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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #600 on: January 13, 2016, 06:07:54 PM »
1.77 in Des Moines. Seems to have increased over the day.

Oil dropped hard today, I wonder if is a little run up on wholesale price to make a bit before a crash?

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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #601 on: January 14, 2016, 09:24:08 AM »
Oddly enough, the price at the station near me went back to 1.89 a gallon (from 1.84.)

Don't understand that. Crude is down a helling, gasoline is right behind.

Only thing I can figure is it was a result of the draw down figures.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #602 on: January 14, 2016, 09:59:10 AM »
On the propane, the guy came out yesterday afternoon and it was $1.92/gal delivered.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #603 on: January 14, 2016, 11:18:10 AM »
I expect by next week, Costco will be paying me to take their gasoline.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #604 on: January 14, 2016, 11:38:43 AM »
The QT app on my phone is showing prices in the Tulsa area running $1.41 - $1.46.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #605 on: January 14, 2016, 02:51:38 PM »
I filled up on Monday and it was $1.91 ($1.95 before my $.04/gallon BP Card Discount)*.  Price as I drove by today was $1.93.   If it wasn't so damn cold I could get a car wash* and pay $1.73.






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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #606 on: January 14, 2016, 05:48:55 PM »
On the propane, the guy came out yesterday afternoon and it was $1.92/gal delivered.

Got weird propane taxes?

Contracted price? Price off the truck?
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #607 on: January 14, 2016, 05:57:03 PM »
Got weird propane taxes?

Contracted price? Price off the truck?

Nope, that's the bulk price for a leased tank, local delivery.  Delivery can add up depending on where you are relative to the facilities.

http://www.checkpropaneprices.com/
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #608 on: January 14, 2016, 05:59:29 PM »
Nope, that's the bulk price for a leased tank, local delivery.  Delivery can add up depending on where you are relative to the facilities.

http://www.checkpropaneprices.com/

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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #609 on: January 17, 2016, 10:57:08 PM »
Paid $1.679 in Manassas, VA, on my way to scare hell out of Mtnbkr and family.

Cheap gas AND I got to terrorize people.

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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #610 on: January 17, 2016, 10:58:18 PM »
Paid $1.679 in Manassas, VA, on my way to scare hell out of Mtnbkr and family.

Cheap gas AND I got to terrorize people.

Win-win Sunday!


$1.55 in Clear Lake tonight.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #611 on: January 17, 2016, 11:01:50 PM »
Still $2.18 in KW.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #612 on: January 17, 2016, 11:38:58 PM »
Wait for Iranian oil to hit the market.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #613 on: January 18, 2016, 01:37:13 AM »
$1.38 north of Tulsa today.
While I like the low prices on gas it is playing hell on the Oklahoma economy.
Iran's oil hitting the market in a couple weeks will play even more hell with US producers. The question will be how long will they let the corpse of US production rot before they start cutting off the supply to jack up prices again.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #614 on: January 18, 2016, 10:52:39 AM »
$1.38 north of Tulsa today.
While I like the low prices on gas it is playing hell on the Oklahoma economy.
Iran's oil hitting the market in a couple weeks will play even more hell with US producers. The question will be how long will they let the corpse of US production rot before they start cutting off the supply to jack up prices again.

Makes you wonder if that was Obama's plan all along with the pipeline.  "See, if we had approved the pipeline, it wouldn't have been completed" or some malarkey.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #615 on: January 18, 2016, 11:00:17 AM »
$1.38 north of Tulsa today.
While I like the low prices on gas it is playing hell on the Oklahoma economy.
Iran's oil hitting the market in a couple weeks will play even more hell with US producers. The question will be how long will they let the corpse of US production rot before they start cutting off the supply to jack up prices again.

Just checked the QT app and prices running $1.29 - $1.36.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #616 on: January 18, 2016, 11:28:41 AM »
$1.38 north of Tulsa today.
While I like the low prices on gas it is playing hell on the Oklahoma economy.

I just heard a customer complaining about low fuel prices. You just can't win. Time for the conspiracy-mongering. Must be some Bush/Cheney/Haliburton/NRA/ISIS/Satan/FOX-News plot.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #617 on: January 18, 2016, 11:31:07 AM »
At the BP I go past everyday, it was $1.85, $1.65 if you bought the car wash, which, if it wasn't -2F, I'd do.  I've probably got another 2 days before I hit 1/2 tank and have to fill up.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #618 on: January 18, 2016, 11:54:39 AM »
Makes you wonder if that was Obama's plan all along with the pipeline.  "See, if we had approved the pipeline, it wouldn't have been completed" or some malarkey.

I'm pretty sure the president doesn't have that much power over oil prices.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #619 on: January 18, 2016, 01:16:39 PM »
I'm pretty sure the president doesn't have that much power over oil prices.

I'll take that bet, I can imagine several scenarios where just a few words from him/her would drive prices up or down.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #620 on: January 18, 2016, 01:57:33 PM »
I'll take that bet, I can imagine several scenarios where just a few words from him/her would drive prices up or down.

Which would be a momentary blip.

The president (any president) has the same control over oil prices as he does over the stock market, which is virtually none.

Far too many mouth breathers think that there's a great big valve in the Oval office, and at a whim the President can go in and turn it to control prices.

Oil, gasoline, and heating oil are internationally traded market commodities, the prices of which are set by the actions of market traders. Yes, they can be influenced by the words of a national leader, but unless that national leader is the head of one of the heavyweight oil producing nations, the influence isn't going to be all that dramatic.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #621 on: January 18, 2016, 02:06:54 PM »
Which would be a momentary blip.

The president (any president) has the same control over oil prices as he does over the stock market, which is virtually none.

Far too many mouth breathers think that there's a great big valve in the Oval office, and at a whim the President can go in and turn it to control prices.

Oil, gasoline, and heating oil are internationally traded market commodities, the prices of which are set by the actions of market traders. Yes, they can be influenced by the words of a national leader, but unless that national leader is the head of one of the heavyweight oil producing nations, the influence isn't going to be all that dramatic.

Mostly agree, though there is the small valve connected to national reserves that can and has been turned on before.  There's only so much a president can drain from the reserves though. I don't know what the maximum price effect that it can have time-wise is, but I would suspect not more than a year or so, and that would still be tied to market forces. I can't remember how big an effect it had when the last Bush did it.

Also, I think the strategic reserve valve only turns one way, to artificially reduce prices in a high market.
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #622 on: January 18, 2016, 03:21:07 PM »
Which would be a momentary blip.

The president (any president) has the same control over oil prices as he does over the stock market, which is virtually none.

Far too many mouth breathers think that there's a great big valve in the Oval office, and at a whim the President can go in and turn it to control prices.

Oil, gasoline, and heating oil are internationally traded market commodities, the prices of which are set by the actions of market traders. Yes, they can be influenced by the words of a national leader, but unless that national leader is the head of one of the heavyweight oil producing nations, the influence isn't going to be all that dramatic.

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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #623 on: January 18, 2016, 03:45:50 PM »
He's done a fantastic job of destroying the coal industry.   :mad:

Yep, and remember his goal was $8-10/gallon gasoline.  Which is where we would be at if the Saudi's and the Iranians didn't hate each other with a passion...
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Re: So what's everone paying for gasoline?
« Reply #624 on: January 18, 2016, 03:50:16 PM »
So, the question becomes.... How low can it go ?

http://news.yahoo.com/iran-boosts-oil-output-foreign-firms-eager-deals-180338769--sector.html


(Meanwhile, Venezuela continues to implode.  4 months is over/under on full blown civil war or a coup.)
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