last week 2.89,,this afternoon 3.59 clarksville, tn. thru dover, tn. got mad went home paris,tn

 

I'll bet the oil industry spinmeisters are burning the midnight oil(no pun intended ) to come up with interesting wording to account for the amazing profits they are going to disclose shortly.
Lets see if the public howls or whimpers... My bet's on the latter.

Local #2 diesel:
Highest- $3.499 (This wk, still about 75% of the stores, but last wknd was virtually 100% of the stores)
Middle- ~$3.40
Lower- $3.29 (about 10% stores. most started out at $3.50 then dropped.)
Rumored Lowest $2.68 (supposedly still at Walmart, if so, I'll fill up this evening)
That's still quite a spread.

Reg UL: ~2.99/gal

Keith

 

Lets see if the public howls or whimpers... My bet's on the latter.

I am afraid that you will be right, although I really hope that people will be truely ****** off enough to go to their representatives and get on their case. Remember Jimmy Carter saying that going after Big Oil is the moral equivalent of going to war?

 

Whether the public howls or whimpers doesn't really matter. As long as we keep buying it and the economy doesn't tank, prices aren't too high. Not my opinion but that's the message we're sending them. Traffic is as thick as ever and if I run the speed limit in town or 70mph on the interstate, I get passed like I'm in the way. Actions speak louder than words and we're telling them a lot...
OTR truckers protesting might not be a good thing for private pickup truck owners. It might end up with a subsidy tax on private diesel fuel buyers to subsidize commercial truckers like we had in the early '80s when I had my first diesel. If I remember right, I paid 12cents more so they could pay 12cents less.
As I passed our local BP Amoco station on my way home tonight, 87 octane was $2.959 and diesel was $3.499. How Katrina made gas go up and then settle at $3~ a gallon and Rita made diesel go up with little effect on gas I don't know. Sounds like politics and business as usual to me.