Gas Price Update
November 1st, 2009 at 8:32 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
The latest from Ed: “Sunday, November 1, 2009, 6:00 PM: Well, that was a strange price adjustment on Tuesday, as Meijer took the lead (often they are among the last to go up and often a penny cheaper than the competition) and raised prices to $2.79. The hike was embraced in certain parts of town, but not others. Meanwhile, wholesale prices dropped 10 cents last week. I predict that prices will fall this week. The $2.59 in Cedar Springs is a target for the rest of the region.” Bill says: I bought gas in Otsego for $2.63 on Saturday. It was $2.77 on Alpine when I got back. Alpine is often one of the more expensive places for gas.
I just got back from a family wedding in Lancaster, WI. That’s a small (and I mean small) town in SW WI. (Three restaurants, the same number of gas stations and one Piggly Wiggly) Any way the gas price report is that it was 2.72 in Lancaster, 2.87 in Chicago and 2.69 in Michigan City.
Also in Lancaster all of the leaves are off the trees, even in most of NW IL the leaves are all off the trees.
While I was gone my rain gauge collected 3.17″ of rain so a good soaking here.
SlimJim
Whats your take on the november weather slim?
Filled up for $2.59 in Toledo today (actually $2.39 with my Kroger discount!)
so where is the snow…..wish it could get here faster.
Bring it on I am ready for it. It would be nice to get back to work even if it is pushing snow in the middle of the night.
You’re right about high Alpine gas prices. Saturday they had dropped a whole penny to $2.78, while 8 miles north in Sparta the Wesco was at $2.60.
It’s about time the prices come down again. There’s been no hurricanes, all the big summer travel holidays are well past and there’s been no refinery fires so there’s been no reason for this recent round of price hikes other than plain old greed!
Stations at Leonard and Fuller have stayed higher than Alpine a lot of times. Stayed at 2.79 for a week and finally went down to 2.68 yesterday. That usually means a large rise in the next few days around here.
Are you saying that the local stations are gouging us? I thought that they only made a penny per gallon!!!