Ah, conspiracy theories! They do provide entertainment. :)

Up ¢3 here to $2.87.

No conspiracy. Just business as normal.

...and the evidence? Just this once, maybe? :rolleyes:

Rod Stewart

I read an interesting article in the Globe about the discussions on setting world gold prices for the day at Scotiabank in London. Interesting. The rich get richer, you say?

Steph,

The London Gold Fixing is, I believe, set by the Bank of Nova Scotia, Barclays Bank, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Société Générale. I thought it was done over the phone. Oh well.

well in places over in the uk its £1 a litre.. or £4 a gallon or somewhere near $7-8 maybe more!!! and its expected to rise to even higher!!!

PF, are you practicing for an Oz holiday?

If a cartel had a finite and much sought-after product, it would be fiscally irrational not to maximise their return.

It's not conspiracy, just economics.

:rolleyes:

I filled up my car today down by the beach at $2.75. This is like 30 miles from my house....where it's $2.89. Wierd.

It was $ 2.91 today. Didn't bother putting gas in our other cars. Hope it'll drop this week.

LMAO

If you go there for a fillup every time, you could save maybe ............... $2.80 ............ if you have a 20 gal tank and get at least 20/mpg ............... for only $8.25 worth driving. :rolleyes:

imaginewithme,

Yes'm. Gas prices, like the prices of airline tickets, can be unintuitive.

what cracks me up is the difference in fill-up stations that are RIGHT NEXT TO EACHOTHER. there's an exxon, a lukoil, and a hess all at the same intersection. about two days ago: hess-2.89, exxon-2.93, lukoil-2.96 - and there were cars at all three! cross the street to save a few cents a gallon ya gd idiots.

wyndhy,

Perhaps some were driving the other way.

or the may be boycotting one or another brand.^^

I paid $3.05 yesterday at the Air Force base which is usually cheaper than the most around here

Up ¢2 here to $2.89.

$3.05 today :mad:

yup. up a bit here, too: 3.03

if they paid a certain price for what's in their tanks, and the tanks must take at LEAST a few days to empty, why does the price fluctuate so much? anyone have a thought?

Yeah! ......... a lot of them :mad:




...and they are doing to you what I want to do, but in a totally different way. :(

you wanna put gas in me at inflated prices? hmmmm.

how strange.

ok.

:D

humor me ;)

I just want to pump your tank full :D

PF

I hope you're not suffering from nozzle envy.

With Wyndhy, it's nuzzle envy. ;)

Gentlefolk,

I spoke with my daughter yesterday, and she told me that gas was $3.75 / gal in Los Angeles. That is ¢86 / gal more than what I pay in Baltimore! I wonder what causes such a great difference?

Dropped to 2.88 today

Paid $2.74/gal. yesterday when I filled one of my cars.

$2.85/gal last night when I filled up my little car.

My boyfriend is driving up to Alaska in his SUV (with our trailer of belongings attached), and is likely going to pay about $1,000 total in gas for the trip. Eek!

BlondeCurlGirl,

Indeed so! My daughter, a student in southern California, wanted to surprise my wife, who was on a business trip in Phoenix. After we worked up the round trip cost of gas and she looked at her bank account, she decided that calling her mom made more sense than visiting.

Expensive stuff these days!

$2.79 today

$ 2.74 yesterday. :line:




... wait a minute ...




$ 2.74 is still terrible! :(

In my out-of-town runs, I've learned to keep an eye peeled for remote locations along the interstate with lower gas prices (usually truck stops with a set of pumps for autos as well)...coming back from a l-o-n-g run to KY last week, found a favorite spot just north of TN/KY line that had reg/$2.53, yesterday on the trip back from another intrastate o.o.t. found several regular stations, all $2.49 or *less*...I never look a gift horse in the mouth, but this always makes me wonder...how in the cathair is the gas always cheaper in places that I KNOW had to be more expensive to transport it there?!? :shrug:

scotzoidman,

Lower demand in remote locations perhaps?

I just filled up last night ... $3.57 per gallon ... I get the middle grade at Chevron ... jseal ... the difference is that California has VERY high state taxes on the gas - I believe it is used for road work of various kinds, but I know that I haven't talked with anyone from another state that has as high of gas prices as we do here in CA. :(

Went out this morning and the station said $2.76 ... then, on the way home ... same station ... $2.89. I wonder what profound international event triggered that. :mad:

could be the local and state taxes, too, scotz. *shrug* maybe....at least i think in most places there are local and state taxes on gas in addition to the federal tax

I need to find a website.... it showed the amount of tax per gallon by state... It was interesting... I do recall that CA was the highest. Now what they are doing with the taxes I'm not sure.

fzzy,

Ah! Thank you. My daughter neglected to mention that.