Drove to town in MI today, gas was 1.21 a gallon---20 MINUTES later, they had gone up to 1.32 a gallon!!!! Guess it starts now.

-- Jess (alisaunde@aol.com), December 17, 1999

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Wednesday PM I bought gas for 1.299 Thursday it was $1.329

-- No Polly (nopolly@hotmail.com), December 17, 1999.

Near my house here in Oregon it's $1.39 / Gal!

Mark

-- }}=HunterMark=> (hohoho@hohoho.com), December 17, 1999.

In the Minneapolis/St. Paul area when I was shopping on Wednesday I noticed some places had it for $1.17 and some had it for $1.31. By Thursday morning everywhere was $1.31. Luckily my hubby filled up all the gas tanks in vehicles plus the extra 50 gallon tank in his pickup at a gas station while it was still $1.16 a gallon. I don't understand why it jumped so much in one day unless they are gouging people.

-- Diane (DDEsq2002@juno.com), December 17, 1999.

Folks:

Bought gas on Wed. at 1.19.9. Today it was [at the same station] 1.07.9. If this is where it goes, I'm with it.

Best wishes,,,,

Z

-- Z1X4Y7 (Z1X4Y7@aol.com), December 17, 1999.

Crude oil markets shot up strong yesterday... rebounding from technical lows made in previous trading sessions. Thus, higher crude means higher gasoline.

It's not a manipulation by the oil co's. They learned their lessons after the first 2 oil crises in the 70s and 80s. They behaved them selves in the Gulf War because so many of their predecessors faced legal nightmares in the wake of price gouging charges at Federal and State level. I don't know that any of them got hit with actual racketeering charges but there definitely was talk of it. Somehow, I have a hunch that in 6 months to a year we might look back on today's prices wishing that prices could only return to $1.30 levels...kinda like we now view gas prices of the 1950s or 60s. Do you remember 9 cents a gallon? Today, we may be living in another golden age of cheap gas prices and tomorrows world may see nightmarish gas prices.

-- Dick Moody (dickmoody@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.

wife-person went shopping in downtown seattle thursday and paid 1.49 per gal.

-- day tripper (daytripper@vallier.com), December 17, 1999.

High gas prices......GREAT!! That means our government will get higher royalties from the oil companies and we will get a tax break..........

There's always a bright side to things.........

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), December 17, 1999.

Craig,

You really live in dreamworld, huh? Since when have we really had a tax break? It's all a shell game. Smoke and Mirrors.

-- Dick Moody (dickmoody@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.

NE Indiana gas prices are dropping this week. Last week $1.21, this week $1.17. Time will tell.

-- Dorothy (Hippie1959@aol.com), December 17, 1999.

From CT....the local self serve Mobil station is $1.51 per gallon.

-- Irving (irvingf@myremarq.com), December 17, 1999.

North east Maine, gas was .10 lower Wednasday $ 1.33.9

-- && (&&@&&.&), December 17, 1999.

average in this neck of the woods varies from 1.17 to 1.21

-- very-worried (blacksburg@virginia.com), December 17, 1999.

Truthfully, I dont care if its $3.00/gal so long as its available>

-- JB (noway@jose.com), December 17, 1999.

I would have to disagree with Mr. Moody. With all due respect, the oil companies may have behaved themselves, but the local gas stations sure didn't. I climbed the pole myself when the bombing started and raised the prices a full fifteen cents that day. The hike was justified by our station, because, sure enough, that's about how much the increase was on our next load from the oil companies. I think the oil/gas companies will always push the limit. They are incapable of restraint.

BTW, we pay about 1.33 here in the desert.

-- ariZONEa (stoop_over@for.gas), December 17, 1999.

Holding at 1.649 here on Kaua'i...

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), December 17, 1999.

Regular at BP is $1.34/gal and $1.26/gal at Certified in Columbus, OH. This is up from $1.21 at BP last month.

-- (ladybuckeye@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.

Southeast Alabama ...$1.29 per gallon.

-- Rosearbor (Rosearbor@hotmail.com), December 17, 1999.

I paid $1.12 in Minneapolis while most stations were $1.31. There are two sttions one one corner whose owners are Middle-Eastern immigrants; they compete for customers with low prices. They get their profits from cigarettes and convenience foods.

-- John Littmann (JTL9700@JUNO.COM), December 17, 1999.

Premium about $1.51 in Vero Beach, FL.

-- Mara (MaraWayne@aol.com), December 17, 1999.

Rock Hill, SC

El Cheapo Gas

February 1999 .62

December 16, 1999 1.13

DV, FSI!

BR

-- brother rat (rldabney@usa.net), December 17, 1999.

I'm close the Mpls/St.Paul area, 1.18/gallon to 1.32/gallon in one day. Disel cost 1.49/gallon. Not sure what heating oil cost.

-- Bill (sticky@2sides.tape), December 17, 1999.

Mara: Thank you for at least identifying the price and type together. Regular plus here in the DFW area runs from $1.29 to $1.31.

-- Neil G.Lewis (pnglewis1@yahoo.com), December 17, 1999.

spelling error Diesel not disel

-- Bill (sticky@2sides.tape), December 17, 1999.

In Northern Cal mts has been steady in the $1.40's for weeks. Does go up and down a penny or two here and there but no big change since coming down from the summer $1.80's. Howie

held steady in the $

-- Howie (biggguy79@hotmail.com), December 17, 1999.

Here in northern Cal mts it has been steady in the $1.40's for weeks. Up and down a penny or two here and there but mostly stable since coming down from the summer $1.80's-Howie

-- Howie (biggguy79@hotmail.com), December 17, 1999.

Free market: you loved it as a shareholder. Now here it comes back on you in a price boomerang: there won't be any rationing like in WWII and in 1974. No, this time, the price will just keep climbing till only the government can afford it. Oh, free market, we bow down and worship you. Yeah, I made enough in the 401K to retire early but the HMO insisted I die first to keep their next quarter's earnings in line. You know, "increased productivity"....maybe y2k will at least reconnect the community in human relations.

-- Tishaminga (steverromano@eaton.com), December 17, 1999.

-- Tishaminga:

In a free market you can price your services to buy your fuel requirements, in a regulated market you can't.

Been there, done that, got the tee shirt in '74.

-- Tom Beckner (tbeckner@erols.com), December 18, 1999.

N. CALIF, Chico: cheapest is $1.22 unleaded reg, went down a penny a few days ago. You know, I assume, that Chevron, the 4th largest refiner, stated about one year ago in SEC filing that they WILL NOT be ready for 2000? Got bike?

-- johno (jobriy2k@yahoo.com), December 19, 1999.

southern Maine, southeast NH, 1.39 this weekend at the self-serve stations, just about steady for the past couple weeks.

-- Cash (cash@andcarry.com), December 19, 1999.

The lowest price for regular that I've seen in Indianapolis was $1.10

-- HERB (herb01@prodigy.net), December 19, 1999.

Where I live it's around $5.20 per gallon. Ok it's clearly not the USA and there's been a little inflation over the years, but I rather think petrol (hint as to where I am) at say $1.60 per gallon is extremely cheap.

-- Peter Morgan (buffy@aloof.co.uk), May 08, 2004.