NWR - What's the price for gas in your neighborhood today?

$2.89

$2.99!

I filled up Monday night for 2.69 but as I filled up I watched them change the signs to 2.79 for Tuesday.

It cost 33$ to fill my tank on monday!

$2.83 this morning

KJOY this morning said they are getting reports if it being near $3.50 near Hempstead and Valley Stream, could that be correct?

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Posted by D&C

$2.83 this morning

KJOY this morning said they are getting reports if it being near $3.50 near Hempstead and Valley Stream, could that be correct?

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yes. I saw on the news this morning, a station in Holtsville is at $3.49 per gallon!!!

It's only gonna get worse!

$3.29 on Commack Rd,

I think it was $2.89 yesterday... and as high as it is I might go get it before it gets any worse!!!

this site has info on prices around NY (when it's working, because it seems to be down a little this morning)

NY Gas Prices

And these prices listed are just for Regular (87), right??

I think the gas station by me is still $2.69

My next car is either a 4 cyl or even a Hybrid.



THANK GOD I don't have an SUV!

oh wait - Im editing mine LOL

It was $2.79 when I went to bed. now its $3.29!

From CNN:

http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/31/news/gas_prices/index.htm?cnn=yes

Prices expected to reach OVER $4 per gallon:

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Consumers can expect retail gas prices to rise to $4 a gallon soon but whether they stay there depends on the long-term damage to oil facilities from Hurricane Katrina, oil and gas analysts said Wednesday.

'There's no question gas will hit $4 a gallon,' Ben Brockwell, director of pricing at the Oil Price Information Service, said. 'The question is how high will it go and how long will it last?'

OPIS tracks wholesale and retail oil prices and provides pricing information for AAA's daily reports on fuel prices.

Brockwell said with gasoline prices now exceeding $3 a gallon before even reaching the wholesale level, it 'doesn't take a genius' to expect retail prices to hit $4 a gallon soon.

'Consumers haven't seen the worst of it yet,' Brockwell said.

He expects consumers in the Southeast and Northeast to be pinched first, following the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast region.
Katrina pressures gas supplies

Katrina forced operators to close more than a tenth of the country's refining capacity and a quarter of its oil production, which sent gasoline prices surging.

Two major pipelines that supply gasoline to key terminals and distribution centers along the Eastern U.S. were shut down due to power outages caused by the storm. (Video of Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman discussing U.S. plans to tap strategic oil reserve to help refiners -- 4:16. Click here to watch).

Colonial Pipeline said it hopes to be back in partial operation soon, while the date of Plantation Pipeline's restart is not clear. Each day the pipelines are closed, supplies get backlogged and distribution centers must rely on reserves.

'With this kind of hiccup in refinery capacity, in stretched markets like California, you could see over $4 a gallon in gas,' Evan Smith, an analyst at U.S. Global Investors, told CNN/Money.

While it's still too early to fully assess the damage caused by Katrina, efforts to build up inventories of crude oil, natural gas and other products like gasoline will be set back by the storm, according to Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at Global Insight.

In a research note, Behravesh laid out a worst-case scenario that puts average prices for regular unleaded gasoline at about $3.50 a gallon for the next four to six months.

'The impact on consumer spending in such a scenario would be very dramatic, cutting the growth rate by as much as 3 percent and pushing real GDP growth in the fourth quarter closer to zero,' he wrote.

In a best-case scenario, he forecast retail pump prices to peak at $3 a gallon for a couple of months, but then fall back to around $2.50 by year-end.

The nationwide average price for a gallon of regular unleaded hit a fresh high of $2.619 Wednesday, according to AAA, the largest U.S. motorist organization, formerly known as the American Automobile Association.

Average gasoline prices have gained 40 percent in the last year.

Prices for crude oil are also up sharply and are currently hovering near record highs just under $70 a barrel.

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Posted by diamondgrlie

$2.75 for regular at Hess

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better check again today!