I didn't really think about it until today, but I'm almost sure there was a "coincidental" jump in gas prices the day before the NorEaster they threatened us with earlier this week.

There may have been some sort of "real" reason, I wasn't watching the news very closely that day. Well timed though, if nothing else, I saw lines at a few stations that evening...

I am sure you are right Pete G......anytime there is a hiccup it seems like the price of fuel spikes......just the government gouging us a little more!:splat:

pete....very clever i might ad... :btu:

Sunday gas was 1.99 in gansett at the shell and mobile; back up to 2.09 yesterday

i paid 1.85 here in franklin before the storm warnings, and sure enough as soon as there were some rumblings about snow the price jumped to 1.89, then 1.99, now its up to 2.09 :splat:

Glad the government is out there making sure there is no price gouging going on!:splat:

i paid 1.99 yesterday. today it's 2.18 wtf? every time some one farts prices jump?!?!

Bart thats short money. You know until you poised this question in this post it didn't hit home why gas jumped a dime this week. s.o.b.'s:splat:

Better get you gas, milk, and bread :doh:

Prices dropped in Whitman last night and this morning.

$1.99?? $2.05?? It was $2.04 yesterday on the way home from work (0700) On the way back into work, it was $2.14 (2200)!! There is gouging going on for sure!! One station in another town was at $2.79 a few months back. Then the gouging talk hit the media. The next day, they were at $2.39!! Crooks!

Yup! Paid $2.04 Yesterday...Today $2.19??????:smash:

Yes Larry went way up,, yesterday/ last night or this am....
Merry merry Gas to All
VB

Went up 12 cents overnight here.....
of Course there is a storm forecast for tomorrow.......:whackin:

Went up 12 cents overnight here.....

Ditto here

an ice skating rink by tomorrow morning.... :mad:

oh and by the way....winter starts in 6 more days.

yesterday morning here it was 4 degrees....

i'm glad its still Fall.

How come we all notice this and the pols don't????:nailem:

$2.13 just over the border in NH. That is continually where the best prices are on the North Shore.

it bumped up to $2.19 here .... everytime i see draft horses now, i get a friggan (mental) woody.... someday: i'll custom build a wooden wagon made out of the best lumber i can buy.... with an expensive shock absorbing frame ,custom leather seats ect. and after i determine what it costs me in vet bills and hoof care, hay and grain,tack, for a year i'll do the math and have a sign on the back showing how many miles i get per gallon which be divided into that cost per horse. :uhuh:

what ever i say ..i always do.... life is only as good as living your dreams.

Thinking about it more it IS winter time, not an uncommon time for fuel prices to rise. Consumption is up, but mostly fuel oil and natural gas. Tough to really explain why gas is on the rise though. :confused:

$$$$2.25 THIS AM ...What are we having a storm ??????

VB, Gone up twice this week.. Holiday Traffic Gouge

unfreekin' real! after their bs test ballon katrina, they know they can gouge at will. now everytime some sand flea farts or some ceo wants to look good for his investors or now- snow, the fuel $$$ rise!! nothing but timely $$ gouging.

2.17 is the cheapest I have found on the south shore. This is seriously ridiculous. After katrina everybody was yelling and screaming about gas prices going up. They went back "down" for about a day and now they are going back up just as quick but not as many people are outraged it seems. Why is that?

We're being conditioned (brainwashed) into thinking that what we're paying now is better than the $3.25-$3.50 we were paying and everyone is okay with that:exp:
I've never seen the oil market so volitile as it has been for any reason at all. Cold weekend coming up? Let's raise prices! Got a hangnail? Let's raise prices!:doh:

we as Americans need to do something drastic to
send a clear message
to both the oil companies and the government
because neither one seems like they give a damn...

i dont know if its design our own vehicles..
or start our own bus service for MEMBERS
like a commuting club...
even in town like the old folks do...
that cant drive...
somehow! to leave our cars parked unless were
going fishing and need -em... something... creative.:huh:

we need some good ole American ingenuity here.

Raven:
I agree 100%. I'm note sure what we can do. I don't know if raising a ruckus with our politicians will help. It seems to me if the bakers started charging $5.00 a loaf for bread everyone would stop buying bread and bake there own. The problem with oil is they have us by the short hairs. We can't run our vehicles with out gas. You can heat with wood but I see guys getting $200 a cord so what's the point.

So what's the answer. I read an article in October that said gas consumption was down by 7 to 10% in the month of September. Was this was because the American public got tired of the $3.00+ per gallon? No, I think it was because school was back in session and vacations were over. As long as Jong Q Public can get gas they will buy it....at any price I think.

I just don't know what the answer is.

that we need to have rickshaws on bicycles....but a push towards an all electric car for the short hauls would eliminate gasoline consumption 100% even though they cost almost double the price of a gas burning vehicle...and if every two car family had one of each
then that would cut gas consumption (theoretically) by 50 % which would cut demand and lower the price for the other car's usage of it.

I didn't really think about it until today, but I'm almost sure there was a "coincidental" jump in gas prices the day before the NorEaster they threatened us with earlier this week

the thing that bugs me is.... they raised the prices even thought that noreaster turned and went out to sea completely missing us which wouldnt justify the price increase ....so it shouldve dropped like a hot potatoe..but it didnt... thats bull crap!

Raven:
I agree 100%. I'm note sure what we can do. I don't know if raising a ruckus with our politicians will help. It seems to me if the bakers started charging $5.00 a loaf for bread everyone would stop buying bread and bake there own. The problem with oil is they have us by the short hairs. We can't run our vehicles with out gas. You can heat with wood but I see guys getting $200 a cord so what's the point.

So what's the answer. I read an article in October that said gas consumption was down by 7 to 10% in the month of September. Was this was because the American public got tired of the $3.00+ per gallon? No, I think it was because school was back in session and vacations were over. As long as Jong Q Public can get gas they will buy it....at any price I think.

I just don't know what the answer is.

I still think the gov't should step in. How much have we spent in Iraq? Why not put that out there as a little bonus for a company who develops a legitmate technology to conserve fuel or use an alternate fuel?

Left for RI on Wednesday---$2.39/gallon

Returned home last night---$2.55/gallon

WTF??? :wall: :af: :nailem:

Big Storm for tonight predicted, time to raise the pump price, as people will fill the tank... "just in case"....

ahh New Englanders... we make the bread and milk run, fill the tank, every time the weather forecasters predict a storm... follow the gallon price on milk too... I've been seeing a pattern there too...

I've talked to a few people in the retail food biz, they said it all traces back to the blizzard of 78, ever since then, people have a "stock up" mentality, when bad weather is forcasted.

its time to hear some politicians get pissed off.

and if not -> they need to go bye bye.

- By the Cape Cod Times

Gasoline prices rise 5 cents per gallon
HYANNIS - The price of a gallon of gasoline rose five cents in a week, and 18 cents over the past month, according to this week's survey by AAA Southern New England.

After increasing three of the last four weeks, gasoline prices in Massachusetts start 2006 an average of 41 cents higher than a year ago, the auto club reports.

This week's survey of prices in Massachusetts found self serve unleaded regular averaging $2.229 per gallon. A year ago at this time, the average price was $1.819.

The range in prices for regular unleaded in the latest AAA survey is 22 cents, from a low of $2.13 9 to a high of $2.359, so motorists will benefit from shopping around for their area's best price.