Comments on: What’s going on with gas prices?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:19:54 +0000

Gas should, and will eventually be, be $10+ per gallon.

THATS whats going on with gas prices.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:52:20 +0000

If you want to know just how much the oil companies are gouging you, look at the difference in price between the name-brand stations and Costco. Both get their gas from the same refineries, but Costco isn’t adding the same markup. Sometimes the difference will be minimal, other times, the cheapest gas you’ll find will be 20+ cents per gallon more than at Costco, and that’s when you know the gouging is in full effect.

Note: please don’t blame the gas station owners, as they are really not making a lot on gas sales. As a franchisee of the big name-brand company, they are getting gouged at the “wholesale” prices the companies are charging them.

No, they don’t collude in gouging, just call it “zone pricing” and then it’s not illegal collusion. Greed sucks, mkay?

By: Kark

Kark — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:40:01 +0000

Analysts say the price surge was driven by the annual switch by refineries from making winter gas to more expensive-to-produce-but-cleaner summer gas and by some refineries reducing production to do maintenance.

SIMPLER EXPLANATION: GREED, GREED, GREED

By: scot

scot — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 15:29:16 +0000

Not enough refineries and stupid “blends” for different seasons. Thank liberals.

By: Pearl

Pearl — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:51:10 +0000

“Opening Anwar to oil drilling will not do us any good because it would take 10 years for that oil to reach the market”

Bill Clinton 1996
Visionary!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:49:39 +0000

The two most relevant words in the article are “market traders”.

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:10:33 +0000

The doofus’s voted AGAINST energy independence! Brilliant! Gas WAS $1.65 when the clown took power! Google: Gas Price, Dec 2008, CNN to see it WAS $1.65 a gallon! You Obama voters sicken me so enjoy the Obama higher prices across the board due to gas prices!!!!!

By: Driver

Driver — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 04:02:32 +0000

So what was the good news? Did I miss it?

By: dave

dave — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:53:17 +0000

Summer gas in February? What, they couldn’t come up with any other reason to spike the prices?

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:36:18 +0000

Any reason to raise the price of gas. We know that the government needs more funds for foreign aid.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:19:32 +0000

Forgot to add this in “Venezuela- $0.18 per gallon”

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 02:17:46 +0000

Summer blend? Is it summer yet? Any reason to jack up the prices! So what is the price going to be this summer, $5 or more?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:25:39 +0000

I am so glad we got these evil oil men out of The White House! LOL

By: cate

cate — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:18:03 +0000

underneath our soil and ocean are the world’s largest deposits of oil; much larger than the Middle East and all the other locations in the world combined. But we have not built a refinery on 30 years. Meanwhile we are buying our oil from people who hate us and use our money to fund terrorism, as well as to enrich their own societies, of course. North Dakota has a drilling program to recover shale oil and their state economy is booming. WalMart has to pay people $17 to work there or they wouldn’t have enough workers to run the store. To me, that is an enviable position for a state to be in, and I hope California can wake up and get a clue that drilling is the way to our prosperous future, and low gas prices.