What are you paying for gas?

[GMZ]

$2.99 for 91 on base in San Diego......

[Kman]

$2.99 for regular as of an hour ago.

Pisses me off.

[SOLDSHORT]

2.91 for 89

[Godiva]

Originally posted by Godiva
Just saw $3.07 for regular when I was out getting groceries. My local station is still $2.84.

Local is up to $2.87 for regular, $3.11 for premium. This is an Arco station.

[SpoiledMan]

Just paid $2.92 for 87 in Inglewood, CA

[rusty bumper]

Has anyone seen the email circulating the web concerning a boycott of Exxon-Mobil stations? The email says that the best way for the buying public to get gas prices to come down is to quit buying gas from Exxon-Mobil.

The reasoning behind this, is that this is the largest oil company in the world, and if enough people would stop buying Exxon gas then the company would be forced to cut prices, and then the other oil companies would be forced to follow suit.

I don't buy Exxon gas to begin with, but who knows, it might work if enough people would buy into the idea.

Something to think about anyway.

[Kman]

Originally posted by Rusty Bumper
Has anyone seen the email circulating the web concerning a boycott of Exxon-Mobil stations? The email says that the best way for the buying public to get gas prices to come down is to quit buying gas from Exxon-Mobil.

The reasoning behind this, is that this is the largest oil company in the world, and if enough people would stop buying Exxon gas then the company would be forced to cut prices, and then the other oil companies would be forced to follow suit.

I don't buy Exxon gas to begin with, but who knows, it might work if enough people would buy into the idea.

Something to think about anyway.

I don't think it would matter. They are so powerful and have so much money, it won't matter.

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by Kman
I don't think it would matter. They are so powerful and have so much money, it won't matter.

They are powerful as long as the bottom line isn't affected. If they are loosing money, then they will be forced to cut expenses, or cut prices.

[jumpmanmb87]

Wow your prices are cheap...I pay $3.20 for High test and regular is $3.00

[Kman]

Just passed a 76 station on the way home. $3.03 for regular.

[inthedetails]

$2.72 to $2.79 at two of the local Stations. One is a major brand (Getty) the other makes their gasoline in a shed.

We did an interesting thing yesterday. We were talking about the hybrids, and how their battery life is around 3 to 5 years. Also how it costs about $4500 to replace them. At $2.80 a gallon, that is like 40000 miles.........at 12K a year, that is a little over 3 years of gas. Kinda hard to reach the break point if you get their just when you have to spend more. Especially considering the hybrids are more expensive to begin with.

I haven't verified those numbers exactly, we were going on information one of the guys at work had been told.

[inthedetails]

Originally posted by Rusty Bumper
Has anyone seen the email circulating the web concerning a boycott of Exxon-Mobil stations? The email says that the best way for the buying public to get gas prices to come down is to quit buying gas from Exxon-Mobil.

The reasoning behind this, is that this is the largest oil company in the world, and if enough people would stop buying Exxon gas then the company would be forced to cut prices, and then the other oil companies would be forced to follow suit.

I don't buy Exxon gas to begin with, but who knows, it might work if enough people would buy into the idea.

Something to think about anyway.

From Snopes:

Last updated: 13 April 2006

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

Gas Out


Claim: Boycotting a couple of gasoline brands will bring overall gas prices down.

Status: False.

Examples:

[Collected on the Internet, 2006]

GAS WAR - an idea that WILL work

This was originally sent by a retired Coca Cola executive. It came from one of his engineer buddies who retired from Halliburton. It 's worth your consideration.

Join the resistance!!!! I hear we are going to hit close to $4.00 a gallon by next summer and it might go higher!! Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth offered this good idea.

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them.

BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work. Please read on and join with us! By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.79 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50 - $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace..... not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas! And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do! Now, don't wimp out at this point.... keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people.

I am sending this note to 30 people. If each of us sends it to at least ten more (30 x 10 =3D 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 =3D 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth group of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers. If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. But I am, so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this e-mail out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!!

I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you?

Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. I suggest that we not buy from EXXON/MOBIL UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


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[Collected on the Internet, 2004]

GAS WAR!

Join the resistance!!!!

I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action. Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea: This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May! The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $1.97 for regular unleaded in my town. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50- $1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!

And, we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves. How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here! 's the idea: For the rest of this year, DON'T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers.

It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp out on me at this point...keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to,at least, ten more (30 x 10 = 300) ... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000)...and so on, by the time the message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over THREE MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted!

If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!!

Again, all You have to do is send this to 10 people. That's all. (If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician.

But I am ... so trust me on this one.)

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you I didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on. PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN.

THIS CAN REALLY WORK.


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[Collected on the Internet, 2002]

Gasoline prices are projected to reach $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Do you want prices to come down? If some united, intelligent action is taken, consumers can have a significant impact.

Last year, the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign was laughed at by the oil companies who knew consumers were only going to hurt themselves by refusing to buy gas, because of the personal inconvenience. Let's not repeat history.

BUYERS control the marketplace....not sellers. With the price of gasoline going up (currently between $1.50 - $1.95) and raising daily, consumers need to act. The only way we will see the price of gas come down is if impact the bottom-line of the oil sellers and not purchasing THEIR gas!! We can do that WITHOUT inconveniencing ourselves.

Since we all rely on gas for our cars, we can't just stop buying it. We CAN, however, force a price war.

Here's the idea:

For the rest of the year (beginning now-just after April 1st), DON'T purchase gasoline from the two biggest companies — EXXON and MOBIL. If they aren't selling gas, they will be lower the sale price. If they lower the price, other companies will have to follow suit.

To have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's simple. The person who started this email message sent this to about thirty people. If each of them send it to 10 more (30 x 10 = 300) and those 300 send it to at 10 more (300 x 10= 3,000) . . . and so on, by the time this message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached over 3 MILLION consumers! If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes only one level further, you guessed it . . . and THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!

So, please send this to ten people.

How long would it take to reach 300 Million? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within 8 days of origin. I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you? Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

GIVE IT A TRY. If the oil companies lower prices, we all win.

Start now by sending this to 10 people and filling-up at a non-Exxon, non-Mobil station.


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[Collected on the Internet, 2001]

Gasoline Prices

Whoever started this has a good point.

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.49 is cheap. Me too! As it is now $1.58 for regular unleaded. Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at less than $1.50, we need to try an aggressive response. With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we don't buy it. But, that's not really a practical option since we all have come to rely on our cars. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together.

Here's the idea -

For the rest of this year, don't purchase gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling, they should be inclined to reduce their prices — and if they reduce their prices the other companies will too. But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of users. But it's doable!

I am sending this note to 35 people. If each of you send it to at least 10 more ... and those 10 send it to at least 10 more ... and so on by the time the message reaches the sixth iteration we will have reached over one million consumers. Acting together we can make a difference. If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on, or one you compose, to at least 10 more.

Thanks for your consideration.

Origins: This year's litany of complaints about gasoline prices is a re-run of the same program from years past: Gasoline prices in the USA are too high; gasoline is a unique commodity whose price isn't subject to the usual market forces of supply and demand; OPEC and greedy American oil companies secretly manipulate the market to keep prices artificially high; and a simple boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline will rectify all
this.

Oil companies can manipulate their prices somewhat by controlling how much gasoline they produce and where they sell it, but they can't alter the basics of supply and demand: prices go down when people buy less of a good, prices go up when people buy more of a good, and prices go way up when demand outstrips available supply. The "gas out" schemes that propose to alter the demand side of the equation by shunning one or two specific brands of gasoline for a while won't work, however, because they're based on the misconception that an oil company's only outlet for gasoline is its own branded service stations. That isn't the case: gasoline is a fungible commodity, so if one oil company's product isn't being bought up in one particular market or outlet, it will simply sell its output to (or through) other outlets:
Economics Prof. Pat Welch of St. Louis University says any boycott of "bad guy" gasoline in favor of "good guy" brands would have some unintended (and unhappy) results.

. . . Welch says the law of supply and demand is set in stone. "To meet the sudden demand," he says, "the good guys would have to buy gasoline wholesale from the bad guys, who are suddenly stuck with unwanted gasoline."

So motorists would end up . . . paying more for it, because they'd be buying it at fewer stations.

And yes, oil companies do buy and sell from one another. Mike Right of AAA Missouri says, "If a company has a station that can be served more economically by a competitor's refinery, they'll do it."

Right adds, "In some cases, gasoline retailers have no refinery at all. Some convenience-store chains sell a lot of gasoline — and buy it all from somebody else's refinery."
A boycott of a couple of brands of gasoline won't result in lower overall prices. Prices at all the non-boycotted outlets would rise due to the temporarily limited supply and increased demand, making the original prices look cheap by comparison. The shunned outlets could then make a killing by offering gasoline at its "normal" (i.e., pre-boycott) price or by selling off their output to the non-boycotted companies, who will need the extra supply to meet demand. The only person who really gets hurt in this proposed scheme is the service station operator, who has almost no control over the price of gasoline.

The only practical way of reducing gasoline prices is through the straightforward means of buying less gasoline, not through a simple and painless scheme of just shifting where we buy it. The inconvenience of driving less is a hardship too many people apparently aren't willing to endure, however.

Other articles about gasoline prices: Petition to President Bush
Call to Spurn Gasoline from Particular Suppliers to Cut Off Funding of Terrorists
Call for 1- or 3-Day Boycott of Gasoline to Bring Prices Down

Last updated: 13 April 2006

[FromThisSoil]

You guys might want to take a look at this as well:

http://api-ec.api.org/filelibrary/mft012406.pdf

It's a PDF of current gasoline taxes by state...so you can figure out, before taxes, how much your gas is.

In New York, about 55 cents per gallon is tax.

At the average of $3.00 per gallon, that means that the price of gas per gallon before taxes would be $2.45.

Let's not forget our good friends at the gas stations profit, the bulk carriers profit, the gasoline companies profit, and the profit of those who drill the oil.

Depending on the gas station...the gas could go through several middlemen, all who need a profit.

I'm willing to bet that, before the profits of middlemen and taxes, gasoline is about $1.50 +/- a gallon, if not less.

[gb387]

$2.79

OK... Anyone know what percentage of a barrel of crude is refined into gasoline? I am sure there are plenty of other areas the crude is sent to(plastics, lubricants, chemicals and so on.

[kellyinkc]

Oil just hit $75 US a barrel today! Reg. gas is 2.79 here now. Hold on to your wallets. Saw on TV that a place in San Diego was at 4.14???? Can any of you SO. Calif. guys confirm this. Thanks.