Members Thunderbroom Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I filled up in my town on Saturday afternoon and paid $3.03 per gallon. When I left my inlaws home today (in Western MI) I paid $2.53. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DevilRaysFan Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Its amazing how the prices are going down before the senate and house elections....Hmmm, coincidence?............. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members el_duderino676 Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Holy {censored}. Maybe I should reconsider worrying about having waited so long to get my license. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Labor Day weekend coming to a close and the gulf refineries coming back on line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thunderbroom Posted September 5, 2006 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Why was/is there a $0.50 difference within two days, 185 miles, and over a holiday weekend? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emprov Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by Thunderbroom Why was/is there a $0.50 difference within two days, 185 miles, and over a holiday weekend? Living in the SF Bay Area, I've been wondering that for years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bbl Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by Emprov Living in the SF Bay Area, I've been wondering that for years. I just paid $2.79 at the Arco in Mill Valley. I thought it was steal. Maybe not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members sludgebass69 Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I blame George Bush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Thumper Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I was just back in Minnesota for a week. My father-in-law said gas has dropped nearly 50 cents a gallon in two weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tim gueguen Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 In the past week and an half here in Saskatoon its dropped something like 20 cents a litre, which works out to something like 80 cents a gallon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members mrcrow Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by Thunderbroom I filled up in my town on Saturday afternoon and paid $3.03 per gallon. When I left my inlaws home today (in Western MI) I paid $2.53. ours have come down from nearly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members One Bad Monkey Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by Thunderbroom Why was/is there a $0.50 difference within two days, 185 miles, and over a holiday weekend? It's actually been dropping here over a two week span, TB. I read an article that mentioned a couple reasons why the gas is a lot less (they seemed feasible, so I didn't completely write it off). 1-After Labor Day, the normal vacation season is over, and as such, the demand goes down. 2-Due to the incredible gas prices this summer, the number of people driving places for vacations has declined, resulting in a small surplus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ezstep Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Driving home from North Carolina last weekend, I filled up at $2.39/gal, but I saw it as low as $2.34/gal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thelurker Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I paid $2.25 yesterday. It has been declining for two weeks or so. It was less than $2.50/gal a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Tlaloc Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by One Bad Monkey 2-Due to the incredible gas prices this summer, the number of people driving places for vacations has declined, resulting in a small surplus. Wait, you're not talking about Americans are you? They don't know how to conserve, they just know how to complain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I blame the Evil F***ing Oil companies for profit shedding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members FreestyleIntruder Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 *sells shares in BP, buys shares in Hummer* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rumble Bass Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I read another reason is the expectation of big hurricanes again this summer drove the price up, but this hasn't happened so prices are adjusting. Basically just another reason for them to hike the price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members knuckle_head Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 We're still hovering around $3.10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 I believe this is the oil companies lulling us into a false sense of security. Gas prices always drop at the end of summer, and have consistently started to rise right around christmas, only to hit unparallelled heights the next summer. This pattern has repeated for the last 5 years, and I wouldn't anticipae a change in the near future. California is back under 3 a gallon. Rather than being happy about that, I see it as a sure sign that it will be about $3.60 or more next June. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted September 5, 2006 CMS Author Share Posted September 5, 2006 I haven't been driving my F-150 as much since I'm not working. This alone has cut US consumption by about 35%, and prices had to fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Funkee1 Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by Craigv I haven't been driving my F-150 as much since I'm not working. This alone has cut US consumption by about 35%, and prices had to fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members lug Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by Rumble Bass I read another reason is the expectation of big hurricanes again this summer drove the price up, but this hasn't happened so prices are adjusting. Basically just another reason for them to hike the price. I blame Global Cooling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members PaulyWally Posted September 5, 2006 Members Share Posted September 5, 2006 Originally posted by One Bad Monkey 1-After Labor Day, the normal vacation season is over, and as such, the demand goes down. 2-Due to the incredible gas prices this summer, the number of people driving places for vacations has declined, resulting in a small surplus. I don't buy into that crap. The bottomline is that there is an election coming up in a couple months, and the Republicans wish to keep Congress to themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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