Must be time for a good rant again. What is up with gas prices?? $3.79 in Rochester now. Been going up for the last month. Must be fishing opener and travel or some other conspiracy. Happy Friday and safe travels everyone. 
It is what it is pay it or don’t drive. The funniest thing I found about gas prices is how fast they dropped before voting time and how fast they went up after a certain someone was re-elected….just a small obersvation
It’s Bush’s Fault!!!
Now Jesse, it was on the news. The elections had nothing to do with the price of gas.
…even though a barrel of crude is less now then back then.
There I go…stirring up a political thread. <sigh>
Historically I pay the highest price every year from opener to June 1st, then it seems to drop about $.30-.50.
The prices here in Cedar Rapids aren’t that high yet but thier within 15 cents. Remember in 08 when gas prices hit $4.00 a gallon, it was crippeling the economy and other things. Have we become complacent and make up reasons just so its easier to cope with. The last I heard America is at an all time high on oil output. Supply and demand? I think its the other way around, demand and supply. In other words they keep the supply at a level where thier prices stay high or where thier satisfied with them. They raise and lower prices when they want to and just because they can. God forbid gas prices at lower then $3.00. You don’t want to hear what I think and world wide demand isn’t one of them…
One thing is certain, its time to get used to $4 a gallon gas cause it’s not going away 
It’s summer blend season boys. The refineries are changing it up so they can process government mandated fuel mixtures.
Thank goodness for 4-stroke motors with efi 
Coming up on Memorial Day, crops going in, etc. 
I do my best not to look at the pump when I start pumping but I’ve made the mistake of looking after filling the boat and truck. 
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I do my best not to look at the pump when I start pumping but I’ve made the mistake of looking after filling the boat and truck.
Careful, you’ll turn into a pillar of salt.
Check this out, We had two of them at the airport yesterday, and they are a very sweet looking ride.
A little steep on the price though,
hyvee here does gas savings cards where if you buy certain items you build up a cents off a gallon of gas number.
we spend about 400 or so bucks in groceries every month and it earns us about a buck or so off of a gallon of gas. up to 20 gallons. my truck holds 21. wife’s van holds 17. i will fill up in a few days and we have 1.21 off a gallon on the card.
Stock market had gone to an all time high few days ago. Just watch the stock market and you will know when the prices are going to go up or down.
As long as its less than $5 right now I’m fine with it. We have a huge amount of oil and gas business right now and when the price of crude drops, the po’s stop. There’s a fine line between too low and too high to where it will negatively affect the economy. Right now I believe it’s about ideal for a stronger economy.
Gas has been that high down here in Illinois for soo long now that I am already used to it. I feel like I win if I can still find diesel at $4.09 a gallon.
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hyvee here does gas savings cards where if you buy certain items you build up a cents off a gallon of gas number.
If you pay attention to the store’s pricing I think you’ll find that you are not getting a very good “bargain”. In many cases waiting a week to buy some of that advertised junk will find pricing lower than the special.
Gas here in KC is mostly $3.49. Quite a difference from the TC yesterday. 
jerr
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hyvee here does gas savings cards where if you buy certain items you build up a cents off a gallon of gas number.
we spend about 400 or so bucks in groceries every month and it earns us about a buck or so off of a gallon of gas. up to 20 gallons. my truck holds 21. wife’s van holds 17. i will fill up in a few days and we have 1.21 off a gallon on the card.
so U spend $400 to save 38 X 1.21 = 45.98 
A gallon of regular gas is $4.19 a block from my office here. I have to drive nearly to the bottom of the Chedar Curtain to get gas under $4.
Hwy 65 and county 5 in isanti 3.69 vs 3.89- 3.95 at every other station
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hyvee here does gas savings cards where if you buy certain items you build up a cents off a gallon of gas number.
If you pay attention to the store’s pricing I think you’ll find that you are not getting a very good “bargain”. In many cases waiting a week to buy some of that advertised junk will find pricing lower than the special.
since we have 3 children i pay quite a bit of attention to our receipts and the things we buy #1 are frequently on the gas savings sale lists and #2 are usually the same price they were, 1 sometimes even 2 years ago and are the same price at places like walmart.
a friend is a hyvee manager. we talked about it at dinner. he said the money that people save on gas is a drop in the bucket compared to what corps and manuf are paying to get that discount put on their items. i too assumed, well you guys just raise the price and it all evens out but he said its not true and so i looked at my receipts and for the most part he’s right. he said that so far preliminary numbers show that much of the savings that people get, they don’t even use (they expire after 30 days)
Oh now I know thw reason: The 14″ of snow in Rochester caused the refinery problems.
WAUSAU (WAOW) –
We’re heading into the summer travel season and gas prices in the area are rising.
According to Gasbuddy.com, prices have jumped 20 cents in central Wisconsin just in the past month.
Travel experts say the same storms that slammed western Wisconsin and Minnesota also hit refineries to the south, causing unscheduled problems.
“So what that did was just lowered the amount of fuel in the Midwest, causing the Midwest, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois all those states to go up in price,” said Brent Dabler, AAA agent. “While the rest of the United States, were going down in price.”
In fact, most of the country is seeing better than average prices.
“This week and in the whole month of April as well, were the lowest prices in over three years,” said Dabler.
Experts say they expect prices to drop back down by the start of the summer travel season.
All this bullcrap is relevant if you believe all they tell you… Take one simple price raise, like whats going on in cetain areas, think its the price of a barrel of oil?, governments regulations or reagional price hikes because they can? I personally think its price manipulation regionally and nationally, what oil company would want to give up the profits they are making,,,None! Prices don’t rise and fall unless their made to do so, why? because theres too much oil. So regions take advantage of local traits and price gas accordingly depending on traits of the local population. Alot of people think its socialism, I look at it like we have the oil, its ours! and why should we pay the price of the world market when (its our oil, the taxpayers and citizens oil that live in America), anything else and your buying into someone elses problems. In case you didn’t know, all the oil in America is ours, the peoples oil, we should dictate where it goes and sold for how much. The only freedom I see in the way its done is freedom to sell at the highest profit margin to the rest of the world and ,,,the people who own the oil, us, have to pay the world price, which I think is a bunch of crap… its our oil, who should be able tell us to sell it to others at a certain price. I could care less what those companies think,,,why because its our oil and we sould be able to do what we want with it,,,period. Anything else is a monopoly or socialism, and worse yet thier taking our oil and selling it at what they want to, to the rest of the world… I know some are going to disagree but one thing they can’t denigh is,,,its our oil, the people of Americas oil, not the major oil compaies oil.
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I know some are going to disagree but one thing they can’t denigh is,,,its our oil, the people of Americas oil, not the major oil compaies oil.
Interesting. So… the fish in our lakes are our fish? The iron ore in our soil is our ore? Not sure exactly what that means, but but I assume you mean that companies that are willing to spend billions in our economy aren’t entitled to profit by billions???
Now it is fact that the oil companies do control how much they profit unlike MOST other industries, but what happens when their profits are regulated and reduced? Less money in their pockets, leads to less money spent on exploration and expansion, which leads to ANOTHER downturn in the economy.
The oil companies understand their place in the world economy and understand how their profits and losses will affect the whole world. The last thing they want to do is hurt themselves which WILL hurt you and I.
I agree big gill, but they don’t have to charge as much as they do. I think they could charge $3.00 or even a little less a gallon and do just fine.
there is a reason the oil companies have made record profits every quarter for the last 5 years..they have a right to make $ but record profits quarter after quarter ?
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