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Gas prices and availability....

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Just wondering if anyone else is getting a bit concerned about the gasoline problem lately? Been hearing about some stations putting a cap on the amount of gasoline you can buy at one time. Others have even closed, if only temporarily. Of course, prices are going through the roof. The problem is that some stations may just go out of business. They cannot survive for long if the money they made on the last load of gasoline will not pay for the next load because the price rose too quickly. This is why prices are raising so rapidly at the pumps. They have to plan ahead to be able to pay the price of the next load when it is delivered. Basically the gasoline they have NOW is worth not what they paid for it, but what the next load of gasoline will cost.

Planning on a 16 hour drive to the MARS show in a couple of weeks, and I'm wondering if I'll be able to do it. Would hate to run out of gasoline in South Carolina somewhere. Not to mention that the cost of just getting there is looking pretty grim.
 
Hopefully in a couple of weeks the prices will stabilize again. But honeslty watching the prices rise and rise has most likely cancelled our trip to MARS. Even though it is only 3 hours for me. Luckily I am an "insider" and might be able to pick up some deals other ways :cool: .
 
I had been toying with the idea of a trip - roughly a 12 hr drive. I decided to go for it right around the time Katrina hit and the projected gas prices were announced. I did some quick figuring and bought a plane ticket before those prices went up, too. round trip, nonstop flights - for LESS than it will cost to fuel my Blazer. As I mentioned in another conversation - prices go up...that's just what they do. What will be interesting to see is where they end up after everything is back online and producing as normal. Anyone wanna bet that they don't go back to where they were before, even after the shortage(/crisis)
 
While prices have risen here, there does not appear to be a shortage of supply yet. My wife filled her tank yesterday. There was a bit of a line but that was because people were there "topping off". Once at the pump there was no limit as to how much she could buy (she pumped 20+ gallons to fill her tank). Regular was $2.80 and premium $2.95 (I'm sure those numbers are higher today). Diesel now costs less here than regular gasoline.
 
There IS no shortage at this time. there was a decrease/loss of production due to Katrina...something that will not impact our supply for some time. This affected the perception of future costs, and thus prices started going up now ("so they can afford to restock at the higher prices"). I do admit, though, that I do not know if there was damage that will result in long term disruption of supply from that area. If so, that would certainly lend credibility to the price increases and some of the other things I have been hearing about (though at this time, I still do not understand rationing outside of the immediate storm damaged areas)
 
regular gas was $3.09 here yesterday afternoon, & I believe that premium was about 3.25. That means it will now cost me over $12 to fill my bike - and THAT is a damn outrage (nevermind the $45-60 each to fill my other vehicles)
 
I filled up my truck yesterday since I heard it was going up AGAIN. I had over half a tank in there, and it still cost me over $35 to top it off......then I drove it home and parked it. I'll be driving my crappy work car for awhile I think....it may be ugly, but it gets good mileage. As of last night, the price for the cheap ethanol stuff was $3.09, and the owner said he looks for it to go up another 50-60 cents before the weekend is over. ACK!!!

Ya gotta wonder, how can people who work minimum wage jobs even able to drive to work?????

I said I'm gonna put in a request to have a hitching post put up outside my building, and ride the dang horse to work.....hay is a lot cheaper than gas.
 
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I spent $76 on diesel for my truck and that was on Saturday, before the hurricane hit the gulf coast. I'm certain that it will be closer to $100 the next time.
 
Yep Harald.....anywhere we go for this holiday weekend, it'll be on the Harley....only thing you can afford to put gas in, lol!!!
 
I would sell some of these baby snakes to buy gas...but I STILL haven't gotten my Certificate of Authority (enough on that subject, or I risk going very far :>off_to<: ). Maybe by the time gas hits $4/gal.
Can you say FedEx price increase, boys and girls?
 
Shhhhhhh!!! I've been pretending if I don't think about the FedEx price increase, it won't happen. :bolt01:

If (*when*) it does, it's all YOUR fault now Harald. :raspberry
 
We are pretty close to the devastation here in Alabama. Gas and diesel shipments have been diverted from here to Mississippi and Louisiana where they need it worse than we do. We were averaging about $2.40 a gallon for gas on Monday. Now it is $3.00 a gallon, up .60 in two days. Reports we are getting say with multiple oil rigs in the gulf being damaged and/or destroyed and multiple refineries down across the gulf coast to expect gas prices to hover at $3.00+ a gallon for a month or so.

My family went to a local shelter yesterday to help serve dinner. Talked with people who now have nothing, no home, no job to go back to, nothing. I'll tell'ya, that helps to put life into perspective.
 
There have no shortages or restrictions here as of yet. However, I filled my tank up this morning and it was 3.34/gallon for regular. It cost me 43 dollars to fill up my little hyundai.:bawling:
 
Yeah, but don't those Hyundais get like 483 MPG?? :raspberry

I get 15MPG in my truck on a good day.....going downhill.....with a tailwind. :rofl:
 
Hehehe, maybe that's part of the reason I get such crappy mileage in my truck....I've heard that if you keep your foot out of the carbeurator it gets better mileage....but I'll probably never know if that's actually true.... ;)
 
I hate to say it, but my estimates for filling my vehicles may have been a bit low - guess I'll have to fill them sooner to keep at that price
 
Well, I guess all I can do is to check in with AAA a day before we need to be packing for the MARS show and see what they say about gas availability from Tallahassee to Maryland. Then decide then whether or not to make the trip. I figure if gasoline will be around $4.00 per gallon then, the trip for fuel alone in the van will cost us about $400. Ouch...... Probably best that I not think too much about the actual expenses involved in doing a show, however.
 
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