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Gas prices getting higher May 2022

Snoopp — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:52:15 GMT

I was hoping we might see some relief at the pump but gas prices are up .25 from last week. I just filled up.

I think we are at a record high with reg gas at $4.36 a gallon. Unfortunately, I need to use super at almost $5 a gallon.

Re: Gas prices getting higher May 2022

ThinkingOutLoud — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:58:09 GMT

@Snoopp wrote:
I was hoping we might see some relief at the pump but gas prices are up .25 from last week. I just filled up.

I think we are at a record high with reg gas at $4.36 a gallon. Unfortunately, I need to use super at almost $5 a gallon.

Relief would be nice but I don't see how that will happen unless policies change.

Re: Gas prices getting higher May 2022

Foxxee — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:05:45 GMT

In early January, 2020, I was getting gas at $1.49 a gallon.

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Barbara-QVC — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:09:47 GMT

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bikerbabe — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:17:53 GMT

Funny how the oil companies are announcing record profits.

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feline groovy — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:18:48 GMT

See the Community Chat thread I just posted for some help.

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Lipstickdiva — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:19:31 GMT

I drive past 5 gas stations on my way to work. They are almost all at $4.29/gallon which is an increase of .25 from yesterday.

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rms1954 — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:19:57 GMT

An added note -- our prices were dropping a few pennies each day and that lasted a while for a couple weeks. We were making headway and then all of a sudden, they sky rocketed. Disgusting.

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HisElk1 — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:26:11 GMT

Yesterday, I had a chiro appointment at 4 pm. While passing the gas station, it was $4.26/gallon.

An hour later going by the same gas station, it was 4.36/gallon, a raise of 10 cents within the hour.

I'd say more; however, it would get poofed.

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kitcat51 — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:33:24 GMT

Yesterday I paid $4.49 for regular...diesel is $5.50. I fill up when my tank hits 3/4 so I don't faint. What a disaster, if you enabled it... Are you happy now?

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RollTide2008 — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:40:36 GMT

Weird how all the oil companies are posting record profits.

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Sooner — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:00:05 GMT

Oil prices are artifically controlled by controlling how much companies are allowed to explore and to produce and where the market buys gas from other sources when our own production and transportation systems are limited and outlawed to expand.

It's a business. Every time they are restricted severly, lots of people in the exploration and production busienss go out of business. Therefore it costs more later. Makes sense? Production becomes way more expensive. Where they can drill prices go up.

Also summer prices always go up because of more demand--especially this summer when people will be traveling in droves first time in a long time.

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Oznell — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:33:21 GMT

Record-breaking diesel gas prices are a very worrisome part of the overall ominous picture.

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drizzellla — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:47:50 GMT

@Oznell wrote:
Record-breaking diesel gas prices are a very worrisome part of the overall ominous picture.

My brother is a truck driver. He sent me a screen shot last week when he got diesel fuel. It was $935.92 and he did not completely fill his tank. He got 98.00 gallons. And that was the cash discounted price.

He is retiring May 31, 2022.

Gas at Wawa was $4.65. I don't know what it is today.

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DJs mom — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:55:56 GMT

@kitcat51 wrote:
Yesterday I paid $4.49 for regular...diesel is $5.50. I fill up when my tank hits 3/4 so I don't faint. What a disaster, if you enabled it... Are you happy now?

@kitcat51 I do the same as you. I drive a SUV and I fill up when my tank is 3/4 or 1/2 full at the least. I can't imagine if my tank was on or close to empty.

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Nataliesgramma — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:56:35 GMT

My nephew paid 6.69 a gallon in California last week....

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hckynutjohn — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:58:43 GMT

@Snoopp wrote:
I was hoping we might see some relief at the pump but gas prices are up .25 from last week. I just filled up.

I think we are at a record high with reg gas at $4.36 a gallon. Unfortunately, I need to use super at almost $5 a gallon.

@Snoopp

I don't see gas prices going down, but up. Unless and until the supply/demand changes drastically, prices will go along
with the price per barrel of oil.

Just like the demand for baby formula is sky high, and why? Because the supply side is full of major issues, including recalls.

All simple math, the kind I learned in school, not the New Math, whatever the heck that is!

hckynut 🇺🇸

Re: Gas prices getting higher May 2022

ALRATIBA — Tue, 10 May 2022 17:59:43 GMT

I so thankful that I live in the city and don't need a car.

My sister-in-law were discussing this on the phone yesterday. She's in the "middle of nowhere" and needs the car just to go down to the mailboxes!

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DJs mom — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:10:27 GMT

@ALRATIBA wrote:
I so thankful that I live in the city and don't need a car.

My sister-in-law were discussing this on the phone yesterday. She's in the "middle of nowhere" and needs the car just to go down to the mailboxes!

@ALRATIBA I live in a major city with a transit system to get one any & everywhere. I guess I don't NEED a car, but it sure is convenient to get up and go whenever I feel like it.

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chrystaltree — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:36:10 GMT

It is what it is. Nowhere in all the grumbling did anyone say they plan to cut back on driving. That certainly is one solution to high gas prices. I'm not there yet but my friends and I have talked about doing some car pooling. We live close and go to the same places, four of us are retired so carpooling is logical if gas prices get too ridiculous.