Fuel Prices Dec.2010

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Will-C

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Hi,
I wondered if fuel prices around the country are following what is happening locally in Pa and New Jersey. Diesel in New Jersey shot up from 2.85 a gallon to 3.05 at the best places. Gas in Pa went from 2.85 to 2.99 in about a week. Diesel fuel in Pa. I have seen as high as 3.99. Typically New Jersey's fuel is 20 cents cheaper due less fuel tax than Pa. Plus in New Jersey they have to pump it for you. I wondered what happened, where, to cause this leap in prices, or is it just greed? :crook Korea? I thought they just found a bunch of oil in the Dakotas. Maybe this is the start of the runaway inflation everyone has been worried about. I'm just saying.
D.D.
 
I shot up all over; in VA it has gone up $.25/gal the last couple weeks. I have read some analysis that said because the dollar has declined on the world market due to quantitative easing, and since oil is priced in dollars, it costs more dollars for a barrel now. Makes some sense to me. Just remember though, since your dollar is worth less, you aren't really paying more for the gas, you are just using more dollars. :lol:
 
Diesel Anchorage $3.69/gal.
Diesel Juneau $3.39/gal

Diesel gets to Anchorage from a refinery in Kenai/Nikiski 80 miles away by pipeline. Diesel gets to Juneau by leaving Valdez on a tanker, going to Washington, being refined and sent back to Juneau on a barge. Rumor has it we are subsidizing the cost of jet fuel at the airport for air cargo.

I guess we are keeping the price of televisions and DVD players down.
 
Here in Duluth I get sort of a tri-state perspective on gas prices. When regular here in Mn is $2.89 (roughly what it is now) it's $2.99 across the bridge in Superior, Wisconsin. A little further East in the U.P. of Michigan it always jumps 10 more cents (it was 3.09 last week)

This is why I do this:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/displa ... metro_man/

They aren't exactly chick magnets, but they get better MPG's than most motorcycles. My record is 67MPG in my little 89 Metro XFi. It's not hard to pull 55MPG. It's the only way I'll be able to afford to and fro PNW this winter and still fill the CD tanks :)

Brenton
 
Just got back from a 2500 mile road trip. Went to Ajo Az.

I run a dodge pu with plus recommended. I paid around 3.60 per gallon in Crescent City, around 3.20 in So Oregon, prices went back up in Calif but lower in So Cal and in Az I was just over 3.00 for the same. That was pretty much the story until I filled up in Parker Az.

In Parker I paid 5.99 per gallon. I was so shocked to see the price meter roll so fast. Then I saw it was 100 octane. Stopped at 10 gallons and then filled with regular twice after quarter tank used. Yikes, glad I don't need race fuel.
 
Just filled up the F250 last night. Paid $3.39/gallon for diesel but I had a .10 a gallon discount w/ Safeway. So the true price per gallon is $3.49/per. I won't comment on the ridiculously exorbitant gas taxes in WA State, but they are amongst the highest in the nation.
 
Well, one can complain about the gas taxes in both Calif and Wa, but in Oregon, where there is no sales tax, the price is still the same. Less taxes but more profit.

Boris
 
I believe the US has the resources and technology to be energy independent, with low risk to environmental issues. We are simply reaping the result of policies which we have allowed to limit our use of these resources, as alternative energy options are developed.
 
The Dept of Energy recently did a study for the Dept of defense. Basically it concluded that we were at or near "Peak oil" and that prices were going to rise. Luckily the government is usually wrong!
 
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