5 dollar gas...are we ready?

[walrus]

Re: 5 dollar gas...are we ready?

Question on getting "different" gas at stations:

I can't remember if it was on Modern Marvels or some other TV show, but I seem to remember them talking about this as being a myth... For anything other than a true, national brand like BP or Shell, they would basically just sell the same, generic gasoline... Reason being that all the small companies shared the pipelines used to move refined gas across the country since no single company could pay for exclusive use... As a result, companies would use the same product... Example: Company A would put 10,000 gallons (simple numbers here) into the system in Louisiana on Monday... On Tuesday, they would pull 10,000 gallons out of the pipeline in Ohio... It would be impossible for the 10,000 gallons to have covered the distance in the pipeline, so the gas Company A pulled out was not the same they put in...

This is why I never really went to BP's that were a few cents higher around here... I didn't feel I was getting a lesser product, despite being from a regional chain... I understand that there can be individual problems at stations, such as water/condensation forming in an individual stations tanks... I just never really noticed a difference... I just went to whomever had the cheapest price... Am I missing something here? I just never got the whole station to station debate based on this logic...

Throughput happens everywhere, Oil company A has a terminal in Oil Company Bs area, Oil company B doesn't have a terminal in that area. Oil Company A says yeah you can pull from my terminal if I can pull from your terminal in area I don't have supply. Happens all the time.
Additive pkgs will be brand specific but if I don't have a terminal in that area guess what you aren't getting that additive. Also If I'm a Shell or whoever distributor and that terminal runs out and I can buy unbranded product, guess whats going into that tank..

[FlagDUDE08]

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Maybe it's not all just going to beer. http://www.cnbc.com/id/102351843

Hey Fed, why force inflation when you can just use sticker shock at the pumps?

[JF_Gophers]

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PA as of this year pays 0.70 cents in taxes on a gallon of gas. So really gas is only 1.70!

[FlagDUDE08]

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PA as of this year pays 0.70 cents in taxes on a gallon of gas. So really gas is only 1.70!

That include federal, or did you actually pass us?

[JF_Gophers]

That include federal, or did you actually pass us?

That includes fed I believe. According to api.org.

4-5 cents more than NY! :O

[FlagDUDE08]

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A couple of stations in my area have hit 1.999!

[joecct]

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Just saw on TV $3.09 @ a BP in downtown Chicago.

[aparch]

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Just saw on TV $3.09 @ a BP in downtown Chicago.

Depends where it's at. Generally, most of the City of Chicago is $0.40 to $0.50 higher than the Chicagoland region. Leave the City limits and it easily drops $0.20 to $0.30.

There is a Mobil station on the corner of Halsted St. and Division St. (just up the street from my field office) that is currently $3.49. They're usually $0.80 to $1.00 higher than the suburbs.

But $2.99/$3.09 has been where it has hovered for the last two months.

[walrus]

Re: 5 dollar gas...are we ready?

Just saw on TV $3.09 @ a BP in downtown Chicago.

Refineries switching over to summer gas

[Twitch Boy]

Re: 5 dollar gas...are we ready?

Depends where it's at. Generally, most of the City of Chicago is $0.40 to $0.50 higher than the Chicagoland region. Leave the City limits and it easily drops $0.20 to $0.30.

There is a Mobil station on the corner of Halsted St. and Division St. (just up the street from my field office) that is currently $3.49. They're usually $0.80 to $1.00 higher than the suburbs.

But $2.99/$3.09 has been where it has hovered for the last two months.

Does Speedway operate out there? They're infamous for spiking prices 30 cents at a time and everyone else follows them.

[joecct]

Re: 5 dollar gas...are we ready?

Depends where it's at. Generally, most of the City of Chicago is $0.40 to $0.50 higher than the Chicagoland region. Leave the City limits and it easily drops $0.20 to $0.30.

There is a Mobil station on the corner of Halsted St. and Division St. (just up the street from my field office) that is currently $3.49. They're usually $0.80 to $1.00 higher than the suburbs.

But $2.99/$3.09 has been where it has hovered for the last two months.

No idea, only that there was a humongous McDonalds across the street.
I was following on the internet the Funeral Mass and Procession of Cardinal George.

[joecct]

Re: 5 dollar gas...are we ready?

Are we ready for $2 gas?

[omahasioux1]

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3.30 still

[MissThundercat]

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3.30 still

2.49 this morning in Muskegon.

[Kepler]

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Are we ready for $2 gas?

LOL.

I dunno, Bibi can still launch a war if Congress doesn't do his bidding.