Archive for August, 2005

August 31.. Again

Hello, everyone.
Hope you are hanging in there.
As for myself, I am starting to plan on alternate travel. I will be biking into work tonight (3 miles).
Gas is up 37 cents a gallon wholesale today, meaning, we’re going to be looking at pump prices around $3.59 to $3.70 in the very near future.
Stop driving, find alternate [...]

August 31

An unprecedented third (I believe?) e-mail in one day for you Grand Rapids Gas Price Warning E-mail subscribers (boy that was long!)
Well, at least this e-mail has some light at the end of the tunnel.
Since the EPA eased pollution requirements on gas, the wholesale price has come down about 20 cents per gallon off their [...]

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

If the choice was paying $3 a gallon for gas or being a resident of New Orleans or Biloxi, I would choose the former.Now, what’s next for gas prices? The September gasoline futures contract, which expires today, went out of control yesterday, rising from $2.06 to $2.47 a gallon. I’m having a hard [...]

August 30: Hurricane Katrina

Hello everyone!
Unfortunately, it looks like we’re going to be taking a turn for the worst. If you think its bad right now, better settle in, as I said in my last e-mail, because we’re in for a ROUGH TIME.
This will be a long e-mail with a lot of gasoline news, so bear with me.
Simply put, [...]

August 29

Hello everyone, just thought I’d shoot you an e-mail about WHEN the gas price hike will take effect.
Initially yesterday, in the excitment of the hurricane and gas prices shooting up 20+ cents per gallon, I failed to realize it was a Sunday night, meaning markets in the U.S. won’t actually close until Monday at 5pm, [...]

Monday, August 29, 2005

Twelve hours ago, I posted the following to grandrapidsgasprices.com: “This is how the logic of this week looks to me right now: Catagory 5 Hurricane Katrina –> shut down of refineries on the Gulf Coast and worries about New Orleans being damaged –> upward spike in oil and gas prices on NYMEX and [...]

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