Few days ago, husband bought $20 worth at 2.99 a gallon. This was west of the city (Lake in the Hills, I believe). Today, it's jumped .40 a gallon due to a problem in a refinery in Whiting, Indiana.
If anyone is interested, here’s an article in the Chicago Sun Times about it.
Where at in southern, the western side of the state? 'Cause her in the southeastern part it’s $285 -$2.97 this week between home and work.
$2.64 in South Jersey. And, by law, they have to pump it for me.
(Thanks to the near-by refineries in Philly and the sucky part of North Jersey that gives this jewel of a state a bad name. Oh, and some of the lowest gas taxes in the nation).
Well, we tend to buy it by the litre, which is a smaller unit to start with. So we only have one decimal place when the price is in cents–105.4–but three before the decimal point, so it adds up to four significant figures anyways.
And it was only within the past year that the price reliably passed the dollar mark per litre anyways. Before the price was universally in cents per litre, and because of the way the signs are set up, it was easier to just add another figure for hundreds of cents rather than do that and shift the decimal point to indicate dollars.
I was stuck paying $3.84 for regular in Beverly Hills yesterday. But that isn’t usual. Most plces near my home it is around $3.17
$3.07 this morning in rural SE Ohio.
At the trucker gas station outside town where it’s always cheaper, gas is $2.81, but in town it ranges up to $2.99.
Converting the various units, we’d be at about $4 US per US gallon at the moment.
Which ain’t bad - BTW.
Back to $3.20 here.
And today I went out, it was $2.85 - $3.01. WTF.
In southwest Oklahoma, gas jumped from 2.97 to 3.17 today.
The cheap station was $2.89 today, while others were at $2.96.
The thing about the three decimal places is you can only pay by $.01 increments.
They said this one closing would jack up prices in the region, but Detroit?? Any excuse in a storm, I guess. Though, if I recall, it is a rather large facility (a lot of refineries in Kansas have been closed down the past several years). In any case, it was danged stupid of them to put the thing next to a river.
In the Las Vegas area, on my end of town, it seems to be running from about $2.959 to $3.079 the last few days.
I filled up Sunday night at $2.979.
The last week or so it’s been running at about $2.86 / gallon around here (except for a few places about 30 minutes west of me that had it for $2.67). As of today, the stations closest to me are charging $3.12 / gallon.
(Fortunately the station by my parent’s house is always slow to change their prices and still had it at $2.86 about 2 hours ago…so I just topped off my tank.)