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Re: Chaatanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad]
by imidazol97
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May 29, 2008 (5:08 pm)
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Replying to: jac0bsdad (May 29, 2008 4:58 pm)
Oil prices have dropped from the high of $136 to $126. That means tomorrow morning should have a 40 cent drop in price if it matches the way the gas companies raised their prices here when it went up several dollars.
The local Marathon affiliates raised their prices from $3.85 roughly to $3.99 again just to celebrate Thursday paychecks and Friday paychecks and gas purchases. Oil prices went down yeseterday but Marathon/SPeedway raised their prices today. Grin.
Other stations have stayed at $3.85 with some lower.
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- #7733 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97]
by jac0bsdad
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May 29, 2008 (5:39 pm)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (May 29, 2008 5:08 pm)
Ha-ha... I like you man, your alright... what you said about the price dropping at the pump in the corresponding manner in which it has risen was the same thing a colleague of mine from work said today at lunch while we were eating at Sticky Fingers in downtown Chattanooga... we both saw the report about the $3.95 national average and we were like, crap! Anyway, she said the same thing about lowering, in the same manner that I read your post... We all know they won't do that.. 
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- #7734 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad]
by imidazol97
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May 29, 2008 (5:47 pm)
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Replying to: jac0bsdad (May 29, 2008 5:39 pm)
We get much more violent jumps than you do in TN. The graph is smoothed out because it's an average of hundreds of stations around the area. There are regions where the price drops because of competition? and then it jumps 30-40 cents to catch up with the rest of the area which experiences a 15-20 cent jump. Have friends who live near Nashville (Smyrna) and their prices go up or down 1-2 cents when we are there! We're used to 15 cent jumps every Thursday afternoon to catch the paycheck-to-paycheck people who have to fill their cars on Thurs/Fri/Sat
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- #7735 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97]
by jac0bsdad
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May 29, 2008 (5:59 pm)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (May 29, 2008 5:47 pm)
Are you in the Midwest part of the USA? The city on the graph that indicated Knoxville, is that Tenn or Iowa? I have a frat brother in Nashville and he is in the commercial construction business, but I don't get too much of a chance to talk with him since we are both so busy with jobs, kids, etc.. Overall, Nashville is a lot more expensive to live in than Chattanooga... I think that is a travesty about raising your fuel costs on Thurs afternoons!! That seems criminal to me.. A friend of mine at work went to Cades Cove last week with her husband and she told me gas was going for $3.90/Gal in Gatlinburg, TN.. That is the highest I know of in TN..
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- #7736 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97]
by gagrice
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May 29, 2008 (8:01 pm)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (May 29, 2008 5:47 pm)
Does that mean the people in TN are more stable than the folks in Ohio? 
Our Costco jumped 15 cents since last Friday. We are now over $4 everywhere. Costco today $4.03.
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- #7737 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [gagrice]
by jac0bsdad
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May 30, 2008 (2:53 am)
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Replying to: gagrice (May 29, 2008 8:01 pm)
Ha-ha.. No, we can be as unstable as anyone here in TN my friend... I am hoping our RUG is not up another 8 cents like it was yesterday morning at my local BP in Hixson, TN...
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- #7738 of 8805
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NE Philly Pump Prices...
by lemko
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May 30, 2008 (3:35 am)
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Went to fill my girlfriend's Buick LaCrosse last night. A little over a quarter tank cost $26!!!  Geeze, I remember almost being able to fill the car from empty on that not too long ago. Anyway, Regular = $3.93  Silver = $4.09  Ultra = $4.21 
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- #7739 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad]
by imidazol97
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May 30, 2008 (5:00 am)
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Replying to: jac0bsdad (May 29, 2008 5:59 pm)
I used the Dayton area price where I am and because Chatanooga is not listed on gasprices.com I used Knoxville to get the graph. The point is the ups and downs in the averages which smoothes out the bounces we are given by the monopoly up here.
In an interview in the paper a couple weeks ago the guy talkng for Marathon/Speedway blamed the customers for the up and down price jumps--and the reporter buys into and doesn't question it at all. Sometimes I think the reporters and media are used by the businesses as their personal propaganda machines.
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- #7740 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad]
by gagrice
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May 30, 2008 (6:22 am)
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Replying to: jac0bsdad (May 30, 2008 2:53 am)
I spent 3 months in Johnson City, TN back in 1971. I went to a North Electric training school at Gray Station. Lived in a Condo on Boone Lake. I put 13,000 miles on my rental car exploring the area from Asheville to Gatlinburg and back. Many fond memories of the area. I cannot remember what kind of mileage that Vega Wagon got for me. I was on expenses.
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- #7741 of 8805
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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97]
by gagrice
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May 30, 2008 (6:26 am)
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Replying to: imidazol97 (May 30, 2008 5:00 am)
I think the reporters and media are used by the businesses as their personal propaganda machines.
The businesses are their only form of income as advertisers. You don't want to shoot yourself in the foot by bad mouthing the guy that spends money advertising. Same goes for politicians. They are all for sale to the highest bidding lobbyist. It is the same the World over.
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