$3.82 in Hastings
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:44 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog
From Patrick: IKE UPDATE: Hurricane Ike is gone, but refineries are still closed, the worst off was likely Shell’s Deer Park, TX refinery that fell victim to a lot of rain. Damage is still minimal, but there are some light repairs necessary. ExxonMobil also reported water damage to its Beaumont, TX refinery. In the mean time, the massive 567,000bpd Baytown refinery is continuing to make progress towards a restart. Marathon had also said that their 76,000bpd refinery had been restored electrical power.
Prices are lower all around us, what gives?!
Come on Grand Rapids! Hastings is $3.82, I was there Thurs. night (Bill was there on Friday). Lowell is $3.87, but Grand Rapids still isn’t any cheaper than $3.89! Honestly now… Lowell and Hastings stations aren’t much different than stations in Grand Rapids… they likely bought their fuel from the same rack as the stations from Hastings, but GR is STILL up to 15-cents higher per gallon! It’s been several days now and it seems no one wants to lower their prices, and average COST today is STILL $3.66! Prices have remained the same on the wholesale market, so come on! I’m not asking $3.66 overnight, but a penny lower every day!? This gets frustrating in times like this. Stations on average are making a margin of 34.6-cents per gallon. That’s a nice chunk there… and like I said, I’m NOT asking stations to make no money… but someone STEP UP and bring prices down. I think that if there one station or a chain of stations that would be consistently the first one to make bold steps lower how much positive publicity they could get from TheGasGame… but hey, that’s probably not enough, is it?
The prices are always lower in Holland too. Michigan / GR is always “ahead” of the national average. What is up with that?
Back to some weather – you guys see this??
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=apx&storyid=18198&source=0
Hastings is the place to be! I was there for a volleyball tourney on saturday in which my daughter played. Sorry wyoming rogers and kent city! Dewitt won the tourney! I did note the lower has prices. It is 3.86 by me.
Port Arthur, TX gas is $3.37, some gas stations are running on generators yet because of Ike.
3.68 here this morning..
I have not been seen the price of gas here yet. But the temp here is now up to 74° so all in all not a bad late September day. That looks like it was quite the storm up there in Gaylord back in 1998. For some reason I can not seem to place that storm. SlimJim
Im with ya Jim, I read that article and cannot remember that storm, my brother lives up ther too.
It was a doozey for northern Mi.
I posted some pics on “posted” of the storm last night north of Mt.Pleasant
http://posted.woodtv.com/photos-zoom.php?ID=2204633
and sunset
http://posted.woodtv.com/photos-view.php?ID=2204627
I’m glad I’m not the only one with no memory of that storm. Those pictures of hundreds of flattened trees are impressive.
gas is $3.95 here!!
for got to look and see what gas is here