Archive for January, 2007

I want to buy gas for $2.09 or less

Comment on last week’s prediction:  We got the price hike, to $2.19 last Wednesday, and then another hike to $2.25 on Monday.  Basically CORRECT.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 1:15 PM:  Last Wednesday’s price hike to $2.19 brought out something we haven’t seen in a while:  letters of complaint to the editor of the Grand Rapids Press.  [...]

Possible Monday AM Hike!!

Hello everyone! Hope your weekend went well.
I know we just had a price hike to $2.19 (a little steeper than it
should have been, thus it didn’t really last- prices fell fast to
$2.09-$2.15), but due to the colder weather and OPEC going through with
their supply cut as proposed, I think we’ll see a Monday AM hike.
Wholesale [...]

The last of $1.XX gasoline? Probably. Fill ‘er up! Hike soon.

My little crystal ball is telling me that $1.XX gasoline is not going to last but another day or two. Current prices as low as $1.86 should be as low as we get. Wholesale prices have risen- for both gasoline and crude oil. As Bill Steffen could tell you, we are going to be seeing [...]

Buy gas for $1.86, then prepare for possible price hike

Comment on last week’s prediction:   There was a price hike on Friday, to $2.05, but it was halfhearted and not universally followed, so the prediction was WRONG.
Monday, January 22, 2007, 2:30 PM:  Wholesale prices have been falling since, well, last July, and they have shed 30 cents since December 19.  Slowly but surely, retail prices [...]

$1.85 widespead, sneaky hike possible?

Woaaaa!! Where do I start?
How ’bout the DOE report.
Refineries operated at just 87.9% of capacity last week. The week before they were at over 91%! Whats changed? Profit. It most likely has been dropping like a rock. With lower profit, refiners aren’t encouraged to pump out products, so this doesn’t surprise me.
With the much lower [...]

I smell a price hike coming.

Comment on last week’s prediction:  Prices fell to $2.10 or lower pretty much everywhere, and we are seeing $1.99 and lower in places, so the prediction was CORRECT.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007, 10:00 AM:  Good morning.  I am seeing Speedway prices in the range of $1.99 to $2.11, the 20-cent margin price as of Friday’s close [...]

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