Has gas jumped in price for you today?

I didn't fuel up this morning but they are talking about a dime increase on the local news. That would put us up to anywhere from $3 a gallon to $3.12 a gallon,depending on how close you get to the city.

Middle of Iowa-

Haven't checked yet but yesterday was 2.95.

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to a few local stations today and find out.

I'm a bit afraid.

from $2.68 on sunday to $2.89 on monday

I paid 2.95 yesterday and I live about 40 miles east of KC.

Sorry, can never resist pointing out the joys of using a bicycle for transportation in threads like this

"I ride a bike so I'm better than everyone here" posts from him. We've had the argument before and what he now does is just posts and runs.

It gets old after awhile. Some of us walk and bike as often as possible but still need to have vehicles to get around.

Without a car I couldn't take my daughter to her specialist, I couldn't get to work, I couldn't visit any family and I couldn't keep volunteering to clean up abandoned cemeteries. (Most have been way out in the country. And no, my town has no public transportation.)

and tow my travel trailer with it :shrug:

:rofl:

on his bike to the specialist.

And he can ride two hours to visit family.

We can just keep going.

no kidding, it's tough to do all those things on a bicycle.

BTW, I rode my bike about 100 miles into work yesterday.....











but it's a Harley Davidson, so it wasn't that hard to do :D

but it wouldn't do me much good right now with a kid under 10.

I'd love to have a scooter but I can ride it only in the city limits-I couldn't even get it to the Walmart, which is technically outside of the city.

I love riding it. I have a car and my pickup truck for trips involving more than I can carry on the bike, but any time I can get away with it, I'm riding. It gets super gas mileage too :D

there aren't more on the road right now.

I see more and more motorcycles on the road every day, gas prices are driving sales of every type of motorbike up. Unfortunately, we have had so much rain in the last two months it has made riding a bit difficult. I have been wet numerous times lately :(

My brother and sil are moving there in a few weeks. She's been offered an excellent deal for her masters. They need recommendations for everything-grocer,butcher, ethnic markets, farmers markets, entertainment, etc.

I have lived there since 1990, went for trade school and got married and stuck there :P

I work in Oklahoma City, so I am in OKC during the week and home to Tulsa on the weekends now.

It depends on what part of town they land in as far as grocer, butcher, markets, etc. etc. goes. As for entertainment, they need to come out and see my band perform on the weekends :P

seriously, if they need help, I'll be happy to hook them up as much as I can :)

They'd love that.

And I'll write down the name of your band, if you mention it.

email address, phone number etc. if you like and you can fwd to them..

And I will pass it along.

Whenever cycling gets mentioned on this site people swear that they only drive when it's absolutely positively required. The reality is that 40 percent of all car trips are two miles or less. I guess the people making those trips must not be members of this site.

If people drove less then the price of gas would go down and we'd all be happy. I realize that people rarely change their behavior based on Internet message board posts but it never hurts to try.

I choose not to have children and I choose to live close to the things I need. That doesn't make me a better person. It just means that I pay about as much attention to gas prices as I do to the astrology columns in the newspaper: it has virtually no effect on my life.

It's old and tired.

We've discussed this before: I walk to get all my groceries, I walk for any entertainment. In no way is it my fault that most new development in my area is on the highway and it's illegal to either walk or bike on the highway.

Quite a few on here have had the "I'm a superior being because I chose not to have children and I ride a bike everywhere" lecture from you. I know-I've had a number of messages in my inbox about it. Wasteful driving is wrong but you also need to realize that some of us have to drive.

As to gas prices-it DOES have an effect on your life. Think about it. The corn, tomatoes, etc in the supermarket in your region might be from Kansas. I could bet the wheat used to make flour for your bread and baked goods is from this area. If gas goes up here, the price of groceries WILL go up there. The price of repair kits for the tires for your bike will go up, the price of clothing will go up, the price of entertainment will go up.

You only see right in front of you. If the price of gas goes up then the price of nearly everything else goes up because of delivery costs.

Prices are up about 20-25 cents.They are using the flooding of a refinery in Coffeyvile KS as the excuse here. The damn thing dumped oil in neighborhoods up there :mad:

They KNEW the flood was coming and did nothing, had they shut it down and buttoned up until the flood receded, we might not be having these problems. :grr:

I'm just east of KC.

they will use the weakest, most transparent bullshit to "justify" the piracy they are engaged in anymore. :(

but don't remember seeing any mention of it here on DU.

This was, and still is, a big deal. I'm surprised that more haven't been talking about it around here.

but Goldman Sachs, who owns the refinery may be in deeper before it is all over, I think there is going to be a class-action lawsuit over this, and GS had the company on the market, I bet they take a bath on it now.

class action. They deserve to lose their shirts over this one-and more.

the oil may reach Oolagah Lake, which could ultimately affect the Tulsa water supply. Local media is already in full spin mode, they have always had their noses in the oil company buttocks here, gods forbid they ever told the truth about anything :grr:

weeks. I didn't know that the Oolagah was their source of water.

I'll give them the heads up, just in case.

Oolagah Lake is part of the supply, and the rest comes from somewhere else, so we may not be that bad off, especially with all the flooding and continuing rain diluting the spill. I hope we are not affected too badly in any case, I have an 18 month old daughter that has to at least bathe with the water.

and an eleven year old. They wouldn't be too thrilled if they moved there only to have to deal with orders and such.

A few days ago, it was $2.99 and then dropped to $2.94. Last night, I saw the station near my apartment raise the price to $3.05. Oy!

When we were in St. Louis, it was $2.69 all over the area and this little town is higher than a major city?!

about the refinery at Coffeyville, KS flooding. That's probably why the KC area is more expensive than St Louis but that doesn't explain Indiana compared to Eastern Missouri.

is now $3.19!

I'm not looking forward to the gas prices.

I filled up on Sunday and it was $3.09/gal for reg. I will look though later when I go to work to see what that station is listed as today.

that the Coffeyville, KS refinery flooded and dumped all over the town.

I'm just east of KC so it's affecting me and might not be as much so for other parts of the US.

I filled up yesterday at $2.99, but I could have sworn I saw gas at the same station at $2.86 over the weekend. I live in Atlanta.

refinery, which didn't get much attention here on DU.

I wonder how far the effects of the flooding and dumping will reach?

price of diesel went up .15/gallon from yesterday. He's not a happy camper right now.

I didn't even notice the diesel.

A few are saying it's because of the problems with the refinery.

You may not feel it or it may be more gradual for you.

that it also goes DOWN much more slowly or much later than other areas.

People are talking in this thread about prices jumping back up to over 3 dollars, but it hasn't gotten UNDER three dollars here until yesterday, and most stations are still over 3 dollars.

If nothing else you can consider this thread your heads-up to fuel up every vehicle at your house. I suspect that the refinery flooding is going to hurt nationwide soon-especially when the lawsuit is filed.

Considered filling up Sunday, but thought "nah, it'll go down now that the semi-holiday weekend's over..."

My little Sppeeddway card knocked 10 cents a gallon off to $3.05, but still...

Here it was a dime.