Pain in the gas........

[marmar]

.....I paid $3.49 pg today in suburban Detroit. What's the local pump misery where you are?

[Kennah]

1. I'm literally topping off every couple of days, 'cause if I wait the price will go up

[notadmblnd]

2. Actually, I paid 3.59 cause I used my card and not cash

at the Mobile station on Willimas Lk Rd in Waterford/White Lake

[marmar]

Yep. I try to keep at least $10 in cash because of the card/cash differential.....

...... though Speedway seems to charge the same for both.

[notadmblnd]

5. The Speedways in Waterford are some of the highest prices

the stations in Pontiac (although I don't go through there much) are generally 10-15 cents cheaper.

[Drale]

3. I drove past one station today it was 3.49

ten minutes later I drove past that station again it was 3.79. Now oil has been right around 100 dollars for at least a week now, so this has nothing to do with the markets. If this is not price fixing I don't know what is.

[Siwsan]

4. $3.55 just up I75, in Flint

It was $3.45 a few days ago. I'm glad I topped off, then.

[Saturday]

6. I saw 3 different prices at stations today.

3.47, 3.55 and 3.69. We gassed up at 3.47. Northern IL.

[global1]

7. What I Find Interesting Is That Back In The Fall Of 2010 There Were Predictions Of $5/Gal.......

and that was well before any unrest broke out in the Mid East. Then all of a sudden - unrest in the MidEast and lo and behold - rising prices at the pump which in the Chicago area are right up to the $4.00/gal threshold and still going up.

This makes me suspicious. With my tinfoil hat firmly placed on top my head - I wonder whether the oil companies have (no pun intended) fueled the unrest?

I have to think that when they announce their quarterly profits - they will be a big benefactor of the rising prices.

[GSLevel9]

8. premium at 4.09 in the San Fernando Valley, California.

But it's 3.59 back home in Va... where I'll be headed back to this summer.