Gas Price Check

This is getting crazy!

Exxon:

Regular = $1.83
Premium = $2.03

Diesel is still hovering around $1.59 at some stations.
 
This is starting to make the $3.75/gallon I pay for 100UL seem like a bargain. :eek:
 
Just did the math.

$4.20/gal for regular

That's converted from Euro to dollar and liter to gallon.

It was at $4.83/gal, but the dollar has since come back against the Euro.
 
paid $2.29 for diesel here in vegas. :mad: and 90 miles away in kingman az its $1.73 wtf---over
 
I just got back from a trip out to Wisconsin from Michigan. Four days ago Indiana had diesel for $1.51. Central Michigan had it for $1.61-$1.65 and Illinois around $1.85. Wisconsin was generally $1.79 which is about where it is here in MI. I'm no fuel expert but I don't think diesel is blended differently for geographical areas of the country. Even if it were why would Indiana be so much cheaper than MI or WI? :confused: They're friggen neighbors for God's sake. Something stinks and it ain't the diesel exhaust! :mad:
 
I think gas prices are only going to get worse as summer is almost here, and a lot of family's are going to be going on vacation, therefore the government sees and oppurunity to make money. Why do I have a feeling that gas prices are going to go way down right before the November election?
 
Im a lone voice in the woods when I yell about the Clintonian Tier-2 Clean Air Act. This is the reason for gas prices. Refineries cant Blend the squeaky clean designer fuels fast enough to supply the 474 new counties across America that now will have "dirty" air under new EPA rules. These counties are planning to use this crap. The fuel now even has to be cleaner than it used to be. Refineries actually cant use crudes from some parts of world because it cant be scrubbed enough.
Diesel IS required to be vastly cleaner and it will shoot up in $ starting in 2005. I believe its already required to be super clean in californication. When this all gets rolling , it outta take alot out of the economy.
This countries people are brain washed into believing the dirty air hype. Just outlaw the freakin int comb engine and be done with it.
 
Very Informative

Here's some interesting information from SNOPES, the internet legend debunking website. The question posed is regarding a "gas out", but is quite telling about the rise/fall of gas prices:

Ah, springtime! The season for a number of important renewing rituals: housecleaning, the beginning of baseball season, balancing eggs on their ends, and the forwarding of outraged e-mails calling for oil company boycotts.

This year's litany is the usual one: Gasoline prices in the USA are too high; gasoline is a unique commodity whose price isn't subject to the usual market forces of supply and demand; OPEC and greedy American oil companies have deluded us into believing that current gasoline prices are actually comparatively cheap while they secretly manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high; and a simple boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline will rectify all this. (It's amusing that calls for "gas outs" predictably occur every spring, just when gasoline prices start to rise with the increased demand that accompanies the better driving weather of spring. Why don't those evil oil companies, who can apparently control the market at will, conspire to jack up their prices during winter, when prices bottom out?)

It is true that the gasoline market in California is particularly volatile, generally resulting in higher prices there than throughout the rest of the USA, because:


California is the second-biggest gasoline market in the world, outranked only by the United States as a whole. (California alone consumes as much gasoline as all of Japan.)

All of the state's refineries, running at full capacity, cannot meet California's one million barrels per day consumption, requiring the importation of more expensive product to meet consumer demand.

Since 1996, California has required a cleaner-burning formulation of gasoline which is produced at few refineries outside of California.

The four largest oil refiners in California produce almost 80% of the gasoline supply, and the six largest refiners operate about 85% of the retail gasoline outlets.
All of this makes California particularly susceptible to price increases whenever the gasoline supply is disrupted due to factors such as crude oil production cuts by OPEC nations or problems that temporarily shut down refineries.

Oil companies can manipulate their prices somewhat by controlling how much gasoline they produce and where they sell it, but they can't alter the basics of supply and demand: prices go up when people buy more of a good, and they go down when people buy less of a good. The "gas out" schemes that propose simply shunning one or two specific brands of gasoline won't work, however, because it's based on the misconception that an oil company's only outlet for gasoline is its own branded service stations. That isn't the case — gasoline is a fungible commodity, so if one oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or outlet, it will simply sell its output to other companies:


Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.
. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone. "To meet the sudden demand," he says, "the good guys would have to buy gasoline wholesale from the bad guys, who are suddenly stuck with unwanted gasoline."

So motorists would end up . . . paying more for it, because they'd be buying it at fewer stations.

And yes, oil companies do buy and sell from one another. Mike Right of AAA Missouri says, "If a company has a station that can be served more economically by a competitor's refinery, they'll do it."

Right adds, "In some cases, gasoline retailers have no refinery at all. Some convenience-store chains sell a lot of gasoline — and buy it all from somebody else's refinery."

A boycott of a couple of brands wouldn't result in lower overall prices: Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e., pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.
The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.
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Originally posted by XLR8
This is starting to make the $3.75/gallon I pay for 100UL seem like a bargain. :eek:
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Why it didn't go up also??

110 leaded at one of the gas stations around here is almost $6 a gallon.
 
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