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Re: I vote [rorr] by fintail
Feb 01, 2007 (8:26 am)
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Replying to: rorr (Feb 01, 2007 6:41 am)

"I'm beginning to smell a rat"
 
LOL...I guess given your location...
 
Down another 2 cents here
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Re: Go back and view my post number 8 to see... [tpe] by rockylee
Feb 01, 2007 (10:05 am)
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Replying to: tpe (Feb 01, 2007 5:57 am)

My point is tpe, is look at oil prices. They have dropped $20+ a barrel and many of us are paying well north of $2.00 a gallon. Some folks are in the $1.80's in gas prices. It doesn't add up to me and my conclusion is the oil company's are "pooling" togeather. The only way to break them is get government involved. Who else has a "stick" big enough to fight them ?????
 
I'm not claiming to have the perfect answer but I'd like to see some action from out government. The last regime sat back and did nothing and said nothing as most of us were paying well north of $3.00 a gallon.
 
Rocky
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Birmingham, Alabama by thegraduate
Feb 01, 2007 (11:40 am)
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Our average is hovering around $2.03 a gallon, with many stations below the blessed $2 mark.
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Re: Go back and view my post number 8 to see... [rockylee] by tpe
Feb 01, 2007 (11:49 am)
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Replying to: rockylee (Feb 01, 2007 10:05 am)

My point is tpe, is look at oil prices. They have dropped $20+ a barrel and many of us are paying well north of $2.00 a gallon.
 
Yes the price of oil has dropped $20 from its peak and the national average price for gas has dropped about 80 cents from its peak. Are you saying that the price of gas should have dropped more? Right now the price of oil is around $57 and a gallon of gas costs $2.18. What if oil went down to $37, how much should gas cost? What if it went to $17, which it was not all that long ago?
 
The price of gas typically moves about 2-3 cents for every dollar change in the price of oil. The prices we are now paying at the pump reflect the $50 oil prices we had a few weeks ago. If oil stays at $57 you can expect gas prices to creep back up a little.
 
While I agree with the posters that have pointed out how western states traditionally have higher gas prices I do think they are currently a little out of whack. Not enough to support a conspiracy theory but an anomally none the less.
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Re: Go back and view my post number 8 to see... [tpe] by rockylee
Feb 01, 2007 (12:11 pm)
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Replying to: tpe (Feb 01, 2007 11:49 am)

Okay.....Yeah the price of oil doesn't reflect some area's of the country's high gas prices is all.......
 
Rocky
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Update to yesterday's fill-up by jae5
Feb 02, 2007 (4:48 am)
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Yesterday morning I reported fuel prices were in the $1.99 ~ $2.07 range. Well on my way home last night there was a +$0.20 price change at the Shell, Mobils & BPs. The prices went from $2.05 ~ $2.07 6:00am to $2.25 ~ $2.29 6:40pm. One Speedway also made the same hike. Yet the Meijers, Jewel, Citgos and Sonic were still at the $2 point.
 
Guess someone at the other places order cheese on their Whopper, or super-sized their value meal.
 
On a side note, one bad thing I noticed with the drop in fuel prices is that more & more speed demons are out there. Was getting passed yesterday to/from work like I was standing still. Getting worse every day.
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Gas same price as last year by gagrice
Feb 02, 2007 (7:33 am)
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I was checking my spreadsheet and I paid $2.34 per gallon to fill up the end of January 2006. It was the same exact price two days ago here in San Diego. Cheapest gas today in the county is Costco at $2.25 per gallon. County wide average for regular is $2.50. The highest price recorded for today is $2.77. So you have a 52 cent range. This does not include the desert communities that are going to be at in the low $3 range.
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Gas continues to drop, diesel ain't movin... by kcram HOST
Feb 02, 2007 (9:38 am)
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My usual Sunoco, Palisades Park NJ, changes from last Friday
 
87 - $1.999 - down 6
89 - $2.099 - down 6
91 - $2.159 - down 6
93 - $2.199 - down 6
diesel - $2.299 - unchanged for 2 weeks
 
Even Mt. Arlington Exxon (the "high-priced spread") is down to $2.079 for 87.
 
kcram - Pickups Host
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$39,500,000.00 Profit in 3 MONTHS by johnny4016
Feb 02, 2007 (11:00 am)
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Is it me or does it seem to be unethical that 1 business, "Mobile" can make a profit, yes "PROFIT", of $39,500,000.00 in 3 months?
 
That's Thirty Nine Million and Five Hundred Thousand Dollars in Profit in 3 months.
 
I see that someone posted that Mobile raised their price $.25 a gallon after the news reported their year end profit. Have they no shame?
 
In California Mobile is still charging $2.60 a gallon for regular unleaded 87-octane fuel. $2.70 for 89 Octane & $2.80 for 91 Octane.
 
It seems that all we that care about being ripped off at the pump can do is simple complain. I've previously suggested last summer when the price was $3.40 for 87 octane that we boycott the service station every Saturday until they stopped ripping us off and lowered their prices to a reasonable profit margin. That would be something under $1.50 a gallon. This might not seem like a lot to some people, but it would mean millions lost in interest just for one day. If we all just got together on this and either purchased our fuel the day before on Friday or the day after on Sunday and did it until they lowered their prices, then they would see that it is us, the people who can take control. But we won't do it and they know it. That is why they made $39,500,000.00 in profit in 3 months and will do it again and again and again until something is done to make them stop. I believe that my suggestion is one way of stopping them. I'm sure that there will be some derogatory remarks to this post and those who will say that my suggestion will not work. Well then come up with another reasonable solution and I will be glad to listen. But until such time then don’t put down what you can not reasonably give another solution to.
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Re: $39,500,000.00 Profit in 3 MONTHS [johnny4016] by larsb
Feb 02, 2007 (11:56 am)
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Replying to: johnny4016 (Feb 02, 2007 11:00 am)

That's not for the Quarter - thats for 2006 YEAR.
 
And it's 39.5 BILLION with a "B".
 
Get it straight.

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