I'm heading for St Anthony tomorrow, and let alone the cost of diesel, I'm hoping there are no shortages and I can even buy the stuff to get home!

 

most of the gas stations here in atlanta are empty, at least on the east side where i live. there was a lot of price gouging going on before they ran out. The govenor put a cap on it yesterday at 5:45 pm. If people would not freakin panic everything would be ok.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-mad.gif[/img]

 

it topped about 3.29 on average but they showed on the news $5 a gallon or more but people are calling and reporting them for gouging.

 

See Pic #6 on my page for the price of gas here!

 

What a crock of crap. When Bush took office gas was 1.80 per gallon nationwide, its now over 2x that amount. (I wont get into whether or not his administration had a hand in it, I'm just using it as a statistic to setup a timeline). Even before the hurricane we were paying around one and a half times the 2000 price. Has the gas price in canada doubled in the five years? How about Europe or Austrailia? I didnt think so. The United States has over 9 times more people in its borders than canada so I'm guessing buying in greater bulk and having more domestic production kind of helps out.

 

Lets see it was $2.65 before hurrican. Tuesday Went to $2.85 Yesterday it was $2.96 This morning it was $3.09 and I just checked and its now $3.18.. I leave work in 5 minutes..Going to fill up before monday. heard it will be over $4.00!!!

 

Just wondering what is the minimuim wage in Canada and Austerlia?..... Besides you canadians are getting more form the taxes you pay.

 

In OH it jumped $.50 yesterday to at least $3.09. some stations as high as $3.29. Rumor is its heading for $4.00 by next couple weeks. I wish Raptors were street legal, it would be slightly less than filling that monster tank on my Tahoe twice a week. I CALL FOR STREET LEGAL ATV'S NATIONWIDE.

 

Phoenix, AZ where I am living for the next year and a half is $3.61 today for regular at Costco, other gas stations are $3.99... I cant wait till i go home this weekend and finally get to use some of that E85 fuel (85%ethanol, 15% gasoline) its still only $1.85 in Vegas but you have to have a vehicle that can run with it... Supposidly its 105 octane, so im thinkin about tryin it in my YFZ, considering the 100 octane racing fuel is almost $5.25 now I think...

 

Well, in 2001 it was $1.80. Big deal, look at China's consumption now versus then. You are seeing market forces at work, with increased world demand, stressed crude oil supply and over taxed refineries. Thank the fact that the Earth Firsters have prevented the building of any refineries in 20 years, or any new oil drilling infrastructure around our country. Now we subtract some newly damaged refineries and we're looking at more demand than supply.

I work in commodities every day, the formula is quite simple. We've restrained the supply, the demand has increased, the price has risen.