How much did you pay for gas today?

Up to $2.42 in Central Virginia.

Last year, when prices sunk to around the $1.50 range, they dropped our mileage rate from .39 to .32. Now that they're back up nearly a dollar a gallon, I asked if they'd raise the rate to maybe .34 or .35 to compensate. HR laughed.

Fuck this business.

 

gas jumped to 2.58 in my part of south central kentucky. mileage rate went up a penny.

 

$2.55 in the Upper Midwest.

Don't love it but I can handle it. Glad I drive a car with 33 MPG.

 

You think it's high now, wait until the first hurricane gets into the Gulf of Mexico. (Hurricane season started June 1).

 

Exactly. $4 by July 1, easily. I hope I'm wrong tho.
BTW, paid $2.49 in the mountains of Colorado.
Hopefully it stays low before my trip across the country.

 

2.65 in West Seattle

 

It dropped from $2.49 to $2.29 by 7 p.m. yesterday in OKC. Six hours later, back up to $2.35.

... and the next morning up to $2.39.

 

Won't be $4 anytime soon, but I can imagine it at $3 before Labor Day.

 

Saw it for $2.89 today.

Supposedly a combination of oil speculators and refineries operating at less-than-full capacity combining to drive up the prices.

Hmmmmmmmm...

 

And it'll pop just like it did less than a year ago. There is absolutely nothing to sustain these prices. No demand and a glut of crude. Any substantial price hike will dampen the demand further, thereby giving the lie to the assertion that gas is an inelastic good.

The tinfoil set has it the U.S. government is buying futures to keep Iran and Russia from imploding.

 

Passed two Chevrons on the way to work. Both had regular unleaded at $2.95. It has been going up about a dime a week, but it took a big jump today. It had been in the $2.70s.

 

$2.499 yesterday for regular unleaded. I've seen it as high as $2.559.