That was awhile back: what has actually been happening is that Sheetz a regional chain goes c. $1.30 cents above my estimate of the state wholesale cost (to $2.99) every 10-12 days or so as part of the midwest’s price cycling. Yeah, the valley typically gets below $2.60, so that’s when to fill up, esp. if as you have done you’ve found a local station which has a deep valley.
At the start of my trip I had planned to visit a Meijer in Youngstown which consistently has had very low valleys, $2.02 according to both Gasbuddy and Google Maps, but Sheetz had done their sheet back to $2.99, again, and there is one a half mile from the Meijer. Drove up, $2.89 for regular, ANNND since my car needs premium it cost me $2.79 after my points discount (1 buck) and my M. credit card (-10 cents). They were the last station in the state to have a regular/premium spread of less than a dollar too, but no longer-used to be 60 cents before I moved here for good, sigh…
If you can find a pump which hasn’t jumped yet, fill up, as wholesale just skyrocketed FORTY CENTS this weekend. I actually drove to the cheapest station in the area last night and filled up (with discounts-I use Meijer’s points for a buck off per gallon and their CC for an additional 10 cents) for $2.59. Dunno when I’ll see it that low again…
If you use premium (or plus, or even diesel) like I do, expect the sites which report prices to lag horribly on those octanes.
Same here in central Michigan. Prices were averaging $2.79 - $2.89 last week and everyone jumped up to $3.39 Monday morning. And that’s every single gas station within the two to three miles of me. That’s very unusual for everyone to jump to same amount at the same time.
In Boston, all over the map. Up is down, down is up: A Shell statuon at 2.89, while Ella’s Gas is 3.10. I found one place, Emporium, as off-brand as it’s possible to be, which had it at 2.69. Whoopee. Tomorrow, they will wake up and things will go up. Way up.
I’m in California, and saw a higher price today while running errands (did not need to feed the car today). Granted, Chevron is usually one of the priciest stations around.
At least we won’t need to fuel up in the Bay Area. Prices there are normally at least $2 USD higher there than here in Sacramento.
Not in a price-cycling state like Michigan, where the lockstep syndrome when prices cycle back up is the usual modus operandi. It will just be more noticeable during this crisis.
Sunday, regular fuel at Arco at our freeway entrance and at the Lummi’s 76 station in Ferndale was $3.799. Strangely, Arco has not been charging extra for using a credit card. (The 76 statin doesn’t.)
I usually don’t pay too close attention to gas prices. It’s not like I’m not gonna get gas. I just so happened to have taken a note of it yesterday and I went back and looked again today. Yesterday Costco was at $2.85. Just down the road the Wawa had gas at $3.15. Surprisingly today Costco was lower at $2.73. Wawa remained the same price.
Did anyone ever find the station with 1.85 that Trump repeatedly boasts of ? He never gives its location and unfortunately Katlin or Sean never ask him!
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