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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:01 PM
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Gas prices literally jumped 15-20 cents here overnight.
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 04:04 PM by Lastlaughin08
Coastal South Carolina. Up from $2.25 Wednesday for regular to $2.45 Thursday all over the Grand Strand.

What's up with this? Can't be hurricanes this time.
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spinbaby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:03 PM
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1. Here, too.
Pittsburgh area.
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:03 PM
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2. Here in Brooklyn, they only went up 6 cents/gal overnight.
:silly:
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:03 PM
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3. Same thing happened here in Ga.
The interesting thing is, the big jump happened the day after the proce of a barrel of crude dropped!

This smells like profiteering to me!!!!!
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ProdigalJunkMail Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:03 PM
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4. warm weather blends are starting to come in
and they are more expensive to produce. Also, for the coast, you got the spring breakers...gonna sock it to 'em...

sP
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schmuls Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:05 PM
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5. yep, same here in Milwaukee - now up to 2.59
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:09 PM
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6. same here in Florida, I heard that there is a chemical that is being taken
out of the gas making process that is gonna cost us about 130,000 barrels a day. I can't remember the name of it(3 or 4 letters in name), but NPR was reporting on it the other day. People were saying that our only hope would be to off set the loss with ethanol, but that seemed like a fantasy based on NPR's reporting.

I don't know if your question has to do with my answer but it is breathtaking to see prices jump $.20-$.30 in one week much less one day.
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:11 PM
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8. Yes, MTBE is being phased out
I read a story about it on FT.com yesterday. We do not have enough ethonal production to make up the demand right now. This mixed in with the seasonal switch will have us at $2.80-$3.00+ within the next couple of weeks, which is just post-Katrina levels.
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stop the bleeding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:15 PM
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10. MTBE!!! thats it - thank you
some of the "experts" in the interview had grave projections on how this will affect gas prices.

We all know how the gas affects everything else in the economy.

Man I hear a big SWOOOSHING sound, the sound of the other shoe about to drop.

This increase in price will cripple some family's budgets.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:10 PM
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7. Here in NE GA too. Damn. Literally, overnight.
I should've filled up when prices were 20 cents lower than $2.45. :(
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obreaslan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:15 PM
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9. Same here in South Jersey....
$2.09 up to $2.27 in three days.

I paid $1.99 10 days ago. And I heard that the price of oil has gone down in the last weeks, not up. :shrug:
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Norquist Nemesis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:15 PM
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11. Operation Swarming
Get the profits before they spill into the ground.
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:16 PM
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12. 11 Cents Here
The Professor
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newportdadde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:18 PM
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13. Katrina level gas will look cheap in 6 months.
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dubyaD40web Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:19 PM
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14. $2.49 /gallon in K.C.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:21 PM
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15. Premium - 2.59 per gallon
in Colorado Springs
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wherewingstakedream Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:25 PM
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16. Here too!
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 04:27 PM by wherewingstakedream
It went up yesterday ,from $2.25 to $2.45 for regular in Ridgeland,MS .
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:30 PM
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17. It's March, it always goes up in March around where I live.
I know, that doesn't really answer your question, does it?

Heck if I know - barrels of oil just dropped in price, so gas goes up. What gives?
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dogday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:31 PM
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18. Spring is sprung....
Spring break and Easter are big travel events... The more we need, the more they charge..
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:33 PM
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19. Went up ten cents in Mid Mo
And I think I know why.

It's Spring Break time, when all those college kids get out and drive, drive, drive from the northern climes down to the southern beaches, and the southern college kids drive, drive, drive out to the ski resorts out in the Rockies.

Happens every year.
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Lefty48197 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 04:59 PM
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20. 21 cent jump near Detroit in one night.
About 2 or 3 weeks ago, I was paying $2.09 a gallon. Everything crept back up to $2.35 or $2.40, then it just started jumping overnight. $2.59 at my neighborhood gas station today, $2.38 yesterday.
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:05 PM
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21. what's the mystery?
its called GOUGING.

what are you gonna do, stop driving? right...
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peacefreak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:07 PM
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22. $2.22 Tuesday afternoon in Maine.
& $2.43 the next day. WTF.
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