Gas suddenly jumped up to $2.29 to $2.39 a gallon from pre hurricane prices of around $2.00 a gallon. I needed gas to get to work this morning and I found a station that had 87 octane for $2.39 a gallon. The early hours we have been working meant there wasn’t a line to buy it.
A week ago, I would have driven by a station selling gas at $2.19 a gallon.
I’m now really glad I own a 40+ mpg car with a 400+ mile range on a tank of gas.
I bet all those smug Tesla drivers are laughing their butts off.
The “special place in hell” is reserved for the storm chasing lawyers that are circling Houston like vultures right now, looking for people who will let them sue their insurance companies for a percentage of the settlement which will likely be what the insurance companies would have paid out without a lawsuit.
Them and sham charities trying to profiteer off this disaster.
I’m in NH, yesterday the gas was 2.19, today went up to 2.80. This is at the Irving stations. I think this is the biggest hike I’ve ever seen in one day. The budget stations around town were still under 2.50.
I’m in Minnesota. I expected an increase. Last week it was about $2.25 and I just went by the station now and it is $2.55. We get most of our gas from Canada but still a 25% reduction in capacity will have an impact. Sounds like gas is being released from the emergency reserve though. But whatever, this too will pass.
Remember when gas was over $4 a gallon? And you are whining about the price? You know I pick cars for the long term, if it $10 a gallon it is going to disrupt my life. I can ride my bike to work, or deal with my 16mpg in town vehicle for a 10 mile per day commute. If I had a long commute I would have bought a prius no matter what the price of gas at the time. It is like being upside down in a house, I have a humble house, figuring no matter what happens I can afford the mortgage payment. Sure my home value dropped 50%, but my monthly payment did not change, and I still owe less than the house is worth. I am a frugal person, sorry for those down under in the mortgages, and those that cannot afford gas to drive to and from work, and those who have lost and suffered through Hurricaine Harvey, Lets hope Irma, the next hurricaine headed this way is kinder.
I have no idea what the political issues are regarding hurricane Harvey, but I live in Montana and I want to let everyone know what a hard time we’ve been having here too.
Montana is on fire. Around 500,000 acres of land have burned this year so far. My college friend is now leaving school for 3 weeks to fight fires because he is in the national guard. I saw a headline about 40 new fires having been started this Thursday alone.
I have a Kawasaki Ninja 300 which gets about 70 mpg if you cooperate and stay off of the freeway and more importantly, has a 230-240 mile range on a tank of 87 OCTANE REGULAR, The only other motorcycle I have ever owned that could match its range was a '74 BMW R90/6 and its range was simply due to it having an enormous gas tank, 6 gallons or so. It barely got better gas mileage than the car I have now gets and demanded the most premium gas I could find.
When I filled up my car yesterday, the last person who filled at that pump only bought $10 worth of gas and I don’t think it was a motorcycle. It’s not the price of gas that I’m complaining about, it’s finding a station that isn’t sold completely out in my area.
I’m sure this is tragic for the people affected by the fires, but you gotta remember that if you took everybody who lives in Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota and South Dakota and put them all into a single city, you would have the city of Houston.
Just a different view on price gouging. There are laws in Texas, and many other places, making gouging illegal. Consider, though, those sold out fuel stations would likely still have gas to sell if the price were higher. The economics of supply and demand - higher price reduces demand. People wouldn’t hoard fuel, i.e. fill up everything they can, if the price was, say, $10 a gallon. From a humanitarian point of view, it seems pretty ugly, but with sold out fuel stations, there are people who are going to go without fuel. Not saying we should repeal those laws, just looking at it from a different angle.
Listening to NPR, I thought it was a bit amusing to hear the run on gas stations described as an “outbreak of boneheadism,” because suddenly, a half tank of gas in your Ford F-150 isn’t enough, and people are waiting in line for hours so they can have a full tank, in spite of the fact that they expect the refineries to be back up and running in about two weeks.
Here in Florida where we are used to dealing with hurricanes, the run on gas stations happens before hurricanes, not after.
I’m not surprised. Even in the Mid-Atlantic area we get a lot of our gasoline from the Texas refineries. We get so much that there is a big old pipeline from Texas to us to deliver that gasoline.
It wasn’t long ago that gasoline was over $4 a gallon and here we are complaining about gas around $2.50 to $3 a gallon. How soon we forget.
Expensive gas? I haven’t noticed! My new car came with nearly a full tank of gas. The salesman said it wasn’t completely full, and gave me a chit for a full tank when I got low. I put $37 of regular in yesterday for free. Ok, ok, I paid for it when I bought the car. Did I leave too much money on the table if the dealer gave me the fill?
@B.L.E Montana has been suffering from these fires for months. Hurricane Harvey came along just last week. There has been very little national attention devoted to our situation. Are you implying that simple because we have a smaller population we shouldn’t have our situation declared a federal emergency? That’s not right, that is a gross inequality.
It’s not B.L.E.'s fault your governor and president have dropped the ball. Take this up with your elected officials. You seem to have a trouble with misdirected or displaced outrage.
