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We don't see things (price changes) real quick here. Just heard on my favorite news program (NPR :shock: ). That fuel prices were dropping because of the problems with European economy (??)
you folks see anything? No politics, just asking...
 
I live in Centerville Texas. In the last five months gas prices around here have done this. 3.85-3.69-3.49-3.85-3.55-3.40 and now at 3.33. A man could make a living changing the signs at the gas stations. Drove out of town to a job gas was 3.69 came back two hours later it was 3.40. Lady that owns the station says she has never seen it change this fast.
 


Gas is usually higher at the stations along the expressways here, but now gas is $3.54 at the places that were always lower in price while the expressway stops are $3.23.
 
The can claim what ever they want for the cause. The REASON and timing is there are elections coming up!
 
Yes, gasoline prices are falling quickly here due to two related causes.

US crude prices have been falling quickly due to the external_link recession/depression and the streghtening of the dollar vis a vis the euro due mostly to the European situation.

Cincinnati, OH prices are approaching $3.00/gal at some stations. Crude dropped over $5.00/bbl Thursday and is now around $80.00/bbl. All commodities, including gold, are taking a serious hit.

Get ready, folks.

Dean
 
I'm old enough to remember paying $0.29 per gallon for regular. I also remember having to scrounge for coke bottle deposits to raise the money for that.
 

remember taking a 3 pound coffee can and 10 cents to the GS station for lawnmower gas and not being able to fit the whole 10 cents in the can.....
 

LOL I remember taking my wife our to eat, notihing fancey, just a CAFE then to a movie and filling the car all on 20-25 dollars depending on just how empty the tank was at the time and how much we got at the consession stand......will not say how long ago that was cause that would make you all think I'm old!

Gas here was 3.65 thur morning and 3.55 later in the day!


Rick
 
Unless it is in the tropics, gasoline is mixed for the season. Whether Europe or North America, if the supply already mixed for 'summer' and stored in tank farms isn't burnt, we'll say- 'cause no body has enough money to eat and pay bills? Then its shelf life is about over. They have to sell the rest cheap, to get the tanks empty for winter grades. Once a bean counter analizes this, they will make less, just enough as was used last season? Then the price will go up- and stay up. We will never win this game.
 
On the way home from work last night, I saw one gas station had dropped to $3.39 a gallon, while the others I passed were in the $3.44-3.49 a gallon range.

Now, that don't impress me, since the weekend before Thanksgiving last year gas prices were $2.77 a gallon. Most people who are cheering must have very short memories.

I'm just surprised to see that you listen to the communist commentators on National People's Republic news on the radio...can't you get FOX News in Germany?
 
tony, i used to drive a farm and home sohio delivery truck. the gasoline addittives are added at the bulk plant. not the refineries. no such thing as summer gas or winter gas mixed ahead of time.
 
Oldtanker, if you don't remember back any farther than that, you ain't old! When I started driving you could fill the average tank for less than $10.00!
 
(quoted from post at 20:14:54 09/24/11) Dang when I started out I could fill my Pinto with $12 on an empty tank. Normally it would only take $8-$9.
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ever admit you had a pinto :D
 
(quoted from post at 05:07:18 09/25/11)
(quoted from post at 20:14:54 09/24/11) Dang when I started out I could fill my Pinto with $12 on an empty tank. Normally it would only take $8-$9.
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ever admit you had a pinto :D
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I had 2 of them... One was a blue rustoleum roller job that I put 14" wheels and tires on for clearance and used to run the logging roads around the area...........
 
Wow, you guys have cheap gas!!! By the time you do the conversion from litres to US gallons and factor in the exchange rate, we are paying about $4.70/gallon here in Southwestern Ontario.
 
I don't see anything, cause when the were gettin so high I couldn't bare to look anymore. Just pay the bill...otherwise I'd had to double up my blood pressure meds. :D
 
I had one of the best Pinto's. Light to light I'd beat Camero's. Got 28 mpg everyday, 32 on the freeway. I got up to 250,000 miles on it before I retired it, but it was still in good shape. It towed another Pinto from Fl to Mi and got 24 mpg doing it.
 
(quoted from post at 14:59:40 09/24/11) Oldtanker, if you don't remember back any farther than that, you ain't old! When I started driving you could fill the average tank for less than $10.00!
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LOL when I started driving my dad would let me borrow the car on the condition that I filled the tank before coming home. Now that car had a 21 gallon tank and I don't know how dad did it but I swear I never got the car with more than 1/4 of a tank. Average cost of filling that 21 gallon tank was less than 7 bucks. Think about it, I took the soon to be ball and chain out to eat, a movie and filled the tank for between 20 and 25 dollars total!

Rick
 
That is part of the equation, but really just another smoke screen that they use. The seasonal changes have always happned since long before anyone burned gas in vehicles. They have been adding stuff for winter and summer for decades.
The real reason gas prices are so high has and NEVER had anything to do with a shortage or additives, or how much was "left in the tanks." It is simply investors running it up to pad their own pockets.
I have heard the run about "who can complain" if they have gas stocks in their portfolio. Good point but gas prices effect much of our economy and drives literally everything else out of sight when the go up.
 
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