Hey, WTF? Gasoline prices jumped $0.10 per Gallon in a week here!

[Up2Late]

They had been going down for about 2 months from a high here of over $5.00 per Gallon.

(O.K., $3.00 per Gallon where I live, but some stations in Atlanta got over $5.00, until Governor "Sonny" pushed through an anti-gouging law)

How much does Gasoline cost in your area now?

Here in the Atlanta Metro, it just jumped from $1.88 per Gallon to $1.97 per Gallon in about a week. :wtf:

[Maddy McCall]

1. Consider yourself lucky. It hasn't dipped below $2.30 here.

[Up2Late]

3. Believe me, I do, but I'm wondering why it's changed direction...

...all of a sudden.

It must have been all those lies they started saying last month, that Gas was below "Pre-Katrina levels."

For the record, Pre-Katrina level was $1.79, so mark that down as another lie.

[Mojorabbit]

2. Weren't we getting gas from europe?

I seem to remember reading that they were sending us fuel from their strategic reserves. Did that end and maybe that is why it is going up?

[Up2Late]

4. I was kind of wondering that too, and I think the last report said...

...we had more Heating Oil than on average too. :shrug:

[cornermouse]

14. That ended about a week or two ago.

And gas has gone up .20 or more here.

[hatrack]

23. Correct - we were getting a shitload of refined imports

Given our busted-up refineries, we couldn't just import more crude. Now that Europe has drawn down a substantial part of their stocks, this wave of imports (which was the highest ever recorded during the fall) is drying up.

[Pam-Moby]

5. $2.39 per gallon in my area of MI

[kevinbgoode]

6. It's the War on Fitzmas

the Republicans are fighting back. They know more people are driving during the "holy-day" season.

[Tracyjo]

7. $2.15 here

up from $1.99 a gallon two weeks ago. That's the cheapest I've seen.

[bbinacan]

8. Here in Raleigh, NC

gas has dropped another 5 cents/gallon and is down over a dollar per gallon. Go figure.:shrug:

[auburngrad82]

18. Actually, I live in Raleigh and gas on my side of town is up

It went up about 30 cents over the last month. North Raleigh around Wake Forest. Was down to 1.94- 1.99 and is now 2.17- 2.24 depending on where you stop.

[northerdar]

9. Happy Holidays!

Don't you those oil companies know that people are filling up for their Holiday traveling. Happy Holidays!!!!

[Quixote1818]

10. They went from $2.09 to $2.22 here in Albuquerque nt

[Up2Late]

11. Hey, if you give me a zip code, I'll give you the address were...

...Gas is the cheapest near you, at least until I get sleepy.

(I have the Gas Price Watch YaHoo Widget, formerly know as Konfabulator)

[sam sarrha]

12. West TN.. $1.99 up to $21.6

[sandnsea]

13. Christmas presents are bought

Time to start moving the price of gas up in preparation for red/green day driving. It's a 3 day weekend you know.

[B Calm]

15. Gas in Indiana raised too!

[BiggJawn]

22. Yeah. almost 20 Cents overnight...

What's up wit zat?

[RebelOne]

16. Where in the world do you live in metro Atlanta

that gas is $3 to $5 a gallon? I live northwest of Atlanta in Woodstock and gas is only a little over $2.

[Up2Late]

20. You must not of been following the news, right after Katrina...

...some of the stations (northern Atlanta I think) went over $5.00 per Gallon, even Reuters had a picture of the signs, but regular unleaded peaked at about $3.00 here in SW Cobb. It's just under $2.00 per Gallon now.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. Twenty-Five Cents Here

Went from $2.039 to $2.289 in a week.
The Professor

[DebJ]

19. 2.25 in York, Pa. Was 2.09 last weekend

[mtnsnake]

21. Went from 2.24 to 2.40 here in a wk. They're raising them artificially so

they can have them up there high enough in order to lower them just as artificially in time for the elections next year. The higher they can get them, the lower they can drop them.....and the more appreciative the imbeciles will be when prices are dropped again when voting season comes around.

[Efilroft Sul]

24. Went from $1.97 10 days ago to $2.27 this morning

This is in suburban Pittsburgh, PA (add water, the city makes its own gravy).

[TheFarseer]

25. I saw $1.99 a few weeks ago

Now it's in the $2.20's I haven't even heard what they are blaming it on.

[Up2Late]

27. "cornermouse" and "hatrack" said (above) that the Gasoline imports...

... from Europe ended about a week or two ago.

I heard "the experts" talking on Public Radio's "MarketPlace" a few weeks ago, they said they expected gas prices to jump at least 30 Cents per gallon when the imports ended.

Bummer. :evilfrown:

[SammyWinstonJack]

26. $1.95 to $2.09 back down to $2.07 in less than 2 weeks.

[IDemo]

28. Nobody could see this coming. Nope......

http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2005/11/attention_defic.html

[NaturalHigh]

29. I paid $2.09 yesterday.

My opinion FWIW is that it's because of the cold weather we've had here in OK the past couple of weeks. My experience is that people tend to stock up on things (groceries, gas, whatever) whenever cold weather hits suddenly, as it did last week. Maybe it's a reptilian brain thing, or maybe people just don't want to take a chance of having to get back out in the cold. Anyway, it's another opportunity for oil and gas companies to gouge us.

[Up2Late]

30. This is getting ridiculous! Gas prices just jumped 15 more Cents!

Looks like the price NOW is $2.13 per Gallon, up from $1.88 just over a week ago!