Gas prices near $6 a gallon in parts of Florida!

disneyjoe7

Ok the hurricane didn't hit US. But thank God I have gas good for a week or better, so it best settle down some.

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http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?&Dato=20080912&Kategori=WEATHER&Lopenr=80912013&Ref=AR

NotaSuv

total BS...3.59 a gallon this morning...... sad to take advantage like that

still at 3.39 a gallon in cetain cities within 6 miles....varies quite a bit from town to town county to county.......

exalted512

Damn, I thought it was bad here because gas prices went up a quarter almost everywhere when they heard they were evacuating people to here...isnt price gouging illegal?

I went and filled up at 3.59 today at one of the last gas stations not trying to **** over everybody.
-Cody

audiobliss

Back home in NC, gas was REALLY good, had gotten down to about $3.5x/gal when I left back the middle of August. No doubt it went down even further after that. Mom told me that now some places in Greensboro it's $6.00/gal. And you can only buy 10 gallons at a time.

I have a friend in Franklin, NC (western part) and he said that gas went up $0.40 in two hours yesterday. And lots of gas stations there are already empty.

Man, I hope this hurricane blows through in a HURRY and lets them start pumping gas again AND THAT GAS PRICES DON'T JUST MEANINGLESSLY STAY HIGH.

disneyjoe7

Gas here a day or two ago was $3.52 Chevron, but as of yesterday they where stating a 10 gallon limit for now. I just don't know if that being enforced here in Mouse town, and just what's the local price for gas is today around me it may be interesting.

Airplay355

I hate being dependent on gas.

shack

It went up here between $1.00 and $1.50 per gallon yesterday. Top price I've seen so far is $5.00. Big headlines in yesterdays paper "STATIONS RUNNING OUT OF GAS!" played no small part in the run on gas. This is total BS. I watched the station outside my office jump over $1.30 in less than 5 hours and never had their tanks filled with new fuel. THEY (the retailers) claim they HAVE to raise the price because they have to cover the profits they won't make if they can't get more inventory or that they KNOW they will have to pay more for the next load. WHAT TOTAL ****! Nothing more than price gouging.

As soon as they make an affordable all electric vehicle or hydrogen cell vehicle I'm buying one. I'm tired of HAVING to suck at oil's **** and pay whatever they decide to charge. I have defended the profits when they are simply a percentage of revenues...but this is gouging and it is deplorable. ****!

shack

I was just watching the news and it appears the refineries were not hit as hard as feared. The gas should start flowing again sooner than expected so maybe the price gouging **** window of opportunity will be short lived.

disneyjoe7

I thought that they couldn't raise price until they had a new shipment which caused them to pay more for their stock. It's there someone in the state to report that too, so they can get a slap on the hand for that. Not like anyone who paid that would see any $ back, but still.

heiney9

In Illinois went from $3.91 at 10am to $4.25 by 1pm.

A bunch of crap if you ask me

avguytx

Weird. I filled up 2 days ago and it was $3.37 a half mile from my house. It was $3.59 a gallon when I passed there a few hours ago. I'm about 5 hours north of Houston and 45 minutes north of DFW or so. Hard to believe it's higher than that everywhere else but just in case, my **** is staying in most all weekend and watching football and listening to tunes.

Serendipity

Went up 10 cents here too

marypoppins17

Its up to $3.69 where I live, outside of Jacksonville Florida

hoosier21

My mom called yesterday, it was 3.49 for the most part, she said I left Carrollton (10 miles South) everything there was over 4 dollars a gallon, but when she got to my town, there was still a gas station selling for 3.59, I had better get some if I needed any, I had 1/4 tank to I slipped out of the office and went and filled up at 3.59, as I was filling up I could see the next station had it at 4.30.

I went back to the ofice and told everyone, one gut went to where I told him to get the gas at 3.59, he said in the time I left and he returned, the other staion went to 5.25.

Bad enough .71 cents jump but then to go another .95 in what was 20 min. at most.

obieone

I reported 3 stations to the S.C. AG's office yesterday. 2 of 'em were Exxon, charging $4.49-$4.79 a Gal. I heard about 1 place out in Sumter that was charging $5.12/ Gal. on Thurs.
****!

disneyjoe7

Most around me are up $.15 to $.20 or so, not too bad, but BS IMHO if they are so without a top off them selfs.

Emlyn

Report 'em.

http://gaswatch.energy.gov/

brettw22

disneyjoe7 wrote: »

I thought that they couldn't raise price until they had a new shipment which caused them to pay more for their stock.

Commodity pricing......They up the price based on what their next fillup will cost them.......

disneyjoe7

brettw22 wrote: »

Commodity pricing......They up the price based on what their next fillup will cost them.......

My only thought to that....

WTF!

leroyjr1

I thought it was illegal to change the price of gas more than once in a 24 hour period?

dorokusai

$6 a gallon?! AWESOME!!!

avelanchefan

Okay so get this, I live between Tucson and Nogales. I had to drive to Nogales for my son's soccer game. I had a 1/4 tank when I left home and I knew I would have to get some before I got home.

So we go to the game, and my boy's tell me they have never seen the border so we go to the border and check out Mexico. (Funny watching people throw trash out their house windows...well not really funny)

So we start heading home. And I thought to myself I can make it to Tubac no problem, get gas there. I get to Tubac, and the computers are down. The pumps are not working. I start heading to Green Valley with sweat on my forehead because I am literally on "E". Plus I have to sit through a ten minute Border Patrol Checkpoint...ooohhh fun! I baby it to GV, and hit the nearest gas station to find their pumps are not working either. Sorry no gas to day, computers are down due to Ike. I'm like WTF? Well both stations I stopped at were Shell stations, and the second lady tells me something about Shell controls the pumps and prices through their computers. Now I highly doubt this, but I found it odd that she said this.

After nearly soiling myself I find a gas station that works. And I was well below E at this point. I head home and there is a Shell near our house I drive by to see if their pumps are working and they were not working.

So can anyone explain why here in AZ we would depend on computer networks out of Texas for our gas?

sucks2beme

avelanchefan wrote: »

So can anyone explain why here in AZ we would depend on computer networks out of Texas for our gas?

No good reason other than that's where a lot of company HQs are at.
The refineries, distribution centers, and Hq's are all clustered together,
making an easy target for one disaster to take them all out.
Bean counters make lousy disaster planners. They also network all the
company's stations back to a central point. Houston is to gas and oil
what NYC is to financial markets.

avelanchefan

Yeah just a horrible decision to have something like this happen. When the lady told me it was because of Ike I looked out the window to blue skies and told her it looked fine to me. She laughed and so did I. I know it was not her fault, but what a stupid thing to do if that is really the case.

reeltrouble1

Life is Suck

BDT

xeb

$8 a gallon where i live (europe) and has been for years... you lot don't realise how lucky you have it compared to the rest of the world!

Demiurge

We certainly are a nation of whiners.

Kris Siegel

Has been $3.39 around my house for quite some time. After the hurricane it went to $3.49. Meh...

NotaSuv

As long as the Fed doesnt cut the rate...oil should continue a slow drop in price..at least to $90 a barrel

shack

Gee ...I don't think I'm whining when this is the headline of the local paper:

Knoxville has the highest gas prices in the country, according to AAA.

Interesting that Knoxville TN and Ashville NC were the highest pump prices in the nation this last weekend. One of the largest retail gas suppliers in the US (Pilot Corp) is based in Knoxville. Their stations in Knoxville were the first to go to $4.99 a gallon....even thought their stations in Nashville TN (180 miles away) and Chattanooga TN (100 miles away) were averaging over a $1.00 a gallon less. They claim we and Ashville are at the "end of the pipeline" which means we aren't getting as much so the price is due to "supply/demand" forces.

Again I say ****! In THIS particular situation it is gouging pure and simple!

reeltrouble1

It is simply a time for much stronger regulation, never forget, with a few rare exceptions men are greedy unclean little beings.

RT1