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Title: Gas Prices Rising
Post by: gaylasue on April 24, 2019, 04:54:14 am
Gas prices are creeping up on us here in northeastern KY.  Jumped to $2.89.  Newsman said to expect higher prices throughout the summer.  Several factors involved for the increase.
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Post by: countrygirl12 on April 24, 2019, 05:26:31 am
They always get higher in the summer.
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Post by: ghunter on April 24, 2019, 06:50:08 am
Yes, they do.  Here in Atlanta gas prices have just to 2.69 and in some places higher
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Post by: bremer51 on April 24, 2019, 07:09:13 am
Gas ranges from $2.69 to $2.79 in my area.  I hope it levels out here pretty soon.
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Post by: ancmetro on April 24, 2019, 07:43:42 am

    Lower prices at the pump during wintertime are the norm because people need to stay warm.
    Summertime is tourist season. States and oil companies try to make it profitable for them...so
    gas prices go up.


Title: Re: Gas Prices Rising
Post by: countrygirl12 on April 24, 2019, 07:56:18 am

    Lower prices at the pump during wintertime are the norm because people need to stay warm.
    Summertime is tourist season. States and oil companies try to make it profitable for them...so
    gas prices go up.




What does staying warm have to do with anything?  Gas prices are higher in the summer because demand is higher. People travel and are going on vacation.
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Post by: cadence4u on April 24, 2019, 10:40:35 am
Here in California, it is $4.18 per gallon. California always have high prices in the nation!

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Post by: NRAJOE on April 24, 2019, 11:19:21 am
$2.65 in Ohio
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Post by: vickysue on April 24, 2019, 01:24:34 pm
It always goes up in the summer and also  holidays  at all times when people will be  traveling.  Anytime they can make more profit they are going to do it.  Hubby used to work at a  service station and every day  the  boss would go around town checking  the other stations for the prices then run back and change the price on the  board outside to just a penny under.  Hubby used to get  ticked about it. But  he was working there as they would let him off at any given time  to help with my son who  was under going treatment for cancer. He and I would drive he 450 mile trip one way and stay with him for a few days then we  would drive home and then I would  go with my daughter-in-law and he would baby sit the grandson.  It was  rough on all.  Alas 6 months into it and we lost him.  Thank God his  boss was so understanding.
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Post by: darkxtsuna on April 24, 2019, 01:28:04 pm
Sorta wish it stayed in the winter prices when its low sadly summer always go overboard on prices.
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Post by: cathy37 on April 24, 2019, 01:44:36 pm
Gas prices are up everywhere.  I just saw the post about California being over $4 a gallon.  I can't imagine prices that high.  We complain about $2.70's.  It could be worse.
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Post by: Tresbn00 on April 24, 2019, 03:32:49 pm
Two dollars and sixty nine cents in Colorado. Highest it has been in years. I get a ten cent per gallon discount for points earned shopping at Kroger grocery market which helps out quite a bit. I feel bad for all the people that drive for a living: Uber/Lyft drivers and paper delivery people come to mind. I get to work from home two days a week which takes a bite out of my costly gas consumption. I drive about twenty three miles, round trip, a day in a gas guzzler (twelve to fifteen miles to the gallon). Higher gas costs affect just about everything that needs to be delivered: groceries, raw materials, online shopping to name a few. Airlines are affected as well. Gas heating for houses is yet another cost that goes up. I am glad that I am in an area blessed with moderate temperatures.
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Post by: timvolley on April 24, 2019, 04:08:59 pm
we are over 3.00 in illinois
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Post by: tnshpalmer85 on April 24, 2019, 04:55:23 pm
The gas prices had started to rise where I live, but they when down a little a few weeks ago. The cheapest has been 2.68. I heard the prices may go up again.
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Post by: BATISTAGIRL663 on April 24, 2019, 05:26:49 pm
I heard it might go up to over 4 dollars— I really hope it doesn’t but ...
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Post by: heypeg on April 24, 2019, 05:27:59 pm
I think they hike prices on purpose during the summer.
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Post by: rob110 on April 25, 2019, 04:33:01 am
Yep, have to deal with it.
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Post by: hkckk5 on April 25, 2019, 09:27:24 am
They are going up down south also. I hate that because we have two long trips we plan to take by car. One is in a couple of weeks and the other is in June. I sure hope gas does not go much higher.
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Post by: pectacon on April 25, 2019, 10:50:05 am
Yikes my friends in california say it's getting really bad in the $4s again. Thankfully I don't drive too much but I feel for those who do.
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Post by: debidoo on April 25, 2019, 11:04:36 am
Yea they get higher in the summer to gouge people who go on car driven vacations what they seem to forget the poor person who is trying to make it to work on say minimum wage.
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Post by: freedomjarhead2512 on April 25, 2019, 03:32:54 pm
Yes, gas in California is $3.89 at the minimum.  What they told us that the extra taxes on the gas is to go into fixing our roads.  Want to make a bet our roads aren't fixed? I hit a pot hole everyday.
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Post by: bshee58 on April 25, 2019, 04:38:56 pm
Here in Augusta some places are lower, like 2.47 a gallon no higher than 2.57. That's for Regular gas.
Title: Re: Gas Prices Rising
Post by: Mizzkizz7 on April 25, 2019, 10:44:51 pm
In Virginia, the gas is $2.63. Some areas $2.57.  This is not fair, it's going to take more money to fill up. :(
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Post by: ktheodos on April 26, 2019, 12:52:32 am
yes, increasing here too as they usually do as we approach summer....:/
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Post by: MichelleHW101 on April 26, 2019, 01:43:52 am
The gas prices rise as with everything else.  In Va, I think most gas stations are like McDonalds, a single person owns part of an enterprise.  I don't know how they regulate prices, but here in VA, my younger brother lives in Arlington and when he comes to visit in Woodbridge, he will gas up hear which is a dollar cheaper than where he is and I am talking not just about you know, Wawa to Exxon.  I'm talking about and Exxon to Exxon.  So even towns within the same state have different prices.  Honestly, someone should regulate that better because it's hard enough to find a decent price for gas per gallon from one company that even if you find that one company, in another town within the same state it's a different price, that may even be higher.   
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Post by: pkrahmer on April 26, 2019, 02:41:07 am
prices in southern mass are going up. they are around 2.89
prices at the pump usually go up as we get closer to Memorial day.
i do hope they level off soon. :rainbow: :peace: :wave:
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Post by: CJ555 on April 26, 2019, 08:33:58 am
I just paid $2.98 yesterday in southeast PA (Near Philly) and I am not happy!!!
Gas prices always do seem to rise during the summer months but I would of sworn I just heard within the last month they may be dropping soon??!!  (Perhaps it was a 1 week thing?!!)
But either way, I look at it as a write off for my business. But still the higher prices during the summer months KILL me because I own a landscape company. I would prefer lower gas prices than more write offs !!!
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Post by: snuggleycutejc on April 26, 2019, 09:24:16 am
It is $4.39 here help
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Post by: alice44 on April 26, 2019, 09:46:30 am
They are 2.69 here in SW FL but a week ago they were 2.79!  I know they will go up this summer.  It is when everyone takes vacation! :P
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Post by: Sawman214 on April 26, 2019, 02:12:35 pm
tell them to stop taxing us
Title: Re: Gas Prices Rising
Post by: hawkeye3210 on April 30, 2019, 07:23:47 pm
Summer-blend gas is more expensive, so the price always goes up in the summer.
Title: Re: Gas Prices Rising
Post by: hawkeye3210 on April 30, 2019, 07:26:35 pm
Yea they get higher in the summer to gouge people who go on car driven vacations what they seem to forget the poor person who is trying to make it to work on say minimum wage.

No, they go higher because your vehicle requires a different blend of gasoline during the summer which is more expensive.
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Post by: tantricia44 on April 30, 2019, 07:45:44 pm
Keeps on getting higher & higher every year! It not only gas going up in price. Alot of products are going up; cat food's gone up a month ago, veggie mayo $1 to $4.50 a month ago! I finally find affordable healthy products & then out of the blue they shoot up the price from no where! Gas prices have gone up to $2.66. Who do we to blame for this? The president I didn't vote for! You get what voted for, I guess!