Gas Price Survey

[hanson]

I hear ya Dan.

I'm really frustrated by that law. I don't think it accomplishes what it was intended to do.

I remember gas wars also. The 2 or 3 gas stations in Crookston did it all the time. The gas in Fargo got so cheap it was 69 cents a gallon.

All of the gas stations that were initiating the low prices were the independents and not the major chain gas stations.

The law now is intended to 'protect' the small independent stations from being driven out by the major chains because of the volume the major stations deal with.

Anyway, gas was $2.78 at my local stations this morning.

[blakjack23]

That should be the way all gas stations should operate...but think about this....what if he fills his tank and sells for $3/gallon. A few days later the station down the street fills there tank for less and starts selling for $2.70. Nobody is going to buy his $3 gas and he will be stuck with all of it until the other station empties their tank and buys for more then he paid, if they ever do.

[The Grebe]

My thoughts....You have an SA on one side of the street, a Holiday on the other side of the street and at no time will ones gas price be lower then the other.

Gas is gas, the name might change but it is still gas, it is refined the same, is stored the same and is distributed the same.

The huge fluctuations, mark ups on an hourly basis, especially and conviently around holidays, is a smoke and mirrors show in my opinion.

If this price increase thing was a for real situation, caused by OPEC and Americans all of a sudden slowed down their driving and gas consumption habits, this should, or would theoretically, cause an industry collapse...but it would'nt, the companies would just make less of a profit and come up with more riddles to keep the public on it's heels, then lower the price to get you out driving more.

[Hemlock]

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$3.60 a gallon Canadian funds?

last I knew canadian funds were .75 cents american to the canadian $1.

If that is correct, or close(not sure the current strength of our dollar).. that would make gas prices about the same as ours on the average.

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That's already converted to $3.60 USD/gallon. We pay $1.20 Cdn/liter

Multiply 1.2 X 3.75 to get the unit into gallons, then multiply by .8 to get it into USD.

Didn't see your post/question till now.

[tomfromblaine]

I've always wondered how the gas in the ground price would go up even though its been there for a certain amount of time and already been paid for, I've noticed since there has been some noise about price gouging on the news from some public officials ( but not enough) how the fuel prices have dropped about .45-50 cent a gallon whats up with that?

[Bobby Bass]

Gas here in Duluth is at 2.89 but 10 miles out of town it is 2.79 and 2.87 in Grand Rapids. This is heading out hgy2 from Duluth..

[Jeremy airjer W]

Vadnais Hieghts BP $2.53 Yesterday.

[CAJ]

Here in NE Montana the price in Westby is $3.12. You guys have cheap gas. It is a big farce, as far as the price goes. CAJ

[wishiniwerefishin]

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Gas here in Duluth is at 2.89 but 10 miles out of town it is 2.79 and 2.87 in Grand Rapids. This is heading out hgy2 from Duluth..

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Every time i travel to Duluth i notice this. If i fill up even 5 miles out of town i am paying around 10 cents less per gallon. Anyways, 2.72-2.82 here in Grand Forks.

[ptkane]

why is everyone excited about gas? and why is it a scam when stations raise their prices before busy weekends. show me any commerce/industry/business that DOESN'T raise prices when they can...including every business that you folks work for/own. the ski is not falling.

[leechlake]

tomfromblaine,

I'm not in anyway in the gas industry but...prices fluctuate because people use their "replacement cost" to figure what they sell the gas from the pump. Even though they fill the big huge tank for one price they sell it day to day on replacement cost, sometimes they win sometimes they lose. If they didn't raise the price when it went up they'd lose money, on average, because they are forced to lower it when their replacement cost goes down due to competition.

[hanson]

$2.69 at my friendly neighborhood stations in Plymouth, MN.

[metrojoe]

I saw $2.59 at the little gas-n-sip by my house this morning.

[echotrail]

$2.60 this morning at PDQ in Apple Valley on Pilotknob. That means Holiday on Johnnycake and CO Rd 42 is probably the same.

[Guest]

$2.49 this morning in St Francis.

It kind of makes me want to take the long way to work now that its so cheap!

[Drake]

Blackduck $2.89 down from $3.19, got a deal in Little Falls over the weekend..$2.69

[Jeremy airjer W]

$2.63 woobury bp and sa, $2.65 east st. paul.

[McGurk]

$2.67 in Bloomington, So what was the deal with a shortage of refineries down south? $3.00 for a week and then back to pre-Katrina prices? This is such a scam, top-to-bottom. Supply and Demand, my arse.

Check out the Twin Cities Gas Prices site and spend a little time with their graphs and reference dates on them to natural and un-natural catastrophes. It may seem to hurt now but comparitive in real dollars to 30 years ago (before I was born!) these prices aren't outrageous. What bothers me is the lack of a consistent trend; we've had it too good the last decade. I remember paying $0.87 5 years ago for premium in Lake city for about a month. Now there is NO WAY that the planet and the nation's economies have changed that much in that short of time to quadruple the prices. There were short sighted issues long before today.

My $0.02 (the same as the price drop today ), McGurk

[The_Duckslayer]

$2.55 at Fleet Farm in Oakdale @ I694 and Hwy 36. Take care and N Joy the Hunt././Jimbo

[upnorth]

Still $2.82 up here on Da Range And that is surprising cuz we usually seem to be a few cents cheaper up here,

[Macgyver55]

2.50 in Coon rapids

[McGurk]

2.60 in Bloomington, and falling...

[ChuckN]

2.59 in Fergus Falls. Seems to fall an average of 3-4 cents per day!!

[Mark Christianson]

Chuck

At that bargain price you can drive down here and do some smallie fishing with us now!!!!

[The Grebe]

$2.59 on Johnson St. N. E. Mpls.