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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad] by imidazol97
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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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97] by jac0bsdad
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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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97] by gagrice
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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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [gagrice] by jac0bsdad
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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NE Philly Pump Prices... by lemko
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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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad] by imidazol97
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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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [jac0bsdad] by gagrice
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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Re: Chattanooga, TN Gas Price - Update [imidazol97] by gagrice
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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Local prices by imidazol97
May 30, 2008 (6:52 am)
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I see our local UDF is at $3.859. They must not have gotten the fax/phone call to raise the price to $3.999 yesterday. Some other area stations did not raise their price. It seems to have been Speedway/Marathon and some of the stations they supply under other brand names. The fact others didn't go up for the Friday paycheck crowd means the prices will moderate at some stations on Saturday and slowly ooze their way down a few cents up till next Tuesday when many will go back up again under the pretense that oil prices went up or the supply is low, etc.
 
I heard that the inventory was down last week but the gasoline prices had dropped despite the inventory drop. Also 2-year treasuries are up.
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Hmhhhh by british_rover
May 30, 2008 (12:48 pm)
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Oil trading probe may uncover manipulation

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