We were at $2.79...up from 2.53 2 weeks ago.

The excuse they use this year is they have to switch to a summer reformulated blend.

It was only a couple years ago we were paying 1.19 a gallaon

I'll have to look on my way home. I think I'm edging down toward 1/2 tank, so I'm going to have to fill up soon.

I want my flying car they promised us on the Jetsons or my space jet pack.

Seriously...Where are all the alternative fuel sources we shouldve had by now?

Then our friends to the east can keep their goop.

I'd love to have one of those Willie Nelson vegetable oil burning Mercedes Benzs.  That would rock! 

I had to call my hubby after I left the gas station the other day. It was 2.39 last I filled up (two weeks ago)  2.59 over the weekend and now in the 2.60 range!

I saw $2.79 this morning.

Lately, no matter what the price, I put no more than $20 in my tank at any time. I have a 10 gallon tank (tiny car), so when it's closer to $2, that will fill up the tank. Last time it only filled it 3/4. I don't care, the greedy thieves aren't getting more than $20 out of me at a time.

Last night, I talked to my friend that owns a convenience store in a REALLY small town about 10 miles from here. I noticed that they have no gas and I asked him if he couldn't get it now.

He said that he simply can't afford it. To buy what he can afford is a small enough amount that he can't get a price break. If he could afford a whole tanker at a time, he could get a better deal.

He said that last fall he had just filled up his tanks and then the price started going back down. He had to lower his price with everyone else to be able to sell what he had, and he lost over $9,000 on that gas. He just can't afford to lose that much again if the price starts going back down, so he is just waiting to see what happens.

 

 my boss went to fill up this morning , and couldn't . Destin had no regular gas , he had to get it out here by me. lol , just in time for the holiday weekend . lol .

Today the price was around $2.72 and I heard on the radio that it is expected to go up when they increase min wage because they will have to make adjustments for paying their employees at the stations!

Sorry DS, that won't work. Courtesy of Snopes:

Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.

. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone. "To meet the sudden demand," he says, "the good guys would have to buy gasoline wholesale from the bad guys, who are suddenly stuck with unwanted gasoline."

So motorists would end up . . . paying more for it, because they'd be buying it at fewer stations.

And yes, oil companies do buy and sell from one another. Mike Right of AAA Missouri says, "If a company has a station that can be served more economically by a competitor's refinery, they'll do it."

Right adds, "In some cases, gasoline retailers have no refinery at all. Some convenience-store chains sell a lot of gasoline — and buy it all from somebody else's refinery."
A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e., pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.

The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.
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I don't know if it would really help any, but what I've been doing is putting a limit on how much gas I buy at one time. I budget for a certain amount (I have a 10 gallon tank, so my budget is $20) a week and don't go over that. So, I never really fill up all the way, it's usually somewhere above 3/4 of a tank, but I'm buying lesser quantities at one time. I'm not sure if it would affect anything if everyone did this, but it helps with my own personal budgeting.

 

 it went up to $2.84 here. 

$2.99 here for the cheap stuff- $3.13 for premium.

We have $2.63 to 2.73 here.

It is up to at least $2.80 here. And if I don't stop for gas on the way home, I won't make it home.