Gas Prices????

[Tony-NJ]

I've been out of commission for the last couple of weeks, I went to get gas this weekend and OMIGOD!!! This is the highest I've ever seen it in NJ! I paid $1.71!!!!! That's insane!!! The last time I filled up my car I paid about $1.50!

 

[wdwnutze]

The station up the street from me is at $1.75. Seems like it was overnight that it went up like this!

 

[Pin Wizard]

This morning I paid $1.80 for medium grade. High was $1.90. There's a Mobil station closer to home that was OVER $2. Yikes!

 

[browneyes]

I heard on the radio this morning that gas prices are 20 cents more this year than they were this time last year. I think the cheap stuff is around $1.57/gal here.

 

[winniedapooh]

Left for Maine a week ago Saturday and gas had jumped locally 6-7 cents overnight, came home a week later and it had jumped over 20 cents in that week.....eeee gads!

 

[shep]

Might have to fill up prior to this weekend, cause who knows if they'll raise it again.... ..It's $1.76 here and I bet it'll go up again...

 

[Kitty 34]

$1.79 here!!

 

[ahutton]

$1.53 for 87 octane - $1.64 for 91 octane this morning!

 

[cgcw]

Originally posted by shep
Might have to fill up prior to this weekend, cause who knows if they'll raise it again.... ..It's $1.76 here and I bet it'll go up again...

Oh, your right. With the holiday weekend, I'll bet they do just that. I'll be filling up today. It's close to $2.00 around here.

 

[jamsmom]

I filled up yesterday and was shocked how much the price had increased.

 

[Meriweather]

Yep
We have some of the highest prices here......$1.89 for regular.
Hurts to fill that ole tank

 

[Jenn Lynn]

It's a $1.79 here! And we are traveling this weekend!

 

[cinmell]

Last week I paid either $1.49 and yesterday it was $1.71 .

 

[dcgrumpy]

$1.89

 

[dizneenut]

$1.79 here.

 

[JoeThaNo1Stunna]

Paid $1.59 today for Regular in the 804.

 

[izzy]

Ours went up about 15 cents overnight in Virginia. This morning on the radio, they said it was because of the blackout in the Northeast last week. I'd love to know how something that lasted less than 24 hours can affect our prices that much. (Maybe they are trying to make up for the lost revenue by gouging the rest of the country - LOL!)

 

[Planogirl]

I paid $1.89 for premium this morning. I believe that the regular was $1.69.

 

[browneyes]

CAMARILLO, Calif. - Supply shortages pushed average retail gasoline prices up more than 15 cents a gallon nationally during the past two weeks, the largest retail price hike on record since the Lundberg Survey began keeping records 50 years ago.

The survey of 8,000 service stations on Friday showed an average of all grades of gasoline, including taxes, reached $1.7484 a gallon, just short of the survey's all-time high weighted average of $1.7608 set last March 21, analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday.

Self-serve regular gasoline showed an average weighted price of $1.7191 a gallon, with mid-grade at $1.8127 and premium grade at $1.9046.

Phoenix had the highest leap in the nation during the two-week period, with prices jumping 60.42 cents a gallon for self-serve regular. On Aug. 22, self-serve regular averaged $2.1425, the highest price in the nation for that grade.

By comparison, the lowest price for that grade was in Charleston, S.C., where the average for self-serve regular was $1.4920.

Temporary refinery shutdowns caused by the massive East Coast/Midwest blackout combined with a break in a major pipeline in Arizona to cause the supply disruptions, Lundberg said.

However, the reopening of the pipeline and the end of the blackout means gas prices should fall thanks to the traditional decline in demand in September and an influx of imported gasoline attracted by the current high prices, she said.

 

[chell]

Saturday it was $1.69 around here. I was wondering if it was related to the pipeline burst.