SSThunder Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I guess I need to start a weekly rant post Well gas prices jumped up $0.20 and $0.30 yesterday for no reason other than it's Thursday and gas usually goes up some then. The price of oil has dropped the past couple days since the Iran-UK thing. Did anybody else see a jump? I was checking the price on gasbuddy.com and last year when oil was $65 gas was only around $2.32. I'm just wondering why gas is now around $2.79-$2.84 and oil is around the same price? Really sucks @ss that this type of $hit can happen and nothing gets done about it. If oil hits $78 again we'll probably see $5.00 and $6.00 prices on gas. I guess I need to start digging my own oil field in KY lol On a brighter note, It's Friday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krambo Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 ...Didn't really pay attention to it although I got gas in the SSS today for $2.95/gal. That struck me as high although I haven't gassed up the truck in over a month. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGunny Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I wish i was paying that gas is up to around 3.50 here is the L.A. are Time to start looking into a bike ... or a prius Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSThunder Posted April 6, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I wish i was paying that gas is up to around 3.50 here is the L.A. are Time to start looking into a bike ... or a prius I've been driving the SS for the past 3 week but I guess I'll have to drive the beater again to work. I think I've put $130 in so far this week. Just seems strange that gas is so high while oil is reasonable. Gas stations probably love the $$$ they are raking in now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drako Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 It is odd...I notice that they use (or thier distributer etc; SOMEONE) oil scares to their advantage. Once it goes up they just steadily raise the price until a set cap, or no cap at all. I figured gas would get cheaper but I still see the prices creeping closer to 3 dollars. SSthunder you have really educated and became aware of the oil situation in the past year huh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavydigger Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 gas prices are whack whover is in charge should actually die Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hankg42 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 Looks like it will be another profit record of $10 or $15 Billion dollars this quarter for the oil companies! Where are our illustrious leaders during all of this? Riding in their limos to their mansion resorts, no doubt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivierakid55 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 $3.70 a gallon here right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBlueSS Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I just filled up with super at $2.99 a gallon, and we're suppose to be one of the biggest oil producing states. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chevcup47 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 been going up here also the last few weeks nothing i can do about the gas for the SSS but the racecar is now running on avation fuel more than gas 3.90 a gal but cheeper than racing gas almost 6.00 a gal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOB47 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 My wife works for a gas distributer company. They generally only make a few cents per gallon but make it up in volume. Most gas stations only make .02-.05 per gallon. That's why almost all gas stations are party stores also now. They really make a killing on bread, milk, pop, etc. The oil companies (Mobil, Exxon etc.) are the ones really making the money. They set their prices on speculation, what they think gas is going to cost them in the near future. They never seem to guess low though. I don't begrudge them making a profit, that's why they're in business, but Exxon making $35,000,000,000 PROFIT in 1 quarter is totally outrageous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CoolBlueSS Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 (edited) My wife works for a gas distributer company. They generally only make a few cents per gallon but make it up in volume. Most gas stations only make .02-.05 per gallon. That's why almost all gas stations are party stores also now. They really make a killing on bread, milk, pop, etc. The oil companies (Mobil, Exxon etc.) are the ones really making the money. They set their prices on speculation, what they think gas is going to cost them in the near future. They never seem to guess low though. I don't begrudge them making a profit, that's why they're in business, but Exxon making $35,000,000,000 PROFIT in 1 quarter is totally outrageous. That's what gets me. The reason it's so high now is because they're speculating for December. And I agree, their profits are out of the park. $35,000,000,000 in PROFIT for 1 quarter is just insane combined with the fact that we're paying record high prices for gas. Edited April 6, 2007 by CoolBlueSS (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen.One05 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 It's Easter weekend... after the holiday.. it'll probably drop 5-10 cents... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bgdsub72 Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 the range of gas prices really gets me... I just drove all the way up I-15 from CA to MT and in Cali cheap gas is like $3.29 a gallon where in Montana cheap gas is like $2.60 WTF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superredss Posted April 6, 2007 Report Share Posted April 6, 2007 I filled up the other day at like 2.75 for supreme here in Georgia, thats high considering in the last few months it was 2.40 something. This is getting freaking ridiculous! The government should just start silently getting rid of the ceo's of oil companies when they even think about raising prices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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