OK this has happened to me now way too many times to be a coincidence. I can drive down the street and see gas at say $2.43, I plan on getting gas when I turn around and within hours the gas has jumped to $2.79! Not just at one station but ALL the stations. Do they get on the phone and say “Hey Joe, we are going to raise our prices. Want to join?” If they just had a tanker there topping their pumps off with new more expensive fuel I could see it but this is just out of the blue. I’m sure there is some conspiracy theory for this but does anyone have a reasonable explanation?
Current Spike in Gas Prices
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ski3pin
, Feb 27 2012 03:30 PM
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Posted 30 December 2023 - 02:03 PM
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Posted 30 December 2023 - 02:49 PM
^^ learned the same lesson: see a good (!?) price, stop now. I have not seen stations change simultaneously but within the hour.
My guess is that they are checking the wholesale price of gas a couple of times a day and changing price accordingly, probably before rush hour or at shift change.
What I don't understand is I can see a 40¢ price difference in a 5 mile radius of my house.
I paid $2.499 to $2.999 through November and December.
Edited by JaSAn, 30 December 2023 - 02:49 PM.
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Posted 25 February 2024 - 05:58 PM
I just paid $4.099/gal for regular in Austin, NV... And I was glad to!
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Posted 25 February 2024 - 06:02 PM
I just paid $4.099/gal for regular in Austin, NV... And I was glad to!
Julie and I always wait to fill up until we get into Nevada. Our local station remains at $4.98 a gallon regular unleaded.
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Posted 25 February 2024 - 10:16 PM
Gas in Western NC has been about $3.00/gal and in Pinehurst about $3.20/gal
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Posted 25 February 2024 - 11:12 PM
Gas in Western NC has been about $3.00/gal and in Pinehurst about $3.20/gal
$.20/gal is the golf tax? 
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Posted 26 February 2024 - 12:09 AM
... Our local station remains at $4.98 a gallon regular unleaded.
Yikes!
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Posted 26 February 2024 - 12:12 AM
$.20/gal is the golf tax?
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It's the whatever we want to charge you tax.
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Posted 26 February 2024 - 02:42 AM
Since December gas has varied between $2.59 and $2.90 at the stations I buy from in Forest Lake, MN; $2.69 today for 87 octane with 10% corn squeezins.
Couple of interesting tidbits:
Gas prices can vary by as much as 40¢ in a 7 mile radius of my house.
Price sometimes changes mid-afternoon (always up).
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Posted 26 February 2024 - 12:16 PM
3.17 in my home iowa town
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