WTF...$2.35 a gallon gas in MAY? It's $2.85 TODAY in Silicon Valley!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Chevron gas as of 4/7/05: $2.65 / $2.75 / $2.85 (a 6 cent increase in ONE DAY)...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20050407/ts_nm/energy_gasoline_dc

Govt: U.S. Gasoline Use Strong Despite Record Prices

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Demand this summer for U.S. gasoline will rise 1.8 percent from last summer, helping push pump prices to a peak monthly average of $2.35 a gallon in May, the federal government said on Thursday.

American drivers will consume an average 9.331 million barrels per day of gasoline this summer, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The forecast from Energy Department's analytical arm is for the busy summer driving season running from April through September.

The expected growth in summer gasoline demand, would remain above the five-year average, the agency said, although it would be slightly lower than previously estimated as some drivers flinch at higher pump prices.

"We're looking at a global crude market that is straining" to meet world demand, said EIA administrator Guy Caruso.

[Technowitch]

1. I just saw, here in Boulder Creek, CA - $2.70/gal for regular

I've a feeling we'll be breaking $3/gal soon.

[NMDemDist2]

2. ours jumped 5 cents today too, $2.30 at 6AM $2.35 at 2PM

in Phoenix

[oneighty]

3. Caruso says

"The day the music died"

9.331 billion barrels a day of anything is mind boggling.

180

I paid 1.35 6/10 today Western NY state.

[lastliberalintexas]

4. Heck it's $2.18 in Cancer Alley

Otherwise known as Southeast Texas or Refinery Row. You'd think we'd get some benefit from living 10 feet from the petrochemical industry, other than sucking up the toxic fumes and dying in plant explosions, that is. But apparently really cheap gas isn't one of them. :)


And it's only going to get worse. The poor and working/middle class are really getting hit, especially in areas like mine with basically no mass transit.

[hecate77]

5. Average means just that. Lot's of places are higher, some are lower.

You can guess where the lower prices are by looking for red states. Part of the reason, too, for higher prices in some blue states is that we actually tax the stuff and use the money to more or less pay our own way, while the red states suck at the teat of the Federal Government, who gives them our tax money so they don't have to tax their own gasoline....

[Emboldened Chimp]

6. $2.63 here in LaLa Land....

[neuvocat]

7. I just paid 2.60/gal the other day.

I'm so glad I don't have an SUV.

[CountAllVotes]

8. it would cost close to $100 to fill one up

and yeah, I'm glad I don't have one either!

:kick:

[malta blue]

9. saratoga springs NY

$2.41! I've never seen anything like it!