Gas prices up 3.4 cents in the last week
Filling your tank will lighten your pockets a bit more this week as gas prices in metro Atlanta continue to climb. Pump prices have risen 3.4 cents in the last week — to an average of $3.48 a gallon on Sunday.
Analysts point to three main reasons for the uptick: a shutdown of multiple refineries across the U.S.; the continuing economic turmoil in Europe, and Iran’s threat to close the Strait of Hormuz.
“Although oil prices remain near $100 a barrel, retail gas prices continue to rise at a steady pace,” said Jessica Brady, AAA spokeswoman. “Concerns of dwindling supplies from refinery shutdowns in the U.S., at a time when gas demand is starting to improve are driving pump prices higher.” She said consumers are likely to see gas prices increase again this week.
Prices Sunday were 51.5 cents per gallon higher than the same day a year ago and are 28.9 cents per gallon higher than a month ago, according to GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan.
“We continue to also watch how Iran responds to EU sanctions- there are some concerns that they may cut oil to the European region before the sanctions are to take effect to cause these countries hardship when they can’t find new sources of oil quickly enough. That in itself could draw crude oil prices higher quickly at a moments notice,” DeHaan said.
Meanwhile, lower than average prices have been spotted throughout metro Atlanta. GasBuddy.com reports regular unleaded gas for $3.34 at Home Depot, 3355 N. Cobb Pkwy near Acworth; $3.35 at an Ingles at 3701 Walt Stephens Rd & Speer Rd. in Stockbridge, and $3.35 at a Marathon at 326 Cherokee St & Timber Lake Rd in Kennesaw.
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122 comments Add your comment
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
1:15 pm
This is all a bunch of garbage. There are plenty of reserves worldwide with plenty of oil. They are using bs excuses to be able to cripple the pockets of people worldwide. I dont have respect for anyone involved. I told a friend to expect $4.25 gas by June. I dont think many of us can handle 5 dollars a gallon. That would cost an average of $70 to fill up!!!!!!! It’s getting critical out here….
PMC
January 30th, 2012
1:15 pm
Isn’t it more the embargo of Iran effecting global supply rather than any threats in the strait of Hormuz?
Steady
January 30th, 2012
1:18 pm
If gas goes above $4 and stays there through the election, the current administration will take the blunt of customer aggravation.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:18 pm
http://blogs.ajc.com/business-beat/2012/01/30/pump-prices-continue-to-climb-this-week/
Thanks Obama…..Change we can see!!
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
1:21 pm
The sad thing is that they know we’ll just whine at the pump and accept it…..smh
carpetbagger
January 30th, 2012
1:21 pm
No change given to me when I fill up. I’ll see to a change this November!
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:22 pm
SirReal, there is nothing much more we can do, at least until November.
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
1:23 pm
Well I think I could suck it up for awhile if it helps the current administration get put to the curb!
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
1:23 pm
@UGA 1999 I hear ya….I honestly dont know what to believe anymore sometimes.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:23 pm
Hey Obama….I HOPE that when I give the attendant a $5 bill for a gallon of gas I can get CHANGE!
What do you say?
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:23 pm
Aldo….AMEN!
JD #6
January 30th, 2012
1:25 pm
This is the biggest scam to hit the face of the earth!!!!!!!!!! APEC are mobsters!!!
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
1:27 pm
@JD#6 Pretty much man….
Marlboro Man
January 30th, 2012
1:29 pm
It won’t change even is the president does, don’t act like a kid.
Gas-Pumper
January 30th, 2012
1:30 pm
The current administration should take the brunt of the gas customer frustration. What was the price of gas when this administration started? $1.84/gal. So much for big business and government controlling them. Thank the “Gas Lobbyists” for keeping gas prices high. And thank this administration for nixing the pipeline from Canada to Texas…there go thousands of jobs…and we get most of our oil from Canada. So the Chinese stepping in to build a pipeline to the Pacific Coast so they can ship the oil. Golly ghee Mr.President…thanks…
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:33 pm
Marlboro….”It won’t change even is the president does”…..Don’t write like a kid!
Crazy Talk
January 30th, 2012
1:34 pm
PMC….just a quick history note the US has had an embargo against all business and/or trade with Iran since 1995. So lack of oil from Iran hasn’t been an issue for many years.
The rising price of oil has to do with many factors, just a few examples are:
-control of the supply flow by the countries with the largest supplies
-speculation in the investment market
-lack of refineries in the US
-inflation, making the value of the dollar less
-supply and demand from emerging economics as other countries grow and develop a greater need
-taxes, US national tax 18.4 cents/gallon, state of GA 7.5 cents/gallon, + 4% sales tax on top of that. If gas cost was $1.00/gallon in Georgia we would actually pay $1.309/ gallon.
A large factor is the Obama administrations view point that we need to use less fossil fuels. Regulations against exploration for oil, new wells, and construction of new refineries and pipelines are a huge factor. For example with Obama announced he would kill the Keystone XL pipeline gas prices shot up the next day, about $0.10 where I live. And when Canadian company said they would look to China for refining prices when up another $0.05 a few days later.
Vince Doodley
January 30th, 2012
1:34 pm
Just watch. If this gets any higher, Oblama will release strategic reserves to articifically lower the cost of gasoline. This will definitely happen in an election year.
Blondie
January 30th, 2012
1:34 pm
Feeling relieved that I just moved closer to my job & that my boyfriend and I can now carpool. Just wish some idiot hadn’t hit my car last week. It had the better MPG. Oh well. OPEC isn’t going to get more money from us. Time for people to get serious about carpooling -not to save emissions. To save money.
rivercard
January 30th, 2012
1:35 pm
Yet, fuel was the leading export for US last year. Something does not jibe here.
They charge as much as they can get away with and wait until they feel a little heat from governement or public. Then bring prices down to a number higher than previous low. Wait a few months, then rinse and repeat.
Supply and demand, profit maximization and speculation. I really don’t know what you can do about it in a free market.
Marlboro Man
January 30th, 2012
1:35 pm
No editor, smart ass
Cutty
January 30th, 2012
1:37 pm
APEC…. It’s Obama’s fault… How informed you all are. I didn’t hear anyone blame Bush when gas prices suddenly skyrocketed during his administration. As a matter of fact, you all reelected him. Hannity and all the other GOP blowhards screamed how Presidents can’t alter gas prices. And it’s OPEC for the much informed JD.
Get over it. Seems like all those drill baby drill CEOs would rather shut down refineries and make their money by just raising gas prices. Don’t see any of you down in Texas having it out with the people that are truly responsible for this.
Cutty
January 30th, 2012
1:38 pm
Vince- Bush did the same thing in 2004.. But keep blaming it on the black guy.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_41/b3903049_mz011.htm
Jimmy
January 30th, 2012
1:39 pm
There is only one reason gas prices are high.BECAUSE THE OIL COMPANIES WANT THEM THAT WAY.If they want $10.00 a gallon they will charge $10.00 and there is nothing you can do about it except pay up or park your car.The politicians are bought and paid for by big oil period.If it will help get Obama out of the white house I will pay $20.00 per gallon.
The Dude
January 30th, 2012
1:41 pm
Blame the real problem, oil futures speculators. No party is going to reel them in. Change presidents all you want, but your best bet is to buy a hybrid car if you can’t afford the gas increases.
Truth
January 30th, 2012
1:42 pm
If you can’t afford to gas up your vehicle, maybe you should ride MARTA
Attention: Fuel consumption is a part of automobile ownership.
td
January 30th, 2012
1:42 pm
I have been saying for a few weeks if gas prices are over $4 per gallon in Oct then Obama will not be re elected no matter who the Republicans nominee is.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:44 pm
Cutty….we are.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:45 pm
http://blog.heritage.org/2011/03/04/in-pictures-bush-vs-obama-on-gas-prices/
Cutty….that is for you!
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
1:50 pm
I wonder how this is going to play out in the election. Obama siding with criminals! AGAIN!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-occupy-wall-street-we-are-their-side_598251.html
TheBigCat
January 30th, 2012
1:53 pm
Back in 2007 and 2008 I would laugh when I would hear Black people at the pumps at Quik Trip saying “George Bush got these gas prices high”. Funny how I don’t hear them blaming it on the current President.
Atlantan
January 30th, 2012
1:56 pm
For years I recall my prog friends claiming they’d like to see gas prices as high as Europe so Americans will consume less…. Obama’s plan is working.
I also recall left wingers going nuts on Bush when gas prices spiked back in 2008 – he was in bed with his oil buddies, Haliburton, Cheney, Koch Brothers, etc. He has been out of office for 36-months now obamabots so what is the problem?
markie mark
January 30th, 2012
1:58 pm
Blondie….that is exactly what Obama and the left want….this is social engineering thru the back door…
markie mark
January 30th, 2012
1:59 pm
Cutty, you cant drill if there are no federal permits allowing it…..get a clue
markie mark
January 30th, 2012
2:00 pm
“The Dude” is right….oil speculators drive up demand, sometimes as a by-product of trading futures, sometimes on purpose.
Chuck
January 30th, 2012
2:03 pm
“a shutdown of multiple refineries across the U.S.; ”
How about an explanation on why refineries are being shut down? Please don’t use worries about future oil supplies as a reason, there are financial instruments for the oil companies to use to hedge against such problems.
Bruce
January 30th, 2012
2:03 pm
Don’t understand gas prices at all. Not to far in the past, gas prices remain fairly constant not matter what the situation was in the world. Now it seems every time a tropical storm forms or some third world country rants about something the oil companies use it as an excuse to raise gas prices. Do the oil companies not own their own wells or do they just purchase the oil from others? It is fairly obvious that gasoline retailers depend on each other to set their retail prices. When one drops or raises their prices then the other does. Why do they have to call other retailers to “shop” prices before making a price change? In Dalton their are two Race Trac stores about 3 mile apart. They never have the same price. One changes it’s price to compete with Walmart and the other does the same to compete with Kroger. Get real guy, they found out several yrs ago that we would pay whatever they charged us and they will continue to raise prices.
Matt
January 30th, 2012
2:08 pm
It is evident none of you read the article.
The supply is abundant of oil.
The supply of gas is reduced. the question is…why have the refineries closed?
Catchers Mitt
January 30th, 2012
2:09 pm
High Oil Prices is still Bush’s Fault!
Arnold Ziffel
January 30th, 2012
2:09 pm
It comes down to manipulation of the oil market at the consumer’s expense. Given the heavy impact of oil prices on most people, there should be trading regulations and restrictions to protect us from this market manipulation.
In the end, our government employees will continue to fill up their vehicles on our dime for business and personal driving. What price does gas need to reach per gallon before we see reform in this area?
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:10 pm
Catchers Mitt….HAHAHAHAHA
Frank Furter
January 30th, 2012
2:13 pm
Time to buy a motorcycle! http://www.notquitedevils.com
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:13 pm
Frank….AMEN!
Megawatt
January 30th, 2012
2:16 pm
You can thank the EPA for the refinery shut downs. Keep an eye on your power bills, they will soon be going crazy. EPA has declaired war on coal too!!! The greens are really pink on the inside.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:18 pm
Megawatt….agreed….thanks Barack!
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:18 pm
The United States refines more than three times that of Saudia Arabia…We also have three of the top 9 oil producing refineries in the world!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_refineries
Comptonia
January 30th, 2012
2:19 pm
“Analysts point to three main reasons for the uptick:…”
They left off the fourth, and biggest, reason. We’re simply running out of oil. As the supply dwindles the demand (can you say China) surges. No complaint though, it’s been a great time to be an oil company shareholder and it’ll only get better.
TallaDawg
January 30th, 2012
2:21 pm
Alot of people just love to over-simplify a situation and ignore a thorough analysis. This is mostly (not totally) due to the fact that the price of oil is set by speculators OR the companies that refine oil. Both parties profit wildly if the price of oil and/or gasoline goes up. This is not Obama’s fault, even if a few newer regualtions do not allow the oil companies to rape the environment, the outcome would be very similar.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:23 pm
Talladawg….Sorry dude but again you are wrong. The regulations set for by Obama and the EPA are driving oil prices up. Also, his war against competitiveness is killing the middle class american.
garyc42
January 30th, 2012
2:26 pm
its nothing but price gouging,but the government can get a way with it.Oil companies and our government are so greedy.
TallaDawg
January 30th, 2012
2:26 pm
“The greens are really pink on the inside.” I hope I am missing something, because I hope that is not an outdated, ill-informed and inane comparison of environmentalism being communist. If that is the point, you are too old or too ignorant to matter.
TallaDawg
January 30th, 2012
2:29 pm
UGA1999 – 1 : There is no competition in the oil market. (Read my comment)
2: There also is a point at which “cheap” oil is not worth the externalities that it costs. It is not cheap to take the simple way out.
KSU Alum
January 30th, 2012
2:29 pm
These refinery closures don’t help, particularly since we aren’t opening any new refineries to replace the production capacity of the ones that are shutting down (or if we ARE opening new refineries, it is at a pace that will not help relieve pressure at the pump any time soon). This is what I see as the biggest contributor to higher prices here. We have plenty of oil, but we are actively reducing our domestic capacity to refine that oil into usable products, gasoline being the primary one. Thus, our domestic gas supply is getting smaller, increasing prices.
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
2:30 pm
And I suppose the veto of the Keystone pipeline wasn’t O’s fault either!
WithAGrainOfSalt
January 30th, 2012
2:32 pm
Too bad Bachman dropped out of race. Didn’t she promise $2 gas?
Megawatt
January 30th, 2012
2:33 pm
TallaDawg : Ouch, but yes, your missing somthing allright.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:34 pm
Talladawg…Again you are wrong. Obama refuses to put the United States in a place where we can compete globally with the middle east for oil resources.
Bruce
January 30th, 2012
2:34 pm
It is funny to me how all these people are opposed to any type of oil drilling and pipelines in the US but they do not seem to mind about the drilling & pipelines in other countries. Can’t have it both ways.
Fred
January 30th, 2012
2:37 pm
And it’s also no surprise that oil company profits remain at record highs.
Let’s cut their taxes and subsidize them more………
franklamar
January 30th, 2012
2:38 pm
We are getting _uck__ by our own govt…every day its something new on why gas is going up…I don’t care if its rep… are dem… they are all in that gas thing together…people wake up!!!
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
2:40 pm
@UGA1999 So I guess all the other regimes did great before him huh? Man, republican or democrat it doesnt matter. You right into their hands by blaming the figurehead. We did the SAME thing with Bush, the SAME thing with Clinton, and the list goes on. Obama only got the baton from Bush who only got the baton from Clinton, who got it from the 1st Bush….come on. Do you NOT see a pattern? I think it’s much bigger than what one man or his administration has done. This is a WORLDWIDE sham concocted by people you’ll never see or know a day in your life.
#occupy my desk...
January 30th, 2012
2:41 pm
4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
SirReal….Ok, then. Please tell me what Obama has done to decrease ever rising gas prices in the United States. Remember, he said we should be paying $5 gas. Yep, he sure is the president for the lower and middle class! hahaha Suckers!
Wutehvah
January 30th, 2012
2:43 pm
It has nothing to do with refining capacity – we are exporting TONS of gasoline. I believe it’s our largest export now, but we have a ’supply’ concern!!?? WTF???
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
2:44 pm
@UGA1999 You must not have gotten my point. Lets talk about what Obama did, Bush did, Clinton did, and so forth to do so? They are all together sir. Two wings of the same bird. Middle class? You actually buy into such a concept? I get you know….lol
Madmax
January 30th, 2012
2:45 pm
Here’s how the oil companies can make $1billion in a short time, shut down a few refineries and say it’s for “maintenance”, gasoline then goes up 50 cents a gallon, when enough profits are made the “maintenance” is done and the refinery is turned back online and no one notices or really cares.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:46 pm
SirReal…point taken.
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
2:46 pm
@Madmax Yep…and all the fat cats get fatter. So while we whine about it, they could care less b/c we still go to the pumps as soon as the gas light comes on.
rivercard
January 30th, 2012
2:48 pm
KSU – As asked by someone before why are the refineries closing? Age, type of oil refined, smaller refiners, tight margins, Efficiencies have helped keep up supply and with a decrease in domestic demand Refined fuel was actually our top export last year.
UGA 1999 – Please provide the specific policies that are negatively effecting refined oil production/prices.
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
2:48 pm
@UGA1999 Thx. You seem like a pretty smart person so I wasnt trying to cross toes. Just the reality of the situation unfortunately and WE the people end up catching the @$$ end. When will we stop allowing ourselves to be hoodwinked?
truthsayer
January 30th, 2012
2:49 pm
Do you remember?
July 7, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi wrapped up her San Francisco holiday weekend Monday with a blast at President Bush. The topic — the price of oil. Gasoline has more than doubled since the Bush administration took office she says.
San Francisco’s Meals on Wheels turns out more than 1,300 meals a day to seniors. But now there has been a dramatic rise in expenses.
“Our costs have gone up 40 percent, but even more so, the indirect costs of driving food costs is really taking a big hit on us. Almost a nine percent increase in food costs in just one year,” says Ashley McCumber of Meals on Wheels.
McCumber joined Speaker Pelosi Monday to dramatize the tough times businesses are having because of fuel costs. The speaker blames what she labels the Bush-Cheney big oil agenda, using graphics to point out gasoline prices have more than doubled in the Bush administration.
“This is a scam of the greatest magnitude,” says Speaker Pelosi.
Rising gas prices affect groups like the Boys and Girls Club that is cutting programs to save costs, a small businessman who finds himself being priced out of competition or a caregiver who can’t afford gas to get to clients.
And for other Meals on Wheels programs around the bay, hikes in fuel costs have meant fewer deliveries. They can’t find volunteers who can afford to fill their tanks.
Prices at the pump are a pain for all of us, but Speaker Pelosi is accusing President Bush of policies that have driven up the prices, and says she has a solution to bring prices down immediately,
TallaDawg
January 30th, 2012
2:49 pm
MadMax – You are rIght, and the prices does not go back down. Pesto, instant profitability increase.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:49 pm
SirReal….Oh, I agree. I just remember when gas was nearing $3 that the left was going nuts over Bush because he was an “oil man”. Now you do not hear them doing the same thing over Obama.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:50 pm
rivercard….EASY!!!
Increased taxes
Threat of eliminating subsidies
Keystone Pipeline
Restriction on drilling on non-private property.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:52 pm
I am not a huge FoxNews fan but this is GREAT!! Not FoxNews words but OBAMA’S OWN WORDS!!!!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/30/as-debt-ceiling-skyrockets-obama-no-longer-calling-bush-increases-unpatriotic/
Midge
January 30th, 2012
2:54 pm
I thought neocons stated the Iraq war would pay for itself. Where’s the oil?
SirReal
January 30th, 2012
2:55 pm
UGA1999 LOL LOL I definitely remember. We live in two different times now but those same relationships are there. Obama’s an “oil man” too.LOL The media is simply paid to not focus on it I think. The writing is on the wall though. I’m sure he’s got some vested interest in this whole thing.lol
El Debarge
January 30th, 2012
2:56 pm
Midge,
Americans are fools. Bush lied to you. Get over it.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
2:57 pm
El Debarge….Did you look at the video I just posted. Now you tell me who the liar is?
OWS rules
January 30th, 2012
2:59 pm
Romney is Obama wearing magic underwear. Both beholden to fascist, corporate America.
El Debarge
January 30th, 2012
3:00 pm
uga,
You couldn’t spell cat if I spotted you the “c” and “t”….
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:01 pm
El Debarge? Is that all you’ve got? HAHAHAHA NICE!
OWS rules
January 30th, 2012
3:04 pm
Bush lied, soldiers died, cons move on to their next hate fixation. Same as it ever was.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:06 pm
OWS…..Obama lied….America died….the middle class cried…..
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:07 pm
…..gas prices flied…..
Midge
January 30th, 2012
3:09 pm
uga 1999=total terd
OWS rules
January 30th, 2012
3:09 pm
uga,
I occupied your mom last night.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:10 pm
midge….AGAIN!!! HAHAHAAH….See we on the right post FACTS and the left can only come back with elementary school style names. Thanks for proving our point that you guys are challanged mentally.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:10 pm
OWS…..PERFECT!!! THANKS!
Twoote
January 30th, 2012
3:11 pm
Gas is at least $1.00 more per gallon than when Obama took office.
Arent we all supposed to ask this question:
Are you better or worse off today than you were 4 years ago?
DUH!
TallaDawg
January 30th, 2012
3:12 pm
UGA1999 – “Increased taxes Threat of eliminating subsidies Keystone Pipeline Restriction on drilling on non-private property.” All of these even if clear and accurate, which they are not, impact the costs for oil companies. Why, if the costs of doing business are so burdensome, are oil company profits consistantly some of the higest around. They could maintain the price and still be enormously profitable, even under the current administration. It is not good enough. The oil companies have to extract as much profit as possible out of Americans. The only remedy is alternative fuels.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:12 pm
Twoote…..YEP!
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:13 pm
Talladawg….So you are against corporate profits?
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
3:16 pm
Who on here will admit owning a Prius?
Catchers Mitt
January 30th, 2012
3:29 pm
High Gas Prices are still Bush’s Fault!
The Facts – Gas prices have gone up 300% from 2001-2008 under an Oil Man President Bush, then gas prices FELL to $1.70 a gallon in Jan 2009 thanks to Bush’s Great Recession and remained below $2.40 a gallon until November 2010, thanks to President Obama. Once Texas Oil Man Joe Barton Republican from Texas, regained control of the house OIL/Energy committee on 11/2/10, Gas prices shot up FIFTY CENTS in two weeks, look it up! President Obama needs to tack on a bill to REMOVE ALL of the Bush Oil Companies Tax cuts on Earnings (Passed in 2005), if he approves the Keystone Pipeline Grant to Big Oil, and Micro-Regulate NYMEX Crude Oil trading based on supply/demand and not speculation!
Tea for two
January 30th, 2012
3:30 pm
Obama’a a Muslim.
UGA 1999
January 30th, 2012
3:30 pm
Catchers Mitt….CLOWN!!! hahahaahah
I hope and pray that Obama uses the “blame Bush” technique in a debate. PLEASE DO IT!!!
Tea for two
January 30th, 2012
3:31 pm
The long-form is bogus.
Larry
January 30th, 2012
3:40 pm
MSNBC is reporting that Cain’s mistresses are endorsing Gingrich.
My middle name is Leroy
January 30th, 2012
3:43 pm
Willlard’s a wimp!
rivercard
January 30th, 2012
3:47 pm
UGA 1999 – I don’t really see how the items you listed effect the refined product. We are already refining so much more than we need and are exporting record amounts. Thus we are importing large amounts of crude for the sole purpose of refining and exporting. Domestic oil production has remained fairly steady for the last 10 years. Increased domestic production would be a boon for oil companies and would create jobs, but I can’t see that it would have any significant effect on price.
red neckerson
January 30th, 2012
3:47 pm
Aldo,
I own a pick-up and burn gas like a patriot.
A LOT more in Roswell!!!
January 30th, 2012
3:51 pm
Here in Roswell, it’s up 15 cents at the QT ($3.45) and even more at Chevron since Friday at 9AM.
The same QT was $2.94 on Dec 22nd.
td
January 30th, 2012
3:51 pm
Twoote
January 30th, 2012
3:11 pm
Gas is at least $1.00 more per gallon than when Obama took office.
Arent we all supposed to ask this question:
Are you better or worse off today than you were 4 years ago?
DUH!
Gas was $1.87 per gallon the day Obama took office. Great question.
dt
January 30th, 2012
3:57 pm
td,
I didn’t think it was possible, but your definitely butt-uglier then you were 4 yrs. ago….
Sara
January 30th, 2012
4:00 pm
uga ‘99 will be back as soon as his boss finishes checking his cubicle for head lice.
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Jerry
January 30th, 2012
4:06 pm
There is some kind of anomaly going on in the metro Atlanta area regarding current gas prices. I say this for two reasons and have NEVER seen this before. I heard announced the average nationwide gas prices announced last week. I don’t remember the exact amount but we were at least 5 cents a gallon over the national average. Always in the past we have been lower due to our lower state taxes. Also I drove to Chattanooga over the weekend. Many stations off of the interstate were advertising $3.29 owe gallon for regular and these were all still in GA. If anyone can give a reason for this disparity, I’d love to hear it as I have never witnessed it before.
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
4:09 pm
Whoa! I was just trying to see if anyone would admit to a Prius, I drive a V10 Excursion daily!
jon galt
January 30th, 2012
4:24 pm
who is ron burgundy?
Sven
January 30th, 2012
4:27 pm
I drive a European scooter that gets 65 mpg. Sell your car, move closer to work and buy a two-wheeler. Ain’t life grand.
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
4:37 pm
No thanks Sven!
Sven
January 30th, 2012
4:39 pm
Aldo,
You can ride side saddle….
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
4:41 pm
Again, no thanks Sven
Sven
January 30th, 2012
4:46 pm
Aldo,
Once you go Sven, you never go back!
Aldo Raine
January 30th, 2012
4:52 pm
Sven I tell you what, I will let you ride your scooter in my tire treads, how’d that be!
Sven
January 30th, 2012
5:04 pm
Aldo,
I like it rough…
BS Excuses are getting Old -
January 30th, 2012
6:50 pm
Bu77$hit! These excuses are a load of crap. It boils down to corporate oil greed and nothing else. When there is no threat to the straight we’ll not see a decrease, nor will we see one when the EU is more stable. What we will see is a continuous rise until we reach European prices as your illustrious Omaba stated at the beginning of his term! And he refuses to support an oil pipeline! Watch the tanks, gasoline rises until it hurts, and people scream then it drops a few pennies. After a short while, it rises again, a little higher until people scream again, then it drops. It has been a vicious circle since we had $1.00 gas and now we’re praying it won’t reach $4.00. Where are the salaries to compensate for this tremendous increase? In the CEO’s pockets, that’s where! What can we do, not a damn thing but buy it and gripe.
E-Roll
January 30th, 2012
7:14 pm
Here is a little info on why gas prices are increasing due to lack of production of crude oil to gasoline – The real problem, however, is not that there aren’t enough refineries (which, once again, there aren’t,) but that the refineries we have are not working at maximum capacity. Regularly, their parent companies will shut them down or scale them back, dramatically reducing their output. The oil companies say its due to refinery age, reparis, etc. There is much debate, however, as to whether or not these actions are actually deliberate in order to boost prices at the pump. It could be argued that with problems occurring that increase expenses for oil companies that their increase in profits recently makes those same statements of high expenditures false.
Read more: http://wiki.answers.com
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Road Scholar
January 31st, 2012
8:12 am
Chuck is the only one who has “hit the nail flush” on why GAS prices are going up. The price of oil has been hovering at $100 for some time. It’s the supply of gasoline fools. And even if President Obama OK’d more drilling when he came into office, that additional oil would not be available for 7 years!!!! And what guarentee would there be that the oil companies would keep that new oil just for the stupid Americans???
The real question is why are the refineries shutting down. Maintenance? Broken? manipulating the price of gas?
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