I don’t have much time to elaborate, but it looks like with a spike up in wholesale today, we may see a spike up tomorrow. Make sure you are filled up before tomorrow morning!
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- Diesel prices are on my mind, and Michigan seems to have avoided a Midwestern hike so far: https://t.co/2vuUW5O5LP 03:12:26 PM May 14, 2023 from Twitter Web App
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The name of the site is based off an essay Ed wrote for the Grand Rapids Press titled "The Gas Game". The current website was established later by Patrick DeHaan after he and Ed predicted gas price hikes on GasBuddy's website GrandRapidsGasPrices.com, as well as Ed’s personal web page.
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Current Contributors:
Ed A.: ab...@gvsu.edu
Craig P.: cr...@paull.net
Tim S.: ts...@gmail.com
Bill E.: pa...@yahoo.com
The name of the site is based off an essay Ed wrote for the Grand Rapids Press titled "The Gas Game". The current website was established later by Patrick DeHaan after he and Ed predicted gas price hikes on GasBuddy's website GrandRapidsGasPrices.com, as well as Ed’s personal web page.
Note: To be precise, add 9/10 of a cent to all prices described on this web page.
I’m Not Happy! For prices to be this high at this time of year with plenty of fuel in reserve and no hurricanes in the Gulf is absolutely insane!
I’m sure they’ll go higher – because they can . . . . GREED!
November 5, 2010
Oil near $87 after hitting two-year high
Pablo Gorondi, Associated Press, On Friday November 5, 2010, 9:08 am EDT
Oil remained near $87 a barrel Friday after reaching a two-year high as the Federal Reserve’s plan to buy $600 billion of Treasury bonds to stimulate the U.S. economy drove a tide of cash into stocks and commodities.
By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for December delivery was up 35 cents at $86.84 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Earlier in the session, it reached $87.22 — its highest point since Oct. 2008. On Thursday, the contract climbed $1.80 to settle at $86.49.
The Fed’s announcement Wednesday underlined expectations that the dollar would weaken further and push up prices for commodities including oil.
The strength of the dollar and the price of oil are closely linked. The dollar has been getting weaker against other currencies for weeks, ahead of the Fed decision and some expect it to remain weak as more dollars pour into the economy.
Oil is priced in dollars and becomes cheaper for holders of foreign currency when the dollar falls. That interest then boosts the price.
When the dollar weakens, investors would rather hold hard assets like oil and other commodities because hard assets protect them against more weakening and inflation.
Despite the price jump, analysts pointed to continued weak demand as a factor which could make current levels difficult to sustain.
“Oil prices are already back to the end-2007 levels but the oil fundamentals are nowhere near those of 2007,” said Olivier Jakob of Petromatrix in Switzerland.
Sustained higher oil prices would make themselves felt across the economy, hampering growth.
“Commodity-induced inflation in emerging countries will pose a growing threat, and will eventually prompt more forceful rate hikes,” said a report from MF Global in New York. “These, in turn, will ultimately slow economies down, and deflate the commodity bubble from the demand side.”
Oil prices hit a high for the year of $87.15 a barrel in early May, when U.S. gas prices were around $2.90 a gallon. They’re heading back there again.
In other Nymex trading in December contracts, heating oil rose 0.85 cent to $2.3816 a gallon, gasoline gained 0.87 cent to $2.1858 a gallon and natural gas advanced 1.7 cents to $3.873 per 1,000 cubic feet.
So the republicans get voted in and all of a sudden the economy is so good again that gas can be $3.09 a gallon? Guess this will stifle the holiday sales that everyone was expecting to be higher. My prediction is high gas prices = a depression since we aren’t even out of the recession yet.
Thanks for the report Sam. Looks like no end in sight for a while.
So the price of oil at 1:30 today – – November 17 – – is $80 and change. Wonder why our gas prices aren’t falling faster than what they are. And did anybody happen to see this article on WZZMTV13’s website here a while back? Here’s a portion.
Part of a WZZM 13 News article – 11/8/10 when gas jumped to $3.09 – – Gas prices are also driven by location. Prices tend to be higher in more affluent sections of town. If you monitor prices on the web, gas stations with lower prices tend to be all over the map, but the higher prices seem to stick to a target location.
So to me this means there really is NO good reason for a 20 cent swing from one side of GR to the other, and consistently high in Rockford. Just sayin . . .