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I am in west TN. 90 miles west of Nashville. I-40 at exit 126. NO diesel. Reg.gas $3.29 but not many have any. Premium-$3.69 not many have this. Boy are we in trouble. Anybody got a good wagon for sell?
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I guess. They're talking about rationing it and not being able to get it on the weekends, but I'm not sure if that's going to happen. I haven't gotten gas since Tuesday, but my friend said it went from $3.10 to $3.34 in the matter of 1/2 hr. to an hour.
It's crazy, no one is going to be able to afford to go to work around here. It takes a 1/2 hr. to get to the city from here.
Christy
It's crazy, no one is going to be able to afford to go to work around here. It takes a 1/2 hr. to get to the city from here.
Christy
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You'd have to be really lost to go thru herre to get to Nationals but there seems to gas enough just the price keeps jumping up. regular in town was 3.07-3.29 this morning. Diesel was $3.39 at one station.
This is weired. A station in town (Getty) is going out of business. It is managed by a mother/daughter and their pump would not go over $3.00. Apperently they claim they lost so much money they are being shut down. They say they lost so much they cannot pay for any more deliveries. Sounds like a load of bull but bet it will make the news tomorrow here.
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This is weired. A station in town (Getty) is going out of business. It is managed by a mother/daughter and their pump would not go over $3.00. Apperently they claim they lost so much money they are being shut down. They say they lost so much they cannot pay for any more deliveries. Sounds like a load of bull but bet it will make the news tomorrow here.
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Mark: I know a guy who sells gas. He is paying $2.90 per gallon for gas from the gas company. He turned off his gas pumps and put up a "out of gas" sign and is waiting for the price to go up and then start selling his gas. He said he doesn't make enough on the gas anyway. Makes me wonder if others are doing the same. I don't agree with what he is doing and I don't buy gas from him.
Here in Denison (3 miles from okla. border) we have gas. $2.84 reg. $2.79 for diesel. This is on Hwy.75 between Dallas and Durant, Ok.
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Yesterday morning, we got gas for $2.79 , that night it was $3.24. Our local store is actually cheaper for the first time ever @ $3.16!! Needless to say they don't know when they'll get they're next shipment, all of the small local businesses aren't able to get in gas, if they can't we'll have to travel 25 miles to get it! Here there are rumors of rationing
, only time will tell.
Yesterday morning, we got gas for $2.79 , that night it was $3.24. Our local store is actually cheaper for the first time ever @ $3.16!! Needless to say they don't know when they'll get they're next shipment, all of the small local businesses aren't able to get in gas, if they can't we'll have to travel 25 miles to get it! Here there are rumors of rationing
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zacharyfarms
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We're right off I-40 in East Tennessee and the going rate is 3.49 for reg. at the present off the interstate but if you go into town you can find it for 3.29...
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Gass is $3.29 a gallon last I knew here in Northern Michigan.
The Shell stations in town have been closed however....
The Shell stations in town have been closed however....
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If any one is concerned about the gas situation, please read the below article. Thank you, Mary
Gas shock echoes across USA By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY
Fri Sep 2, 6:58 AM ET
In all sorts of ways, in every corner of the USA, the incredible run-up in gas prices is tearing into everyday life.
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, gas prices in much of the country have soared past $3 a gallon. Six gas stations in Atlanta hit $3.999 Thursday. A few regions saw shortages and gas lines - echoes of the 1970s. Consumers are in shock. Politicians are expressing outrage. (Q&A: Questions drivers ask most often, and most angrily)
On a more profound level, the secondary effects are starting to take hold. In Phillips, Wis., police officers walk beats instead of patrolling in cars to save gas. In Arkansas, attendance at a county fair dropped, the organizer believes, because people didn't want to drive there.
School districts are holding emergency meetings about keeping within budgets. Businesses find themselves in a bind as trucking companies pass along rocketing costs of shipping. And many consumers say gas costs are cutting swaths out of their household budgets.
"If it goes up to $4 a gallon, I don't know what we're going to do," says Robin Biesterveld, 38, a medical transcriptionist in San Jose, Calif. Thanks to gas prices, she and her husband have recently cut back on extras such as dining out and dry cleaning.
Consumers are flocking to the Internet for help. They've besieged GasBuddy.com, the best-known site for finding cheap gas. The site's message board shut down on Thursday. Co-founder Jason Toews says the Minnesota-based Web site averages 300,000 hits daily but was on pace to get more than 4 million Thursday.
"We've just been overwhelmed," Toews says. "Our server couldn't handle it."
Here and there are stories of flat-out craziness, such as when the T-Bird Mini Mart in Springfield, Vt., decided NOT to raise its gas prices.
T-Bird stopped raising its prices midday Wednesday at $2.60 a gallon while all the other gas stations around kept pushing their prices higher - until T-Bird was charging 30 cents a gallon less.
People started showing up from as far away as New Hampshire. Lines snaked through town. Neighboring businesses summoned police, who directed traffic for hours. So overwhelming was the traffic, says clerk Jason LaValley, "We had to raise (the price) to keep people away." The store was selling gasoline for $3.19 Wednesday night, more in line with the competition.
Managing the jump
Far from the pumps, businesses and local governments have been having meetings the past few days at which managers are working on ways to manage the price jump.
In Romulus, N.Y., The Advantage Group helps businesses sell used or surplus equipment, making about 250,000 shipments a year. Freight quotes are double what they were six months ago, CEO Neal Sherman says.
So he's been trying to find any way possible to save on trucking costs. He just hired someone to - as Sherman called it - "efficiently palletize" shipments. In other words, the employee will pack what might've gone on two trucks into one.
"Everyone in the chain of logistics is adding to their prices," Sherman says. "Everybody's on edge about how this will affect businesses."
In the middle, trucking companies say they're getting walloped. Gas prices are rising so fast, they're making shipments based on prices quoted weeks ago and losing money. "Many of the small trucking companies will panic or just go out of business by the end of the year," says Jerry Breeden of The Trucker, a trade publication.
In Ithaca, N.Y., Tompkins County Consolidated Area Transit - the local bus system - is locked in a contract fight with the United Auto Workers Local 2300. One of the reasons TCAT says it can't offer the union what it wants is because the rise in fuel prices is cutting into finances.
School districts feel particularly vulnerable. In suburban Denver, officials for the Jefferson County school district say fuel prices mean transportation could cost $250,000 to $1 million more this year than planned. "It's awful," says Jan Clopton, the district's transportation director. "We are working on every avenue to cut costs." Among options: fee increases for student field trips.
The Lansing, Mich., school district is looking at some of the same solutions, including fewer bus stops, which means many students would have to walk farther to each stop. Nathan Rowen, director of transportation, says he's not sure the district has enough money budgeted to cover the price increases. "It's not going to be pretty this year," Rowen says.
Police departments face similar concerns, especially in small towns with small budgets. In Phillips, Wis., Police Chief David Sonntag started having officers patrol on foot one hour a day to ease the cost of gassing up patrol cars, according to the city's Web site.
In Arkansas, Washington County Fair President Doris Cassidy added gas to the reasons she saw a slip in attendance. "Everything is so hot, and gas prices are so high," she told a regional Web site, NWAonline.com. "I don't think people have as much money."
For consumers, prices are going up so fast that many report watching the signs change while they're pulling up to the pump.
At about 11 a.m. Thursday at the AM/PM in Mesa, Ariz., Fernando Lundi Faust, 54, was pumping gas when an employee changed the price of regular on the sign to $2.99 a gallon from $2.79. Customers pulling in turned around and left.
Motorist club AAA reported an average price of $2.680 a gallon for unleaded regular gasoline Thursday, up more than 6 cents overnight - considered a huge jump.
While it's hard for most consumers to work up much sympathy for gas station owners, Randy Markham offers a glimpse into the situation they're facing.
Markham, 64, owns three Sunoco gas stations in Michigan and supplies fuel to six others. He says the wholesale prices he pays for gas increased 35 cents from Wednesday night to Thursday morning, after jumping about 45 cents earlier in the week. "Every time we get another load of gas, it's more expensive," Markham says.
As of Thursday afternoon, he was selling gas for about $3.39, at a 7-cents-a-gallon margin. "A 7-cent margin? We can't pay the bills with that. We are strapped," Markham says.
In Chandler, Ariz., Nezar Alsai, owner of the independent Blue Diamond Fuel, says customers were screaming at him Thursday about the $3.09 price of regular.
"They say, 'Shame on you! You're taking advantage of the situation,' but I'm not," Alsai says, whipping out the latest fuel bill from his supplier, which shows he is paying $3 a gallon for regular.
Alsai expects the wholesaler wants $3.10 a gallon for the next load, but he's holding out. "I am waiting for the price to drop. I expect I will run out of gas and don't know what to do," he adds.
And that's a fear that's spreading - fuel shortages, leading to panic buying and price gouging.
There have been spotty reports of gas shortages at Arizona service stations during the past few days, especially at independents that rely on fuel purchases from the spot market. One station in suburban Mesa was flooded with motorists who apparently got caught up in a panic-buying frenzy. The station ran out of gas for about six hours.
Rush to fill up
In Nashville, some gas stations that normally sell 1,200 gallons a day have been selling 5,000 gallons a day as consumers rush to fill up, says Emily Leroy, associate director of the Tennessee Oil Marketers Association. "There are shortages and outages all over the state," she says.
In Oak Park, Ill., BP station owner Bob Sloan says he had one woman ask him if he sold "buckets" to buy gas to go. She wanted a reserve for a weekend trip to St. Louis. He suggested she buy a five-gallon can at a hardware store and come back. He said he doesn't expect shortages this weekend, even though his station ran out of regular on Thursday.
Officials are trying to keep the public calm and ask that they buy only what they need.
In Alabama, Gov. Bob Riley asked citizens to "do their part by purchasing and using fuel responsibly." He added, "I'm hoping this will be a short-term disruption."
"One thing we need to guard against is panic buying," South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday. "It exacerbates the problem."
Yet a lot of people are wondering how it could get worse. Such as Kimberly Ferrell of Middletown, Del. Buying gas on Thursday, she says that fuel costs might mean she can no longer send her 4-year-old son, Michael, to day care at $50 a week. "Gas is taking up the money I spend on day care," she says, then she glances up at a BP station across the street. "Look at that - $2.84 a gallon," she says. "I paid $124 this week for gas."
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Gas shock echoes across USA By Kevin Maney, USA TODAY
Fri Sep 2, 6:58 AM ET
In all sorts of ways, in every corner of the USA, the incredible run-up in gas prices is tearing into everyday life.
Since Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, gas prices in much of the country have soared past $3 a gallon. Six gas stations in Atlanta hit $3.999 Thursday. A few regions saw shortages and gas lines - echoes of the 1970s. Consumers are in shock. Politicians are expressing outrage. (Q&A: Questions drivers ask most often, and most angrily)
On a more profound level, the secondary effects are starting to take hold. In Phillips, Wis., police officers walk beats instead of patrolling in cars to save gas. In Arkansas, attendance at a county fair dropped, the organizer believes, because people didn't want to drive there.
School districts are holding emergency meetings about keeping within budgets. Businesses find themselves in a bind as trucking companies pass along rocketing costs of shipping. And many consumers say gas costs are cutting swaths out of their household budgets.
"If it goes up to $4 a gallon, I don't know what we're going to do," says Robin Biesterveld, 38, a medical transcriptionist in San Jose, Calif. Thanks to gas prices, she and her husband have recently cut back on extras such as dining out and dry cleaning.
Consumers are flocking to the Internet for help. They've besieged GasBuddy.com, the best-known site for finding cheap gas. The site's message board shut down on Thursday. Co-founder Jason Toews says the Minnesota-based Web site averages 300,000 hits daily but was on pace to get more than 4 million Thursday.
"We've just been overwhelmed," Toews says. "Our server couldn't handle it."
Here and there are stories of flat-out craziness, such as when the T-Bird Mini Mart in Springfield, Vt., decided NOT to raise its gas prices.
T-Bird stopped raising its prices midday Wednesday at $2.60 a gallon while all the other gas stations around kept pushing their prices higher - until T-Bird was charging 30 cents a gallon less.
People started showing up from as far away as New Hampshire. Lines snaked through town. Neighboring businesses summoned police, who directed traffic for hours. So overwhelming was the traffic, says clerk Jason LaValley, "We had to raise (the price) to keep people away." The store was selling gasoline for $3.19 Wednesday night, more in line with the competition.
Managing the jump
Far from the pumps, businesses and local governments have been having meetings the past few days at which managers are working on ways to manage the price jump.
In Romulus, N.Y., The Advantage Group helps businesses sell used or surplus equipment, making about 250,000 shipments a year. Freight quotes are double what they were six months ago, CEO Neal Sherman says.
So he's been trying to find any way possible to save on trucking costs. He just hired someone to - as Sherman called it - "efficiently palletize" shipments. In other words, the employee will pack what might've gone on two trucks into one.
"Everyone in the chain of logistics is adding to their prices," Sherman says. "Everybody's on edge about how this will affect businesses."
In the middle, trucking companies say they're getting walloped. Gas prices are rising so fast, they're making shipments based on prices quoted weeks ago and losing money. "Many of the small trucking companies will panic or just go out of business by the end of the year," says Jerry Breeden of The Trucker, a trade publication.
In Ithaca, N.Y., Tompkins County Consolidated Area Transit - the local bus system - is locked in a contract fight with the United Auto Workers Local 2300. One of the reasons TCAT says it can't offer the union what it wants is because the rise in fuel prices is cutting into finances.
School districts feel particularly vulnerable. In suburban Denver, officials for the Jefferson County school district say fuel prices mean transportation could cost $250,000 to $1 million more this year than planned. "It's awful," says Jan Clopton, the district's transportation director. "We are working on every avenue to cut costs." Among options: fee increases for student field trips.
The Lansing, Mich., school district is looking at some of the same solutions, including fewer bus stops, which means many students would have to walk farther to each stop. Nathan Rowen, director of transportation, says he's not sure the district has enough money budgeted to cover the price increases. "It's not going to be pretty this year," Rowen says.
Police departments face similar concerns, especially in small towns with small budgets. In Phillips, Wis., Police Chief David Sonntag started having officers patrol on foot one hour a day to ease the cost of gassing up patrol cars, according to the city's Web site.
In Arkansas, Washington County Fair President Doris Cassidy added gas to the reasons she saw a slip in attendance. "Everything is so hot, and gas prices are so high," she told a regional Web site, NWAonline.com. "I don't think people have as much money."
For consumers, prices are going up so fast that many report watching the signs change while they're pulling up to the pump.
At about 11 a.m. Thursday at the AM/PM in Mesa, Ariz., Fernando Lundi Faust, 54, was pumping gas when an employee changed the price of regular on the sign to $2.99 a gallon from $2.79. Customers pulling in turned around and left.
Motorist club AAA reported an average price of $2.680 a gallon for unleaded regular gasoline Thursday, up more than 6 cents overnight - considered a huge jump.
While it's hard for most consumers to work up much sympathy for gas station owners, Randy Markham offers a glimpse into the situation they're facing.
Markham, 64, owns three Sunoco gas stations in Michigan and supplies fuel to six others. He says the wholesale prices he pays for gas increased 35 cents from Wednesday night to Thursday morning, after jumping about 45 cents earlier in the week. "Every time we get another load of gas, it's more expensive," Markham says.
As of Thursday afternoon, he was selling gas for about $3.39, at a 7-cents-a-gallon margin. "A 7-cent margin? We can't pay the bills with that. We are strapped," Markham says.
In Chandler, Ariz., Nezar Alsai, owner of the independent Blue Diamond Fuel, says customers were screaming at him Thursday about the $3.09 price of regular.
"They say, 'Shame on you! You're taking advantage of the situation,' but I'm not," Alsai says, whipping out the latest fuel bill from his supplier, which shows he is paying $3 a gallon for regular.
Alsai expects the wholesaler wants $3.10 a gallon for the next load, but he's holding out. "I am waiting for the price to drop. I expect I will run out of gas and don't know what to do," he adds.
And that's a fear that's spreading - fuel shortages, leading to panic buying and price gouging.
There have been spotty reports of gas shortages at Arizona service stations during the past few days, especially at independents that rely on fuel purchases from the spot market. One station in suburban Mesa was flooded with motorists who apparently got caught up in a panic-buying frenzy. The station ran out of gas for about six hours.
Rush to fill up
In Nashville, some gas stations that normally sell 1,200 gallons a day have been selling 5,000 gallons a day as consumers rush to fill up, says Emily Leroy, associate director of the Tennessee Oil Marketers Association. "There are shortages and outages all over the state," she says.
In Oak Park, Ill., BP station owner Bob Sloan says he had one woman ask him if he sold "buckets" to buy gas to go. She wanted a reserve for a weekend trip to St. Louis. He suggested she buy a five-gallon can at a hardware store and come back. He said he doesn't expect shortages this weekend, even though his station ran out of regular on Thursday.
Officials are trying to keep the public calm and ask that they buy only what they need.
In Alabama, Gov. Bob Riley asked citizens to "do their part by purchasing and using fuel responsibly." He added, "I'm hoping this will be a short-term disruption."
"One thing we need to guard against is panic buying," South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford said Thursday. "It exacerbates the problem."
Yet a lot of people are wondering how it could get worse. Such as Kimberly Ferrell of Middletown, Del. Buying gas on Thursday, she says that fuel costs might mean she can no longer send her 4-year-old son, Michael, to day care at $50 a week. "Gas is taking up the money I spend on day care," she says, then she glances up at a BP station across the street. "Look at that - $2.84 a gallon," she says. "I paid $124 this week for gas."
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A station near my home went from $2.65 gal on Wed afternoon to $3.39 on Thurs morning
this week. I'm afraid to look at the sign now!! And I'm on empty....so, no matter I must get gas and pay the price. Gosh, at this rate it will cost me over $80 for a tank of gas......I only have a Jeep/23 gal tank.
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Prices leveling off and showing early signs of going DOWN in N. IA
Today at noon.....2.99.....neighboring town lowering to 2.89 by early evening
Let us pray this lowering of prices.... trickles down south to huricane victums in their time of need too!
Today at noon.....2.99.....neighboring town lowering to 2.89 by early evening
Let us pray this lowering of prices.... trickles down south to huricane victums in their time of need too!
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Gas here today (Ontario Canada) is $1.25/liter (x 4 ltres per gallon) =$5.00 gallon
By the sound of these gas prices it will cost about 3 times to go Nationals in gas alone to what it was last year-- I think the highest proce last year was $1.18
By the sound of these gas prices it will cost about 3 times to go Nationals in gas alone to what it was last year-- I think the highest proce last year was $1.18
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Not that this matters where I am (NW Oregon), but we seem to have plenty of fuel, though the prices are still rising.
$3.09 for Diesel, and $2.99 for unleaded.
I think I paid $42 to fill two gas cans today! !
BUT, right now all my vehicles are gassed up just in case there is some sort of shortage.
Funny thing is, my dad predicted this about two to three weeks ago. He said he felt there could be a shortage of fuel over Labor Day, so he advised not letting the cars get below half a tank at any time. That was before Katrina.
Hopefully things will stabilize.
Liz M.
$3.09 for Diesel, and $2.99 for unleaded.
I think I paid $42 to fill two gas cans today! !
BUT, right now all my vehicles are gassed up just in case there is some sort of shortage.
Funny thing is, my dad predicted this about two to three weeks ago. He said he felt there could be a shortage of fuel over Labor Day, so he advised not letting the cars get below half a tank at any time. That was before Katrina.
Hopefully things will stabilize.
Liz M.
My husband stopped for gas in one our small towns(Amissville, VA) and was able to get .09 out of one pump and .04 out of another and that's all that he could get.
I heard that one gas station normally gets 50 trucks a week. They got 5 this week.
I heard that one gas station normally gets 50 trucks a week. They got 5 this week.
WhyMinis
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Gas prices here in Virginia range from 2.99 - 3.89. My local country store can't sell gas anymore because their pumps won't register over 2.99 and they have to pay more than that for gas.
There are several independant stations along the interstate out of regular but they still have high test and diesel. Diesel prices don't seem to be jumping.
It costs me $10 a day to go to work in my econo car, double that if I have to take the van to Home Depot or the horses anywhere.
There are several independant stations along the interstate out of regular but they still have high test and diesel. Diesel prices don't seem to be jumping.
It costs me $10 a day to go to work in my econo car, double that if I have to take the van to Home Depot or the horses anywhere.
Sue_C.
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Last night, here in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, it was $1.39, per LITRE. and remember that a litre is smaller than a quart!
Who KNOWS how much it is this morning? It went up .20, in one day, so anything is possible.
We too, live in "Stixville", and have over a 1/2 hour drive to work, and 20 a minute drive just to get to the closest Town.
We too, live in "Stixville", and have over a 1/2 hour drive to work, and 20 a minute drive just to get to the closest Town.
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The last time I looked at the price of gas it was aobut 3 pm yesterday. Then it was at the average of $2.99 Dont seem to have shortages here. THere were lines that the station by my work as they are always the cheapest around, but now they are right up with the rest of htem.
I only drive a little saturn, who thank god gets good gas milage(32) but even so the last time I filled up at $2.79 it took me $30 to fill it. I am filling it about every other day.......less now as I dont do anything reallly but go to and from work.
A friend of mine came back from germany not to long ago. Showed me a car she wanted. I think I want one to. THey are ugly but get 100 miles to the gallon.
I only drive a little saturn, who thank god gets good gas milage(32) but even so the last time I filled up at $2.79 it took me $30 to fill it. I am filling it about every other day.......less now as I dont do anything reallly but go to and from work.
A friend of mine came back from germany not to long ago. Showed me a car she wanted. I think I want one to. THey are ugly but get 100 miles to the gallon.
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It is $2.79-$3.29 here in Ocala, FL.
Here is a link that may be useful, Flying J's are located all across the country and they have prices pretty near average. They have a listing on there website of all the locations by state and who is running low on supply. We used it alot when we ran our transport business to find the best fuel prices.
http://www.flyingj.com/fuel/gasoline_CF.cfm
Here is a link that may be useful, Flying J's are located all across the country and they have prices pretty near average. They have a listing on there website of all the locations by state and who is running low on supply. We used it alot when we ran our transport business to find the best fuel prices.
http://www.flyingj.com/fuel/gasoline_CF.cfm
Horsefeathers
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Yesterday we found out gas in Sulpher (La.) was $3.69 at noon and a friends daughter was supposed to come down from Monroe (north La.) and could not because gas shortages and rationing... I'm gonna go fill the truck back up today...yikes
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