WHO IS PAYING THE MOST (OR LEAST) IN THE WORLD FOR GAS????

[Andrew35]

We paid a $1.57 yesterday in Memphis at a Exxon station. Wonder if we might even see at some point gas under a $1, I really doubted we'd see gas this low again.

[WalterB]

I paid $1.58 today with my Wal-Mart Credit card, normal price $1.63, $18 something for about 11 Gallons. At this rate, I expect them to be paying me $1.63 by Christmas, lol.

[rokkerr]

Cheapest I could find was $1.69 in Florida St Pete area... with a gas discount that takes it down to $1.59. Quite amazing..

[WalterB]

I paid $1.53 yesterday at Walt-Mart. $1.58 minus my discount. Yep, pretty amazing. Something like 13-1/2 gal for $20. I wonder when the bottom will fall out and prices will shoot back thru the roof. Too bad I don't have a 50 gal drum out back where I can store a few gallons.

There has to be a bottom. I can't imagine gas under a dollar. (I used to pay $0.25/gal in 1962. Back in the "olden days," lol.)

[WalterB]

Holy Criminey! $1.499 this morning. It sat at $1.519 for a week, and I felt that maybe we had reached the bottom. But, not so. With my WM credit card discount, that's $1.449. Haven't seen gas that cheap in years. Now it's just hard to say where it might settle out.

GasBuddy is reporting stations as low as $1.449 on the east side. And that isn't counting membership stores like Costo, which is reporting as low as $1.399. Dang, I want to drive to Albuquerque, make a left turn, and come back to El Paso, just so I can fill up on cheap gas.

[rokkerr]

That's impressive.. I did get $1.59 yesterday in Florida which was the lowest I've gotten...

[WSJ689]

i paid $1.96 yesterday in Cali and that's the lowest i ever paid in the 9 years i've been here

[WalterB]

Wow, that IS low in Cal especially SoCal. It's back up to the $1.55 range here but I hear it's supposed to go back down.

They went to Summer Blend so prices went up. So howcum when they go to Summer Blend prices go up? Then when they go back to Winter blend prices go up again. Then next summer? Yep! You guessed it.

[hotjulie]

It's been nice paying .67/l here as oil fell in price about $70 a barrel, but in the last few weeks oil have gone up a little and so has gas here, to 97/l! I don't get it, the price at our pump went down about 60 cents after a big drop in oil, but it goes up like $10 and we pay almost as much as we did when it was about $100. The oil companies say they would never gouge the customer, what if their not telling the truth. If we can't believe the oil companies, then all we can believe is the politicians cause they would never bullshit us

[WSJ689]

sadly it's jumped back up here to the 2.59 range still real cheap though
the jump the prices from the start of Spring till Memorial day as supposedly it's more expensive when the change blends

[WalterB]

...and that blend change thing applies to both seasons. It goes up in the winter when they change to winter blend, but it also goes up in the summer when they go to summer blend. But they're not in collusion, they're not ripping us off. You can believe that. They said so.

Where you at, wsj? NorCal, huh? It's up to the $1.75 range here. California really soaks you folks on the taxes, don't they?

[hotjulie]

Sure tell it's a long weekend here, gas went up 12 cents/l, so it's $1.14.9/l here. I'm sure glad I needed over 90l, I really didn't want that $110 cause I know the oil companies need it so badly

[Ramilles]

Chances are I've not worked this out correctly but I reckon today I paid just under $6 a gallon. I know we are heavily taxed for fuel in the UK but this seems really high compared to you guys.

Keep in mind I'm converting from litres to us gallons (not our imperial gallon) and then from sterling to dollars - there's a lot there for my little brain to get wrong. I still reckon it would be cheaper to fly one of these in the US.
We're getting screwed aren't we? (And not in a good way!)

[rokkerr]

Gas back down!!

$1.85 a gallon last night in Florida :)

[Andrew35]

1.88 or so here at most stations, Exxon stations though selling gas at $2.05

[WalterB]

Pries going down a bit here. Down about 5¢/Gal a few nights ago (all stations out here in the NE part of town all at once. No collusion here. )

[rokkerr]

I just did a double take... gas for less than $2 a gallon in the middle of the summer?????
If that holds up we could be looking at VERY low prices come fall

[Connie]

Gas is something that changes here pretty much on a daily bases. Our neighbourhood gas station is sitting at .90 a litre. Costco is alway cheaper then everywhere else coming in at .87 a litre. This past weekend I was out in Victoria B.C. and gas was 1.21 a litre. That is the cost to live on a island.

[PeterL22]

Gas is something that changes here pretty much on a daily bases. Our neighbourhood gas station is sitting at .90 a litre. Costco is alway cheaper then everywhere else coming in at .87 a litre. This past weekend I was out in Victoria B.C. and gas was 1.21 a litre. That is the cost to live on a island.

Hey guys - you don't have anything to complain about - here supermarket prices are £1.10 per litre
So 1 litre = 0.22 galls and £1 = $1.29
so 1 litre costs $1.42 and a gallon costs $6.45


Now you know why we drive small cars!

[WalterB]

I commented once about collusion in the fuel industry, which they vehemently deny, because gas prices all go up at the same time. Then, they go back down slowly and separately.

Used to be, a station raised or lowered their prices based on the price of the fuel that was just delivered. Now, all the stations in the city pretty much all go up at once, usually by the same amount.

I've been watching the prices here in El Paso, http://www.gasbuddy.com/GasPriceMap?z=4 ... =38.822395 as I expected them to go up due to the hurricane. Last night, just about every station in the city went up by $0.30/gal. Now, I guarantee you that every freaking station in the city did not get a fuel delivery last night.

But, nope, there's no collusion or price gouging going on.