Gas Pump Price Surges to $1.571 a Gallon

[Nambe]

WASHINGTON (Reuters)

U.S. retail gasoline prices last week surged 3.5 cents to an average $1.571 per gallon, the highest in more than three months, the federal government said on Monday.

The average U.S. pump price, based on a weekly survey of more than 800 service stations by the Energy Information Administration, was 17.8 cents a gallon above the same week one year ago, and was the highest since April 21, when the average price was $1.574 per gallon.

The increase tracked a rise in crude oil costs, which account for nearly half of the price of gasoline. ---

[Parche]

1. bush crock

Yeah didnt he tell ya that by invading Iraq the price of oil
would go up?

[donotpassgo]

2. 1.571 a gallon??? I wish.

I'm paying 1.8 out here in LA.

[Twenty3]

5. 1.8 a gallon?? I wish!

It's $2-something here (~250 miles north of you) :wow:

[no_arbusto]

10. Paid $2.79 for regular last week

On Highway 1 near Big Sur.

[donotpassgo]

11. HOLY MACARONI!!!!!

[On the Road]

3. Bad for the Economy

that recovery is taking awhile.

[stevedeshazer]

4. When I left on vacation 2 weeks ago

I filled up for $1.46.9/gallon. I returned to the same station two weeks to the HOUR, it was $1.62.9.

[donotpassgo]

6. I think its weird how on one block the gas is 1.63

and a mile down the road its 1.86. WTF?

[TreasonousBastard]

8. Guy I know owns a Sunoco gas station...

and he won't use bootleg gas to keep the prices down. He tells me that the oil companies have district pricing formulas that can be as much as a nickel or dime different a mile away. Town taxes can make a difference, too. He goes nuts when he has to pay a nickel more than a Sunoco dealer on the south side of town.

Here in Joisey, we have local refineries which help keep the price down, and we have low gas taxes, so I can still get regular for $1.35 or so at some places, but the going price around here is $1.45 and up for name brand gas. We've got a lot of gas stations around here, so there's pressure on prices. We've got a lot of bootleg gas, too. Mostly legal, but of uncertain heritage.

It gets higher when you head west toward suburbia, or north toward the New York state line where prices are at least 50 cents higher due mainly to NY's higher taxes.

[Unforgiven]

7. Elections

Elections cost money folks, Either stolen or bought or both. We must now pay for the privilaged rich to have that option of holding on to that power whatever the cost.

[onehandle]

9. Good...

Honestly, we should be paying what the rest of the world is.

Oil will come to it's much needed end, that much earlier.

[tinnypriv]

12. Oh boo hoo

73p a litre here. Nearly $5.90 a gallon.

[Pert_UK]

13. Maybe once you approach realistic prices you'll stop people buying Hummers

Seriously, fuel prices in the UK directly "encourage" the purchase of more economical cars. Not necessarily small, shitty, slow cars, but cars with at least reasonable miles per gallon.

I'm in Australia at the moment. If anything, the environment here requires more long-distance travelling by car than the US, and the gas prices are still higher over here than in the US, with wages lower (I believe).

So stop moaning!

:-)

P.

[ParanoidPat]

14. Thanks!

Someone had to say it! :toast: :evilgrin:

[dbt]

17. And some of the small British cars ROCK

Drove from St. Ives to London in a Vauxhall (sp?) Corsa and it just ate up the road! Americans will someday have to answer the clue phone.

Cheers,
:beer:
dbt

[w4rma]

15. Around Richmond, VA the gas prices range from $1.42 to $1.54 (n/t)

[IndianaGreen]

16. They are all over the map in central Indiana

They can fluctuate from mid $1.40s to the high $1.60s, often within the same week.

[ianbruce]

18. Remember that idiotic Flash movie? The one that depicted a nuclear...

... detonation in Baghdad with gas prices going down? What an moranic FReeper asshole.

I'll bet he still has absolutely no clue how he'd been played.

[ze_dscherman]

19. Average pump price here 4,54$/gallon

But thats in Germany, and I don't care, because only ride bicycle, bus or train ...

[booksenkatz]

20. Should go live in OK or TX

Down in oil derrick country, the gas prices when I was down there in July absolutely blew my mind. In OK I saw gas in some places for EIGHTY-EIGHT CENTS a gallon. In TX it was uniformly less than a buck-forty. The day we left to drive back home to MI, we filled up for $1.32/gal. Here in Michigan it's still less than $2 a gallon, but I agree that all of us here in the States have it so easy. The rest of the world is forced into creative alternatives. We Americans are the pigs of the earth. My English hubby just laughs anytime I complain about gas prices.

But the price difference within our country alone really is staggering.