56, and today (wednesday) it was 2.99 and is expected to jump up 30 to 40 cents by tomorrow morning
i filled up my suburban this afternoon and it cost 79.06...and it was almost 1/5 full of gas already

i went to get my cadillac (a MUCH smaller car with better mileage) at about 7:30 after baseball practice and there was like 40 cars at the gas station, and so many people were cutting each other off.....i was sitting back in my car so people would have room to GET OUT after getting there gas, and these assholes just ride rihgt by me and sit in front of me so nobody getting gas could even get out...it was ridiculous, i just went ahead and left....I filled it up on monday and i still have 13 gallons left so i should be alright for a while

[Puddles]

Tampa has premium at $2.99/gal. No lines, however my favorite station just went to pre-pay this week due to drive-offs. I imagine our prices should be low compared to much of the country since Tampa is a major port...as long as we don't get destroyed by a hurricane.

[Taylor]

my gas stations went to prepay a few weeks ago too...

[Pumpdogg]

Went up from 2.41 just 2 days ago to now 3.09 for 87 octane here in KY... I stopped the pump at 75.50 this afternoon for my Expedition... that only last 4 days when it is all the way full.... Aint life grand

PD

[realconan]

The Stromba is right about refining capacity, if you want to blame high prices on people, blame the "tree huggers" and "whale kissers". Similar to the nuts at P.E.T.A. No oil company is going to spend many BILLIONS of dollars to build a new refinery, and they don't have to, they know we'll pay whatever we have to. By the way, below is a list of oil companies who do and do not import oil from the middle east, and the ones that do, amounts to only about 15% of their useage. My question is, if some companies don't import from the middle east, why is it that their prices go up everytime OPEC increases the cost of oil?

Shell............................. 205,742,000 barrels
Chevron/Texaco......... 144,332,000 barrels
Exxon /Mobil............... 130,082,000 barrels
Marathon/Speedway... 117,740,000 barrels
Amoco............................62,231,000 barrels



Citgo.......................0 barrels
Sunoco...................0 barrels
Conoco...................0 barrels
Sinclair....................0 barrels
BP/Phillips..............0 barrels
Hess........................0 barrels ARC0.0 barrels

Go figure. BB

Wow, where did you find out about this? I'm interested to read it myself. I'm not questioning it, I just want to where to find it.

[Scotland]

$2.999 in lovely Wisconsin today.

[Bouncer]

$3.29 here..

[realconan]

I have been trying to convince people for several years that we are not even close to gas prices that reflect inflation over the last 20-30 years but whatever.

Well, I wouldn't mind paying gas prices that reflected inflation if my wages reflected inflation too.

[SloppyJo]

Well, I wouldn't mind paying gas prices that reflected inflation if my wages reflected inflation too.

:agree:

[bonebreaker]

I live in charlotte nc

monday it was 2.56, and today (wednesday) it was 2.99 and is expected to jump up 30 to 40 cents by tomorrow morning
i filled up my suburban this afternoon and it cost 79.06...and it was almost 1/5 full of gas already

i went to get my cadillac (a MUCH smaller car with better mileage) at about 7:30 after baseball practice and there was like 40 cars at the gas station, and so many people were cutting each other off.....i was sitting back in my car so people would have room to GET OUT after getting there gas, and these assholes just ride rihgt by me and sit in front of me so nobody getting gas could even get out...it was ridiculous, i just went ahead and left....I filled it up on monday and i still have 13 gallons left so i should be alright for a while

Hey Taylor, I live close by to you, about 50 miles north. I too, have a Suburban, which I topped off this morning, but had to go to two different stations. The first one would only let me have $10.00's worth and the next one I went to was out of regular and plus, so I was forced to buy premium at $3.19/gal. They don't expect their tanker in until late next week. The prices don't worry me as much as places not having anything to buy at any price. BB

[meat12]

3.12 here