PETROLPHOBIA (Page 24/66)
Wolfhound JAN 08, 05:48 AM
We had a low of 1.35 a gal. here last friday, that had jumped to 1.65 over the weekend.
Given the above information it will be interesting to see where prices go in the coming week.

It's easy to see how easily prices, related to supply and demand, can be manipulated by manipulating perception of supply.
AusFiero JAN 08, 06:55 AM
And here we are jumping for joy when it reached $0.99 a litre. Or to put it in your terms about $2.63 US a US gallon. Didn't stay there long though. It is rising again is currently about $3.00 US gallon.
USFiero JAN 19, 07:51 PM
prices climbed to around $1.69 - $1.75. I just got a job again. But damn, why do gas prices have to start climbing too?
maryjane JAN 19, 08:02 PM
Global warming is causing a big demand on heating oil and other weather related energy supplies--which means less refining capacity for gasoline and diesel..
The Russia/Ukrain thing is still fluid.
Gasoline dropped in price, so demand has increased overall--tho not astronomically.
ALLTRBO JAN 19, 08:29 PM
I hope it goes WAY back up this summer again. We just bought my wife a sipping Civic, and I live close to work and get 40mpg on the bike. Last summer I was enjoying the increase in motorcycles on the road, the huge decrease in SuckUV's, and the general decrease in traffic overall. Also, people started taking notice of the idea of electric cars, and we were even able to breathe almost clean air once in a while here inside the Beltway. At that rate, $5 or $6/gal sounds about right to me.
Of course many people went right back to their old ways once prices tanked, and bought more SuckUV's. WTH?

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USFiero FEB 02, 08:22 PM
WTF prices shot up about a dime in less than five days here. The Refinery Workers Strike has been postponed, so what's the deal? Cheapest price I can get is $1.69, most places it's $1.76-$1.79 a gallon. I can accept eventually paying around $2 a gallon so the economy doesn't completely collapse, but not so soon.
USFiero FEB 17, 11:48 PM
Oil closed at $35 a barrel today, the lowest in five years. Perhaps prices will ease down?
NEPTUNE FEB 18, 01:16 AM

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Originally posted by USFiero:

Oil closed at $35 a barrel today, the lowest in five years. Perhaps prices will ease down?



As of today, its still creeping up here. $1.99 gal in the suburbs, and its usually quite a bit more near the airport and the theme parks. And its 10% corn based ethanol by law, so mileage suffers.
Still beats $3.99, but WTF?
Whatever happened to the days of big convertibles, cheap fuel, and beautiful girls? http://jezebel.com/5154499/...e-tonight?t=10774751
USFiero FEB 19, 10:36 PM
Oil prices rose more than 14% Thursday after the government reported that the nation's supplies of crude fell last week for the first time in two months. Light, sweet crude for March delivery rose $4.86, or 14% to settle at $39.48 a barrel. That marks the biggest one-day jump since Dec. 31 when oil rallied $5.57 a barrel or 14.27%. But gas prices dropped about eight cents per gallon from around $1.82 in the last three days. Guess it will rebound soon enough.

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USFiero FEB 26, 11:23 PM
oil has been climbing the last couple days, but gas is still in the mid dollar and sixty cent range.