Give me a break. You're acting like Bush was the first President who had an ulterior motive when it comes to oil and the Middle East. It's been going on since forever.


I agree with this now. But up until a few years ago I was still on the fence about it. But today?

If we're gonna be at war anyway, we should use nuclear force, kill as many sand monkeys as possible, convert the survivors to Christianity and Judaism, then take their oil. No more Muslim threats, no more oil shortage in America. Two birds with one stone.

But nooooooooooooo, we'd think that would cause them to continue to keep fighting over there (like they will ever quit fighting someone)

$2.50 Gal at Sam's club here in Dixie as of this AM

Some places around here are at $2.32, but I expect it to go lower.

The fluctuations and disparity between stations is getting ridiculous.

True. I was up in Yonkers earlier today and saw a Citgo and a Getty right next door to each other. Getty was getting $3.33 for regular, Citgo was getting $3.10. Now granted, Citgo is an "off brand." But it's still a big disparity.

How far apart were the stations, PB? My experience has been that if a station is the only one in a 2-5 mile radius, it'll charge a lot more than if it's in a cluster on a major road.

All of the gas stations around town are around the same price whether brand name or not.

Wow, it's down to $2.78 here. I can sure tell the difference. $20 bucks goes a lot further. AND, I hear it's gonna go down even more. Good news.




TIS

in different area's of the country require different blends of gas by law.

If there only had to issue one blend of gas through the whole country that should really knock down the price of Gas.But they won't do it.

Not sure if you're familiar with Bronx River Road, TB. But when you take Webster Avenue north out of the Bronx, Webster will turn into Bronx River Road at the Westchester County line. It runs parallel to the Bronx River Parkway throughout the City of Yonkers. Anyway, the stations are literally right next to each other, just north of the county line (somewhere between 238th Street and Yonkers Avenue).

I'm RARELY in that part of town. But my Dad's in Eastchester (and back on his own part-time, thank God). And there was a ton of traffic, so I jumped off the Bronx River Parkway at 233rd (near Woodlawn Cemetery), and took Webster Avenue and Bronx River Road straight up.

Well, near my daughter's apartment there are 2 Shell stations no more than 200-300 yards apart. The price of gas at the one nearest to her is consistently higher (and sometimes by quite a bit) than the one nearer the highway.

It was $2.45 yesterday here. Needs to keep falling!

I know. It was approaching (or even at $5.00) at one time. To be down into the $2s, is like a real bargain!!




TIS

I think it's predicted in Revelation as a sign of the End Times: "There shall be lower gas prices and rumors of lower gas prices."

Ha ha!!

Remember the gas rationing in the 70s? It went up to what $1.00 gallon and that was WAY high.


TIS

I do remember as well as gas lines.

Last week I filled up at $2.69 a gallon. Today in a town five miles away it was $2.49.

When I started driving (1965) gas was $.29 a gallon and it had been that price for awhile and stayed there until 1970. Filled my Volkswagen Beetle for $3.00 and it lasted for a couple of weeks.

MC,

I posted a couple times that when I was young and it so happened that a friend who was lucky enough to have a license AND a car, that's when a group of us would scrounge up whatever change we had (10, 25 cents) to pay for gas to cruise around. 1 or 2 dollars went a long way.


TIS

You really are one of the original Partridge Family, aren't you?

I'm sure we all looked for change under the seats and floor mats

And PB, not the Partridge family...more like the Munsters.

Crap when I graduated in 98 it was only .89 for regular.

It went up to $2.46 here yesterday.

$2.29 at Exxon.

This isn't good. Gas is now in terminal freefall- falling too fast , too hard. We are going to see a credit crisis at the point these heavily leveraged oil and gas drillers fail.

Not to mention this isn't all a supply thing. It indicates a lack of demand, and hence a depression. We got one in Japan, weak data in China, essentially recession in europe.

Im kinda ready to sell equities.

Filled up for $2.49 a gallon this morning in North Central Illinois. Nice.

check your 401K see if that's up or down

$2.19

Go baby Go! It's almost like rooting for your favorite team.

Are you going to be tempted to turn in that old Camry for a big hunkin' Denali or Navigator?

Keep rooting for it to go down. also keep watching your 401k that should also be going down unless you don't have one. But if you do you are in for a major surprise.