Have your gas prices risen yet because of Katrina?

[ilovedale3]

Yes, they are already gouging us here too.

Yesterday as I drove to work, gas was $2.41/gallon. When I left work three hours later, it was at $2.46. Today, not even 24 hours later, the same gas is at $2.69!!! They are now charging us $.28 more per gallon on the very same gas that was in the pumps yesterday!!! I am getting so fed up with this.

DH and I have all but turned into hermits b/c of this gas thing.

 

[peachgirl]

.If gas supply is so diminished why are the big oil co. making such a profit....I read somewhere that the big oil and gas co....are making the highest profit ever.

There's the million dollar question.

 

[OhMari]

I just heard on the radio about a gas station in town that is at $2.94 a gallon, up from $2.69 yesterday.

In Green Bay?

Down by Fond du Lac, Wisconsin gas is around $2.69, but the son's owner of our BP gas station told us to get Diesel and gas last nite, cause he said it will rise today, sometime.

I wish we could lock in the price for a month like my parents used to do. They used to have their own gas tank at the house, but the DNR made people get rid of them and fill them up with sand.

 

[ckmommy]

I just ran out for groceries and noticed that our Kroger was still at $2.55. I needed gas, so I filled up (I had the $100 worth of groceries, so I got the gas for $2.45). I am sure the prices are going to be going up. How am I so sure??? Well all the local TV reports are saying that it is going to go up, so of course the gas stations don't want the reporters to look like liars--so they have to charge more for gas!!!

 

[Laurajean1014]

I'm not sure how it will affect me. I fill up once every two weeks.

 

[Chicago526]

Price increases on the open markets should take 1 month to hit the gas stations. So if the prices went up 30 days ago, they should be going up now. Prices going up today, will hit the gas stations next month. While prices for barrels of crude oil DID go up last month, I would say that anything more than a 5 to 10 cent jump overnight is gouging on the part of the gas stations. And don't forget, some of the price increases we see this week is the normal gouging for the Labor Day holiday.

No way no how should any station be jumping 20, 25, or 30 cents over night!!! I'd call your better buisness bereau or state's attorney's office to report that kind of jump!

DFi has been talking for weeks about taking the train to work once his hours change (he can't do it now because the train times don't work with his current hours). Guess what I found in his pile of "stuff" this morning? A train schedule!!!!

I figure his taking the train will save us around $200 a month (it will save $400 in gas, but we'll pay $200 for the train/bus passes and parking at the station) He drives a Ford Ranger, and drive 1 1/2 hours to work, each way. I wish we could dump the truck all together, but with all the home improvements we'll be doing, we need it to haul stuff on the weekends!

 

[georgina]

Yep. Went from $2.49 to $2.59 or $2.65 this afternoon.

 

[dvcgirl]

We're going up...way up. $3.00 will be the national average for a price of regular unleaded very soon according to all reports today. Here in Orlando, oddly enough, we're *down* two cents since Katrina hit.

While the cost of gas is going to skyrocket, the cost to heat your home with oil and natural gas is going to be much worse according to reports.

We'll be fine with the higher gas prices. We have a healthy cushion in our budget, and so we won't be affected. I just hope that we don't end up in a rationing situation.

I think that the estimates of 26 Billion to clean up the devistation and rebuild is *way* low. I think we can expect that number to go much, much higher.

This thing will undoubtedly have a major effect on our economy.

 

[jrydberg]

Oil companies are making big profits for one simple reason -- the huge demand for their product, coupled with limited supply means they can charge higher prices. If we don't pay it, someone in China will (or India, or Europe, or Australia, or Japan, etc).

Same as the housing market in the DC area -- far more buyers than sellers, so housing prices go much higher.

It's simple economics.

 

[2BigKIdz]

Up .35 in 1 day, from 2.54 to 2.89

 

[Free4Life11]

I am glad I don't have a car!

Dateline or something really needs to investigate this. Someone should look at the oil companies financial statements....I heard a claim that they are "reinvesting" their profits, yet someone replied that their cash on hand is higher than it ever has been.

I do believe there is more to the story, someone is getting rich and it sure as heck 'aint your everyday consumer!

 

[kaylajr]

From 2.51 to 2.77
and we both drive trucks

wish i could afford to buy a small car but i can't and i have to work so what options do I have None i have to pay what they charge but
no extra trips for us

 

[cjb71870]

Are you kidding me??!! Some at this time, are complaining about the gas prices? Have you seen the news!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[always quiet]

It's insane how much gas has gone up. Since they all still have the same gas in their tanks as they did, they obviously haven't needed to pay anything extra. They are doing it simply because they can...they are allowed to. Someone (not sure who, don't necessarily trust the government at the moment ) needs to regulate them.

 

[Christine]

Last night on my way home from work it was $2.55. This morning on my way in it was $2.89.

 

[ducklite]

They went up about 30 cents over night here in central Florida, my husband says they are over $3 a gallon (that's about 40 cents overnight) in central New Jersey.

Anne

 

[Bob Slydell]

Ours has actually dropped. It was $2.62 on Monday and now it's $2.58.

 

[bjgrazi]

$2.59 last night on the way home $3.05 this morning. This is BS........... something needs to be done.

 

[Viking]

Ours have risen by about 4 Eurocents per liter, which comes to about 20 US Cents per gallon.

 

[aprincessmom]

Yesterday I filled up at $2.89/gallon at 6:30 p.m.. Today, drove by the same station at 7:15 a.m. and the price was $3.19