Sunday, October 30, 2005

3:00 PM: If you have been reading my predictions closely this month, you’ll notice I have been a week off. Oct. 9: prices will fall soon to $2.50. That didn’t happen until Oct. 21. Oct. 14: perhaps some dramatic drops. That didn’t kick in until after Oct. 20. Oct. 19: Could we go as low as $2.25? That didn’t happen until this weekend. Last Tuesday: price hike this week. That didn’t happen … yet, but it given my track record in October, it will happen this week, right? Actually, the numbers bear this out, as the 20-cent margin price is $2.37 and we are more than a dime under that in a lot of places. Expect Speedway and the rest to reset prices before Friday. Nope. Prices kept falling, down to $2.01 by Monday morning in Wyoming. WRONG again.