Gas, goods shortages and inflation rant!

Southwest Iowa......$3.19-$3.29
Just got got back from a trip to Chicago area. Gas out there in the Republik of Illinois was $3.59- $4.00.Had to pay their stupid tolls on I88 so I made sure the tank was full when I crossed the river east bound and didn't fill up until I was again back on the west side of of the Mississippi. :cool:
 
Louisville area 3.10-3.35. Farther s in Kentucky price goes down a little. $2.75-2.95. Not seeing shortages in the grocery that affect our usual shopping list but prices are rising and packages continue to shrink.

I recently bought some Alliance Resource Partners (arlp) $11.15 energy stock - oil, gas & coal - pays 7% div also bought BP Midstream Partners (bpmp) $13.07 energy stock - oil, gas, coal - pays 10.5% div.

If you can't beat em join em
 
Manipulation?

PALADIN85020 said:
Fat, dumb and happy as usual this morning, I took my occasional jaunt over to my local Sam's club to buy some stuff and get some gas. It's been my experience here in the Phoenix area that Sam's has pretty much the best price on gas you can get.

Well, I tried to pull into the gas lanes at Sam's. The whole gas area was blocked off with yellow tape. The good news is the price of gas there. The bad news is that there isn't any. They said they were still waiting for the delivery truck. Well, *****.

I sauntered into the store to buy my items. First item: some Ensure vitamin shakes. I usually get a few cartons so I have a good supply at home. Arriving at the area where the stuff is shelved, I found it empty except for one lonely carton, and it wasn't the flavor I like. I bought it anyway - the very last one on the shelf. Well, ****.

On to the soft drink isle. We were out of root beer, which the wife and I really love - and guess what? They didn't have any. This was starting to get nasty. Well, ****.

The other stuff I could find turned out to be substantially more expensive than I had found it for in the past. Well, ****.

I then went over to the liquor area to get one of my favorite bourbons at the Sam's discount price. Guess what? No gottum, Mr. customer. Well ****.

One of my favorite treats is cherry turnovers, which Sam's has been selling for years. There was only one package left - I got the last one, and it was a day past the "sell by" date on the package. Well *****.

Much disgruntled, I started on the journey home. I was nearly out of gas, so I stopped at the nearest Shell station on the way home. The price of gas there was $3.699 a gallon. I needed 12 gallons, and the cost the pump rang up was $47.88. Well ****.

Just for giggles, will each of you post here what the going price in your area is for a gallon of gas????

I just stopped myself from posting a comment that would be sure to put me over the top of my allowable dings, and yes, it would have been political. Grrrr.

John
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Did you actually expect things to be otherwise?
 
I usually fuel up at Costco. On Sunday I was filling up when I realized the pump had stopped even though the handle hadn't clicked off like it does when the tank is full. With the 36 gallon tank on my pickup, I had hit the $100 limit programmed into the pump. Ouch.
 
AJ said:
How do you think everyone else in the country feels?


Oh, by the way......Happy Birthday!
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We Texans don't much care. Texas is having to use Texas
resources for open border problems that are being ignored
and sneered at by the Federal government and the crisis at
our borders is being ignored by the federal government.
 
Gas is $3.19@ the Walmart a mile from the house. There are always at least a dozen cars lined up for the pumps. I passed by and filled up at the Mobil up the road for $3.27, not another car in sight. Yeah, it cost an extra buck and a half to fill but the savings wouldn't change my life. Joe
 
$3.81 here in Mountain Home Idaho, crazy expensive and higher than the Alaska prices I dealt with for the past 26 years.
 
Lately $3.59-$3.69 in my area
I filled up last week for $3.27 a gallon at the Walmart 10 miles over the border into Idaho - I was already there for another reason.
 
Do you guys remember the "gas wars" of the 60's and early 70's. Gas would be from $.29/gal to as low as $.17/gal. and if you had them "fill'er up" you could get a free set of steak knives or free drinking glasses. And the mob of attendants that swarmed your car looked like the Woods Brothers at NASCAR. Washed your windshield, checked your oil and checked the air in your tires.
 
As for, "supply and demand", that always sounds good unless a handful of
companies control the supply. I got out of the Navy in 73 and I am sure
a lot of you folks remember gas lines, odd/even fill up days and the claims
of short supply, while tankers were waiting in the gulf for the price to
increase. I was living in Oklahoma and had a Phillips Oil propane tank.
Got home one day with a message that Phillips would fill the tank at their
time and not mine, oh yeah, the price had gone Up. But this was just due
to the shortage.
Just happens I was driving a hot asphalt transport at the time and one of
the refineries also produced propane. One day a Phillips propane transport
was filling and I ask the driver where he was taking the load. His reply
was to Kansas where they were pumping the propane into old salt mines
for storage. I sort of lost confidence in the old Supply/Demand BS. When
you have about 5 companies producing all petroleum products we are at
their mercy.
I do agree if there was a glut of product then the price would fall until
things leveled out.
 
Texasarmed:

The operative word in your (and mine) Senator's quote was "yet".

I agree, we should put shutoff valves in the pipelines carrying oil, gasoline and natural gas North. If "they" give us too much **** then we shut the valves. I also believe we should have border check points on the major interstate highways running into Texas. When a carload of Californians show up, if they don't have at lease 1,000.00 in cash and proof of a job in Texas, send them back. I do not want to Californicate Texas!
 
Bajadoc said:
$4.27 for regular at Arco(cheapest place) in Southern California.
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For our wedding anniversary in 2019 my wife and I stayed on the Queen Mary. We took our BMW 3 series diesel for the trip as I had no intention of touching a pump in CA. Put a little over 13 gallons to fill up on our return to Vegas after 600+ miles of driving. I call that car the Bladder Breaker.

As for the price of gas in the US, my cousins back in the UK always tell me to shut up about it. Gas over there is $7.35/gallon.
 
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