I searched the forum, found a 2005 post about gas prices and long weekends, but none about Gas prices and Thursday.
Why do we allow this to happen still?
I know we all need gas to run our cars, farm equipment, heaters, etc. but why isn’t something being done in Washington when the majority of people want this to stop.
Lobby has money, but people have numbers and numbers get people elected.
I’m going to start a site something like thursdaygasprices.com and have everyone sign it with a comment if they think it’s out of hand.
I read that place A decides to put their prices at $3.50 a gallon and place B has to go lower to make money, but why when place A puts their gas at $3.50 a gallon do people have to raise their prices to that collusion comes to mind.
your thoughts?
My brain just shorted out from reading that. From the best I can tell, you think gas prices are too high (but just barely) and it is some type of scheme. Some sort of protest could make them knock a few cents off each gallon making the world a more fair place saving the average person tens of cents a week. Is that basically it?
I still haven’t figured out the Thursday connection so I admit you beat me there.
put in your zipcode and along the top graph out the trends for your area. It tells you the best gas prices in real time, but it will also show you back years the prices. Guess every city I put in just is an anomaly.
ETA: OK, I googled around on the net, and didn’t find anything.
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I’ve checked out gasbuddy before…but truly have not seen a trend in price-hikes on Thursdays or Fridays. I’m not rich, and I often drive a lot, so I DO pay attention. I really believe that’s an urban legend.
I used to have a longish commute, and I’d fill my gas tank about 3 times every 2 weeks. I used to watch gas prices at both ends of the commute.
Yes, there were sudden jumps in pricing. The wierd thing was, for a while, prices near my home would jump on Tuesday, and then float downward for the next week. Prices near my office would jump on Thursday, and drift down for a week.
And then one summer, those days switched. Home jumped on Thursdays and work jumped on Tuesdays.
So yes, gas pricing does work that way. No, it’s not a conspiracy. It’s gas station owners figuring out how to make a profit. If you won’t want to put up with it, do as suggested above and buy gas the day before it typically jumps.
For those of you that doubt that jumps happen, check out this chartfor MN gas prices.
I don’t doubt gas prices jump higher - they also frequently jump lower; otherwise we’d be spending about $65 per gallon - but it doesn’t seem to be on any particular day or schedule.
This past weekend gas prices around me were about $3:70 and had been since early last week, but right now (Wednesday for those not keeping up the the class) they dropped by 20-30 cents and I filled up both vehicles at $3.34 today. Of course tomorrow they could jump again to $3:20 and I’ll be annoyed but IMO anything under $3:50 a gallon is cool.