I get 91 octane so I don’t know how much regular gas costs but the premium went up from $.3.85 to $4.19. Did we lose a bunch of refineries?

You'd think with the US being the number one producer of oil/gas in the world that our prices would be back down to...oh...I don't know, maybe about $.25/gallon these days.

Apparently the laws of supply and demand don't apply to the oil and gas industry.

It has been on all the news programs - most refineries are down for maintenance and switching to the "summer" blends. That, coupled with increases in crude and some other refinery problems, have been the cause.

They are saying $4-plus per gallon will be soon.

As another user of 91+, you’re saying $4/gal will be here soon but are you talking about 87 octane? Those of us requiring 91 are looking at $5? So glad I didn’t buy a truck.
I’m not in CA so it’s only $3/gal now.

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They are saying $4-plus per gallon will be soon.

Here it is in the $2.50 range. ETA: for regular. However, at the beginning of the year it was under $2 for a little while. Fifty cents is a 25% increase, which is probably more, percentage-wise, than your increase.

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I use Chevron exclusively. It's not the least expensive brand but this station is the least expensive Chevron. 87 octane was listed as $3.99. I don't think we've seen prices this high since 2013.

About $2.75 in the Yoop. But our Governor, who many idiots voted into office, will be raising the gas tax 45 cents, after the increase is fully implemented. Making our tax the highest in the US.
More good news.... Car insurance will increase by 25+ bucks a month, due to changes in our no fault insurance system. Car insurance is already among the highest in the US.
Thanks, Lansing!

It's been climbing here too...I was in Pigeon Forge Thursday and I paid $2.45 for regular at the Shell station on Winfield Dunn Pkway...this is a touristy area and it was .10 per gallon cheaper than outlying areas (locally)...I was surprised...PLUS it was the start of the Pigeon Forge spring Rod Run/car show which made it that much more surprising

Today it was $2.64 here in the "Land Of Cleve" TN.

North Carolina gas taxes have historically been some of the highest in the nation. NC is in at 14 now. Yet our roads are in rough shape. Best of luck to you based on N.C. I noticed that MI was in at #6. Watch for your highway quality to go down as the taxes go up.

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Originally posted by Wolfpacker:
North Carolina gas taxes have historically been some of the highest in the nation.

They had to make up the cash flow somehow from all those years with absolutely NO tobacco tax.

It was $2.25 a few weeks ago and I didn't fill up. Thought it was too high. Then it jumped to $2.59 and I said I'm only putting in $10 at a time until it goes down, which should be soon. Now it's at $2.79.

Good thing my commute is only 12 miles each way.

mid-grade was $2.50ish the other day when I filled up here. we're usually just a few cents more than national average. but it's jumped about the same .25 to .45 cents a gallon in the last ten days, depending on the station/brand/proximity to I15.

I was wondering when the annual spring gasoline thread was going to occur. It's like clockwork, the EPA requires reformulated gasoline RVP numbers at refineries & terminals by May 1 and at the pump by June 1, and every year there are 1 or 2 threads on gasoline price increases.

The biggest news in summer gasoline is that last July 3 counties in Northern Kentucky were successful at opting out of summer gasoline. Opting out has been allowed in regulation (have to jump through a bunch of hoops) since the late 90s, and allowing it to actually happen is a feather in the cap of the Trump administration. Looks like it took 15 months between KY applying and the EPA approving.

One thing to note in the EPA clean air regs is that there were both:

Clean Air Act Required Areas (i.e. data modelling showed benefit)

"Opt-In" Areas (i.e. counties or entire states that the modelling didn't show enough benefit, but the elected official voluntarily signed their citizens up for it anyway). Please note that the 3 counties in Northern KY were originally opt-in so it'll be interesting to see if more regions or states follow KY's lead and opt out.

Normally, I write long diatribes imploring people to quit electing assclowns who like to make sound bites about EPA regs costing them gasoline money but then do nothing about it. This year, I'll just say that if you live in an opt-in area get hounding your elected officials to follow Northern KY's lead.

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Originally posted by Chowser:
As another user of 91+, you’re saying $4/gal will be here soon but are you talking about 87 octane? Those of us requiring 91 are looking at $5?

A word to the wise, 99.9999% of people predicting gas prices will hit x.xx per gallon are full of hot air. Even worse, they will not put their money where their mouth is. Gasoline is a commodity so anyone (except oil & gas employees) can buy derivatives and actually invest in their prediction.

Instead of going along with it I like to ask them, "how much money have you invested in x.xx per gallon?" If they say none (I have yet to have someone respond that they've went long/short on gasoline derivatives), I inquire, "when are you investing in x.xx per gallon?" If they admit they don't know how, I offer to give them a name of a few brokerages. Nobody has taken me up on my offer and they usually shut up at this point. It's an asshole or at least asshole adjacent approach, but it's better than listening to the worn out and brain dead "have you heard gasoline will hit x.xx this summer?" shtick.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
You'd think with the US being the number one producer of oil/gas in the world that our prices would be back down to...oh...I don't know, maybe about $.25/gallon these days.

Apparently the laws of supply and demand don't apply to the oil and gas industry.

So how much of our oil products, including refined gasoline, get exported? I seem to recall that it is a BUNCH! As in millions of gallons/barrels.

Probably a new Commie Tax out there, for the illegals or chirrins.

I read that all this horrific flooding in the Midwest has destroyed a lot of the ethanol corn crop and that's one of the reasons prices are skyrocketing.

It sounds like the usual BS excuses again and tell me again WHY THE F*CK are we still turning corn into gasoline with all this new oil we keep finding?

We will be at $3.00 a gallon here in Pennsylvania within another week or so at the rate they are raising prices, which is around 20-25 cents a week. Last fill-up was $2.85/gallon. It stinks that PA now has the highest gasoline tax in the whole country and our politicians have stolen the money for other purposes and not used it for our roads which is what is WAS supposed to be for, which are still absolute shit.

What pisses me off, is gas station prices move up instantly anytime there is news of a refinery issue OR the barrel price of oil goes up. The gas station prices jump up the same day, yet you know the millions of gallons of fuel sitting at the local depot was already paid for at the lower price.

THEN, when the barrel price of oil drops, it takes weeks, if not a month, before the prices at local gas stations start dropping. Even busy ones that have a fuel truck their daily.

Our local Chevron was $2.99 a month ago, now $3.59. This for regular 87 octane .

Filled up at Costco yesterday, $3.04/Regular