Needles, Ca. $3.29 gallon of gas.

[warrior1]

http://autos.msn.com/everyday/GasStations.aspx?ZIP=92363&m=1&l=1

[LifeDuringWartime]

1. add it to here

http://www.gaspricewatch.com

the current highest price reported in the last 24 hours is $3.19

you have to sign up in order to submit prices, but it's painless.

[BlueJac]

3. Holy gouging batman!

[Deja Q]

7. Why do gas stores price gouge when they have INSURANCE to protect them?

Or is the insurance industry a joke too? (/rhetorical)

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Can someone please call the one tiny station in Vidal Junction, CA

Assuming it's still open. The Texaco across from it was boarded up when I drove by there 3 years ago on my way to Phoenix. But, I do remember that this little station was about 60 cents higher than anything else I'd see on my trip. I bet it's even higher than the place in Needles.

[Systematic Chaos]

6. Took me forever, but I found the number.

$3.199. That must be the place, or one of them, with the current highest price in the country.

On edit: I'm totally brain dead. Needles is $3.29 and I'm trying to claim that $3.19 is HIGHER? * would be proud. :puke:

[tlsmith1963]

4. No Way!

I went through Needles a few months ago, & the gas price was lower than in San Diego. In fact, I was amazed at how low all the gas prices were in the high desert region compared to here. This is just weird.

Tammy

[Skink]

5. Got my seven gallons for the week last night.

I'm afraid to look at where prices are today.

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

8. I drove from Col.to Cal. earlier this week...$3.25, $3.35, $3.45 near

Primm NV, on the Ca. side of the border. Back in Aspen...Now $3.09, $3.19, $3.29 on main street. OUCH!

[Surya Gayatri]

9. And so the 'End Times' arrive

on an empty gas tank. As these prices percolate through the world's economy, a depression of the likes not seen since the 30s may be triggered.

[gogo69]

10. forcing a gasoline price war...

The following is from an email I received yesterday... Any thoughts? Would this work??

"I hear we are going to hit close to $3.00 a gallon by the summer. Want gasoline prices to come down? We need to take some intelligent, united action.

Phillip Hollsworth, offered this good idea:

This makes MUCH MORE SENSE than the "don't buy gas on a certain day" campaign that was going around last April or May!

The oil companies just laughed at that because they knew we wouldn't continue to "hurt" ourselves by refusing to buy gas. It was more of an inconvenience to us than it was a problem for them. BUT, whoever thought of this idea, has come up with a plan that can really work.

Please read it and join with us!

By now you're probably thinking gasoline priced at about $1.50 is super cheap. Me too! It is currently $2.75 for regular unleaded in my town.

Now that the oil companies and the OPEC nations have conditioned us to think that the cost of a gallon of gas is CHEAP at $1.50-$1.75, we need to take aggressive action to teach them that BUYERS control the marketplace.... not sellers.

With the price of gasoline going up more each day, we consumers need to take action. The only way we are going to see the price of gas come down is if we hit someone in the pocketbook by not purchasing their gas!

And we can do that WITHOUT hurting ourselves.

How? Since we all rely on our cars, we can't just stop buying gas. But we CAN have an impact on gas prices if we all act together to force a price war.

Here's the idea:
For the rest of this year, DON"T purchase ANY gasoline from the two biggest companies (which now are one), EXXON and MOBIL. If they are not selling any gas, they will be inclined to reduce their prices. If they reduce their prices, the other companies will have to follow suit.

But to have an impact, we need to reach literally millions of Exxon and Mobil gas buyers. It's really simple to do!! Now, don't whimp (sic) out on me at this point...

keep reading and I'll explain how simple it is to reach millions of people!!

I am sending this note to about thirty people. If each of you send it to at least ten more (30 x 10 = 300)... and those 300 send it to at least ten more (300 x 10 = 3,000) ... and so on, by the time the
message reaches the sixth generation of people, we will have reached
over THREE MILLION consumers!

If those three million get excited and pass this on to ten friends each, then 30 million people will have been contacted! If it goes one level further, you guessed it..... THREE HUNDRED MILLION PEOPLE!!! Again, all you have to do is send this to 10 people and DON"T purchase ANY gasoline from EXXON and MOBIL. That's all.

How long would all that take? If each of us sends this email out to ten more people within one day of receipt, all 300 MILLION people could conceivably be contacted within the next 8 days!!! I'll bet you didn't think you and I had that much potential, did you! Acting together we can make a difference.

If this makes sense to you, please pass this message on.

PLEASE HOLD OUT UNTIL THEY LOWER THEIR PRICES TO THE $1.30 RANGE AND KEEP THEM DOWN. THIS CAN REALLY WORK"