Getting word in Louisville that some gas stations have already hit $5 a gallon today. Just a heads up . . .
Getting word in Louisville that some gas stations have already hit $5 a gallon today. Just a heads up . . .
Ryder Cup mania mixed with Ike.
It was $3.65 this morning. And it's not just Louisville. South Carolina is reporting over $5 a gallon as well.
Everybody panic!!!
A leader on the other side of the world could hiccup and speculators would drive oil prices up $30 a barrel. Sure, the hurricane could do some damage to our refinery potential, but it just shows how it would be in our best interest to increase our energy output and refinery capacity. There are no hurricanes in Alaska.
Last edited by durl; 09-12-2008 at 01:07 PM.
Nothing but pure gouging. I'm sure this over Hurrican Ike.
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Fuel prices rise as Ike bears down on Texas coast
By MADLEN READ – 1 hour ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Crude oil and gasoline prices bounced higher Friday as Hurricane Ike swept through Gulf of Mexico, prompting companies along the Texas coast to shut down refining and drilling operations.
Ike is forecast to land early Saturday as a Category 3 hurricane near Galveston, a barrier island about 50 miles southeast of Houston. The Houston region is home to about one-fifth of U.S. refining capacity, and the site of a major fuel and grain distribution channel.
Wholesale gasoline prices on the Gulf Coast moved even further into uncharted territory to around $4.85 a gallon, as refineries anticipated that Ike would incur at least a significant pause in their operations, and at worst severe damage to their facilities.
On Thursday, Gulf Coast wholesale gasoline last traded at around $4.75 a gallon, said Ben Brockwell, director of data pricing and information services. That was up substantially from about $3.25 on Wednesday and less than $3 on Tuesday.
Wholesale prices are what refineries charge retailers before they get marked up further for the consumer.
"The path of the storm has put the entire supply chain under stress from the refinery level all the way to the retail station level," Brockwell said. "Hopefully it's a temporary phenomenon, but we won't know until next week."
October gasoline futures climbed 6.52 cents to $2.8140 a gallon on Nymex, while the average U.S. retail price for gasoline edged up less than a penny to $3.675 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, the Oil Price Information Service and Wright Express.
Light, sweet crude for October delivery rose 62 cents to $101.49 a barrel in late morning trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell $1.71 to settle at $100.87 on Thursday after dropping as low as $100.10 per barrel. The last time Nymex crude traded below the $100 mark was April 2.
Exxon Mobil Corp., Valero Energy Corp., ConocoPhillips and Marathon Oil Co. have begun halting operations as the Category 2 hurricane headed straight for the nation's biggest complex of refineries and petrochemical plants. U.S. wholesale gasoline prices spiked 30 percent Thursday.
As of Thursday, about 97 percent of crude production and 93 percent of natural gas production in the Gulf were shuttered, according to the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service.
Early Friday, the storm was centered about 370 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, moving to the west-northwest at 12 mph. Top sustained winds were 100 mph. Ike is huge, taking up nearly 40 percent of the Gulf of Mexico. The National Hurricane Center said tropical storm-force winds of at least 39 mph extended across more than 510 miles.
Ike and last week's Hurricane Gustav have helped to stanch a sharp downturn in oil prices. Concerns over slowing economic growth on a global scale and a strengthening U.S. dollar have led funds to liquidate their commodities holdings, pushing crude prices down about 30 percent from their record $147.27 set on July 11.
"Oil demand on a global basis is quite pessimistic," said Tetsu Emori, a commodity markets fund manager with ASTMAZ Futures Co. in Tokyo. "If it wasn't hurricane season, crude would be under $100 already."
And storms can dampen demand even more, by disrupting the local economy, power plants, and electrical distribution systems.
Amid a much slower U.S. economy that caused June fuel demand to fall more than 5 percent from the same period a year ago, many market watchers are expecting oil prices to resume their tumble.
"With demand being down as much as it is, the market, some argue, is a bit oversupplied," said Stephen Maloney, a senior consultant in energy risk management at Towers Perrin. "When you ask, how does Ike affect things? Its impacts are going to be in the context of lower demand for products than a year ago."
In other Nymex trading, October heating oil futures rose 2.50 cents to $2.9405 a gallon. Natural gas for October delivery rose 32.7 cents to $7.575 per 1,000 cubic feet.
In London, October Brent crude rose 28 cents to $97.92 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange, after closing at a six-month low in the previous trading session.
Associated Press writers Alex Kennedy in Singapore and Louise Watt in London contributed to this report.
Interesting how the price of fuel climbs for stuff that already in the tanks at the station. You can't tell me someone's not taking advantage of the situation.
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I bet you these claims are BS.....
Edit - Just did price search on Louisville, and all stations with curent price reports are below $4.00
Last edited by JaxRed; 09-12-2008 at 02:53 PM.
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Nothing's changed here in West Central Ohio. It's 3.52 (for cash, 3.57 posted price) at my usual place and has been for a couple of weeks now.
That's not proof of gouging.
A gas station doesn't charge customers based upon what they paid for the gas in the underground tanks, they charge them based upon what it's going to cost them to REFILL those tanks.
Ding ding ding.
That's the basic gist of gas station pricing.
I heard that the Governor of Kentucky recently declared a "state of emergency" due to the escalation in fuel prices. Apparently, by doing so, the Commonwealth Attorney General's office is granted special investigative powers.
This spells bad news for all those opportunistic gas station owners who think that they can stick it to drivers this weekend and will not be punished.
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